MFC Trading Cards - thoughts?

[Trisul 664]

Looking at the player reviews on the MFC website, it came to mind just how much I missed the old player cards of yesteryear - the good ones anyway (EG below post).

With the ongoing Demon resurgence as a backdrop, would others be as interested as I would be if the MFC came out with their own (MFC only obviously) trading cards?

Those older cards were .. depressingly/joyfully too easy to obtain. Would *something like* card(s) on game entry, card(s) on membership (I'm thinking equally across membership levels), card(s) on family day, (special?) cards at B&F, etc, work?

Hopefully it would also promote active supporter interaction (beyond trading).

Of course this would all have to fall under the correct, approved juristiction. Even if that was prohibitive, I'd still be keen to hear others opinions.

A full set in a premiership year ....... @#^$%#@!&^$ yeah.

Edited October 5, 2011 by Trident

[angrydee 842]

A pack of player cards with a junior membership might be a hit.

[cowboy_from_hell 2,390]

A pack of player cards with a junior membership might be a hit.

I like that idea. My kids have been fully brainwashed and love the dee's but it is hard for them to get to know players names and numbers because the game is so fast and any parent will tell you that a child's concentration span is minimal. The cards could help them to get to know players names and it's one more bow to my arsenal of brainwashing equipment.

[Dr. Gonzo 23,928]

Pretty sure Collingwood do this with their memberships but there is different cards for different levels of membership. May not just be current players though. I think its a good idea, the footy cards around these days are way too expensive for kids to collect (~$5 a pack - when I started collecting them they were around ~40 cents a pack and you got a piece of chewy lol).

[cowboy_from_hell 2,390]

Pretty sure Collingwood do this with their memberships but there is different cards for different levels of membership. May not just be current players though. I think its a good idea, the footy cards around these days are way too expensive for kids to collect (~$5 a pack - when I started collecting them they were around ~40 cents a pack and you got a piece of chewy lol).

I forgot about the chewy. They were the days!

[DemonDave 1,082]

Collingwood have done a series of cards the last couple of years for their premium level memberships. Theyve generally contained past players 'Legends Series', 'Captains' etc. Many end up on ebay as non-collectors have no use for them.

Hawthorn also from time to time provide cards with some memberships, and this year also released a fantastic box set featuring all their premiership players and signatures from eight of them. It was quite pricey at $2K, but I would snap up a Melbourne equivalent in a heartbeat.

As for trading cards nowadays, theres two main players, select and teamcoach. Select release two series each year, one priced at around $3 that has pretty basic cards and the odd 'chase' card, whereas their second series is more higher end and can contain draft pick autograph cards, amongst other things. Teamcoach is more a top-trumps kind of card game online.

I still get more pleasure from tracking down a rare Ivor Warne Smith card than a draft signature of Lucas Cook though!

[Jack son 5 162]

I have a Tom Scully Draft Select card (fetching $120), signed by the brat himself. I dont like selling my signature cards, but I would prefer it went to someone who collects these, as I dont want it. PM me with your best offer (above $80). Sorry if I dont get back to you.

Edited October 6, 2011 by Jack son 5

[The Chazz 4,077]

Pretty sure Collingwood do this with their memberships but there is different cards for different levels of membership. May not just be current players though. I think its a good idea, the footy cards around these days are way too expensive for kids to collect (~$5 a pack - when I started collecting them they were around ~40 cents a pack and you got a piece of chewy lol).

And you couldn't get the smell of the chewy off the cards!

Remember the tacky nicknames some of them used to have on them? From memory, our great president in his early years used to have his name as James "Frankin" Stynes. Can't recall if it were James or Jimmy, but I know Franken was "their" nickname. Never remember hearing him called that!

Garry Lyon's nickname was Dollars too, but I think that was used a bit around the Club from memory.

I have some of the Select gold cards from the 1990's (can't remember what year - maybe 96), with Ben Hart at Adelaide, Wayne Carey at North, and Wanga at Essendon. Their not the most expensive ones going around, but I think they sell for sround $25-$50 on ebay.

[MrMoose 262]

I've been collecting Melbourne FC Cards for the past 5 years and currently have every team set/player from the present back to 1963! (except the 1963 Ron Barassi, 1964 Barry Bourke and 1968 mascot cards - PM me if you have them!).

