Anzac Eve .. the Crowd

[beelzebub 23,380]

Itll just become the Kings Birthday. 

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,811]

16 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

Itll just become the Kings Birthday. 

You may be right (but I hold the alternative view). The club would be naive to assume that this will just happen automatically, though. 

[beelzebub 23,380]

32 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

You may be right (but I hold the alternative view). The club would be naive to assume that this will just happen automatically, though. 

I think all efforts should be made to entrench ourselves in the Anzac eve match whether or not the QB goes on or not.

The QB is a holiday and it'd be  a daring lot that dispensed with it should HM move on.

Footy on that Monday is an institution. Think its fairly safe

[Diamond_Jim 12,592]

2 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

It's an easy one. ANZAC Eve will last forever; Her Majesty has just had her 91st birthday. I'm not confident that the public holiday will remain after her passing as part of a general push towards Australia eventually becoming a republic.

It may be that an alternative public holiday will be created on the same day (meaning the first Monday in June) - in which case the Melbourne v Collingwood game could continue - but it's also possible a different day might be identified for a more relevant holiday.  

Good point.... like the forward thinking.

The republic will happen unless the politicians play the system again (thanks John Howard).

Perhaps the holiday will be replaced by an Indigenous recognition day but no guarantee it would be on the same day.

[Bring-Back-Powell 14,850]

Gotta love some of the Richmond turkeys on Bigfooty, stating that Melbourne are damn lucky that a power house like Richmond let Melbourne play this game.

 

[Sir Why You Little 37,046]

1 minute ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Gotta love some of the Richmond turkeys on Bigfooty, stating that Melbourne are damn lucky that a power house like Richmond let Melbourne play this game.

 

Oh yeah i have relatives sending me messages at 5am!!

Richmond Supporters are a serious pain in the ass

[deebug 1,754]

You should of seen them in the 80s they had their own cheer squad it was called the Richmond grog squad; i only know this because one time at the footy with my dad they sat in front of us and had Richmond grog squad shaved in the back of their heads.

[Sir Why You Little 37,046]

1 minute ago, deebug said:

You should of seen them in the 80s they had their own cheer squad it was called the Richmond grog squad; i only know this because one time at the footy with my dad they sat in front of us and had Richmond grog squad shaved in the back of their heads.

The 70's were 10 x worse Mate!

they won Back to Back Flags. It was hideous...

[deebug 1,754]

Yes too true, lets hope the Crows bring them down from smart %#& high they are all on at the moment.

[daisycutter 29,616]

 

semel in curet, semper curet

once a feral always a feral

[Dante 2,739]

59 minutes ago, deebug said:

You should of seen them in the 80s they had their own cheer squad it was called the Richmond grog squad; i only know this because one time at the footy with my dad they sat in front of us and had Richmond grog squad shaved in the back of their heads.

Actually that was done in the hospital when they had their brain removed.

Unlike some on here I'd like the Tigers to win their next few matches, it would show that our form is good and that we are competitive against the best around. Also I'd like to see both the Tigers and the Demons become powerhouse teams with a fierce and longstanding rivalry, that would take care of the problems around whether we keep the game and whether the crowd would come.

If the Pies were in the frame for a flag tis year and we were playing good football you'd see a huge crowd at the G on the QB, it's not the charity aspect of the game that stops them going, it's been a case of either one team or the other being ordinary.

[old dee 23,792]

2 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

The 70's were 10 x worse Mate!

they won Back to Back Flags. It was hideous...

So who won on how many Dees supporters would be there SWYL?

[Sir Why You Little 37,046]

5 minutes ago, old dee said:

So who won on how many Dees supporters would be there SWYL?

What??

[old dee 23,792]

Just now, Sir Why You Little said:

What??

A week ago we were discussing how many MFC supporters would be there and I said 20k max.

Remember the discussion?

How many were there?

[Sir Why You Little 37,046]

Just now, old dee said:

A week ago we were discussing how many MFC supporters would be there and I said 20k max.

Remember the discussion?

How many were there?

Far more than 20k watching from the TV

[old dee 23,792]

1 minute ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Far more than 20k watching from the TV

That was not the discussion.

How many went to the G?

 

[whatwhat say what 22,779]

queen's birthday public holiday does not 'celebrate' the the actual birthday of the monarch, but, after george v died, it was left as the second monday in june.

fwiw, qe2's actual birthday was last week.

it's all moot anyway. vive la republique!

and why can't we have both? the more 'event games' the mfc is involved with...the better!

Edited April 26, 2017 by DemonAndrew

[Sir Why You Little 37,046]

5 minutes ago, old dee said:

That was not the discussion.

How many went to the G?

 

30,000 + easily

[old dee 23,792]

4 minutes ago, DemonAndrew said:

queen's birthday public holiday does not 'celebrate' the the actual birthday of the monarch, but, after george v died, it was left as the second monday in june.

fwiw, qe2's actual birthday was last week.

it's all moot anyway. vive la republique!

and why can't we have both? the more 'event games' the mfc is involved with...the better!

Can we just win a few DA?

[whatwhat say what 22,779]

won both of em last year old dee.

sadly will have to settle for 1-1 in 2017.

[old dee 23,792]

Just now, Sir Why You Little said:

30,000 + easily

Sorry there were not IMO 30k there on Monday night. If lucky we had one in four which means out of 85K we got 21.5 even one in three only gets  28k.

I don't believe it was as high as every third person there was a Dees supporter.

[old dee 23,792]

6 minutes ago, DemonAndrew said:

won both of em last year old dee.

sadly will have to settle for 1-1 in 2017.

Sadly that is ancient history now DA.

We need to get a few back in the next month or it will be  zero and two.

[Chris 2,892]

16 minutes ago, old dee said:

Sorry there were not IMO 30k there on Monday night. If lucky we had one in four which means out of 85K we got 21.5 even one in three only gets  28k.

I don't believe it was as high as every third person there was a Dees supporter.

Not sure where you were sitting but was easily 1 in 3 and more like 50/50 where I was. Other areas I could see were dominated by the tiges, but large areas weren't. We easily had 30k there, unless we make a hell of a lot of noise with not many of us. 

[old dee 23,792]

9 minutes ago, Chris said:

Not sure where you were sitting but was easily 1 in 3 and more like 50/50 where I was. Other areas I could see were dominated by the tiges, but large areas weren't. We easily had 30k there, unless we make a hell of a lot of noise with not many of us. 

So more than three quarters of the membership Chris?

Not one in five where I was.

[Wrecker45 3,378]

It was heavily Melbourne in the MCC.