Yes, but it's getting personal!

It means nothing to me, I want to see a premiership for myself.

Thanks for that Jack. I just mentioned it in the grand final post. I always will remember our shock defeat in the '58 GF. We should have had 5 in a row! Oh well life goes on.

The longer the AFL is around, the less these VFL records mean to me. Sure they're great, and they're far more meaningful than any of the other state records; but there's still a large part of me that feels we have no premierships.

Does that make me a bad Melbourne supporter?

It means nothing to me, I want to see a premiership for myself.

Ditto. To me, stuff that happened decades before I was born makes for interesting history, but that's it. It's definitely not worthy of bragging rights. We're currently desperately irrelevant while the Hawks are cleaning up. I find it cringe-worthy when people bring it up as if it matters.

Reckon if I tried to lord this over my Hawthorn supporting mates I'd have to perform CPR on them after they died laughing.

Fair cop, but can't help the year that one is born in....

Only team to ever three-peat.

Make sure to tell anyone that next time they try to kick us while we are down.

The Melbourne Demons are the greatest footy club in history.

So over hearing about our History to be honest. Watching All the build up to grand final and the celebrations afterwards just makes me crave it even more.

Interstingly Nathan Jones went to his first afl grand final and he put a pic up on instagram only for Christian Petracca to write "we will get their one day boss' and chunk replied with 'you know it, just wanted to get an idea'..

I reckon Jonez would have come out from that fired up after seeing his mate Frawley win a flag before him.

nice to see no essendrugs in that list

So over hearing about our History to be honest. Watching All the build up to grand final and the celebrations afterwards just makes me crave it even more.

Interstingly Nathan Jones went to his first afl grand final and he put a pic up on instagram only for Christian Petracca to write "we will get their one day boss' and chunk replied with 'you know it, just wanted to get an idea'..

I reckon Jonez would have come out from that fired up after seeing his mate Frawley win a flag before him.

I find that quite surprising!

I would have thought every club would get its players (at least its leadership team) to as many GF as possible.

Partly to make them hungry and partly for them to experience the atmosphere and hype so that when they get there is a bit of familiarity.

Not to mention they might learn a thing or two about finals football.

WCE looked a bit overwhelmed yesterday...many of them had never been to a GF either!

At least we got Jesse there yesterday in the 1st motorcade!

I think it's fair enough that those who have never experienced any meaningful history but once we become successful, I believe it would become an entirely different matter.

Great we have the history but facts are Hawks have won 13 flags since 1961 vs us 1 in 64....We Have played in 2 GF since & flogged in both, 2 periods of success with Nortthey & Daniher.....

I'm 51 & my best mate has seen 11 flags ....

Enough said!

As one of the older brigade here, it's not ancient history. I still remember the five grand finals I attended (57-60, 64) )vividly. Probably more clearly than what I had for breakfast today.

I just hope that all of you who were born after that golden era get to enjoy the same feeling. At least you've got time on your side.

I doubt I'll ever get to see another one.

Great we have the history but facts are Hawks have won 13 flags since 1961 vs us 1 in 64....We Have played in 2 GF since & flogged in both, 2 periods of success with Nortthey & Daniher.....

I'm 51 & my best mate has seen 11 flags ....

Enough said!

thanks hoges, i wasn't aware of any of that

There's a good story about Tommy Hafey when he was at Richmond and what he would say to players or administrators who talked about how great things were in the 20's and 30's.
He would always drum into them the past doesn't matter. The only thing the Tiges needed to worry about was today and the future. It got to the point where the players, sick of hearing about the 'glorious past', decided to shut up the old codgers at the club and they went out and made some history for themselves.
The first step we need to take is to acknowledge that we have been a very bad club for a very long time. There have been slight patches of relief but 2006-2015 has been fairly reflective of where we have been at in a historical context from 1965 onwards.
It was Cameron Schwab 101 to go on about our history as it distracted us from the absolute shambles the club was. It was gutting to see the Hawks finally move past us on the most premierships won ladder but I hope it's instructive for our boys on what they need to focus on. No more nostalgia. Let's make our own history!

Edited October 4, 20159 yr by Colin B. Flaubert

Our glories are now over half a century ago.

It is time to create some new ones.

I am living for the future as we did not even care to look after the flags we won.

The new glories are five years away but lets win 12 games next year that will be a great start for me.

Would be good to put a little more distance between us and the pack.

I mean, really, a couple of years from now all the current top teams will be mass-retiring and sliding down the ladder Geelong style, and the other 'rebuilders' all look stuck in a perpetual malaise Carlton/Brisbane style.

It's really just us and the Bulldogs going toe to toe from about 2017 on.

Im kinda over telling people how many premiership we have won over our 150 year history even though we haven't won one on over 50 years.

The worst thing is the Hawks have won as many as us in those 50 years.

Edited October 4, 20159 yr by ILLDieADemon

It's time to put our history in a leather case and seal it up

Respect it but move on.....Those ffcuking Hawks have now won 13 flags....12 of which i have seen...

They are officially better than us now...Fact...we could hide before but not now.

We the MFC have been overtaken by the club who admired us the most in the 1950's....They grew...we stagnated....Our players become their staff!!

only one way to do something about it

It's time to put our history in a leather case and seal it up

Respect it but move on.....Those ffcuking Hawks have now won 13 flags....12 of which i have seen...

They are officially better than us now...Fact...we could hide before but not now.

We the MFC have been overtaken by the club who admired us the most in the 1950's....They grew...we stagnated....Our players become their staff!!

only one way to do something about it

Now that IS a horrifying stat. At least I've only had to sit through four of them. That was more than enough for me.

Now that IS a horrifying stat. At least I've only had to sit through four of them. That was more than enough for me.

i was 8 years old sitting in the stand in 1971..that was their second.

That's good, although Hawthorn has overtaken us on total premierships.

In 1961, Hawthorn had 1 flag. Melbourne had 11

Since then?

Hawthorn: 12

Melbourne: 1

In general footy conversation when someone asks how many premierships have Melbourne won I reply, none. This is a new competition to the VFL, we won VFL flags not AFL. In 1990 when the AFL was created, is what matters now, we were a legendary VFL club, hopefully we can be a legendary AFL one too.

In general footy conversation when someone asks how many premierships have Melbourne won I reply, none. This is a new competition to the VFL, we won VFL flags not AFL. In 1990 when the AFL was created, is what matters now, we were a legendary VFL club, hopefully we can be a legendary AFL one too.

Exactly. We're actually one of the worst-performing teams over the course of the whole AFL era.