Armband aboutface?

After a week of mid-season R&R enjoying the sun in Merimbula — and missing the Akermanis sacking media blitz — AussieRulesBlog sat down to watch the St Kilda-Hawthorn game.

What a cracker of a game, with the draw being a fitting result that reduced the over-zealous umpiring effect to minimal.

Of greater interest were the armbands worn by each club. We’ve searched high and low this morning, but we can’t find any AFL statement changing their “black armband only” policy, laid down when Essendon first proposed the Call to Arms game to support cancer research and asked permission for both clubs to wear yellow armbands. Not possible said the AFL at the time; allow yellow and there’d be a flood of applications for armbands of many and varied hues.

The Saints and the Hawks playing for the Tynan-Eyre Cup each year is a fitting way to remind the community of the danger that our Police face on a daily basis, but the Police check armband isn’t black.