On 29/06/2025 at 20:21, Sir Why You Little said:

I like to keep posts short. To the point, harks back to my Newsroom days.

Some posts on here are like novels, and take far too long to read on a phone 📱

Less is more

1 minute ago, Cranky Franky said:

Remember all the luvvies on Demonland telling us what a great job Roffey & Goodie were doing & canning the naysayers.

It was all Woodstock & a modern day love in.

The rot was clearly obvious from mid 2022 & let's not forget Goodie failed miserably in 2017, 2019 & 2020.

He wasted a generation & presided over an era of gross underachievement.

Not a lot to argue there Mr Cranky.

The club falls short of expectations, especially as its led and managed.

It's a multi- million dollar BUSINESS but you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise.

We're still looking a shambles... off and on the field.

We lucked out in 21... not so much since . Shame

Such a poorly run football club

Clarry is our biggest list problem. i just don't seeing him returning to his former glory

trac is professional as we know but he's no leader (talk of captain is laughable).

both are terrible users. 2 fat contracts there weighting us down

and if our form doesn't pick up over the run in then Goody has to go

I don't envy the new CEO at all

27 minutes ago, Willmoy1947 said:

Knives out

They were always coming ( imo )

5 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Careful, a few posters around here will think the media is biased against when they see you posting this...

Our new CEO has hit the ground running. I know that for a fact. He hasn't officially started yet but he has

4 hours ago, Wrecker45 said:

Our new CEO has hit the ground running. I know that for a fact. He hasn't officially started yet but he has

Well both of our CEOs are at this summit thing. It will be interesting to see how a non football person goes in the role. We cannot afford to stuff to get this appointment wrong.

Definitely some changes but burning the club to the ground is not the answer. That would take 5 years to recover from.

3 hours ago, dees189227 said:

Well both of our CEOs are at this summit thing. It will be interesting to see how a non football person goes in the role. We cannot afford to stuff to get this appointment wrong.

Guerra is making alot of moves before even starting.

Nobody can be worse than Pert. I feel like all the Collingwood rejects infect us but at least Wright is going to Carlton.

3 hours ago, dees189227 said:

Well both of our CEOs are at this summit thing. It will be interesting to see how a non football person goes in the role. We cannot afford to stuff to get this appointment wrong.

I'm wondering, in a well let's drag in some left field thinking, might it not be a positive that the bloke taking the reigns isn't over indoctrinated in the ways the footy world thinks ? By this I'm hoping he brings to bear a broader more "industrial strength" no nonsense approach to the metrics of direction and application. I often feel the footy world becomes a little inbred with its thinkings and operations. I.e. variations on a theme but what if the theme is flawed ? The outside world isn't as accommodating to incompetence. Maybe a more clinical approach might be just the panacea.

Where things are stalled, give it resources to move its [censored]. Where things are faltering gather the people who can do it better.

That would be a huge difference... outcomes driven v some incarnation of a Boyz club.

Edited July 1Jul 1 by beelzebub

On 29/06/2025 at 02:35, bing181 said:

Cloud cuckoo land.

Keeping things as they are.... absolutely

11 hours ago, Wrecker45 said:

Our new CEO has hit the ground running. I know that for a fact. He hasn't officially started yet but he has

Whathas he done?

10 minutes ago, jackaub said:

Whathas he done?

Hopefully not tripped over

I’d just be happy to have a CEO that’s actually at the club NOW, along with a President

We must be the only club that can self destruct so quickly after a premiership

I really thought after 2021 we had finally become a respectable organisation

What a joke we are

3 hours ago, jackaub said:

Whathas he done?

He is meeting all the right people. Believe me he has already started.

1 minute ago, Wrecker45 said:

He is meeting all the right people. Believe me he has already started.

That's encouraging.

He can't start quick enough. Need to get out of caretaker mode .

1 hour ago, Wrecker45 said:

He is meeting all the right people. Believe me he has already started.

