Why the AFL Should Bring Back Retro Round in 2024
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- Опубликовано: 11 фев 2024
- Should the AFL officially bring back retro round as a league wide themed round ?
I think they should and today, I’m gonna show you the unique new structure for Retro Round and which guernsey each team should wear.
Do you think the AFL should bring back retro round?
Let me know in the comments below
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You can blame Essendon‘s bylaws for the fact that their jerseys always boring
They’ve gotta change that
I love Essendon jumper the red and black beautiful
They can change it it’s not that hard
@@kevsmagpies1306 bro, google what bylaws means.
It legit means it’s against the rules in the AFL to invert there colours because they wrote it into their rules when they join the league.
@@kyalking1313 teams inverted their colors on their guernseys all the time
The crows one should be the south Australian state jumper
Agreed but Port Powerpuffs won’t allow them like they did with opening of Adelaide Oval, pack of hypocrites they are when there current jumper is just a black, teal and white version of the SA state jumper
Great video! SDN round has taken the mantle of heritage round now but would like to see all of those designs return at some stage.
There’s no reason why we can’t have both rounds
I remember that 2003 retro round. I was stumped seeing that Port Adelaide prison bars as a 12 year old not knowing anything about their SANFL history.
Matt in my view Retro Round should be one game a season. But it should be for all future seasons.
As per usual another great video
Thanks mate 👍🏻
Geelong's had retro guernseys since 2018 (minus 2020 & 2021). With the collar, stitched on AFL and club logo and a woolen effect on the guernsey. Looks mint
Geelong were the first to do it consistently, they have done retro matches against melbourne and north melbourne since 2018
The problem with Geelong is their retro jumpers are almost identical to their normal jumper
@@mattn1 could you do a vid redesigning the Geelong cats
@ThebiggestLad maybe, they’re always a challenge
Whenever people talk about retro round, they always say these teams have been doing retro round.” But they never say Geelong, we have been doing it the longest, every year we have heritage rounds with the collared guernseys, normally against Melbourne if we get to host them because we were the first two teams
That’s because adding a collar to an identical guernsey isn’t really worth mentioning
Please bring back retro round it would be awesome
unbelievable vid as always
Thanks mate 👍🏻
Unbelievably bad
Yeah tbh i do want to see more carlton+sky blue for some reason
It fits well
Agreed 👍🏻
I like Ports blue white and black lightning bolt. great looking jumper and its fresh looking. Ideal as an away strip.
While they're at it they need Nike back as a kit sponsor. Every brand they've had since have been trash.
@@TheAlmightyClipse Adidas is a brand that managed to mess up Adelaide and Collingwood's jumpers for a few years. Both are great designs and straight forward, so says a bit about Adidas.
Heritage round coming back?
Absolutely yes, plus the clubs make some money from their jersey sales
The problem with the Bulldogs design is taht its fundamentally the same as Melbourne's. So for me it needs to be a red jumper with blue on top, not blue with red on top.
Just look at the Dockers ridiculous jumper. Frederick is wearing a jumper much darker than the original.. Dark green and dark purple. When I saw the dockers wear that last year, they looked like Collingwood at the back with the stripe pattern.
Dockers need to return to their true purple green and red. Embrace their brightness and colour.
AFL should have retro round back. Because it gives clubs and fans to celebrate their clubs history and heritage. As a Fremantle supporter its been awesome to see the club roll out the anchor every year in different incarnations. For Brisbane a chance to celebrate the heritage of Fitzroy and the Brisbane Bears. Sydney Swans to celebrate its past as South Melbourne, Port Adelaide for the famous prison bars strip given they don't face Collingwood. Even the Western Bulldogs with the old Footscray strip. Not only as we look at the future but also look back.
I prefer it over doing opening round if retro round was the first round of the year leaves interpretation for a lot of retro designs and no clashes because they’d have the whole off-season to come up with and okay the designs.
I think things like retro and indigenous jumper designs are usually good to go by the time the season starts even if we don’t see them publicly until mid season
FINALLY!!! Someone who truly makes sense when proposing a return to the retro round.
