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I'm not a big interweb user, but I've never seen so many people use the word 'depressed' in a forum until this site, this year.

Sorry to nit-pick bj, but I think the word is 'deepressed'.

At this point in time we are the worst team in the competition in my view. The Bulldogs aren't great but neither are Brisbane or Richmond. Bulldogs by 30 to 45 points for me.

And that is the hardest thing to take from my point of view, I was prepared to put up with the pain as long as we came out the other side with a good playing list but it is in fact worse now than it was in 2007. We have gone through a 5 year rebuild and acheived nothing.

Our recruiters should hang their heads in shame, some of the Phantom drafters on Big Footy would have done a better job.

Hmm i think we will smash the bulldogs Its what we have done for the last 4 years (fire when everyone thought we had no bullets left) then lament for the next month which is also what we do too many players in our list are NOT up to AFL standard Neeld will want to keep his job and get a broom , a very big one Bailey failed miserably to acknowledge we even had a broom Bailey looked at age and not on impact gong forward (Junior) We should have picked up Dylan Grimes when we had the chance At least the kid has a red hot go

DB was unlucky to be there when the concessions were in place for GWS and GC. Trading or clearing out the list wasn't a realistic option.

And that is the hardest thing to take from my point of view, I was prepared to put up with the pain as long as we came out the other side with a good playing list but it is in fact worse now than it was in 2007. We have gone through a 5 year rebuild and acheived nothing.

Our recruiters should hang their heads in shame, some of the Phantom drafters on Big Footy would have done a better job.

Robbie they saw the light before most of us and left before most of us woke up.

You have described my feeling perfectly RobbieF

Thank God I am leaving the country next week, normally I would be straight onto the internet to get the scores

Not this time it will be great to be blissfully ignorant

Where are you headed OD?

I have seen a lot of tragedy in my life The MFC is not one. Sure we are not having a lot of good times at the moment but lets get real about where this sits in the whole meaning of life.

From what I see written on this site beggers belief. If I wake up in the morning I consider it a good day. If my health remains good, I consider it a good day. If I can comunicate with my kids and enjoy time with them it's a great day. If the MFC lose ...well it's disappointing but the sun still comes up and you just get on with it until the next week....year....decade...

If people want to change the MFC... well I sugest you do something about it, if not then control your vitrol on web sites

I'll be there on Sunday for the tribute to Jimmy, and I will be hopeful of a good result, although I will be tipping a Bulldog win. As always I will stay until the final siren, whatever the score.

I am forever hopeful of a turn-around and will continue to expect it each week. I have watched all our games live until the final siren (Torquay makes it hard to make every game) looking for glimpses of potential or a change in our fortunes.

As soon as the siren goes though, the TV is off. I "cope" with the results by moving on as fast as I can. On Saturday I headed to the beach with the wife and kids and very quickly forgot about the result. I stay away from the papers, forums and footy shows until about mid week when the focus moves to the coming games. I know we played bad, so i don't need to hear or read about it from the so called experts.

Perhaps being a Melbourne supporter has made me think about this a lot more than others, but I decided long ago to resist allowing football to affect my moods and self worth as much as can. I chose Melbourne as a 4 or 5 year old kid, therefore it wasn't an informed or logical choice, and yet I will never change. I can do so very little in the overall scheme of things to contribute to our success or failures, so I therefore don't take the credit or blame for our results. A win makes me feel good, for a while, just liek watching an uplifting movie. A bas loss make me feel bad, also just for a while. Football is a uncontrollable part of my life so it doesn't make sense to invest too much emotion in it. I endevour to invest my emotions in the things I have some aspect of control - relationships mainly.

I actually think we were worse in 2008. And with even less to look forward to then as we still had too many Daniher-era leftovers, some who had been good but past their prime and others who weren't that good and held onto for too long. I therefore think that as bad as we are (and we definitely are) the turnaround should this time be quicker. In 2008 there was no young talent of significant note. Now we have Watts, Trengove, Grimes and others.

I suspect we feel worse now because our initial expectations were higher in the lead up to the season. And if we feel this bad, imagine how St KIilda supporters felt in the 1980s and Richmond supporters for most of the last 30 years.