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Hi guys,

I am a 15 year old supporter who was at the game on Saturday night and I couldn't help but making my first post to the fans.

Ever since I can remember melbourne have been a dreadful and "irrelevant" club and that has made me question my love for the club very often.

The cheers that erupted through the MCG when Jack was subbed and the abuse that the players copped heading down the race were two events that night that nearly left me in tears.

The players are clearly psychologically stuffed at the moment and when they see there own fans turn on them is not helping there cause, it is digging the whole of anxiety and despair even deeper.

I am hurting as much as all of you are and cannot stand barracking for a hopeless club but I know that all of you love the MFC as much as I do and that means that we must continue support our players through this tough time because what player would want to play for a club that the fans do not even support? Better yet that the fans have completely turned against.

I don't know about any of you but I will be back at the MCG on saturday cheering on the team that I dearly love.

First and Forever

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Stare em in the eye, kid.

They can say what they'll say, but they'll never be able to call you a pea heart that doesn't support their team in the toughest of times.

I'd love to see how they'd cope under the same duress themselves.

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I think it's been established that the great volume of the mugs hanging over the race and jeering the boys off were not MFC supporters, rather low lifes wanting to get their faces on Footy Classified, 360, On The Couch etc.

That said Mitch, I for one will be there with you at all our home games this year! When we get back to the top, and we will - regardless of how long it takes - knowing that you stuck fat during this period will make it that much sweeter.

Mitch, your post and all the others are testament to why we are on here and keep getting up off the canvas and going to the footy - defeats are softened, grievances aired and victories are sweetened.

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Good on ya Mitch.

I reckon a lot of the vitriol aimed at the players as they came off this week wasn't from Melbourne fans but from people who don't really understand what it is about our game that makes it great. It's one thing to let players know you're dissapoontment and an entirely different thing to try and destroy the self belief and worth of another human being. Those people ought to be ashamed of themselves.

I also think opposition fans love to hate on Jack Watts simply because they don't know enough about the sport to know who our better players are. I've noticed it a lot against teams that have fair weather supporters that only go because they know they'll win.

Hang in there mate. In a couple of years time when Jesse Hogan is monstering The Bombers and kicking bags of goals, and Jack Viney wins the Brownlow I'll buy you a beer and we can laugh about how far we've come. I reckon you'll be just old enough to enjoy a cold one by then ;)

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"Hang in there mate. In a couple of years time when Jesse Hogan is monstering The Bombers and kicking bags of goals, and Jack Viney wins the Brownlow I'll buy you a beer and we can laugh about how far we've come. I reckon you'll be just old enough to enjoy a cold one by then ;)

Go the Dees!"

Bravo!

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When i was your age Mitch I saw melbourne play the hawks in the "merger match" which we lost but the merge never happened and we survived the year and a few years later we played a grand final. There is always hope mate

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Hi guys,

I am a 15 year old supporter who was at the game on Saturday night and I couldn't help but making my first post to the fans.

Ever since I can remember melbourne have been a dreadful and "irrelevant" club and that has made me question my love for the club very often.

The cheers that erupted through the MCG when Jack was subbed and the abuse that the players copped heading down the race were two events that night that nearly left me in tears.

The players are clearly psychologically stuffed at the moment and when they see there own fans turn on them is not helping there cause, it is digging the whole of anxiety and despair even deeper.

I am hurting as much as all of you are and cannot stand barracking for a hopeless club but I know that all of you love the MFC as much as I do and that means that we must continue support our players through this tough time because what player would want to play for a club that the fans do not even support? Better yet that the fans have completely turned against.

I don't know about any of you but I will be back at the MCG on saturday cheering on the team that I dearly love.

First and Forever

I don't see a squad of players willing to give their all for 4 quarters, nothing even close to that.

They should wear everything they cop from the supporters.

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I don't see a squad of players willing to give their all for 4 quarters, nothing even close to that.

They should wear everything they cop from the supporters.

Maybe they should, maybe they shouldn't but if you really care about the development of players like Jimmy Toumpas and Jack Viney I can tell you that getting abused by there "loyal" supporters in there first two games will not help there development, rather the opposite.

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I agree ! It hard to cop but its like kicking someone when there down.

I had a crack at some supporters for giving Watts the bronze cheers.

Every demon shouldn't boooooo there own ! All us landers need to help enforce this on game day.

Get angry and enforce it amongst our own

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Maybe they should, maybe they shouldn't but if you really care about the development of players like Jimmy Toumpas and Jack Viney I can tell you that getting abused by there "loyal" supporters in there first two games will not help there development, rather the opposite.

It's fairly safe to say Toumpas and Viney would have more than an inclination of how ordinary their team-mates are compared to the opposition.

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