wearing green a disgrace

Sam its a bit more than a storm in tea cup, the green jersey should be the exception rather than the rule, we are and have always been white.
Exactly wingback why should a home team be the ones to change their strip? more brain dead GAA shenanigans!.

Lads the Antrim away Jersey is white, their home jersey is yellow.

I imagine the Kildare players felt that the white was too much of a clash for the yellow and obviously couldnt be worn at the same time as the white.

There is no brain dead nothing, more like people jumping to conclusions before knowing the facts.

So they opted to wear green for both games. Nothing other than that.

Fionn fair enough but its farcical if Antrim’s home and away jersey clashes with the same jersey. White and saffron are very alike from a distance. Surely some prior planning has to come into this. I always thought Antrim had a green away jersey.

Doesn’t matter now anyway. I presume it’ll be green again on Saturday.

I agree that home and away jerseys shouldnt clash, but when was it likely were we ever going to meet Antrim?

Both county board had one week to prepare for the game.

Even if Antrim or Kildare came up with another a 3rd colour,
How much would a set of jerseys 1-30 or whatever cost to be made with a deadline of one week so that jerseys wouldnt clash?

We're away again on Saturday, there can be no arguement in having to wear the green.
Our record in the green jersey isnt bad in fairness.

can wear pink for all i careonce we win!!!!!

kildarecat wrote:

Sam its a bit more than a storm in tea cup, the green jersey should be the exception rather than the rule, we are and have always been white.
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I could be wrong but weren't kildare originally green before changing to white for some reason?

think they became white after clane won the senior championship,so there colour became the white of kildare!!!!
cud be totally wrong though

Each team has to wear either of the jerseys they registered at the start of the year, if not they get fined, but typical GAA no hard and fast rule as usual left for the teams to sort it out between themselves, and a very good point Marcus why would the brain deads allow a team to register an alternative kit that clashes with its normal strip???.

Thats my take on it too, Clane actually represented Kildare in the all Ireland back in 19 splash and their white jersey was then adopted as the county colours.

The old rule was that countys would wear the provincial colours in the event of a clash and that both counties would change.

I really dont see what all the fuss is about. Jersey colours dont make you play any better. I really think people love any excuse for a bit of a moan or a dig at someone else and I mean ANY excuse. Of course it would be nice to wear white all the time but sure Spain won the world cup in Navy. Do you think they give a fiddlers?

I like Stonecolds assertion that they cant wear white again until they earned it.

*runs and ducks for cover*

Sam............. what colour are the polo shirts ?

That would explain why there away jerseys are green so.
Def no harm wearing green if they were our original colours...especially as we only wear them when jerseys clash,its only a handful of teams it happens against after all.

peile wrote:

Sam............. what colour are the polo shirts ?

Blue and white..selling well down my direction

Sam1928 wrote:

peile wrote:

Sam............. what colour are the polo shirts ?

Blue and white..selling well down my direction

lol, cornered the market?

I like the green jersey but have to say I prefer the all white especially the one from the nineties, nothing like heading up to croker on the motorway in a convoy of cars with the lilywhite flags streaming from the windows, better still driving back through the city with flags still flying.

Stonecold wrote:

Sam1928 wrote:

peile wrote:

Sam............. what colour are the polo shirts ?

Blue and white..selling well down my direction

lol, cornered the market?

get to the markets in kildare town if ya want one,going for £1

Some of ye missing the point lads, not that it's a massive deal, but it was the players who opted to wear green, they were not ordered to by the GAA.
Like I said, whatever floats their boat, and no harm for a match or two, just saying long term we should play in white

White is the colour of our county, we are the only County who play in that colour and we are instantly recognised when the white shirt is on show. However wearing a green jersey the odd time is not going to change who we are. We will always be known as the Lilywhites no matter how many times the green is worn.

Also I have seen pictures of the of the Kildare teams in the 60's wearing hooped socks and yet the world is still turning.

Found a picture of the hurlers.

Interesting thing about the socks JME is I think around then a lot of players wore their club socks while playing county, not sure if that was the case with Kildare

Not too pushed about the colour of the jersey myself but I don't like the black stripes on the white shorts. When we have the white jersey we should be all white. There was some bs mentioned in one of the newspaper reports on the July county board meeting about the black stripes being doen to teh contract with O'Neills. If that's the case why did the minors have all white shorts with only teh county crest on the side?

the minors probably didn't get any new gear since the start of the year.

Obviously one of the dinosaurs at the cb meeting woke up for this part of the meeting and decided to throw his useless opinion in. Pity they wouldnt wake for the key points of the meetings regarding fixtures etc.

Couple of points to make here lads. We are not the only county to wear white, Monaghan also wear white as do the Waterford footballers.

The ruling regarding a clash of colours is that both teams change their strip by agreement. Obviously our lads were happy to change and didnt care much for what ANtrim, Letrim or Derry think.

The stripes on the shorts would be an O'Neills call, to the best of my knowledge Kildare cb do not have total control over the line of leisure wear which is sold in shops. IN fact there are only a certain few counties who do. Dublin, Kerry, Tyrone, Galway the ones that I know for sure.

Finally, Geezer has hammered home the point since he arrived that almost every county in Ireland sees Kildare as a soft touch, he has repeatedly said this. I would imagine that the change of strip is a phsychological thing, something to get things right on the road. Dont ever forget we hardly ever (if ever) won games in the playoffs before he arrived.

Who gives a toss what colour they wear, this is a results based game. Every single person on this forum will judge the team and management on the results and how far we progress in gthe championship at the end of the season.
If we have reached a quarter final or there abouts, then who cares if its in a green, white or green and white jersey.

O'Neill's decision me absolute hole. So they can make all-white shorts since they started making out kit, but it has to change this year? If a kit manufacturer told Barcelona sorry lads, we have to start making your jerseys white, what do you think they'd be told?

Not trying to make a massive issue out of this, just saying that if the team decided they were wearing green for the indefinite future I think it would be wrong. Tradition is important. That's all I'm saying.

Not comparing like with like there O2B. Barcalona are a professional outfit, well organised and fully in control of their brand. Kildare GAA are everything but.

As for this tradition bollixology..........................................sentiment never did and never will win anything. The white is merely something to wear on the pitch. Players are the ones doing all the hard work, if they are most comfortable wearing green. Then so be it.

Kildare are the only team with only one colour in their official strip,Waterford and Monaghan are white and Blue.There should never be an occasion when kildare should have to change strip.For example next sunday Monaghan can wear all blue with white collars which means they are still wearing their county colours albeit in a different arrangement .Derry could wear all red with a white centre or Collars etc.
Paulus