Tonight is the turning point for the MFC.

[Sir Why You Little 34,493]

For years we have quietly accepted. Now we the supporters have got to make a stand to our great Club.

We must expect more than tonight's Rubbish.

At work do not hide, fight for this club. Send an email to the club.

This will not do.....40 years i have copped repeated kicks in the guts....Now i have had enough....What has this club learnt since the '88 Grand Final...seriously as a club???

[Samsara 65]

I feel your pain. I didn't expect us to win tonight but I expect us to be competitive and not to be made to look like absolute imbeciles out on the ground.

[Wiseblood 24,636]

Agree 100%. Right at this point in time we are showing nothing and we don't look as though we have progressed much at all since 2008. The club as a whole should be ashamed of our efforts tonight and something has to be done before it's too late. If that means Bailey goes then he goes, enough of this "our year is 2013 etc etc" garbage. We should be showing signs of the progressing towards this NOW and we look as though we are going backwards.

Tonight has shown us, as supporters, that changes need to be made. We might win a few games this year and look alright in patches but tonight has shown us there are major, major flaws in our gameplan and the way we go about things. Enough is enough.

[Sir Why You Little 34,493]

5 goals to zero in the first Quarter against last years wooden spooners we just cannot accept it.

if it was 2009 ok, but it is now 2011

[Strawbs 1]

For years we have quietly accepted. Now we the supporters have got to make a stand to our great Club.

We must expect more than tonight's Rubbish.

At work do not hide, fight for this club. Send an email to the club.

This will not do.....40 years i have copped repeated kicks in the guts....Now i have had enough....What has this club learnt since the '88 Grand Final...seriously as a club???

Agree. I could have written the script to this match well ahead of the opening bounce. We just don't have that ability to dig deep and pull off tough wins like what was needed in the West tonight. We haven't had that tough, uncompromising approach since the Northey era, and I for one am sick of it. It was a weak performance and symbolic of the effort that has been accepted for too long. How about starting a game with a bit of vigour?

[lucifer 119]

For years we have quietly accepted. Now we the supporters have got to make a stand to our great Club.

We must expect more than tonight's Rubbish.

At work do not hide, fight for this club. Send an email to the club.

This will not do.....40 years i have copped repeated kicks in the guts....Now i have had enough....What has this club learnt since the '88 Grand Final...seriously as a club???

Could not agree more

[Sir Why You Little 34,493]

I F%^&*in' love the MFC and i will not see it walked on anymore....

[bandicoot 1,395]

How on earth have we moved backwards from 2010???

We had such a promising game plan last year and Baily has decided to change.

Please someone explain to me what our game plan actually is?

We no longer go through the corridor and instead use the flanks. No wonder we kicked 6 goals and 12 behinds.

Baily has no idea. Start the search for a new coach today.

[Guest Gotzy15]

Couldnt agree more right now. We have been listening to this crap for years. Its time for the club to start putting in like us supporters do. We go to the matches to support, buy our merchandise which the club profits from, pay our astronomical yearly membership fees and what do we get back in return?absolute crap like they dished up tonight. I want to know that my footy club still has a spine and can make a tough but fair decision. We have the list, weve rebuilt, we have great new facilities we need a new coach and a new game plan!!!

[Ryan Dee 140]

Christ! Every bloody side walks it out of our backline so easily against us, and we have to fight hard to get it out. It just pisses me off so god dam bad.

[bananas 428]

I'd like it if the players cared as much as I do.

[Ryan Dee 140]

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_221875624493237

Join the facebook group to sack bailey.

[Demon Disciple 10,955]

We are at a crossroads, plain and simple. It was Jimmy's board who continually backed Dean Bailey, glowing in their appraisal of him. It has now become obvious that the board was tricked by an impostor. Do we go into hiding, hoping it will all work out for the best, or do we take a stand and say "we will be the masters of our own destiny". It's time for the board to stand up and be counted, when it most needs to. As Beamer passionately said, "we are on a straight line and we will not deviate", so be it if it costs the coach his job. No one man is bigger than the MFC.

As for the player's, what more motivation does one need than to know that, should they win the ultimate, they will become immortals. Talked of for generations, forever the 22 that brought an end to our premiership drought. It's a scary thought, but does anyone realise that there might soon come a time that the MFC has no surviving premiership players?

Edited April 28, 2011 by Demon Disciple

[Ryan Dee 140]

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_221875624493237

Join the facebook group to sack bailey.

[heartbeatstrue 57]

I'd like it if the players cared as much as I do.

watching them walk off, I'd like to know how much they did care. How bad are they hurting? Will they somehow forget the pain on the trip home? for me it would be unbearable, in their shoes. So unbearable, I could never, NEVER let it happen again. But for some of these players, it's been happening too regularly. What is wrong with our culture?

