Here's another idea at the start of a franchise each club must state its principle colour eg
Warrington will say Primrose and Blue, every kit in that franchise period must be that colour.
Now we have 14 clubs and there are more than 14 colours, each club gets to pick a colour for their away kit which no other club can pick as theirs. So again going with the Wire example we'd pick black and have to stick with that colour for 3 years and no other club can have black as their away kit.
Clubs can change design but not colour.
Clubs then have to wear their home kit in every situation that doesn't clash and sparingly wear their away top when it does clash.

I understand she signed for the Wire this evening, but is going back to 'Fax on a dual contract thingy

We don't have room for her at Wire we already have King-Monaghan and Hodgsons misses' doing a sterling job for very little money*



*[size=50this is a joke, we pay our players in Take That tickets only [/size

It’s one of the best things to happen in the game for a while. It’s certainly up there when a collie dog was running riot during a Leeds v Halifax cup tie.

This is pure comedy, amateur teams ring each other 72 hours prior to the game to arrange kits and generally tend to manage, sometimes these clubs have never played each other also the kits aren't on tv and in the press everyweek. Yet between 2 professional clubs and the RFL they can't work out who wears what.

Never had this problem back in the days when clubs wore the same shirts home and away with the odd exception when there was a colour clash

Quote ="nottinghamtiger"Does your computer not run Excel? www.therfl.co.uk/referee/kit_directives There should have been no colour clash. Huddersfield were directed to wear their principal kit. Castleford were directed to wear their alternative kit. Castleford arrived with the kit directed. Huddersfield did not. How difficult is this to understand?'" How difficult is it for you to understand that Castleford (as the away team) should have brought BOTH kits? You're both in the wrong. Huddersfield's gaff just highlighted Castleford's gaff. Cas hopefully won't only turn up with the one kit in the future.

Quote ="nottinghamtiger"Does your computer not run Excel? www.therfl.co.uk/referee/kit_directives There should have been no colour clash. Huddersfield were directed to wear their principal kit. Castleford were directed to wear their alternative kit. Castleford arrived with the kit directed. Huddersfield did not. How difficult is this to understand?'" How difficult is it for you to understand that Castleford (as the away team) should have brought BOTH kits? You're both in the wrong. Huddersfield's gaff just highlighted Castleford's gaff. Cas hopefully won't only turn up with the one kit in the future.

In the RLE today the giants MD is quotes as saying the RFL directive they have shows the Giants in alternative kit and the Tigers in principle kit and this situation was confirmed by Phil Bentham on behalf of the officials.

So the Giants brought the right kit, and Cas didn't, twice over.

You want to pin this on someone, pin it on Cas.

Or maybe Cas got the original one off RFL list and only Hudds got the new one and RFL communication is to blame? Could be one or more of the 3!

At the end of the day if BOTH teams bring BOTH kits their won't be issues in the future, simple as that.

Very true.

We have this stuff called turf. Its already grown for you. Magic! Best times to lay turf are March or September. Don't see why they didn't do it at end of Sept after league season.

Simple really... Football.

It's not like it hasn't been planned for some time, or that it's actually a problem.

Who is laying turf?



The 'artificial' surface is a combination 'plastic' and grass seed.For this process you want maximum speed of growth with the grass - relying on sunlight. The maximum sunlight is in and around June 21st. To do this process in September would be the action of an idiot. HTH

Oddly enough, this isn't the first time Huddersfield have been involved in kit problems. Back in October '88, thanks to internal problems at the club, they turned up for a game at Chiswick without any kit at all (happily the players had their boots)! Fortunately there'd been an amateur game before the main match, so we had to hastily swill out one of the teams' kit in the plunge bath and Huddersfield played in rather soggy pale blue shirts. The result? Fulham 61 - Huddersfield 22.

I remember Wire turning up to Cas in 86 or 87 with no kit and loaning the kit from our colts or alliance side.

They still won though.

Correct. Home team rings away team and asks three questions:

1) what colour kit are you bringing (home team's responsibility to change with any clash)
2) you know its a X Kick off don't you?
3) Do you need directions?

given what happened, I'm surpised Cas didnt travel to the Galpharm...

Widnes once wore a W!re shirt at Wilderspool apparently for one reason or t'other!
Despite winning us the World Club Championship one of our lads still finds it hard to forgive Dougie for this calling it his 'worst ever moment as a Widnes fan' think we may have got battered too!

during the soccorball season. huddersfield town would no doubt object.

Very few sports teams now use TURF. They use those special pitches which are made up of plastic with real grass growing through it

Basically, whoever puts this kit directive together hasn't got a clue. I remember a couple of years ago, Huddersfield turned up to play at the KC in their white away strip in a season when our home kit was predominantly white as well. Steve McNamara actually brought the 'directive' into the post-match press conference to show the journo's that the colour clash wasn't Huddersfield's fault. Farcical.

Having just had a quick scan of the 'directive' for the remainder of the season I see that we're playing in our home (black and white) kit when we play Leeds away, yet will be wearing our change strip of predominantly white at both Cas and Crusaders. I would say that the only possible clash of the three would be at Leeds as we'll both be wearing dark kits. Meanwhile, we could easily play in black and white at both Cas and Crusaders with no hint of a clash. There's no wonder rugby league is seen as a joke at times.....

Quote ="nottinghamtiger"Yet again, may I direct you to the Kit Directive issued by the RFL. It works quite simply. Click on the Excel document that shows which kit should be worn by each team for each game. Scroll down to 05/06/11 and you will see clearly that Huddersfield were directed to wear their PRINCIPAL kit and Castleford their ALTERNATIVE kit. www.therfl.co.uk/referee/kit_directives Cas turned up with the kit required; Huddersfield didn't. End of.'" The directives are updated during the season and were updated 2 weeks ago - the ones on the web haven't changed since February. The revised directive had Hudds in Alternative and Cas in Principal.

Quote ="nottinghamtiger"Yet again, may I direct you to the Kit Directive issued by the RFL. It works quite simply. Click on the Excel document that shows which kit should be worn by each team for each game. Scroll down to 05/06/11 and you will see clearly that Huddersfield were directed to wear their PRINCIPAL kit and Castleford their ALTERNATIVE kit. www.therfl.co.uk/referee/kit_directives Cas turned up with the kit required; Huddersfield didn't. End of.'" The directives are updated during the season and were updated 2 weeks ago - the ones on the web haven't changed since February. The revised directive had Hudds in Alternative and Cas in Principal.

What he said.

The great Hilda is apparently being interviewed on Talk Sport in the next few minutes.

That was the rule many moons ago--home to change if there was a clash.

Now there are directives from the organisation who messed up the kits in last year's Challenge Cup Final.

What exactly did Hilda do other than kindly turn up and open a door?

I'm sure she's a lovely old dear, but me judging by the reaction you'd think she got her needles out and knitted 17 tops in 20 minutes.