This is not normal though. This is not a football club its a disaster zone. No other clubs supporters have been through such a long period of darkness and ineptness. A club should bring its supporters some joy every now and then... we get none.

How far do you want to go back?

I find it hilarious, some of these reactions.

What world do you people live in?

Well I am.

Yours is a laughably naive response.

Welcome to following a football club.

Cool

Maybe u can explain to us what's happening down there ATM and why they're energy levels are sub par across the board?

We got more out of 10 game players then the senior leadership group combined yesterday

Please enlighten me with their excuses

The players should randomly select 5 members each and pay for their memberships as way of an apology.

A friend who supports another club suggested that this was the playing group calling for the coach to be sacked.

I've heard this as well.

I've thought about it a little and ask myself who would I rather back? The [censored] weak playing list who gives up (and this is not the first time)

Or a coach who has a distinguished career at lower clubs like ours and is regarded highly. .

It's not even a question is it? F the playing group its a shame we can't deljst them all

The players should randomly select 5 members each and pay for their memberships as way of an apology.

Now here is an idea I genuinely like

I feel you mate. Today I have just been miserable. I have tried so hard to remain positive all year but the last 8 matches have been disgraceful overall and have chipped away at my resilience until I just broke today. It is getting extremely hard to see us ever turning around what seems to be an ingrained cloak of failure that surrounds us. I feel like I have been cheated in a way for all the misery this club has made me suffer. The game of Aussie Rules is supposed to be enjoyable, how can it be when you are asked to remain strong through torture after 9 years and no end in sight? I actually stormed out at half time cos I couldn't take it - the idea of doing that even a few years ago would have been laughable, but this is how much they have broken me down. I have been to 1 non-mfc game this year when in previous years I would go to 15 easily. This mob is killing me. I have read tonight a great deal of people talking about how today represents the last straw after long periods of unconditional support and inevitable disappointment, and I cannot blame anybody one little bit.

We have disagreed on a few issues recently, but I absolutely agree with you on this.

Cancelling my Dedicated Demon membership. The playing group and football department have shown little to warrant unconditional support.

This is not normal though. This is not a football club its a disaster zone. No other clubs supporters have been through such a long period of darkness and ineptness. A club should bring its supporters some joy every now and then... we get none.

No richmond takes that prize

This playing group and the list in the recent years preceding it will forever bear the stigma of being the group that killed this club.

Even if we somehow manage to navigate a way out of this mess in the next 3-5years the damage has been done. We will have lost an entire generation of new supporters to Hawthorn, Geelong etc which will create financial issues that are almost impossible to address.

If any ordinary business performed this poorly for half as long it would have folded or been taken over by now. But that makes "real" businesses accountable for their actions. Our football club trades in a false economy where the business continues to survive and players continue to get paid market rates despite the obvious lack of care and effort they display in their roles.

the situation is so dire now that the AFL has to either dramatically intervene to break the cycle and make the club genuinely viable or cut it off and let it go to the wall. Either would probably be better for supporters than the current purgatory.

This club is slowly killing our will to go on. And we are the passionate ones. The fair weather fans left long ago.

Edited August 23, 201510 yr by Radar Detector

I want an apology from my old man for helping make me a Demon.

I also will have to forever apologise to my kids for making them Demons

My parents barrack for Hawthorn, but thought it a good idea that their children support Melbourne. How do you think I feel ?

Thankfully, I don't have that problem with my two teenage boys. Despite fierce efforts they have absolutely zero interest in football.

And I'm talking a reconditioned Lada with 300,000 on the clock

Now I know that you are talking shyte, no Lada has ever done 300,000 unless it was on a ship for 8 years.

Totally agree. I woul sack the ENTIRE leadership group on monday morning if i was able to.

The output in the first half was the worst i have seen. We were playing a rubbish busted team on the MCG and they toyed with us....

Agreed. Although the last 3 weeks it has been rinse , wash and repeat. Same shiite different opposition.

This playing group and the list in the recent years preceding it will forever bear the stigma of being the group that killed this club.

Even if we somehow manage to navigate a way out of this mess in the next 3-5years the damage has been done. We will have lost an entire generation of new supporters to Hawthorn, Geelong etc which will create financial issues that are almost impossible to address.

If any ordinary business performed this poorly for half as long it would have folded or been taken over by now. But that makes "real" businesses accountable for their actions. Our football club trades in a false economy where the business continues to survive and players continue to get paid market rates despite the obvious lack of care and effort they display in their roles.

the situation is so dire now that the AFL has to either dramatically intervene to break the cycle and make the club genuinely viable or cut it off and let it go to the wall. Either would probably be better for supporters than the current purgatory.

This club is slowly killing our will to go on. And we are the passionate ones. The fair weather fans left long ago.

I have shared this before, but feel it would be good to write again after reading your post.

My better half is a primary school teacher and after the Geelong win the kids were doing some free drawing as it was near the end of term. My missus noticed that one little boy was drawing a Melbourne jumper, so she asked him why he was drawing this.

He looked up and with a big grin said "Because we won."

At this same school there are over 700 students and each year when everyone dresses up in their footy team colours you will be lucky to see 10 wearing red and blue. This includes kids who wear their local team colours which happen to be Melbourne's.

