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Bring back Melbourne Tigers!

Keep digging DAZZ, but all you may find is a deeper grave!

The change to United was because LK does NOT own the brand name and refused to continue to inject huge loads of cash building a brand he does not own the rights to. Simple as that. If you don't believe me look up who owns the brand name Melbourne Tigers.

Oh god no, don't bring back the Tigers, I agree bring back the Dragons...

Tigers had some of the greatest teams in NBL history. Not from Melbourne myself but as a basketball fan I want to see the Tigers back in the league.
Just like a team from Brisbane should be the bullets, Melbourne should have the Tigers.

I urge all you Tigers fans to visit this site

http://wearenotmelbourneunited.com

The name United is so boring, and so are the uniforms

Yep change to the Tigers and bring back the Dragons - Along with Brian Goorjian!

Bring back the City of Sydney Astronauts

So now we are going to have five coaches going at it in an NBL game! - two on the sidelines and in the huddles and three out on the court, in black and white, or grey, or whatever.

The NBL referees co-ordinator is quoted as saying he is asking referees to "use their voices before using their whistles", which encourages them to coach - instruct players - during the game action and is yet another distraction from them doing their job, which is ensuring players play within the rules so we have a game of basketball instead of the other stuff so many teams and coaches seem intent on dishing up.

How I would love to see a concerted effort, over a month or two, at least, on having the referees using their whistles, instead of their voices, to keep players within the rules. I strongly suspect we would all be pleasantly surprised by the high-quality, exciting basketball we'd be getting at the end of such a focused effort.

That said, such an approach would need some effort to ensure the refs can recognise - and instinctively react to - what the rules say is the way things r should be, because that 'intuitive recognition' of what is 'right' has been at least impaired, and often seems to have been lost, by years [I use the term intentionally] of seeing so much illegal play that the illegal has become the 'norm' and so 'intuitively acceptable'.

Please, please, can we go back to calling the game so the game is played as it was intended, with a fair contest between players within the rules, which minimise but don't eliminate the benefits of strength, and a reasonable balance between offence and defence?

And before we start hearing from those who believe you can't have an exciting dunk without a player taking three or four steps, or post play without the defender bear-hugging the attacker, or the offensive man body-slamming the defender out of his or her legal position, you can still get 'exciting play' within the rules. We might even get more of it - and I strongly suspect we would.

Basically while United exists there wont ever be the Tigers. United own the name, they just arnt using it.

Tough Bickies! Support United or GTHO!

:)