A revisit to Nate Tomlinson’s words

We Are Not United looks back to those days when the announcement was that Melbourne United was coming and the Tigers were going, Nate Tomlinson had a lot to say on Twitter about what happened and Tigers fans were really upset by his words, his first act was to say that people who didn’t go to ‘Tiger’s’ games consistently couldn’t talk about how upset they were and it went on to say things that they were still Tigers players and much more, thankfully for us Nate didn’t delete his words like most sportsmen and sportswomen do when they say something controversial and so all 8 tweets are below for readers to see for themselves in their unedited glory.

It should also be noted that Nate is wearing #6 this year which is the retired number of Tigers great Warrick Giddey, so much for Nate claiming they are ‘still Tigers players’ when he is wearing the number that is supposed to be retired and retired is sports way of saying not to be used again.

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United fail on Marquee introduction

Melbourne United introduced Daniel Kickert to the fans in a short video presentation but the spell checking department overlooked a very important detail and that is Kickert played for the Nunawading Spectres as a junior and not the Nunawading Specters, since Melbourne United claim to represent the Nunawading Spectres and other Victorian clubs that played in the NBL one would expect the club to make sure they got the spelling of the team right.

This error adds to the ever growing list of errors made by Melbourne United including failing to check the wording on their history page with one example being the following;

“But when the Magic left the floor after Game 2 of the 1998 grand final – beaten by the Adelaide 36ers – it was for the final team, swept up in an off-season merger that created the Victoria Titans.”

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Fans parody Melbourne United logo

Since the announcement of Melbourne United on May 20, people around the world have been cracking Soccer (Football) jokes from Melbourne United being the Kings of Handball to expressing disbelief that Basketball players have joined a Soccer club, now fans have enjoy a parody of Melbourne United’s logo where a Soccer Ball has been put in place of a Basketball making the Melbourne United logo finally a proper logo, fans can get the Melbourne United Soccer/Basketball Club logo here.

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Tigers retired jerseys not honoured by United

Melbourne United has decided to make available the jersey numbers that were retired by the Melbourne Tigers.

Numbers such as Andrew Gaze’s #10 and Lanard Copeland’s #21 and many other Tigers legends are now able to be used by Melbourne United players.

In the case of Warrick Giddey’s retired #6 and Lanard Copeland’s #21 they have been taken by Nate Tomlinson and Greg Page (a development player).

This discovery will further anger Tigers fans who believe that retired jersey numbers should be honoured and untouched by Melbourne United despite their claims the two sides are different.

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