Competition "What If" Wednesdays - Time Traveller Sneezes Edition: Week 31 - Melbourne - St Kilda Merger - 1995

[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.

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 OR
• Try using AI text to conjure up a scenario and AI images to envision potential concepts OR
• 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

Our Timeline: Melbourne and Hawthorn were set to merge
Altered Timeline: Melbourne and St Kilda end up merging​

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:

Mergers Rules:

1. There are no restrictions. You can take any elements from the clubs involved in the merger and create whatever you please
2. Teams involved in a merger that do not exist yet, you can identify them in any way you like (eg. Tasmania can be whatever you like them to be when merging)

UPDATED Alternate timelines with categories
Bold - Completed with poll results
Italics - Newly added

Mergers

• Melbourne - St Kilda merger (1995)
• Tasmania - Fitzroy Merger
• Sydney - Fitzroy Merger
• Gold Coast Suns seek merger with Sharks to stay alive
• Fitzroy - Brisbane (Fitzroy Bears)
• Tasmania agree to merger with North Melbourne
• Port Melbourne granted VFL licensed but only if they merge with Fitzroy
• Williamstown merge with Footscray – 1989
• Norwood / Port Adelaide AFL merger (1991)
• South Melbourne - Footscray merger
• South Melbourne and North Melbourne merger

Relocations

• Saints relocate to NZ
• Essendon relocate to NT to become Alice Springs
• Hawthorn relocate to Canberra
• Fitzroy relocate to Canberra
• Fitzroy relocate 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
• Fitzroy relocate to Perth - 1981
• GWS relocate to Canberra
• Melbourne relocate to Mars
  • Tiebreaker Poll
• Fitzroy relocate to South Africa - 1997

League transfers

• West Coast Eagles to the SANFL
• Brisbane Bears to 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 to the AFL
• Launceston to the AFL
• Essendon to the WAFL
• Perth to the AFL (Merger of Perth, East Perth & West Perth)
• Glenelg to the AFL - 1997
• Geelong West to the VFL - 1976
• Swan Districts to the AFL - 1991

New Teams

• Port Adelaide crows join the AFL - 1991
• Papua New Guinea enter the AFL
• Limestone Coast join the SANFL
• Mount Gambier 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
  • Tiebreaker Poll
• Gold Coast hijack Brisbane Bears VFL entry - 1986
• Hobart to the AFL (Can't use Devils branding)
• Newcastle team to the AFL
• Southwest of WA to the AFL
• Tea Tree Gully & Modbury merge to make tenth SANFL team (2014)

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)
• Fremantle keep Red & Green, remove Purple & White
• Williamstown join the VFL in 1925 - design a late '90s/early '00s clash/away guernsey for them (1995-2005)

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 Invincible Whites'
• Collingwood remain as 'Britannia'
• Carlton remain as 'The Cockatoos'
• Hawthorn remain as 'The Mayblooms'
• BigFooty becomes the majority stakeholder, and primary sponsor of Gold Coast, requesting a new jumper set with the deal

New Category - Cross-Code Craze

• Newcastle Knights to the VFL - 1988
• Cronulla Sharks to the AFL - 1998
• South Sydney Rabbitohs to the AFL

 

[Sam Hall]

When Melbourne and St Kilda came together to merge it was decided by all power brokers involved that the club should keep some sort of religious nickname and appeal the Victorian Catholic community, thus the "Melbourne Bishops" were born. The Demons kept the "Melbourne Football Club" name with a merging of their red and blue to create the clubs new primary colour, "royal purple". A variation of the St Kilda logo, their rarely used yellow and Maddies match purple and their training facilities and base were the elements the Saints kept for the new club. The guernsey pays tribute to robes used by Catholic priests, purple robes in particular which are used during Lent.

 

[terrybull]

Gonna try this time making a jumper from AFL23

If I succeed then it’s gonna be Melbourne-St.Kilda Nephilims

What is a Nephalem?

A Nephalem is a angelic-demonic hybrid, born from the union of an angel and demon. The offspring has a mixture of an angel and demon's power and human soul.

I don’t have the talent to do a logo, but otherwise it would have looked something like these..

 

[terrybull]

Heaven and Hell merged, and with all fair mergers trying to keep fans happy both clubs agreed to keep their original names just as Woodville-West Torrens did.

The unholy union of an angel and a demon is a Nephalem.

Thus the Melbourne-St.Kilda Nephilims were born.

Home, away, clash, alternative

 

[1990crow]

St.Kilda Demons (Melbourne and St. Kilda Merger)

St.Kilda tripanel design maintained.
Navy blue and red colours adopted on the front and back with a white centre.
Black shorts, collar and sleeves to maintain connection to St.Kilda colours.
Demons socks to ensure Melbourne identity equalised against the St.Kilda guernsey design.

Using Demons theme song, "Team of the Red, White and Blue".

 

[KBLT]

 

[_Damo_]

 

[cannavo]

Can't lie, I was stumped for ideas and conjured multiple tri-panel with yoke designs and eventually settled on a historic compromise. Loving the routes everyone's going!


The design pays homage to both Melbourne's and St Kilda's early kits and shares colours from both teams. To decrease risk of alienating one sides supporters, they agreed to literally meet in the middle and rename their amalgamated team to the 'South Yarra Citizens' to encompass everyone between both cities. Red and white from the Flag of Melbourne and from both teams wearing red in their separate kits prior to merging and Navy from Melbourne and a link to Victoria's state colour. Both clubs prior to merging also were sponsored by Tooheys so they stayed on board and the jumper also includes the classic badge under the sponsor albeit it is now the Flag of Melbourne

 

[austinnn]

View attachment 2168387

This, but as the Saints not the Angels and the quasi-futura font used on St Kilda's crest on the back collar would rock

 

[mfcrox]

I'll try upload something later today for this one.

 

[rabbitoh21]

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With deference (and this isn't an entry since it wasn't my own idea), your guernseys gave me a thought to incorporate a (modified) version of the Flag of Melbourne's cross into the crusader

 

[mfcrox]

 

[Sam Hall]

Here we go... I'll probably do an away kit too.View attachment 2169053

That's the winner