Rab D Nesbitt

I feel ya. We did the 24 hour cheer squad bus trip to Cararra and back to watch us lose by 5 points to the Bears in their second home game in the competition. Left an hour after the game for the return trip after we'd loaded the flags and poles back onboard and were using a huge plastic red surround that the poles slipped into at the time that weighed a ton and smelt awful. Some of your older travelling partners may remember it. I think we had Banana Bender Busters written on the front of the run through with the Ghostbusters symbol and a banana wearing sunglasses in place of the ghost 😂 Maybe I need to take it to a higher court of appeal and ask @Demonstone ?

Hey WCW. You'll probably know better than me but doesn't saying "we deserved to win" imply that you won? Or is it me that's got it wrong?? 😂

I think you can only say / write that you deserved to win something if you did actually win. Not if you lost but think you should have won. If we had won though I think we would have been a deserving winner.

Devastated. That was never a free kick as Nibbler was off balance. Our forward line fired blanks all through that last quarter again though and cost us the game. I think we've found a ripper in the Kolt.

All this online vitriol about Clarry’s weight. We need to stick fat people!

I think this is great for the lad but geez we're going into the back end of the season with a very young and inexperienced side.

We've been pish for 30 years DubDee. Like your mob we trawl the lower reaches of the football league for players with scottish grannies. Now it's back to cheering for whoever plays England.

I think we still had more shots at goal in that last quarter than Scotland had in a whole tournament. 😩

Can't stand the bloke.

I reckon Rivaldo still has Maysie covered.

Just watched KB's jumper presentation video. How good was the emotional speech from his dad! Really fitting that he ended it with the words " I really hope you get to sing the song with these boys tonight" and thanks to his game saving run down tackle he did. Just!

Scrolling past a post you don't like or don't agree with must be one of the easiest things anyone can do. I'm surprised it hasn't proved more popular.

Plenty of one kick losses against the Roos over the years so I'll happily take the W tonight. Also because the next W might be a ways off.

I tend to visualise a place on how nice sounding it's name is only to find it's nothing like that in real life (eg the Canary Islands). St Albans sounds like the bucolic English commuter town it's named after but I live close enough to know that's not entirely accurate. On moving to Canterbury, in Kent a while back we went for a drive to Margate on Christmas Day to find a post apocalyptic seaside town housing refugees in run down terrace houses. It now has a Turner Contemporary gallery and a thriving creative and foodie scene though. Sittingbourne is a nice sounding place that is pretty horrible. Grimsby on the north east coast however is exactly as it say's on the tin.

To be fair you could praise an orangutan for it's intelligence if you sat it next to Robbo most nights.

Mick Malthouse is the ghost of football past.

I don't know why this conversation still has legs. We gave up a second round pick and his wage was partly subsidised. It didn't work out and we moved him on for a second round pick. The only slightly embarrassing part of it all was Goody declaring that he was now at a club that valued him.

With our current % we'll likely have to go 7-3 in the games we have left to fall into the eight. As we're Melbourne we'll win 6 of them then get rolled by Collingwood in the last game as they lock in a top 2 spot and we miss finals on %.

Why does anyone give a FF what Whateley or any other mouth for hire thinks about our club?

Can the mods change the thread title to MFC Season 2024 Over please?

Not sure which thread to write on as pretty much every one of them has ended up in some sort of pile-on about the coaches, management or players. The last month has been frustrating to watch because I still think that our very best beats everybody else's very best. As I understand it we attempted a change of game plan pre-season to try and create a more open and less congested forward line but for whatever reason it was found not to be working and based on yesterday's game we seem to have gone back to the more front half territory type game we've played in recent years. Or at least a hybrid version of it. Perhaps not coincidentally the fall off in our performances over this time has been dramatic and it's going to take a reversal equally as dramatic to turn our season around. For what it's worth I think our finals aspirations are now toast but I hope I'm wrong. Trac, one of only three consistent performers this year alongside Max and Nibbler will likely be out for weeks.

We had a lot of the ball but turnovers and inaccuracy killed us today, not the opposition. That was completely self inflicted.

Fair play to Goody for opening up. He has every reason never to speak to the press.

It's worked once already!

Well done Kangas. Only Collingwood should ever go through a season winless.