Jason Maher
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Not quite. From 82-96, the Steelers main kit was a red shirt with two white hoops on the sleeves, white shorts with two red vertical stripes (almost the same as St. George), and red socks with two thin white stripes at the top. They occasionally wore a white jersey with red hoops. In 1995, they introduced a new alternate kit that had 3 thick red hoops with two very thin red hoops in between across the chest and on the sleeves. This was worn with red shorts and socks in 95-96. In 1997, the reverse of this design (red with white hoops) became the main jersey, and they changed the shorts to red and the sockes to white. These became the shorts and socks worn by the merged team from 99-05 (with the shorts changed to white with the same red stripoe pattern on the side).
In any case, ask any Steelers fan and you'd get an almost universal answer that the red jersey with two white hoops on the sleeve, white shorts, and red socks is the design that truly represents our team. It has the advantage of being a dead simple design that looks like something rugby league players should be wearing, with ther colour scheme being that of the old Southern Division rep teams. The red socks also are what St. George originally wore.
But I agree that we have a lunatic in our jersey design department. It's so simple: Steelers kit in Wollongong, St. George kit at Kogarah and away games, and the striped heritage jersey (with black shorts and red socks as worn originally by St. George) for Heritage round and to avoid clashes (i.e. away against Canterbury).
