Have a go a this kit nerd.This is incredibly poor for a club to have had notice beforehand and they still don't act on it. A few years back I was involved in a team and we wrote to the upcoming opponents and told them we would be wearing a certain colour socks for our home game and told them because we knew their normal kit had the same colour. They were thankful and brought a different colour to the game. It was so simple.
The (I think?) universal rule is the away team has to supply an alternate shirt & socks - whilst shorts are technically allowed to clash.
It's a disgrace for an away team not to be prepared in general IMO.
Last year in ZL2 Uni travelled to Westlakes and their white/navy setup was pretty similar to Westlakes mostly white kit. Reserves played, and IMO clashed, but for firsts we at Westlakes took it upon ourselves to wear our orange away shirt to reduce confusion. I think a few years back Garden Suburb gave Westlakes their away kit for a game at Gardo because Westlakes weren't prepared for their clash too? So it makes sense that the home team can, and sometimes do, save the day but that's not their job on a day where they already have a tonne of things going on.
I asked a ref a few weeks back about a visiting team wearing the same white socks as the home and their answer was "it's not meant to happen but they don't have alternatives". It's just not good enough IMO.
Probably 4-5 years back I was at a NNSW/Zone meeting and they said at the start of the season they would get every team to submit to them the colours of their home & away shirts, shorts, socks and that information would be distributed to all the clubs. Did/does this happen? If for example Cardiff went from all orange to orange & white stripes with white being pretty predominant colour, or say going from orange socks to white socks, are all clubs aware of this before game day? And just say that two teams main kits clash, but then using the information supplied to the Federation shows the away teams 2nd kit would clash, what is the go here? Say a team has black & white stripes, and the away team has a home white, and away black, kit, for eg. That would flag up as an issue at the start of the season and the teams can work around that however which way.
For any ultimate frisbee nerdz out there, if you go to play ultimate anywhere the common rule is you bring a "dark" kit and a "light" kit. Light is almost always white, and dark is basically any colour. It's the black/white combo kits that are the killer. But IMO every football club should have a predominately dark kit, and a predominately light kit, and bring what is needed to whichever away game they are going to.
Get a life buddy