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OUR CLUB NEEDS UNITY - Support the club - Rally at our open training session - Friday 12th April - 9:45am - Gosch's Paddock

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Wizza
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"If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit,

Satyriconhome
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Gents, just got back and having lunch whilst typing this, promised this to Lifelong Demon There are normally 5 or 6 and a stray dog at training, today wasn't good, it was magnificent. Some admin ou

Whispering_Jack
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That the club needs unity is obvious. It's a vital ingredient for a successful club and one that's been missing at ours for a long time. On and off for nearly 50 years. Nice sentiments in the OP. I'm

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Patrick Smith can go and get stuffed!

We are the oldest Club in the AFL! We created the rules of the game and have been around for 150 years!

Every Football Club has gone through challenging periods! You can't just pull the rug from under us! We haven't had the mass amount of money and draft concessions that Gold Coast and GWS have had! You cannot just kill us off becuase of a few bad losses! We aren't in any financial problems like Fitzroy were!

The Melbourne Football Club needs to stand up to Media bullies like Patrick Smith and other morons....send these scumbag journalists angry letters and we all need to turn up to Demons training and to Demons matches.

We need to keep the Media accountable for these kinds of disgraceful and stupid articles such as those by imbeciles like Patrick Smith!

First and Forever!!!

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I like to rake a little muck on muck-rakers...

The Ten Cricket Chuckers

The Sunday Age

Sunday October 28, 2007

Warwick Green

10. Patrick Smith (1970s)

Best known in these parts as a belligerent columnist first with The Age and then The Australian, Smith was equally aggressive as an opening bowler for district club Prahran in the 1970s. He once copped a two-week ban for following through and chesting a batsman to the ground. Smith was also said to have a questionable action, although he was never called. In one Victorian second-XI match against Western Australia, he opened the bowling with Rodney Hogg.

Leading umpire Bill Smythe, looking on from the boundary, was heard to declare that Smith was a chucker. Smythe went to Prahran training the next week, and after watching on from square-leg, suggested to Prahran and ACB chairman Bob Parish that Smith needed some remedial work on his action.

Now, ask yourself, "is this the man that should be leading the chorus on sports ethics?"

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I would like to encourage all Demon supporters to attend training on Friday. Whatever our opinions and feelings about the current plight of the MFC, I'm sure we can agree on one thing; we'll always be Demons! It is obvious that our team are playing without confidence. Many of them are young and inexperienced. Several are new to the club. When big things happen it is easy for rank and file supporters to despair about having any influence. I believe if we can get 150 - 200 supporters to training on Friday morning it won't go unnoticed by the playing group. It will give them a lift! It will send a strong message of support, a sign of unity, "We will stick by you through thick and thin". I believe it could have an immediate impact on how they perform on the weekend. Here is a rare opportunity for the ground roots supporter to make a strong (and public) statement about our love for our brand. Give it a try, be part of the turn-around!

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I like to rake a little muck on muck-rakers...

The Ten Cricket Chuckers

The Sunday Age

Sunday October 28, 2007

Warwick Green

10. Patrick Smith (1970s)

Best known in these parts as a belligerent columnist first with The Age and then The Australian, Smith was equally aggressive as an opening bowler for district club Prahran in the 1970s. He once copped a two-week ban for following through and chesting a batsman to the ground. Smith was also said to have a questionable action, although he was never called. In one Victorian second-XI match against Western Australia, he opened the bowling with Rodney Hogg.

Leading umpire Bill Smythe, looking on from the boundary, was heard to declare that Smith was a chucker. Smythe went to Prahran training the next week, and after watching on from square-leg, suggested to Prahran and ACB chairman Bob Parish that Smith needed some remedial work on his action.

Now, ask yourself, "is this the man that should be leading the chorus on sports ethics?"

Could someone send this to KB/SEN. He couldn't hate us anymore than he already does.

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Melbourne FC sucks?

Hate watching the games?

No reason to look forward to next year?

Footy is killing you right now?

Never seen a MFC Premiership?

i know.. and i understand..

but i have faith. Maybe not the faith that we will win a trophy in the next 5 years, just faith that it wont be long until i love footy again.

i barrack for a team called Southampton in English Premier League..

we were never a force, but were always around in the Premier League.

then one day we got relegated..

the next year we went Bankrupt and into Administration and relegated AGAIN and woukd start the following season on -10 points.

it was at this stage i gave up any belief of seeing my boys fly high again.

but we found as a team the Will and Determinatikn to say "this isnt Southampton as it should be.. we belong in the Premier League!

and we fought our way back into the Premier League and earned iur respect back from our Peers and the Media.

