Armchair Selector
Johnnie Wallace (23)
Whatever happened to Max Douglas? Good quality Second Rower. He'd be mid twenties.
Waratahs 2025
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The Ghost of Raelene
David Codey (61)
Playing for Scarlets in Wales. Only 24 so coming into his prime as a Second Rower.
Not a bad shout really. Feels a similar player to Jeremy Williams.
Not a bad shout really. Feels a similar player to Jeremy Williams.
Yoda
Cyril Towers (30)
Surely no self respecting rugby man is going to buy .. let alone wear that shirt…. comes with matching boardies… must have come from the same ‘Ideas’ section as the famous ‘Tahman’!! Attrocious.it would be like Lionel Messi joining the Onehunga Crippled Childrens Burn Clinic 3rd XV.
in other news I like how the NSFW home jersey looks to be covered in bleeding gunshot wounds.
Fitting.
The Ghost of Raelene
David Codey (61)
Should give that shirt away with tickets to a certain bay of the SFS. Could be marginally funny to have an area filled with that.
Yoda
Cyril Towers (30)
Possibly… I guess though that shirt shows what happens when you have a bloody flower as your emblem. A good outfit for Mardi Gras!!
The Ghost of Raelene
David Codey (61)
Tend to think it’s a NSW Rugby issue rather than blame a flower. England Rugby, South African Cricket.
It wouldn’t look any better with Red Koala head or a horse tbh.
Took a swing, it’s a miss. Other items are pretty good
It wouldn’t look any better with Red Koala head or a horse tbh.
Took a swing, it’s a miss. Other items are pretty good
Pfitzy
Nathan Sharpe (72)
You clearly don't associate with anyone under the age of 30
Wilson
Phil Kearns (64)
It's largely an execution issue, but mostly from the manufacturer - I think it's the same one making the brumbies and wallabies ones, and the brumbies one is a bit better but not great.
The patterns are too regular and the base shirt itself sucks - If there was any real effort being put into these they'd be camp collared. Just that change would have them read better as a party shirt.
But it's a popular style and definitely something they should be going for, particularly with most of the season played while it's still relatively warm in Australia - hell, I already pick up a new red Hawaiian shirt every year or two to wear to games in the first half of the season, if there was a Reds branded one I'd probably get that instead, unless it was truly awful.
It is wild that the tahs one is the worst (putting aside my personal disdain for them) though, a red flower on sky blue should be a slam dunk for a Hawaiian shirt. Definitely the easiest one to have the logo worked in naturally.
The Ghost of Raelene
David Codey (61)
Let’s be honest. They’re all shit, but there is a niche audience who love it and I’m not gonna get too caught up on a shirt on the merch shop.
Lowes stock flames on black shirts for a reason.
Lowes stock flames on black shirts for a reason.
Brumby Runner
Jason Little (69)
That many koalas would look like the aftermath of a bushfire, but that many horses woud be a stampede.
I also think that for a lot of Hawaiian shirt purchases, people are going for the one that looks the most ridiculous. As you said, Lowes is the market leader here.
Anyone buying an Australian rugby related Hawaiian shirt is absolutely doing it ironically.*
* except for Jim Tucker.
Wilson
Phil Kearns (64)
And that's definitely where it's not too much of an issue - that tahs one looks to have mostly sold out, so you can't say they went too wrong, but I do think they've missed a bit of an opportunity not going for it properly - camp collar, better (but not less ostentatious) design, etc.
They did at least go for matching shorts though, which is probably the key part given the number of sales you can get immediately upgraded to the full set.