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LFG #16
In an alternate timeline, this happened....
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
Winner has 48 hours to choose or one will be chosen at random
Entry 1 cannavo
"The footy world was not ready when Collingwood made the ground-breaking decision to relocate to the SANFL in 1997. This unexpected move sent shockwaves through the football community, as one of Victoria's greatest clubs suddenly graced the fields of Adelaide.
Reasons behind the relocation ranged from financial considerations to accommodate an expanding fanbase that outgrew Victoria Parks capacity to a desire for new challenges. The move brought a unique flavour to the SANFL as it was on the path to become a truly national competition after WA and QLD recently entered a team into the competition.
The SANFL made it clear to Collingwood prior to their relocation that they cannot house 2 clubs with the same moniker. With that in mind, they opted to change their moniker from "Magpies" to "Force". Collingwood's undeniable influence and power on football was one of the reasons they chose a fitting moniker. Their traditional stripes were replaced with thunderbolts with a golden trim to honour the wraith on their old logo and to add something more to differentiate from Port Adelaide. The Magpie moniker lives on at their old home in the national reserves competition"
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Entry 2 BigChippa52
"The Year was 1990, and the Port Adelaide magpies were sneakily making their way into the AFL, the League was desperate for a SA team, SANFL wasn't gonna let that happen, after negotiations between the AFL and SANFL and a Deal was struck where a New Adelaide football club (the crows) along with the Port Adelaide magpies would make their way to the AFL in exchange for the Collingwood FC now rebranded as the woodsmen per the deal with SANFL and with bronze added to their kits, along with Collingwood, Fitzroy also went across with financial aid and incentives, to say the least Collingwood were Furious, they took that out on the fresh meat the SANFL had to offer winning 3 blow out grand finals in a row, but the biggest surprise was Fitzroy becoming a powerhouse winning 5 grand finals in a row, the SANFL and its fans were upset these vic clubs were winning,The league would become more even with the arrival of the WWT eagles and teams luring more players and becoming stronger, both Collingwood and Fitzroy still thrive in the SANFL alongside, WA, Tas, QLD, NSW, NT and the ACT sides competeing in the now ANFL today."
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Entry 3 Swooping_Magpie
"The SANFL did not allow the collingwood football club to use the magpies nickname given that the port adelaide magpies were still in the league, though they did allow them to use the magpie from their preseason jumper on their guernsey despite much controversy. collingwood struggled with a nickname and so temporarily decided on 'the woods', an old nickname of the club. they adopted a logo similar to that of the 70's style sanfl club logos despite the fact that many clubs weren't even using that design by 1997."
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Entry 4 troybe
"In 1996, President Eddie McGuire accepted an offer from the SANFL to compete in the league from next year. The only stipulation was to change the nickname and add a colour which McGuire ever the innovator did after consulting members. The new Swoopers added Teal to the suite of Black and White, which McGuire said it represented the Yarra River that passed by Victoria Park. Using the Big V design in Teal with a nod to the Black and White Stripes inset in the V.
After 5 years of intense negotiations the Big 3 (VFL, SANFL, WAFL) stalled in talks to form a national competition. What ended up happening was leagues started offering interstate clubs to come and play in their league. Collingwood was one of the first clubs to take up an offer to join the SANFL. In response, Norwood joined the VFL and St Mary’s from NTFL and East Fremantle joined the SANFL to make a 12 team league. The VFL lost Footscray to the QAFL, North Melbourne to WAFL but gained Southport and East Perth. The WAFL lost East Fremantle and East Perth but gained North Melbourne, Launceston and added Rockingham Rams and new Freo-based team Capo D’Orlando Wolves. Now all 3 leagues had 12 teams each in a view to be THE national league."
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Entry 5 Haymo_of_thor
"After the VFL's failed Sydney Seagulls expansion in 1982, and its inability to allow struggling clubs like St Kilda, South Melbourne, and Fitzroy to fold, some of the more financially capable clubs began to get agitated. The biggest club in Melbourne seeks to transfer from the VFL to South Australia's SANFL which already had expansion teams in Perth, Brisbane, and Rural SA, and play against sides that are deemed to be more competitive than their Victorian Counterparts. In 1995 the Collingwood board began talks with the SANFL and its clubs. Collingwood was allowed to enter the SANFL in 1996 if it agreed to terms decided by its current teams; if they changed their nickname, due to 36-time premiership side, the Port Adelaide Magpies keeping the name, all clubs but Port Adelaide (who had been blocked from wearing their traditional Wharf Pylons Guernsey, by Collingwood in an unsuccessful VFL bid in 1990) agreed that the vertical stripes were different enough to Port Adelaide's Wharf Pylons. The Collingwood board denied that they would ever wear anything other than the vertical stripes until the club's demise, just eight months later they won 19 straight VFL games and began talks again with the SANFL, this time to enter the league in 1997 as the Collingwood Zebras, the first team to play all home games in Victoria."
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Entry 6 Mac Ropod
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Entry 7 SunsphereParker
"Collingwood's uprooting sticks to the SANFL required a contractual change of both jumper and moniker. "Zebras" was the standout choice, allowing the club to retain its black and white cultural heritage. It’s originality as a nickname and brand in major professional sport was used early on as a marketing ploy, to reflect the pioneering endeavor of the club’s interstate move. Fresh, bold, innovative. A change in jumper design, as well as an additional tertiary colour, were required by the league as a further protective point of differentiation from the identity of Port Adelaide. The traditional black and white stripes of the VFL were reshaped into splayed arches bending up and into a white yoke and back, said to evoke the front facing snout of a charging zebra. Originally featuring a thick stroke of vibrant 90s aqua, this new tertiary colour was retired from the arches, with Port and the league’s blessing, upon Collingwood's 20th anniversary competing in South Australia, a sign of good will, thanks and faith. The colour lives on through the clash jumper, a vestigial remnant and proud testament to the club's recent history."
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Alternate timeline categories
Bold - Completed with poll results
Mergers
- Melbourne and St Kilda merged - 1995
- Tasmania - Fitzroy Merger
- Sydney - Fitzroy Merger
- Gold Coast Suns seek merger with Sharks to stay alive
- Fitzroy merge with Brisbane to become the Fitzroy Bears
- Tasmania agree to merger with North Melbourne
- Saints relocate to NZ
- Essendon relocates to NT to become Alice Springs
- Hawthorn relocates to Canberra
- Fitzroy relocates to Canberra
- Fitzroy move 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
- West Coast Eagles enter the SANFL
- Brisbane Bears enter 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 accepted as the 2nd SA team in the AFL
- Launceston apply for the AFL
- Essendon apply for the WAFL
- 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 AFL entry - 1986
- 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)
- 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 Brittania
