Yep, this is correct. Sharks wouldn't have been a terrible name. Colour scheme pretty average though.
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I'm a little surprised that Sharks hasn't been used as a nickname for any of the interstate teams. It would have suited any of them, except GWS, and probably only the Eagles and Crows are better nicknames for their team.
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Everything about the Crows was great and most of it still is.
Like, from a branding position. They latched onto the state elements and never overtook any of those elements, they just used parts of them. Using the State of Origin jumper would've been so dumb and offensive, their strip is unique and bands in obvious South Australian colours, while the name is one of the smartest I've ever seen adopted. It's not just naming it after a local animal, hill, or industry – it uses a known nickname in a unique way. No other state really could've done it, but they adopted elements to be stately but their own entity.
Anything other than Adelaide Crows would've been a shame.
A second non-SANFL SA side would've been interesting, though. Unlike the other cities, there's no obvious point of differentiation is there?
Like, from a branding position. They latched onto the state elements and never overtook any of those elements, they just used parts of them. Using the State of Origin jumper would've been so dumb and offensive, their strip is unique and bands in obvious South Australian colours, while the name is one of the smartest I've ever seen adopted. It's not just naming it after a local animal, hill, or industry – it uses a known nickname in a unique way. No other state really could've done it, but they adopted elements to be stately but their own entity.
Anything other than Adelaide Crows would've been a shame.
A second non-SANFL SA side would've been interesting, though. Unlike the other cities, there's no obvious point of differentiation is there?
I would have liked Freo in Sharks. s**t, anything beats 'Dockers' for mine.
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Should've been Southport instead of the Suns then we would of had a Sharks team. Could always buy Cronulla and make then an AFL club and chuck them somewhere - NZ team maybe? Lol
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Dockers is an alright name if we actually called them dockers in WA.
Sharks would have been better, but I guess when Freo were formed, they couldn't use Sharks due to East Freo already having it, and not being directly linked to them, it wouldn't have worked.
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Same problem for Gold Coast, too.
we should stop making new teams and just use the ones already with an identity in some way, then bring them into the AFL.
Norwood could work.
could chuck a Tassie team that has an identity in Tassie into the league
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Problem is they hold huge baggage for any supporters of opposition teams in prior league.
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I like the name Sharks for Gold Coast or Freo. Actually, while "Dockers" can sound a bit awkward, it's actually quite clever, somehow they managed to have "wharfies" wrapped up in a name that reminds people of "the Fremantle Doctor."
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These are all ones from the documentary on the formation of Freo.
A few possible designs that were up for consideration by the board at the time:
Then a possible prototype or even the proposed jumper that was presented to the AFL for approval (back only, the front was the same as the first home jumper):
When the jumpers and club name was unveiled, the away jumper was going to worn with green shorts maybe:
I guess that explains their original guernsey
it was simply the best of a bad bunch
thank god for purple haze
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Or ever a merger of some description between 2 teams in the TSL
the two magie teams?
I wonder what Eddie would do...
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the two magie teams?
He would leave the AFL in disgust and join the VFL. After all the VFL, like his black and white stripes, is collingwood's tradition.
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the two magie teams?
Pleeeeeeeeeeease AFL oh please merge these 2 teams so Eddie will leave. Nobody wants him anymore. He is the reason we are so bad.
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I might have some vested interested in my suggestion
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Interesting design there. Power should've gone down that path.
Problem is that Port Adelaide fans would go to games with black and white pirate flags...Ed wouldn't like that.
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I posted a tweet back from a few months ago with a prototype Green/White/Blue jumper.
Nice to get an explanation for it though.
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That's a shocker
reminds me of some sort of council logo
reminds me of some sort of council logo
When I heard that a Freo side was going to join (first rumored in 1993), I immediately had this idea for a jumper.
I figured they would look to their WAFL counterparts for a moniker... since the Bulldogs were already taken, they would go with the Sharks.
BP would be their sponsor... probably picked it simply because BP was often a regular sponsor of Channel 7 telecasts back in those days.
"BP... On the Move"
Fremantle Sharks
I figured they would look to their WAFL counterparts for a moniker... since the Bulldogs were already taken, they would go with the Sharks.
BP would be their sponsor... probably picked it simply because BP was often a regular sponsor of Channel 7 telecasts back in those days.
"BP... On the Move"
Fremantle Sharks
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they went from bad to worse
