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Stages of Grief - where are you?

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I'm not sure really. I'm not completely confident in the future or where improvement will come from, but my interest or passion for the club will certainly not wane. I'll keep turning up and every match and cheering. I mean what's the point in supporting a club in the first place if you are going to give up? It's like having a child really

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    Check out robot chicken's stages of grief on youtube. Good for what ale's ya.

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    Definitely a hybrid of all 5 stages (depending on the hour of the day, and when I last read Demonland) ...... and like many hybrid varieties, I'm effectively sterile / barren / neutered, or at least that's how I feel about my team more often than not. But amidst all the gloom, I will always see a glimmer of light.

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    Don't get too comfortable.

    It could get a whole lot worse with the AFL / Vlad conspiracy fuelled by hypocrite puppet McLean to reopen the tanking issue - this I see as a way of preventing MFC getting any high picks this season at the expense of his darlings, GW$ and GC, and probably making us pay over the odds if we want Viney.

    Wait and see.

    Its coming.

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    5

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    At various stages through a game, I go to that stage, what ever number it is, where I feel like dressing up as The Joker and letting of a smoke bomb in the Melbourne change rooms.

    hahaha....

    Ahem.

    Poor taste mate. Poor form.

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    But amidst all the gloom, I will always see a glimmer of light.

    I must be going blind. Can you point me towards it?

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    I must be going blind. Can you point me towards it?

    Yes, but first you have to want to see it P Man.

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    Stage 5, minus the optimistic 'I can see a plan part'.

    It's not that I can or can't, that just doesn't figure into my thinking right now.

    The footy is dead to me at the moment.

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    In 1969 Elisabeth Kubler-Ross described the 5 stages of grief in her book “On Death and Dying”. Since then other psycho-babblists have postulated that there may be six or seven stages. But let’s look at the MFC using the Kubler-Ross stages.

    Stage 1: Denial

    Every player on our list is a super-star or a super-star in the making; the Football Department is the best in the country; and the coach is so obviously the best in the business it’s amazing he didn’t already have a job as a senior coach somewhere else before he took up the reins with the Dees.

    Stage 2: Anger

    We’ve lost more games than we should have and we can’t believe how the players aren’t trying. The coach isn’t making the right moves on the field and hard decisions at selection which are patently obvious to every outsider aren’t being made. And worse, no one from the club understands the pain the supporters are going through. (Note: If you’re a Richmond supporter, this would be where you go shopping for chicken manure).

    Stage 3: Bargaining

    Let’s trade player X for player Y; surely we should be drafting for key position players or midfielders or inside role players. If only the players showed more courage on field I would find it easier to support them.

    Stage 4: Depression

    I’m sick of this season already. It’s so hard to watch the way we play I’m thinking of not only not going to the MCG this week, but cutting my ties with the club forever. It’s so sad to think of little children being forced to support the MFC – they’ll be miserable for the rest of their lives.

    Stage 5: Acceptance

    OK, so we’re no good right now, but I can see a plan for improvement and I’ll always support the team. Go Dees.

    I'm at Stage 5, where are you?

    Stage 6

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    6=Dreaming

    We are awful now. As bad as I can remember. Prepared to bunker down for 2 years until we get a new coach or the current one pulls his finger out and all while renewing my membership in the process. The situation can't get any worse and I'm not even depressed. More to life than footy after all. Who plays super coach??

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    I'm not sure really. I'm not completely confident in the future or where improvement will come from, but my interest or passion for the club will certainly not wane. I'll keep turning up and every match and cheering. I mean what's the point in supporting a club in the first place if you are going to give up? It's like having a child really

    Love your Banner comments re: Liam Jurrah!! Go LJ's a legend!! He alone may pull us out of this crap next year.

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    After round 1 I was so gutted. I was that filthy more with myself because I bought in on all the optimism that a great off season had brought us. After leaving the G that day I couldn't have been more [censored] and I knew we were still crap. But I've gone back to my no expectations equals no disappointments theory.

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    After round 1 I was so gutted. I was that filthy more with myself because I bought in on all the optimism that a great off season had brought us. After leaving the G that day I couldn't have been more [censored] and I knew we were still crap. But I've gone back to my no expectations equals no disappointments theory.

    don't believe you Cowboy :) you're just lying low for a while! I went to the Brisbane game as well with my 22yo Son and his Mate (Lions supporter) . I had not witnessed Melbourne play that style of football in my life. I suppose this is why I Q Neeld. (without wanting to get into a new round of Neeld Poll Trivia stuff that 684 Members didn't bother to contribute to because was so bloody ridiculous)

    As I said

    6= Dreaming and lets hope things can turn around.

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    Depends on the day.

    In the few hours before the game: Denial.

    During the game: Anger.

    After the game, for one or two days: Depression.

    Wednesday and Thursday: Acceptance.

    From Team announcement to game time: Bargaining.

    Let the good times roll.

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    All of the stages , all at once .

    It's like there's this massive fight going on between the 5 . Occasionally 1 will gain the upper hand only to be attacked by the other 4 . Extreme pessimism is trying to gain control as well . Oddly , this bit comforts me . This club takes way too much of your emotional energy .

    'land and 'ology makes things better and worse .

    There's no escape .

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    I'm at stage 6: drink to forget

    Next stage: AA meetings

    No that's stage 7! Stage 6 =Dreaming

    6=Dreaming

    We are awful now. As bad as I can remember. Prepared to bunker down for 2 years until we get a new coach or the current one pulls his finger out and all while renewing my membership in the process. The situation can't get any worse and I'm not even depressed. More to life than footy after all. Who plays super coach??

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    Stage 6: Secretly admiring the weekly grunt of another team and wishing yours was even a tiny bit like it: GFC, and I don't mean greater financial calamity. How has Geelong mopped up with likes of Christensen, Menzel, Duncan, Vardy, Smedts etc whilst all our shiny new warhorses have turning circles like 1968 Austin 1800's?

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    Back to anger after this latest crap from those IDIOTS and Mcidiot

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    That stage where you realise you're not stressed about skipping a few weeks of footy, live or even tv/online updates. That's me. Don't even know who we are playing in two weeks time, only reason I knew we were playing the whingers last week was the Petrie thread on here. Horrible place to be with so many weeks left.

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    I'm like an Egyptian Fish.

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