The foundation jumper was designed to be the State strip jumper. Sam Edmund confirmed today that it's only being worn for 1-2 games per year as a heritage game jumper so without a doubt we're going to see TWO more jumpers released in due time.
I heard that yesterday I was like ya makes sense. I think they should do something like the dees with Tassie being the yellow V with the red or green under it and/ or have a T layout green at the top the T yellow and red on each side of the T it’s simple, bold and stands out also easy to invert!
As a Tasmanian I am absolutely beside myself that my home state is finally getting this long overdue team. Something that was just confirmed today by Sam Edmund. Is that this jumper is only the state strip. Announced as the foundation jumper it will only be used once or twice a year for a heritage game. Another thing that's been made public is that this foundation jumper will only go on sale around this year's Easter period and that's it. Therefore mate, there will be 2 more guernseys that will make up a home jumper and a away jumper.
Thats a relief. With the logo willing to be fresh and creative, theres a big chance of them making something completely new and changing things up from the same old boring scheme
@Geelongcats9090 I have my own Vic Team, but I am also paid up at Gold Coast. I want the AFL to be successful nationally, and I understand membership fees do make a difference. I will probs join Tassie also, as a member, once the stadium is 100% confirmed. I want GC to win, but I don't barrack for GC, and I won't barrack for Tassie. But I do want them both to be successful, because I want football to be even across the country.
The one with the claw marks would also look great in clash white, where the slashes could then be green or red, depending on what they did with the yolk.
It's just a map of Tassie with a T in it. Like here's a map of Tasmania, but in case you forgot it's a map of Tasmania, we added a capital "T" in the Tasmania to make everyone double-sure that they don't forget it's a map of Tasmania
I think the logo looks very 2015 and will date quickly but (as a graphic designer) I totally understand it's just an opinion. The more simplified logos like West Coast, North and Hawthorn are lot more adaptable to various application (eg. hat embroidery) and view much better at smaller sizes. But I agree the colours are great so hopefully a new, modern jumper design will look great.
As someone that started watching the AFL in 2021, Tasmania could be the club I pick. I started watching more and more in 2022 and 2023 and have rooted partially for Collingwood since then. The problem is I watched the sport more as a neutral fan, so the 2023 Grand Final wasn’t a big deal to me if the Pies lost. With me potentially moving to Australia soon, I might just pick the Devils (the logo and colours are great). I could start out with something new rather than choosing the Pies after they won another premiership.
Great team logo! I like the jumper too but they could add KIng Island and Flinders Island too haha. Shame that AFL are coercing Tasmania to build the new stadium; they should be allowing use of Bellerive Oval.
Would like the away jumper white with the green Tassie devil would be amazing do like the green, red, yellow V jumper or the one with the slash devil jumper! Hope the team is successful within 5 years! ❤
Great jumper. What a fantastic way to start a team with $10 memberships, look forward to seeing a clash and regular one if that one is the heritage one
I agree the colours are great, I like the logo/ emblem but it's a little too busy. If they were trying to have the devil head in the shape of the map of tasmania, I don't see it and I think having the map again on the jumper is a bit excessive. I also agree they missed an opportunity to have something special for the jumper. I don't think the concept of the chevron across the chest is good either as most clubs have had a version like that in recent years. Would think something a bit 'wild' would be better. But overall excited to have tassie have a team. Keep up the good content, love the show.
Traditional and Heritage look suits them. The name Tassie Devils was a given. The U/18s already play in that strip and colors. No doubt they will have clash jumpers as well with the tassie devil logo. I am glad Tasmanians finally have their own home team in the AFL.
The logo is awesome. Everything it should be. The jumper on the other hand... Just looks like a schools guernsey or something. Now I'm not emotionally connected to the heritage so I may be missing something but I have been thinking a V style would look best (even before the examples you threw in). However I'm looking forward to an indigenous kit. I think they have a great mascot to work into some great designs
Canberra and Ballarat are both Colder than Tasmania. There is also more rain in Ballarat and Canberra than Tasmania. Canberra has two teams that host NRL and Rugby Union matches without a roof. AFL is also played without a roof. Ballarat hosts AFL and A-League Matches again with no roof. How does it make sense that the Tasmanian Taxpayer must pay for a roof?
