club and county colors

[paudie]

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.

[Dodge]

They changed to red at the request of Dave Barry didn't they?

[wiseman]

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

[Erstwhile Bóz]

In fact one of the best thing Brian Lennox did was change City's colours back to green and white.

Speaking of which, does anybody else have red-green blindness? Poxy hard watching that match last night with both teams having the same jerseys.

[superfrank]

I just thank God we are from Wicklow. Until recently there was no challenge from the GAA.

[Erstwhile Bóz]

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*.

[dcfcsteve]

Speaking of which, does anybody else have red-green blindness? Poxy hard watching that match last night with both teams having the same jerseys.

Errrr - no !

Red-green blindness would medically be known as colour blindness. Can you really not tell the difference that easily EB ?

[Schumi]

LOL - just noticed your signature Stu - very good!

2 words for you - de fault!

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.

[Dodge]

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.

wrong galway fan...

[Erstwhile Bóz]

Errrr - no !

Red-green blindness would medically be known as colour blindness. Can you really not tell the difference that easily EB ?

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' 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.

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

[Schumi]

the brown ball does get lost amongst the reds sometimes, though.

I'm not colour blind and that happens me too.

[Erstwhile Bóz]

I'm not colour blind and that happens me too.

Did you try that test in the link above?

[paudie]

Speaking of which, does anybody else have red-green blindness? Poxy hard watching that match last night with both teams having the same jerseys.

Easy enough to tell the teams apart.

Cork were the team getting all the goals

[Schumi]

Did you try that test in the link above?

Yes, got all the normal vision answers.

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.

[paudie]

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

I hadn't heard before that Dave was behind that change.

[Jerry The Saint]

Yes, got all the normal vision answers.

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.

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.

[sullanefc]

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.

[The Man Himself]

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 )
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.

[noby]

Eh? Waterford GAA is white and blue. (is there a pedantic smilie?)

[Dodge]

(is there a pedantic smilie?)

There should be