THE CLUB ARE ON ITS KNEES!!!!

[bazza 0]

topic for game day

We are finished, robbo needs to be dropped and hate to say it but the ages of time have caught up with the skip and he should of retired last year, with no future captain material coming through we need to make a call and make Nathan Jones our next captain.

Having people like Miller and Yze in the Leadership Group was pathetic and just shows were this club is heading, how a bloke who has played for himself for 12 years can be classed a LEADER is laughable to say the least..................

Im happy with Bails and thinks he needs 5 years to weed out the Dead wood we have, shame he bought Mr Doughnuts back for today(Jamar) was a throw back to the danither era, the guy if was good enough to hold a regular spot would of been there by now, perfect time to part company was end of last season but what do we do, sign him and Miller to 2 year contracts, smart move that.

Watching Welsh last nite shows what a smart footballer can do when his mind his on the job, comapring him to robbo is a non-event, would of been better letting him go to the draft and getting welsh, is worth 2-3 goals even on a bad day.

I think the club need to get on the front foot and treat there members better, reading some of the stories about how you guys have been treated shows a total lack of disrespect and what they don't understand is if 8000 of us don't come back its game over!!!!!

Also what concerns me is there is no succesion plan to the current board, wheres our vice president??? I think people need to show there faces not when thinks are going well but also in times of need shows strong leadership and ability to lead from the front... just not happening.

If if we win today we must not wallpaper the cracks as was so in the previous era, trading Travis Johnstone was a disgrace the pick in the draft we got for him is injured, funny thing is we knew he was injury prone before we drafted him, the failure to draft a key position player like Rance at pick 14 was wrong in my thinking.

As for our current situation look at the 2001 draft, moylan rodgers and armstrong no where to be seen, poor recuriting in the best draft in history is the reason we have a hole in our team today, poor trading, simmonds jolly johstone to name a few, was a big beliver we should of traded White before these two and had major currency at the time, imagine a ruck of jolly and simmonds, simmonds resting full forward.

I think people need to be realistic and more passionate about this club, but to also not think everyone will be alright because lets face it if we were not called MELBOURNE we would of been ******* years ago, sitting in the members is akin to being at a morgue we just having a passionless and dull boring supporter base, this club needs members with life, not sit there and clap when we are 10 goals down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can't say the future is bright for the dees right now, look forward to the next 6 mths with intrest, but don't be mistaken of we **** this up again there will be no coming back we will be merged with another club

People need to look out of there glass walls we are melbourne but it doesn't mean anyone owes us anything and you can only survive on your name for so long

Time is now...............

[Guest Schtacker]

Nothing like a blatant grammatical error in the thread title just to kick things off

A lot of what you are saying is crap - the rest we already know... and you are offering no solutions

I was proud of the side last week, hopefully I am again today. That's all.

[Geddy Lee 582]

Robbo kicked 75-odd in a season a couple of years, its all good and fun comparing the guy to Scott Welsh right now but Robbo has actually been far better.

[Little Goffy 14,447]

A lot of ho hum in this thread.

Something in the way it's written - cliche after cliche and just piled on together, with an aggressive negative position and thought of positives or even changes that need to be made.

Yeah, this is some idiot trolling.

Or drunk and lonely.

Buddy, you're not going to get any respect by pissing on other people's windows, and the glass doesn't stain - it just rinses right off in the next shower and all you're left with is smelly shoes.

[Nasher 33,607]

If I were Yze_Magic, right now I'd be posting a picture of a packet of Imodium for this guy's verbal diarrhoea.

[Axis of Bob 11,674]

I read about a quarter of that and it was some of the most tedious and gruelling reading ever. I had to stop myself putting whiteout on the screen!

I especially liked that the club had shown the members "a total lack of disrespect". Shouldn't that make you happy? :D

[sylvinator 96]

there's only one thing wrong with our club atm imho.

When someone pinpoints the reason why none of our really good players ever become star players, they will find the reason why we are struggling atm.

[bazza 0]

keep living in the fish bowl people thats why were ******* the clubs got no *****

[Diablo 1]

keep living in the fish bowl people thats why were ******* the clubs got no *****

Somebody needs to drop a couple of soluble vallium into your fishbowl mate.

[bazza 0]

sorry mate, we have been ****** for ages and were getting no better, it's time we just admit it move on and look forward, i might not offer any solutions but I can tell you the people that go into members and just clap arn't going to help, i posted on here about 6 mths ago that id organise 100 signatures and a EGM to spill the board, you all cried it will cost the club money etc, well not as much as we have lost anyway, so when someone offers a solution and a different way to run things everyone goes conservative.

so someone do something about it then............. i just hope we are around in 10 years

[Hannabal 4]

Bazza is misguided, tired and emotional, but he means well.

[Beach Road Bazza 0]

Bazza is misguided, tired and emotional, but he means well.

He might mean well but despite the name, I want to make it clear that we are unrelated.

Sorry, I mean we is unrelated.

[bazza 0]

i don't mind what you guys say but we have to lose this we will be ok mentality cause fact of the matter is we had someone with balls and he was voted out Gutnick for Snozdy then a loss of millons, smart move by the members........ ohh no someone as president that was thinking in the real world and not 1950 we better get rid of him........... No idea

[Guest Schtacker]

there's only one thing wrong with our club atm imho.

When someone pinpoints the reason why none of our really good players ever become star players, they will find the reason why we are struggling atm.

you're exactly right - the reason is that the MFC has

-substandard facilities/equipment

-second rate staff

-poor on-field examples/leadership

-lack of passionate support

-denigration in the media/opposition fans

shallow minded fools try to blame our list on Craig Cameron but there are at least a dozen players on our list that could or should have become stars and ZERO of them have. There is something wrong.

[Adzman 2,154]

OUCH, nothing like a DOOMSDAY thread before lunch. ON a serious note, WTF is with people writing off kids before they have played a game? Bazza, TJ was traded because this would be the last year where he would warrant a top pick. Another 12 months would see his value decrease.

We have a good enough future, the hawks we garbage for a few seasons when they tried this approach, and I am sure we will reach the heights hawthorn have in a few seasons time.