100% correct, what a silly grift by the AFL, could very well cost Tassie their club. Think about teams like the Green Bay Packers and Buffalo Bills where people will sit in multiple feet of snow to watch the games and nobody thinks twice about it.
@@milkwalkerjones633 The AFL wants games to be played in Tassie its just that their preferred model is Hawthron and NTH being paid by the Tasmanian Taxpayer to play matches there instead of Tassie having their own Team. They are using the Stadium as a way to delay Tassie having a team for another 5 years.
It's just good to see a team adopt a new colour (green) Freo had it, but ditched it. But the purple makes up for it tbh. From a distance most teams jerseys look the same. This jersey, although simple, will stand out
As somebody who does design whose VERY against "Floating head" logo's this might be one of the few i actually don't hate. I still wish it was the full devil as it would read a lot more classically (Think the Lions jumper and how it reads versus their main logo) but the detail in the head and the fact that it doesn't read like it was chosen out of a catalogue the way the Adelaide and West Coasts heads do. The design feels like theirs intention in the logo to be unique and I REALLY appreciate when clubs do that. The color scheme is brilliant. it feels super unique to the Club and Tasmania (which makes sense given that it's the colors of the state) and it just reads incredibly well and provides for easy change strips. They will never be the only team in the world of sports wear green but theirs is just so unique and not going with just a straight Red or Yellow provides some serious depth that makes it feel fantastic for jumpers and fanwear. The jumpers though....they feel old (which they are) and finding out in the comments that they are being used as a sort of Alternate for a couple of games a season makes me heave a sigh of relief. The North Texas Devils just announced their 2024 jumpers for both their men's and women's teams (both are getting unique sets) and they both just feel so much better and like they fit in the with modern game and design. Even the two you showed feel better and more stylish then the one they showed off. Overall I'm excited for the league to get a 19th team and hopefully they can get settled, compete quickly, and the league can start looking to add team 20 to even the numbers.
They will end up being green and black I think. For an away jumper they could go with a very light green like what the Matilda's wear away. They can play with designs there. Fact is that for the next 10 years they need to go for something that closely resembles the State jumper and have strong Tasmanian branding. With a pop of 500k and jealousies between Devenport and Hobart and Burnie... everyone needs to embrace it.
The jumper would look great with green or red shorts. Originally the red T was more a darker red. The T is basically the iconic State jumper that has represented the State for a hundred years. In the short term its vitally important as the AFL team has to be representative of the State of Tasmania, or people will continue to barrack for their existing AFL team. In a place like TAsmania that is a disaster. This has always been the best State jumper along with SA and Victoria. Actually the NT State jumper they wore in State carnivals was fantastic too.
If not the iconic State jumper, which is superb and is Tasmania. I would have gone dark green with 2 black vertical stripes down one side. Then a Devil's head on the other chest. That's the toughest look of all the designs.
Boondocks would have been a great name. David Boon and Darrell Baldock are two of the greatest exports from Tassie. Plus Boondocks being wilderness which is basically 99% of Tasmania. But as I said, this is a team that needs full Tassie support.
Part-time Tasmanian here: I'm not sure of the contractual legals, but there is a LOT of negative public sentiment about the Tas government forking 100's of $mill, to the cause of AFL expansion. I'm negative too: it's a BS idea. It is by no means a done deal, if public opinion has the final word. You hit the nail on the head with the jumper - amateurish. It sums up everything wrong with the Tassie Devils proposal so far: the advocates want a jumping skipping, walking, talking bunch of human postcards: they don't know jack about football and they care even less. Good show: keep it up. P
That claw mark jumper is awesome. Bought a membership for me and 2 sons. Not a huge fan of the T jumper. They are an AFL team based in Tasmania…not technically the official state team.
logo i didnt like but has been slowly growing on me i think. colours are great. name is expected and fine. i was so glad when i found out thats a heritage jumper and not the home guernsey because i am not a fan
Jumper is shocking however the name (no surprise) and logo is great. Appreciate it is a heritage jumper but feel they have missed an opportunity to really impress straight up with this one.
