New ‘clash’ strip for ‘Barcodes’

A very tight election result in Victoria has overshadowed the announcement that Collingwood — from this point on to be known as the Barcodes here at AussieRulesBlog — will wear a clash strip against North Melbourne.

Although AussieRulesBlog cannot see the ‘clash’ with North Melbourne’s vertical royal blue stripes, the Kangaroos have recently been forced into impersonating Argentina’s Pumas when playing Collingwood — even for their own ‘home’ games!



For 2011, the AFL have announced Collingwood will wear a newly-designed clash guernsey when playing North Melbourne. We are at a loss to see how this new alternative makes any material difference, especially since we didn’t consider there was a practical problem in the first place.


Perhaps the Barcodes could be forced to play in a washed out grey-striped guernsey when fronting the Kangaroos?



We acknowledge that our own beloved Bombers have similarly resisted AFL pressure to design a radically-different clash strip.

Further on clash strips, we consider the average response — design an essentially all-white uniform with a small splash of traditional colours — to psychologically emasculate the team so uniformed. Sure, there are wins in these all-but-all-white clash strips, but even the brawniest players look rather less fearsome and significantly more insipid in these white uniforms. Clubs should leave ‘whites’ where they belong — on the cricket field!