Sunday - Drop your scarf off at Bubbledome day or Microwave your Membership

[Footynut 302]

See you later then.

Sure, it stinks right now to be a Melbourne supporter. Once again, we are the laughing stock of the AFL. Our future looks worse now than it did at the start of the year.

Your hypocrisy is startling. You complain about our players giving up, yet that is exactly what you're doing. Don't just walk away now. The last thing this club needs is for its fans to desert it. We might feel like walking away, but that achieves nothing, and it's getting through the pains like today that make the eventual success, whenever it comes, that much sweeter.

But if you wanna give up now, fine. Just don't come back.

Absolutely agree. I would discourage such an act my any MFC supporter or member. If you choose to then be sure not to come back ever. Changes are going to occur for the better, yes this is like a dagger through the heart, but stick with us through thick and mostly thin or leave....

[45HG 1,559]

Weak supporters can't have a go at weak performances.

[PartyTimeJohnny 537]

Today my club died

Today my club gave up

Today my club failed to show me any respect

Today my heart was broken

Today we lost by 31 goals

Tomorrow they can have my scarf back

Tomorrow they can get stuffed

Tomorrow they can see the masses mobilise

Tomorrow they can see how the hurt the faithful

Tomorrow they will see passion when they get my scarf back

Are you trying to be a poet or something?

[Diablo Deemon 220]

Over reaction I'll cop that. I was upset.

[Deestroy All 14,266]

Lol memberships in the microwave, it's the technologically advanced way of showing ones disapproval.

Because scissors just won't cut it anymore. Oh I just had a pun-gasm.

Now I best be off, in going to photoshop my membership sitting on a dog poo.

[ICU2 Jerry Jerry 257]

Over reaction I'll cop that. I was upset.

Good man.

It's great to see some red hot passion from our supporter group (which it seems we are finally finding) but now it's time to genuinely stick fat whilst demanding more results. Members are the "fabric" of clubs and now we need us more than ever.

The irony of some supporters willingness to desert the club when the going gets tough resembles the players propencity to go missing on field when the game gets hot. We hate it when that happens so let's at least set the right example and be prepared to fight for the jumper and this once mighty club when the blowtorch is so heavily applied.

Who knows it may just be infectious and a source of pride for the players to draw from

Edited July 31, 2011 by Clay Sampson

[Nasher 33,617]

Now I best be off, in going to photoshop my membership sitting on a dog poo.

Bwahahahaha.

P.S. Real men would just take a photo of their membership actually sitting on a dog poo.

[PeterJames 46]

I might just enter the draft and show some footage of me manning up and hitting a target of a 20m pass. Should get a game quite easy!

[Deemort 28]

Over reaction I'll cop that. I was upset.

Excellent follow up post, man enough to say "I over reacted". I like you was so upset yesterday, but unlike you made sure to stay away from these boards as I was under the influence of a few beers and very very [censored] (off).

It was absolutely as bad as I've seen in my 32 years as a Dee, they played as good as they can and we as bad as we can. Deadly combination. Just with all the hope and promise for this young team, it hurts bad, massive step back.

[Deemort 28]

Bwahahahaha.

P.S. Real men would just take a photo of their membership actually sitting on a dog poo.

hahahaha nice

[Deemort 28]

I might just enter the draft and show some footage of me manning up and hitting a target of a 20m pass. Should get a game quite easy!

Yeah good on you mate then we'll put any Geelong player all over you're ass and see how you go.

[Mydee 288]

I don't really know what to say, I am devastated. Bottom line is we choose to support our team and that means taking the thrashings as well as those magical wins. I could never not support the Dees but maybe we have to look at our supporter base, it's pretty ordinary. We just don't really have enough supporters who really care enough.

If you want to microwave your membership or throw away your scarf then maybe look at yourself not the Club.

I am not that taken with scarf burning, after all I have a collection dating back a number of years and if we have too many more "efforts" like yesterday they will become valuable sporting memoriabillia. However there is a culture within some areas of the supporter base that accepts mediocrity. This culture arose through the really lean years and is noticible in the MCC members who are are terribly good losers. Sending back scarves and even membership tickets, as opposed to not renewing memberships gives a message to the club and players that losing by huge margins isn't good enough. 47 years is far too long!!

[praha 11,240]

Is everyone hating on a supporting because he's angry that he pays a membership and never gets anything back? Lol, typical.

I'm with you, OP.

[old dee 23,872]

i will never throw away my scarf...i wish to be buried with it.

But i shall be sending some correspondence to the club.

I am not happy, but dummy spits never make any difference.

Do something constructive....

Sorry WYL but they do make a difference.

Just look at Essendon.

they got rid of a usless coach and now have a better one

and more members.

so do not tell me making your feelings known does not make a difference.

IMO that is one of the big problems with this club

when things go wrong we go sking ( mentally ) and start talking about next year.

get up and scream

Edited July 31, 2011 by old dee

[Brettmcg 24]

I am not that taken with scarf burning, after all I have a collection dating back a number of years and if we have too many more "efforts" like yesterday they will become valuable sporting memoriabillia. However there is a culture within some areas of the supporter base that accepts mediocrity. This culture arose through the really lean years and is noticible in the MCC members who are are terribly good losers. Sending back scarves and even membership tickets, as opposed to not renewing memberships gives a message to the club and players that losing by huge margins isn't good enough. 47 years is far too long!!

