Australian Football Sesquicentennial - Umpires In White All Season
Here is another idea for next year's 150 years of football celebrations, the umpires go back to white. Not just for a single round, for the entire year, or longer.
Heritage Round had most umpires wearing their white uniforms, and they were not getting run into. So there goes one argument that they need to wear their other colours. Sometimes they wear the green shirts, the same colour as the grass, and they get run into. Even when they wear their Bruce Lee Game of Death shirts, the yellow with the black stripe, they get run into by players too.
Umpires wearing different colours have actually caused a few problems in the VFL, the Bullants in their bright red uniforms sometimes look a bit like the VFL umpires in their bright orange.
The umpires, especially the goal umpires, look a lot more appropriate in the white uniforms. The big hats and the long coats, that is what the goal umpires are historically associated with.
The AFL clubs have begun using white alternative uniforms to avoid jumper clashes, so there is a small problem there. But as the Melbourne Football Club showed when they played in a much lighter blue uniform for Heritage Round, there are other ways to make the teams look different on the field. The Demons looked better that game with older-style uniforms, next year the umpires and the game should benefit by going back to white uniforms.
Next week's Australian Football Sesquicentennial Celebrations Suggestion: Mud
Heritage Round had most umpires wearing their white uniforms, and they were not getting run into. So there goes one argument that they need to wear their other colours. Sometimes they wear the green shirts, the same colour as the grass, and they get run into. Even when they wear their Bruce Lee Game of Death shirts, the yellow with the black stripe, they get run into by players too.
Umpires wearing different colours have actually caused a few problems in the VFL, the Bullants in their bright red uniforms sometimes look a bit like the VFL umpires in their bright orange.
The umpires, especially the goal umpires, look a lot more appropriate in the white uniforms. The big hats and the long coats, that is what the goal umpires are historically associated with.
The AFL clubs have begun using white alternative uniforms to avoid jumper clashes, so there is a small problem there. But as the Melbourne Football Club showed when they played in a much lighter blue uniform for Heritage Round, there are other ways to make the teams look different on the field. The Demons looked better that game with older-style uniforms, next year the umpires and the game should benefit by going back to white uniforms.
Next week's Australian Football Sesquicentennial Celebrations Suggestion: Mud