'Tonight is the turning point for the MFC'. Right, turning downwards from where were we on the ladder, 7th? On our way DOWN to the bottom depths for sure. Too sad. Unbearably painful.

[45HG 1,539]

I don't see anything wrong with singing the song after a win. Why go to the footy and invest up to 8 hours a weekend supporting your boys if you can't sing the club song after a a (albeit pathetic) win.

Singing the song doesn't equate to not seeing the problems that a list/team has.

Just as not singing the song after a win doesn't show you to be a more knowledgable/passionate fan.

[Sir Why You Little 34,493]

I don't see anything wrong with singing the song after a win. Why go to the footy and invest up to 8 hours a weekend supporting your boys if you can't sing the club song after a a (albeit pathetic) win.

Singing the song doesn't equate to not seeing the problems that a list/team has.

Just as not singing the song after a win doesn't show you to be a more knowledgable/passionate fan.

Wise words 45..after a win i sing the song. After a huge win i sing it louder.

i was well aware of how scrappy our 2 wins have been.

[Hannabal 4]

Soft flogs won't like this comment, and Lord knows that there's many soft flogs that follow Melbourne (I stand near them in the MCC members), but I can say that in over 30 years this insipid club has givem ne absolutely nothing. That's right, nothing. Nothing at all. I know that some on here are satisfied with the odd win, or finals appearance, but that does sweet FA for me. I suppose that I'm meant to be grateful when they're making the odd token finals appearance ?

This. Club. Gives. Me. Nothing

[Demonic Ascent 0]

I am the same as you and refused to sing the song after the Brisbane game, just like I refused to after we beat the Dogs to make the finals in 2005.

However we shouldn't be turning on our own supporters and begrudging them singing the song in victory. We are a small enoough group as it is, we don't need to fracture our base further.

[Hannabal 4]

I don't see anything wrong with singing the song after a win. Why go to the footy and invest up to 8 hours a weekend supporting your boys if you can't sing the club song after a a (albeit pathetic) win.

Singing the song doesn't equate to not seeing the problems that a list/team has.

Just as not singing the song after a win doesn't show you to be a more knowledgable/passionate fan.

I'll sing when I'm happy, not when others are.

[45HG 1,539]

I'll sing when I'm happy, not when others are.

I couldn't give a toss if others are happy with our win. That's why I sing regardless - obviously with much more gusto in certain circumstances. Perhaps I'm still just young, but the game for me is about passion and a win reflects that. It doesn't mean I can't judge a performance after the fact and it certainly doesn't mean I expect those behind the scenes to ignore the deficiences.

If that makes me a "soft [censored]" I won't lose a minute's sleep.

I expect a win against Adelaide. But a solid 4 point performance will possibly annoy me as much as tonight's effort.

[Bay Riffin 1,419]

will join in now.

just watched the whole game and actually was more disappointed in our 2nd half as the game had lost intensity by then. We still could not make inroads. I thought ok shake off the first half and and play ball tearing nerveless footy with nothing to lose. nope - we were p1ssweak and they knew it as their limited abilities actually started gaining more and more confidence. it was f$cking hard to watch.

That was just terrible.

but hey like the Daniher era, watch us bounce back at the 'G !!!! sick of it personally.

[Sir Why You Little 34,493]

will join in now.

just watched the whole game and actually was more disappointed in our 2nd half as the game had lost intensity by then. We still could not make inroads. I thought ok shake off the first half and and play ball tearing nerveless footy with nothing to lose. nope - we were p1ssweak and they knew it as their limited abilities actually started gaining more and more confidence. it was f$cking hard to watch.

That was just terrible.

but hey like the Daniher era, watch us bounce back at the 'G !!!! sick of it personally.

We cannot survive just winning 60% of our MCG Games.....This is a very big Point isn't it.

John Northey did fairly well on the road.

[888Dee 6]

Yep get angry, it worked for Wattsy tonight, Strange that it was inspired by an unpopular Bailey tactic. Seems he can only manage one playe at a time.

[grant 10]

Jeez mate get your $hit together.

I'm not happy with the gameplan and Bails has to do more, but get serious about your expectations. It's not going to be a do or die year in 2013. Yes the premiership window "should" open up in 2013 if all going to plan but if it does, it'll stay open for a good 5 years based on how young our list is and there will be plenty or bumps in the road along the way.

I'm a relatively young supporter so I can't comment on what it feels like to see 50 years of failure, but I know that Collingwood and Geelong fans endured heaps or heartache and upsets before it finally crystalized. And when it does, it's night like tonight that will make it all that much better.