I like GAZF's proposal for the Wests Tigers home jersey, but it has got me wondering whether they would rule it out simply because it is black. There are already two other teams who wear black home jerseys. No other teams wear orange. The Tigers may consider orange to be their best option for brand distinction.
Orange IS their most unique colour but its also exclusively a Balmain colour. It would be like the Northern Eagles using the moniker and primary colour from only one side of the merger...oh wait. Other than that, the midgets have latched onto orange as their primary colour which makes the colour less unique in that region.
Wests in black makes for 3 teams in that colour; one of which is in a different market (NZ, who should not be wearing black anyway) and the other in the same market (Penrith). Two teams in the same market wearing a neutral colour such as black is not unprecedented and I think that the uniforms would be distinctive enough, especially if Penrith goes ahead with their rebrand and uses something like the licorice allsorts jersey. A similar case could be brought up for blue; the Knights and Eels use a near identical shade of blue but the jerseys are easily distinguished because of the secondary colours and styling. Likewise, the Roosters, Cowboys and Storm would not be confused.
As much as I like Gaz's WT design as a jersey, I don't think that it'd ever get accepted for the Wt's as it looks too 'Balmain'. The Wests half would cry blue murder with no white in the jersey, even though the design IS a Magpies design, the differences are just too minor to be seen by 99.8% of the fan base.
the 0.2% is us on here...
If Wests fans aren't already crying blue murder then they are blind. The current home jersey looks like someone dropped the Balmain jersey in a blender.
I've actually made a black/white/black jersey/shorts/socks and added orange as the accent as opposed to white being the accent colour on the current design. A thin white stripe between the double striping could work but I wouldn't want to add too much more white than that.
I hope its more than 0.2% that sees it that way anyway...
GAZF has posted a design before of an orange jersey with a thick black V below a thin white V that they might find more acceptable.
I moved away from that design as the orange still gives too much of a Balmain vibe. Could work as an alt though.
