What is the best club jumper in the AFL? Vote for your favourite

The Power and Crows have donned many different AFL jumpers over the years, but which one is the best? Have your say in our interactive poll.

Which is your favourite guernsey design of all-time? Vote in the interactive below.

You might be a true believer in the traditional black-and-white, have a love affair with the dark navy blue or be a rusted on fan of the broad yellow sash on a black jumper.

And you might hate any meddling with tradition – yes, you, ugly away strips.

So now’s your chance to vote for your club’s best-ever guernsey.

MAKE YOUR SELECTION IN THE INTERACTIVE BELOW:

HOW 7-YEAR-OLD FAN TRANSFORMED POWER JUMPER

Few footy fans can lay claim to designing an AFL guernsey.

Lucy Burford must be one of the youngest ever to do so.

Burford was just seven years old when she won a competition to design a guernsey for Port Adelaide to wear in a game against West Coast at Football Park in July 2009.

More than 11 years later, the black jumper with a white and teal V remains the Power’s home strip.

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Burford, now 18, still gets a kick out of watching Port Adelaide run out in her design.

“It’s a bit weird to think I was so young to come up with that concept and they seem to like it, and it’s managed to stick for nearly 12 years,” Burford told The Advertiser.

“It doesn’t feel like it’s mine anymore, it’s the club’s.

“It’s a community thing, rather than ‘I did that’.”

Port Adelaide’s Xavier Duursma with guernsey designer Lucy Burford at Alberton Oval. Picture: Morgan Sette

Burford’s winning effort was the third time Port Adelaide had held its “Planet Teal” competition for junior members to design guernseys for one-off matches.

In 2007 the club wore a jumper emblazoned with a silver fist holding a lightning bolt that was central to the Power’s former logo.

A year later, Port Adelaide donned a teal guernsey with a black-and-white lightning bolt diagonally across it.

Burford was inspired by the uniform of another football code when she started colouring in a blank sheet of paper with pencils.

“Dad was out the front gardening in an old Australian rugby (league) top and I thought that would look good,” she recalls.

“I roughly drew it on there and put the Port colours on.

“My sister and I got one sheet of paper each, and I think she drew flowers on hers.

“Dad entered and then we went to the game where they wore it.

“It was a bit of a whirlwind because then they said they wanted to keep it.”

Shaun Burgoyne in the Power’s lightning bolt jumper in 2008. Picture: Sam Wundke

A seven-year-old Lucy Burford with Port Adelaide captain Dom Cassisi in 2009.

Burford and her Ardtornish Primary School classmates ran onto the field with the Power players for the game against West Coast.

The jumper proved so popular with Port Adelaide fans, the club chose to wear it for a second consecutive week, in a game against the Crows.

At the end of that season, the design replaced the one the club wore in its 2004 premiership triumph as its home guernsey.

Port Adelaide made one small tweak – Burford had the Power logo at the point of the V but it was moved to the left part of the chest.

When the Power adopted the guernsey full-time, it rewarded her family with life membership.

“I try to go to about 10 games a year,” said Burford, who has since graduated from school and is now studying nursing at University of South Australia.

This year Macron has designed Port Adelaide’s guernseys, in the Italian sportswear brand’s first venture into the AFL.

The Power’s 2021 jumpers, as well as club training and off-field apparel is available at the Port Store and online.