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Tackle Melbourne, FFS. If I watch us catch another scraggers player and just bounce off I will f%cking scream. Tackle them FFS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can cope with errors in tight traffic but not tackling, pinning the doggies player down and trodding on him is just not on. We just let them run, and they have the confidence to take on ANY Melbourne player and break the tackle. Have some f$cking pride Melbourne. Is Jones the only one willing to fly the flag and put up a fight !!??!?!?!??!?!

how is Frawley going - I see his named on the wing for Sandy !?!?!? maybe we do need our own seconds. Lamb playing full back ahead of Frawley does f$ck all for us at the Melbourne footbal club. He is a bit bigger this year and needs to be in defence. I think he could develop into a real defensive type of player that can shut down one particular player. The Rivers types are more creative, but we need Frawley to just take a man and be told to shut him down for the afternoon, and if they are a foot taller or 10 kg heavier, then so be it. He can then learn how to play on the big boys. how is his development going ?

Demon Rob, my point is I paid $155 for a membership which can go to anyone really as I won't use it. My boy is 13 months old so a little young and I don't know demon supporters under 15. I am sure a marketing mind can come up with a campaign to sponsor a new demon to MCC members if there is some sort of attachment there. Maybe there are groups, international travellers, local sporting clubs, charities anything with some faces to illicit some sort of emotional response. There is truckloads of cashed up MCC members who could buy a simple $150 membership if it went to a good cause. If we could get bums on seats as well, then we are cooking. Redfin, the donatee may not go to games, but what I am suggesting it may get the MCC member to get out the credit card though. Getting them to go is step two !! If world vision asked my wife for some money, she may or may not give, but paint a 'real' picture of someone, a person, a child who benefits and bang, there is the emotional attachment. Anyway, DeeReaming has given me the proper contact at the club (thanks mate !!!) I will put something together and see if it gets anywhere, and keep you posted. Please post any good thoughts to add to this idea. I am not 100% sure on this but what I am sure of is, I sit amongst some wealthy families and the Dees need them. They fork out hundreds of dollars to Spotless catering each year after all. Ok, second idea - cut your own lunch and buy a membership !!

does anyone have any contact details to send ideas like this to ? With McNamee on board, maybe they will listen now.

Hey guys, I was just thinking of a marketing idea to get new memberships. I am an MCC member and typically have not purchased a Melbourne F C membership, but this year decided to buy the full Melbourne membership, which I did on Sunday. Now, I won't actually use it, so do clubs have any facility to donate the membership perhaps to underpriviledged people, through Red Cross or whoever ?? I know I can donate it to a child under 15, but I don't know anyone. I am thinking if there are one quarter MCC members barracking for Melbourne (I heard that somewhere, seems a bit high perhaps), and if a lot are like me, and pay top dollar for MCC, they may still be pushed over to get a MFC membership if it could be donated to charity or a worthwhile cause. i.e a person who cannot afford a membership. If my wife donates to Wrold Vision and we get a letter every so often from a child to create some sort of attachment, then why not do the same for MFC memberships e.g perhaps to a chinese student ?? who knows. Good source of say $10,000 X $165 = $1.65 Mill. If we can get one quarter of that then thats $400,000. What are your thoughts ?

thats what worried me in the off season. I agree with most things Bailey has done but signiing Miller for 2 years I thought was a ludicrous mistake, and Roos wanted him at Sydney !! My problem with Miller, as shown yesterday, is his kicking never low and flat. They are all up and under kicks. We had 3 'open' players on the members wing at one stage, so he goes back, takes a few seconds and lobs it high and we lose it. good work again on the members wing, fights to the front, Neitz leads out beautifully, Miller lobs it over his head, from 20 metres. That's the problem, he cannot kick it at this level. why oh why ? If we put him at CHF, how will we beat teams with his slow witted kicking style. Plus we have 3 decent half forwards in Bate, Sylvia, Robbo. Would rather they try the taller blokes at Sandy. Keep Garland, bring in Rivers and drop Miller.

6- Nathan Jones. Went hard all day 5- Paul Johnson. showed good touch and surprising agility 4- Moloney. hard all daty but got caught a lot. 3- Brock Mclean - terrible first quarter. but came back. Was torn apart by Mitchell though. 2- running out of players - Simon Buckley. only bloke looked like breaking the lines and taking them on. 1- Cale morton - beautiful mover. would like to see him play a few more games as he looks great.

as like Everything Gaddy Lyon says or writes, its hardly illuminating. I love the guy as our favourite son, but he sits on the fence more than a politician. Say SOMETHING Gaddy !!!! Yes we know we are in financial strife, yes you even repeated we are looking to get a permanent summer training home, but can you suggest anything, what road we should take. I give far more credit to someone who takes action and stuffs up. just once i would like Gaddy to have a definite opinion on something.

If they just fine him it will be a joke. This is interesting as it will really test their 'new' philosophy of a new beginning.

speculation at this stage. After last year, I just want to know they are getting better and ready early on. Doesn't worry me if its round 1,2 or 3 really. We need these blokes to be fully fit and ready to go. Bruce and Wheatley by round 2, and happy to go slowly with Whelan and Bartram. Would hate it if we rushed them in too early. We cannot underestimate how much accountability Whelan and Bartram would give us as good defensive runners, albeit in different roles.

