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Something's Coming...
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 BigChippa52
"It was the year 1991, 3 years prior the Adelaide Sharks had entered the newly renamed AFL and had immediate success having a 3 peat, so Port Adelaide approached the SANFL and said they wanted to bring another side to the AFL, the SANFL was interested, the AFL was keen but both leagues didn't just want port adelaide after negotiations it was decided that Norwood and Port Adelaide would join forces to form a new a second AFL side with the port adelaide name and having the Norwood colours, A black navy was decided as the main color accompanied by red and yellow was added for state colors and the state name of crows was set, they had many iterations of hoops but in 2013 they reverted back to their original two hoops but adding the returning classic crow along with the port monogram, since joining the AFL port have won 4 premierships, both Norwood and ports sanfl teams have also stayed successful staying separate but with support from their AFL side"
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Entry 2 Haymo_of_thor
"After nearly 10 years of infighting, the VFL and SANFL finalise the first South Australian Licence in a newly renamed AFL, after many deliberations and discussions about an SANFL composite side joining the AFL an eleventh-hour push by the most successful top-level team in Australian football history, and 27-time premiers including a reigning three-peat, Port Adelaide Magpies bring a lucrative offer to the table. Victorian football bosses were put in a difficult position, but deciding to honour history and success as they believed Port Adelaide was a bigger club than an Adelaide composite team would ever be.
To join the AFL Port Adelaide needed to change their moniker, due to the successful and reigning premiers, Collingwood. the PA board agreed on the nickname the "Crows" due to the nickname given to all South Australians, in the hope of garnering more support from the wider SA football audience. The club was also not allowed to wear the current version of their famous "Wharf Pylons" Guernsey which they had won over 20 premierships wearing, in away games in Victoria, so another colour had to be found. Originally the crows would have worn a hooped Guernsey inspired by the state colours of Red, Blue, and Gold, but it was thought that this would end up increasing hatred for the club even more. Instead, they decided on a Grey version of the Wharf Pylon Guernsey.
Due to an increase in TV money in the AFL Port Adelaide was able to poach some of the best players in the SANFL, resulting in a top 6 finish in their first season and 3 AFL Premierships during the 1990s. Due to the wide hatred for the club from Norwood, Sturt, South Adelaide, and Glenelg fans, the SANFL continued without its most successful club until a second Adelaide team was admitted into the AFL in 1999."
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Entry 3 _Damo_
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Entry 4 cannavo
"It's 1990 and South Australia wants in on the recently rebranded national competition, the AFL. The SANFL had plans to submit a new franchise instead of having one of their clubs switch leagues. Years prior after sussing various options, they found that Port Adelaide were the stronger recipient than the originally planned team to encompass the state of SA. The SANFL hesitantly gave the green light for Port Adelaide to enter the AFL under a few conditions, one being their Magpie nickname would be changed to the Crows and to include the states colours alongside their traditional Black and White. Ports board got to designing a bold new jumper to represent their area and to get the state on board. The famous black diamond corner was chosen to keep the Port Adelaide link and 3 of the zigzags contained the SA state colours. As the seasons went on, the jumper went through a few slight changes."
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Entry 5 Damo
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Entry 6 SunsphereParker
"Port Adelaide made the move to the AFL in 1991 after the submission for a state-wide composite team fell though at a fractured SANFL house. The colour white and the nickname Magpies were both traded out, in part to avoid conflict with Collingwood branding but also in the hope of uniting support from all South Australians. To appease the Port fanbase, the prison bars identity was retained, and re-shaped into the wings of a crow in state colours red and gold. A little bit too uber-Deutsch? Well, the city was named after Queen Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen after all..."
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
