Traditional Jersey Pattern : Fri Jan 18, 2019 4:35 pm  

Is it any of the following?

Primrose/White/Blue

V
Regular Hoops
Irregular Hoops

Which is it?

Or something different?

[Uncle Rico]

Re: Traditional Jersey Pattern : Fri Jan 18, 2019 4:57 pm  

All of the above plus stripes and with varying percentages of each colour!!

I'm sure that people have their favourites and I'd be happy to be corrected, but, I don't think we have a traditional jersey pattern in the way that Saints or Hull FC might have,

Re: Traditional Jersey Pattern : Fri Jan 18, 2019 5:29 pm  

I think our longest run of shirt style was horizontal bands of primrose and blue for perhaps 1/2 a century.
Although I wasn't around to confirm it.

[Uncle Rico]

Re: Traditional Jersey Pattern : Fri Jan 18, 2019 6:15 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

I think our longest run of shirt style was horizontal bands of primrose and blue for perhaps 1/2 a century.
Although I wasn't around to confirm it.

You may be right and when I was a kid it seemed that a rugby shirt was often characterised by simple horizontal bands?

I do favour simple, mainly white shirts such as the 54 and 74 Final shirts as opposed to the solid blue one we sported the year after GRRR!!!

Re: Traditional Jersey Pattern : Fri Jan 18, 2019 6:19 pm  

I've said before, it has been statistically proven that a shirt with some white and/or red can give an advantage where the margin of difference is tight over blue.

Re: Traditional Jersey Pattern : Fri Jan 18, 2019 6:32 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

I've said before, it has been statistically proven that a shirt with some white and/or red can give an advantage where the margin of difference is tight over blue.

To quote Derek Trotter
Cows
Sheep
Nah, it's bullsh1t

Re: Traditional Jersey Pattern : Fri Jan 18, 2019 6:43 pm  

Blue “boiler suit” with simple embroidered “w” gets me all nostalgic.

Re: Traditional Jersey Pattern : Fri Jan 18, 2019 6:50 pm  

lefty goldblatt wrote: Nah, it's bullsh1t http://community.dur.ac.uk/red.advantag ... wordpress/

lefty goldblatt wrote: Nah, it's bullsh1t http://community.dur.ac.uk/red.advantag ... wordpress/

Re: Traditional Jersey Pattern : Fri Jan 18, 2019 6:52 pm  

How far in our history do we need go where we've beaten a team in red in a final?

Re: Traditional Jersey Pattern : Fri Jan 18, 2019 7:02 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

http://community.dur.ac.uk/red.advantage/index.html/wordpress/

Cobblers.
Stick a good side in a Mr Blobby coloured shirt, and they'll still beat a crap side in red.
Any fool can use stats.
e.g. Matty Russell makes three 50 metre scoots down the pitch, gainng 150M in total. All 3 scoots result in no tries. The rest of the game, he"s anonymous, apart from a knock-on resulting in a try for the opposition.
Jack Hughes, made 120M in total, set up a try, and made no mistakes.
Who"s had the better game?
Stats can tell you anything you want manipulating.