It made me throw up in my mouth a little:

The Melbourne president didn’t want this remark ‘ending up in the newspapers’

this whole 'our fans don't cheer loudly enough' narrative needs to stop

I think Kate Roffey's comments are fair. Hate the pies but you can't deny their supporters are very vocal and get right behind their team on gameday.

5 minutes ago, BDA said:

I think Kate Roffey's comments are fair. Hate the pies but you can't deny their supporters are very vocal and get right behind their team on gameday.

Can't say you want to be like them after what happened to Angus, just don't mention that club!

I don’t want to be like them, cheer like them, go near them. I’d rather us be somewhat civil. We are also quite loud for our numbers in my opinion. Roffey and pert need to be careful. We don’t have generations of Centrelink recipients with nothing else to do but go to the football. We have supporters who have lives. 

8 minutes ago, BDA said:

I think Kate Roffey's comments are fair. Hate the pies but you can't deny their supporters are very vocal and get right behind their team on gameday.

They turn on their own really quickly too...

I've heard many a choice word thrown, I guess that happens with all dimwitted supporters.

Just that they have more...

She’s right in saying that a loud crowd in our favour impacts how we play. And she’s right that Collingwood do it best. 

I’d argue that our crowds are louder than most give us credit for, but we can always do more. 

I read her comments as growing the membership so we can get bigger crowds along to the G. Don't think she was having a go at Dees supporters for not being noisy enough. maybe i misread.

29 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

this whole 'our fans don't cheer loudly enough' narrative needs to stop

It’s true though and it’s up to the fans to get louder. 

More noise wins more frees

6 minutes ago, 58er said:

It’s true though and it’s up to the fans to get louder. 

But it's a bit hard when there are so many more of them than us.

I'll never forget the games against Geelong and Hawthorn a couple of years ago. The noise was unbelievable.

When Kate made the comments at the Season Launch there was an audible gasp until we all knew what she was actually getting at. At one nanno second I thought I had to lose my teeth and give up my day job.🤣

 

12 minutes ago, BDA said:

I read her comments as growing the membership so we can get bigger crowds along to the G. Don't think she was having a go at Dees supporters for not being noisy enough. maybe i misread.

I can’t read the article coz paywall but if it’s quoting Kate’s Season Launch speech she absolutely meant growing our membership. She prefaced her mention of Collingwood with something along the lines of I don’t want this taken out of context so before anyone starts tweeting, I’d like our Club to be like Collingwood… She went on to talk about a bigger membership. At no point did she refer to us needing to make more noise. 

13 minutes ago, 58er said:

It’s true though and it’s up to the fans to get louder. 

 

1 minute ago, Longsufferingnomore said:

But it's a bit hard when there are so many more of them than us.

Exactly, LSNM! We can be as loud as humanly possible but if we’re overwhelmingly outnumbered - which we always are vs the filthy thugs - it stands to reason they’re always gonna be louder. 

19 minutes ago, 58er said:

It’s true though and it’s up to the fans to get louder. 

We are loud, but what can you do if it 2-1. 

51 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

this whole 'our fans don't cheer loudly enough' narrative needs to stop

It would stop if our crowds weren’t so quiet and depressing, full of anxiety, negative energy or lack of interest. 

I’m a pessimist when it comes to our chances most of the time but come game day I turn up to barrack. Most Melbourne supporters don’t.

Would have been better to say 'a loud crowd is good, but we don't want to end up like that bunch of screeching nuffies'.

Did anyone else notice the crowd at the Collingwood-Giants game in the final quarter?

F'ing beeeeyoootiful. Not a Collingwood jumper in sight.

I was just thinking to myself this morning that there are a lot of Magpie fans but they are actually as soft as tepid butter.

Public bragging and private begging, it is the Collingwood way.

It is time we all understood what that club's hierarchy has for decades; put your foot on them and they will squib.

12 minutes ago, Longsufferingnomore said:

But it's a bit hard when there are so many more of them than us.

I'll never forget the games against Geelong and Hawthorn a couple of years ago. The noise was unbelievable.

When Kate made the comments at the Season Launch there was an audible gasp until we all knew what she was actually getting at. At one nanno second I thought I had to lose my teeth and give up my day job.🤣

 

Whilst we will always be outnumbered and less vocal than Coll/Carl types of teams I don’t think we’ve matched the same energy at games since 2018.

That year was special with the joy of crucial wins and finals for the first time in forever.

We were robbed of seeing a flag in 2021. And increasingly over the last 2 years our crowds have lacked that joy and intensity as much as noise.

We skipped the fun afterglow of a flag and as the team has struggled to score in many games you can feel the tension in the crowd. 

4 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

It would stop if our crowds weren’t so quiet and depressing, full of anxiety, negative energy or lack of interest. 

I’m a pessimist when it comes to our chances most of the time but come game day I turn up to barrack. Most Melbourne supporters don’t.

Ya don’t say?! Why, I’ve never noticed it. 

To be more like C'wood means we'll have to find a Maynard to knock the daylights out of a top oppo player and then have the AFL do bugger-all about it.  I hope the first never happens, but if it did, the the second would not.

I sat on an aisle next to two bays of them at our final last year and I couldn’t be happier that we’re nothing like them. 

1 hour ago, BDA said:

I think Kate Roffey's comments are fair. Hate the pies but you can't deny their supporters are very vocal and get right behind their team on gameday.

Considering they have about 30k more supporters then ours then Roffey is completely out of her depths with reality. Of course Collingwood supporters would be loud.

Her comments are a kick in the guts for demon army and loyal supporters who are there weekly cheering all the time.

Just remember they are the filth.

Okay let's all punch are own teeth out....seriously I don't care how loud they get. We.are.nothing.like.them. 

1 hour ago, Roger Mellie said:

It made me throw up in my mouth a little:

The Melbourne president didn’t want this remark ‘ending up in the newspapers’

I think maybe when we get back to playing decent football on a regular basis one may hear our voices rise in volume again, yes we don't want to be anything like them at all 

I’m as loud and one eyed at the footy as any Pies fan, and there are certainly some Demons fans who could afford to be louder and more demonstrative when the whips are cracking 

But this narrative from Roffey and Pert that we need to be louder - even if it’s not their intention - is a bit of a kick in the guts to Demons fans who are paying their hard earned to rock up each week 

At the end of the day people can support the club however they choose. Further - without wanting to put down our players - it’s hard to get loud when we’ve kicked 6 straight behinds and then the opposition waltzes down the other end of the field and kicks a goal to knock us out of finals…

Win finals and our membership will grow, play exciting football and fans will cheer louder than ever