Why were we playing in green and white yesterday?
I thought ,courtesy of the trust ,we were supposed to play in our first choice colours, unless there is a clash.
I could understand the need for us to change against Northampton as their maroon would possibly clash with our dark blue, and obviously we can’t wear red.
I am of the generation that believes you should wear your first choice colours at all times, unless there is an absolute necessity to change. I hate the terms home kit and away kit.
ironic that on the clubs birthday, we couldn’t even wear the colours for which we are famous when there was absolutely no need to change
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Absolutely agree. Blue should be worn at all times unless a clear clash. I know this doesn’t bother some but it does bother me and a large number of our fanbase.
ps it’s not as if we have a green kit to sell anyway. They’ve been recalled!
It’s a scourge of the modern age and erodes the identity of a club
for a long time we were above this, but it seems to be a slippery slope.. As you say, it’s not even as though it’s a decent kit by all accounts.
According to the commentary, it was because the Charlton keeper was in a blue kit (though it looked more turquoise to me). Not sure the ref can ask home to change even the keepers kit if the visitors have a registered colour that doesn’t clash
To be fair, Charlton's is a very classy keeper's kit. That and our pink one are two of the nicest I've seen for a long time.
Thanks for that. I was very busy yesterday afternoon and not in a position to either watch or listen to the game. if that was a reason, it’s reasonably acceptable.although it does smack to me of the tail wagging the dog in my view, the keeper should wear an alternative kit rather than the away team having to change en masse
Agree with the above. Goalkeeper kits should be the first to change.
Tell their goalie to put a bib on and get on with it.
Having looked at the highlights this afternoon, I wouldn’t consider the goalkeepers kit to be a clash with our predominantly dark blue
I bet that its all down to commerical reasons. Nothing more, nothing less
I may be wrong, but I think I read somewhere that they have to take into account people who are colour blind.
So red v blue may not be easy to distinguish, whereas the lighter coloured green & white kit makes more of a contrast.
The kit clash between Ireland and South Africa in the rugby yesterday was ridiculous. Green shirts and white shorts v Green shorts and white shirts.
Red-green is actually the most common form of colour blindness, therefore that would have been a reason not to change yesterday.
yes, I wondered if colourblindness came into the equation which obviously has to be respected. Two conflicting opinions on that above. Is anybody an expert on this matter?
I’ve bored on this subject so much that I’ve bored myself.
A few years ago Arsenal introduced a change / third kit with an approximation of the Oxford and Cambridge blues and so many football fans from a wide variety of persuasions identified them as Wycombe Wanderers colours. Arsenal, one of the greatest clubs in English football, were wearing a ‘Wycombe Wanderers’ kit. That’s quite something.
When we have such easily identifiable and almost unique colours and design of kit, it seems perverse not to embrace it, celebrate it and wear it at every available opportunity.
That successive regimes have opted instead to leave it sitting in washing baskets in favour of the latest one-season wonder throw-away design leaves you wondering where their true interests lie.
I'd also be interested to hear how colourblind-friendly our quarters are. I don't want to presume, but I have wondered if having a unique pattern like that helps.
Maybe the club are worried that if they wear the blue shirt too often, the logos will start peeling away in the wash.
I suppose you must consider that some players/officials could be colourblind, but this interesting document would suggest that green vs red is possibly the worst!
https://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/uefaorg/Corepartnership/02/60/10/06/2601006_DOWNLOAD.pdf
@EddieMonsoon , where are you??
YOYOY are you not involved in this thread?
I think I know where the venerable Mr monsoon would stand on this matter!
he will no doubt correct me if I’m wrong, but his stance will be teams will only change if the referee tells them there is a clash of colours.
also, last time we put the world to right which if I remember correctly was sitting in the pavilion at the Oval he also advocated a return to multiple replays in the FA Cup(and why not !)
If there are officials who are Green/Red colour-blind, that must make their job 1000-times more difficult!
I see red and blue aren’t going to clash tonight at Fratton Park
Don't Pompey wear red socks?
Most weeks we can only dream of having a referee who is merely colour blind. Usually we get the ones who run on after leaving their white cane in the changing room.
So white shorts v white shorts is fine, even though we could have played in green? I am massively confused.
Quite... I never want to hear anyone ever again give a short clash as a reason !
It's at the ref's discretion - as far as I'm aware, there's no hard and fast rule on shorts clashing. Not sure about socks.
The weird thing is that red is our third kit, so wouldn't that mean either the ref refused the green, or we did?
Yeah, I watched a premier League game on TV recently between Burnley/Aston Villa/West Ham (2 out of the 3 but I don't remember who).
Both teams had very similar claret coloured shorts and I couldn't figure it out.
Wrong thread!