Letters to Jim Main #2

This one made it into the special souvenir premiership edition.

A Few Tips For The Vics (4/10/06)
Dear Jim,
I have enjoyed reading your fired up comments about Victorian teams having a whinge about their lack of recent success. They have no-one to blame but themselves for not looking into the future instead of on a year to year basis. It's as if they believe they have a God given right to be at the top without the effort. I therefore have a couple of suggestions for these archaic club. If they want a Victorian team to win the flag again, then they can demote themselves to the VFL, with no chance of an interstate win. But, as you said, who really cares except Victorians? If it's money they want, then maybe they could move to the Gold Coast, Western Sydney or Canberra. It will take a club with guts to make that call - just like the people who moved South Melbourne to Sydney. Such foresight! Do the Victorian administrators have what it takes?

Jim Main says: I am enormously proud of what the Swans have achieved after biting the bullet and moving to Sydney. The Kangaroos should certainly be looking elsewhere, but do they have the guts to do it? Anyway, if Victorian clubs demoted themselves to the VFL, what chances the Tassie Devils taking the flag?