Rodney (Balls) Grinter

Phew

Agree with pretty much all your points Macca. Sidebottom has been very damaging against us for a long time. It's mostly me hoping that age catches up with him as much as anything.

Love the idea - how did this go?

Sidebottom and particularly Pendelbry have age against them these days and I'd expect them to become more fragile as time goes on. Elliott has always been injury prone, so I don't know if Collingwood can really count on him being there in their best 22. De Goey was cancelled by Oliver.

Great call by the fitness team to manage Hibbo last week. Thought he was great today and keeping his body fresh for the big games and finals will be important to our success in September. Don't really have a replacement for him at this stage, he's just a pig dog beast.

Then there was the time they let Mason Cox stand the mark while we had a shot on goal, when the free clearly wasn't paid against him 😠

Salem a softy - yeah nah.

I also like Tomo. Real quality of character to keep fronting up and presenting himself to be selected when he's frequently finds himself on the frindge. I wouldn't say he's nessacerilly reliable though. Think he's very much a confidence type player and for a season and a half he's lacked that, but I think it's great now he's found his mojo again and agree that today he was very good.

The win was great, but after having rocked up every week to the low crowd drawing games including Hawthorn, North and Freo I'm so [censored] that I couldn't be there today because of the Fffffed up ticketing arrangements.

Personally I'm really [censored] off about this situation. I'd cut short a trip to Brisbane specifically to go to Kings birthday game for the first time in years on the basis that as a full home and away member (but without a reserve seat) I could reasonably watch the game if I got there early enough to get one of the GA seats allocated for the game. Back in Feb the club sent an email that stated: Your membership will grant you general admission access to all home games at the MCG. You do not need to upgrade to a reserved seat for these games, however it is strongly encouraged for Rounds 1, 6 and 13 due to capacity. The in March (an email I missed in all the spam, it softened that to "(subject to availability)" and then a few weeks ago when I was busy with a whole bunch of life stuff, it's there burried in an email that you do need upgrade to a reserve seat as they have been busy preselling all the tickets. I'd like to know where the buck truely stops with this mess as on the AFL website it states: https://www.afl.com.au/tickets/faq Who sets the ticket prices? The home club sets the prices for all 2023 Toyota AFL Premiership Season matches. I’m a member, will I be forced to upgrade to attend a game? This process may differ from club to club. Please refer to details provided by your club or contact them directly for further information.

At the Freo loss old mate up back of our bay kept yelling that Harmes shouldn't get another game, and that he should go back to the VFL, because that was his standard. Admittedly Harmes did quite a few stinker things that day, but he's got a well earnt premiership medallion and a memory of kicking that brilliant pass to Fritta that turned the game that old mate will never have.

The game after playing Richmond (I think it was North), I could hardly yell out because of the short 5 day break between games and I'd yelled myself horse because of the atrocious umpiring we copped against Richmond that week.

I play up on it too. Was in a pub in Taralgon with my MFC scarf on a few weeks back and joked to my gf that it was a stop off on the way to Baw Baw from her place. Asked the barman if they had any cheese boards i could try. Then on the other hand in a pub in Newbrough wearing the scarf, I was asked what that '[censored]#t' thing I had around my neck was. Classy. Amazing the guy could talk without any teeth. Probably a Collingwood supporter.

Good plan. There are a few little Melksham's running around arn't there? From memory they probaby played with the Viney and/Or Jones kids during 2021 COVID hubs, so should be a few good future MFC stars in the making.

I know what you're saying, but it's a bit like trying to make a smoker quit or a alcoholic stop drinking etc at some point surely it comes down to the individual making decisions about how they want to live and what they consider life is about living for? We let people do all sorts of things involving risk in our society. Riding road bikes is a risk I'd never be comfortable with, yet many keen riders I know have multiple near death accidents and get right back on the saddle - why? Because it's something they love doing in life.

So who here remembers the tone at the start of the 2021 season, when we'd missed finals again in 2020 and St Kilda were closer to a premership than us? Sucess and failure are on a knife edge in the AFL, but I think we've got more to be hopeful about than pessimistic. Sounding a bit like a Goodwin clone here, but we nearly won yesterday while playing badly and I'm sure there were plenty of lessons for us to learn. ...just like we did post 2020.

Yup, on the same page there too. Having watched so many talented sides in the 90s go unrewarded and then living through the pain of the 2005 - 2018 era, I also really hope we make the most of what we have now and get that elusive flag at the G.

I've got too much going on in my life to get too hung up about the defeats we've had this season. Do I think we could and should be playing better and like it more if we were convincingly controlling games, closing them out and walking away victorious - yes totally. But some of the over reactions (and amplified x10 on other forums) are crazy. I'm largely tuned out just at the moment, but do appreciate the sensible analysis and thoughts on here even in the event of a loss. Even some of the more reasonable vents as put by @Jaded No More are acceptable. One thing for sure is that it's a completely different feeling being 7 - 4 or whatever we are now, compared to the 10 - 1 and 54% that is currently the Eagles lot, but use to be us not so long ago. Perspective is a good thing.

Thanks AF, you summarised alot of the recient history I was trying to recall as well. Was it the break through 2017 premiership year that Richmond supporters were microwaving membership cards? If you go back even earlier to the dominant talent rich Geelong sides era 2007+, they didn't get everything on there own terms either. We're not doing things as easy/dominant as we'd like, but we are definitely more disiplined and regularly competing better than any MFC team since 1964, so I don't think there's much more that we can ask than that. Ask any AFL premiership coach and they'll all say how bloody hard they are to win and also require some extent of good fortune as well. All the bed wetters decrying our 'pathetic' performances of late need to get a grip and are just showing their own lack of football IQ.

I'm [censored] with the performance and result, but sheeesh thIs the sky is falling down stuff pisses me off even more. Sack Goodwin 🤦‍♂️ Scrolling the posts on the Melbourne Football Supporters Forum on FB - OMG.

I think that's all most of us want Jimmy. ...well almost. I think if I feel it that once, I'll want it again, but that one with our fellow Demon family and faithful would be magnificent. Thankfully listening to Max, I know him and I'll bet the rest of the team really want it too. I also want it to be a proper daylight flag before the AFL caves to the TV gods again and turn it into some kind of second rate entertainment spectacle for their advertising masters.

It's a real suburb and it kinda suits that's where they train. ...It's actually pronounced with a silent ck, except for the purposes of this forum, in which case, I'm happy to forget that.

Someone needs to buy those guys some lubricant, that really must hurt.

I'd rather cheer on the resumption of the Walyalup death ride than boo. Hope we absolutely pump them. That would be the best message to send Dogga.

Pretty respectful there from Luke. No "All duck, no dinner" type comments there 😂