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If I get time and maintain interest, this thread will be an alternate history national football league, where the expansion of the VFL in the 1980s failed, and the league went bust. The SANFL was able to capitalise on this failure to push their own claim at a elevating themselves to a national competition.
I'll be presenting guernseys for the teams that will compete in the hypothetical 2015 AFL season.
The SANFL is obviously a lot more self centred than the VFL/AFL as an organisation and as such, never rebranded themselves as a national competition. Every behind post in the country is painted red, and when teams are being listed, the forwards are up the top, and the defenders are at the bottom
The idea is basically to reimagine the current SANFL clubs as if they were fully professional clubs. Not having 1000 sponsors everywhere, and how I imagine they might have developed if the SANFL had become the national league. I'll also be adding some expansion clubs from outside the SANFL as I go along, both moved over from other leagues, and entirely new franchises.
In 2015, the SANFL has entered into a leaguewide partnership with Umbro to supply all teams kits and merchandise.
I'll start with an easy one, that doesn't really give anything away.
The Port Adelaide Football Club has continued as a powerhouse SANFL club. You'll notice no 1870 below the collar, because there has never been any identity crisis in this line of history. They wear their classic prison bar design when playing home games at a redeveloped Alberton Oval, capacity 42,000.
I'll be presenting guernseys for the teams that will compete in the hypothetical 2015 AFL season.
The SANFL is obviously a lot more self centred than the VFL/AFL as an organisation and as such, never rebranded themselves as a national competition. Every behind post in the country is painted red, and when teams are being listed, the forwards are up the top, and the defenders are at the bottom
The idea is basically to reimagine the current SANFL clubs as if they were fully professional clubs. Not having 1000 sponsors everywhere, and how I imagine they might have developed if the SANFL had become the national league. I'll also be adding some expansion clubs from outside the SANFL as I go along, both moved over from other leagues, and entirely new franchises.
In 2015, the SANFL has entered into a leaguewide partnership with Umbro to supply all teams kits and merchandise.
I'll start with an easy one, that doesn't really give anything away.
The Port Adelaide Football Club has continued as a powerhouse SANFL club. You'll notice no 1870 below the collar, because there has never been any identity crisis in this line of history. They wear their classic prison bar design when playing home games at a redeveloped Alberton Oval, capacity 42,000.