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The Unthinkable Hypothetical

161 members have voted

  1. 1. If the unthinkable happened what would be your preference

    • Merge with another vic club
      34
    • Merge with an interstate club
      2
    • Relocate interstate
      15
    • Just close up shop
      66
    • Wouldn't care
      15
    • Undecided
      12
  2. 2. If the club continued in some form (merged or relocated) would you

    • Be a member
      21
    • Be a supporter
      14
    • Support another AFL club
      9
    • Support no AFL club
      69
    • Don't know
      31

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i've been associated with 3 clubs that no longer exist (all disappeared)

i've been associated with 3 leagues that no longer exist (1 disappeared, 2 merged)

Then that makes you the problem dc - the supporter equivalent of an ebola carrier. Do Melbourne a favour and go support the filth!

 

Then that makes you the problem dc - the supporter equivalent of an ebola carrier. Do Melbourne a favour and go support the filth!

good I thought it was me....barracking for the Dees since 65.......strange coincidence !!! :unsure::rolleyes:

If Melbourne is going to shut up shop I hope they do it quick so so I can get a life before I'm too old to enjoy it.

 

good I thought it was me....barracking for the Dees since 65.......strange coincidence !!! :unsure::rolleyes:

nah, its the tweeds

good I thought it was me....barracking for the Dees since 65.......strange coincidence !!! :unsure::rolleyes:

I don't think you are necessarily exonerated BB. While dc holds the ebola comparison you may well be the equivalent of a pox of some sort.


Merge with Melbourne Storm to create Melbournes dominant sporting organisation

get Billy Slater and Cooper Cronk playing on ball

 

As I am a sucker for punishment a la a Melbourne supporter, I would pick the doggies or saints.

I like to suffer.

You are in the right spot then plenty more to come

I would send a letter to all the other melbourne clubs (except essendon) telling them I'm looking for a new club to support and asking them for their best sales pitch, why I should choose them and what they can can offer/do for me. I'm sure at least half of them would send me something.


I would still support and still be a member but only if it was a merger with a Melbourne team, only as a last option and only if it was us that basically "took over" - for example a merger with st kilda; home jumper would be ours with White added to the V, always kildas with the black replaced with navy. Home ground MCG training at upgraded junction oval (st kilda currently negotiating with VCA to renovate, and it's in st kilda itself) and club song is ours (cause when saints go marching in is boring as bat [censored]) with altered words - every heart beats true for the red white and blue for example... I'd cop that if I had too

Hypothetically that is...

My support for the sport in general has waned significantly over the last handful of years, but oddly enough I have become even more obsessed with our club over the same period. If we merged or were relocated I would still retain a diminished interest, but if we folded, that would be it for me with footy, and I would devote more of my energy towards football (soccer), which already gets it's fair share from me as it is.

But it won't happen, and I would be absolutely devastated if it did.

Its threads like this that slowly make the unthinkable possible...

Who knows? Maybe i was right about PJ, the AFL and their real direction for this club...

No Melbourne. No Demons No me.

The AFL or MCC would not get another cent out of me.

Edited by why you little


Anyone who thinks they wouldn't retain a passing interest in the club if we merged is fooling themselves. I think the attachment would gradually fade to nothing, but it would be there for a while.

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No Melbourne. No Demons No me.

The AFL or MCC would not get another cent out of me.

i like it when you talk tough wyl :wub:

i like it when you talk tough wyl :wub:

I hope the clubs gets tough.

I am telling the truth.

I would HATE a watered down merged thing. (It wouldn't be a club)

Nth Melbourne Demons. Keep our colours, and eventually, for brevity sake, drop the "Nth"

My support for the sport in general has waned significantly over the last handful of years, but oddly enough I have become even more obsessed with our club over the same period. If we merged or were relocated I would still retain a diminished interest, but if we folded, that would be it for me with footy, and I would devote more of my energy towards football (soccer), which already gets it's fair share from me as it is.

But it won't happen, and I would be absolutely devastated if it did.

I recognise that feeling as well FD; for me its the game that has lost its appeal which just coincides with out rebuild on rebuild....... on rebuild.I just don't like this game since about 2005.

when sports science took off, so did great footy, out the window.


Having supported this club since 1954, I would find it impossible to barrack for any other team.

Anyway, I suspect my demise will occur before the club's.

Adapt, survive, then prosper.

Hard road atm, we need to find the Rockliff's, Sloane's and Parker's of the draft.

Edited by KingDingAling

Adapt, survive, then prosper.

Hard road atm, we need to find the Rockliff's, Sloane's and Parker's of the draft.

If we don't have a very good list and a really good player development program with sustainable, on-field success (at or near top 8) at both AFL and Casey by the time Paul Roos 3 years is up I walk away from the Dees and AFL.

If we haven't reached this by end of 2016 we will just be fodder for other clubs to poach any good players we get and the subject of eternal ridicule. Our beloved Dees deserve better than to rot at the bottom of the ladder.

Better to put a dagger thru our hearts once and for all and shut us down.

 

there is no agenda here binman.....honestly

the elephant is in the room whether it is a phantom or not

Oh what rubbish DC.

The only elephant in any room is in people's heads.

So after making good strides this year as a club we are now going as far as being hypothetically 'unviable' after one terrible performance at the end of the year?

God help us.

If by 'good strides' you mean 'slightly below the average season results over the last seven miserable years', I agree.

Maybe the answer is a grand triple-merger with Fitzroy and University?

But seriously, we are in 'last legs' territory. Again. It seems like this club only ever finds its heroic instinct when that heroism is required to climb out of the grave. Anything greater than that and we return to our hobbit-holes.


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