hear hear! Good old-fashioned footy weather! I'll see all you guys there in your huge waterproof jackets and gumboots and umbrellas and garbage bags with holes cut in them for the arms..

I remember seeing us get done by 80 odd points back at Waverley in conditions similar to what's predicted for today, should be fun!

16,301 including the fury

Dees by 19 points in front of 19 thousand.

Dees by 26 points in front of 21,450

16041

Yep, everyone needs to drink a big glass of HARDEN THE F' UP and get themselves to the game.

Rug up, and move to an undercover spot if you don't want to get wet. Nobody has ever died from a bit of rain or wind, and given that we never get to play under lights these days, this is as good as.

Besides, as if you have something better to do on a Sunday afternoon anyway!

Well i'm just inside from being out in it, sitting by the fire with a roast and big glass of red. Not sure if that's the glass you had in mind?? But i'm about to revise my crowd estimate. Down by a factor of 10. 3,400! (only joking)

My other prediction still stands, and suitably fortified i'll soon be getting the trench coat out and heading out... to the 'G!

GO DEES!!!

Well i'm just inside from being out in it, sitting by the fire with a roast and big glass of red. Not sure if that's the glass you had in mind?? But i'm about to revise my crowd estimate. Down by a factor of 10. 3,400! (only joking)

My other prediction still stands, and suitably fortified i'll soon be getting the trench coat out and heading out... to the 'G!

GO DEES!!!

Im changin mine gana go with 19 983

stuff all, we won't break 20k in my opinion. If everywhere had showers like us out east earlier, it would have swayed a few thousand 'maybes' into staying home. 19k sounds about right, the crows usually have an okay showing over here.

If they can cope with SNOW, they should be able to cope with a bit of wind :D

I've got my snow coat (from the one time I went skiing, and almost died in a snow blizzard... because I'm such a hardcore Melbourne supporter ), and a beanie on and I just walked outside and it really isn't that bad.

In fact, the sun just peaked out from behind the clouds, and there's a sliver of blue skies.

beanie, that could be a good idea... Sunny at auburn station right now, clouds don't look terrible from here either. Oh dear, silver alternate strip just got on

There go Rusty's nuts

14,000 ish

14,000 ish

14,129 <_< !!!

Yep, 14k, bloody awful crowd.

[censored] poor effort from the Melbourne "faithful" today. Parked my car just near the Tan and walking over I saw maybe 10 MFC fans wandering over I knew it was going to be poor. But to see so few people at the game was nothing short of disheartening. I had two mates who pulled out and gave them a spray for being soft ons.

Was always going to be a shocking crowd.

Twilight games...........what's the point?

And the weather was crap.

I went to the game, but if I had young kids, there is no way in hell I would take them out to the MCG on Sunday night in the freezing cold, and I don't blame families for not coming out to see the game.

Sure, we have to be passionate, and get along and support the club, but I can certainly understand people not turning up to the game tonight.

I went to the game, but if I had young kids, there is no way in hell I would take them out to the MCG on Sunday night in the freezing cold, and I don't blame families for not coming out to see the game.

I took my family. Rugged up well and had a good time, like always. It wasn't too bad actually. A lot better than the Geelong game last year

Was always going to be a shocking crowd.

Twilight games...........what's the point?

And the weather was crap.

I went to the game, but if I had young kids, there is no way in hell I would take them out to the MCG on Sunday night in the freezing cold, and I don't blame families for not coming out to see the game.

Sure, we have to be passionate, and get along and support the club, but I can certainly understand people not turning up to the game tonight.

I don't know Real Dee when the club is still at it's lowest ebb we need people to turn up. We keep hearing other clubs and supporters rubbish us for our fair weather supportes and efforts to turn up, today just showed again they are spot on and it really gets my goat. I hate it so much but again it is proved correct not good enough Real Dee in my mind and it needs to change or we will still be a second rate laughing stock to other supporters, sponsors and teams.

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I don't know Real Dee when the club is still at it's lowest ebb we need people to turn up. We keep hearing other clubs and supporters rubbish us for our fair weather supportes and efforts to turn up, today just showed again they are spot on and it really gets my goat. I hate it so much but again it is proved correct not good enough Real Dee in my mind and it needs to change or we will still be a second rate laughing stock to other supporters, sponsors and teams.

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Fair point, and if it was the normal 2.00pm start, I would say no excuse, but the twighlight game is just stupid.

I would regard myself as pretty passionate supporter, and the time and weather doesn't bother me in the slightest, but I can understand not taking a young family out on a Sunday night before school.

Fair point, and if it was the normal 2.00pm start, I would say no excuse, but the twighlight game is just stupid.

I would regard myself as pretty passionate supporter, and the time and weather doesn't bother me in the slightest, but I can understand not taking a young family out on a Sunday night before school.

i don't know mate as i don't have kids, but think peoples use that as a crutch and a cop out for the weather not being nice enough and the time not quite being suitable to them. That is life work around it we need all of us going along as often as possible.

14,129. For less than half our members to turn up was a bad effort. At least there weren't many spare seats in the President's/Trident members area, which was good. I don't know how many Melbourne supporters are AFL members, but AFL Members had a shocking turnout especially.

I don't mind the Sunday Twilight time slot because I find it interesting to play at another time other than 2:10 for a change. But twilight games are only good maybe once a year, just for a change, but unfortunatley we have it again in Round 9 against Hawthorn.

I took my family. Rugged up well and had a good time, like always. It wasn't too bad actually. A lot better than the Geelong game last year

Agree. Thank god it didn't rain. I managed to get a park just outside Gate 2. Had they opened the doors wide open, I could of stayed and watched in the car and tooted the horn 4 times (4 goals).

A poor crowd for a poor game of football.

It was fitting really...

14,129 at the MCG

Congrats to AzzKika with a prediction of 16,000 being the closest. Azz now is currently our most succesful crowd predictor.

Winners:

Round 1: (H) Melbourne vs North Melbourne - 28,707 at the MCG - Nugget Jones (29,000)

Round 2: (A) Collingwood vs Melbourne - 43,176 at the MCG - Azzkika (45,000)

Round 3: (A) Port Adelaide vs Melbourne - 21,030 at AAMI Stadium - Carn Dees (21,091)

Round 4: (A) Richmond vs Melbourne - 40,763 at the MCG - QueenC (41,000)

Round 5: (H) Melbourne vs Adelaide - 14,129 at the MCG - AzzKika (16,000)

Terrible turnout.

I hate sitting at the G' and feeling like I'm in front of the TV watching the game. That's how empty and quiet the stands were.

Mind you, we celebrated our first goal like we just won a premiership. Hilarious stuff.