Actually after reading Talking Carlton fans give it to us for bad player behaviour, it will be interesting to see what Carlton's leadership group does. They have an important game against Richmond on Thursday, so will be interesting to see if they suspend him for any matches. Surely he is on his last chance and can't stay in their leadership group. Ohhhh what Judd must be thinking now, and he has to help decide the penalty. Apparently their leadership group are meeting ASAP as he has admitted it to the club.

http://news.theage.com.au/fevola-caught-on...80317-1zyk.html Lets see if Carlton do something about this silly boy.

Hey anyone thought of full back. I get the feeling he looks pretty level headed and could do well in a key defensive post. In fact I would like to see him trialled there at some stage.

Mclean, Carroll and Sylvia keep out of the papers for negative reasons for 22 weeks. Mclean and Sylvia top 5 finishes in the bluey. Carroll becomes a born again christian. ok maybe scrap that last one.

Tell you friend the footballer to wake up and smell the roses. What a complete load of sh1te - he lives in an industry of self absorbed selfish big heads. Is Acker selfish ?? then take away his 3 premierships then. Are Kerr and Cousins selfish ?? take away their premiership and Cousins brownlow then. What about Steve johnson? and he is still doing off field stuff. Take his Norm Smith away. Put it this way, we just have to get these blokes passionate and playing well on the field. I would rather have a beer with Ben Holland as a good bloke, but prefer to have Sylvia on the ground playing for Melbourne. our success will depend on Bailey reversing our big weakness as Sheedy identified, getting the team to play for each other. and I am afraid there are plenty of self absorbed characters who play great team footy. You cannot survive as a player if you don't. what team does this respected player play for ?

Disappointing but love it at the same time. I have been waiting for a new group to come in and act professional and clean up our act. It shows we are dead serious by imposing a suspension of the first match of the year. Every team has got these players and we have to show we are serious. No doubt the only way we will become professional is to have a serious crack down. What do we have to lose ?? seriously. This seems to be the only way to get through to him and make a bloke like Sylvia wake up and treat his role professionally. That just cannot happen, and if he does it again, then let him choose another club because we want passionate professional players.

sometimes wonder if a lot of demon supporters are front runners. when things aren't rocking and rolling along, then just bag everything and everyone you can.

agreed. Only thing I am truelly dissapointed in is how [censored] weak the supporters on this forum are being at present. FFS give the guys some support. We have revamped the place, Bailey has played some youngsters and things aren't going to be turned on like a switch. Fair dinkum some people are just ready to throw stones as soon as things go bad. Blokes who have missed a lot of footy are coming back slowly and we are trying new things. Lets throw out some support there.

Similair to Simon Eishold ?? bite your tongue. The simple fact is he has been hampered by injury and will never be 100 % it looks like. I read that article where he goes through a whole taping process around his pelvic and low abdomin region. The sobering thought is despite his best pre-season he still is not 100 % with his body. I think he is a gun but wonder if he can play a full season without too much restriction.

big difference between us wanting him and cook being very keen to join us. Is that what you are suggesting - Cook wants to join us ? A newpaper report recently suggests otherwise.

"He thought the travelling around from training venue to venue, far and wide, was unacceptable and would be something he works very hard on to fix for next season" I think this was significant part of what he said. Coming in as former Freo coach, he would have a fair idea on what should be standard for a top team. I think Connolly is ideally suited in this role, like Neil Balme is, and given he is happy to be football manager, its a huge plus for us. A Melbourne man through and through. He could hasve commanded other posts but think we got a great deal to have him here. lets hope he can find some interim measure to secure consistent training facilities before we get out proper home base. I am happy if Bruce, Bartram, Whelan and Rivers are starting to play competitive footy. If we can have them up and running in the next month that would be great, whether its round 1 or not I don't care, just as long as they can last the season.

I think its a very good article, and reallys shows we have someone committed to developing youngster at this club, unlike the last 3 years. I hate us losing, but if its giving game to younger players, then I am all for it. I am confident, if fully fit, our midfield will upset quite a few sides this year. Above all else if we can unearth 2 young key position players to 'come of age' it will be enormous for the Dees.

Just on Whelan and I am a huge fan, but if he was to take another year, one has to ask why we are keeping hold of him. It seems forever since he strung some games together, 2 years ? I hate to think of all the players still carrying bad injuries. If Whelan was on the long term injury list, I would be very very dissapointed we could not see that coming. He seems the mystery man of the MFC.

The lack of publicity we get is a huge concern. i think setting up the new training facilities and off field collaborative efforts are proactive and good for us, but we do lack the publicity. The only time I hear Gardner in the press, I usually cringe, like recently saying he spoke to Steven Icke at Carlton, then saying he did not speak to him. Gee Willickas, where is your credibility Paul ??? I am very very dissapointed the football world hardly know we are having a 150th. i don't know the full story but won't be sad if he leaves,just based on results.

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