Competition "What If" Wednesdays - Time Traveller Sneezes Edition: Week 14 - Norwood to the AFL

[cannavo]

Welcome to ...

​

Marty McFly has done himself a mischief and has altered the course of Aussie footy in ways you can't imagine!
Get ready to dive into alternate futures!​

What is “What If” Wednesdays?
"What if" Wednesdays was a competition comprised of real-life football team proposals, merger propositions, former teams and a few hypotheticals brought to life by the FJGD community (eg. If the Melbourne-Hawthorn merger went ahead, if University/Fitzroy/Bris Bears stuck around, if Gold Coasts nickname were the Lifesavers etc.) it became this boards longest running competition (8/9/14 – 29/5/19). It has been revived under a meme cultured spin-off! Time traveller sneezes memes are all about butterfly effects on various things caused by a time traveller altering the past by means of a simple sneeze.


What’s new this time around?
This time or these times around, we will be flung into various timelines where our universes former teams, mergers, relocation proposals never existed or had its outcome altered slightly or severely! The list below is comprised of alternate timelines and the butterfly effect caused by our cheeky time traveller. Your job is to envision this outcome! Each comp will run for 1 week and the poll will run for 3 days. The winner picks the next team from the list below or can use their one-time self-imposed idea where they put forward an idea not listed below.

There are some routes you can go by if you're stuck:

• The chosen team has entered their designated competition in the current year (unless specified) along with the current teams OR
• You may design kits at any point in time unless strictly specified OR
• Accompany your kits with a backstory on how the team came to be to help better envision the outcome
• Use Google to search the history and stories behind what is being altered

Bare minimum for an entry is:

• A home kit with the front of the jumper showing
  (Back, shorts, socks are optional)
• OPTIONAL Away kit (Home with white shorts is acceptable)
• OPTIONAL 3rd kit
  • Clash kit
  • Heritage kit
  • Other kit
• OPTIONAL Club Logo (Highly Encouraged!)

Let’s see what has happened this time

Our Timeline: Norwood play in the SANFL
Altered Timeline: In 2024, talks of Norwood applying for the AFL began and in 2028 it became a reality​

Basic Rules (Read Carefully):

1. Kits and Logo must be in 1 picture (Makes polls easier to fit everything in)
2. The kits can consist of just a Jumper (Shorts and socks are encouraged to give a full identity effect)
3. Minimum 1 kit and there's no limit to how many kits you can include after that
   eg. Home and Away and/or Clash and/or Heritage and/or Others
   1. Designing a Home and away/clash kit is highly encouraged for that authentic feel and to develop that alternate universe experience
4. Attempt to stay close to the altered timeline
5. Directly copying current football team kits/logos are not allowed
6. Creating a logo is encouraged but you may take inspiration from and/or alter any existing sports logo to drive home your design.
7. Maximum 2 entries per person
8. Any questions at all, please ask!

Specific Category Rules:

League Transfers Rules:

1. The entering team may need to alter their kit and/or logo to not directly copy or closely bear a resemblance to any of the teams in that league
2. Attempt to create a slight variant of the entering club to better visualise that alternative timeline look, whether it’s the addition of a colour or 2, a redesign or a name change

Alternate timeline categories
Bold - Completed with poll results

Mergers

• Melbourne - St Kilda merger (1995)
• Tasmania - Fitzroy Merger
• Sydney - Fitzroy Merger
• Gold Coast Suns seek merger with Sharks to stay alive
• Fitzroy - Brisbane (Fitzroy Bears)
• Tasmania agree to merger with North Melbourne

Relocations

• Saints relocate to NZ
• Essendon relocate to NT to become Alice Springs
• Hawthorn relocate to Canberra
• Fitzroy relocate to Canberra
• Fitzroy relocate to Brisbane in the 80s (Prior to the Bears existing)
• South Melbourne relocate to Tasmania
• South Melbourne relocate to Canberra
• Fitzroy complete move to North Sydney - 1980
• Footscray relocate to Queensland - 1981

League transfers

• West Coast Eagles to the SANFL
• Brisbane Bears to the SANFL
• Fitzroy to the SANFL - 1981
• Footscray to the SANFL - 1981
• Adelaide Uni to the SANFL - 1991 (cannot use only black and white)
• Collingwood to the SANFL - 1997
• East Perth to the VFL - 1980
• Norwood to the AFL
• Launceston to the AFL
• Essendon to the WAFL

New Teams

• Port Adelaide crows join the AFL - 1991
• Papua New Guinea enter the AFL
• Mount Gambier join the SANFL
• Limestone Coast join the SANFL
• Sydney enter as a separate team (Bloods stay in Vic)
• Darwin join the AFL - 1991
• Public Service Football Club join the VFL
• Gold Coast fold, new North Queensland team take their place - 2030
• NZ enter 90's State of Origin
• Broome become the 2nd WA AFL team
• Gold Coast hijack Brisbane Bears VFL entry - 1986

Colour Corner

• West Coast Eagles VFL kits altered due to Williamstown sharing the same colours
• GWS keep their 'Team GWS' colours
• Port Adelaide retain their Magenta
• Adelaide's hurried concept
  (Adelaide board hastily attain clothes from local sport store and use the 5 colours to design their new AFL team)

Specials

• Hawthorn release Ochre jumper - 2000
• Skittle's sponsor Essendon and release special guernsey
• Heidelberg Warriors align with Collingwood for 1 season - 1996
• Melbourne remain as The Fuchsias
• Melbourne remain as The Invincible Whites
• Collingwood remain as Britannia

 

[Sam Hall]

Norwood to the AFL you say? My time to shine.

