That works for a regular game, because in theory the home side would have easy access to an alternative kit. It may have been that in the CC final neither side had an alternative kit?

With Leeds vs. Wire it should have been picked up before hand though.

It was picked up in advance the problem was we won the right to wear our home colours, so it was on Leeds who had stupidly that year decided to do an away shirt in their home colours, and not consider a guaranteed clash with an opponent that year.

Chances are we were asked to play in our red and green away shirt and we probably told them to get stuffed, its a final, dont willingly back down on anything in a final.

They should ditch squad numbers and just go with shirt numbers based on the game day selection as they do in the NRL.

I’m pretty sure it went before the bbc who had no objections to the kit colours.

Going off the BBC's coverage of RL I'm surprised that the producers were even aware that there were two teams involved. They seem to spend more time showing the faces of the coaches than they do the play.

An example of poor decision making by the BBC then.

But I'm not sure why it would be referred to them anyway? It is the match officials' remit and responsibility. If it was referred to the BBC then that is the match officials evading a decision. If it was requested that Wire change and we refused, that is also the match officials evading a decision.

I watched that game with a bunch of non-RL fans (I was working abroad, couldn't attend) and personally thought it was a poor advert for the game and they found it difficult to pick out once side from another at times. I would have been perfectly happy if the match officials had ordered us to wear red and green.

It gets my goat. The wife sees the colours and waits for me to explode.
We are Primrose and Blue, Wigan are Cherry & White, Hull are Black & White etc. unless there is a clash of colours that's what they should wear. As for situation whereby two colours are similar ... the colours should be checked prior to the game. There is no excuse.

Why should the BBC have any say over a clash of colours? That ought to be down to the RFL.

We played Hull FC away a few years ago. Them in black and white shirts, black shorts; us in red and black shirts, black shorts. Daft.

I was informed that Wire had, in fact, offered to play in our 'away' green kit but the RFL turned us down.

I would have a primrose and blue hooped home jersey (ok on occasional years you could spice it up with vertical stripes like the Davies MoS season), and a white away jersey with a blue/primrose V. Then have a third kit, in black with luminous pink lettering that says FECK THE RFL. Then see how often we are forced to wear the third kit.

Yep, I agree and my angle has always been that we play in PnB, and if we need a colour change, it should be an alternative strip...but I also bow to the merchandising if they think that 2 kits a season will profit better than one, who am I to argue.

It's acceptable to a point, I also understand and support the need to boost revenues.

But when the boneheads dress us in red and black at Hull FC, or red and green at Saints in a year when the Saints have a lot of red on their kit, it annoys me.

I thought your pov was in favour of white kits, you used to mention that a lot

I don't get the weird problem with playing Hull in a bright Red and Black kit if they're in a White and Black kit. Not exactly hard to tell teams apart is it? They're drastically different colours, bit of an odd one to pick out and complain about.