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Published 11:57 1 Dec 2015 GMT
Updated 12:14 1 Dec 2015 GMT
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“We’ve had this name for a long time and other places can do what they like, really. We’ve been Isis for a long time. Newcomers come along and adopt our name. We’re not going to change. In the next six months they might not exist, with a bit of luck.”
“The league was trying to get us to change our name then and we really dug our heels in. We said, ‘Nah, we’re quite happy to wear this.’ ”Tony Ricciardi, a former deputy mayor of the Isis shire council, has publicly defended the region's right to keep their team's name. He told Guardian Australia that he had actually been applauded for his stance on the issue.
"In fact, I’ve had a lot of people congratulating me for taking the stance that I did. I knew that would be the case in that part of the world. The Isis has always been that, back to the 1870s.”It's hard to argue with that.
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