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Been a while since double digit entries!
[Time] ago we asked
Poll will run for 3 days
Winner picks next team from this list and gets their name on the honour roll
As for teams with more than 1 nickname next to them, The team will still be used until all nicknames have been done
eg. If you choose Gold Coast, it must be followed by one of the available nicknames.
List of teams
Now with links to past polls!
Former
- University
- Brisbane Bears
- Fitzroy Lions
- Melbourne Hawks (Melbourne Demons and Hawthorn Hawks merger)
- Melbourne Lions (Melbourne Demons and Fitzroy Lions merger)
- Fitzroy Bulldogs (Fitzroy Lions and Footscray Bulldogs merger)
- Norwood-Sturt merger for AFL spot
- North Melbourne relocation to the Gold Coast
- North Fitzroy Kangaroos (North Melbourne Kangaroos and Fitzroy Lions merger)
- Glenelg - South Adelaide merger for AFL spot
- Sydney - Brisbane Bears Merger (1992)
- The Cartel (Players from Central Dist, North Adel, West Adel, Woodville-West Torrens picked from their respective sides to play AFL Football) - More Info
- Sydney Lions (Sydney Swans and Fitzroy Lions merger)
- Fremantle Sharks (East Fremantle and South Fremantle merger)
- Carlton - St Kilda merger
- Sydney Celtics
- Tasmanian Team
- ACT Team
- Southport Sharks to the AFL - 1996
- Melbourne team relocation to Los Angeles: More Info
- Fremantle
- Hammers
- Union
- Courage
- Dolphins
- Stokers
- Mariners
- Greater Western Sydney
- Wolves
- Pride
- Stallions
- Adelaide
- Port Adelaide
- Raiders
- Pirates
- Mariners
- Sharks
- Gold Coast
- Stingrays
- Marlins
- Lifesavers
- Ironmen
- Brisbane
- Rockets
- Breakers
NEW ADDITIONS
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- Brunswick - 1925
- City FC (North Melbourne - West Melbourne Merger) - 1908
- North Melbourne/Essendon - 1921
- Coburg - 1924
- Brighton Penguins -1925
- Port Melbourne - 1925
- Prahran - 1925
- Public Service FC - 1925
- Trans Australian Airlines - played under 19s VFL in the 1940s, aka North Essendon
Entry 1 fancyscum
"At the end of the 1996 season, Fitzroy were able to strike a deal with the AFL and Tasmanian Government to move the team to Hobart with a 15-year lifeline rather than have the club merge with another identity. The move meant that the FFC monogram was ditched for the Lion (as it appears on the Tasmanian flag) as well as taking on the iconic Tasmanian green to complete the state's colour set. They were also able to secure big new sponsorship deals that helped ease the cost of the move. Here are the Home and away jumpers from the 1997 season"
"Unfortunately for the Lions, the hype surrounding the team died down and as the 15 year deadline approached, they were again on the chopping block with the AFL looking to expand into the northern states. This is where Red Bull sports came in and offered the AFL a big money deal, which included a new boutique stadium in Melbourne's North, in exchange for ownership of the club. Fitzroy were brought back to Melbourne for the 2012 season (simply under the name Lions Football Club) and the blue was brought back into the home guernsey despite still playing a few games in Hobart to keep those members engaged. This new international strategy for the Lions has largely been embraced by the Fitzroy faithful who are just happy to see the Lions back in town for good. These are the Home and Clash guernseys for the 2018 season"
Entry 2 cannavo
"With the popularity of the 1996 preseason kit, heading into the new millennium the club decided to include those famous side panels in their away kits (albeit flipped) and on the home under the yoke. Also swapping the monogram for the Lion in their future away kits."
Entry 3 _Damo_
"Fitzroy's miraculous survival 1996 saw a renaissance for the club and it's fans, who grew in both numbers and passion, as a direct response to the apathetic attitudes of the previous generations. The die-hards knew they been handed a second chance to grow the club, the casual supporters were mobilized by the fear and despare of 1996, and new fans from all over Melbourne found a club they could help grow and save from extinction.
This fan mobilisation was also a direct response to the Oakley administration, who many Melbournians saw now as an evil dictatorship who needed to be stood against. To wear a Fitzroy shirt was now an act of rebellion.
The club administrators under stood and embraced this attitude, centering all of their marketing and creative arms around the idea of Rebellion. Fitzroy had, for the first time in generations, become cool.
As the suburb of Fitzroy grew into a sheek, bohemian hotbed of hipsters and artists, the club continued to embrace the attitudes of the fan base. Now, they not only began appealing to the punks and rebels, but the trendy's and hipster culture. One simple move the club made to continue to appeal to this demographic was to move back to their maroon guernsey. The fans, who were now scattered all over the cafe's and graffiti's lane ways of Melbourne, loved the 'ugly brown' kit, and used it to further stand out from the crowd. "
Entry 4 asio
"20 years on and not much has changed for Fitzroy, with the exception of the now-yellow cuffs and collar, and a variant of the 1995-96 pre-season top as their away/clash."