Have heard the same…

On 29/06/2025 at 20:13, Sir Why You Little said:

It just gets so frustrating because many of us on here saw the problems 3-4 Seasons ago. I don’t say that to win brownie points.

But what other professional Sports Cub, has the exact same problems for so long, Coming off a Powerhouse GF Victory

Gut feeling is telling me the board are waiting for Incoming President Steven Smith and the incoming CEO Paul Guerra to bring in their own man and clean house top to bottom.

I don't think Simon has the courage or the bottle to move players on.

He is to attached to the players who have bought the club that elusive premiership.

6 minutes ago, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

Gut feeling is telling me the board are waiting for Incoming President Steven Smith and the incoming CEO Paul Guerra to bring in their own man and clean house top to bottom.

I don't think Simon has the courage or the bottle to move players on.

He is to attached to the players who have bought the club that elusive premiership.

Things are moving with the new CEO, i don’t know any exact details, but he is definitely fully involved.

On 28/06/2025 at 21:55, Nietaphart said:

But at the time I do believe Kozzie was looking elsewhere.

He wasn’t.

On 29/06/2025 at 20:35, Nietaphart said:

There is a market for SWYL.

You make me smile reading your post!

You make me sick reading yours.

3 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

He wasn’t.

We will have to disagree here GW. My info says different.

I’m happy the stars aligned and factors changed

13 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Things are moving with the new CEO, i don’t know any exact details, but he is definitely fully involved.

Do you think PG has deliberately stayed out of being in the position till October?

Edited July 2Jul 2 by YesitwasaWin4theAges

Just now, Nietaphart said:

We will have to disagree here GW. My info says different.

I’m happy the stars aligned and factors changed

Kozzie was NEVER looking elsewhere. ‘The stars aligned and factors changed’??? That’s all you’ve got? Please be specific. What factors changed?

do you know what it is?

It's allowing grass roots supporters to have a say at board summits and seminars, not just the MCC cobbers. (Honestly, the kinds of ridiculous questions they were asking Brad Green and co. at the seminar over the off-season - completely tone deaf, superficial, with the spite of any rich white man with too much time on his hands.

If you want to find the through-line of Melbourne's miserable stagnancies, inertias, and under-performances, look at the MCC. Old money doesn't change, it isn't a fluid and adaptable receptacle for our team to draw from and relate with. It's alright if we're winning, but if we're losing it represents an opulent stone monument, culturally aloof and fatalistic.

Believe it or not, it affects club, it affects player performance - because it affects culture.

Ignore the MCC, obviously if you're a player or a coach, but particularly if you're CEO (as best you can) and play as a team and organisation persevering and playing on behalf of the grass-roots fans and working classes and the relevant cultural inputs therefrom.

What allowed us free-flowing footy in 2021? ... we were on the road, playing in empty stands, and a finals campaign in WA. What's the common thread there? No miserable MCC fans. Forget the Norm Smith curse. Our curse is one of traditionalism, old money, frustrated old white men who all went to one of 5 Victorian schools.

Let's be aware of ourselves as a club and what as supporters we are contributing to the team energy. We should all be clear about this: other fans think we're an unlikeable fan base. Let's just have a little awareness as to why. And rectify that a bit.

Look at the Bulldogs supporters - calm, considerate, never mean-spirited or resentful on the whole. Similar are the Kangaroos and Saints.

Bring in more diversity. Where's our Rainbow flag btw, cheersquad? Indigenous flag too?Love that Goodwin says we want to be a destination club for more indigenous players. More of that please.

Thank you MCC old folks, you're good loyal supporters and all, but just take a back seat, and support with grace and positivity, or not at all. And stop groaning ffs, we know you're not getting any in the bedroom, but please. The players can hear you before they even pick up the footy! It's likely why JVR and Chandler can't! Just too much pressure, too much expectation (actually, that IS one of the criticisms I've heard other team's supporters voice about us)

So in summary, if you want change do your part, invite an MCC dees fan to the Southern Stand - disperse the dogma, air out the rot.

Edited July 2Jul 2 by nextskipclaz