Would you still support your club if they moved into the A-league

[mattwinter]

Seeing as the World Cup will mean the end for the AFL - what happens to our clubs? I for one would like to see my club turn into a football side and play in the A-league. Could get some NRL clubs on board as well. Imagine the a-league in 2025:

North Queensland (Cowboys merged with Fury)
Brisbane Lions (Merged with Roar)
Gold Coast United
Newcastle United
Central Coast Mariners
Manly Sea Eagles
Sydney FC
Sydney Swans
Sydney Rovers
Greater Western Sydney
Canterbury Bulldogs
Paramatta Eels
Penrith Panthers
Cronulla Sharks
St George Illawarra
Canberra United (merge with raiders)
Melbourne Victory
Sporting Melbourne
Essendon Bombers
Collingwood Magpies
Richmond Tigers
St Kilda Saints
Carlton Blues
Hawthorn Hawks
Geelong Cats
Footscray Bulldogs
Tasmania FC
Adelaide United
Adelaide Crows
Port Adelaide FC
West Coast Eagles
Perth Glory
Fremantle Dockers
Wellington Phoenix
Auckland Warriors (Renamed NZ Warriors)

36 teams - two divisions with 18 teams in each - 36 round season. Link in the VPL, NSWPL etc. so you can have promotion and relegation right through. Have an FFA Cup as well. Would be absolutely massive.

If the AFL was to end one day, would you still support your club in the A-league?

 

[wikipediaAFLproject]

ROFL ... do you have a life?

The AFL owns the rights to club names, logos, jumper designs etc.

 

[doodlefeatures]

Seeing as the World Cup will mean the end for the AFL - what happens to our clubs? I for one would like to see my club turn into a football side and play in the A-league. Could get some NRL clubs on board as well. Imagine the a-league in 2025:

North Queensland (Cowboys merged with Fury)
Brisbane Lions (Merged with Roar)
Gold Coast United
Newcastle United
Central Coast Mariners
Manly Sea Eagles
Sydney FC
Sydney Swans
Sydney Rovers
Greater Western Sydney
Canterbury Bulldogs
Paramatta Eels
Penrith Panthers
Cronulla Sharks
St George Illawarra
Canberra United (merge with raiders)
Melbourne Victory
Sporting Melbourne
Essendon Bombers
Collingwood Magpies
Richmond Tigers
St Kilda Saints
Carlton Blues
Hawthorn Hawks
Geelong Cats
Footscray Bulldogs
Tasmania FC
Adelaide United
Adelaide Crows
Port Adelaide FC
West Coast Eagles
Perth Glory
Fremantle Dockers
Wellington Phoenix
Auckland Warriors (Renamed NZ Warriors)

36 teams - two divisions with 18 teams in each - 36 round season. Link in the VPL, NSWPL etc. so you can have promotion and relegation right through. Have an FFA Cup as well. Would be absolutely massive.

If the AFL was to end one day, would you still support your club in the A-league?

My club is already a football side

 

[mattwinter]

ROFL ... do you have a life?

The AFL owns the rights to club names, logos, jumper designs etc.

But the AFL will be dead because they have to take a two month break.

Essendon's Jumper is basically a rip off of riverplate's anyway - class jersey:

 

[Ice-Wolf]

But the AFL will be dead because they have to take a two month break.

Essendon's Jumper is basically a rip off of riverplate's anyway - class jersey:

Ill think you'll find its the other way around. Most of the AFL clubs hail from the mid to late 1800's

 

[mustapha]

i will only support clubs that have lots of hot guys

Hi PrivateSkoolgirl. Why are you in detention? What a slap in the face.

 

[winty]

Wouldn't Port Adelaide just merge with the Adelaide Thunderbirds in the Netball? Both teams wear the same colours after all....

 

[mattwinter]

Ill think you'll find its the other way around. Most of the AFL clubs hail from the mid to late 1800's

Newcastle had the black and white stripes before collingwood - now they have pretty much the same jumper:

 

[doodlefeatures]

Newcastle had the black and white stripes before collingwood - now they have pretty much the same jumper:

Isn't there an Italian EPL team with the same black and white stripes?

 

[Ice-Wolf]

Newcastle had the black and white stripes before collingwood - now they have pretty much the same jumper:

Yes but you wrote about Essendon not Collingwood

 

[mattwinter]

Isn't there an Italian EPL team with the same black and white stripes?

Udinese:

Juventus:

Siena:

Which style would collingwood fans prefer?

 

[mattwinter]

Richmond's shirt is much like Dortmund's:

Sydney Swan's a bit like this Man United shirt:

Can't wait to see all these teams in the A-league.

 

[doodlefeatures]

Udinese:

Juventus:

Siena:

Which style would collingwood fans prefer?

haha - imagine the bitching and moaning about clash strips if we had three teams in the AFL with those three jerseys!

 

[Bouvet_Island]

Isn't there an Italian EPL team with the same black and white stripes?

 

[doodlefeatures]

?? Isn't the Italian EPL league one of the biggest and best in the world??

 

[mattwinter]

St Kilda:

North Melbourne:

 

[Ice-Wolf]

St Kilda:

North Melbourne:

St Kilda has been wearing Red White and Black Stripes since 1873

 

[mattwinter]

?? Isn't the Italian EPL league one of the biggest and best in the world??

You're getting 'EPL' confused with 'Football'

 

[doodlefeatures]

You're getting 'EPL' confused with 'Football'

hehe - not everyone realises that (obviously)

And we need a Hawks soccer kit, some of those ones you've posted look pretty good

 

[mattwinter]

hehe - not everyone realises that (obviously)

And we need a Hawks soccer kit, some of those ones you've posted look pretty good

Hawthorn's shirt must be pretty unique - can't think of any football clubs with a shirt like hawthorn's - although you could use Fenerbahce's, just with brown instead of black:

 

[doodlefeatures]

Hawthorn's shirt must be pretty unique - can't think of any football clubs with a shirt like hawthorn's - although you could use Fenerbahce's, just with brown instead of black:

Actually, we already have one - that rubbish pre-season top we wore a few years back

 

[wikipediaAFLproject]

Newcastle had the black and white stripes before collingwood - now they have pretty much the same jumper:

Really?
Both were formed 1892. Collingwood in Feb, Newcastle in Dec.

You state on BigFooty, and your blog that you are a football fan, yet in recent posts you have only tried to feed the debate of football vs soccer.

Are you still a football fan?

 

[mattwinter]

Are you still a football fan?

Definitely - but I would still love to see the AFL die. (The AFL admin, not the sport)

 

[wikipediaAFLproject]

Definitely - but I would still love to see the AFL die. (The AFL admin, not the sport)

Ahh so your disillusioned with the business route that the AFL is taking?

I think quite a few people are.

The fact remains that people tend to look at history through rose coloured glasses, and the AFL has had a fair bit of trouble in bringing the national league into the professional world.

Im not from a traditional football area, so the administration has been quite good to me.

 

[madmug]

But the AFL will be dead because they have to take a two month break.

Essendon's Jumper is basically a rip off of riverplate's anyway - class jersey:

River Plate est 1901, Essendon est 1872. Who ripped who??????