The AFL should seriously cast off this stupid opening round nonsense. Make that round 1 and have ALL teams play the game, but most importantly make a round or 2 of footy dedicated to these history coveted jumpers
Yeah I don’t think opening round will be any good
You can make some jumpers look iconic by Essendon and Bulldogs wearing red shorts for instance, A classic 70s look would have Rich Eagles and Brisbane wearing yellow shorts. With long socks too remember. So there are some tricks they could do. But ultimately problem is all the gimmick rounds like pride and indigenous that should stop. I'd like to see international round maybe. Would Melbourne like to wear union jack. Or if Bulldogs wore Russian flag design on their jumper and Eagles wore Ukraine, what then?
that is lame your ideas are trash haha
Essendon should have a red sash outline and black sash, sort of opposite of last years Essendon clash jumper. maybe as an away one
The Essendon wider sash is quite good especially with red shorts. The sash isn't quite right on one side. But great concept.
Perhaps the AFL need to follow Taylor Swift and have Eras rounds each year. 1920s with knickerbockers and players wearing caps (at least onto the ground). 1970s with players embracing mutton chops and chopper reid moustaches. Allow players to get creative like the US athletes, turning up to the game fully embracing the concept. Even think of NZ cricketers when they wore their classic coffee one day outfits from the early 1980s. Iconic look, especially when players decided I am the walrus and even wore headbands and the like.
Melbourne wear their retro 80s jumper for every away game...
The traditional look, MUST include long socks pulled up. None those ankle things they wear nowadays. It COULD include jumpers that are laced up. It MAY include knickerbocker types shorts from the 20s. (that would be the 1920s).
I’m going to cop the ochre jumper so quick 😭
Yeah it’ll sell well
It would be cool to take it one step further and make teams wear all of the old gear they wore back in the day. Woolen jumpers and old school style footy boots which could make it harder to run forcing the teams to revert to old school tactics of kick and mark game style. Would be cool to see one week a year.
players weraing outdated footwear is pretty stupid would be a massive liabilty
I love Geelongs collar gurnsey they wear when they play against the Demons
Retro round can allow clubs to experiment again. How do Essendon fans react to a wider red sash and red shorts. How Port fans react to more teal and a lightning bolt. How about a Docker anchor or green and red... Melbourne with royal blue jumper... Bulldogs red shorts... Eagles experiment dark gold or ochre... A good time to experiment with jumper shorts or designs.
Essendon fan here - love the red shorts, hate the wider sash
@@dougieboxell6505 10 years ago they did the sash too wide. Perth Football Club in 1970s and 80s had virtually the same jumper as Essendon but with red collar, red trimmings and a slightly wider sash. Red socks too. It looked better. Essendon don't need to do too much and they wouldn't need to wear their clash jumper as much. So I reckon they could play around with their home jumper for some matches against some teams... Minor tweaks can make the jumpers look totally different. If Ess played Rich and one team wore red shorts and the other yellow, there were be no confusion at all. They'd be able to wear their home strips more often.
@@dougieboxell6505 It comes down to cms. I agree the last jumper was over the top in width. But they can still go wider but not as extreme.
also make them long sleeve
I actually like the north orange Guernsey
I think it only looks weird because it’s not north’s colours, the bounding roo design works in any colour
That famous state jumper that Brauny was wearing was iconic. Also I thought Adelaide wore SA jumpers sometimes. I reckon they could consider wearing the late 70s test pattern style jumper that SA played in. With stripes of red white and blue and a massive white panel.
The Eagles wearing a WA jumper was classic West Coast arrogance
@@mattn1 West Clast Eagles are still basically WA footy. They basically bankroll the WAFC. Eagles dividend to WAFC and junior development will be halved this year.
@@mattn1 When the Dockers started wearing a white jumper with red chevrons everyone thought it was contrived. Freo's heritage was East Freo and South Freo... not some random with red chevrons that no one had ever heard of.
@@BDub2024idk what part of WA you come from, hoping you're not a freo fan. That was south freo's old jumper, plenty of people heard of it (and seen it!)
@@dougieboxell6505 The white with red chevrons one that Fremantle Dockers wore as a traditional jumper was actually supposed to be an old Fremantle Football Club jumper from 1900s. Not South Fremantle. Actually a number of fans of East Freo were pretty annoyed with the white and red chevrons design saying it looked too much like South Fremantle. South Freo Bulldogs have a red V but not red chevrons.
Pretty ordinary selections.
