2018 Jerseys/Logos/Sponsorships

[kdalymc]

Canberra haven’t had a white away jersey in years.

2017/18

2015/16

And they shouldn’t.
If white isn’t your secondary colour, don’t use it for your away jersey.

Although that blue grey thing above is definitely in the running for one of the worst ever

 

[Saint Doc]

So @kdalymc what is canberra’s Secondary colour that should be their alternate then?
Their secondary colors have always been white, blue, yellow. Their alternate should provide adequate contrast to the only club they clash with, Souths. Either you put them in an eels jersey or white. Considering they had 20+ years of white alternates, it makes a lot more sense than a yellow or blue jersey

 

[kdalymc]

So @kdalymc what is canberra’s Secondary colour that should be their alternate then?
Their secondary colors have always been white, blue, yellow. Their alternate should provide adequate contrast to the only club they clash with, Souths. Either you put them in an eels jersey or white. Considering they had 20+ years of white alternates, it makes a lot more sense than a yellow or blue jersey

Nah they had a white alternate in the 90s once or twice, and started again when idiots started using them for no actual reason. Grey has no significance, so yeah go a nice yellow. Not a fluro of course just something nice I’m sure gazf could do up something rad

The only decent one was the one with three stripes across the middle

 

[AlwaysGreen]

You just countered a response using a totally different competition that does not have anywhere near the amount of other codes trying to gain market share. The NRL has a major threat to its market share in Australia namely AFL. This competition seldom changes its strips. This engenders fan loyalty and recognition in ways you are dismissing with a flawed comparison. Your tone toward me derides contempt. Lift your game! (that can be taken more ways than one)

Peanut! No one switches codes because of a jersey! You would not make a good marketing person! Lift your game or I will look in the thesaurus for an insult!

 

[Stallion]

Peanut! No one switches codes because of a jersey! You would not make a good marketing person! Lift your game or I will look in the thesaurus for an insult!

You are so dumb! It's more than switching codes you idiot.It's reinforcing locality and cultural awareness. Geez you're dumb!

 

[Timmah]

You just countered a response using a totally different competition that does not have anywhere near the amount of other codes trying to gain market share. The NRL has a major threat to its market share in Australia namely AFL. This competition seldom changes its strips. This engenders fan loyalty and recognition in ways you are dismissing with a flawed comparison. Your tone toward me derides contempt. Lift your game! (that can be taken more ways than one)

I'm not the only here who finds your input contemptible. You are repeating the same rambles which hold little value and have already been dismissed.

And if the AFL was going to usurp NRL's market share, firstly it would've happened by now - and secondly, jersey identification would not be anywhere near on the list of reasons why

 

[Timmah]

Canberra haven’t had a white away jersey in years.

2017/18

2015/16

One of those is half white and was worn with white shorts, and last year they had an additional alternate strip which was white.

Also - the point I was making was that the Raiders generally avoid wearing anything but the lime green most weeks, regardless of home or away, and only change when they have to or have a charity jersey etc

 

[beave]

The main issue with this website is posters whom constantly repeat themselves and come off as rambling peanuts.

You’re fitting right in.

 

[jim_57]

The main issue with this website is posters whom constantly repeat themselves and come off as rambling peanuts.

You’re fitting right in.

Makes me want to implode.

 

[Saint Doc]

One of those is half white and was worn with white shorts, and last year they had an additional alternate strip which was white.

Also - the point I was making was that the Raiders generally avoid wearing anything but the lime green most weeks, regardless of home or away, and only change when they have to or have a charity jersey etc

My point was since they wear lime green most weeks, there is no need for these weird alternates...especially ones like the current one that doesn’t contrast the only team they clash with.

 

[Timmah]

My point was since they wear lime green most weeks, there is no need for these weird alternates...especially ones like the current one that doesn’t contrast the only team they clash with.

I agree their best clash jumper should be white but I don't necessarily have an issue with the grey jumper. They'll no doubt wear it at least once later in the year.

 

[The Great Dane]

CBR need to stop with stupid alternate jerseys. Black, yellow, charcoal...ditch them all. They should wear their home strip 95% of the time. When they are away to Souths, it needs to be white jersey, white shorts with lime green piping.

So @kdalymc what is canberra’s Secondary colour that should be their alternate then?
Their secondary colors have always been white, blue, yellow. Their alternate should provide adequate contrast to the only club they clash with, Souths. Either you put them in an eels jersey or white. Considering they had 20+ years of white alternates, it makes a lot more sense than a yellow or blue jersey

Firstly we haven't had white away jerseys for 20 years, that's just simply false. We had white away jerseys maybe 5 or so years out of our fist 20 years in the comp and we almost always only wore them against Souths. Since 2000 we started using white away jerseys semi annually with green and black away jerseys breaking up the pattern from time to time up until recently when yellow and then grey were introduced. But anyhow that is totally beside my point.

