Colour clash today

[Alfred E Newman]

Dark blue with white sleeves v dark green with white sleeves . Add a low sun and it was almost impossible to make out who was who. I am amazed the ref allowed that. It seemed to affect us more than them as we struggled to put more than two passes together.

[hibsbollah]

Really? According to Derek Ferguson (ok i know) we were passing it around really well first half.

[B.H.F.C]

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Dark blue with white sleeves v dark green with white sleeves . Add a low sun and it was almost impossible to make out who was who. I am amazed the ref allowed that. It seemed to affect us more than them as we struggled to put more than two passes together.

Didn't affect us in the first half when we knocked the ball about well. Wasn't too bad when the sun disappeared but really difficult prior to that.

[cabbageandribs1875]

noticed the clash straight away, god help people with dodgy eyes, the only difference i could make out was the stripe down the shorts of the RR kit

[Alfred E Newman]

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Didn't affect us in the first half when we knocked the ball about well. Wasn't too bad when the sun disappeared but really difficult prior to that.

When the ball was rattling about the other end in the second half it looked like Raith had a dozen players in the box.

[Kojock]

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noticed the clash straight away, god help people with dodgy eyes, the only difference i could make out was the stripe down the shorts of the RR kit

We had white socks and Raith had dark socks, apart from that it was difficult to tell the teams apart.

[Kojock]

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Really? According to Derek Ferguson (ok i know) we were passing it around really well first half.

Hibs were excellent in the first half and played some great football culminating in two superb goals. It was only after Raith scored that we seemed to panic a bit.

[Golden Bear]

I watched it on Raith Tv when they eventually got it up and running and it was very difficult to distinguish between the teams.

[Billy Whizz]

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Dark blue with white sleeves v dark green with white sleeves . Add a low sun and it was almost impossible to make out who was who. I am amazed the ref allowed that. It seemed to affect us more than them as we struggled to put more than two passes together.

Said this on the main thread, can't believe the ref allowed this to happen

[Smartie]

I think the bottle green strips are really smart but this kind if thing is definitely a weakness and winds me up.

I've struggled to make us out against Falkirk, Dundee, Raith - even Hearts at one point a few years ago.

I also like the purple away kit but maybe we should have something lighter for when we play teams with darker tops?

Nothing ruins a game like a colour clash, not that you see it that often.

[Alfred E Newman]

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I think the bottle green strips are really smart but this kind if thing is definitely a weakness and winds me up.

I've struggled to make us out against Falkirk, Dundee, Raith - even Hearts at one point a few years ago.

I also like the purple away kit but maybe we should have something lighter for when we play teams with darker tops?

Nothing ruins a game like a colour clash, not that you see it that often.

We coped not to bad in the first half but I think it affected our passing game in the second. I am sure some of the players from both sides were making comments to the ref about it in the first half.

[lord bunberry]

I struggled all game to tell the 2 teams apart, it was worse when they were front on as you couldn't see the numbers.

[givescotlandfreedom]

It bothered me too and I don't think the sun helped either.

[Golden Bear]

It seems such a basic thing for both teams and the match officials to get so wrong. Hopefully a lesson has been learnt.

[Alfred E Newman]

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It seems such a basic thing for both teams and the match officials to get so wrong. Hopefully a lesson has been learnt.

It just underlines how incompetent these officials are nowadays.

[Thecat23]

Looking at the pics on Facebook some put up, I was struggling to tell the teams apart!

[IWasThere2016]

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Said this on the main thread, can't believe the ref allowed this to happen

Yup. Wasn't easy to always make out who was who IMHO

[Smartie]

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It seems such a basic thing for both teams and the match officials to get so wrong. Hopefully a lesson has been learnt.

Is there much they could have done though?

What is Raith's away top like? (I honestly don't know). Should they be expected to wear their away top at home? It's not really their fault that both our kits are difficult to distinguish from their home one?

I'd have though that our purple number would clash with their top even more?

[Golden Bear]

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Is there much they could have done though?

What is Raith's away top like? (I honestly don't know). Should they be expected to wear their away top at home? It's not really their fault that both our kits are difficult to distinguish from their home one?

I'd have though that our purple number would clash with their top even more?

Bring back the all white strip! It's not often we meet Real Madrid!

[mim]

Several times I misread what was happening at the far end because of the glare. Should not have been allowed to wear such similar strips 😒

[LaMotta]

Given how dark the home top is the purple away strip was a daft idea!

[greenlex]

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Is there much they could have done though?

What is Raith's away top like? (I honestly don't know). Should they be expected to wear their away top at home? It's not really their fault that both our kits are difficult to distinguish from their home one?

I'd have though that our purple number would clash with their top even more?

If there was a clash and our away strip was also clashing surely Raith wearing their away kit would have made sense? You would assume its different enough from their home one? I'm sure there was a game where the visiting team had to borrow the home teams away strip once but I'm buggurd if I can remember who and when. Ref msut have been happy enough.

[Andy74]

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Said this on the main thread, can't believe the ref allowed this to happen

I struggled with it too. My eyes are dodgy at the best of times though.

[Baldy Foghorn]

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I struggled with it too. My eyes are dodgy at the best of times though.

You could tell by the socks only, but really hard to distinguish.......

[Smartie]

I had a wee look on their website and their away kit is a combination of dark green and black.

I remember them wearing white against us at one point although that may have been last season?

http://www.raithrovers.net/shop#!/~/...1&scid=1&tp=pl

[Alfred E Newman]

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Given how dark the home top is the purple away strip was a daft idea!

That's right. If the dark green strip clashes , I would think the purple/blue strip would as well. Did they not wear it at Dumfries and it clashed with Queens strip?

[StevieBoyKdy]

I'm colour blind and today was tough. Specially with white sleeves each and white shorts each.

[Andy74]

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That's right. If the dark green strip clashes , I would think the purple/blue strip would as well. Did they not wear it at Dumfries and it clashed with Queens strip?

I think the all purple would have been better than what we had. At least sleeves and shorts would have been clearer.

[silverhibee]

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You could tell by the socks only, but really hard to distinguish.......

The ref must have realised there was a clash of strips and at HT asked Hibs or Raith to change strips.

Pretty obvious really.

[NadeAteMyLunch!]

Surely we could wear last seasons white strip if need be? Same sponsor, both Nike so no reason not too. Or we could wear green shorts as we have in the past