Entry 5 just_kick_it
Entry 6 Grandsun
"At the end of 1996, the AFL agreed to let Fitzroy have one season away from the league to sort them self out. The AFL made the requirement that the Lions were required to find two major sponsors, 15,000 members, A 'Home' ground, and a new board.
The football world rallied behind the Lions and the club signed up 25,000 members to join the comeback in 1997. Fitzroy turned to the man that saved the Bulldogs, Mr Peter Gordon. Peter's appointment came with announcements of three major sponsors- Qantas, Cleanaway, and Toyota. The club reterned with the signing of goal kicking machine, Tony Lockett and Adelaide rookie, Simon Goodwin. Malcom Blight was perswaded to leave Adelaide to coach the new outfit and after a strong start to the year, the Lions missed the finals by half a game. In 2000, the Lions returned to the finals and by 2005, the Lions returned to the Grand Final.
The Lions won their first Grand Final since the return in 2009 and in doing so, secured Optus, Adidas, Bank of Melbourne and P&O Cruses as sponsors."
Entry 7 Andonis1997
"Fitzroy's design hadn't changed all that much since their near-death experience. But, their strategies in marketing definitely changed to go along with the other teams. In the 2009, they followed the likes of Carlton and decided to use the monogram more prominently, removing the Lion off of the heart and claim a main, dominant colour on their home guernseys, which made them swap the blue shorts for red, and keep with the higher yoke of 1996 (as there were not any other teams in Queensland who were using red.............)
Their logo, which changed in 2004 (to stop using the old AFL shield logos), not quite as alluring as the swap to red shorts, but the fans liked the fierce nature of the eyes.
The Lions were one of the last teams to have a clash guernsey as for some reason, fixturing allowed the Lions to play in Melbourne against Sydney for a long, long time... So, in a bold move, due to Fitzroy's already bright home guernsey, they decided to make the most of it and use black and white! With a subtle throwback to 1944's design (because, glory days, amirite?), blue shoulders and black shorts, the Lions were just still so happy to be in the AFL in 2018."
Entry 9 Bwillow11
Entry 10 Mac Ropod
Entry 11 The_torpedo
"In 1996, right when it seemed that the Roys-Bears merger was on, it all came apart at the proverbial last minute after several clubs looking to kill Fitzroy convinced a majority (just) to vote against the merger. In short, it looked like all hope was lost and the club would fold.................until an unnamed billionaire (speculated to be anyone from Alan Bond to Kerry Packer to even Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen) came in at the last minute and managed to save the Roys, securing sponsorship from car giant Honda and pulling off something of a coup by stealing Robert Walls away from the Tigers, who were later named as one of the clubs who tried to kill Fitzroy on a 3-year contract to 'rebuild the 'Roys'. The results started to come, with 4 wins in 1997, doubling to 8 in 1998 and finally in 1999 the Lions returned to the finals, winning 11 games and going toe-to-toe with the league-leading Bombers before fading away in the last to lose 18.12.120 to 12.13.85.
After the end of the 1999 campaign, the Lions revealed their new home jumper, replacing the FFC monogram with the Lion that adorned the 1995-1996 preseason guernsey. They also pulled off a massive coup, signing North Melbourne assistant Mark 'Bomber' Thompson to be senior coach. This was soon followed by a somehow even bigger one, with Collingwood (and former Bear) onballer Nathan Buckley, frustrated at the shit performance of the Magpies, departed to the up-and-coming Roys. They also snatched under the noses of the Bears a sponsorship deal with telecommunications company AAPT, creating huge animosity between the Bears and Lions. Under the leadership of Bomber and Bucks, the Lions continued to rise up the ladder, culminating in 2004 when they finished 3rd, kicked the Bears out in the prelim (who were going for their 4th straight flag) before rolling Port Adelaide in the 2004 Grand Final 14.12.96 to 14.8.92, 60 years after the last Roys premiership.
Today, the Roys, with the 2007 and 2008 flags also claimed (and despite a brief drop down the ladder post-Bomber in 2010 and '11) remain a consistent threat in the AFL, wearing the timeless red, blue and gold jumper, and the clash introduced in 2008, with the blue yoke and the classic FFC monogram on a white background, with sponsorship from Honda, AAPT and tech giant Samsung, coming on board in 2011. They have rivalries with Collingwood, who they play for the Buckley Cup, and the Brisbane Bears, who they contest the Lynch cup with (named after Alistair Lynch, who played for both teams)."