And its given me the belief to have faith in the team i love no matter HOW BAD THINGS SEEM!

Im not anyone, im a nobody, just an average guy who loves.his footy, and as much as i hate right here n now i love the fact that like Southampton we can and WILL bounce back again!

its the Demons, we never do things the easy way!

so just remember your favourite MFC memories.. Flower.. Jakovich.. Farmer.. whatever it may be, and just know that u will one day soon have that same excitement about footy again..

just keep strong and keep believing!

thats all really..

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I don't know where we are heading to.I don't know how the future for the Melbourne Football Club will turn out.I do know that whatever happens i will not turn my back on this club.I will continue to walk around town with my Melbourne jacket.I will continue to have a Demons flag flying from my car. :P Even if we are going to lose very game this year by over 100 points i will continue to stand by my Demons.We were here first,were not going anywhere and boy will we enjoy it when we get our act together and start winning again.Im not sure that Mark Neeld can turn this around but i will be delighted if he proves me wrong.No one is suffering more than Neeldy at the moment.

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Ill never give up but untill we have 100pc buy in from the president down we wont change a thing, we cant even handle the media.

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Ill never give up but untill we have 100pc buy in from the president down we wont change a thing, we cant even handle the media.

Can I ask one question, can you stand up in front of a hostile crowd and answer loaded questions, if you can and have stick the video on here so we can all watch your expertise and we'll get everybody on the staff at MFC to watch it as well.

Part of the reason Cameron Schwab was such a good CEO was he new how to handle an audience and was very media savvy, Don McLardy is trying to learn as he goies along and it's all been so easy up to now........

Will await the video with interest

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Can I ask one question, can you stand up in front of a hostile crowd and answer loaded questions, if you can and have stick the video on here so we can all watch your expertise and we'll get everybody on the staff at MFC to watch it as well.

Part of the reason Cameron Schwab was such a good CEO was he new how to handle an audience and was very media savvy, Don McLardy is trying to learn as he goies along and it's all been so easy up to now........

Will await the video with interest

Do you think we have a good midfield? If not, let me see your video of dominating the midfield of an AFL side.

It's ludicrous to have a go at a poster who is critical of the job someone at the club is doing simply because they're not doing it themselves.

We should not have the mentality of "he's not up to scratch but, oh well, he's the best we've got." We need to expect the best and I, for one, hope that a strong-willed man/woman comes forward to take the Presidency from Don.

He's a super bloke and he's done a pretty good job under very trying circumstances (a job he didn't really even want) but I think it's time for him to step aside if the right person comes forward.

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Can I ask one question, can you stand up in front of a hostile crowd and answer loaded questions, if you can and have stick the video on here so we can all watch your expertise and we'll get everybody on the staff at MFC to watch it as well.

Part of the reason Cameron Schwab was such a good CEO was he new how to handle an audience and was very media savvy, Don McLardy is trying to learn as he goies along and it's all been so easy up to now........

Will await the video with interest

Im not running the club... our club called the presser so they should been prepaired for those 'loaded'questions.

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Can I ask one question, can you stand up in front of a hostile crowd and answer loaded questions, if you can and have stick the video on here so we can all watch your expertise and we'll get everybody on the staff at MFC to watch it as well.

Part of the reason Cameron Schwab was such a good CEO was he new how to handle an audience and was very media savvy, Don McLardy is trying to learn as he goies along and it's all been so easy up to now........

Will await the video with interest

There are folk here on DLand who are requried to front hostile crowds and speak under pressure - regularly, many times a week.

I agree that Don didn't ask for the job, is a genuine bloke and is having a real dig, but it's quite reasonable to comment on his lack of expertise in this area

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Part of the reason Cameron Schwab was such a good CEO was he new how to handle an audience and was very media savvy...

Which is exactly why he is gone. He's been MIA since '186'. He didn't represent the club well because he knew that he'd lost too much respect amongst the playing group. We couldn't take advantage of his strengths (media) and so all that happened was the focuses shifted to his weaknesses (managing footy dept., sponsor debacles).

Regardless of how you feel Satyriconhome I hope you can make it to training on Friday morning. Should be fun.

Go Dees!

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