Do you know why the Raiders have moved completely away from white away jerseys? It's cause both the players and the core fan-base doesn't like them!

In 2010 when the players were given the opportunity to have some input into the jerseys, specifically the away jerseys, they chose a black design cause they found the white boring, and Raiders fans in Canberra have been complaining about the white jerseys for years for various reasons, but mainly cause we don't feel that it reflects the club or the region at all, and for a long time the preferred option for an away jersey was one that was majority blue and yellow, reflecting the ACT, specifically this design was favoured (some would even say with either the yellow or green swapped with the white) that was used in a game against Great Britain in 92-

That was until 2014 when the Raiders wore this jersey as a promotional jersey for Huawei-

Once that jersey came out everybody was like 'use that as the away jersey', that was also the year when Mcintyre was kicked out and the Raiders started considering their fans concerns and opinions again so they tried a yellow away jersey, and we ended up with the design from a few years ago that was a complete flop, but that had more to do with the fact that the design was shit then the fact that it was majority yellow...

But the point is there's a reason why the Raiders are trying to move away from the white jerseys, it's cause by and large they aren't very popular with the fans, the only reason that the non-white away jerseys haven't been successful (apart from the 2010 one) is cause the designs have been absolute crap...

But also as GAZF said why is it the Raiders problem? The Raiders have two jerseys that contrast and always have since it was made a rule that the clubs need an away jersey to avoid colour clashes, Souths have two jerseys that are effectively the same jersey and that is where the problems start cause when they play us their two jerseys that are exactly the same clash with both of our two contrasting jerseys, if they had two contrasting jerseys there wouldn't be a problem.
So yeah how is this the Raiders problem, why should we have to make sure that we don't clash with them and they not have bother at all about clashing with us?

It's all moot anyway cause as has been pointed out the shades of green don't clash anyway, neither would the navy and grey jersey clash with the Rabbits jersey either, and it's all the NRL/the two clubs being stupid.

 

[beagle]

I didn't mind this Canberra away jersey from the 80s

 

[GAZF]

The main issue with this website is posters whom constantly repeat themselves and come off as rambling peanuts.

You’re fitting right in.

What are your thoughts on the new Cowboys jersey?

 

[GAZF]

Once that jersey came out everybody was like 'use that as the away jersey', that was also the year when Mcintyre was kicked out and the Raiders started considering their fans concerns and opinions again so they tried a yellow away jersey, and we ended up with the design from a few years ago that was a complete flop, but that had more to do with the fact that the design was shit then the fact that it was majority yellow...

But the point is there's a reason why the Raiders are trying to move away from the white jerseys, it's cause by and large they aren't very popular with the fans, the only reason that the non-white away jerseys haven't been successful (apart from the 2010 one) is cause the designs have been absolute crap...

I'm fairly isolated as a Raiders fan and don't know many others outside of this forum but was the feedback on the yellow jersey really that positive? Regardless, the lime green and gold are still too similar and may pose problems for people with colour blindness and/or on very small screens. The blue design we have has great contrast despite my not liking the design itself.

After seeing the indigenous design last year, I'm open to a darker green away (paired with lime green accents). However, it would mean we would need a third (white) jersey since lime green and the Rabbitohs' colours no longer contrast apparently.

There really should be some systematic rules for this sort of stuff because there are at least a dozen stupid decisions made each year.

 

[The Great Dane]

I'm fairly isolated as a Raiders fan and don't know many others outside of this forum but was the feedback on the yellow jersey really that positive? Regardless, the lime green and gold are still too similar and may pose problems for people with colour blindness and/or on very small screens. The blue design we have has great contrast despite my not liking the design itself.

After seeing the indigenous design last year, I'm open to a darker green away (paired with lime green accents). However, it would mean we would need a third (white) jersey since lime green and the Rabbitohs' colours no longer contrast apparently.

There really should be some systematic rules for this sort of stuff because there are at least a dozen stupid decisions made each year.

More a case of anything being better then the white jerseys, the yellow jerseys were just fresh in the mind and reasonably popular at the time.

I remember the talk at the time pretty well, it was 2014 getting ready for the 2015 season and the rough consensus from the fans was that they wanted the club to wear the green home jerseys more often as with promotional jerseys and the such the team was only wearing the home jerseys 6-8 times a year which made it more common to see the team in the away jersey than the home jersey (and more common to see them in white than in green), so basically what the fans wanted was for the club to wear the home jersey home and away as often as possible, but obviously the club needed to carry an away jersey that the team would wear in the case of an actual clash, such as when we play Souths.

