MFC has created generational negative supporters

[Demonsone 2,006]

Unfortunately the reality is the lack of success & decades of failures along with heartbreak losses, missed final opportunities has created this, here we go again attitude ... 2018 is no different with a fear that another heartbreak finish is upon us. Supporters just can’t trust the MFC!

Edited August 18, 2018 by Hogan2014

[Sir Why You Little 36,737]

4 minutes ago, Hogan2014 said:

Unfortunately the reality is the lack of success & decades of failures along with heartbreak losses, missed final opportunities has created this, here we go again attitude ... 2018 is no different with a fear that another heartbreak finish is upon us. Supporters just can’t trust the MFC!

Have you just woken up from 40 years sleep ??

[Demonsone 2,006]

2 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Have you just woken up from 40 years sleep ??

Mate it’s 50+ for me it’s ingrainec into our DNA if support the MFC expect heartache

[Ethan Tremblay 30,399]

The club continuously gives us excuses to be that way. The ‘here we go again’ attitude of the last few weeks is well and truly justified. Personally, I’m caring less and less, I turned off the game during the third quarter last week and felt pretty neutral about the end result, maybe because it’s just what I’ve come to except from the club. 

Edited August 18, 2018 by Ethan Tremblay

[Sir Why You Little 36,737]

2 minutes ago, Hogan2014 said:

Mate it’s 50+ for me it’s ingrainec into our DNA if support the MFC expect heartache

It’s ingrained in the club. 

The Supporters just pay up annually 

47 years for me

[Dockett 32 1,238]

2 minutes ago, Hogan2014 said:

Mate it’s 50+ for me it’s ingrainec into our DNA if support the MFC expect heartache

Me too but don’t think we are that far away. Would like stronger leadership ( read Lynch from GCS )  and wouldn’t care what we had to do to get him.

[Mach5 4,710]

12 minutes ago, Hogan2014 said:

Unfortunately the reality is the lack of success & decades of failures along with heartbreak losses, missed final opportunities has created this, here we go again attitude ... 2018 is no different with a fear that another heartbreak finish is upon us. Supporters just can’t trust the MFC!

 

Is there a point to this..?

[DubDee 24,703]

Oh my god. Worst thread ever

sorry for the negatively but it’s ingrained

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[John Demonic 5,603]

2 minutes ago, Mach5 said:

 

Is there a point to this..?

Shutup and enjoy the Hogan Hot-takes while they last! /s

Edited August 18, 2018 by johndemonic

[layzie 33,294]

15 minutes ago, Hogan2014 said:

Unfortunately the reality is the lack of success & decades of failures along with heartbreak losses, missed final opportunities has created this, here we go again attitude ... 2018 is no different with a fear that another heartbreak finish is upon us. Supporters just can’t trust the MFC!

Yeah they have, what of it?

[TeamPlayedFine39 8,389]

I think the fact that there are still Melbourne supporters in the world, after the decade we have endured, proves that deep down we are indeed optimists.  

[Pates 9,626]

What can we do about it? Until the team stops proving us right it will continue. 

I would say most Melbourne fans were extremely positive at the start of the year. 

Edited August 18, 2018 by Pates

[4_Kent_Watts 864]

1 hour ago, Dockett 32 said:

Me too but don’t think we are that far away. Would like stronger leadership ( read Lynch from GCS )  and wouldn’t care what we had to do to get him.

Lynch ain't no leader, he's no different from that Italian [censored] who jumped ship and left everyone to drown. That being said wouldn't mind him in our forward line but won't get to us. About leadership, well having Viney out has been massive, just wish he'd cut that bloody toe off.

[At Least I Saw a Flag 5,171]

I've been a supporter since 1968. (And member for many years.)

I can't imagine that the Club is attracting any/many kids to be Demons supporters other than offspring of existing supporters.

[spirit of norm smith 15,490]

47 years and its in the blood. Optimism? What is that? I have heard about this mystery feeling

[Demonsone 2,006]

1 hour ago, Mach5 said:

 

Is there a point to this..?

Who knows anymore so many false dawns, very hard to trust this club! 

Edited August 18, 2018 by Hogan2014

[Brownie 5,921]

52 years for me. My most vivid finals memories are watching us get flogged.