I just hope that sooner rather than later we can start attracting more supporters through winning and playing well as opposed to just relying on family.

Exactly. As if the OP is going to go "yeah no worries, all good mate" if the club apologises. I remember Matty Primus looking down the camera and apologising for a Port performance when he was at the helm and it made him look like a complete amateur.

Besides, it may feel it in the heat of the moment, but the club is not trying to hurt you personally. We're all frustrated; it's part and parcel of team sport. If teams apologised to their fans every time they played poorly it would become a trite platitude very quickly.

Well said, although I do wonder what Glenn Bartlett's role in all of this is.

For all of their theatrical bluff and bluster Eddie McGuire or Jeff Kennett would let the players know their personal views of what their club stands for and what is tolerated and what isn't.

My parents barrack for Hawthorn, but thought it a good idea that their children support Melbourne. How do you think I feel ?

Thankfully, I don't have that problem with my two teenage boys. Despite fierce efforts they have absolutely zero interest in football.

They are truly blessed.

Any-one got Roos or Jacksons email address?

[email protected]

[email protected]

I have sent my request for an apology with my membership number, I wonder what sort of response I will get?

[email protected]

--I am bitterly disappointed with the lack of effort by the players of the Melbourne Football Club.

If there is a valid reason for the insipid performance of the players, the supporters deserve to be told. If not we need an apology.

I think you have lost me as a loyal paid up member and supporter.

I turn up and pay my membership every year, what have you given me?

Edit - Also sent to (thanks ProDee), [email protected] [email protected]

Edited August 23, 201510 yr by ManDee

No richmond takes that prize

Actually Richmond finished 9th several times, meaning they were a competitive football team. Our last 9 years have been horrendous.

If anyone bothered to watch the Nathan Jones post match interview with Matty Burgan..

Jones was flat as a tack.. Wouldn't look Matt in the eye.. Is just as confused as us.. I feel sorry for him.. He has stood tall performance wise on the field through the most disgusting 3 years the club has seen since the early 80s..

That man does not owe anyone an apology..

I want Cameron Schwabb on a cross and set a light!! You can throw Connolly and Neeld in there too!!

Every year I post about how my son gives the Dees another chance , and every year we let him down .

I talk about how we are on the up, but like a broken record,I lose his trust.

He is fifteen now, and he has probably witnessed four of five wins in his life.

The last six years have been terrible and , whenever football is talked about with family or friends he is genuinely angry about being made a Demon from birth, like its a curse that he could change if he could.

Today I took him to see us play the Blues, surely we were a big chance to win?

Nope, rotten luck again, just like the Stkilda and Essendon games we went to this year.

I am totally gutted at how this pathetic lot have made a kid growing up feel....I resent them as a club....and I take it personally when they put on that sort of effort, like they did in the first half today.

Surely they realise the hell they are putting us through,with their insipid displays?

I feel sick in the guts.....every damn year.

I get it mate, i do, but when people say stuff like this i feel I'm watching that Voice show and it's emotional blackmail.

It's a sport. Non one has died.

Plus, look at the positives.... There is surely no better team to follow that teaches you more about dealing with adversity than us. What better way to be taught what happens when you refuse to learn from your mistakes when you see our players handball to a player in a worse positions 150 times a game?

What team/movie/person can provide as much comedy as we do in 120 minutes?

Surely you don't want to just grow being too good and never have any problems like hawthorn? The expectation in life would just be too much.

I'm thinking that I will take 2016 off from football.

I will buy my membership, but I will not attend games, I will try not to watch games (Melbourne or otherwise) and I will stop posting on and reading here.

I'm thinking that I will take 2016 off from football.

I will buy my membership, but I will not attend games, I will try not to watch games (Melbourne or otherwise) and I will stop posting on and reading here.

You say that now.. But after a summer of meaningless & overkilled T20s.. You'll be back!!

I get it mate, i do, but when people say stuff like this i feel I'm watching that Voice show and it's emotional blackmail.

It's a sport. Non one has died.

Plus, look at the positives.... There is surely no better team to follow that teaches you more about dealing with adversity than us. What better way to be taught what happens when you refuse to learn from your mistakes when you see our players handball to a player in a worse positions 150 times a game?

What team/movie/person can provide as much comedy as we do in 120 minutes?

Surely you don't want to just grow being too good and never have any problems like hawthorn? The expectation in life would just be too much.

You say that now.. But after a summer of meaningless & overkilled T20s.. You'll be back!!

I know, I need to get a 12 month ban from here.

I get it mate, i do, but when people say stuff like this i feel I'm watching that Voice show and it's emotional blackmail.

It's a sport. Non one has died.

Plus, look at the positives.... There is surely no better team to follow that teaches you more about dealing with adversity than us. What better way to be taught what happens when you refuse to learn from your mistakes when you see our players handball to a player in a worse positions 150 times a game?

What team/movie/person can provide as much comedy as we do in 120 minutes?

Surely you don't want to just grow being too good and never have any problems like hawthorn? The expectation in life would just be too much.

No, but surely a person is entitled to some Joy in there life!

He didn't even want to go to school today because he hates being laughed at and bagged for being a Demon.

He and his mates are footy mad......it's tough when you are a footy tragic and your team plays like a bunch of clowns.

No it's not life and death, but it is bloody depressing.