Dee Viney Intervention

The 2006 MELBOURNEfc Family Day, to be held on Saturday, 11 February 2006, promises to be a great day for the whole family to enjoy. Due to the Commonwealth Games, the MCG will be unavailable, which means that Family Day will be held at Caulfield Racecourse. This also means that you can enjoy all the elements of Family Day and a great day of racing! The Caulfield Group 1 CF Orr Stakes is the meeting on the day, and marks the start of the Melbourne Summer Classics Racing Carnival. The day’s activities include: • Roving Entertainers • Autograph and photo opportunities with the 2006 MELBOURNEfc team • Children’s games and activities • Merchandise merchandise sales • Membership enquiries and purchase opportunities • 2006 Member Scarf redemption • Giveaways • and more… Members Admission on the day $10.00 Non Member Admission on the day $15.00 Concession $7.00 Those aged 17 and under will enjoy the day for free (identification required) Early Bird Admission Early bird admission for MELBOURNEfc Members - $5.00 Please contact Membership Services (03) 9652 1150 to arrange purchase. *Early Bird offer ends COB Wednesday, 8 February 2006 Caulfield has already ticked one of those boxes. Hopefully it can do it again………and soon. Would cost dollars but with the technology and engineering now of movable stands at Marvel and moveable playing surfaces eg Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas I don’t see why you can’t have a moveable stand on the inside of the racetrack for premium race meetings that moves to the football field to enable the ability to host AFLW games at Caulfield. Might be a stretch hosting AFL practice games would depend on the height of stands allowed to boost capacity.Agree that we should keep Casey for the club to use. Despite its geographical location it is a good facility and we need to have a presence out there as it is the base of our Next Generation Academy and zone (FWIW). Don’t agree that we should be playing home AFLW games at IKon purely and simply because it’s not our ground. I would argue that if we played both our finals at Casey this year we would have one at least one of them.

Surprised that he is training with us as Palmerston and Gippsland Power are not in our Next Gen Academy zones. Not that it matters much as previously mentioned the system is broken and benefits only the Northern States teams and Coates league teams.

With the recruitment of McAdam we have some serious weapons down there now. That forwardline will benefit greatly from speed of ball movement where I will back them in one on one but they need to be given the opportunity. Other areas also need to be fine tuned like leading patterns, blocking to give the bigs separation for a lead. Smalls being front and square etc. We can go to our default method of slow and wide as a source of game management but quick ball to a forward line with system to allow the forwards the best opportunity to do their thing before our opposition get numbers back and also our allow our mids and backs the ability to set up behind the ball for repeat entry or at worst a stoppage. It’s just a slight tweak to put more value on the offensive side of our game. With our recent recruitment it suggests that we will be doing exactly that and play more attacking football but ultimately the proof will be in the pudding. I am looking forward to seeing a more attacking Melbourne in 2024.

Well done to the football club for putting this out, maybe there has been a reaction to member / supporter reaction. For me though this needs to be the minimum standard. We get some great training reports from the demonland community which are much appreciated but I would love to see something from the club “ The Richo Report” which gives a rundown on training from their point of view, especially the closed sessions without giving any obvious secrets away. Something along the lines of the link that trav14 posted yesterday to afl ratings report which was brilliant.Just take that member / supporter engagement to another level.

Agree wholeheartedly Kev. It’s like training lotto. Are they at Gosch’s or are they at Casey. If it’s at Casey will it be an open session or watching from a perimeter fence. It’s school holidays and a great chance for the club to engage with younger supporters by encouraging them to view a session. The players are great with the kids when the opportunity presents itself but the club does a real poor job of promoting / advertising training and quite frankly it shouldn’t be that hard to do in this day and age.

Priority needs to be to sign Gillard beyond end of 2024

Mick Stinnear mentioned at the fan forum the other night that we have a rookie spot that we will look to Ireland to fill.

Serious question. Given the labour skills shortage, property developers and builders filing for bankruptcy left, right and centre and a state government that is financially committed to digging tunnels all over the city and suburbs. Even the airport rail has been suspended .Exactly what year do you envisage these 80 000 people moving in to Fisherman’s Bend????? Fisherman’s Bend would be so far down the pecking order of priorities it’s not funny. Caulfield is feasible, doable and could happen reasonably quickly as it’s in the scheme of things not a massive project in comparison to constructing a suburb as is your angle. I genuinely couldn’t care less where the project is location wise. I just want my club to have its own elite training facility as soon as possible.

Good Crivens Picket, I know it’s the festive season but 8:30am in the morning on a Wednesday is a bit early to be on the [censored]. Middle of nowhere. It’s only next to a train station that is a 10 minute trip from the city with 2 lines that junction from there. Next to a university. Five minutes drive from the biggest shopping centre in the country. A few kilometres from the south eastern freeway. It’s in the middle of built up suburbia. Not sure what box it doesn’t tick. I do love your Casey reports and I do quite like the Casey facility but please, “middle of nowhere”. The only thing it would be in the middle of………..is a race track.

Lamby did say he was a good runner

They don’t deserve her, can’t even keep a cricket pitch dry.

Something about Eastern Ranges and gun small forwards. “The Wizardess” calling her a witch is a bit harsh.

Love your second point Jim. In regards to your first point you would seriously hope not. A few supporters at training aren’t going to make that much of a mess. Memo to Melbourne FC. I am more accurate in front of the bowl than you are in front of goal.

Couldn’t agree more Earl. The only reason I can come up with is that they intend to do a lot of goal kicking practice so let’s keep it closed to the public.

Wow losing West and Gay, in a team that is not flushed with strong bodies wouldn’t have thought we could afford to lose either. A genuine shame to lose them both. On a side not Jemma Rigoni has some serious wheels. In that Rookie Me clip in the stingrays game she torched one of my club players on the wing and Charlotte is not slow. Will be an exciting inclusion to the list.

Interesting that questions should be about on field matters only. Obviously still nothing to see here about a permanent training facility. Surely the club can’t keep ducking and weaving around this for too much longer. Interesting to see if they field any questions about or address this at the forum.

Brisbane is a lovely city Ox. What I meant though is the Brisbane Lions like Geelong benefit from playing out of a heavily tax payer funded stadium. Hence the Geelong of the north comment. On a side note. Like Geelong, Brisbane also has its fair share of 6 fingered, banjo playing, sister shagging rednecks who may or may not go by the name of Zeke, Jethro or Jed.

Brisbane……….The Geelong of the North.

Is Seb Mottram Knightmare??

Might make his girlfriend McHappy though

Don’t disagree with you. Not sure what the answer is when you are competing with cricket season or the lead in to. Our bigger stadiums have cricket pitches and what curator is going to allow a game of football on it while they are trying to prepare pitches. Plus there is a safety issue for the players as well as those pitches are rock hard.

Think there is a bit to this DeeZone but I also think that Adelaide and Brisbane also provided a bit of a blueprint on how to beat us. Physicality and pressure is our kryptonite. Beat us at the contest and pressure us to deny us our running game.

Couldn’t agree more George. Further to what you have said we were bullied physically by Adelaide, Brisbane and North. Westy is not in the team for her disposal but what she does well is provide a strong body that is good in the contest which seems to be the way for the AFLW midfielder. She’s a keeper for me if she can focus on wining the ball on the inside and distributing by hand to our runners more.Personally not too fussed about losing Sheriff or Birch. Will be an interesting off season where we could do with a bit of a clean out of some players that are “injury prone” and we have a few light bodied outside players that I think we could afford to lose. How brave our list management team will be is of interest.

Do I still get my slab of beer????

Thought the saying was “like a blue arsed fly” not like a Bluey arsed fly”