Was it sunny yesterday?

I think you will find the responsibility is with the home team.

So Quins requested that Saints turn out in something resembling military camouflage?

The bottom line is that clubs such as Saints, Wigan, the two Hull clubs etc. traditionally have smart, instantly identifiable shirts. If you see a picture of one of their players in their home shirt you don’t need a caption to tell you which club he’s playing for. I think that’s great, and I like seeing these clubs run out at the Stoop in these colours. I just think it’s a genuine shame when they switch to meaningless nondescript change colours for no good reason other than to plug these replicas to their own travelling support. It was also noticeable that very few of the visiting fans on Saturday were wearing the green replica. The North Stand was a sea of white & red. (Although I myself unwittingly turned up in a dark green T shirt!)

"I just think it’s a genuine shame when they switch to meaningless nondescript change colours for no good reason other than to plug these replicas to their own travelling support."

not so... I think you'll find that the RFL list what colours each team is playing each week and match the ref and his team's colours against them.
The refs team were clearly in white.
This is normal practice for all prof league football/rugby

That's correct, the RFL do that, and have managed to stuff it up many times this season already. In my own experience alone:
- Hull KR wore dark grey shirts/shorts/socks away to Celtic, who play in black shirts/shorts/socks
- Rovers wore the same strip away to Hull, who also predominantly play in black.
- Quins turned up for the away match at Rovers in the as-stipulated-by-the-RFL mainly white away kit, to play a KR team whose home kit is also mainly white. Rovers agreed to wear their own away kit (at home!) at the last minute because it was on telly and would have been even more of a joke than usual... but then because the Refs had brought an orange kit (not expecting Rovers to be in grey and orange) you even saw Dobson pass the ball to the ref at one point, eventually leading to a Quins try.

The relevant department really needs to get their act in order on this one, it is amateurish.

This is just too daft for words. The RFL obviously hasn't learned from that farcical televised match between Hull and Bradford a year or two ago, when both teams wore black & white kits.

I don't suppose that there's any possibility of you giving a straightforward answer to a question is there?

As you're apparently unable to understand, I'll try to make it a bit clearer for you: "I sit at the south end of the =redEast Stand." That OK for you? Now how about answering the question?

If the question is-Was there a colour clash between green tops and black tops with 4 other colours on the front other than green, on a sunny day in Jul the answer for me is No.

At no time could I not distinguish between Quins players, Saints players and the referee or his assistants.

Fine. Then the problem is mainly mine, though some others on here have commented that more easily distinguishable kits could easily be achieved.

Even I could pick out the match officials OK.



As it happens, I'm seeing my optician next week. Maybe I could ask for the game to be replayed when I have my new specs.?

Oh FFS. From the back both teams were playing in all black. From the front they were both playing in mainly black. The alternative was to have Saints in predominantly white. What part of that different idea seems worse to you exactly? It is unprofessional, end of.

In the Premier League, they even ask teams to make minor kit changes so that the shorts and socks of the opposing teams are contrasting light/dark. In the NFL one team must play in a dark shirt, and the other in white. Those are the two most successful professional sports leagues on the planet, my gut tells me they know what they're doing...

there fans supporting two teams probably doesn't help