 

[troybe]

Norwood had history and success on its CV to say it was the superior choice for Team20. Evoking Norwood’s original guernsey of 1878, the Redlegs made a slight change to a Tripanel jumper with their monogram in Old Gold in a subtle nod to the state colours of SA. Changes to their uniform set meant Norwood were able to circumvent other clubs challenges to historic elements held dear to their club.

 

[cannavo]

After 2024 Gather Round, talks of Norwood being the 20th AFL team alongside Tasmania started up again and gained rapid traction. Positives included big South Australian support, partnerships with major local brands, high game attendances and experience hosting AFL games at Norwood Oval. The dream came to fruition as Norwood was announced as the 20th team alongside Tasmania to compete in the 2028 AFL season. Melbourne Demons raised the issue of brand recognition as Norwood's kits and colour scheme closely resembled their own. Norwood agreed to alter their kits heading into the AFL by reverting to their first ever guernsey with the red panel running down the middle (which coincidentally resembles the Demons first ever guernsey) with the addition of a gold stroke and the clubs monogram becoming the centrepiece to help differentiate between the two. The away/clash kit would retain their red base but swapping the half/half midway colour inversion for a more classic double yoke with the standard navy and new gold. Gold was chosen over yellow to not replicate the Adelaide Crows colour scheme and to honour their golden history made in the SANFL

 

[BigChippa52]

Im back!

with team 19 tassie joining the AFL 2028 talks about a team 20 started to happen with most club higher-ups and league officials not wanting 19 team comp, ideas were pushed to fold or merge a victorian club, no one wanted this so they looked at trying to bring in a 20th team at the same time Canberra was the best option but the deal with the giants won't end until 2032 and manuka needing major upgrades this was pushed aside for a later time, wa3 was considered but was scarped due to both teams struggling, this left Norwood was keen, the AFL went with this idea, with them making their home kit red as a deal with the demons and adding a stripe and white accents not changing the team completely but giving them a more identifiable design than a plain kit and to keep them different from the demons

 

[Mac Ropod]

 

[Sam Hall]

View attachment 1978459

After 2024 Gather Round, talks of Norwood being the 20th AFL team alongside Tasmania started up again and gained rapid traction. Positives included big South Australian support, partnerships with major local brands, high game attendances and experience hosting AFL games at Norwood Oval. The dream came to fruition as Norwood was announced as the 20th team alongside Tasmania to compete in the 2028 AFL season. Melbourne Demons raised the issue of brand recognition as Norwood's kits and colour scheme closely resembled their own. Norwood agreed to alter their kits heading into the AFL by reverting to their first ever guernsey with the red panel running down the middle (which coincidentally resembles the Demons first ever guernsey) with the addition of a gold stroke and the clubs monogram becoming the centrepiece to help differentiate between the two. The away/clash kit would retain their red base but swapping the half/half midway colour inversion for a more classic double yoke with the standard navy and new gold. Gold was chosen over yellow to not replicate the Adelaide Crows colour scheme and to honour their golden history made in the SANFL

This one is actually the work of a genius.

I’d been playing with the Norwood AFL idea for several weeks and experimented with several ideas. I decided not to go red and blue because I felt: 1. It was too easy and 2. If it happens, and there’s a small possibility it could, a third colour will have to happen.


I played with royal blue and red. The thought process being that Geelong and North can share blue and white so why can’t Norwood and Melbourne. Didn’t love it.


I tried Navy, white and red in the style of a Sydney Roosters guernsey. Didn’t love it.


I tried a Melbourne Victory style blue and white. Norwood has a huge Italian following and I was trying something to represent that with some red highlights. I really loved that but it was impractical.

I tried red, blue and black. I couldn’t find a single sporting team in the world that uses those three colours and therefore found zero inspiration to make the idea work.


Not once did I think to myself I’ll try gold. This guernsey is f**king awesome! As a Norwood fan and someone who really hopes we can miraculously obtain the 20th licence I would be absolutely stoked if we could rock this at the AFL level. Love it!

 

[1990crow]

View attachment 1978021Norwood to the AFL you say? My time to shine.

Guernsey on the right probably realistic.
Can't have colours too similar to Adelaide or Melbourne.

 

[Mick Pica]

A third colour to satisfy Melbourne

 

[Burnsy01]

Did this recently. Was a 90s instead of Adelaide Crows idea.

 

[ben_lion_lol]

I saw something interesting, there was a nintendo footy game from 1991, that had teams
adelaide darwin hawthorn richmond
brisbane essendon hobart st kilda
canberra fitzroy melbourne sydney
carlton footscray north melb
collingwood geelong perth eagles (wce)

1995 freo dockers joined
1997 fitzroy relocate to port adelaide lions, no connection with port adel magpies or fitzroy relocated to gold coast lions
2011 gold coast suns joins or they didnt join because gold coast lions already existed cos of fitzroy lions
2012 gws joins