Hypothetical Poll

[WonnaJurah 5]

always support same team, i just couldnt change clubs, sure i like other teams that play, but none come any close to the love of the dees

end the drought

[Guest unstable punt]

Same for me.

as well

[deanox 8,872]

This is not about judging people's loyalty or discussing our teams success in the past or future. It's a research poll for a project i'm doing at university, however i am also interesting in some responses as to the reason of the choice.

well make sure you realise that responses to an optional poll on an internet forum is NOT a random sample! i cant believe how many people i have to explain this too. lol

RE 0% chance of winning a premiership. I think we could consider a 0% chance of winning if after all the draft concessions etc go to the two new sides, the afl decides in 2011 to go away with the salary cap and allow free agency. at that point we would have 0% chance of ever winning a premiership because we couldnt compete with the richer teams.

i think i would support still, but my support may dwindle. i would most likely fade into non-existance as a football supporter, and rekindle the bond between me and my family and friends. and probably go to the beach more.

[Toad33 57]

This is not about judging people's loyalty or discussing our teams success in the past or future. It's a research poll for a project i'm doing at university, however i am also interesting in some responses as to the reason of the choice.

I recon I have got another 50+ years left in me. I have already waited 40. I don't know that I could be bothered supporting knowing full well I will NEVER see a Melbourne player lift up THAT cup while I am alive. I would probably end up one of those dis-infranchised supporters who 'follow' from afar but don't actually sign up to support.

Go Dees - Please, please, please don't make me wait 50 years.

[Demon16 69]

like most supporters my father supported this club and my grandfather before him. hopefully my kids support the club and if they get a chance to see a flag and i don't, then stiff [censored]. it won't change the way i support the club.

[Gandalf46 132]

I'll keep supporting them. Premierships aside, I still find great satisfaction with victory over Collingwood, Essendon and the interstate clubs during the regular season.

[Chook 14,619]

What if, in 1965, somebody had told you we would not win a Premiership until at least 2010, when we would begin to have a chance again. Would you have stuck with it all that time, quit, or only become interested again now? I know it would have dimmed my enthusiasm - not to say I would walk away from football, but I would have become a little less passionate over the years. Up until 2010, at least.

[Lord Travis 10,298]

I'm 22. The closest I've seen to us winning a flag was the 2000 grand final massacre. In all honesty, I dont think we'll win a flag in my lifetime. Just when you think we're building towards it, it all comes crashing down time and time again.

After the Adelaide final in 02, I was so shattered that I stopped following footy. I didnt attend or watch a game in 03, and didnt attend a game until towards the end of 04. As a teenager thinking that we had a chance, and watching Travis play the game of his life (which solidified him as my fav player forever), to see it all get ruined at the end was devastating. I went berserk and was smashing bins in the parking lot etc and my friends had to calm me down. I've never ever been like that before in my life or since then, but something inside me that night snapped. The realisation that the chance was gone and I wont see my team win the flag for a long long time, if ever is not something a young kid/teenager can handle. We have a problem in that most of our supporters are older people. With the lack of success we have had in recent times, why would a kid want to support Melbourne? When I was a young kid at school there was a fair few Melb supporters, where as now if you go to a school there are next to none. They now all go for Essendon, Collingwood or Hawthorn. There arent any Melb, Doggies, Roos, Saints, and yes even Carlton and Richmond despite the high membership. Unless we start turning it all around onfield, and for a sustained ammount of time, we wont get the new young supporters coming through, and we will die.

I still go to games often and am a proud passionate paid up supporter. Been to 3 games this year, and went to probably 8 last year I'd guess. I will always support my team and be a member, you never know where the ride will take you. BUT, if you were to tell me we wouldnt win a flag in my lifetime, in all honesty I'd be alot less passionate and probably wouldnt be a member. If that makes me a bandwagon supporter or whatever then I guess that's what I am. But wasting thousands of dollars over my lifetime when I know there will be no possibility of the great reward would be a tad depressing.

[Sir Why You Little 35,148]

I would never support another team but as the years rolled on i would get bored of following an "impossible dream" go and do something else, just because Fitzroy supporters follow Brisbane doesn't mean i have to support a Gold coast or whatever club either. I have pride.