Seems that WT avoided another Jersey design… This time its shorts! Interesting link to magpie and tiger on this one..
Wests Tigers NRL side will wear special shorts against Parramatta Eels at Campbelltown Sports Stadium on Monday, August 6, as part of the NRL’s ‘Close the Gap’ Round of the Telstra Premiership.
The players will wear specially designed Close the Gap shorts, having formed a partnership with KARI Aboriginal Resources Inc, the match-day sponsors whose logo will feature on the shorts.
The ‘Close the Gap Round’ highlights Indigenous heritage which players hope inspire Rugby League fans to pledge to support reducing the life expectancy gap of more than a decade between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
The story on the shorts is about two rugby league clubs in Balmain Tigers and Western Suburbs Magpies coming together to lead and strengthen the communities that they represent playing and living for.
The little Boomerang represents the Balmain Tigers area. The Boomerang in the middle represents the Wests Magpies area, the bigger Boomerang represents the local Aboriginal people of today of the two areas.
The big symbol on the left represents an Aboriginal totem dance, which means animals in Aboriginal language - the 2 animals are the Tiger and the Magpie.
This is the Dance for Aboriginal tribes and for the Balmain, Wests and West Tigers players past and present, the other little circles are camp fires of Aboriginal ceremonial areas from Campbelltown to Leichhardt area.
Rugby League was the first sporting code in Australia to join the Close the Gap campaign with an inaugural Close the Gap Round in 2009 and this year’s game-wide activities will again highlight the importance of working to improve Indigenous health, life expectancy and education and employment opportunities.
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Wests Tigers will also this week promote their ‘Get That Job Day’ at Wests Leagues Campbelltown, leading into their School to Work program launch next Monday and the final of the Koori Cup 7’s Grand Final at Campbelltown Stadium.
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Wests Tigers NRL side will wear special shorts against Parramatta Eels at Campbelltown Sports Stadium on Monday, August 6, as part of the NRL’s ‘Close the Gap’ Round of the Telstra Premiership.
The players will wear specially designed Close the Gap shorts, having formed a partnership with KARI Aboriginal Resources Inc, the match-day sponsors whose logo will feature on the shorts.
The ‘Close the Gap Round’ highlights Indigenous heritage which players hope inspire Rugby League fans to pledge to support reducing the life expectancy gap of more than a decade between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
The story on the shorts is about two rugby league clubs in Balmain Tigers and Western Suburbs Magpies coming together to lead and strengthen the communities that they represent playing and living for.
The little Boomerang represents the Balmain Tigers area. The Boomerang in the middle represents the Wests Magpies area, the bigger Boomerang represents the local Aboriginal people of today of the two areas.
The big symbol on the left represents an Aboriginal totem dance, which means animals in Aboriginal language - the 2 animals are the Tiger and the Magpie.
This is the Dance for Aboriginal tribes and for the Balmain, Wests and West Tigers players past and present, the other little circles are camp fires of Aboriginal ceremonial areas from Campbelltown to Leichhardt area.
Rugby League was the first sporting code in Australia to join the Close the Gap campaign with an inaugural Close the Gap Round in 2009 and this year’s game-wide activities will again highlight the importance of working to improve Indigenous health, life expectancy and education and employment opportunities.
BUY TICKETS TO EELS MATCH
MATCH DAY INFORMATION FOR EELS GAME
SIGN THE PLEDGE
Wests Tigers will also this week promote their ‘Get That Job Day’ at Wests Leagues Campbelltown, leading into their School to Work program launch next Monday and the final of the Koori Cup 7’s Grand Final at Campbelltown Stadium.
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