Competition "What If" Wednesdays - Time Traveller Sneezes Edition: Week 11 - Papua New Guinea enter 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: The AFL has no international teams competing
Altered Timeline: The AFL allow Papua New Guinea to compete in their league​

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:

New Teams Rule:

1. There are no restrictions. Well, the only thing I ask is there be no recolours of currently existing kits involving the team (where applicable)
   1. Variants are allowed

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

 

[Fizzler]

Very excited for this one, I know a PNG team in the AFL is just a tad bit impractical but I’ve been saying the league should try to make some sort of inroads into the country while the NRL doesn’t have a team there. They made a mistake not getting a team in Canberra before or not long after the Raiders joined the NRL. PNG is the best performing nation in the International Cup since it started so you’d think the player pool would have some decent quality to it. I’ll try and get a team in this week as well.

 

[Sam Hall]

The NRL makes their much anticipated decision on who to award their 18th license too. In a shocking turn of events heavy favourites Papua New Guinea and second favourites Perth are denied the 18th team. Astonishingly, the team is awarded to Adelaide and the Adelaide Rams are subsequently reborn. Furious at the decision the Federal Government desperately urge the AFL to place their 20th team in PNG to curb Chinese influence in the region, as which was the plan with the NRL team. With the promise that the Federal Government will fund 100% of the team the AFL oblige and controversally decide to award their 20th team to PNG over the much preffered options of Canberra, Norwood and a third Perth team. In a bid to market the club to the Australian audience a fan vote is held to decide on the name and the colours. The most popular option is the Papua New Guniea Bandcioots who will wear orange and blue.

 

[BigChippa52]

i have an old design burried some where ill find it and enter it in here

 

[BigChippa52]

too rough to enter will redo it sometime if i dont get it done just leave me and ill be back next week

 

[_Damo_]

 

[cannavo]

It's 2032 and the AFL is salivating at the expected further international expansion of their league. With recent success in St Kilda's relocation to New Zealand, PNG were extended an invitation to the AFL for a spot in their league. PNG are no stranger to a Sherrin as their footy history goes as far back as the 1920's and in the current century, an International cup to their name.
The Papua New Guinea Stingers were born and joined the competition in 2032. Sporting the traditional PNG flag colours and the stinger name as an homage to the winning team in 2008 whose moniker were the Mosquitos. And in addition, one of PNG's native flora is the "Pipturus argenteus" which is known as the "False Stinger"

 

[Haymo_of_thor]

After the NRL decided to neglect the Rugby heartland in Papua New Guinea, the AFL decided that the former Australian colony was the perfect place for the 20th AFL License. There was a twist, the team was not solely based in Port Moresby and would play 8 of its 11 home games in Darwin, Alice Springs, and the Kimberley, whilst also playing away games against St Kilda, the Gold Coast, and Melbourne in NT and FNQ stadiums. The team would also honour its role in the Second World War by playing Against Carlton on ANZAC day, in an alternating timeslot with the traditional Collingwood, Essendon matchup. The team would also take the nickname used by the former NT NEAFL team and the colours featured on both the Aboriginal and Papua New Guinea flags, and thus wearing the Tropics Thunder were born (the name was decided to be catchy for new fans of the sport). The Thunder wear two guernseys inspired by the Papua New Guinea Rugby League and Rugby Sevens teams, as they were thought to bring more pride to the team.