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Let's just see for how long. I am an optimist. I have stayed tuned since the Hassa Mann days, been to games where Matthews slew Smith, watched and observed with great fervor. Yes, I am a Demon Tragic. And, anyway, our daughter doesn't care about my observations any more, she has a boyfriend. Unfortunately he follows the saints. Should I shoot him?

Thank you.Now, remember to keep on prayin.....

Good to see some humor and 'Robust' discussion. Alleluia to both. God knows we need them. Which reminds me, when are the troglodyte Luddites gonna acknowledge there are eftpos machines in Casey?

Alleluia, Leonard Cohen reigns.

My daughter said to me recently, Why do you always barrack for the loser? Does that answer your question?

What if I confessed I don't have an Amex card? And that I've had three missus'es. One of whom follows the footy but barracks for the E Coli Wobblers, one of them is dead and the other is Polish and just wants me to mow the lawn on the weekend. Give me a break, Puntkick, my life is hard, hubble bubble toil and trouble. All I wanna do is drive to Casey in peace, buy a friggin ticket just like I can buy one anywhere else in the universe and watch my team. You got a problem with that? If so, it's not a first world problem it's a mental problem and indicates an incapacity to take even one step in another man's shoes. And, remember, the shoes are worn by a dude crippled with arthritis in his once well-functioning left knee. My advice to you is that you repent and say three hail mary's.

Poita, this is 2017. There were thousands of people at Casey today. I was one of, according to the ticket operator, 150 people who expected to pay by Eftpos. Buy a membership, mate, I'm 67, have been to two games since 1987, questioned begged: why should I have to buy a membership just to watch one pre-season game? Pre-purchase? Why should I? I only decided to go at midday. Bring some Cash? I brought fifteen bucks, about as much as I ever need to carry because I know in the civilized world I can use my card. Going up the road a few hundred metres is not as easy as it sounds for someone with crippling arthritis. Glad your family had a great day out, sounds like you are one of the wise virgins in one of the Gospels, can't remember which. It's just that these days, especially at a function which is going to attract thousands, ignoring the simple 'first world' fact that most of us expect to pay by card, without letting the customers know that this facility would not be available is bulldust.

Sounds like a perfectly beastly experience to me. The promise of loose change sounds tempting. Anyway, we'll lose and I'll become teary and morbid again.

Soft? You ever been nagged by my missus? I deserve a medal.

Like Carlton, ha ha

Agree. It's just that I'm 67, have a crippled arthritic left knee, also suffering from a lergy today, get out the violins Wiseblood, weep. I know there were potential customers who had the same issue, they were wandering forlornly around Casey Fields looking for an ATM. Like I say, why make it difficult for your customers? Think I'll have to barrack for a 21st century team...

It's about that old fashioned notion of customer service, young man. Always make it easy and comfortable for your customers is the motto of every smart business person. Why should I have to walk back to the car park, find an ATM, drive back, find another park, walk back to the pearly gate and miss the first 15 minutes? As the say in the Irish Classics, Fluck the geese who made it difficult for me to pay them to enter their venue, and if they have relatives in America, Fluck them too.

I just fudged the figures. Anyway, Amex is desperate to sign customers. Also, please don't tell my wife about this card.

Isn't Moana a town in NSW across the border from Echuca? Better get a move on then, the roos come out at dusk.

If you had cash and you live in Thornbury and you like Christians you're obviously related to the Salems and drive a Mercedes and I know that your fellow countrymen are cash dealers. I deliberately spelt c not hash.Okay. I'm glad you had cash and had a good day, I had to go home and get nagged to death by my wife.

Damn, lost my card!

Especially non-existent cash. And, that's my point, why I've never got any, I can't keep track of it.

I was gonna buy a membership but they don't take AMEX.

Is that Toesilitis?

If you're a married man with a 19 year old daughter at Uni one doesn't often have 50 bucks to one's name.

Between you and me, he used an abacus.

I had about 15 bucks on me. That's all a married man with a nineteen year old daughter is liable to carry in cash these days, when, like I say, one can go anywhere else but Casey in the Melbourne area and use an eftpos machine. By the way, the dude in the Ticket shack agreed with me, said I and 150 others had said the same thing.

Casey Fields is a bot like Stalingrad, now that you mention it, flat, desolate and populated by people from yesteryear, shall we say?

Who plans their day in 2017 to the extent that one must assume that an AFL fixture is played at a venue that doesn't have eftpos facilities? I can understand it in an under-age suburban competition but there were thousands of people there.

Just got back from a 100 kilometere wild goose chase to Casey Fields and back. I arrived at 1.50, walked round the ground from the car park in the paddock, queued up to pay and saw the sign 'Cash Only'. I asked if there was an eptpos facility nearby, he replied in the nearest shopping centre. I said this is a troglodyte sham, he said, 150 others have said that. I walked back to my car and drove home. Goodbye Casey Fields, I'll not be going back.