Western Sharkie
Jaws
No, ffs no!
Official 2015 - 2025 Kit Thread
- Thread starter Addy
- Start date
Sharkies_001
Bull Shark
- Joined
- Mar 14, 2012
- Messages
- 1,574
- Reaction score
- 959
Or grey?
Blue_Eyes84
Great White
Addy
Jaws
1983, ET's rookie year
Sludge in the background
Sludge in the background
Blue_Eyes84
Great White
Thanks for digging that up.
I like that all blue strip. I want to give it another run for something different.
HaroldBishop
Megalodon
I had that team photo on my bedroom wall as a kid
#13
Bronze Whaler
I think this look deserves revisiting at some point in the future.
If not as a permanent fixture throughout the season, used in the occasional game where the opposition are wearing black shorts.
PNG are apparently going to alternate between black and red shorts for the Pacific Championships this year so why not do something similar?
Another idea could be for the Sharks lower grade sides (Jersey Flegg/SG Ball) to wear sky blue shorts instead of black like the Rabbitohs do, sporting green shorts, at NSW Cup level.
#13
Bronze Whaler
Ok. Off the back of the blue shorts debate, I give you another…
A lesser spotted Sharkies jersey circa the Super League era.
Having lived through this era I was shocked to discover this item floating around on eBay.
Literally no recollection of this being released nor what the idea behind its design nor the intention of its production was.
Any ideas?
Capital_Shark
Kitty Master
- Joined
- May 7, 2006
- Messages
- 19,247
- Reaction score
- 4,638
No way that was Super League era.
Pretty sure @Sir Chadley used to play croquet with Napoleon in that get up.
#13
Bronze Whaler
No one is more surprised than me, I can assure you.
Literally have no recollection of this.
I do recall all the Super League clubs playing in very plain/basic jerseys during pre-season before their actual jerseys were unveiled but have no recollection of this release nor the intention behind it at all.
#13
Bronze Whaler
With a new home jersey in the pipeline for 2026, I for one, wouldn’t mind seeing Classic revert to the three-quarter-length sleeve design that they have used for the Kangaroos’ Ashes training/pre-match jersey.
If not for the game day jersey, either for a pre-match/training jersey or for a potential 2026 heritage jersey etc.
If not for the game day jersey, either for a pre-match/training jersey or for a potential 2026 heritage jersey etc.
slide rule
Jaws
#13
Bronze Whaler
It appears to be in the style of the 80’s/90’s Peerless jersey with a similar scoop collar and three quarter length sleeves. It isn’t made by Nike which all Super League teams were at the time.
As I say, I have (at least I thought I did) a very vivid recollection of both the latter years of the Winfield Cup and the Super League era of our game and this item completely baffles me.
slide rule
Jaws
It appears to be in the style of the 80’s/90’s Peerless jersey with a similar scoop collar and three quarter length sleeves. It isn’t made by Nike which all Super League teams were at the time.
As I say, I have (at least I thought I did) a very vivid recollection of both the latter years of the Winfield Cup and the Super League era of our game and this item completely baffles me.
Interesting. We really only had Nike around that Super League era. As far as I can recall.
Sevshark
Jaws
- Joined
- Oct 11, 2021
- Messages
- 7,587
- Reaction score
- 6,842
They had some plain soccer looking kits they wore in trials from memory as well
Addy
Jaws
Super League merch was pretty hard to come by. ARL probably told most retailers that if they stocked SL merch, they couldn't have ARL.
I remember going to a SL game* and seeing so much different merch.
I can't even remember who sold stuff back then, Sports Power, Grace Bros/Myer and mum and dad sports shops?
* Never got to see a Sharks SL game, I went to Raiders vs Hunter Mariners
#13
Bronze Whaler
The Sharks wore an all sky blue jersey in the 1996 Super League trials. No photos exist of that jersey that I can find but it was in the same style as this Perth Reds design.
#13
Bronze Whaler
It is interesting all these years later that, while many retro jerseys have been licensed by the NRL via Classic and more recently, Tidwell, we haven’t seen a Super League jersey reproduced.
I guess the animosity is still festering away in the background 30-odd years later.
I guess the animosity is still festering away in the background 30-odd years later.
#13
Bronze Whaler
Not sure how it would ever be incorporated unless it was as a pre-match warm-up jersey or training jersey but I would love to see the Sharks revisit the design sported during the run to the final of the 2015 edition of the Auckland Nines. I’ve never really been a fan of ‘busy’ jersey designs but this is a guilty pleasure.
Last edited: