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Mclean wants to lead, title or not "You don't need a title to lead. The best style of leadership is through actions and that's going to be my way of leading out on the field and out on the track."

interesting point, certainly one the club would have to look at

Darren Bent! Well, maybe he's worth half of what we paid for him now. And this will have to be UEFA cup goal of the season, wow. Tom Huddlestone at about 1 minute 15

Upswing in form? Save for a few games middle of last year, and a slowish start to this one, I consider Brock to be our best midfielder. Even injured agaisnt Brissie he was our best midfielder

I'm there

If this forum has a lot of MCC members, and hence ideas etc. are weighted in that favour, then that's just how it is. We're all supporters of the club, and as I've said earlier, being an MCC member does not make you a "toff, silvertail." You started out complaining about negative demorgaphics, and yet it is you who is playing them up. Of course the club should try and entice more MCC member to become MFC members, what could possibly be a drawback of this? The club knows who they are, contact details etc. It would be negligent not to try and recruit them. But of course, this should be done as part of a larger recruitment drive. No one here, not even rich, rolling-in-money MCC members have said that. We all want to spread the base anyway way we can. Getting more MCC members on board is just one idea to help the club, I don't think it should be attacked because you are not one. Interesting point you raise about the seating. Ideas like that are positive and I for one could not raise it because i sit in MCC and am not really aware of the seating arrangements. It's a good point to make and should be addressed to the club. About the club not getting back to, yet offering "bountiful" replies to MCC members is one of the most ridiculous things to say. For instance, I wrote a 3 page email to the club outlining ideas i had for the club, and a few questions i was interested in. I sent it to two email addresses, one of which was the published link designed to takes supporters ideas. I didn't get a reply. If the club has a "silvertail"culture, it doesn't help that supporters such as yourself play it up so much, especially by complaining at a lack of response as being due to perceived economic status. The club needs to get better at responding to members and supporters, that is an issue. You seem more caught up in demographics than most here, a move to Casey is an attempt to widen the supporter base. I doubt very much the club is saying, let's go out near Cranbourne because people think it's a poor demographic and will then help the club grow in a poor economic setting. It is an attempt to help our club. I agree Casey should be embraced and the club should get right into it, immerse itself into the comunity fabric. I'd love if we could buy a couple of local pubs or something, to build a real connection with the area. Perhaps the club could play a match against teh Scorpions and give all proceeds to a local hospital. If you have other ideas, feel free to post them I'm sure everyone here is happy to listen to suggestions. Though I wouldn't really call the move to Casey a chore, perhaps you could post ways in which the club could make the move sound exciting to those who don't hear of it daily (for instance, its lack of publicity makes you feel the club doesn't really care about it, solution, the club needs to get into the media celebrating casey etc.) As an afterthought, is there anyway we could become a general sponsor of the local Junior footy club? Good way to get the club's name out, get kids easily involved with the club?

Dees, I am trying to understand what you're saying (and I think I'm getting there...) But I don't see how you're helping the debate? If you feel like you have ideas for the club to use, then put them forward. How can ideas we have pertaining to the MCC be in neglect of all others? FWIW, probably many of my ideas will be related to the MCC as that is how I attend the footy, if others don't attend the footy through the MCC I'd assume they would have other ideas on how to help our club, and if they didn't have MCC-related ideas, I wouldn't degrade them for any reason, so I don't really see why would do it. Are you saying that the club only invited MCC members to the Summit? Why do you think the club is moving to Casey, and so many on here have been positive about that, if it's not about spreading the "demographic" and attempting to shake off the stigma of the "range-rover driving silvertail." I'm 21, born and raised in West Footscray, MCC because of a father I didn't often see. I don't see how that has any relevance to how i can help the club moving forward. Are you painting yourself too much into the corner?

Do you know what happened Sunday Eastie?

Will do W_Y_L, i'm desperate to get an MFC style MCC card, even if it costs me 50 extra per year just for that

Yeah, was going to post something about this last night but was more interested in the election. Seems ridiculous to me, really childish stuff. They should ban him for two matches now

Turning up without knowing the state of the ground isn't the best idea either

And we should call council before any match is planned!

I'd be in, foot should be fine by then

I thought Gambir's appeal was going to be successful, going by past instances. Good to see the decision upheld

So you want the changerooms in the middle of the AFL members, rather than the MCC members? I'd say, given that our club is trying to strengthen ties with the MCC, that it would be a very silly thing to move the changerooms now

Whilst I'm not into the "bagging" Daniher debate, I feel the two styles are based very differently Bailey's style, with the "train-wreck" of a list he has inherited, will take time. It's just something we will have to deal with, and hope he's going the right way about him. It's easy to say Daniher "built a competitive side from day one," but after day 366 did he begin to build an uncompetitive side? Day 732, did he begin to build a competitive one again. You see what I mean. Jones and Bate had poor years, but to simply blaim the coach is quite naive and simplistic IMO. Honestly, I don't think we have a choice whether we reside in the doldrums or not. Saying that we can't financially afford to do so simply ignores the fact that our club was facing financial ruin 4 years ago, and on-field success did little to change that, and we simply staved off the reality until our list inevitably crumbled

i reckon that would be fun! Get the supporters out, 4 15 minute quarters. Shot for goal challenges for supporters at half time. No reason why it shouldn't at least be put forward. The match would be little more than a training session, but a good way to expose the dees to the local community

"They’re all alcohol-related and I don’t think it is a big issue,” bit of a scary quote really. Reminds me a bit of the recent Jeff White articles.

Winning points my friend

A Selwood, at Geelong? Unthinkable

I personally feel we do pretty well out of MCC members becoming MFC members. After all, they are about 1/6th of our total supporter base (maybe less) but equate to about 1/4 of our MFC membership base. Obviously it can be improved, but to focus on that ahead of all else would be detrimental to our club's future. An alignment makes sense to me, as the two grew together essentially, but is only a small fragment of how we need to grow our supporter/membership base.

Still can't walk

Great smother!

Doggo, I quite literally can put no weight on my left foot. Work could be interesting... haha

could be problems with the ground