Super Rugby 2024
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im actually kind of excited we might might get some cool stuff next year...might actually get some retro jerseys and better supports gear
looks like exactly the same announcement on the Highlander page
https://thehighlanders.co.nz/news/expanded-apparel-range-key-to-new-classic-partnership/
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the five New Zealand Super Rugby Clubs having signed a collective five year agreement with Australasian apparel brand – Classic.
The partnership will see each club expand their range and offer greater official and supporter apparel options for fans, including the potential of heritage or themed jerseys and a range of training and on-field items.https://www.blues.rugby/blues-rugby-news/expanded-apparel-range-key-to-new-classic-partnership
@Daffy-Jaffy all teams were with Adidas this year werent they (and since 1999, which at the time was a full kit out?) so is interesting they are all moving away but ABs staying.
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i support the sharks in the NRL so had a quick look at their store...loads of cool stuff, hope we can get even a fraction of that range
big fan of the heritage jersey template
looks like they have 24 different types of hat (caps, beanies etc), more likely to grab one of those than a jersey now days
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I had heard about the change to Classic late last year and was sworn to secrecy. From what I've heard, they very nearly re-signed with Adidas but changed their minds last minute, Adidas were filthy. Source comes from a jersey designer for one of the super teams.
I've kinda grown to like Adidas but it doesn't bother me who gets it as long as it looks good and fits good, seems like Classic have some good ambition with gear though.
Apparently also the reason we have never got heritage jerseys based off the 97/98/99 designs is because CCC still own the designs so unsure how that will work out with Classic moving forward.
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I had heard about the change to Classic late last year and was sworn to secrecy. From what I've heard, they very nearly re-signed with Adidas but changed their minds last minute, Adidas were filthy. Source comes from a jersey designer for one of the super teams.
I've kinda grown to like Adidas but it doesn't bother me who gets it as long as it looks good and fits good, seems like Classic have some good ambition with gear though.
Apparently also the reason we have never got heritage jerseys based off the 97/98/99 designs is because CCC still own the designs so unsure how that will work out with Classic moving forward.
@Yeetyaah i wonder why they take so long to announce these things
I feel Adidas had been phoning it for years so happy for someone else to have a go
ive heard that before about CCC still owning the rights to the designs. There is a couple of questions i always have about that though, the Chiefs/adidas did bring out a heritage jersey a couple of years back...so worst case CCC seem have been open to it before
but, the bigger question. In every case ive know with a service provider...its the end client that owns the final product, so my understanding would be CCC might be able to own the IP for the creation of the jerseys, any manufacturing secrets or whatever...but what was actually produced should belong to NZR/Franchises.
In the case of the Highlanders Tartan Jersey, At the time it was advertised as the Highlanders Official Tartan, officially made for the Highlanders by the Scottish Register of Tartans...so i dont see how CCC could own that
all very weird and if CCC does own some sort of rights over previous designs it seems very unusual and someone at NZR fucked up
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@Yeetyaah i wonder why they take so long to announce these things
I feel Adidas had been phoning it for years so happy for someone else to have a go
ive heard that before about CCC still owning the rights to the designs. There is a couple of questions i always have about that though, the Chiefs/adidas did bring out a heritage jersey a couple of years back...so worst case CCC seem have been open to it before
but, the bigger question. In every case ive know with a service provider...its the end client that owns the final product, so my understanding would be CCC might be able to own the IP for the creation of the jerseys, any manufacturing secrets or whatever...but what was actually produced should belong to NZR/Franchises.
In the case of the Highlanders Tartan Jersey, At the time it was advertised as the Highlanders Official Tartan, officially made for the Highlanders by the Scottish Register of Tartans...so i dont see how CCC could own that
all very weird and if CCC does own some sort of rights over previous designs it seems very unusual and someone at NZR fucked up
@Kiwiwomble some of those early super rugby jersies were awful!
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@Kiwiwomble some of those early super rugby jersies were awful!
@taniwharugby definitely a case of nostalgia rather than outright beauty
rather than the tartan one i would love a 96 jersey...just good old fashioned rugby jersey stripes
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@Yeetyaah i wonder why they take so long to announce these things
I feel Adidas had been phoning it for years so happy for someone else to have a go
ive heard that before about CCC still owning the rights to the designs. There is a couple of questions i always have about that though, the Chiefs/adidas did bring out a heritage jersey a couple of years back...so worst case CCC seem have been open to it before
but, the bigger question. In every case ive know with a service provider...its the end client that owns the final product, so my understanding would be CCC might be able to own the IP for the creation of the jerseys, any manufacturing secrets or whatever...but what was actually produced should belong to NZR/Franchises.
In the case of the Highlanders Tartan Jersey, At the time it was advertised as the Highlanders Official Tartan, officially made for the Highlanders by the Scottish Register of Tartans...so i dont see how CCC could own that
all very weird and if CCC does own some sort of rights over previous designs it seems very unusual and someone at NZR fucked up
@Kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby 2024:
Chiefs/adidas did bring out a heritage jersey a couple of years back
Āe that was the 96 jersey, that's why I specified 97/98/99. I'm only going off what I've been told so I don't have all the answers.
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Curious to see what jersey the Highlanders come out with for the culture round... perhaps that is where you might see a more tartan design?
@frugby thats kind of the problem with the NZ jersey...there is little iconic about any of them, generally just a colour...i think thats why those late 90's CCC ones get reference so much....theyre the only ones lots of people remember
Thats why i'd be happy to bring some rugby patterns back, stripes or quarters
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@frugby never surely.....two inherently adidas with the tree stripes for a different brand to make
@Kiwiwomble This occured to me straight after a posted it, but all of the kits barring the 97-99 ones are based around a three stripe as the main thing up until about 2013.
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Or perhaps something more like this, but with a big maroon strip through the middle. The best Super rugby kits outside of those 97-99 ones were the ones used for the Lions games by a mile.
@frugby i'll say it again, would love if we adopted the U20 design, blue and maron quarters, make it our thing like Quins
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I really think when they created these teams they should have used completely different colours to the host unions colours. You watch a Chiefs game and people still wear their Waikato gear because it's the same colour. It doesn't represent Counties or BOP.
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I really think when they created these teams they should have used completely different colours to the host unions colours. You watch a Chiefs game and people still wear their Waikato gear because it's the same colour. It doesn't represent Counties or BOP.
@mikedogz or Northland back in 1996
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I really think when they created these teams they should have used completely different colours to the host unions colours. You watch a Chiefs game and people still wear their Waikato gear because it's the same colour. It doesn't represent Counties or BOP.
@mikedogz yeah it's an interesting one, if you look back to 98/99 when the Chiefs had Northland and Harbour as part of their catchment, they had the maroon and blue wave on their jersey. After that it's just been mostly black with yellow and red. In saying that, some people still don't know the difference between Waikato and the Chiefs.
The Blues did it well with their men's health jersey they used in round 1 of 2013 which had the harlequin design with Cambridge blue and maroon.
