ASICS partners with Australian Rugby Union from 2014

[flat_eric]

The only decent Australian national team jersey to be released this year:

Sign a global apparel company who have been doing kit design for the better of a century and you are likely to get something decent. Kooga and ASICS are not in the same ballpark as Nike and Adidas. You can clearly see the difference in rugby kits all over the world.

 

[p.Tah]

Yes you are right. Nike produce some great rugby jerseys

 

[TOCC]

All Blacks?

All Purples?

 

[Badger]

Nike stuffed up the Argentina jersey.

From this:

To this:

 

[Slim 293]

Yeah, that was a travesty..........

You don't mess with a classic..........

 

[TOCC]

Even though I think the purple England Jersey is quite ugly, I read an article where it actually sold like hot cakes accounting for 40% of all RFU replica jersey sales in the season it was released....

Would a similar concept be such a travesty for the Wallabies given the ARU are looking for ways to boost revenue?

 

[oztimmay]

They did a blue wallabies one a few years ago. Wonder how they sold?

 

[RugbyFuture]

would love a classics range. Just basic cotton jerseys based off the old designs.

 

[Grickles]

The only decent Australian national team jersey to be released this year:

Sign a global apparel company who have been doing kit design for the better of a century and you are likely to get something decent. Kooga and ASICS are not in the same ballpark as Nike and Adidas. You can clearly see the difference in rugby kits all over the world.

It would be a great kit if Nike had actually put some effort into and not just copy paste the Brazil jersey from last year and add some Australian emblems on it

 

[flat_eric]

To be fair it's based on the 1974 kit (see below). As I said a few pages back in this thread I'd love to see a Wallabies reincarnation from that era.

http://www.AK (Andrew Kellaway)-tsc.de/hp/soc-australia.jpg

 

[Braveheart81]

World Cup jerseys are generally the most traditional.

Outside of having too much piping the Wallabies 2011 jersey was the plainest one we've had for a while.

I expect the Asics RWC 2015 jersey will be similar to the 2014 one with less swatches of green and less Southern Cross.

 

[TahDan]

World Cup jerseys are generally the most traditional.

Outside of having too much piping the Wallabies 2011 jersey was the plainest one we've had for a while.

I expect the Asics RWC 2015 jersey will be similar to the 2014 one with less swatches of green and less Southern Cross.

Sadly, having emailed them for a glimmer of hope that this jackson pollock edition may be soon gone, I was informed that we're going to be stuck with this mess for at least a couple years.

 

[Braveheart81]

Sadly, having emailed them for a glimmer of hope that this jackson pollock edition may be soon gone, I was informed that we're going to be stuck with this mess for at least a couple years.

[citation needed]

Comeon. There's hyperbole and then there's just making stuff up.

Small patches of green on the collar, sleeves and armpits hardly has anything in common with a Jackson Pollock work.

 

[TahDan]

[citation needed]

Comeon. There's hyperbole and then there's just making stuff up.

Small patches of green on the collar, sleeves and armpits hardly has anything in common with a Jackson Pollock work.

A bit of hyperbole, but I reckon it's a bloody mess. I honestly can't stand the sight of it.


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[Braveheart81]

A bit of hyperbole, but I reckon it's a bloody mess. I honestly can't stand the sight of it.


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It's far simpler than the majority of jerseys we've had since 1996.

 

[Lindommer]

We get your point, TahDan, you don't like it. Yes, we get it. OK, we've got it, you don't like it. Shall I go on?

 

[TahDan]

I don't know about that... It's messier and less simple than the CCC '96 edition, the 99' to 03' edition, the '04 to '06 edition (which it sort of copies but adds way more shit to), and it's also less simple than the last 2 Kooga ones. To be fair, it's less messy and better than the '07 RWC "bra" edition and the '97 Reebok mess.

In terms of elegance and simplicity, it's really in the bottom 3 of the 7 we've had in that period.

 

[Braveheart81]

I definitely prefer the new jersey to all the varieties with these sleeves which were prominent in the late 90s to around 2004. I also prefer the new positioning of the Southern Cross to this one.

I think most people disliked the asymmetrical Kooga/BLK swatches in the last couple of years so a return to uniformity in the green is seen as a positive in that respect.

So if people are arguing between whether it's the third best or the third worst of seven distinctive jersey types in almost 20 years, it's probably a suggestion that it's a decent design and not really worthy of mass outrage or praise.

 

[TahDan]

To be honest the Southern Cross is one of my biggest gripes... its positioning is terrible in this one. It reminds me of some bogan tattoo the way its positioned down the side of the torso. I wasn't a huge fan of CCC's position either though. Kooga had the right idea in making it embossed and understated.

 

[Train Without a Station]

I can understand how a person could not be crazy about it, but for fucks sake there's subtle touches of green and a southern cross which dates back to the Canterbury jerseys.

Do you fucking work for Kooga/BLK or something Tahdan? It looks better and simpler than the 2006 and 2007 Canterbury jerseys.