This, I'm guessing, would be the same MCC in which some of the MFC's oldest, most loyal and most generous supporters sit. I don't know where you've been observing from, but the fellow Demons MEMBERS and SUPPORTERS I sit with in the MCC become nothing short of infuriated with some of the weak efforts this year, but you know what? We're there every week, unlike many many MANY other fairweather "supporters". What I find more disturbing is the amount of sycophantic MFC supporters on Twitter who after a perfomance like yesterday's proceed to write to the players that "we're all behind them and it must be so tough for them". TOUGH?? I'll gladly take hundreds of thousands of dollars to dish up garbage like that every week. In most other professions that would earn you the sack. *rant over*

[DeeGee 177]

Disagree with this approach, we aren't Richmond.

[Demon Dynasty 17,109]

Sorry WYL but they do make a difference.

Just look at Essendon.

they got rid of a usless coach and now have a better one

and more members.

so do not tell me making your feelings known does not make a difference.

IMO that is one of the big problems with this club

when things go wrong we go sking ( mentally ) and start talking about next year.

get up and scream

Forget about floppy soft scarfs

How about sending a giant truckload of bricks and dump it outside the FD.

Aside from a replacement for Bails (Eade maybe) and a few others within the FD for next year, we need more players built like a brick shite house in this team who have some real mongrel in them (a la Tappy) and who can lay (and stick) a crunching tackle and are "willing" and able to do so time after time after time (eg., 2nd and 3rd efforts) as well as apply some kind of forward press!

No more skinny boys like Morton/Bennell/Gysberts/Jetta/Strauss/Cook & Scully who get brushed aside and swatted like flies in the contest. No more outside star gazers and watchers/waiters like Jurrah.

Along with a key forward, a classy tough mid fielder (Mitchel/Chappy/Watson type), a strong tall defender who can pack mark run off half back....Nearly a whole new team ARRGHHH!!

Edited July 31, 2011 by Rusty Nails

[timD 994]

What you do in this sort of situation marks you. It is easy to live when living is easy. Now blowing off steam after a debacle is one thing. Everyone's allowed that and christ knows it is the onluy thing that keeps half od you sane after yesterday.

BUT

It is time for hard heads and cold logic. Impassionaed, self-important tantrums get no-one nowhere. I'll be fascinated to see how things turn.

[Tatu 416]

My MFC scarf is now, the most expensive item in my membership package, i wont be throwing that away. I shore as hell didn't pay the money i did, for the poor football from yesterday's game.

Edited July 31, 2011 by tatu

[Diablo Deemon 220]

What you do in this sort of situation marks you. It is easy to live when living is easy. Now blowing off steam after a debacle is one thing. Everyone's allowed that and christ knows it is the onluy thing that keeps half od you sane after yesterday. BUTIt is time for hard heads and cold logic. Impassionaed, self-important tantrums get no-one nowhere. I'll be fascinated to see how things turn.

It was over the top last night rest assured I didn't return my scarf/membership.

186 points you just got to wonder when we see any sort of success.

[titan_uranus 25,045]

Is everyone hating on a supporting because he's angry that he pays a membership and never gets anything back? Lol, typical.

I'm with you, OP.

It's not that he's angry. It's that he wants to tear it up. Effectively he wants to give up. Hypocritical.

I don't expect supporters to just cop what we are given. I don't. Right now I'm devastated with my club, with its 'leaders' and its 'administration', and I'm fed up with constantly being the laughing stock of the AFL. But I would never even contemplate giving it all away like a sook.

Like I said earlier, eventually this club is going to get it together and win a flag. When that day comes, I don't want to see people like Diablo and other whingers having a good time. That ought to be reserved for the true supporters who have the balls to stick it out through the sh!t like we're in right now.

[DEELIGHTED 16]

Its a game of footy FFS, yes it sucks but if this is as big an issue that some of you are making out, you must have a pretty good life for it to be so crippling!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Blind_turn 43]

I am an MFC/MCC member and have followed Melbourne for over forty five years and I have never felt so gutted and demoralised as I did last night.

The Geelong game was no ordinary loss. It leaves me today feeling as though I only have one of two options:

1. Spit the dummy and drop my scarf off at Bubbledome to register my protest, or

2. Go along to the game next week and support the team as much as I can.

I choose option ².

If that makes me the typical soft nosed, range rover driving silver-tail that is the root cause of all the club's ills then so be it.

I expect the players never to give up - what sort of hypocrite would I be if I choose otherwise?

[tarzan16 40]

Today my club died

Today my club gave up

Today my club failed to show me any respect

Today my heart was broken

Today we lost by 31 goals

Tomorrow they can have my scarf back

Tomorrow they can get stuffed

Tomorrow they can see the masses mobilise

Tomorrow they can see how the hurt the faithful

Tomorrow they will see passion when they get my scarf back

Why don't you bugger off and barrack for Richmond then, you sound like one of them, REAL fans stick through thick and thin!!!!!

[Diablo Deemon 220]

Why don't you bugger off and barrack for Richmond then, you sound like one of them, REAL fans stick through thick and thin!!!!!

Heat of the moment. It was hurting pretty bad last night and made a bad over reaction I take it back.