Australia get minor makeover
25 Jan 2010
The Wallabies will wear a new-look jersey this season.
The new jersey has been designed and manufactured by Australian sports apparel company KooGa using ‘technologically advanced’ materials, including carbon fibre and hydrosteel. It is the first to be produced under a four-year deal between the ARU and the sportswear company.
The all-gold jersey has been labelled ‘virtually indestructible’ while also possessing qualities that will ‘significantly enhance’ player comfort.
40 Comments
25 Jan 2010, 07:59 am
nice one
25 Jan 2010, 08:13 am
Nice. Much better than that ugly Canterbury kit they wore last year. The strip on the chest looked like the players were wearing bra’s.
25 Jan 2010, 08:26 am
@Cyborg:
Those Canterbury kits were horrible. Personally i think the Adidas kits are best, these skin tight jerseys are just silly.
25 Jan 2010, 08:34 am
Looks good, but more important is the ’significantly enhanced’ and ‘virtually indestructible’.
They are going to need each bit of improvement if they want to do better in the tri-nations this year.
25 Jan 2010, 08:45 am
I think it looks kak.
Looks just like a soccer shirt.
But then again, it is cannery yellow so it can’t look more silly just given the colour.
25 Jan 2010, 08:51 am
Good, doesn’t look like they have much green on, so they can no longer steal the name “green and gold”….
25 Jan 2010, 10:33 am
@PissAnt:
with you on this one…
i know we need to make use of technological advances… but I miss rugby jerseys looking like rugby jerseys…
couldn’t they at least make these things look like rugby jerseys…?
25 Jan 2010, 10:38 am
@Kobus Kitty:
You haven’t seen the shorts yet, have you…
25 Jan 2010, 11:00 am
Gentlemen an interesting read, and the reason I detest Australian Journolists!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/sport/invictus-not-averse-to-playing-with-facts/story-e6frg7t6-1225823043863
25 Jan 2010, 11:11 am
The bigest feature of the new kit is that it has a handy pocket to stach your hip-flak and dope!
25 Jan 2010, 11:20 am
How can an opposing prop get a proper bind on to a Wallaby front-rower wearing this skin-tight getup?
25 Jan 2010, 11:22 am
@TheTackler: You grab one of the several love handles on offer.
25 Jan 2010, 11:43 am
including carbon fibre and hydrosteel. huh?
25 Jan 2010, 11:53 am
bring back the bok jerseys from the good old days
from the tiechman days or even the good old long sleeve ones. i love the ones frik du preez used to wear
25 Jan 2010, 11:56 am
@Staal: And they have the audacity to ***** about the relatively low-tech steel bashplate used by Matfield, Spies and JP Nel inside their arm guards. Hypocrites.
25 Jan 2010, 12:10 pm
eeeeeeeeeeeeeew what an ugly jersey. Convict yellow without a collar.
25 Jan 2010, 12:12 pm
I hope that the Boks dump the kiwi for the Nike jersey. It is by far the best looking with the best technology.
25 Jan 2010, 12:37 pm
Anything looks better than the Canterbury kit.
25 Jan 2010, 12:42 pm
@katman: what the hell is HYDROSTEEL?
25 Jan 2010, 12:48 pm
‘virtually indestructible’: Does that mean each player can wear exactly the same jersey for the next four years? Frugal ozzies
25 Jan 2010, 12:48 pm
@Staal: Given your name, I’m actually disappointed that you must ask.
Hydrosteel is a type of thin yet indestructible steel that is formed when water is hit very, very hard with the flat hand. Rumour has it Bakkies is going to quit rugby soon to join his dad’s hydrosteel business.
25 Jan 2010, 12:57 pm
20. katman :
25 Jan 2010, 12:57 pm
When are Australians ever going to wake up to the nightmare realisation that their National colour is
Y E L L O W ?!?
25 Jan 2010, 12:58 pm
‘All GOLD”
it cracks me up every single time.
25 Jan 2010, 13:08 pm
do they get new jerseys for every test and if so what do they do with the old ones ?
25 Jan 2010, 13:15 pm
Can these be used as bullet proof vests? since they are ‘virtually indestructible’.
