why is it that wexfords county strip is purple and gold yet the soccer team wares black and white,
as with cork who are red and white with the soccer team wareing green and white:confused: :confused:
cant put me finger in this at all.
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why is it that wexfords county strip is purple and gold yet the soccer team wares black and white,
as with cork who are red and white with the soccer team wareing green and white:confused: :confused:
cant put me finger in this at all.
Wexford's colours are based on Juventus.
Longford wear Red and Black because they borrowed kits from Bohs when they first played, I think the same applies to Limerick borrowing kits from Waterford in their first match.
Not sure about Cork but they did change to wear red for a few years to be like the GAA but changed back to the club's original colours.
Why the confusion? Why should the football teams wear the same colours as the GAA teams?Quote:
Originally Posted by The Man Himself
Could be to distance the club from our GAA teams?
And Cork City isn't the only team in Co. Cork! You could just as easily ask why don't Cobh wear wed and white :rolleyes:
Precisely what I was going to say. I'm confused as to why anyone would assume that it would be the same. :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Sure Rovers play in red and white and Sligo play in black and white. Why should we have the same?
i think this is the possibly the most ponitless post ever its like askin why dont munster rugby wear green shirts like the irish soccer team do........
munster and ireland is a contrast..... its like saying why do munster soccer wear diff then munster rugby..... well i was thinking the same thing not too long ago and most teams so wear THE COUNTY COLOURS so its a debatable topic...... there GAA colours yes but the offical county colours too ya know!!
Apart from the grammer, who made them official and where does it say so for any county?Quote:
Originally Posted by gilberto_eire
Isn't blue the official colour of Munster? And Munster Rugby wear red and navy.....
I don't see why any soccer club should wear the county colours. Have it as a second or third kit fair enough, but be the same? Two completely different sports, codes and identities. Even back home my own parish soccer team wear yellow/red/navy while the GAA colours are green and gold hoops. And anyway there are far more soccer clubs around than GAA clubs......plus in terms of counties look at all the EL clubs in Dublin? Two in Cork etc
grammar?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Green is the traditional colour of Cork soccer!
No mystery! :rolleyes:
Do I have to put (sic) or a smilie (sic) after eveything?
Only when you're doing it on purpose. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
LOL - just noticed your signature Stu - very good!
2 words for you - de fault!
You know me, its always on purpose ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Schumi
Actually, in the early years of the gaa championship counties were represented by their club champions who played in their own club colours. Often the same club would be county champions for a few years in a row and their colours were adopted as the county colours. Hence there's no reason for many of the county colours in the gaa, it's not like country colours where the colours are in a flag or whatever.
Spot on montdfc
Dead right monutdfc, but like it or not they have become the de facto county colours in the intervening decades.
I know it won't wash with some of the more militant football supporters on here (who would probably recommend that the soccer teams should play in whatever the exact colour negative of the GAA county colours are) but it's true.
In fairness to the original poster more recently clubs like Kilkenny and Kildare have adopted the county GAA colours.
I presume this is to help fans identify with the club in strong GAA counties. Where clubs are older and have their own traditional colours there should be no need to change colours.
In fact one of the best thing Brian Lennox did was change City's colours back to green and white.
They changed to red at the request of Dave Barry didn't they?
Yeah, Davey wanted a change to the blood and bandage to get the crowds back to the cross...worked too but I was delighted the return to G&W
Speaking of which, does anybody else have red-green blindness? Poxy hard watching that match last night with both teams having the same jerseys.Quote:
Originally Posted by paudie
I just thank God we are from Wicklow. Until recently there was no challenge from the GAA.
Wicklow's colours aren't too bad, though, if the worst came to the worst and you had to change. Just thank God you're not from Carlow *puke*.
Errrr - no ! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Erstwhile Bóz
Red-green blindness would medically be known as colour blindness. Can you really not tell the difference that easily EB ?
Nothing to do with Galway as it happens, JW, I think I've had it there since before the promotion decision. It was a reaction to the censorship and fining mania.Quote:
Originally Posted by JC_GUFC
wrong galway fan...Quote:
Originally Posted by Schumi
Nope. Depends, though. Certain shades of reds and greens and browns are as one to me, especially on telly. (Not a great believer in some of those 'purples' :rolleyes: being different from blue either.) But a Liverpool jersey wouldn't disappear against the grass or anything like that and the particular type of green they use for the green ball in snooker causes no problems; the brown ball does get lost amongst the reds sometimes, though. Things like LEDs are poxy if they're 'green' for 'on' and 'red' for 'standby' because I haven't a hope.Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
Context -- e.g., shorts & socks last night obviously -- usually gets me through and I'd say if all of Cork's jersey was green and all of Derry's red there would have been a contrast; the white striping rendered them pretty indistinguishable, though.
This test is gas: http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.html
I'm not colour blind and that happens me too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Erstwhile Bóz
:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Schumi
Did you try that test in the link above?
Easy enough to tell the teams apart.Quote:
Originally Posted by Erstwhile Bóz
Cork were the team getting all the goals:p
Yes, got all the normal vision answers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Erstwhile Bóz
I can distinguish the brown when I look for it but if it's around a clump of reds, I often wouldn't notice if I wasn't aware of it having ended up at that end of the table.
I hadn't heard before that Dave was behind that change.Quote:
Originally Posted by wiseman
Ironically, Mark Williams has that. He occasionally has to ask the ref to point out the brown ball to him if it's at the wrong end of the table.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schumi
Another reason for having different colours for football club and county colours would be shirt sales. I'd wager that Cork City did not sell as many replica kits when wearing red and white as a lot of people would already have the GAA shirts.
Away shirts are fine (Bohs, shels wearing Dublin blue etc), but I wouldn't fancy CCFC going back to red and white for home.
im a waterford fan and im proud of the club wareing the blue and white which represents both city and county,
any team in any sport from waterford always wares the blue and white when they are representing the county
soccer
hurling
football (just found out that we have one of them teams:D )
oscar traynor team
basket ball
ladies soccer team
the way it should be,
dave barry was spot on when he changed to red and white.
Eh? Waterford GAA is white and blue. (is there a pedantic smilie?)
There should beQuote:
Originally Posted by noby