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Highlanders To Play In Green Shirts - Why? 4 views
27 May 2011 by The Swede Eaters
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The Highlanders are set to change their uniforms, I look at why?
The Highlanders Super Rugby team is set to play in light green uniforms with the new strip to be unveiled on Monday. The existing blue, gold and maroon uniform represents the Otago and Southland colours which makes sense, but I think that it is more of a cost saving measure.
The most likely reason is that the Highlanders last three games are against teams which wear blue in the Force, Waratahs and Blues. This could be the reason, given that two of those matches are away. I wonder if it is just for the last three matches this season or permanent? What is wrong with the maroon Southland coloured away uniform?
For some reason three of the Australian teams have blue uniforms, while the Blues and Bulls also have blue uniforms. Nearly half of the teams in the Super Rugby competition have blue uniforms meaning that the away strip gets used often. No teams would clash with green and they could play every match in it.
Another reason could be because there are so many drafted players from outside the Highlanders franchise area and going to light green would make them not seem like outsiders so much.
One other possible reason is that the National Rugby League team which represents the most boring city in Australia wears light green and some would say (not me) that New Zealand's most boring city Invercargill's team should also wear light green.
What do you think of the Highlanders wearing light green in Super Rugby? Would the Highlanders lose their identity without the Otago and Southland colours?
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