As I spoke about before the white jerseys were very unpopular, and pretty much always had been, and the fans wanted the away jersey to feature the teams other colours of blue and yellow (technically it's the ACTs colours so "royal blue and gold"), at the time it was also very important for the club to try to reconnect with the community in Canberra and this was seen as a good step in the right direction (but that is a whole other story), but they also didn't want it to look like a Parramatta jersey or even worse a Brumbies jersey, cause they didn't want the club to be seen as copying the Brumbies, anyhow long story short the yellow jersey came up as a possible solution and the Raiders coming out of a period of almost the last 15 years where they took their fans for granted and didn't care about their opinions decided to listen, then proceeded to completely balls it up with a really shitty design lol.

So yeah it wasn't really a case of the yellow Huawei jersey being so popular that they had to make it the away jersey, it was more just an opportunistic coincidence that it both solved the problem and was fresh in the memory.
The other design that was heavily favoured as an away jersey was the 2013 Canberra centenary jersey with some green thrown in somewhere, which was basically an ACT rep jersey with a Raiders logo slapped on it, but their were large parts of the community that had misgivings about it cause it "looks like a Brumbies jersey", which is like no shit it's an ACT jersey! You really can't have an ACT jersey without it looking like a Brumbies jersey unless you invert the yellow and blue, hence the preference for a yellow away jersey.

 

[GAZF]

More a case of anything being better then the white jerseys, the yellow jerseys were just fresh in the mind and reasonably popular at the time.

I remember the talk at the time pretty well, it was 2014 getting ready for the 2015 season and the rough consensus from the fans was that they wanted the club to wear the green home jerseys more often as with promotional jerseys and the such the team was only wearing the home jerseys 6-8 times a year which made it more common to see the team in the away jersey than the home jersey (and more common to see them in white than in green), so basically what the fans wanted was for the club to wear the home jersey home and away as often as possible, but obviously the club needed to carry an away jersey that the team would wear in the case of an actual clash, such as when we play Souths.

As I spoke about before the white jerseys were very unpopular, and pretty much always had been, and the fans wanted the away jersey to feature the teams other colours of blue and yellow (technically it's the ACTs colours so "royal blue and gold"), at the time it was also very important for the club to try to reconnect with the community in Canberra and this was seen as a good step in the right direction (but that is a whole other story), but they also didn't want it to look like a Parramatta jersey or even worse a Brumbies jersey, cause they didn't want the club to be seen as copying the Brumbies, anyhow long story short the yellow jersey came up as a possible solution and the Raiders coming out of a period of almost the last 15 years where they took their fans for granted and didn't care about their opinions decided to listen, then proceeded to completely balls it up with a really shitty design lol.

So yeah it wasn't really a case of the yellow Huawei jersey being so popular that they had to make it the away jersey, it was more just an opportunistic coincidence that it both solved the problem and was fresh in the memory.
The other design that was heavily favoured as an away jersey was the 2013 Canberra centenary jersey with some green thrown in somewhere, which was basically an ACT rep jersey with a Raiders logo slapped on it, but their were large parts of the community that had misgivings about it cause it "looks like a Brumbies jersey", which is like no shit it's an ACT jersey! You really can't have an ACT jersey without it looking like a Brumbies jersey unless you invert the yellow and blue, hence the preference for a yellow away jersey.

Its a good reason for using it but gold just doesn't contrast enough with our usual green. We hardly wear an away design regardless, Saturday's scenario was irritating but still relatively rare for us.

 

[Zerô]

I actually like the Raiders grey/green alternate, but me thinks thats only because im a Seahawks fan

 

[Timmah]

Judging by the logo in use lately it looks like that grey-blue gunmetal colour is officially the clubs' secondary colour now, with the blue/yellow/white as tertiary colours.

 

[The Great Dane]

Judging by the logo in use lately it looks like that grey-blue gunmetal colour is officially the clubs' secondary colour now, with the blue/yellow/white as tertiary colours.

Yeah for the last few years they've been fazing out the current logo (which is an outdated hangover from the 2000 OzEmail brand change anyway) and slowly replacing it with this new one-

The change is only very minor, but it's still significant in that it seems like it's a change in colour scheme at least adding navy as a permanent part of our colour scheme, which personally I'm not against.

This logo is the one that the Raiders are using on basically everything now except some merch and on the jerseys, and I think considering that the Valkyrie logo is in this colour scheme as well that it's inevitable that given time this will become the official logo used on everything.

I actually like the Raiders grey/green alternate, but me thinks thats only because im a Seahawks fan

Well you should be happy cause it looks like it's hanging around, personally I don't mind it either.