I hear what you're saying and I've got no problem with people like Rahul Dravid. I doubt he loses much sleep over whether we win or lose but he's new to the game and he didn't previously support another team (or 2) and publicly declare his allegiance to them. Plus he's a perfect fit in terms of our efforts to market the club to the Indian population (which given our mascot etc. I always thought we should've looked at long before we did but better late than never). I'm sure there are better/more recent examples but same goes for when Collingwood signed up Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon.
All I'm really saying is the only thing I really knew about Brigitte Duclos was that she changed from Carlton to Western Bulldogs a few years ago and she was the subject of a bit of scorn for it (not that I'm assuming everyone's in my position). I guess I'm just wondering if it's a bit of an insult to our tens of thousands of loyal, rusted on supporters who've sat through 30 years of crap to just give her a free membership, jumper, cap and whatever else (ok so 'insult' is a bit dramatic...if I could think of a lesser word I'd use it). I do realise how huge this club could be and if we ever actually did anything on the field I know we'd get an army of people signing up as members and going to games who didn't necessarily sit through every minute of every game of the first 9 rounds of 2010 and that would be great. But at least most of them would probably have always been Richmond fans (nominally at least).
Then again I'm sure the club have a team of marketing people working out the pros and cons and if we did actually have some relative success in the near future hearing Brigitte Duclos bask in the success of "her" team (if she hadn't changed again) would be a very nice problem to have...
