We have a lot more serious issues to worry about than the bugler.This club has a reputation as being snobby and elitist but the reality is that the Melbourne Football Club has a very broad and varied fanbase.However i love it when we play up to that elitist image by bringing out the bugler with the smoking jacket.If it enrages the likes of Joffa and the rest of the Collingwood cheer squad then the man is doing his job!I just wish the players and coaching staff at this club would start doing likewise.

Fellas:

I post a fair bit at BF, and started this about the very issue last week.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/get-rid-of-the-melbourne-fc-bugler/

Sign it, we want 100 signatures at least before we go to the club.

Either he plays before the boys come out, or he doesn't play at all.

Jazzed it up spectacularly again this weekend.

We're half way there with the signatures, 50 more!

Sign up

We have a lot more serious issues to worry about than the bugler.This club has a reputation as being snobby and elitist but the reality is that the Melbourne Football Club has a very broad and varied fanbase.However i love it when we play up to that elitist image by bringing out the bugler with the smoking jacket.If it enrages the likes of Joffa and the rest of the Collingwood cheer squad then the man is doing his job!I just wish the players and coaching staff at this club would start doing likewise.

I agree, but he needs to be doing it before the players come out.

Is this the Bugler, at about 50 seconds in.

Buy him a horse & send him home.

Bloody hell. That should be the pre match entertainment right there. Start a fox hunt out on the ground before the opening bounce. Set the fox free an hour before the bounce and the blokes on horses set off from the center square just before the match starts. If we want to look like snobby, elitist bell ends, we may as well go the full nine yards. We could even run a scoreboard competition for the fan who lets out the heartiest 'Tally ho lads!' as the horses trot off. Prizes would include snifters of port, exotic cigarettes with Burgess Meredith/Penguin style cigarette holders and if you are lucky, a private school blazer complete with straw hat and knee high socks.

Sorry, I know I'm just venting now. I'm hating the club right now. I hope I can get my love for it back.

........However i love it when we play up to that elitist image by bringing out the bugler with the smoking jacket.If it enrages the likes of Joffa and the rest of the Collingwood cheer squad then the man is doing his job!I.......

You're dreaming Irish. No-one's enraged. They are just laughing at us.

Before a ball is bounced

Get rid of him. Nothing against the bloke but the concept sucks. And the OP is right, we've been shite ever since we trotted him out. While no-one suggests the bugler is the cause, he is synonymous with our shiteness

We have a lot more serious issues to worry about than the bugler.This club has a reputation as being snobby and elitist but the reality is that the Melbourne Football Club has a very broad and varied fanbase.However i love it when we play up to that elitist image by bringing out the bugler with the smoking jacket.If it enrages the likes of Joffa and the rest of the Collingwood cheer squad then the man is doing his job!I just wish the players and coaching staff at this club would start doing likewise.

No, this is where you & the MFC are wrong, IMO.

who cares about stirring the opposition, with a stupid bugler in a jacket, playing "oh oh razzmatazz", to the MCC !

the problem is its 'turning off' much more peope who'd like to support the club including members,,, or past members.

I can't help it myself, I just Hate it !

IT IS Not, what I want the club to be... and I scratch my head & cringe, thinking this isn't my club... its another nail in the coffin, of how I for One, feel about the club.

Please, get rid of him, out onto the outside boardwalk.

No, this is where you & the MFC are wrong, IMO.

who cares about stirring the opposition, with a stupid bugler in a jacket, playing "oh oh razzmatazz", to the MCC !

the problem is its 'turning off' much more peope who'd like to support the club including members,,, or past members.

I can't help it myself, I just Hate it !

IT IS Not, what I want the club to be... and I scratch my head & cringe, thinking this isn't my club... its another nail in the coffin, of how I for One, feel about the club.

Please, get rid of him, out onto the outside boardwalk.

Agree 100%, but the idea of him playing Uh oh razzamattaz amuses me.

Add a banjo

bigger fish to fry

but yes

It wouldnt matter, you could have petition with 4,000 names on it, they would still proceed with it.

Lay off the guy......At least he turns up week after week, supporting the club....Try's to add something during a really dismal day......There are a lot of things to complain about before this poor fella....

I love the buglar. He should be a symbol of the fact that we don't care what anyone thinks. F everyone, if we want a buglar we'll have one.

FFS we have got to stand up for whatever we believe in - buglars, colours, grounds - you get the picture. Otherwise they'll wipe the floor with us.

WE need to go from a silverspoon club to a working man club, the bugler dont fit, its cringeworthy.

WE need to go from a silverspoon club to a working man club, the bugler dont fit, its cringeworthy.

Much better to have a "Joffa" yelling in the stands.....Geeez

I love the buglar. He should be a symbol of the fact that we don't care what anyone thinks. F everyone, if we want a buglar we'll have one.

FFS we have got to stand up for whatever we believe in - buglars, colours, grounds - you get the picture. Otherwise they'll wipe the floor with us.

I'm with you, BBO. Put a decent beard on the bugler, and all would be well. He could be the 'Bearded Demon bugle boy who pumps up the Dees'

(Excuse me while I go and get a life)

I love the buglar. He should be a symbol of the fact that we don't care what anyone thinks. F everyone, if we want a buglar we'll have one.

FFS we have got to stand up for whatever we believe in - buglars, colours, grounds - you get the picture. Otherwise they'll wipe the floor with us.

Maybe he needs a few alpacas out there with him?

Shaking my head as I type ... The buglar is great, give him a break. In fact at least he can play!

The Bugler obviously is a more important figure than I imagined....

He was a good sport last year when he was on this forum, took the criticism in his stride.

I'm not a big one for bumping threads but I thought I would show the world what most people think of the bugler. He doesn't enrage the opposition supporters, he makes them laugh.

Lay off the guy......At least he turns up week after week, supporting the club....Try's to add something during a really dismal day......There are a lot of things to complain about before this poor fella....

trouble is he's Not adding a bloody thing, but he's detracting from the day & turning people off going to the games.

If he's employed by the MCC, then we should play something to drown him out.

I'm with you, BBO. Put a decent beard on the bugler, and all would be well. He could be the 'Bearded Demon bugle boy who pumps up the Dees'

(Excuse me while I go and get a life)

and don't forget the tats, studs and a hoodie

that velvet smoking jacket has to go

I say keep the buglar. If anything we need to give him more prominance on match day!

He'll be the making of this club if only we could parade him on a float so eveyone gets to see that amazing jacket and hear his amazing tones. Tut tut and tally ho chaps, an amazing cultural heritage before every home game what!

BTW, does anyone know what the fine might be for throwing eggs and tomatoes at someone on the hallowed MCG turf? Good therapy for every frustrated Demon supporter!

can he dance?

Maybe he can play this as our boys get the tops off for their Pre game warmup ?

I think we should get this bloke in to replace the bugler. It's obvious that his dancing is clearly superior to his pitching.

http://youtu.be/b8zO_DV09QE

Well McLardy said everyone's position is under the microscope, perhaps the Bugler could be next!