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The Unthinkable Hypothetical

daisycutter
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  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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  On 25/08/2014 at 04:07, old dee said:

Be careful sitting on the fence dc the splinters can be awful.

true od, but in this case i find it hard to get the balance between objectivity and subjectivity acceptable

as for splinters....pfffft.... what's a bit more pain to a dees supporter

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      On 25/08/2014 at 04:16, daisycutter said:

    true od, but in this case i find it hard to get the balance between objectivity and subjectivity acceptable

    as for splinters....pfffft.... what's a bit more pain to a dees supporter

    Got a point there oh and by the way the white jumper still has the numbers

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      On 25/08/2014 at 05:00, old dee said:

    Got a point there oh and by the way the white jumper still has the numbers

    i think we should more correctly refer to it as "the abomination"

    and....any numbers concerned with mfc victories are so infinitesimally small as to be considered lacking in any significance

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      On 25/08/2014 at 05:51, daisycutter said:

    i think we should more correctly refer to it as "the abomination"

    and....any numbers concerned with mfc victories are so infinitesimally small as to be considered lacking in any significance

    Versus the Red and blue milestone that has been around our neck for fifty years dc.

    We will win no more than 6 -7 games next year and all will be in the New MFC colours.

    As an order of priorities the "old one " should be dispensed with before we worry about JW IMO

    In fact I think he maybe responsible!

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      On 25/08/2014 at 06:44, daisycutter said:

    next you'll want to ditch the "demons" moniker for some gen-y gimmicky abstraction

    How does the Fuchsias sound?

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      On 25/08/2014 at 06:46, old dee said:

    How does the Fuchsias sound?

    disappointed in you od. you can do better than this.....maybe something stating with i given your love of technology :lol:

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      On 25/08/2014 at 06:50, daisycutter said:

    disappointed in you od. you can do better than this.....maybe something stating with i given your love of technology :lol:

    Some days are diamond some days are stone dc

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    I had an interesting phone call this morning.

    Melbourne United Team rang me to ask if I was going to pay my membership for this season.

    When I said No that I have never been a member before they said but you were a member last year.

    To which I answered that I was a member of the TIGERS NBL team but as that entity no longer existed I could no longer be a member.

    And I had no intention of joining a new team, the Tigers no longer existed so my interest in the NBL had been extinguished.

    After a little bit of light banter the person admitted this was a common story.

    It will be interesting to see how this re branding of the Tigers goes.

    I suspect that they will struggle I have been a member/ supporter for 30 years but I have little interest.

    It ain't the Tigers!

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    A Mut does not a Tiger make !! Did you tell them theyre barking mad if they thought youd re-sign ?

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      On 28/08/2014 at 05:45, beelzebub said:

    A Mut does not a Tiger make !! Did you tell them theyre barking mad if they thought youd re-sign ?

    No bb

    first I am not as clever as you the MUT reference and

    I wanted to keep it fairly light as it is not the person who had to rang's decision

    They just get the crappy job of ring a Tiger members like me.

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      On 28/08/2014 at 04:36, old dee said:

    I had an interesting phone call this morning.

    Melbourne United Team rang me to ask if I was going to pay my membership for this season.

    When I said No that I have never been a member before they said but you were a member last year.

    To which I answered that I was a member of the TIGERS NBL team but as that entity no longer existed I could no longer be a member.

    And I had no intention of joining a new team, the Tigers no longer existed so my interest in the NBL had been extinguished.

    After a little bit of light banter the person admitted this was a common story.

    It will be interesting to see how this re branding of the Tigers goes.

    I suspect that they will struggle I have been a member/ supporter for 30 years but I have little interest.

    It ain't the Tigers!

    A bit harsh imo. It's still the same club, same players, same people, and it's considerably different to what any potential change to MFC there would be. The Tigers' change was part of a broader problem for basketball and the NBL in this country, and tbh I think they were the only group prepared to make a hard decision. Tigers support and NBL support were dwindling. I was a Spectres, Giants, Titans, Magic fan and then turned off completely. The whole point is to "unite" everyone under the same banner, because having 2, 3, 4, 5 clubs in the city divided what is a pretty small support base interested in domestic professional leagues. The NBL and particularly the Tigers as one of the league's stalwarts need to make major changes.

    To be frank I think they expected people like yourself to drop off and people like myself to jump on board.

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      On 28/08/2014 at 06:35, praha said:

    A bit harsh imo. It's still the same club, same players, same people, and it's considerably different to what any potential change to MFC there would be. The Tigers' change was part of a broader problem for basketball and the NBL in this country, and tbh I think they were the only group prepared to make a hard decision. Tigers support and NBL support were dwindling. I was a Spectres, Giants, Titans, Magic fan and then turned off completely. The whole point is to "unite" everyone under the same banner, because having 2, 3, 4, 5 clubs in the city divided what is a pretty small support base interested in domestic professional leagues. The NBL and particularly the Tigers as one of the league's stalwarts need to make major changes.

    To be frank I think they expected people like yourself to drop off and people like myself to jump on board.

    Then the plan is working perfectly

    But one and one off not much of a gain IMO.

    The reason why I posted it is just to show what would happen to any side that changed significantly.

    If the MFC changed to the Tassie devils and where green and yellow it would be just that to me the Tassie Devils not The Melbourne Demons.

    My team has gone so have I.

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      On 25/08/2014 at 06:50, daisycutter said:

    disappointed in you od. you can do better than this.....maybe something stating with i given your love of technology :lol:

    i-Fuschias 2.0?

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      On 28/08/2014 at 07:00, Little Goffy said:

    i-Fuschias 2.0?

    Yes

    I think the i's have it

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