2025 NRL Jerseys, Sponsorship, Logos

[flippikat]

Think in this case it was a kind of rush to market with a short turn around scenario- also not sure if there was an IP issue with using the ARL designs?

Yeah, I think it was this more than anything else.

Also have to consider that Nike had no previous experience in making/designing rugby league jerseys, so there was an "arty" angle to the designs that was a real shock at the time.

Up to 1996, jerseys had bars, or stripes, or Vs with straight lines. They didn't have curves or prongs or 3 weird downward pointing arrowhead things on the front!

 

[blue bags]

Superleague really suffered for having pairs of teams in the same templates (just differently coloured) - Broncos & Raiders, Warriors & Panthers, Rams & Mariners, Sharks & Reds.

The two best designs - Bulldogs & Cowboys - were the only two unique ones.

The Cowboys was my favorite of the lot, the striped V was just looking like the next-big-trend in jersey design in the mid 1990s (Roosters away & Gold Coast Chargers had striped V too), and once the Cowboys ditched the Superleague jersey they had a long run of hideous designs through the 2000s-2010s.

About time the Cowboys did a modern take on their Superleague jersey - maybe a slightly scaled-back V, maybe colours flipped (navy jersey, gold V perhaps)...

I have a Raiders and a Bulldogs
Super league Jersey's

 

[Matiunz]

Yeah, I think it was this more than anything else.

Also have to consider that Nike had no previous experience in making/designing rugby league jerseys, so there was an "arty" angle to the designs that was a real shock at the time.

Up to 1996, jerseys had bars, or stripes, or Vs with straight lines. They didn't have curves or prongs or 3 weird downward pointing arrowhead things on the front!

I remember at the time Nike were hailing their ‘NASA technology’ that was some of the early moisture wicking fabrics, pretty sure they had to revert/refine them after a couple of rounds as there were complaints the fabrics became to slick and interfered with ball handling and tackling etc