Mel Bourne

Melksham and Lockhart are not VFL standard. And the name you've given yourself is wretched.

Yeah, when you factor the pandemic in with what’s happening in the States right now, the saying “dysentery happens” seems more fitting.

Perhaps I got the context wrong but I read it as “it’s important the club has ethics so that young woke hipsters will think it’s cool”. If I got that wrong, I humbly apologise.

It’s a bit of a bummer that you see something as admirable as the club parting ways with the gambling industry in this way. I’m guessing you’ve never really experienced the damage poker machines cause, up close.

Well you obviously rate it as a way to have fun, so maybe I’ll give it a crack.

A couple of things here... Being critical of capitalism doesn’t automatically make a person a lover of handouts, or a believer in any other kind of commie-centric ideals. Any economic system that has produced 1% of the world’s population controlling over half of the world’s wealth is not deserving of a big pat on the back. And it seems you’re suggesting I can’t be a supporter of a certain football team, while simultaneously having an issue with unchecked capitalism. I’m not sure I really need to say a anything about that, except that I don’t see it that way. I was merely addressing a certain poster’s attitude that morality shouldn’t affect bottom line, which even you must admit is a pretty prevalent and unfortunate tenet of modern-day capitalism (and one which depresses the [censored] out of me). It’s this particular attitude that has kids making your clothes and oceans full of plastic. I would rather be talking about football, but the nature of the topic we’re discussing here requires us to express certain beliefs that go beyond the game. I’m glad we don’t rely on gambling for profit. I have many reasons for this, which I think are valid. And I refuse to accept this line of argument that selling off the pokies (or other highly-questionable source of revenue) was poor management and direct threat to the club’s survival.

You don’t want to be bored by people? Don’t write [censored] like this.

Playing well and having integrity aren’t mutually exclusive concepts. If they were I’d have to re-evaluate my feelings for the game itself.

Powerful comment.

Since when did taking a genuinely moral stance on a serious public health issue get reduced to this term “virtue signalling”? If everybody adopted the attitude of “Well it won’t make a difference if I take a stand on this, everyone else will still do it”, we’d probably still be living in a feudalist society Virtue-signalling, if we must examine this Tucker Carlson/Andrew Bolt-esque term, is generally reserved for people who talk big and do little. Sacrificing a significant amount of revenue because you’ve decided to take a moral stance, should never be reduced to such a pithy buzz-term. And all the people here saying the club has shown some kind of libtard weakness by taking such a stand make me sick

Yes, you could. But those other vices you mention weren’t bringing revenue into the club. What’s your point?

Not sure if you were intending to summarise the decline of society during late-stage capitalism in one sentence, but well done.

The difference is in the two ways his name is being pronounced in that Ch 7 report. The caps are indicating the emphasis on which syllable. I’m going with benn-EL cos it’s sounds cooler.

So is it BEN-nell or ben-NELL? Or does nobody know?

Help me out here... Tim Watson says “ben-NELL”, whereas the reporter immediately calls him “BEN-nell”. Which one was correct?

Somewhere between 1861-1862.

Trying not to think of it actually.

The fact is our coach can’t even smile without making a mistake.

Didn’t know AFL players weren’t allowed to bet on AFL games. Didn’t think there was anything wrong with pestering Steven Dank for “the good stuff”. As somebody who followed the Essendon drug scandal very closely (my best mate’s little bro was in the team at the time), I was furious to learn of his appointment at our club. Have been trying to keep a cool head about it throughout my time on DL discussions. Failing miserably today. Sack him.

What on earth could you hope to glean from that dullard? Get rid of his toxic presence at our club.

The sooner I see the back of Simple Simon the better. The most glaring flaw last year was the inability to convert due to rubbish disposals going inside 50. How can a team emerge from months of training without this issue being absolutely and utterly addressed? There was not a modicum of improvement in that area. That game was like watching round 25 of the 2019 season. I cannot stand our coach. I am sick to the gills of watching his lights on, nobody home, deer in headlights face. He talks absolute corporate-speak nonsense, and he sucks at his job. I can't invest emotionally in this club anymore until that low IQ turkey is gone and replaced by somebody who can walk and chew gum at the same time.

Thus ends another disappointing season for the Melbourne Football Club.

Lever is a terrible kick. Just a terrible, terrible foot-passer of the game.

Wow. Spargo. Go away.

Kozzie and Lockhart must be wondering why they’re doing so much of the heavy lifting for all of these supposedly experienced professionals. Those two and Viney can hold their heads up.