I'd have thought it would be easier for clubs at the bottom to relocate because, aside from freo, they're young and have on more draft to choose from. What about other clubs that are older and striving for the top, or past the peak, when they fall?
This is what i said to Triple M, not very thought out, was angry, but still!
What an absolute disgrace of an idea, lacking knowledge of his own club and the history of the game. How can you move the club that invented the bloody sport in the first place? We are the Melbourne Football Club, we are the oldest sporting club in Australia and i'll be buggered to see us leave. Sure, we're in a hole, but still a lot better than in '03, and probably the same situation as we were in in '06, just not winning matches. The AFL have done us no favours in trying to build our revenue in our 150th year, not giving us a night game until round NINETEEN, of course against Geelong. In two years we'll have a brand new training facility and headquarters and i hope we'll be playing home matches against interstate sides at Casey Fields as a way to generate some money, a lot of money if you believe how much the Cats make from their home games.
Listening to some Hawthorn supporter last night calling Triple M saying it'd be a "smart business decision" to move the club, before revealing that he used to follow Fitzroy before they merged, clearly not even following his own advice, almost made me rip the radio out of the car and throw it out the window.
The Melbourne Football Club will survive, and will go stronger because of the process it must now endure. We have the highest Supporter-Member ratio in the AFL, so the support is there, we just need a unified board with a proper agenda to make money in the future.
We are the Melbourne Football Club, we will always be the MELBOURNE football club. And if the Tasmanian Hawks don't like it, they can sod off.