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Wales and Ireland will no longer meet in their traditional red and green with the Six Nations announcing changes to their kit policy for 2025.
Designed to make matches easier to watch for colour blind viewers who struggle to distinguish between the two colours, visiting teams will be asked to change kit from next year’s edition onwards when a colour match has been identified. The rules are also expected to apply at the 2027 World Cup.
It follows a switch in this year’s championship from tradition that dictated that the home team wore an alternate strip in the event of a kit clash.
The change means that this year’s meeting in Dublin on 24 February will be the last time that the two teams clash in the men’s Six Nations in their familiar kits.
Wales’ change strip for the tournament is black, while they have also previously used a green alternate jersey, colours that do not solve the issue.
Abi Tierney, chief executive of the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU), admitted that the matter should have been sorted sooner.
Read HERE
Designed to make matches easier to watch for colour blind viewers who struggle to distinguish between the two colours, visiting teams will be asked to change kit from next year’s edition onwards when a colour match has been identified. The rules are also expected to apply at the 2027 World Cup.
It follows a switch in this year’s championship from tradition that dictated that the home team wore an alternate strip in the event of a kit clash.
The change means that this year’s meeting in Dublin on 24 February will be the last time that the two teams clash in the men’s Six Nations in their familiar kits.
Wales’ change strip for the tournament is black, while they have also previously used a green alternate jersey, colours that do not solve the issue.
Abi Tierney, chief executive of the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU), admitted that the matter should have been sorted sooner.
Read HERE
