"The decision has the potential to upset members who have the right to vote on a change of guernsey," Cook said. "Our legal advice, however, is that our AFL licence conditions override our constitution."
I've heard that before in regards to Essendon's constitution being not worth the paper it's written on. The AFL own the guernseys, logos, etc so what they say goes
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Richmond president Gary March yesterday said it was not feasible from a manufacturing point to implement the change for this year.
"We'd prefer to wear our normal strip, but we'll raise it at our next board meeting and with members later in the year," March
said. "The constitution is not quite clear. It's mainly about retaining our black and yellow colours, so we need further clarification from the AFL to what they perceive as being a clash. We don't think there are too many clashes, perhaps against Essendon."
Some AFL rep. on Sport 927 yesterday said the alternative strips will be introduced in 2007; not this year.
I wouldn't be in favour of a alternative strip if it's not yellow and black still. Imagine the Tiges running around in royal blue
. In European soccer, often the away strip doesn't contain the colours of the home shirt.
However my understanding is the AFL have to approve the design (like they do everythng else 
) and they (AFL) will only allow a sponsors logo on the front of the jumper to be a certain size and in a certain position (eg where you currently have the Tiger logo)
Well if they are forcing us to go down this path then we should have some reasonable freedom with regards to where the sponsor's logo/name goes on the alternative strip. It's standard to have a simply put sponsor's name across the front of a guernsey in Soccer, Rugby and NRL so it's not a quantum leap for the AFL to follow. Plus if you look at some SANFL guernseys (say Port Magpies) it's virtually a billboard of sponsors above the prison bars.
MT - you should forward your design the Club 
Will do
