I am so glad I wasn't able to get to the game, I'd have wet myself laughing at the banner.

Fingers crossed for Culley, hope it's not as bad as it looked.

8 minutes ago, ElDiablo14 said:

Amateur hour Tiger Army 🤣

They paint their images. As in, paint and paintbrushes, like cavemen. I don’t think it’s because their club’s too tight to fork out for printing, I think it’s just that they luvs them a big ol’ painting session. When they come to ours to make it it’s like they’ve stepped out of a Time Machine 100 years in the future 😅

1 minute ago, Ghostwriter said:

They paint their images. As in, paint and paintbrushes, like cavemen. I don’t think it’s because their club’s too tight to fork out for printing, I think it’s just that they luvs them a big ol’ painting session. When they come to ours to make it it’s like they’ve stepped out of a Time Machine 100 years in the future 😅

1 minute ago, Ghostwriter said:

They paint their images. As in, paint and paintbrushes, like cavemen. I don’t think it’s because their club’s too tight to fork out for printing, I think it’s just that they luvs them a big ol’ painting session. When they come to ours to make it it’s like they’ve stepped out of a Time Machine 100 years in the future 😅

Thanks Ghosty but on another related topic about the financial aspect of the game.

The Dees and the Tigers takes turns hosting the game

How do they work out the $$$$ share?

I think it’s 50/ 50.

Gotta say I'm old school and prefer hand drawn images on a run through. Anyone can print off a picture and sticky tape it to a crepe backing. That said, the one tonight looked like a five year old's school project. The NZ flag was back to front. Why did they put the Williamstown Timeball Tower on the side the players ran through?

1 hour ago, spirit of norm smith said:

@adonski 4/10 is fair. Jeffo goal in qtr 1 was a soft free. One good passage where he marked and goaled in 3rd qtr. Dropped 4/5 marks where he got his hands too. One tackle. Missed 3-4 tackles. No 2nd efforts still. Shot for goal in last qtr from 25metres out was horrible. Barely scored a point. Intensity at this level is not there. I want him to make it. We need marking forwards. He was a first round pick as part of Jackson trade. Have to say it. Looks like Sam Weideman mark 2.

Get ur friggen sun shades of, second and third efforts evident, created ground ball gets from contests, shheeiit get ur head outa ur aaarrrrze and watch the replay!

8 minutes ago, Dingo said:

Thanks Ghosty but on another related topic about the financial aspect of the game.

The Dees and the Tigers takes turns hosting the game

How do they work out the $$$$ share?

I think it’s 50/ 50.

They get the gate receipts when it’s their home game, we get them when it’s ours.

1 hour ago, VNightCityLegend said:

I’m just going to come out and say it. All the talk about Turner, Chandler or Lever to be the next captain of the club, but Sparrow is a real smoky for the captaincy.

A seriously underrated and uncompromising season he is putting together in the midfield. He’s apart of the reason why we are so good on the turnover in 2026. His contest work, tackling and pressure is a far cry to the player over the last 2 seasons.

Gotta feel for Viney. Honestly don’t know how he gets back in apart from injuries.

Viney is DONE, slow before injury and now?? Really will struggle with Kings strategies! Happy for him to go to Norf for a packet of chips

3 minutes ago, picket fence said:

Viney is DONE, slow before injury and now?? Really will struggle with Kings strategies! Happy for him to go to Norf for a packet of chips

Brutal

3 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

They get the gate receipts when it’s their home game, we get them when it’s ours.

Could be (or still could be) that the MCC write out a cheque to the home team depending on the size of the crowd. Gate receipts related

At the lower end of the scale a minimum of $100k for a 23k or less crowd was often mentioned (but that was years ago)

$1Million for 60k? ... again, we're going back a few years

@Dr. Gonzo might know a bit more about what the scale is/was

Footnote; So when faced with the prospect of a low drawing crowd at the MCG against GWS or suchlike, we've previously taken the NT money instead

Edited 22 hours ago22 hr by Macca

1 hour ago, Maldonboy38 said:

FritA very good win in the end, but unfortunately the bad parts of our game stand out so much more than our good parts.

Kozzie, Sparrow, Windsor, Steele and Howes. Wonderful.

Sharp, Langdon, Lever. Good games

Ball handling, decision making, contested pressure. Disgraceful.

Did I mention Kozzie - goal of the year contender and mark of the year contender in the same game.

Laurie & Taylor had poor games. Latrelle and Fritsch had poor games.

So sad for Culley.

5W - 2L. Feels OK.

What a strange post, bad parts stand out more then our good parts, wow watch out AFL, you're way off the mark, and Fritsch 15 despots 2 goals 7 score involments, yes he had 1 stupid moment, but who's perfect? The bicy and the whipping of Bailey is unbelievable by you and you're cohorts

1 hour ago, picket fence said:

Viney is DONE, slow before injury and now?? Really will struggle with Kings strategies! Happy for him to go to Norf for a packet of chips

You have no class mate! The bloke is out injured and you want to write him off before he has played a game this season. Viney deserves a crack at it and Steele is s perfect example about how an inside mid works in our system.

Show some respect

https://www.reddit.com/r/melbournefc/s/ks7A8Crc8X

This guy sums up my thoughts. What a performance. If we win next weekend we win the flag.

6 hours ago, picket fence said:

Get ur friggen sun shades of, second and third efforts evident, created ground ball gets from contests, shheeiit get ur head outa ur aaarrrrze and watch the replay!

Agree, his contests were good and constantly bringing the ball to ground, aswell as his work rate to create pressure at ground level,

2 hours ago, DutchDemons said:

https://www.reddit.com/r/melbournefc/s/ks7A8Crc8X

This guy sums up my thoughts. What a performance. If we win next weekend we win the flag.

That’s Harshill. He’s only been in Australia for a couple of years but he’s as crazy in love with the Dees as the next rusted-on supporter. Now his partner is just as passionate and she arrived in Australia more recently than he did.

How bloody good is it to win on a Friday?!

For the remainder of the weekend we get to kick back and watch the others battle it out to get up near us on the ladder 🤭

8 hours ago, Jjrogan said:

Before the season both he and Gawn were our brownlow 'leaders' at 150-1!!

One of the more mispriced markets seen for sometime. They are both probably in the top dozen. Kozzie was always going to win 5 to 6 games off his own boot playing midfield and he's already done it twice at least. Also, I cant remember the last time he was tackled.

I got on Kozzie at $101, never saw him at $150.

1 hour ago, adonski said:

Blake is a lot prettier though

When someone posted Kozzie’s U18s highlights before the draft all those years ago, you only had to see that shepherd he put on against an opponent to know he was going to be a special player.

We had non MFC people with us last night at the game and they were just in awe of his performance.

Here is the Stats File post:

9 hours ago, VoiceOfReason said:

It looked like XT didn't want to be the big dog, and Max was pushing him to be the big dog. XT will one day lead the club so it was a great moment.

Taylor forgot to wait for the team and walked off the ground, which is why the players were laughing at him. He came back up and Max made him lead the team off. Max did it as a bit of a joke, but I'm tipping XT won't do it again.

What a glorious sunny morning to wake up and be 5 and 2!

Solid win in the end. Great to see guys like Jeffo n Bill gaining confidence. We simply have to keep playing them.

Sparrows emergence is so good to see. Love his aggression and second efforts. Gutted for Culley.

I must say I can't remember us being so favoured by the umps......perhaps ever. It was staggering. Tiges nuffies around me were losing it and rightly so.