We are offering one lucky punter $1,000 just for turning up this weekend. Great initiative but a poor reflection of where the two clubs are at.

This has come about due to poor numbers at the last two home games where we have had to pay the AFL to play at the 'G' approx $50,000 each time due to only 16,000 turning up.

Pehaps we should start playing in Tassie (Aurora) to avoid this, it's worked for Hawthorn?

So this is what it comes to...

Our club has to bribe our fickle supporters to turn up to the game!

If I happen to win, I'll donate the money back to the club.

Gees, we really are struggling aren't we?!

Thats the problem with losing form. Nobody wants to turn up.

Having said that if we were in winning form only 20-23000 would've turned up to the Port and Freo games and we still would've struggled to break even.

We're defianetly struggling in the match revenue stakes and its only going to get worse with possible poor crowds coming up against Kangaroos, Adelaide and Western Bulldogs at the Dome later in the year.

And Jaded would you seriously donate the money back

anyone who doesnt show up, without some ridiculously good reason, is a disgrace.

though the sad thing is, if they don't show up it probably makes them 'true melbourne supporters.'

why is it that everybody you speak to, and ask if they like footy, if their response is 'nah i don't know much about it' they invariably proceed to tell you they follow melbourne

Pretty sad state of affairs when we have to resort to this kind of campaign isn't it!

And Jaded would you seriously donate the money back

Yes, I absolutely would!

It is the club's money, and they are clearly only handing it out because they are desperate.

I love the club more than I could ever love another pair of shoes, or whatever else I'd inevitably go and spend the money on.

Having said that, I have never won a thing in my life, so I doubt very much I'd win the money.

anyone who doesnt show up, without some ridiculously good reason, is a disgrace.

though the sad thing is [...]

No, the sad thing is that some people on this forum have the expectation that all supporters have lives that are compatable with going to watch Melbourne play football every week.

this issue is being raised on other clubs forums, its quite embarrassing actually, heres one from magpienet:

http://www.magpies.net/nick/bb/viewtopic.php?t=36261

Yes, I absolutely would!

It is the club's money, and they are clearly only handing it out because they are desperate.

I love the club more than I could ever love another pair of shoes, or whatever else I'd inevitably go and spend the money on.

Having said that, I have never won a thing in my life, so I doubt very much I'd win the money.

I love passionate fans, If I lived in Melbourne I would be there every week, but I live too far away and can only make it down a couple of times a year, if that. However my TV gets a good workout and our cat is getting used to me calling out Ball !.

Even if My wife always tells me they cant hear me.

The $1000 could be better spent on improving our stickers for next year.

No, the sad thing is that some people on this forum have the expectation that all supporters have lives that are compatable with going to watch Melbourne play football every week.

which would qualify the 'good excuse' part i added in, if you had properly read it. obviously i was being over-zealous, but anyone who can go, claims to be a supporter, and doesn't go, then pfft

maybe if they save the weekly prize and put it into a end of year award for the ones that go every week.

they scan your member ship and can tell who has been to the games.

at the end of the year those that have been all year went into the raffel and their was one winner.

it would get more members and lets face it what are the chances of winning $22,000,00 in tatts

So this is what it comes to...

Our club has to bribe our fickle supporters to turn up to the game!

If I happen to win, I'll donate the money back to the club.

Gees, we really are struggling aren't we?!

It's pretty sad isn't it? If we continue like this then I'm afraid for our future

its very sad

but what was said about our supporters on the pie site is right in some ways we dont show up, as much as i hate collingwood even when they are on the bottom 25,000 of there supporters still go every week

(god i feel sick having to write that)

if i will ill be keeping the money. not because i dont love the club. because i could use a thousand bucks

in all honesty, $100 isnt a huge loss to the club. and to be honest, would you make your decision on whether to go to the footy or not based on if there was a 1 in 20,000 chance of you winning a grand? chances are the person who wins it was there last week, and the week before etc...

If they make it six grand I'll deliver a bone-jarring tackle to Scott McLaren moments before he puts the whistle to his mouth to award a game-deciding free kick against Aaron Davey.

anyone who doesnt show up, without some ridiculously good reason, is a disgrace.

though the sad thing is, if they don't show up it probably makes them 'true melbourne supporters.'

Sorry 45hotgod, you are wrong. I am not going to travel 3 hours to go to a game when I cannot be sure MFC will put in 100%. Thats the whole problem with this team, who I have supported since 1969. You can go to a game and see a weak performance like last week. I do not really care if they win or lose but I expect them to put in, as they did against Port & the Bulldogs. Maybe I am a 'true Melbourne supporter' but I am only that way, as are many others, because we have been burnt by this clubs sub standard efforts too many times. When they start putting in 100% week in, week out, I will start going to games again. The same goes for ND telling supporters to stick by the club.

Sorry 45hotgod, you are wrong. I am not going to travel 3 hours to go to a game...

for mine that is a fair enough reason not too go.

i think the people referred to in these sorts of threads are those who live close enough to go, can afford it, but chose to watch it on tv, but then claim to be hardcore supporters and who are willing to have a go at the club about things. if you really love your club and love the footy you would go to the games if you can.

sad , neither players or supporters are putting in

I recall that Hawthorn are also giving away $1000 when you go　ｔｏ　ｔｈｅｉｒ　ｇａｍｅｓ，　ｉ　ｄｏｎｔ　ｈｅｒｅ　ａｎｙｏｎｅ　ｂａｄ　ｍｏｕｔｈｉｎｇ　ｔｈｅｍ　ａｂｏｕｔ　ｉｔ．

I'd keep the money. I figure the club owes about that for compensation for all my pain and suffering!

I'd keep the money. I figure the club owes about that for compensation for all my pain and suffering!

I don't get it.

You CHOOSE to support Melbourne, nobody puts a gun to your head. Therefore the club owes you nothing!

If you don't like it, you can get up and leave at anytime. The door is open, and nobody is forcing you to stay.

I hate the notion that the club owes us supporters anything. It doesn't.

This club has existed long before it supporters turned into a whinging, soft, fickle bunch of moaners, and let us hope that it continues to exist long after they all get over themselves.

We complain that our board, coaches and players are all soft, and yet the only truly weak part of our club is our members who need to get paid in order to turn out in numbers. If there is one thing I hate about this club, is the outside perception brought on because the majority of our supporters berate instead of barrack!

/Vent over.

I hate the notion that the club owes us supporters anything. It doesn't.

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We complain that our board, coaches and players are all soft, and yet the only truly weak part of our club is our members who need to get paid in order to turn out in numbers. If there is one thing I hate about this club, is the outside perception brought on because the majority of our supporters berate instead of barrack!

/Vent over.

agree ,Jaded you are completely right we CHOSE to support this club ... we dont have to but we do...

The club owes us nothing...

So who won the money?

which would qualify the 'good excuse' part i added in, if you had properly read it. obviously i was being over-zealous, but anyone who can go, claims to be a supporter, and doesn't go, then pfft

I read it "properly" - what's a "good excuse"?

I'm just sick of reading the narrow-minded criticism of fans who don't go to every game the Demons play.

Having said that, you didn't go so far as to blame the team's form on poor crowd figures like some other posters.