


Get a new GM who has some management and business experience

Curtley
Years ago
Dont name them after other teams in aussie pro sports.


In this age of gen y parents giving kids atrociously spelled names I think it would have been way more "lit" to call the team the Feenyx

LC
Years ago
Well, no other team has green in the NBL.
There is the Melbourne Phoenix in netball...Wellington Phoenix in A-League soccer.
Can appreciate the Phoenix name as a resurrection of all the former teams to play in the NBL from the SE corridor, but I kind of thought something new would have been more apt.

Rhea
Years ago
They should be named after an iconic Australian animal, maybe the Numbats or the Possums.


Not from Melbourne. But the colour green doesn't seem very Melbourney

Jack Toft
Years ago
But the colour green doesn't seem very Melbourney
You have a lot of social justice warriors in Brunswick crying into their soy lattes

Hogwash
Years ago
Green is a good choice in that no other team currently has it.
Will stand out.

hoopie
Years ago
After the election, won't a lot of Melbourne be Green anyway? Is the NBL trying to get the Green voters to support them?

the Phoenix going to be a big money club or the next Illawarra hawks



Bol
Years ago
Cant believe they killed off the Tigers for this Sh*t

My daughter has a new netball in melbourne to support. Oh its.. a basketball
team! WTF!
What was the nbl thinking! And the colour. My son and I will keep wearing our
Mel Tigers singlet.

Boohoo, so what colours then. Black, red, blue, orange, Lakers purple/yellow are taken. Bbl seems to be doing well in terms of teams having wide variety of colours, even pink, and most don't align with traditional state colours.

Yinka Dare
Years ago
I'd say a grey would be good. It’s a colour you can wear any day without standing out too much. Maybe a Grey and a flufo yellow colour


Beantown
Years ago
I actually quite like the colours, name and logo. But I can understand how you might be disappointed if you were a Magic or Tigers fan and were hoping for a revival. Its Melbourne United that's f#cked it up really. They've taken the Tigers franchise, made it sound like an A-League club and stolen the dark colour of the old Magic teams. If I lived in Melbourne I'd get behind the Phoenix over United for sure!

Manu Fieldel
Years ago
I guess this team is the first to form from the NBL ashes pre-LK. Maybe the name is just a giant pisstake in that regard

Anonomous
Years ago
Yinka Dare You mean like a wolf with a safety vest?

AD
Years ago
"Not from Melbourne. But the colour green doesn't seem very Melbourney "
Melbourne is the only division to elect a Green MHR

AD
Years ago
"Green is a good choice in that no other team currently has it."
Yes, that's why the Refs are in Green


AD
Years ago
It's unfortunate that United effectively stole the dark monotone that was the signature of the Magic, and I do think they have missed an opportunity in not resurrecting the Magic brand.
That said, I understand the message they are conveying with "Phoenix".
Green's ok, although I don't think it meshes well with the name, but then few team colours really do. As others have said, no other team features Green in any way, so it does give then the opportunity to really own that colour, create their own "Green Army" etc.
Will be could to see cross-town rivalry return to Melbourne.
Will there be doomsday doubles for visiting teams?


Maybe SEM will recruit Wagstaff then that trip will be the flopsday double

Bol
Years ago
The reason why other teams dont have green is because its not a very nice colour. They are going to have to do extremely well to make their brand popular with green jerseys. Not that it cant be done.
My main concern is that theyv'e chosen Phoenix when we already have soccer and netball teams in australia. I dont care so much about the names of american teams that is irrelevant to the australian market i think

They should hire Ian Stacker to be an assistant coach

South east magic dragons. Don't care what colour actually quite like green.



koberulz
Years ago
Will there be doomsday doubles for visiting teams?How could there be?

Maybe its me
Years ago
Se melb giant magic dragons is it! Same colors font as Phoenix just new name.


Green cos that's what the idiots at Head Office are smokin.

Do you seriously think that starting a Topic about ideas has any merit? Shouldn't this new team be ahead of the pack and all the dweeb ideas here?

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