This may sound stupid however it has been done before... If this year turns out how we fear it may be is it worth starting compeltely fresh and rebranding the club under a different name ?? A completely fresh start may be the change we need, new name new colours and new feel about the club.

Yeah, nah

Only other thing I can think of rather than merging. Simple fact is the AFL cannot continue to keep us in the competition if we no longer bring in results, fans, memberships or money.

You mean, close down the Melbourne Football Club so that another club can enter the league?

Derrrrpp?

How about we close the club and distribute the membership to other clubs in a kind of delisted free agency?

Wait!

I've got it!

A merger with Fitzroy! That's thinking outside the box.

Name change would be the last on the list of things that need an overhaul.

How about we lift our heads and play like demons?

I didnt mean close the club I meant renaming it like we did when we were the fuschias or the hawks did

Blame CS. He is responsible for this mess.

Name change would be the last on the list of things that need an overhaul.

need a new blazer......badly

That would change nothing, just wrap up a rubbish team in different colours, under a different name .

At the very least this group can take pride in the fact that this is coach number 3 and they still play with little effort and no passion.

We need to look deeper than the coach or this group could finish up with six or seven scalps and still be rubbish.

That would change nothing, just wrap up a rubbish team in different colours, under a different name .

At the very least this group can take pride in the fact that this is coach number 3 and they still play with little effort and no passion.

We need to look deeper than the coach or this group could finish up with six or seven scalps and still be rubbish.

Put them all up for trade.

These players will not save the MFC (with a few exceptions)

Grimes should be stripped of the Captaincy this week.

Give it to Bernie Vince or Cross.

We need absolute change.

Time to go to Tassie or Canberra , or merge with North.

Nothing will ever change unless we change our identity.

Yeah sure, that would change everything overnight!

Lucky there weren't internet forums around between 65 and 87 or we would be suffering from a massive identity crisis right now from changing names so many times

It seems to me if you change the name of the club you'd start winning games???? Who didn't think of this earlier???????

i think we should ban training reports until they win a game

Absolutely hate the idea of a name change, but a major list overhaul with the AFL's help, we delist all but say 5-10 players and get some draft concessions to help rebuild from the ground up

Changing our name or location would be a case of 'There's nothing in the fridge to eat so let's go paint the house.' Would make the place look different but the key issue would remain unchanged.

Somebody will get angry soon, surely. Properly angry, and remember playing football the way they set out to. "Bruise-free" do it, next week, maybe?

Fitzroy had some good players playing well when they went under. This is something else.

What humiliation is it has crushed them - Neeld? the blazers? something, it has to be.

C'mon Roosy, work it out!

Lets be realistic who of our list would we definitely keep

Trengove, Grimes, M.Jones, Bail, Nicholson, Byrnes, Fitzpatrick, Barry, Tapscott, Blease, Strauss, Spencer, Jamar, Jetta, Terlich should all be traded or delisted

Clark - may well never play again

Frawley - will be hard to watch in brown and Yellow

Dunn - playing his best footy and is a free agent

Mcdonald - also believe he is out of contract

Watts and Howe have ability but they're both so inconsistent and frustrating

Vince and Cross are doing what they were recruited to do

Gawn, Dawes, Hogan - good injured players

Clisby, Toumpas, Salem, Hunt, Kennedy-Harris, not sure if i have missed anyone - too young to really judge yet

Let's not wait till season's end, Byrnes should be told to clean out his locker tomorrow.

We need to stop looking for external reasons when the real reason is staring us in the face. This list has far too many passengers who turn up on a weekly basis thinking that giving the absolute minimum is enough, they don't bleed for the jumper, christ they don't even try for the jumper. They carry the moniker of AFL footballer and that is good enough for them, losing doesn't seem to hurt and working hard to improve is a foreign concept, we have as few as 5 or 6 players who are up to this while the rest are happy doing what they are doing.

We will only move forward with a generational change to the list and it is probably to late for that.

Why are we so bad??

Port turned it around, why can't we?

Why are we so bad??

Port turned it around, why can't we?

Our players are shot mentally, we have been bad for 8 years, port won a flag 10 years ago and played in another grand final 7 years ago, they were always alot better than Matty Primus the dudd made them look

need a new blazer......badly

We need a handful of trail blazing players........badly!

paul gardener is that u, you tried to kill the demon before, the loss of scully really hurt us, and it has to do with more then him as a player, every thing we got from him has truned to sh^&*t, when he left we got clark, what a disaster that truned out to be, hogan might never play a game, pat cummins had the same thing, and three years on he is playing as a batesman in grade cricket, dom barry will not play a game, trengrove is another player, very good junior is found out to be very limited as a senior, and do not worry about culling the list, N,jones will take off with free agent, colin garland, aswell and of course james F is gone, he said he will wait to see the direction of the club, what does he see, he sees clark retire hogan never to play for the MFC, dawes out all year with leg injuries. and with every loss that is 100 members that will never sign on again, and unless rupert murdoch pumps money into the club, when the membership goes under 30000, that will be the end.