Adelaide will wear their home guernsey in the AFL grand final, with Richmond forced to don their clash strip.
The two sides with the longest active AFL grand-final droughts will compete for the flag after Richmond downed Greater Western Sydney by 36 points in Saturday’s preliminary final.
And the Crows have had an early win, with the AFL executive ruling that the Crows will wear their tri-colour home guernsey.
AFL football boss Andrew Dillon said the Crows would be given priority because they had won the minor premiership.
Tigers legend Kevin Bartlett had been outspoken in his belief that it would be a travesty if his old club wore their predominantly yellow clash strip if they made it through to their first grand final since 1982.
But Adelaide chief executive Andrew Fagan hit back, saying there was no way the Crows would wear their clash strip after storming into the premiership decider with a 61-point belting of Geelong
“There’s no way that that would happen,” he said of the prospect of wearing their predominantly white jersey.
“The last time I looked, this decision is not made by Kevin Bartlett, so I’ll leave that to the AFL.
“In 2010 and 2013, they made decisions that the highest-ranked team wore the home jumper when there was a clash.
“I’d expect they should make the same decision.”
St Kilda (2010) and Fremantle (2013) wore clash jumpers in their grand-final appearances and both lost.
AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan floated a coin toss as a potential means of sorting out any guernsey issues.
Again, Fagan took a dim view.
“I would think that we’ve moved past that as an industry,” he said.
“The AFL should just make the call and make the right one at that.”
Digger
Guest
First world problem people...get a grip.
fractalpixie
Guest
This is ridiculous. Neither teams clash. A black jersy with a yellow sash is nothing like a navy jersey with yellow and red hoops. I agree with K.B on this one. To not allow a team, who has not been in a grand final since 1982, to wear their traditional jersey is a travesty.
anon
Roar Pro
Who cares about tradition. Do Richmond play out of Punt Road or do they play out of the MCG and Docklands like the other 8 Melbourne teams? We've got sponsor badges plastered all over theses jumpers. Richmond changed their colours to black and fluro yellow at the start of the season. It's not even the "traditional" colours.
Kane
Guest
It won't matter what they wear because the AFL will make sure the umpires wear a strip that clashes with both sides.
BigAl
Guest
pretty hard to tell with old style footy. I'm sure it would help the umps though.
Neil from Warrandyte
Guest
A real blow for the football traditionalists. Never liked clash jumpers myself. I may be wrong but aren't they originally a marketer's idea to give struggling clubs some extra coin, which was then picked up by the AFL and applied to every team (perhaps except to Collingwood)?
Alex L
Roar Rookie
West Coast wore their "away" royal blue colours that they've won 3 premierships in, bit different to actually wearing a clash jersey (which would be mostly white).
gameofmarks
Roar Guru
Who appointed these idiots? Is Gill really getting paid $2m to make friggin stupid decisions like this? Unbelievable!! Toss them out I say.
Peppsy
Roar Guru
Funny how the last time this came up (2015) West coast, the higher ranked team, wore their away jumper with home shorts and Hawthorn wore their home jumper with away shorts.
Ben of Phnom Penh
Roar Guru
I don't see the issue re: the clash, however were there an issue then it comes down to the minor premiership position. Anything else smacks of the 'Old Boys Club', something of which the AFL has worked hard to distance itself from. Richmond get to play at their home ground; surely that's concession enough.
John
Guest
The guernseys dont clash and who the hell thought Hawks v Dockers in 2013 clashed they couldnt be more different.
Lyndon
Guest
What crap. Neither strip clashes.
Kurt
Guest
Fair call, but I'm not a fan of the clash jumper generally. I mean, in the days before they were introduced did players really spend a lot of time kicking to the wrong player? Not that I recall.