I dont personally care if it is the old Wests entity or if its an entirely new group, i just think the name is appropriate for Adelaide and there hasnt been a Magpies team in the comp in 17 years (at what point do Wests reasonably lose the right to exclusive use of the brand in shit comp?)
The only reason i suggest linking it to the old Wests team is for histories sake. But if that come with too much baggage, then f*ck it...
Fair enough, but the West Magpies history isn't relevant to Adelaide anyway so it'd only be an homage to the old Sydney club (and fans) anyway so why bother, they'd end up just being seen as sloppy seconds by the people of Adelaide and as a cheap imitation by the old Magpies fans in Sydney.
I always liked Murder (as in a murder of crows) for a teams name, could do some very interesting branding (and marketing) with a name like that.
Adelaide Murder, that'd make them the Adelaide Crows without being the Adelaide Crows lol.
I don't agree.
For example, for some bizarre reason Canberra seem to turn out to watch GWS in ok numbers even though GWS are not even vaguely from the town. Perth turns out to watch Rabbitohs games even though they are just visiting once or twice a year. Same with Hawthorn in Tasmania - I think they take 3 games. I can't really think of any examples where this approach to expansion hasn't worked and has turned out the way you say.
The key is to make it clear through promotion and community engagement that the club is local.
I think 12 home games would be way too many for one of these new towns. 8 would be heaps.
I concede that 5 games in Campbelltown may be too many. But they would play a tone of games in Sydney anyway just as away games so they use Campbelltown as their Sydney base. A couple of games there is not going to turn Adelaide off.
Those sorts of arrangements only work when the team in question is on top of the table and looks like they might win the whole competition or if the city/region that the games are going to has no hope of hosting their own professional sports team in the near future (e.g. Darwin and Tasmania).
And I can think of plenty of examples where these types of deals have failed- North Melbourne in Canberra, Western Bulldogs in Canberra, St Kilda in Wellington, CC Mariners in Canberra, Cronulla in Adelaide, Canterbury Bulldogs in Adelaide, etc.
In my experience these deals do more harm then good because once they fall apart (and they always fall apart eventually) it looks like the competition is abandoning the city to locals, and normally (especially in the case of the AFL in Canberra and NRL in Perth) they have been teasing a new local club for years to sell tickets, without any intention of delivering on that new club anytime in the near future, and that does plenty of damage in of it's self.
And this line is just moronically stupid-
The key is to make it clear through promotion and community engagement that the club is local.
It doesn't matter how much promotion or community engagement you do the GWS Giants will never be a local team to Canberra and the Rabbitohs will never be a local Perth team in the eyes of locals (apart from in the eyes of only the most extremely one eyed sycophantic fans, of which their are literally only a handful) unless they relocate to Canberra or Perth respectively and re-brand to include Canberra and Perth in their brands.