It was especially great buying the cards from the 70's & 80's - the era from when I used to buy packets of cards from the local milk bar and swap the extras with my mates at school. They were great times 'bartering' with mates trying ot get that elusive one you needed to complete the set. (Not to mention using the cards you didn't want (ie Collingfilth cards) on the spokes of my bike!)

It would be great if the club bought out a team set of that years entire team squad and gave them out with each membership.

[hardtack 10,441]

I forgot about the chewy. They were the days!

Chewy?? Bubblegum, please! :-)

My son got a few footy cards with his Auskick pack recently.

[The Great One 99 125]

I forgot about the chewy. They were the days!

If I remember correctly, they were Scanlens cards and came with a strip of chewy.

We used to play flicks with them at primary school to try and win them from each other. Yes,,,, those were the days. sigh

[Diablo Deemon 220]

A pack of player cards with a junior membership might be a hit.

There's not enough Jack's in a standard pack of cards for the MFC

[Trisul 664]

There's not enough Jack's in a standard pack of cards for the MFC

Hah! Perhaps a couple of jokers ...

[DemonWA 3,889]

Hawthorn also from time to time provide cards with some memberships,

speaking of Hawthorn memberships, i love the fact their membership scaffs have "number of years of membership" embroided on them, and have more rings of brown too. Nice touch i reckon

[Diablo Deemon 220]

speaking of Hawthorn memberships, i love the fact their membership scaffs have "number of years of membership" embroided on them, and have more rings of brown too. Nice touch i reckon

Great idea

I love the trinkets with a membership I say include more trinkets or options to include trinkets with your membership

Pens, Cards, Cups, Key rings with how many years membership represented by stars maybe like the back of the jumper.

[Suzanna 72]

Pretty sure Collingwood do this with their memberships but there is different cards for different levels of membership. May not just be current players though. I think its a good idea, the footy cards around these days are way too expensive for kids to collect (~$5 a pack - when I started collecting them they were around ~40 cents a pack and you got a piece of chewy lol).

Yes, but the chewy was always that awful, hard, floury one. Ah, there's some memories.

[Suzanna 72]

Great idea

I love the trinkets with a membership I say include more trinkets or options to include trinkets with your membership

Pens, Cards, Cups, Key rings with how many years membership represented by stars maybe like the back of the jumper.

It would be good if we could have a couple of choices each year - if you didn't want the scarf (I sewed all mine together into a blanket, because to be honest, how many scarves can you wear?) you could pick option A or B. A couple of years ago there was a choice - the pashmina scarf or the tie - but how about scarf or alternative A or alternative B? Would it be too difficult to administer?

[CHAMP 347]

Ah yes, the good old days when cards came free with product. Of course originally all were Cigarette Cards eg Capstan, Royal Mail, Turf, Grey's, Wills etc and later, in the 30s, they came with various confections eg Hoadley's Nutty Bar and Giant Licorice items. Those wondrous days went with the advent of the AFL and all that it means. It used to cost me a bloody fortune to fill the annual Select album.

[Fork 'em 6,975]

I had several complete sets (all teams) from the late seventies .

Don't have them now but would love a rough estimate of their worth if I still had them .

Any-one with any ideas ?

[Dr. Gonzo 23,928]

Pretty sure they go for a couple of hundred dollars each - there's a card shop near the Vic market I go to sometimes if I'm down that way (Card Zone?) My sets only go back to the late 80's but it's always interesting to see what some people will pay for them.

[13thflag 0]

I used to collect cards up until i found out from a guy that used to have a card shop at Northland sc, and pipe works market, he used to have all the top cards that were worth a lot of money. I asked him how did he always have such cards? he told me that he worked for the AFL and that's how he came to have all of these cards. Cards that should have been sold in boxes that were not.

Put me off from a childhood past time of what i used to love and thought was fair and fun.

[DemonDave 1,082]

I had several complete sets (all teams) from the late seventies .

Don't have them now but would love a rough estimate of their worth if I still had them .

Any-one with any ideas ?

Depending on condition Forkem, $200-300 for a full set if theyre good, a bit more if they're mint, ie they are not stored

held together by a rubber band and none of the corners are dinged.

Also assume no comic moustaches have been drawn on anyone in is era that didnt have some kind of facial hair.