Exactly the knights could have gone with a white based jersey with red and blue indigenous motifs
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Exactly the knights could have gone with a white based jersey with red and blue indigenous motifs
‘Filthy’ Raiders star Jack Wighton blasts own club over ‘lazy’ Indigenous jersey design
Jack Wighton takes aim at his own club.
Raiders star and proud Indigenous man Jack Wighton has blasted his club for a lack of effort in designing their jersey for Indigenous Round.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported the Raiders are the only club not to have an Indigenous symbol on the front of their jersey as they chose represent the fact the ACT is the only jurisdiction in Australia to have a Reconciliation Day public holiday on their sleeves.
Incumbent Blues and Kangaroos centre Wighton is the only Indigenous Australian in the Raiders’ first-grade squad and believes the club should have done much more.
“I’m very, very proud but I’m a little bit disappointed how the club went about the jersey and that. I feel like we just ticked a box, no one got any input,” Wighton told The Sydney Morning Herald.
“We’ve got a lot of First Nations people of all different types – Samoans and Maoris and that, you know – and no one really had any say about the jersey.
“I think you can tell. We had a whole canvas and they just put a little design on the sleeve. We didn’t hear nothing about it until this week. No one came to us for any ideas.
“In previous years we’ve had a lot to do with it and the club has run things past us but I felt like they got lazy this year.”
The Indigenous design is the artwork of Lynnice Church, an Aboriginal woman from the Ngunnawal, Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi tribes.
While not being critical of the artist, Wighton believes the club could have gone to more effort in such a special round for his people.
For instance South Sydney’s jersey includes a handprint of the club’s eight Indigenous players and a totem for their tribe.
The South Sydney jersey was designed by Cody Walker’s uncle Joe and has a black rabbit at its centre.
“They’ve got the best stories and put a bit of effort in. I just feel like we ticked a box this year,” Wighton said.
Raiders Indigenous Jersey. Source: Canberra Raiders
“It’s terrible. I’m filthy. It’s the one round to share culture, you know what I mean, to get our artwork and stories out there, and I feel like we’ve put a pretty poor effort in, if I’m to be honest.”
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Home and away yes, but would one-off jersey's like indegenous be done that much in advance?
Issue this year may be that we had a new draw come out 2 months ago, most designs would have been signed off before this.
Yeah that would be OK if it were done other years, but unless I'm forgetting there's always been some pretty bad clashes with indigenous jerseys
Its easier to complain about something after the fact than to take responsibility from the start?
He may have, and the club might have decided to go in a different direction.
Nope they’ve been wearing Fi-Ta! I wonder if it’s only a one off or Struddys are taking over?
Its so you can tell they have shit their pants every time we play a side we should beat.
