
TheMorningEmu
It is kind of hard to see here, but the Broncos has one-off shorts for their Indigenous Jersey?For what it's worth (not much), it's probably fair to note that those were simply the Roosters standard home shorts rather than special shorts. I am not sure whether it would have been a better solution to have heritage style black shorts for home/away for all of 2022, as that would also clash with our blue and white tops. I agree the shorts looked naff with our heritage jersey, but I think it was a lose-lose scenario. Hopefully the NRL start allowing specialty one-off shorts again next season.
That said though, unlike us the Broncos used the same shorts for Home and Away- is there a rule where teams can only have two pairs a year? Shit rule if so, but they could have just had the white shorts for both and not had a blue pair to pair with the away jersey (I think it was white jersey on top of white shorts back in 95 for away?)
I had thought the excuse that was put out there was that the team got shit for previous years because of the amount of merch put out that they went to complete opposite direction.. but in hindsight that is probably more targeted towards the jerseys themselves than everything else.