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Ugh, Melbourne 'supporters' make me sick!

Support the club or just go away. Honestly, nobody forces you to barrack for Melbourne, so don't let the door hit you on the way out.

:angry: :angry: :angry:

Posted
No, the club should/must play the players, coaches etc. What I am suggesting is that they give a weeks wages (after tax) back. Wait til end of year? Club might be in $5M debt by then, not $2.5M

Mate, your whole premise is bollocks. I have days at work where I fuck up, am extremely unproductive, don't get close to meeting the objectives set by my bosses and just generally have a crap day. I'll tell you now, come pay day I still take every cent. Conversely, if I have an excellent day, my bosses do not pay me anything extra.

At the end of the day the players will be going "yep, that was a terrible day at the office", and that's it. It was a bad day. Expecting them to forgo their livelihoods over a (very) bad day is stupid. You wouldn't do it, I wouldn't do it, why should they?

Btw not buying a membership is the absolute worst way to "protest" about what's going on the club. There just isn't a worse way. If we all did that then the club goes belly up. We'll have lots to whinge about then.

Posted
Ugh, Melbourne 'supporters' make me sick!

Support the club or just go away. Honestly, nobody forces you to barrack for Melbourne, so don't let the door hit you on the way out.

:angry: :angry: :angry:

Agreed ! By affar the most fair weather supporters in the comp. How is it that we can get 65000 plus in the last few rounds when we are September bound and 3/5 of FA(if u know what I mean) when we are losing ?? Richmond have been losing for 25 years and still have passionate members every year. C`mon fans , get bloody serious and start supporting or we will all be watching Sandy every week within a few years! Might see some wins though!

Posted
Ugh, Melbourne 'supporters' make me sick!

Support the club or just go away. Honestly, nobody forces you to barrack for Melbourne, so don't let the door hit you on the way out.

:angry: :angry: :angry:

Btw not buying a membership is the absolute worst way to "protest" about what's going on the club. There just isn't a worse way. If we all did that then the club goes belly up. We'll have lots to whinge about then.

Amen and well said both of you......

You don't have to be happy with the team, but for heavens sake you always support the club.

Posted

Maybe we could ask all the players to buy memberships with their salary if they felt their performance was not up to standard.

Depending on how bad you play you have to buy a higher category. Perhaps this should happen each week and the players choose 6 or so players to buy memberships - they picked the leadership group after all.

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If everyone thought like you my dear dolt we'd have no club to vent our far ranging emotions.

It's on the back of paying supporters that even gives you the opportunity to express your 'well considered' opinion. But be comforted by the fact that 'you' are many.

Unfortunately.

Crap. Melbourne has an unbelievably favourable vibe from most supporters in the AFL. The DEES are most (Melbourne) people's second club. There is heaps of good feeling. The club, for what ever reason, can't harness it.

And read my post - my cheque is in post for membership.

Posted
Amen and well said both of you......

You don't have to be happy with the team, but for heavens sake you always support the club.

Crap. This was a generation changing, a history changing massive loss. Read the posts.

1st game of year, 1st game for coach, 1st game for 2 assistant coaches, 1st game after pathetic past year (hear all the talk about Carlton tanking; implication is they would have beaten Melbourne if they wanted to).

Players played as if they hadn't played before; coaches performed as if they didn't know what to do.

3 and half to 4 months preseason. For what?

Posted
Crap. Melbourne has an unbelievably favourable vibe from most supporters in the AFL. The DEES are most (Melbourne) people's second club. There is heaps of good feeling. The club, for what ever reason, can't harness it.

And read my post - my cheque is in post for membership.

"Most people's second club" ? It's your first club and you don't even by a membership. Wimp.

And you expect me to believe that your 'cheque is in the mail' ?

Chew my goo.


Posted
"Most people's second club" ? It's your first club and you don't even by a membership. Wimp.

And you expect me to believe that your 'cheque is in the mail' ?

Chew my goo.

Believe what you like. And your membership number is???

Posted

I'm quite heartened by all the people on here who focused on the immediate issue, and not the speculation.

Mono, get a membership.

As far as most people on here are concerned, you might as well be discussing whether to buy a membership to your family, and based on their recent performance.

On the subject you raised, isn't it the case that a 'donation' to the club would be tax deductable? They'd get 42% back in july!

Posted
Crap. This was a generation changing, a history changing massive loss. Read the posts.

Don't you dare [censored] at me bub :angry:

All I said was that you never stop supporting the club no matter what happens on the field but you don't have to be happy or stay quiet.

I am thrilled that you bought a membership Mono, but please try to read what I am saying before getting snitty with me.

Posted
Good get!

I think you'll find that's an aspect instilled in every team in the competition. Our failures in these areas indicates a complete lack of professionalism. Talk about lacking in 1%ers - we were lacking in 99%ers like chasing tackling and being accountable from the first bounce to the final siren. These are the things that instilled into amateur teams but we aren't doing them.

