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With things in dire straights, I still feel like they’re still are positives, such as players ie: Xavier Linsday.

What excites you about the club?

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What gets me excited is that we have realised we need a new game plan and we need to evolve. We have recruited new players to help push this & to support the players that are still part of our future. It took us 7 years to get success but I feel it will not be so long to be contending again. Unfortunately our supporters don’t seem to have the patience to ride it out.

 

I'm genuinely excited at the prospect of renewal. I'm craving change now. Perhaps it's a naff thing to say, but Melbourne has experienced 'paralysis through analysis' both externally and internally. And it's damaged the club and, I suspect, most if not all within it.

Of course, I'm not entirely sure what that renewal will look like except that new players will come along, some will make it and some won't but invariably despair will be replaced with a sense of hope and kids wearing badges with faces of up and coming stars. Give it three years...with the right people.


Annual New Balance discount code.

Haymes paint discount when I decide to repaint the house.

Easy access to the bar at games.

 

I’m a bit like Return to Glory I’m looking for positives that will flow from a renewal process driven by the playing group young and old, and although our demise has come at a rapid and unexpected rate, our list still has the potential to rebound quickly. Whether it be system, process, a tweaked mindset change or all three combined. I look forward to seeing the rediscovery of our talent but I’m not sure what will trigger the resurgence. I keep scanning through the list looking for a Sign….!!!!

The Caulfield base.

Track gallops at 6am followed by the boys training and maybe a beer with lunch at the social club.

Honestly nothing at this point. A lot of my excitement for Melbourne and AFL in general died on QF night in 2023. Windsor and Lingers get me going, so I guess I have a thing for wingers.

More broadly, I'm at a point in my footballing cycle I call "hate supporting", where I'm ostensibly a Melbourne supporter but get no joy out of it. Last time this happened was when guys like Rhodan and Shannon Byrnes were running around for us.

That threads like this pop up occasionally.


I am excited about our young players like Xavier "X" Lindsay and Harvey "The Bison" Langford.

Also hoping we see Jai Culley make an appearance in the Demons AFL side later this season.

Lastly, I am excited about getting our Home Base built at Caulfield Race Course. This needs to be the TOP PRIORITY for the Melbourne Football Club Board! Get it done! ❤️💙

As soon as I wake up on GameDay I’m excited because it’s a new week and there’s always a chance we’ll win. (I remind myself that the scoreboard shows 0.0.0 for both teams at the first bounce.) I get to the ground super early - especially when it’s at the ‘G - to soak up the vibe. For me GameDay is never not exciting, even when we play at Mordor or Carrara.

56 minutes ago, Chook said:

Honestly nothing at this point. A lot of my excitement for Melbourne and AFL in general died on QF night in 2023. Windsor and Lingers get me going, so I guess I have a thing for wingers.

More broadly, I'm at a point in my footballing cycle I call "hate supporting", where I'm ostensibly a Melbourne supporter but get no joy out of it. Last time this happened was when guys like Rhodan and Shannon Byrnes were running around for us.

Hey, someone gets me..

The prospect of us playing exciting football that challenges our players to reach their skilful potential.

The prospect that we might finally cohesively connect midfield and forwardline and score plentiful goals.

The presumption that soon there'll be a change in coaching staff who bring this about. I hope they will create an environment that encourages creative, joyful, positive attacking football that's fun for them to play and for us to watch.

The glimmer of hope about having a home ground at some stage within a decade.

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What doesn’t get me excited?!

I mean, FFS, it’s after 1am on a Thursday morning, and I’m reading Demonland.

But really, it’s watching for the team to suddenly “get it right”.

Or it could be watching the development of the younger players. Maybe Casey. It might take them two, three, four years?

But then to suddenly see a breakout game when everybody else is asking “ where did this guy come from?”, Is very satisfying.

Of course we do have promising young players. Then there is that amazing thing called hope. This applies to every club but there is chance plus unseen factors that make possible look miraculous. I'm not sure I'd want to look into a crystal ball right now but for all we know by year's end (or in 12 months time) we're looking like a good side again and so many players or coaches once again have proved us wrong.

It's a good idea to hold onto some hope. There are plenty of times where sides are like Sydney in the early nineties, Richmond for the nineties and noughties, us after 2006, Lions with a despondent Leppitsch and all got out of their funks. Add the surprises where Cripps, Hird, Chris Grant, Clarkson, Hardwicke come unheralded and now are legends. Another one is Beveridge. Didnt he keep telling his 2016 players "why not us?"

Well.... why not us? Not this year but why after so much bad luck over many decades can't we be a team which has some amazing fortune? Like Ghostwriter said each game starts at 0.0.00 each. So does each year and there's no rational reason why we can't be the team that has their turn being incredibly lucky.

I like complaining and there’s plenty to complain about at the moment. I couldn’t be happier

 
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6 hours ago, Dee-tonator said:

Kozzie. And that's about it at the moment.

He’s exciting to watch, when he puts in effort.

The AFLW season.

I'm enjoying watching this team evolve and play for each other.

August seems a long way away.


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