Colour of the caps.

A few months ago. a team inside the Netherlands ask if the can put a drawing on there caps. if i have that wrong the person from these caps can correct me. He's on this forum also.As i remeberd these versions were aproved (the black and white)

The general opinian till now is:
1.To much misfirings possibly with oranje with the water refferees what chance gives on errors by the head refferee.
2.Als oranjetint come then bijv the ropes and ear shells but keep the cap blank or blue/black and the oranje/red for the refferees.

Buit what does the world find about this?

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When you are good, then you are not bad..

I think its alright that teams put their own marks on the caps. But i should be only white or black, not orange. Orange is a bit confusing if both teams have orange on their cap.

Besides, orange can look like red, could be confusing in messy matches ( and very confusing for players that are colour blind)

I don't think those orange/white/black combinations would work - too similar, but they look great!

Here's a story - at the worlds in NZ in -04, a referee approached me (as captain) after the game and told me that one the players in my team has a black cap and that it isn't allowed; it must be blue. ???!!!! I was asked to present her cap for approval by the Chief Referee.

Needless to say the chief ref dismissed it, but scary though that a ref at the worlds would even think that black would be less legal than blue.... Bring on the top-ten refs!

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The Dutch competition leaders have indeed approved the full black and full white versions. My club's waterpolo teams have an orange band in the middle of their cap design and the club board prefers our team to have this orange color as depicted also. Clearly, the waterpolo caps are blue rather than black for the home team.

Personally, I disagree with orange being misleading for the head ref. The color really is distinctly different from red. Especially since the caps remain mostly black or white. Orange ear protection is possible but that more or less destroys the design does it not?

What do you think about following the cap design guidelines in waterpolo? There, it is allowed for teams to have even green caps. If, and only if, the entire team has this color and if this differs enough from the opposing team. Using such a color should, in my humble opinion, be allowed in UWH but then we have potential problems with sticks that also have to be the team's color.

thanks