Competition "What If" Wednesdays - Time Traveller Sneezes Edition: Week 9 - West Coast Eagles VFL kits altered due to Williamstown sharing the same colours

[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

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Our Timeline: West Coast Eagles enter the VFL wearing Blue and Yellow
Altered Timeline: Much earlier, Williamstown Seagulls entered the VFL wearing their standard Blue with Yellow sash jumpers. Due to West Coast planning to wear the same colours as Williamstown, the VFL stepped in and WC had their kits altered to further differentiate from Williamstown's​

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:

Colour Corner Rule:

1. You must stick to the colours/alterations mentioned (eg. for Port Adelaide, you must include Magenta in any way you like, for Adelaide’s hurried kits a minimum of 3 of the 5 colours must be used)

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

Relocations

• 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

League transfers

• 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

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 AFL 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 Brittania

 

[Sam Hall]

"Well Marty really did it this time. In this universe upon his move from Celtic FC "Liverpool" was accidentally written as "Blackpool" on the transfer sheet of one Kenny Dalglish. Blackpool FC, known as "the Tangerines" are now the biggest club in England, having won six First Division titles in ten years. Because of their success and international appeal the colours of tangerine and white are chosen for the newly established "West Coast Eagles".

 

[Fizzler]

A question here, would one be allowed to enter a yellow and black design under the assumption that Williamstown are in the league and Richmond aren’t?

 

[Freshwater]

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"Well Marty really did it this time. In this universe upon his move from Celtic FC "Liverpool" was accidentally written as "Blackpool" on the transfer sheet of one Kenny Dalglish. Blackpool FC, known as "the Tangerines" are now the biggest club in England, having won six First Division titles in ten years. Because of their success and international appeal the colours of tangerine and white are chosen for the newly established "West Coast Eagles".

This should be GWS’s clash strip.

 

[BigChippa52]

the eagles started with a yellow base originally, but I could still see Williamstown having a sook

 

[BigChippa52]

It was the year 1986 and a new side the West Coast Eagles planned to enter the AFL with a Blue and Yellow color scheme but in this universe, AFL powerhouse Williamstown pushed the AFL to force the Eagles into changing their planned color scheme, the color green was suggested, matching closer to the Philly eagles or the Minnesota north stars, the initial yellow was kept but after research the blue was swapped for a shade of green called victory green, in these colours the eagles would win premierships in 1992, 1994, 2006 and 2018

 

[cannavo]

A question here, would one be allowed to enter a yellow and black design under the assumption that Williamstown are in the league and Richmond aren’t?

I probably should've included the backstory, This idea came from a string of domino effects in the list development thread

What if Port Melbourne and Williamstown were invited to the VFL instead of Carlton and St.Kilda? How would that changed the course of history?

1908 - University and Carlton join VFL.

1925 - Richmond, Footscray and Hawthorn(?) join VFL

1987 - West Coast colours?

And would North Melbourne dominate the VFA? And St.Kilda, would they be more successful in the VFA?

How long would Port Melbourne be the Boroughs before the name being outdated in the VFL/AFL comp?

In this case, Richmond and Williamstown are both in the VFL prior to WC joining. However, I'd argue that since the Bears entered the same year wearing Hawthorns colours, I'll allow a Black and Yellow jumper too
Begs the question, why didn't the VFL step in to change the Bears jumpers to differentiate from Hawthorns . Eh, it's an alternate timeline, go nuts!

 

[cannavo]

It's 1987 and WA are about to have their state put on the footy map, the West Coast Eagles were founded and had planned to wear a Blue and Yellow jumper to represent the vivid imagery of Western Australia's land, sky and ocean. However, Williamstown who were admitted into the VFL much earlier raised the issue of possible confusion between the two sharing the same colour schemes. The VFL stepped in and informed WC that they'd have to alter their jumper to help better differentiate between the two. With the unveiling day closing in, the WC board made the decision to change the blue to black in reference to the WA state colours.

 

[_Damo_]

 

[BigChippa52]

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this might be the winner here

 

[just_kick_it]

 

[Freight Train]

cannavo I’ll get something in for this one.

 

[Freight Train]

Make the Vics bitter.

 

[BigChippa52]

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Make the Vics bitter.

well this is the winner no way this is not winning

 

[_Damo_]

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Make the Vics bitter.

Like, how was this NOT THE ACTUAL JUMPER?!

 

[Freight Train]

Like, how was this NOT THE ACTUAL JUMPER?!

Beats me.

Could have been the original Orange Team, what a missed opportunity.

 

[Fizzler]

Like, how was this NOT THE ACTUAL JUMPER?!

I think there’s a theory that the two expansion sides from 1987 wore yellow based jumpers because Hawthorn were one of the dominant sides of the era. Now why one of those sides came into the league wearing exactly Hawthorn’s colours I’m not sure, but who knows. I don’t know how much weight there is to the theory, maybe Mero might know.

 

[TY24]

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Make the Vics bitter.

After a few years of absence from BF, coming here and seeing a Freight Train ochre design is like a warm hug from Dad

 

[Nickimus Rex]

After a few years of absence from BF, coming here and seeing a Freight Train ochre design is like a warm hug from Dad

After he said he was going out for milk three years ago

 

[peetoo]

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It was the year 1986 and a new side the West Coast Eagles planned to enter the AFL with a Blue and Yellow color scheme but in this universe, AFL powerhouse Williamstown pushed the AFL to force the Eagles into changing their planned color scheme, the color green was suggested, matching closer to the Philly eagles or the Minnesota north stars, the initial yellow was kept but after research the blue was swapped for a shade of green called victory green, in these colours the eagles would win premierships in 1992, 1994, 2006 and 2018

Hawthorn were blue and gold but had to change on joining VFA because if….Williamstown

 

[Heardy_101]

Hawthorn were blue and gold but had to change on joining VFA because if….Williamstown

Oh the irony