G'Day everyone,
I'm new here so apologies if this is not the right place for this idea, I stumbled across this website looking for news about last nights debacle but thought I'd share something a bit lighter. I was born after the merger and have been a fan of Wests Tigers all my life as it's all I've ever known, I was thinking a few weeks ago about how other teams have iconic jerseys like the Roosters or Souths and how much it annoys me we change ours every bloody year. If I buy a jersey within a year or two its outdated, and the fact we wear a predominantly Balmain or Western Suburbs jersey for Leichhardt and Campbelltown home games respectively is emblematic of the sort of habits we have that foster division and allow situations like last night to happen. Given we've changed our logo and a lot of personnel in the last few years I figured a more permanent jersey would be the next logical step to build a stronger identity as we enter a (hopefully) more successful era. I drew the below image a couple of weeks ago and thought I'd share it on here just to see what people thought.
The idea was to try and combine aspects of the old Balmain and Western Suburbs jerseys as a nod to our past while also coming up with something that doesn't overtly represent one side or the other and is uniquely Wests Tigers. I pretty much just took the white Western Suburbs 'V' and sandwiched it between the two old Balmain chevrons. I'm not a massive fan of the tapered lines we use at the moment and wanted to use straighter lines to make a stronger and more traditional rugby league jersey. Apart from it being a little Roosters-esque I think its a pretty damn cool jersey, and I'd be proud to watch my team run out in it EVERY home game.
I would have loved to have done it on my computer but for a young fella I'm not particularly good with technology and didn't know how to photoshop it, so if you'd like to please feel free, I'd love to see how it looks. If anyone has any suggestions as well I'd love to hear them or even another completely different design. Hopefully this can be a bit of fun with us having the bye, or who knows we might see Jarome Luai running around in one next year!
GO THE TIGES!
Cheers
I'm new here so apologies if this is not the right place for this idea, I stumbled across this website looking for news about last nights debacle but thought I'd share something a bit lighter. I was born after the merger and have been a fan of Wests Tigers all my life as it's all I've ever known, I was thinking a few weeks ago about how other teams have iconic jerseys like the Roosters or Souths and how much it annoys me we change ours every bloody year. If I buy a jersey within a year or two its outdated, and the fact we wear a predominantly Balmain or Western Suburbs jersey for Leichhardt and Campbelltown home games respectively is emblematic of the sort of habits we have that foster division and allow situations like last night to happen. Given we've changed our logo and a lot of personnel in the last few years I figured a more permanent jersey would be the next logical step to build a stronger identity as we enter a (hopefully) more successful era. I drew the below image a couple of weeks ago and thought I'd share it on here just to see what people thought.
The idea was to try and combine aspects of the old Balmain and Western Suburbs jerseys as a nod to our past while also coming up with something that doesn't overtly represent one side or the other and is uniquely Wests Tigers. I pretty much just took the white Western Suburbs 'V' and sandwiched it between the two old Balmain chevrons. I'm not a massive fan of the tapered lines we use at the moment and wanted to use straighter lines to make a stronger and more traditional rugby league jersey. Apart from it being a little Roosters-esque I think its a pretty damn cool jersey, and I'd be proud to watch my team run out in it EVERY home game.
I would have loved to have done it on my computer but for a young fella I'm not particularly good with technology and didn't know how to photoshop it, so if you'd like to please feel free, I'd love to see how it looks. If anyone has any suggestions as well I'd love to hear them or even another completely different design. Hopefully this can be a bit of fun with us having the bye, or who knows we might see Jarome Luai running around in one next year!
GO THE TIGES!
Cheers