The green/gold/red is excellent, the logo is decent, but I am underwhelmed by the guernsey design. Matt N’s design is a beauty, though. Maybe the new club will get him on the payroll before 2028!
This is bit of an out there take on how Tassie build a competitive list from day 1 while trying not to compromise the draft too heavily , what they or rather the AFL should do is tell every current club that at the end of 2027 they must give up 1 player each from their list between a certain age bracket say 24 - 28 and the nominated player must be healthy and not be on or have been on a long term injury list within the last couple seasons and the nominated player must also have played at least 50% of all games they were available for over the previous couple seasons as well. They should also give Tassie say the 1st five picks of the 2027 draft and tell them they must trade at least 3 of those picks for established guns. This way straight off the bat every team is effected equally giving up one best 25ish player and Tassie get a team that's experienced and ready to go with some draft concessions given as well. This is just off the top of my head so I'm sure there's some holes in it but there's 4 years to have a look at how to make it work.
The NHL did this twice in the last 10 years without even having the draft picks and one of the new teams has already won the Stanley Cup. It's a tested formula that can work.
Great for the Tasmanian economy. I can see quite a few supporters flying down to Tassie to attend games (maybe by Ferry too - although I believe the Spirit of Tasmania departs from Geelong these days - so maybe Kris Skott’s smelly Korio Kat Klowns can travel there by boat and stop clogging up Tullamarine Airport)
The logo bugs me because it's green on green, which makes the devil hard to resolve at a glance. But overall it's a pretty good attempt at branding a team that should feel relatively organic and I imagine will connect with it's intended supporter base. It certainly feels more authentic than any of Big Bash teams that all feel like they were cooked up by an advertising agency. And they've avoided the cringe factor that we saw with made up team names like the Melbourne Heart, Perth Glory, Brisbane Roar and, dare I say it... Port Power.
Well it looks like their State jumper. Perhaps that'll change in time. What a joke Warner Bros has the rights to an Australian iconic animal and its name!
24 rounds 19 teams with 2 byes each 22 games x 19 teams = 418 individual team games, divided by 2 is 209 games in the season Odd number of teams so there is an odd number of teams on a bye each week 20 rounds with 1 bye = 9 games per round 3 rounds with 5 byes = 7 games per round 1 round with 3 byes = 8 games per round 180 + 21 + 8 = 209 games 38 byes total, which is 2 for each team I think that all checks out, not sure if it still runs into fixture problems, I'm not that good at math
Most people above 40 love the Tasmanian state jumper for it being iconic. But in a straw poll at my place everyone hated it, especially the females. I was a bit gob smacked. Questions like why is it green? What's that big blog.... well its a map of tasmania... the actual map of tasmania... not a representation. forget it. I actually think a strong Tasmanian identity is absolutely essential. it must be green most times. It should have the map there, somewhere... Once it moves away from a traditional Tassie jumper then the game will be up. People will return to their current AFL team once the Tassie jumper looks like a normal club jumper. In TAsmania with a population of 500k everyone needs to be on board. (long term I reckon they'll be green black and red).
I have recently moved to Tasmania, I am an Eagles supporter through and through.. It's great to see a Tasmanian team.. personally I think the jumpers are boring..The Devil logo should be on the jumper..Colours ummm not a fan.. I have bought a membership ..Nothing will take me from the Eagles 😂
I don’t hate the jumper. But I know that eventually they’ll get a sponsor on the front left and have to move the badge and it’ll look weird. Speaking of which. I hate the position of the sponsor on the front left. That’s where every club should have their badge. Sponsor should go somewhere else. Maybe on the right and AFL logo up near the Nike logo idk
The Tasmanian government should embrace the deal. I am no fan of government spending but surely it would be an economic positive in the mid-long term. The tourism, hotel, food, transport industries all benefit directly and flow on effects would go right through their economy. It is hard to see how it would not make financial sense.
