Thanks, Yob. I remember them as premiership players. Just wish all our team had Scott Burns hardness at the ball and dedication. He gives all he's got out on the field.

And thanks HD for clearing up the shorts history. It was an '80s' theme heritage round, so that explains it. I didn't watch the St Kilda game (just saw Motlops hanger and his after-the-siren shot for goal on the news) but Collingwood just had the 'normal' curved numbers. Also, just rechecked Footscray on the web - it appears they had the right 1980's emblem-less guernsey, though the hoops look a little high to me. You should've been a consultant for the heritage round.



Wawick Capper style wigs were on sale around Docklands on Saturday and were a huge hit.

Those hoops do seem high. This was the height from after 1975 when they adopted them for colour TV.

When I think of 80's and Simon Beasley, Rick Kennedy, Doug Hawkins, Brad Hardie, Brian Royal et al I think of low slung hoops as you alluded to.

Could forumites please fill me in with what each club used for this heritage round? My curiosity needs to be satisfied.

Whilst discussing the heritage round jumpers with Mark Bickley, up came the subject of Port Adelaide to which Jones said something along the lines of "Port were created in 1997 and therefore have no heritage".

Adelaide -- their current clash jumper, but take out the swooping Crow and replace it with the AFC coat of arms. Looking at it from the front, to the left of the coat of arms is the colours of the SANFL clubs from the 1980's including the separate colours of Woodville and West Torrens. The colours are arranged in small stripes just under a centimetre each. Plus the SANFL logo on the back of the neck.

Brisbane -- they used the strip that they wore as the Bears when they first joined the VFL in 1987. Maroon up top, yellow through the middle with the old 'BB' symbol in the centre.

Carlton -- same as normal, but the CFC symbol on the front is in blocky letters.

Collingwood -- three black stripes on the front and back, with none at the sides.

Essendon -- not much change here, but they did wear red shorts like they did back in the 80's.

Fremantle -- they probably shouldn't have worn this one, although just to be smart arses they used the red and white jumper from the 1880's instead of something else from the 1980's as the heritage round was set up for.

Geelong -- hmmm... not too much difference.

Hawthorn -- same as their normal strip, but with an 80's style collar.

Melbourne -- like their normal home strip, but a slightly lighter blue here.

North Kangaroos -- Vertical stripes, nothing new here.

Port Adelaide -- "We're sorry, apparently the AFL says we have no heritage to celebrate." They just wore their clash jumper.

Richmond -- their normal strip with a lace up motif down the middle.

Sydney -- good old South Melbourne strip before the move up north. White with red 'V'.

St. Kilda -- singular vertical red, white and black stripes. White stripe looked a bit larger than I remember.

Western Bulldogs -- take the bulldog symbol out of their home strip and Bob's your uncle.

West Coast -- Predominantly blue with gold wings and old style Eagles logo on front.


If you want to see pics of them, go to www.footyjumpers.com !

Good to see he's out of a job next year.

Here's the back view -

Much prefer the 1980's version (albeit with curved numbers) to the current predominantly black guernsey. It would also clash less with others like St Kilda.

Who the hell was the person that consulted on the gurnsey designs? Collingwood did not have all white around the sleeveless section at all during this period.

In fact Collingwood has always had black piping around the cuffs.

I checked the encyclopedia. HD is right again - and should've been the person they consulted on the gurnsey designs!

Not all were necesarilly "greats", but so many players leaving for one f'ing club! This was just ones I can remember...

Scott Burns, Tony Francis, Brett James, Craig Kelly, Stephen Patterson, Stephen Pitt, Ben Kemp, Wayne Tanner, Allan Richardson, Justin Staritski, Robbie Ahmat, James Wasley

Plus Scott Russell's lesser but more physical brother played at Norwood, too... not that that counts for anything! haha

thats adidas that did the cuffs, seems to me theyre removing cuffs of all guernseys (adelaide)

also aparrantely something is wrong with Brisbanes and the club is angry but i am too confused by it all and cant work it out

Holy moley - impressive memory, Waz!
Of these, I can (in some cases just) remember -
Scott Russell, Tony Francis, Craig Kelly - all 1990 premiership players, so good memories. BTW - The 1990 side had players from every state.
Allan Richardson - Missed the premiership due to injury. Now an assistant coach at Pieland, in charge of the young players development .
Brett James - got rid of him too soon (amongst a few others)
Stephen Patterson - got rid of him far too late.
Stephen Pitt - very vague memories of him playing a little bit about a decade back.
Justin Staritski - vaguely remember the name, that's all. Probably got a game once.
Robbie Ahmat - Poor mans Leon Davis!! Traded to Sydney where he only ever played one good game - which, of course, was against the Pies.
James Wasley - Great first season, then quickly faded from view.
Scott Burns - total respect.
The other two, I've either never heard of, or just can't remember 'em.

Yeah, i used follow the 'legs quite closely, and used throw a punch at the wall every time we lost someone to the pies! So I remember losing lots! haha!

I must admit that the worst loss was Burnsy... glad he got a nice long career, but I so would have preferred to see him in Crows' garb...