Not sure what all the fuss about Docklands is. I don't mind it.

5 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Hopefully the MFC fan base makes up for the putrid crowd of 8,000 that turned up to the last home game there.

Pathetic effort from the MFC members and supporters that day, when you consider less than 20% of members showed up.

I think a statement was made that day. I went, and I shall go again today, but not getting a seat in the 2nd tier (I have a reserved seat at the MCG) and having to play Saints on their home ground still doesn't sit well.( and I will ask you not to call me putrid!)

5 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Hopefully the MFC fan base makes up for the putrid crowd of 8,000 that turned up to the last home game there.

Pathetic effort from the MFC members and supporters that day, when you consider less than 20% of members showed up.

You can jam that opinion where the sun don't shine. I pay my membership and I'll do what I want without peanuts telling me I am pathetic. The club is lucky I bought my six memberships again this year. after what they dished out last year.

You don't get to tell me anything about what I or any other member does.

Fixturing us against When we had been thrashed for 4 weeks in a row in the. first quarter? 72 pts to 2 against the dogs? Losing to Carlton? 60 pts down agains North.

Yeah I was really going to make an effort to get to Etihad to see GWS on a Sunday in the last game of the year after the club had treated us supporters so well.

I hate Etihad, but I'm going. Very nervous though.

Meggs and son on their way to E. Hate going to Docklands normally because we lately lose and the wait for the train after the game is a pain.

Today Meggs is quietly confident of a good showing and it will be awesome to be there for the CP5 debut.  Go Dees ?

Times are changing, curses are being lifted. Not a Etihad fan but ill be there because the Dee's will.

I suppose it is better than going to moorrabin and standing in 3 feet of mud and waiting 2 hours to go to the toilet.

Although watching Allen Jakovich kick 8 wasnt so bad.

So are you guys coming or what?

Sitting inside the ground now, 45 mins to game time and there's 3000 at best in the seats... :/

Hope another 15000+ are on their way in

Etihad should be a good venue given the location/ proximity to Southern Cross Station. But it isn't.  And ticketing is a shemozzle at the ground. Definitely not international standard.

Badly run hell hole.

Close it down.

 

We got more people to the Round 1 game against GWS than we did today.

22 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

We got more people to the Round 1 game against GWS than we did today.

My Uranus Titaned when i saw this match at the release of the 2016 fixture. Because we got 8K to the GWS game last year I believe we were given a game against another Victorian club to get bums on seats to avoid another embarrassing attendance for us and the AFL at our forced "home game" at the dung heap. Not at all help by the fact that it is the Saints home ground, go figure. Thought it would be fairer to play another Victorian non Etihad resident team. Such is life.

I went. The players didn't.

 

5 hours ago, Meggs said:

Meggs and son on their way to E. Hate going to Docklands normally because we lately lose and the wait for the train after the game is a pain.

Today Meggs is quietly confident of a good showing and it will be awesome to be there for the CP5 debut.  Go Dees ?

No Meggsy, not you too falling into the third person trap.

6 hours ago, Ricky P said:

Not sure what all the fuss about Docklands is. I don't mind it.

It bottlenecks like a mothertrucker at the end of game if you are heading towards Spencer Street Station. When the crowd is only 20,000. Quite simply, that isn't good enough.

The baseball stadium where I come from has 14 gates and there is never an issue with crowds getting to or leaving a game.

The bridge between Etihad and the station is too angled (when coming from Gates 4-7) and walkways too narrow in places.

29 minutes ago, stuie said:

I went. The players didn't.

 

Yep, loved how they wanted everyone to turn up, and yet they didn't. If i was them, i'd be solely worrying about what they can control, not what they cannot.

22 hours ago, dees189227 said:

I know it's not our home ground but it's our home game. Past home matches the crowd hasn't been great and that is mainly due to the teams performance. But we need the fans to get there tomorrow and make it loud like it was last week. 

We are playing some good footy at the moment and shock horror we are winning and going for our 3rd in a row. Petracca will be making his debut which will be exciting. 

It would just be great to see a lot of red and blue. 

If this club is serious STOP PLAYING FRIGGEN HOME GAMES AT THIS DOG OF A GROUND!!!

12 minutes ago, Maple Demon said:

It bottlenecks like a mothertrucker at the end of game if you are heading towards Spencer Street Station. When the crowd is only 20,000. Quite simply, that isn't good enough.

The baseball stadium where I come from has 14 gates and there is never an issue with crowds getting to or leaving a game.

The bridge between Etihad and the station is too angled (when coming from Gates 4-7) and walkways too narrow in places.

The Colosseum in Rome could be emptied in 5 minutes and that was 2000 years ago.

34 minutes ago, Maple Demon said:

It bottlenecks like a mothertrucker at the end of game if you are heading towards Spencer Street Station. When the crowd is only 20,000. Quite simply, that isn't good enough.

The baseball stadium where I come from has 14 gates and there is never an issue with crowds getting to or leaving a game.

The bridge between Etihad and the station is too angled (when coming from Gates 4-7) and walkways too narrow in places.

It does bottleneck and if there was a serious incident a crush could easily happen.

I saw the same doco as you (on stadiums) and having seen it I wonder how they license the place.

The ticketing was a shambles as usual.

A nice touch as I was leaving was the busker getting shaken down by Etihad security in that tunnel/walkway although he was pretty good.

We could have had 50,000 at the MCG and we play better there as well.

We lost the day off field by agreeing to play it there and the players gave it away on field.

 

7 minutes ago, Biffen said:

It does bottleneck and if there was a serious incident a crush could easily happen.

I saw the same doco as you (on stadiums) and having seen it I wonder how they license the place.

The ticketing was a shambles as usual.

A nice touch as I was leaving was the busker getting shaken down by Etihad security in that tunnel/walkway although he was pretty good.

We could have had 50,000 at the MCG and we play better there as well.

We lost the day off field by agreeing to play it there and the players gave it away on field.

 

Agreed. Only 27k turned up, took far too long to get in (unless you were in a private box), in the event of an emergency evacuation the crowd would be fked. Docklands management work on the 'head in the sand' principle. 

I went today and swore I will never, ever go back again ( apparently I said the same thing in 2014 & 2015 according to my husband).

I felt like I was sitting in a airless warehouse or factory plus the haze makes it difficult to see across to the other wing. Definitely not going back.

 

Wish I was in a corporate box at Etihad with canapés and a day bed. Might have made the loss more bearable, if I had noticed at all.

Such is life, as Ben Cousins so beautifully put it.

1 hour ago, Biffen said:

It does bottleneck and if there was a serious incident a crush could easily happen.

I saw the same doco as you (on stadiums) and having seen it I wonder how they license the place.

The ticketing was a shambles as usual.

A nice touch as I was leaving was the busker getting shaken down by Etihad security in that tunnel/walkway although he was pretty good.

We could have had 50,000 at the MCG and we play better there as well.

We lost the day off field by agreeing to play it there and the players gave it away on field.

 

When did we agree to play it there?

As far as I know, each year we request all our Melbourne home games to be at the G. It's the AFL's decision, not ours.

It is a [censored] hole - the only redeeming feature today was my presence.