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No way. Ridiculous.    Monster Energy Drinks is the way to go.  We could be the Monster Demons. Have MotoCross riders and monster trucks flipping around the G before every match. That's

Sir Why You Little
Sir Why You Little

Have you read the ingredients on the side of a can of Red Bull? WADA would have a field day

Ethan Tremblay
Ethan Tremblay

I don't like energy drinks so I would prefer to be the Campbell's Chunky Soup Demons or if we're looking to expand into Europe perhaps the Dolce & Gabbana Demons.

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39 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

As to the name they could even become just the Red Bulls or the GWS Red Bulls. There is nothing invested in the name Giants. Same could be said for the Suns.

Melbourne were the fuschias so name changes (okay symbol changes) are far from unknown even with the older teams.

The names "Giants" and "Suns" are lazy generic handles, obviously designed by committee, that could describe any number of sporting teams around the world. Because "Giants" and "Suns" are just the kind of thing that US (the Mecca that all sporting administrators look up to and pay periodic homage to) teams might be called. But what do the people of the Gold Coast and western Sydney identify with? (If anything?)

(Gold Coast Beaches, anyone? "Go you bloody Beaches!!!")

However ....

History shows us that it's all meaningless anyway; the identity, the culture attaches itself to the name regardless of what the name is. Carlton Blues? What the hell is that? EFC Bombers? They're either some kind of warplane or some kind of mosquito. Relevance??? Utah Jazz? They were once the New Orleans Jazz ... makes some sense ... but now they belong to those free-wheeling jazz-loving Mormons. In the end it matters hardly at all.

The only thing that counts in the long run is success. Tell the 7 year old who watches the GWS Giants on TV winning week in and week out, winning flags, generally being winners, that their nickname is a lazy generic handle. You will lose the battle and the war.

The kid instinctively wants to watch the winners. He'll get on board with the GWS Generically Titled Football Club and not care a whit.

Basically club nicknames are all fairly silly and meaningless.

But when corporates get involved ... that's a different ball game, figuratively and literally.

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On 30 January 2017 at 8:17 PM, Matt Demon said:

Speaking of sponsors, there's a chance we'll be running out for round one without a sponsor on our back. That would be disappointing. 

The AFLW maybe ?

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