Wales v Ireland kit colours

[grooveavenue]

I understand that when they face up to each other neither are likely to be we wearing those famous colours - red and green. It has been identified that both colours are not recognised by people with colour blindness and there is an initiative from h.q. to ensure colours are able to be identified. One colour of contrast is white!

[CJB1]

Oct 6, 2021 10:38:57 GMT grooveavenue said:

I understand that when they face up to each other neither are likely to be we wearing those famous colours - red and green. It has been identified that both colours are not recognised by people with colour blindness and there is an initiative from h.q. to ensure colours are able to be identified. One colour of contrast is white!

In the days of B&W telly, Wal v Ire (or the reverse) was the fixture most likely to cause problems, since Wales' red and Ireland's green both came out at about the same shade of grey. And red-green colourblindness is the mose common kind by far. But have there been huge numbers of complaints about this? And surely only one side would need to change to a white jersey to solve the issue anyway.

Yours, confused ...

[grooveavenue]

The interviewee on BBC R4 News was from HQ and explained the red/green issue ,deutoronomy - (spelling?) is the most common colour blindness and research continues. I guess that for each fixture only red or green may have to change so it remains red and green may not be seen on the field together in forthcoming fixtures between these Nations.
Interestingly, Bill Beaumont has this condition and I believe endorsed the research.