Posted
Don't you dare [censored] at me bub :angry:
:unsure::wacko::blink:
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Pretty disappointing to find that in the aftermath of our capitulation two senior players (Miller and Robertson) have spoken to the media and both tried to explain away our loss by pointing to the youth and inexperience in the team. A pity they didn't examine the performance of the leadership group a little more closely.

Posted

I saw that and had a little chuckle.. they just dont get it it huh!! lol

Posted
I have been a supporter all my life, but have only recently moved to within driving distance at least. So for 2 years, I have been considering becoming a member.

Yesterday is why I haven't - they are simply not professional. Most of Melbourne's salary cap was on the park yesterday - a lot of Hawthorn's was not. Yet it was Melbourne who were just an amateurish rabble; I doubt they would have beaten a good VFL side. So here's the rub: the Melbourne players should consider handing back their pay cheque for this week (after tax of course); if you don't do a job, you shouldn't be paid.

And you can add the coaching staff. Either the game plan is crap, or the players don't know it - either way the coaching staff have failed also.

So here's the challenge: players and coaching staff give back a weeks salary, and I'll become a member. At least I know they are being accountable and are accepting responsibility, not just talking.

I am a paid up member but what i do expect is VALUE FOR MONEY which was certainly not there last weekend.

I think that is what is meant here. I am sick of seeing weak performances. I got Laughed ay whilst at school in the 70's because i barracked for melbourne. Sadly little has changed.

Posted
I am a paid up member but what i do expect is VALUE FOR MONEY which was certainly not there last weekend.

I think that is what is meant here. I am sick of seeing weak performances. I got Laughed ay whilst at school in the 70's because i barracked for melbourne. Sadly little has changed.

It's hard to argue with people after the performance we put on at the weekend but a Swans supporter pointed out on radio that in Rodney Eade's first game the Swans lost by 90 points to Adelaide in Round 1 of 1996. The score was Adelaide 20.10.130 to Sydney 6.4.40. Their percentage after the game was 30.8%.

The following week they played Fremantle in Sydney and the Dockers, who were no great shakes as a football team, beat them 13.22.100 to 9.17.71. After 2 games, the Swans were struggling and they were considered in as poor a light as Melbourne is looked upon at this very moment.

They broke the ice in Round 3 against Collingwood, fell in by a point against the lowly Tigers and slowly built up momentum from then onwards.

At the end of the year Sydney finished on top of the ladder:-

Team Won Lost Drawn For Agst % Pts

Sydney 16 5 1 2152 1737 123.9 66

Just because we got flogged and looked terrible first up it doesn't mean it's curtains for the season.


Posted
:unsure::wacko::blink:

Oops, sorry babe :unsure: !!!

Posted
It's hard to argue with people after the performance we put on at the weekend but a Swans supporter pointed out on radio that in Rodney Eade's first game the Swans lost by 90 points to Adelaide in Round 1 of 1996. The score was Adelaide 20.10.130 to Sydney 6.4.40. Their percentage after the game was 30.8%.

The following week they played Fremantle in Sydney and the Dockers, who were no great shakes as a football team, beat them 13.22.100 to 9.17.71. After 2 games, the Swans were struggling and they were considered in as poor a light as Melbourne is looked upon at this very moment.

They broke the ice in Round 3 against Collingwood, fell in by a point against the lowly Tigers and slowly built up momentum from then onwards.

At the end of the year Sydney finished on top of the ladder:-

Team Won Lost Drawn For Agst % Pts

Sydney 16 5 1 2152 1737 123.9 66

Just because we got flogged and looked terrible first up it doesn't mean it's curtains for the season.

Crikey, the whole competition would have to up and tank if we were to repeat this kind of effort. The more I look at our list, the worse I feel these days!

Posted
Where was the effort like the one I saw from a virtually unknown Hawk defender Tom Murphy who, despite the fact that his team was more than 100 points ahead and it was late in the game, chased and caught Russell Robertson when a certain Demon goal beckoned? Here was a young kid from the opposition demonstrating more of what the game is about than our leadership group with a thousand games under its belt. Shameful!

This says it all about Robertson's game. When the whips were cracking, he was lagging behind or on the ground watching his opponent sprint away. When the pressure came off in the last quarter, he was still going at half pace, but his talent allowed him to kick a few goals. It should have been more. He was at least five metres clear and running into an open goal and run down by Murphy as he strolled in to kick an easy goal. He obviously thought that, with the game over, everybody was now going at his pace.

His game was very similar to the one that he played against North at Casey. Nothing when it mattered, cheap goals when it was over. We all know that those three goals will save his place in the side, but we all know why they shouldn't.

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