 

[Dockett 32 1,238]

1 hour ago, 4_Kent_Watts said:

Lynch ain't no leader, he's no different from that Italian [censored] who jumped ship and left everyone to drown. That being said wouldn't mind him in our forward line but won't get to us. About leadership, well having Viney out has been massive, just wish he'd cut that bloody toe off.

Don’t think you can wish in this business. 

 

[layzie 33,294]

It always feels like people are having a go at you when statements like this are made. Like it’s somehow our fault for being so negative and we have this duty to always be positive even when we get the boot marks to our mouths year after year.

[Demonsone 2,006]

6 minutes ago, layzie said:

It always feels like people are having a go at you when statements like this are made. Like it’s somehow our fault for being so negative and we have this duty to always be positive even when we get the boot marks to our mouths year after year.

Spot on & the club officials say stay positive & back the team ... yea we do & by buying memberships for 20yrs but we have every right to feel negative & most of these administrators, ceo are gone after 5 yrs but members are for life!

[Demonsone 2,006]

I have a 20 year old son who barely remembers our last final ... he’s endured 12 yrs of failures & always says I was expecting that lose etc .. that’s a club culture which has programmed the thinking of my son that the MFC are losers!

[layzie 33,294]

12 minutes ago, Hogan2014 said:

I have a 20 year old son who barely remembers our last final ... he’s endured 12 yrs of failures & always says I was expecting that lose etc .. that’s a club culture which has programmed the thinking of my son that the MFC are losers!

That says it all really. It’s hard to know what you don’t know and act like you’ve been there. 

[D4Life 2,412]

Win today and we are finalists! 

The world will be a brighter place!

[praha 11,218]

4 hours ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

I think the fact that there are still Melbourne supporters in the world, after the decade we have endured, proves that deep down we are indeed optimists.  

I have said something similar on here before. Our membership is thereabouts with the Bulldogs (2016 flag), Saints ([censored] now but consistent finalists to start the decade), and North (never bottom out, played finals consistently including Prelims and overachieving many years). That we have 45k+ members is a damn testament to our resilience and commitment to the club considering the [censored] we have gone through.

It is tough going however, and our growth is minimal year-on-year. IMO, round 23 and missing finals last year cost us 10k members.

5 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

The club continuously gives us excuses to be that way. The ‘here we go again’ attitude of the last few weeks is well and truly justified. Personally, I’m caring less and less, I turned off the game during the third quarter last week and felt pretty neutral about the end result, maybe because it’s just what I’ve come to except from the club. 

I really try to not care but I always get sucked in. After the Richmond game this year I skipped the Essendon game but then got back on the bandwagon. It was the first time I had willingly skipped a game I could attend in more than a decade. All other Melbourne games I had missed, I missed because I literally couldn't attend for one reason or another. I then got back on the bandwagon.

After the St Kilda loss, I was close to the edge but stuck around. The Geelong game really ticked me off, and I switched off for most of the Adelaide game. After last week, I reacted badly and booked tickets to see Mission Impossible tomorrow. I now intend to write off the money I spent on the ticket to instead go to the pub and watch a game I'm confident we'll lose. I swear following this team is like heroin. I've never taken heroin but I hear that after the initial high, you keep chasing that one awesome high, and constantly find yourself disappointed (and with less money than what you started with). 

1 hour ago, Hogan2014 said:

I have a 20 year old son who barely remembers our last final ... he’s endured 12 yrs of failures & always says I was expecting that lose etc .. that’s a club culture which has programmed the thinking of my son that the MFC are losers!

I was 20 when we last played and won a final. I'd never had a full time job, was earning about $100 a week and spent my free time playing PlayStation 2.

I'm now in a managerial role, have a mortgage, am married, own a car, have travelled the world (3 times), started a business, sold a business, seen two siblings and three cousins get married, became an uncle once, twice, and for a third time, completed a degree, a post-grad diploma, and a masters.

Also, John Howard was Prime Minister.

IMO I'd rather not remember when we last played finals, then remember. I am essentially paying $600 years to remember. 

[FireInTheBennelly 4,061]

For mine this was the one thing that Roosy got wrong in his time, and it was very wrong. Suggesting there was a 'veil of negativity' over the club's supporters.

One only need look at the clubs last 50 years, and I'm pretty sure you'd find a 'veil of failure'. I think that was a massive lack of respect to the clubs heart and soul, and is probably the reason why we missed finals last year and are on shaky ground again this season. Show us and the jumper some respect and get it done.