Heritage/retro round should include a variety of jumpers from different points in the history of each club, and I'd say the older ones of the older clubs are for more exciting to see used in modern times.
It looks like you've only looked at the last 30 years. When theres 160 years of the game, thats not so "retro". Some clubs are that young, and younger, sure, but the old VFL clubs, Port Adelaide, and a couple others I think should use jumpers from long, long ago. That'd be more exciting to me as a fan, and i think more creative.
Adelaide - you could get pretty creative and use something from the original Adealide footy club, as it seems like they have in the past.
Brisbane, mate, so many good jumpers to choose from between the bears & lions. Understand the reasoning, but I think it's a bit irrelevant. The better jumpers look better, theres no need to embrace the shittier ones.
Carlton - excellent choice, lets hope they make it a clash jumper. Their indeginous jumper last year was a similar colour (or maybe I'm thinking year before).
Collingwood - yeah, good jumper, but you could go real retro and look at the og 1890s jumpers, most of them having different widths & amount of the vertical stripes. Or, you could change to blue, red and white fro Britinnia, the club that Collingwood merged out of.
Essendon - jesus, can people just stop slagging us off for one minute. "Most boring jumper history", shouldn't it be a massive achievement to have the same jumper for over 100 years? Shows some true loyalty, stoicism, and oppulence in not needing to change. Shows a very rich value of tradition and pride, imo.
In any case, red shorts are a must.
Id rather the super skinny sash with the skinny vertical line through it, or you could go with navy blue jumpers with a red sash. If only you did your homework. Tough ask for a youtuber, I know.
Fremantle - south or east Freo would make great choices, as would their classic anchor jumper.
Geelong - happy with this choice
Gold coast - the wave jumper looked horrid. Given the location and how big this club has been prebiously, and that they almost joined the AFL in the 90s, and their friggen name is on the stands at Cararra (or at least used to be when it was called Metricon stadium...), if they could use Southport Sharks' jumper, that'd be awesome. Being a different entity that still exists tho, mihht be difficult, legally.....
GWS - not really any other choice here.
Hawthorn - the mayblooms jumper would be better
Norf - so many to choose from, being such an old club. I do like their original VFL jumper of blue with the white V. The V is overused, but those colours make it look really good.
Port - good choice here.
Richmond - stripes are a good idea, the thin horizontal ones look pretty cool, but could also go the vertical ones too
Saints - the canterbury jumper would be pretty cool, theyve used it recently tho
Sydney - definitely something south melbourne related
West coast - the WA jumper looked pretty cool. Wonder if theyd ever consider a West Perth jumper, since they made a run for VFL in the 80s
Bulldogs - hard to go past the roaring bulldog, not many options here. Think they wore a different colour at the very beginning of their history, but for a very short time, since they were known as the tricolours for a long time.
GWS should wear the old University guernsey.
Why ?
@@mattn1 Although there's no connection to the club, I just think it would be interesting seeing a team sport those colours again.
@anthonypetniunas354 A new team might someday
No way Carlton would wear the jumper again, it was a $$$$ earner for them. And wearing it would give lots of free publicity to M&Ms/MARS, from people remembering or looking up the connection. Same with the rooster and the orange jumper.
Carlton wore a sky blue jumper in the early 2010s that wasn’t a promotional jumper, surely they can bring that one back
Please no more sky blue Carlton jumpers!
I reckon scrap the indigenous round and pride rounds and bring back the Traditional rounds... Keep Anzac. But things like indigenous and pride has been done too much and is tired. Like flogging a dead horse pushing jumpers that look increasingly like Ken Done paintings.
what has that got to with this video? Quit rambling old man take your medicine !!
Norwood fc have the most boring guernsey in sporting history
Yeah I kinda agree
Back in the 2000s? We are still in the 2000s.
We’re in the 2020s champ, the 2000s were 2000-2009
@@mattn1 No. We are still in the 2000s. The 2000s are 2000-2099.
@stupendous1068 So then what do you call the period from 2000-2009 ?
@@mattn1 The hundreds.
If Eagles fans picked THAT jumper for a retro game then they are colossally stupid!! That one sucks!! 🤮
You’ll find that your in the minority with that opinion
I'M an Eagles fan and unless this is The Twilight Zone, that jumper IS our worst, ugliest jumper.
A lot of people like it