Poll "What If" Wednesdays - Time Traveller Sneezes Edition: Week 71 - North Sydney Bears to the AFL

[cannavo]

In an alternate timeline, this happened...

Our Timeline: North Sydney Bears played in the NRL before merging with Manly then splitting 2 years later. They now have a partnership with the newly formed Perth Bears
Altered Timeline: They also submit an AFL team

Poll will run for 3 days
The winner picks the next team from the list below
Winner has 48 hours to choose after being tagged,
or one will be chosen at random

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Entry 1 EagleOz

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Entry 2 Mozzie_Squad

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Entry 3 _Damo_

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Entry 4 troybe

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Entry 5 rabbitoh21

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Entry 6 cannavo

The Bears moniker had to be changed since Brisbane were using it at the time, so North Sydney entered the AFL as the Mariners. A nod to their early nickname "The Shoremen"

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Entry 7 terrybull

"North Sydney Grizzlies"

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Final alternate timelines with categories
Bold - Completed with poll results
Italic - 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
  • Tiebreaker Poll
• Williamstown merge with Footscray – 1989
• Norwood / Port Adelaide AFL merger (1991)
• South Melbourne - Footscray merger
• South Melbourne - North Melbourne merger
• Carlton – North Melbourne Merger/hostile takeover
  • Tiebreaker Poll
• Fitzroy - Richmond Merger (East Melbourne Ligers)

Relocations

• Saints relocate to NZ
• Essendon relocate to NT to become Alice Springs
• Hawthorn relocate to Canberra
• Fitzroy relocate to Canberra
  • Tiebreaker Poll
• 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
  • Tiebreaker Poll
• Fitzroy relocate to South Africa - 1997
  • Tiebreaker Poll
• Richmond relocate to Hobart to become the Tasmanian Tigers

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
  • Tiebreaker Poll
• 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

New Teams

• 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
  • Tiebreaker Poll
• 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)
• All-Encompassing Vic Country team enter the VFL - 1960
• Red Bull given the 20th AFL licence.
• South West WA team enter AFL as The Pelicans

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)
• 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)
• Tasmania to wear one-off Cadbury sponsor jumper including purple

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 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)
• South Melbourne Hellas purchase South Melbourne Swans

Cross-Code Craze

• Newcastle Knights to the VFL - 1988
• Cronulla Sharks to the AFL - 1998
• South Sydney Rabbitohs to the AFL
• Canberra Raiders to the AFL
• North Sydney Bears to the AFL

 

[Rubber Arm]

What's up with the AI?

 

[Nickimus Rex]

What's up with the AI?

Yeah it honestly is a puzzling one. We have hit a point where something that is obviously AI turns us off, and unfortunately this is no different.

 

[chibimatty]

Very hard to pick the best out of them, but bloody hell Cannavo's is clever.

 

[cannavo]

Many thanks, hoping the general consensus will be a bit of an eye-opener for future entries

Let's grind out an early one, curious to see how everyone gets around Carlton's likeness

• Launceston to the AFL