Arrrgggh I hate Rugby in summer, they're not even playing and all you can talk about is...

You're just jealous 'cause the BLACKCAPS new uniform is crap.

Haydn, you just wrote a very long post about mens' clothes. Just thought you should know.

I know. What's worse is this weekend I couldn't help but stare at people who were wearing sports jerseys with a critical eye. This included glaring at a small child in a [[http://www.publicaddress.net/5507|New England…

So you would suggest to the Blues that they shouldn't play in blue?

You could do a top which still had blue parts on it – shoulders, sides, while being primarily white.

I fail to see the point of an alternative top which is largely the same colour as the…

how about some nice retro jerseys?

nothing better than throw-backs. But I'd also like jersey patches. My BoP jersey has a B&I Lions patch on it.

Kyle that penguin is CLASS.

No it isn't. It's a foreign bird drawn by a foreigner in a foreign country. What's wrong with the morose, antisocial, endangered but local Yellow-eyed penguin? Just how often does a Rockhopper wash up on Dunedin's beaches, take a quick look around and then bugger…

Re the uniforms: Adidas – if you're reading, and we know you are, how about some nice retro jerseys? Sure, we won't 'update' them every two years, but at least you'll open up that difficult-to-crack 'bah humbug' market.

Nice access to the source, though, Hadyn.

But wouldn't it make sense to do this at the draft stage rather than, after launch?...One of the first considerations was "which teams do we regularly play against, what colours should we therefore avoid?

So you would suggest to the Blues that they shouldn't play in blue?

DAMMIT it's cricket…

Only Napier remains…

BTW, where is Akl cricket going when they shut down the Outer Oval?

From the Annual report of Auckland Cricket

under the agreed design for the redevelopment of Eden Park, the Outer Oval will be retained as the home of our domestic cricket into the long term future, unless Auckland…

where is Akl cricket going when they shut down the Outer Oval?

I believe it's Colin Maiden Park, Merton Rd (Home of Auckland University CC).

We’ve got an overdue changing of the guard in the NZ team, just finished an embarrassing loss v Aus, about to start a very important series in terms of international credibility and we get…

…bloody uniforms.

BTW, where is Akl cricket going when they shut down the…

The All Blacks just finished the last game of the never-ending season.

The Rugby posts have all been taken down and the big white ovals have been painted.

The sun has been out and in some places it's actually dry underfoot.

New green carpet…

Much cheaper to get Sky & stay home...

know of several families who only ever watch rugby on Sky because they can't afford the ticket prices

I know how much sky costs.... it's probably cheaper to go to the games!

Incorporate the red eyes and blood-dripping mouth into your pre-game haka while you're at it.

Ice Blacks doing the haka against Ireland last year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SePqdtag2Ss

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Yes, child-free.

Yup, it looked that way. Some battles are worth fighting, others, not so much. Me, I just reallocated money that my son…

Now we're talking.

Kyle, I wasn't taking any rose-tinted view of how sports franchises operate. But I was taking a jaundiced view of how parenting seems to operate these days.

Yes, child-free.

Reinstate the red eyes immediately, and get some blood dripping from the mouth.

The game will be half won before you start.

Dude, wtf are you feeding that penguin?

Baby seals.

The original image had red eyes. While this is an accurate representation of penguins, it looked too psycho for a logo.

Kyle, you should make your logo like this one so you can charge $170 a ticket.

Sadly, we've run into problems ripping off other franchise's logos previously. And, while the Pittsburgh logo is pretty famous, it's a silly cartoon penguin. We're going for 'angry penguin!'

Our design was done by…

starting with a new logo.

Dude, wtf are you feeding that penguin?

But wouldn't it make sense to do this at the draft stage rather than, after launch?

This did occur to me, but I thought perhaps I was missing some sort of special rugby thing.

Well this weekend there is a meeting with all the franchises where all the jerseys are laid out for each game and potential colour clashes are sorted then.

Maybe I operate at a different level of jersey creation than Adidas.

But wouldn't it make sense to do this at the…

I can see your point, but there’s also the youth market.

They often can appreciate the venal nature of the jersey changes, and apply pressure on innocent parents to cave in and fund the whole thing.

Haydn, you just wrote a very long post about mens' clothes. Just thought you should know.

Dude loves his clothes, it has to be said.

You know this blatant ripping off of fans by changing the sdtrip – and thus trying to force fans to spend big bucks "updating" their overpriced "replica" shirts just so pisses me off. Maybe it is because I know of several families who only ever watch rugby on Sky…

Actually the Crusaders are the only ones to have done that

Apart from the Blues who are blue in the front home and away!

Why do they need new strips every year again?

They update the jerseys every two years. And last year's strips weren't the best anyway.

Using the Crusaders as the obvious example, why have a different strip to avoid colour clashes, but then include a huge body of the home colour…

Oh thats right – professional rugby is a branch of the entertainment industry.