Mothers Day

[Jordie_tackles 354]

Ok How good was the game (now yesterday), great response from our boys lets hope that they can back it up.

Now being their was amazing, although the crowd was embarrassing, 19,900

What are peoples thoughts on a Mothers day fixtures for the MFC?

Play it against a Victorian team, and encourage everybody to get to the game? not just MFC and opposition supporters? not getting

20K to a game is average, although the weather was crap around lunch time, and it is mothers day... but why not turn this into some sort of advantage if possible?

I saw my mum earlier in the week, and she had no problems with me going to the footy, however i do understand that others cant get to the game for this reason. I just had the thought that it might be a way to turn it into a bigger thing? take your mum to the footy for the day, make it a family thing? all the big games started from something?? footy is often a family event anyway why cant the MFC exploit this?

Play it with Carlton to pull some crowds?

[Rogue 585]

I'd rather we not play on Mother's Day.

Whatever you do re: promotion, there are plenty of people who will decide that attending the footy isn't their highest priority on Mother's Day.

[H_T 3,049]

Not a fan for footy on Mother's Day. If anything I would prefer it against a Victorian team if we had to play again on Mother's Day.

That said I loved this Mother's Day massacre.

[drdrake 3,187]

I've heard this about the crowd a few times, I thought given the weather, the day and who we are playing the crowd was OK, last year on a bright sunny day against Adelaide we only got 25,000 people and it wasn't mnothers day, we would love to get 30K against interstate clubs, but history shows unless it is Brisbane or Sydney we struggle.

[Pates 9,660]

I agree it would be nice if we could play it against another Victorian side, and with a bit of clever marketing it could be turned into a annual match. What if they offered freebies for female fans, or as Caro said, make it the womans round and link it to breast cancer (as they did last year!).

It's most likely a fixture that will never endear itself to footy fans, but playing it against an interstate side and adding in the weight of the abysmal weather, it's a result that's not unexpected.