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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!
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
- 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: West Coast unveil the cult classic Ochre jumper
Altered Timeline: Hawthorn beat WCE to the punch with their own rendition
Our Timeline: West Coast unveil the cult classic Ochre jumper
Altered Timeline: Hawthorn beat WCE to the punch with their own rendition
THIS WEEKS CONSTRAINTS
We all know the 'Ochre' jumper, right?
Well, in this universe, the above jumper doesn't exist and Hawthorn have been chosen to create their own version of the infamous jumper. I'm not after a simple change of the Eagle to a Hawk, cast your mind back to the start of the millennium and try to imagine how Hawthorn would've created their own 'Ochre' jumper (keep in mind, knowing the above jumper doesn't exist)
You're designing a kit in 2000 for Hawthorn that includes this gradient in some way
Basically, create a Hawks cult classic worthy of supporters wanting it to come back 25 years on that includes the above gradient!
We all know the 'Ochre' jumper, right?
Well, in this universe, the above jumper doesn't exist and Hawthorn have been chosen to create their own version of the infamous jumper. I'm not after a simple change of the Eagle to a Hawk, cast your mind back to the start of the millennium and try to imagine how Hawthorn would've created their own 'Ochre' jumper (keep in mind, knowing the above jumper doesn't exist)
You're designing a kit in 2000 for Hawthorn that includes this gradient in some way
Basically, create a Hawks cult classic worthy of supporters wanting it to come back 25 years on that includes the above gradient!
Basic Rules (Read Carefully):
- Kits and Logo must be in 1 picture (Makes polls easier to fit everything in)
- The kits can consist of just a Jumper (Shorts and socks are encouraged to give a full identity effect)
- 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- Designing a Home and away/clash kit is highly encouraged for that authentic feel and to develop that alternate universe experience
- Attempt to stay close to the altered timeline
- Directly copying current football team kits/logos are not allowed
- Creating a logo is encouraged but you may take inspiration from and/or alter any existing sports logo to drive home your design.
- Maximum 2 entries per person
- Any questions at all, please ask!
Specials Rules:
- You are bound by the special conditions stated
- If no year is specified, create your kits/logo at any point in time
UPDATED Alternate timelines with categories
Bold - Completed with poll results
Italics - Newly added
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
- Port Melbourne granted VFL licensed but only if they merge with Fitzroy
- Williamstown merge with Footscray – 1989
- Norwood / Port Adelaide AFL merger (1991)
- South Melbourne - Footscray merger
- South Melbourne and North Melbourne merger
- 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
- Fitzroy relocate to Perth - 1981
- GWS relocate to Canberra
- Melbourne relocate to Mars
- Fitzroy relocate to South Africa - 1997
- 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
- Perth to the AFL (Merger of Perth, East Perth & West Perth)
- Glenelg to the AFL - 1997
- Geelong West to the VFL - 1976
- Swan Districts to the AFL - 1991
- Port Adelaide crows join the AFL - 1991
- Papua New Guinea enter the AFL
- Limestone Coast join the SANFL
- Mount Gambier 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
- Hobart to the AFL (Can't use Devils branding)
- Newcastle team to the AFL
- Southwest of WA to the AFL
- Tea Tree Gully & Modbury merge to make tenth SANFL team (2014)
- 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) - Fremantle keep Red & Green, remove Purple & White
- Williamstown join the VFL in 1925 - design a late '90s/early '00s clash/away guernsey for them (1995-2005)
- 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 Invincible Whites'
- Collingwood remain as 'Britannia'
- Carlton remain as 'The Cockatoos'
- Hawthorn remain as 'The Mayblooms'
- BigFooty X Gold Coast Suns (BigFooty becomes the majority stakeholder, and primary sponsor of Gold Coast, requesting a new jumper set with the deal)
- Newcastle Knights to the VFL - 1988
- Cronulla Sharks to the AFL - 1998
- South Sydney Rabbitohs to the AFL
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