Was just looking at the Seagulls wiki page the other day and wondered why this appeared...
...as the 1990 strip.
By the way, who chose black/white/grey for a Gold Coast franchise? Why not add beige and taupe into the drab mix?
As I recall, Gold Coast-Tweed were backed by a syndicate of Brisbane businessmen plus a Sydney hotelier by the name of Stephen Larkin who owned a heap of hotels at the time, with his most notable being the Oz Rock Cafe at Kings Cross. The logo of the Oz Rock at the time was silver and black in colour.
The original Gold Coast colours were Silver, Black & White and the original jersey was sponsored by Oz Rock Cafe, who had their logo plastered all across the front of the jersey - was essentially a map of Australia with the words written across it.
Larkin was responsible for putting up monies for some of the then Sydney based players to jump ship and head north - notably Ron Gibbs, Billy Johnstone and Glenn Burgess. However his hotel empire was almost on the brink and I think he ended up bankrupted in the very early 90's. When Gibbs was signed he was paraded around in the Oz Rock sponsored jersey but I am guessing they didn't pay the bills, hence Seagulls club stepping in. I also presume that is why the Seagulls sponsorship is just in block lettering in the first year whilst it is more stylised logo is used for subsequent years.
Anyway to cut a long story short I am only guessing the original Gold Coast jersey colours were chosen due to a combination of the Tweed Head Seagulls club and the then main sponsor who turned out to be a dud.
