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3 hours ago, Kozzie4PM said:

As repeated over and over, Melbourne has high fan to attendance and fan to membership ratios. We are not, and never have been, a fair weather supporter group. What you in fact asking for, is for us to be more fair weather - higher attendances in a post-flag year where we are in premiership contention again. And you can bet your bottom dollar we'd be accused of being fair weather had our attendances skyrocketed this year.

Not sure of your logic here. 🤔 

 

 
7 minutes ago, DeeZone said:

MFC have just put out a response to members concerns about oppo supporters sitting in our dedicated seating area’s. It is requesting members not to transfer seats to non MFC patrons but I haven’t witnessed any non MFC patrons being challenged by MCC staff.!!

Quite a few Pies supporters in our area (N49) last game - annoyed the hell out of me (mainly because we lost). Personally I don’t have a huge problem with letting others use your tix…but curious to hear others’ thoughts…

On 8/9/2022 at 12:30 PM, fr_ap said:

The other key driver of noise & passion is demographic. I've covered this before but put simply - footy means more to those with less. It's a weekly highlight (for many, the key highlight) & an escape from the daily pressures. You can see this at Pies games, Blues games & Tigers games - there are swathes of grown men who rock up in pilly trackies, a 1999 bomber jacket & are incredibly vocal. You get the impression the footy is their key weekly outing.  

It's a cliche but our more affluent supporter base results in less passion - put simply, they've got a lot of other things to do.

We on this forum aren't the problem & by definition have some fanaticism.   

 

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7 hours ago, layzie said:

Get on board.

Already on board. Have been on board all along. Staying on board. Not planning on getting off board anytime soon. Whatever that means. 🙃
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13 hours ago, Spargonicus said:

Quite a few Pies supporters in our area (N49) last game - annoyed the hell out of me (mainly because we lost). Personally I don’t have a huge problem with letting others use your tix…but curious to hear others’ thoughts…

Probably bought memberships because the think they have a better chance of a GF ticket.

21 hours ago, Spargonicus said:

Quite a few Pies supporters in our area (N49) last game - annoyed the hell out of me (mainly because we lost). Personally I don’t have a huge problem with letting others use your tix…but curious to hear others’ thoughts…

Yeah it was like that in the Warne stand too. To the point where some obnoxious Pies fans were making a scene in the Hassett bar. Plenty of complaints were made that night hence the email.I don't have a major issue with it either but if it gets overdone then you lose a bit of the premium gloss I guess. 

23 hours ago, Spargonicus said:

Quite a few Pies supporters in our area (N49) last game - annoyed the hell out of me (mainly because we lost). Personally I don’t have a huge problem with letting others use your tix…but curious to hear others’ thoughts…

I don't mind, as long as we are winning. I had a really annoying one sitting right behind me, but I  wasn't compelled to complain to the club.

 
3 hours ago, He de mon said:

I don't mind, as long as we are winning. I had a really annoying one sitting right behind me, but I  wasn't compelled to complain to the club.

The last thing I want to do during a game is complain but many must have.

Unfortunately not being able to attend last nights game I can't fully judge how the turnout for our supporters was.

On TV it seemed that we actually outnumbered the Carlton supporters or maybe broke-even at the very least. Can anyone who went confirm this? It seemed like a good crowd from our bunch!


I can certainly can stand being corrected here.  I think the crowd was about even but unfortunately they were a bit louder than us

I was in AFL members so always hard to tell but my mum who was in MCC said it was probably 50:50. But the final seconds and final quarter you'd think the entire crowd was Melbourne.

I think much of the problem is that we're not a very loud supporter base. We were there last night and last week. We're just not big on big cheering. Finals should be different though.

I did seem to pick up that the cheers were a bit louder for the blues fans, especially after a goal the "yeahhhh" is really pronounced. They have one of the loudest crowds though.

But proud that we didn't get outnumbered, big tick.

 

13 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

i'd say 55:45 our way last night

VERY loud crowd

Sounds like a good result. Thanks


2 weeks to sort yourselves out - no excuses for this one, let's see us pack the G in red and blue and drown out the Sydney blow-ins. We completely outnumbered Geelong and Hawthorn in 2018 I want another see of red and blue and to hear "Mellll-bourne" reverberating around the stadium.

Just now, Dr. Gonzo said:

2 weeks to sort yourselves out - no excuses for this one, let's see us pack the G in red and blue and drown out the Sydney blow-ins. We completely outnumbered Geelong and Hawthorn in 2018 I want another see of red and blue and to hear "Mellll-bourne" reverberating around the stadium.

Amen. 
No excuses. Let’s go!

I won’t be able to make it, coming back from holiday that arvo up here in Canberra. 

So you better have good excuses to sit on your [censored] and not get to the G.


10 minutes ago, Kick_It_To_Pickett said:

We will get 70k I reckon 

Yeah I’d be happy with that.  The left over seats I guess will be taken up by the swan supporters 

7 minutes ago, rpfc said:

I won’t be able to make it, coming back from holiday that arvo up here in Canberra. 

So you better have good excuses to sit on your [censored] and not get to the G.

.....Canberra a good excuse!? 

Look out your knee blankets peeps - it's Dee-train time. 

 
15 minutes ago, rpfc said:

I won’t be able to make it, coming back from holiday that arvo up here in Canberra. 

So you better have good excuses to sit on your [censored] and not get to the G.

I'm working, would much rather a holiday. At this stage I will only be able to make a semi-final or grandfinal, not that I'll be able to get seat for the granny anyway.

4 minutes ago, Monocology said:

.....Canberra a good excuse!? 

Look out your knee blankets peeps - it's Dee-train time. 

Of course not, coming back into Canberra airport at 3pm with a toddler and a pregnant wife is.

And yes, get whatever paraphernalia that gets you off your couch and to the game.

Lucky bastards.


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