Humming: “all gold, all gold tastes real good..”
25 Jan 2010, 13:16 pm
@klippies101: That’s like nuclear waste. What do you do with it if it’s indestructible? Bury it in concrete bunkers? Dump it in space?
25 Jan 2010, 13:44 pm
Lets be honest, there are only 3 Rugby jerseys you should ever be seen in that will be honoured not only for their Achievement, their Respect but also the general Aesthetic qualities:-
All Black or Springboks or Lions.
Im partial to a BaaBaas 1 myself, but it doesnt qualify on all afforementioned criteria.
Who the Hell is going to wear a Y E L L O W Australian jersey voluntarily without being paid to do so ?
Luke Watson would puke himself to death at the mere sight of it.
25 Jan 2010, 15:06 pm
these soccer jerseys look so ***
maybe its the colour
25 Jan 2010, 15:46 pm
The green seems in the bright yellow makes them look like bananas.
25 Jan 2010, 15:47 pm
I don’t like it.
25 Jan 2010, 15:53 pm
Who cares what they wear anyway?
Why does it say “Quotas” on their t-shirts?
25 Jan 2010, 15:53 pm
Who looks dodgier in the picture above: Benn Robinson or Berrick Barnes?
Oooh, aaah, it’s Kooga!!!
25 Jan 2010, 15:58 pm
Apparently the “Hydrosteel” stretches four ways. This allows the players to have increased lung capacity due to the way the fabric moves.
The material is also hydrophilic – meaning it wicks sweat from the body to the outside of the jersey – and its close-fitting nature supposedly reduces the effectiveness of opposition tacklers…
25 Jan 2010, 16:02 pm
Is Berrick Barnes slowly morphing in to Percy Montgomery ?
25 Jan 2010, 16:07 pm
i don’t care what they wear, we must just keep beating them qha!
25 Jan 2010, 16:11 pm
A ****** in lace is a ****** no less…………..
25 Jan 2010, 16:18 pm
No tearing themselves outta Bakkie’s iron grip with this vest on
25 Jan 2010, 17:48 pm
Q: What do you get when a canary gets caught in a lawnmower?
A: Shredded Tweet
“Julie!” screamed her mother, “why are you feeding birdseed
to the cat?”
“I have to,” Julie replied. “That’s where my canary is.”
Knock Knock
Who’s there?
Canary
Canary who?
Can Ari come out and play?
Two canaries in a cage, one was male and the other female. After many months, the male decided to meet the female. So he scooted over to her side of the cage and said,
“Since we’re in this together, why don’t I move over to your side of the cage!”
The female canary replied, “No, thanks!!”
So he went back to his side but found he could stay there no longer. Once again, he moved to her side of the cage. This time he asked,
“I am sorry I was to forward the first time. Why don’t we get to know each other first.”
To which she replied again, “No, thanks!”
Resigning himself to return to his side of the cage, he languished about for a bit then made one final effort. He went halfway across the cage and stated,
“Well, could we at least talk?”
This time she replied, “Oh, I am so sorry I have been so mean. You see I just learned I have a canarial disease called, “Chirpies” and I hear it is untweetable.”
Fact:- The Canary Islands in the Pacific ocean is named after what animal ?
A. Dogs.
Jim strolls into the paint section of a hardware store and walks
up to the assistant.
“I’d like a pint of canary-colored paint,” he says.
“Sure,” the clerk replies. “Mind if I ask what it’s for?”
“My parakeet,” says Jim. “See, I want to enter him in a canary
contest. He sings so sweet I know he’s sure to win.”
“Well, you can’t do that, man!” the assistant says. “The chemicals
in the paint will almost certainly kill the poor thing!”
“No they won’t,” Jim replies.
“Listen, buddy, I’ll bet you ten bucks your parakeet dies if you
try to paint him.”
“You’re on,” says Jim.
Two days later he comes back looking very sheepish and lays $10 on
the counter.
“So the paint killed him?”
“Indirectly,” says Jim. “He seemed to handle the paint okay, but he didn’t survive the sanding between coats.”
26 Jan 2010, 07:57 am
They look like a practise T-Shirt the players put on while they are warming up before the game.
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