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2019 Jerseys/Logos/Sponsorships

GAZF

GAZF

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Pommy said:
You have to remember the shirt isn’t in isolation with the white shorts there is quite a contrast.
Everyone will still moan but it works just fine. Much better than half the other teams manage with multiple variants.
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You're right, a jersey is not the only factor when considering a contrast, and there may very well be cases where switching black shorts for white ones mitigates a potential clash. However, there are other factors to consider.
  • In cases where Souths are playing a team with a dark jersey/light shorts/dark socks (Roosters, Sea-Eagles, Titans in some years, Raiders which is a special case based on colour), using the whole of uniform approach fails and you would need to rely on adequately contrasting jerseys (which these match-ups arguably don't provide)
  • Shorts and socks each take up ~20% of the visible area of the uniform, and are not visible in all photos and broadcast angles. They should aid in providing additional contrast but not be the main contributor to the contrast
  • If more teams decide to follow the Rabbitohs route of hardly changing the away jersey, then these clashes are going to become a whole lot more common. We'll end up with more games with shitty contrast and/or the need for more third jerseys
  • The rules @Timmah posted were written to avoid unnecessary clashes. For whatever reason, Souths have been a blind spot for over a decade now with the Panthers making a brief cameo until they came to their senses. Not applying the rules correctly to all teams is favouritism by the NRL at the expense of the viewer and other teams
  • Pretty much every professional team sport with players from opposing teams coming into close proximity follows a similar rule to the NRL's for the sake of practicality. It's also becoming more essential to do so as we change the way that games are watched, and strive to provide a more accessible experience to the visually impaired. The rules are there, they just need to apply a bit more common sense to the subjective parts of the rules.
 
Pommy

Pommy

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GAZF said:
You're right, a jersey is not the only factor when considering a contrast, and there may very well be cases where switching black shorts for white ones mitigates a potential clash. However, there are other factors to consider.
  • In cases where Souths are playing a team with a dark jersey/light shorts/dark socks (Roosters, Sea-Eagles, Titans in some years, Raiders which is a special case based on colour), using the whole of uniform approach fails and you would need to rely on adequately contrasting jerseys (which these match-ups arguably don't provide)
  • Shorts and socks each take up ~20% of the visible area of the uniform, and are not visible in all photos and broadcast angles. They should aid in providing additional contrast but not be the main contributor to the contrast
  • If more teams decide to follow the Rabbitohs route of hardly changing the away jersey, then these clashes are going to become a whole lot more common. We'll end up with more games with shitty contrast and/or the need for more third jerseys
  • The rules @Timmah posted were written to avoid unnecessary clashes. For whatever reason, Souths have been a blind spot for over a decade now with the Panthers making a brief cameo until they came to their senses. Not applying the rules correctly to all teams is favouritism by the NRL at the expense of the viewer and other teams
  • Pretty much every professional team sport with players from opposing teams coming into close proximity follows a similar rule to the NRL's for the sake of practicality. It's also becoming more essential to do so as we change the way that games are watched, and strive to provide a more accessible experience to the visually impaired. The rules are there, they just need to apply a bit more common sense to the subjective parts of the rules.
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I have honestly never seen a clash on tv, even the raiders (against who we wore the red shirt this season) I haven’t had an issue with.
If we’re talking about other professional sports pretty much every NRL club would fail. You don’t see EPL sides playing in the inverse of their home shirt, away shirts are normally a very big change from the norm. If you were advocating for such a change I would say fair enough.
 
GAZF

GAZF

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Pommy said:
I have honestly never seen a clash on tv, even the raiders (against who we wore the red shirt this season) I haven’t had an issue with.
If we’re talking about other professional sports pretty much every NRL club would fail. You don’t see EPL sides playing in the inverse of their home shirt, away shirts are normally a very big change from the norm. If you were advocating for such a change I would say fair enough.
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I'm a bit confused, you're saying that the Rabbitohs home/away system provides perfectly adequate contrast in the NRL but also that the NRL in general fails to do so by world standards?

The EPL is an exaggerated case since the clubs are as uncreative with team colours as your team is with away designs.

Somewhere in between the extremes is probably fine. If an away design with inverted colours contrasts with the home design (like the Eels home/away from this year, not the heritage they shoe-horned in) then its perfectly adequate. If the club colours don't contrast well, and Souths' red/green is possibly the worst of the lot, then an alternate colour would be required. Clubs had been doing that for years with predictable white away designs. There are plenty of other light colours that certain clubs could use without destroying their identity.
 
Blues Riff

Blues Riff

Bench
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GAZF said:
It's a terrible way actually, her hair covers the top part.
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No worries Poindexter. Here's a nice diagram for you.
2019-Adult-Youth-Panthers-Home-Jersey-Back.jpg
 
Cumberland Throw

Cumberland Throw

First Grade
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NFL jerseys look pretty good.. but their isnt much to their design ..most are just a solid block colour.. large numbers, and maybe a stripe.. on the sleeve..

Pretty hard to stuff up
 
greenBV4

greenBV4

Bench
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greenBV4 said:
new media polo implies Fuso are probably the Storm's major sponsors for 2019
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Mockup assuming this, based on the media polo and everything else, fuso probably don't care about the red box around their logo, there is also a lot less gold like on all of the new branding, and the gold that is still there is now a brighter yellow, like on all of the membership stuff for this year
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sempmrh

sempmrh

Juniors
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It will be the same shade of yellow/gold as last year.

Fuso on the polos doesn’t necessarily mean they’re upgrading to front of jersey sponsor. They would have been on the polos anyway (they upgraded from shorts to back of jersey sponsor too late to make it onto any of the off-field gear last year) and are placed there on the polo this year in the absence of a major sponsor. I’d love it to be Fuso because it looks good on the jersey.

Musashi was briefly on the sponsors section of the Storm website a few weeks back and it’s typically only uniform sponsors there. It was a new Musashi logo, too. It’s no longer there now.
 
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