The Merger

[Household Demon 34]

News coming out of AFL is that some stage this year they will hold serious talks about a merger/relocation.

Now I don't know the teams it involves but the usual names are being thrown up (us, north doggies)

Not sure what to think about this one

[Wormburner 674]

Hmmmm, trolling around for suckers are we Household?

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,410]

A merger can only happen if another team is introduced as the TV rights agreement requires an 18 team competition. Can't see that happening - but relocation of a team to Tasmania isn't beyond the realms of possibility.

[Bombay Airconditioning 5,889]

A merger can only happen if another team is introduced as the TV rights agreement requires an 18 team competition. Can't see that happening - but relocation of a team to Tasmania isn't beyond the realms of possibility.

Dont mention Tassie.....

[dees189227 10,776]

Can we merge with hawthorn again or even geelong. Then we'd be guaranteed of finals. There is enough money in the AFL pockets for all teams to survive. I think we are safe

[Crompton's the man 635]

Wouldn't Essendon be a better choice ?

They're going to be needing a coach and we've got one

[biggestred 4,311]

Essendon are going to need 30+ players too

[DemonFrog 1,347]

Wouldn't Essendon be a better choice ?

They're going to be needing a coach and we've got one

[Moonshadow 16,200]

Sauce for this 'news' House?

Toady, for once you pull up a decent footy related pic. Well done young man.

[rpfc 27,476]

News coming out of AFL is that some stage this year they will hold serious talks about a merger/relocation.

Now I don't know the teams it involves but the usual names are being thrown up (us, north doggies)

Not sure what to think about this one

When throwing grenades, tell us where it is coming from.

[mjt 640]

When throwing grenades, tell us where it is coming from.

Hes farting grenades.

[Bitter but optimistic 21,254]

Sauce for this 'news' House?

Toady, for once you pull up a decent footy related pic. Well done young man.

When throwing grenades, tell us where it is coming from.

Hes farting grenades.

Time to produce some facts 'house!

[DemonFrog 1,347]

Sauce for this 'news' House?

Toady, for once you pull up a decent footy related pic. Well done young man.

Its off season Moonie so footy related pics are optional.

But that one was for you LOL

[mdemonski2 403]

Wouldn't Essendon be a better choice ?

They're going to be needing a coach and we've got one

Let's merge with essendon. We can call the new team, the Melbourne Demons and use a red and blue strip.

Sounds only fair.

[Bitter but optimistic 21,254]

Its off season Moonie so footy related pics are optional.

But that one was for you LOL

But that one was for you LOL (Love on line?)

[Moonshadow 16,200]

But that one was for you LOL (Love on line?)

Stop taking threads off topic will you Bitty!!

[hardtack 10,127]

Maybe the AFL has come to the realisation that the GWS experiment is not working, so they are going to merge them with us, relocate the team to Canberra and call us the Melbourne Avenue Demons.

[Household Demon 34]

nah its legit

[Chook 14,502]

A merger between the Melbourne Demons and the Western Bulldogs in which both teams' lists are combined would make for a pretty good side. Of course the obvious name for such a team would be the Melbourne.......Demons.

The jumper would look a little like this:

[Flying Cloud 152]

Of course it is legit!

Two very different topics.

Relocation - is a possibility. Tasmania perhaps, North Queensland perhaps. Darwin isn't big enough, Sydney's 2nd team has a long way to go, and Brisbane and Gold Coast are, well.... No one of course would be stupid enough to suggest a Melbourne team relocate to SA or WA. NZ is a long term proposition. NZ. So it is Tasmania (North is the most likely candidate) or North Queensland (!?!?) as the only short/medium term options. Country Victoria at a pinch I suppose, but really....

Merger, is only a possibility if you get four teams down to two, or merge two teams to one, and introduce another team (The AFL is not going to go the TV networks with one team sitting out each week, that is lost revenue). So if you introduce another team, the question become where? (See previous paragraph).

If you merge 4 teams in Melbourne down to two you risk not only loosing most of the fans of the two subordinate teams in the two mergers, but a lot of fans of the dominate teams in the merger. You can't expand a competition by destroying support in the heartland.

The question that begs to asked here is Why? What is broken? What needs to be fixed?

[Flying Cloud 152]

Or possibly the merger being considered is the establishment of a new super team, the Essendon Sharks.

Edited January 19, 2014 by Flying Cloud

[hardtack 10,127]

nah its legit

If it's legit, then I'm sure you will have no problem in providing links to the source.

[Steamin Demon 370]

Nothing about it on any major website, just this one. I suspect a troll in our midst.

[Crompton's the man 635]

Nothing about it on any major website, just this one. I suspect a troll in our midst.

Don't tell me you actually went looking ?? !!!

(Surely the fact that it's only 70 more sleeps til April 1 alerted you ?)

[Karl Stefanovic 107]

nah its legit

Well then, I'm not doubting this...

Edited January 19, 2014 by Karl Stefanovic