Will you express your displeasure at the disaster that was the 2011 season on and off the field?

If so how?

If you meekly keep buying your membership and say / do nothing the administratuion will take your membership as a sign of agreement with the way they have handled things.

Look forward to your thoughts.

If you want to make your voice heard as a member OD, then go to the AGM & voice your disapproval in person!

It is a members only evening and is the best place for it.

Unless I'm not financially able, I will be a member of this club for the foreseeable future.

If you want to make your voice heard as a member OD, then go to the AGM & voice your disapproval in person!

It is a members only evening and is the best place for it.

Unless I'm not financially able, I will be a member of this club for the foreseeable future.

I do attend every year, and don't worry I will be having something to say if there are not some serious changes in the next couple of months.

The trouble with our GM is that the season is set in concrete before it happens it is bit like discussing the titanic a year after it went to the bottom.

I have written 3 letters to the MFC this year and I have had 2 replys and one phone call.

Have I changed anything? probably not but at least the administration knows all is not well out here in the outer.

No comment is seen as acceptance.

[censored] a bit guys can it possibly make us perform any worse.

Edited September 6, 201114 yr by old dee

I'm going to get a membership next year. As much as I don't like it sometimes, I have such an emotional investment in this club. In fact, if my emotional investment was taken as financial investment, I would be the emotional equivalent of Gutnick.

what else would i do in winter?

Edited September 6, 201114 yr by daisycutter

Not sure i agree with you.

I have bought a membership for the majority of the last 40 years.

However there are occasions when the only protest open to member is to withdraw their support.

I often think that MFC members are too accepting.

Following along no matter how the club performs is IMO one of the reasons we have been so long in the wilderness.

In the current envoirnment I find it responsible to see how the club shapes up before supporting it.

Show us the results and we will show you the money.

It is time for the club to show the members they know how to take the club forward.

The members have put their money up over the last three years.

If our membership numbers don't continue to increase we will be in the wilderness for a lot longer. The strong clubs, the clubs with clout with the AFL, are the ones who have the high membership numbers. If you want the club to become the powerhouse it once was you have to renew and encourage every Melbourne barracker you know to become a SUPPORTER. There's a big difference between barracking and supporting.

If our membership numbers don't continue to increase we will be in the wilderness for a lot longer. The strong clubs, the clubs with clout with the AFL, are the ones who have the high membership numbers. If you want the club to become the powerhouse it once was you have to renew and encourage every Melbourne barracker you know to become a SUPPORTER. There's a big difference between barracking and supporting.

Those same strong clubs you mention [censored] like hell when things go pear shape.

But the dees trudge alone in silent exceptance.

We are a weaker club as a result.

Express your displeasure

Will you express your displeasure at the disaster that was the 2011 season on and off the field?

If so how?

If you meekly keep buying your membership and say / do nothing the administratuion will take your membership as a sign of agreement with the way they have handled things.

Look forward to your thoughts.

Only members have the right to criticise. And members have a vote at AGMs. The board is elected by the members.

Only members have the right to criticise. And members have a vote at AGMs. The board is elected by the members.

And that is exactly what i do.

If there is an alternative this year I will vote for it if it is creditable.

When was the last time you voted?

The value you get from a membership should be measured in the entertainment value you get from following a club. I get way in excess of the price of the membership in value. I have buy in to the performance and results of the team, and the club, 7 days a week for 22 rounds. I follow pre-season closely. Occasionally, I get to enjoy the finals season also.

I put this all under the banner of my membership. Value for money that cannot be beaten. I only attended 2 matches in person this year.

Don't just whinge and complain when the season doesn't pan out the way you would like it. Offer yourself to try to help make a positive improvement - that is what I did.

Cheers

The value you get from a membership should be measured in the entertainment value you get from following a club. I get way in excess of the price of the membership in value. I have buy in to the performance and results of the team, and the club, 7 days a week for 22 rounds. I follow pre-season closely. Occasionally, I get to enjoy the finals season also.

I put this all under the banner of my membership. Value for money that cannot be beaten. I only attended 2 matches in person this year.

Don't just whinge and complain when the season doesn't pan out the way you would like it. Offer yourself to try to help make a positive improvement - that is what I did.

Cheers

Can I ask which two games you went to?

i'm thinking of downgrading from next year..been in the top echelon Trident and its predecessors for quite awhile now......not sure its worth it anymore

I'm only upgrading when we challenge, I want the guaranteed GF ticket

I'm looking forward to next year...you never know what is around the corner....

Sure. I went to the Hawks match in round 2. I coach my son's junior team who play on Sunday's. We had an early match that week, and so managed to get there during the second quarter. Always looked bad, given the scoring shot discrepancy at half time.

I also went to the Essendon game on the Friday night. Managed to see the entire match, sitting with some Essendon friends made it all the more enjoyable.

But whether I am able to attend or not does not diminish my enjoyment of watching and following my team each week. Been a member for the last 25 years, and have already paid for next year. Born in 1965, it has not been an easy road.

I hope to get to more games once my parental responsibilities are less about being involved, and more about worrying if they come home.

Cheers

Edited September 8, 201114 yr by Dees Win

Sure. I went to the Hawks match in round 2. I coach my son's junior team who play on Sunday's. We had an early match that week, and so managed to get there during the second quarter. Always looked bad, given the scoring shot discrepancy at half time.

I also went to the Essendon game on the Friday night. Managed to see the entire match, sitting with some Essendon friends made it all the more enjoyable.

But whether I am able to attend or not does not diminish my enjoyment of watching and following my team each week. Been a member for the last 25 years, and have already paid for next year. Born in 1965, it has not been an easy road.

I hope to get to more games once my parental responsibilities are less about being involved, and more about worrying if they come home.

Cheers

Talk about Champagne and River water

You got both ends of it there.

For a while I thought it might have been Collingwood and Geelong!

Yes nothing much to crow about over that period.

I live in hope of another 64, what keeps you going?

Old Dee, I don't consider myself old. But when I think about the past 46 years with very little on field success I do feel old.

I keep going because I hope to see ultimate success before I pass on. And having inflicted a love of MFC onto my children, I would love the opportunity to share some onfield success with my family.

However, I feel that they are better people, and take less for granted, as a result of the ongoing disappointments. They deal with adversity well, and are not sore losers or sore winners.

Cheers

Old Dee, I don't consider myself old. But when I think about the past 46 years with very little on field success I do feel old.

I keep going because I hope to see ultimate success before I pass on. And having inflicted a love of MFC onto my children, I would love the opportunity to share some onfield success with my family.

However, I feel that they are better people, and take less for granted, as a result of the ongoing disappointments. They deal with adversity well, and are not sore losers or sore winners.

Cheers

Hang in there DW you will live long enough I am sure.

There are times when I doubt I will make it but life goes on.

I constantly need to remind myself it is only a game.

But as my wife says "you seem to spend a hell of a lot of your life on something that is only a game"

But what would she know she is a magpie

Will you express your displeasure at the disaster that was the 2011 season on and off the field?

If so how?

If you meekly keep buying your membership and say / do nothing the administratuion will take your membership as a sign of agreement with the way they have handled things.

Look forward to your thoughts.

I eagerly await your questions to the board at the AGM.

If you can provoke somebody into throwing a chair at you I'll nominate you straight to the MFC Hall Of Fame that we started then abruptly gave up on.

hopefully I'll still be living in Melbourne by 2017!

Hopefully I will still be living in 2017