Same with us.
Relocation and Mergers rumoured to be back in the news!!!
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Time will tell I guess.
Club's been around since 1869. We've had ups and downs, not going to deny it. But has there been a Victorian club that has not been in financial trouble at some point?
Richmond and Collingwood are the gold standard for clubs getting themselves out of the shitter financially. We've done it in a different way, but from being almost broke in the 90s and having the AFL trying to move us in the 00s, we've quietly and prudently got ourselves out of the mire. And that's a good thing for footy overall.
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Yes officially the third oldest Aussie Rules team in the country, and second oldest in the modern AFL after Melbourne.
If North could do it, any team can. North have always been innovative and in many ways the trail blazers of the League. Consider, the first team in the 70s to do a wholesale recruitment from interstate leagues which led to fiive straight Grand Final appearances and two flags. The first team to embrace night football into its regular home and away season program. The first team to embrace and regularly play Friday Night football. The first team to play interstate home games.
It took a while for the rest of the other clubs to catch on to these things, but now they are all regular features of our game.
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I would think the obvious and logical move for North Melbourne would be Darwin and the NT. The Northern Kangaroos. It just works.
I would also seriously consider moving the GWS to Canberra permanently. Not really sure its going to work in rugby league heartland of Western Sydney.
Which leaves one of St Kilda, The Dees or The Bulldogs to make a move across the straight to Tassie.
That leaves you with a truly Australian Football League. Every state and territory represented in a truly national competition.
Just my opinion.
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Collingwood would be good. Tasmania was a penal colony and the jail bars look relevant to their history. They could put Eddie and Bucks faces up on that wall at MONA where that Belgian artist had anus imprints up on the walls and get involved in some local culture. Similar attitude to indigenous culture too. Go all Catholic Church and hide our shameful deviants where no-one will notice. Most of Collingwood's growth is through close family interactions so really you couldn't find a better fit.
Collingwood would be good. Tasmania was a penal colony and the jail bars look relevant to their history. They could put Eddie and Bucks faces up on that wall at MONA where that Belgian artist had anus imprints up on the walls and get involved in some local culture. Similar attitude to indigenous culture too. Go all Catholic Church and hide our shameful deviants where no-one will notice. Most of Collingwood's growth is through close family interactions so really you couldn't find a better fit.
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You might find that there was another club founded before yours in 1864 who happen to still be playing in the modern AFL...
Melbourne
Geelong
Carlton
North Melbourne
Everyone else
Geelong
Carlton
North Melbourne
Everyone else
Dirty Bird
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1870 is before 1869?
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Geelong, Melbourne, Carlton, Tea Tree Gully, Williamstown are older
And they're just off the top of my head (well, Geelong, Melbourne and Tea Tree Gully were off the top of my head, Carlton and Williamstown I found off minimal research)
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Yep, two others ;-)
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Cressy was founded before North Melbourne.
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Okay I get it. But you cannot deny that they have been the great innovators of the competition and others have followed their lead 
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Melbourne having 9 teams in a faux national comp is a nonsense that in tough economic times is not sustainable.
A reduction to 16 teams is more viable financially and fixture wise. It would also improve quality across the comp.
Tasmania merits a team and WA probably has a case for a third team. Elimination of four Melbourne teams via relocation and amalgamation can be achieved without wrecking the Melbourne market.
Collingwood, Richmond, Melbourne (only for its name), Hawthorn are locks to remain four of the five remaining. North, Carlton and St Kilda would be the first out the door. Footscray and Essendon is a toss up.
A reduction to 16 teams is more viable financially and fixture wise. It would also improve quality across the comp.
Tasmania merits a team and WA probably has a case for a third team. Elimination of four Melbourne teams via relocation and amalgamation can be achieved without wrecking the Melbourne market.
Collingwood, Richmond, Melbourne (only for its name), Hawthorn are locks to remain four of the five remaining. North, Carlton and St Kilda would be the first out the door. Footscray and Essendon is a toss up.
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essendon is untouchable - financially and with support, they pretty much kept on chugging with even the asada saga
Grand Uncle Horace
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Aye probably safer than Footscray. Plus every comp needs a black hat villain.
Amazing to see a number of Qld clubs in that list.
Also the first, or one of, I'm not sure, to try and market themselves Nationally as a club anyone can follow, not just people from North Melbourne.
Doesn't sound like much, but in terms of the sport moving to being more professional, it was a bit of a shift.
I thought they just went Kangaroos rather than North Melbourne because that's when they were playing a few home games in Sydney and they started the two decades of flirting with/abandoning other markets.
There was a bit of a trend with teams changing their names, a few in the NRL (Northern Eagles, Sydney City Roosters, Perth Reds became Western Reds), even Footscray to the Western Bulldogs.
Half of them have ended up reverting back to the original names.
North have been innovative, but I dunno it just always seems like they pave the way and then someone else comes in and just owns it, it'd be frustrating for them.
How so?
Theres a massive darkhorse in terms of mergers/acquisitions/relocations.
The Brisbane Lions.
I am fully against the notion of a merger, but if GCS cannot obtain a viable footprint in the short term, it needs to be strategically evaluated, and Brisbane could potentially acquire them and make themselves the Queensland lions, playing two games a year at Metricon.
The AFL would be absolutely crazy to abandon a club in Melbourne, that will provide generational support for the game, for a club that is leaking funds and not setting themselves up for success.
Instead of the 200 million (Probably conservative) that the AFL has lost on the suns, they could have invested that into a boutique stadium in Melbourne which would be perfect for North, St.kilda, melbourne and the dogs to play at, instead of 40% filling marvel.
The Brisbane Lions.
I am fully against the notion of a merger, but if GCS cannot obtain a viable footprint in the short term, it needs to be strategically evaluated, and Brisbane could potentially acquire them and make themselves the Queensland lions, playing two games a year at Metricon.
The AFL would be absolutely crazy to abandon a club in Melbourne, that will provide generational support for the game, for a club that is leaking funds and not setting themselves up for success.
Instead of the 200 million (Probably conservative) that the AFL has lost on the suns, they could have invested that into a boutique stadium in Melbourne which would be perfect for North, St.kilda, melbourne and the dogs to play at, instead of 40% filling marvel.