I have no issue with the jumpers, some of those other ones shown were great but I think it’s a petty issue. It is what it is, dockers first one was terrible IMO. I like your outlook on this. Anyway, move forward. If there wasn’t so many social issues in the NT I think they could produce a great team. The natural talent of the black fellas is unbelievable.
@@sotiriosnovatsis4529 oh i get that...and sure we won't have 120k once they are full price...but its an amazing start! id guess over 50k once its all go!
I'm all for celebrating history, but that jumper might as well be called the Tasmania Tasmanians. Did we really need a giant map of Tas AND a T? Doesn't really shout "We're the Devils"
See that the Eagles are returning with the navy 1985-89 jumper for retro round and selling the jumper at the shop. It won the popular vote and they selling it as merchandise. I know Mr True Footy hates the dark blue jumper. And i prefer royal blue myself. But I remember in mid 90s the press and fans loved it when Eagles switched to navy. Myself, the brighter and more unique the better. We don't want Carlton Dorkers Eagles Essendon Richmond etc... all wearing dark style jumpers.
You know what - I reckon navy one for retro round looks awesome. I can’t explain why. I don’t want it to be our home colours but for retro round I really think it looks good for some reason
I remember seeing Lewis, Chad Morrison and Ben Cousins in it. So has great memories. But I think stick with royal blue. But I suspect Eagles will follow fashion so they can can maximise their revenue.
The logo is good and emerald green is a nice addition to the comp but not loving the design in general. The map with T looks dated but just their heritage jumper it seems.
Big missed opportunity to have a unique and stylish design on the jumper. I don't hate what they went for but it is dull and the "T" just looks like a tacky afterthought. It looks like a collaboration where nobody got what they wanted and everyone got a small part of what they wanted. I do like the logo, the devil is well done, simple and bold. I don't love the green but I get it if they are going for consistency and brand recognition. The real questions are ahead though. Teams are going to want to get this next draft right because the ones that follow are going to be thinned out.
Oh Jesse "legally binding contract", in politics you can get out of anything. Not to make it super political but examples are roe8 in WA mcGowan ripped up that deal from main roads and it was 1-2Billion, but he had to redistribute the money to other projects, it's why the freeways always have works. Also Rio Tinto went back on a deal with WA liberals saying they would start a steel industry here for their iron ore mines. They had to may 300mil or something but it saved them billions in on shore jobs and factories.
I reckon it’ll be good for under 25 year olds cause there isn’t going to be the constant media attention like on mainland look at the WA media with Harley Reid any 18 year old or whatever is going To like the peacefulness of tassie
Interesting that Brisbane is budgeting 3.4 billion to build a 55000 seat stadium. How on earth is Tassie supposed to build a 23000 seater with a roof for only 750 million. It is grossly unfair of the AFL to place this expectation upon Australia's smallest and lowest income state when a cost blowout of huge proportions is certain. If the deal falls through the state should ban the AFL from the state permanently for the disgusting way they have been treated.
Hawthorn and North Melbourne have received millions of dollars in donations from the Tasmanian Taxpayer. The Tasmanian public has had enough of their taxes being stolen by the Greedy AFL. No other team has ever been forced to build a stadium with a roof to gain entry in the AFL.
The colors and name were totally predictable, and therefore ok, but the Jumper design was done by an amateur. Jumper design is just disappointing. I'm happy to see a Tassie team, but I'm not going to get too excited, untli they start the construction of a stadium. I think its entirely possible, that nothing comes of the this, as the statium seems to very very contentious. I understand its only a 23k seat statium, so half the size of the Melbourne Docklands stadium. I thought both the Tasmanian team and the AFL would be more ambitious than that. Even Geelongs stadium has capacity of about 35k and are massively constrained for space.
That guernsey is absolutely terrible. Easily the worst in the league. I understand the name "Devils" was always going to be used, but those colours and that design looks so weak. Disastrous.
