France -v- All Blacks jerseys?

BaZmO* · 03-10-2007 12:58PM #1

Just read that the French won the toss to choose jersey on Saturday. Obviously they'll choose their home Les Blues jersey making the All Blacks wear that Silver/Black jobby.
Won't this make for painful viewing a la the Scotland -v- ABs match?
Can't see the French backing down and wearing their white jersey.

Do the ABs have a 3rd jersey?

shrapnel222 · 03-10-2007 01:17PM

that jersey was a joke and they should be seriously fined for that. I wouldn't be surprised if they did it on purpose so that the powers that be have no choice but to put other teams wearing dark colors in white otherwise the ref can't see what's going on in the rucks. from what i read somewhere they have officially appealed as they do not want to play other than in black. They really are like little children throwing their toys out of the cot, and as children i hope they get seriously reprimanded for they sleazy little tricks

BaZmO* · 03-10-2007 01:20PM

It'll be interesting to see what happens. Can't see the French not wearing the Blue jersey and I can't see the Ref allowing the ABs to wear the Silver one.

kiwidave · 03-10-2007 01:54PM

The jerseys that the AB's are wearing were submitted to the IRB and approved by the IRB last year. There was a coin toss to decide who the home team was, which Scotland won. This meant that the AB's had to wear their alternate strip which we all know looked similar to the Scots jersey. Really they should have been allowed to wear the All Black strip.
I believe the AB's lost the toss again today and will be wearing the silver strip against France. Darren Shand - the AB's manager - is yet to win a toss! He has lost every coin toss to decide jersey colour clashes, changing rooms and captain's runs.

BaZmO* · 03-10-2007 01:57PM

Of course the jerseys are approved beforehand and as a jersey there is nothing wrong with it. It's just the fact that it will clash with other jerseys, on occasion, that'll cause problems.

CJhaughey · 03-10-2007 02:00PM

The French have a navy jersey and the NZ are wearing silver/grey.
I don't see the clash?
The Scottish Jersey was a clash purely because there was so much cack splattered on the new canterbury jerseys not the NZ change jersey which is actually quite simple.

France
http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/home/teams/team=42/index.html
NZ
http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/home/teams/team=37/index.html

France -v- All Blacks jerseys?

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