On the fence. The Chargers were my favourite of the Gold Coast teams/identities. So it is cool to see this. (Absolutely hate the Seagulls but thats another story.) But part of me is hear thinking, this was a new gold coast franchise, nothing to do with the others and should be standing on their own identity and standing apart from past failures. I mean, at least by doing this, the chargers were at the time the most successful identity to play in the premiership at the time and were very hard done by getting the boot with money in the bank, so they choosing the iteration that had things gone differently, could have still been here today.
But plenty of posters here talk about how this club has never found their own identity, their own signature look. The shades of their colours vary greatly every few years or so. And here they are falling back on another identity for a heritage jersey. I don't know. From the outside looking in there definitely a celebratory feeling about it but almost seems like under the surface this club knows a strong identity and brand recognition is something that has eluded them.
Then again it's a heritage jersey and I guess it's not that deep. Just typing out thoughts. I'll probably catch flak for upsetting someone.
I'm sure when they are out on the park it'll look great and if the Gold Coast fans and faithful love it, which by that amazing response it appears they do, then I guess that's what matters. It does look good. General rugby league collectors are probably jumping in too.