I’ve watched 5 decades of failure!

[Wiseblood 24,637]

14 hours ago, goodwindees said:

And there are idiots on this site that actually believe we have good salary cap & list management.

 If you want an example of outstanding salary cap (TPP) management, take a look at Richmond. We’d be lucky to have 2 A Graders whereas Tigers would have about 10.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Idiots?  Are you 12?

This thread is like a wet dream for WYL.  He'll be all over it like a rash.

Say one thing for Melbourne fans - they do know how to wallow in their own self misery better than anyone else.

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7 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

Idiots?  Are you 12?

This thread is like a wet dream for WYL.  He'll be all over it like a rash.

Say one thing for Melbourne fans - they do know how to wallow in their own self misery better than anyone else.

Time to take your lithium.

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9 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

Idiots?  Are you 12?

This thread is like a wet dream for WYL.  He'll be all over it like a rash.

Say one thing for Melbourne fans - they do know how to wallow in their own self misery better than anyone else.

Haha ? i was waiting for you to jump on here. 

This is not wallowing in any misery. This is looking at reality of where this Club really is. 

Did you watch last nights game closely??

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We all feel the misery. Wallowing in it is optional.

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15 hours ago, Meggs said:

So goodwindees who are these ten Tiger A-graders?

Dusty, Jack R, Rance, Cotchin, Edwards and (Deledio) used to be their recognised big 6.  So 5 more.  Definitely would include Lynch, Houli and Grimes (now AA).   Last 2 are a toss up, maybe Prestia and Vlaustuin.   Tiges also have a strong seconds team.

I guess you are including Max and Clarry for us and then a huge gap to our Bs and Cs etc.  So who are our B-graders getting all the money ???  Lever, May...

I'm no "Goodwindee" but it's not the A graders winning games for the Tigers. They win the small battles across the ground and play a superb team game. 

We have the pieces but when you have perennial losers as your team leaders, and hot heads like Oliver and Petracca leading the way elsewhere, you need to find a way to motivate players to sacrifice ego and individual prestige for the team.

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2 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Haha ? i was waiting for you to jump on here. 

This is not wallowing in any misery. This is looking at reality of where this Club really is. 

Did you watch last nights game closely??

No it's wallowing, I'm nigh on 6 decades.

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5 minutes ago, loges said:

No it's wallowing, I'm nigh on 6 decades.

Wallowing means you do nothing about it. 

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3 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Wallowing means you do nothing about it. 

Pretty sure it.s associated with self pity. (just looked it up)

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5 minutes ago, loges said:

Pretty sure it.s associated with self pity. (just looked it up)

Enjoy it...

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22 minutes ago, loges said:

No it's wallowing, I'm nigh on 6 decades.

Is it bad to get shitty watching my brother enjoy tigers win?

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18 hours ago, Demonsone said:

I’ve now witnessed 5 decades of failure at the mfc , 70s 80s,90s ,2000s, 2010s

Yep, me too, was a young kid in 70’s, then the rest???

Edited September 21, 2019 by davo

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11 hours ago, Wiseblood said:

 

Say one thing for Melbourne fans - they do know how to wallow in their own self misery better than anyone else.

And then the violent swing to "we've got this"

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It’s so nice to see some refreshing topics to discuss on this forum. 

This is exactly the type of thread demonland has been missing. Bravo! 

Edited September 21, 2019 by Smokey

[doc roet 1,287]

Reality check to self.

I was a boy in primary school in 64

I am an old man in retirement in 19

I will be worm excrement before we win our next premiership. 

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10 hours ago, doc roet said:

Reality check to self.

I was a boy in primary school in 64

I am an old man in retirement in 19

I will be worm excrement before we win our next premiership. 

You're making quite an assumption there ... NEXT premiership?

[Mazer Rackham 14,971]

If you can make it to 6 decades, you will set a new personal best.

 

On 9/21/2019 at 10:09 AM, dieter said:

I started watching in 1961. That makes 6 decades. So what? Who is counting?

Whoops! We have a leader in the clubhouse!

[old dee 23,791]

1 hour ago, Mazer Rackham said:

If you can make it to 6 decades, you will set a new personal best.

 

Whoops! We have a leader in the clubhouse!

I up dieter by two Started in 1959.

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On 9/21/2019 at 5:00 PM, praha said:

I'm no "Goodwindee" but it's not the A graders winning games for the Tigers. They win the small battles across the ground and play a superb team game. 

We have the pieces but when you have perennial losers as your team leaders, and hot heads like Oliver and Petracca leading the way elsewhere, you need to find a way to motivate players to sacrifice ego and individual prestige for the team.

This is the opposite of melbourne

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On 9/21/2019 at 11:01 AM, Fork 'em said:

Either do my kids.
Even though they do.
Same for me really.
Brainwashed from birth by the old man.
The tradition continues .......

As my adult children Wife and Dog keep reminding me!!

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34 minutes ago, old dee said:

I up dieter by two Started in 1959.

My god. You poor [word bound to be censored by D'land]

[dieter 3,325]

39 minutes ago, old dee said:

I up dieter by two Started in 1959.

When I racked my 3 remaining brain cells, I understand it was 1960 for me, so you still win...

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On 9/21/2019 at 3:01 PM, Wiseblood said:

Idiots?  Are you 12?

This thread is like a wet dream for WYL.  He'll be all over it like a rash.

Say one thing for Melbourne fans - they do know how to wallow in their own self misery better than anyone else.

And what do you expect. The club has largely been a shambles since 1964 and probably a little before that. Melbourne were the first semi professional club who gained success on this basis and then rested on the laurels or should I say Caldwells until, inevitably, other clubs like Hawthorn and Carlton became thoroughly professional and we remained in a limbo between  a Saturday afternoon outing and a fair dinkum battle both on and off the field .  I'd refer anyone who doesn't believe this to read Brent Croswell's brilliant accounts of his time at Melbourne.

Whatever Melbourne did to overcome their pathetic status was always five years behind the AFL leaders'   benchmark. WE often improved but it was always not enough. In fact we have always been the NQRs. Many, like myself thought we had finally  started to get our act together until the 2019 crash. Of course we are angry.

Naturally football clubs, particularly professional clubs, and for this purpose I reluctantly include Melbourne in that category, don't like criticism especially a "crie de couer" from a long standing loyal supporter such as WYL. They would prefer us to yell loudly on the day and if beaten go home with a few consoling platitudes, such as better team won on the day or we would have won if Fred hadn't ruptured his heart muscle. I remember going to an after game wrap up at the SCG in the 1990s and the club members being told by an official that we did pretty well until we were overrun in the last quarter We were expected to swallow that.The fact is we dropped our bundle. 

I don't agree with everything WYL says but if it causes a few rankles among our more trusting and complacent supporters and even  perhaps among the paid officials, who all should bear some scrutiny for the 2019 debacle, so much the better.

More power to WYL's arm I say!

Edited September 22, 2019 by Mydee
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Yep.
How these blokes think we should all be content with what this club has produced over the last 50+ years is amazing.
In that time we'd be lucky to be acceptable for 10.
The rest have been absolute garbage.
 

Edited September 22, 2019 by Fork 'em

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