#BringBackGrandFinalPatches
Also, white writing on pale blue? f**king idiots.
Agreed 100%. They did the same last year. It doesn't look special enough. It's fine for someone's milestone game such as a 100th game or whatever, but for a Grand Final?
While the previous several years' GF teams had big ugly white patches over the NRL logos, at least you can see from a distance in no time that it's the GF.
As much as I loved the sleeve badges of the years up to and including 1997, with sleeve sponsorships being as huge as they are now and the sleeves being considerably shorter than in yesteryear, I can't see that working anymore. A special stand-out badge in place of the NRL badge is the way to go.
Maybe a golden badge?
I'm sure clubs can get -at a weeks' notice- a set of jerseys made with the GF badge sublimated in place of the regular NRL Telstra Premiership badge. I've managed -twice- to get my local club a new set of jerseys in a week from my first phonecall until the box arriving on my desk at work 7 days later ... and I live in WA so that included shipping time too.