Katrina Dee Fan

The point was addressed by Pert. If we wanted to base ourselves out in the outer suburbs we could have done that years ago. However as the Melbourne Football Club the aim is to have our base in the inner city area that is our own and not shared. We have fantastic facilities at Casey Fields, however it is outer suburban. The spending for facilities was needed because our VFL/W teams will be based there, and our AFLW team plays home games there, so that is a long term investment. We have access to fantastic facilities at AAMI Stadium however it is shared with Melbourne Victory and Melbourne Storm.

In order for the motion to be carried it needed 75% of the vote in favour.

In the 50s and 60s they trained on the MCG

No

I'm not a Trident member but I am a Redlegs member and we share the same room, I believe. It's in the Lindsay Hassett Room on the second level of the Southern Stand. Ralph and Michael are the long standing premium members who run proceedings in there, you can sit down and have a counter style meal, they have a full bar and barista, and yes, each week they have a guest speaker, such as a coach or a player.

Makes me wonder what kind of microscope Barrett has.

I'd have Brown in the side ahead of Melksham.

Ooops, I misread, I thought it was Birrarung Marr. I've had a number of photos with both cups, so I'm not so much thinking about me. Casey is still going to be very difficult for many fans to get to by that time, though.

Have you tried to get to Birrarung Marr from Dandenong by 4 pm when you finish work at school at 3.40?

I was really hoping to, but alas that weekend I'm on the Indian Pacific, taking advantage of the fact it's school holidays and I'm ticking off a bucket list item without having to take time off work for it. Damn damn bugger bugger!!!

It should be, it's the weekend NAIDOC Week starts.

I'm talking more about merchandise for AFLW in general, but anyway.

I think it's great. The club has developed great relationships in the area, particularly at Santa Teresa, and I love the fact that it has fostered a fantastic support base for the club, as well as doing great community good. I say keep it going!

On a Monday? Before schools finish up? Seems an odd time to do it.

Ah, yes, I have ordered from there! Just waiting on my order :)

can you DM that to me too?

They had some great merch on the Demon Shop website from the night of the premiership, not to mention at last Saturday's family day. As well as the tshirt they also had pennants, mugs, badges, caps, premiership guernsey that you can preorder. I daresay they've sold a lot of the merch. I did express my disappointment at the AFL Shop at Knox how little AFL merch there is, with NO premiership merch at all, while staring at rows and rows of Geelong AFL merch. The imbalance is ridiculous.

I feel for Sabreena. It seems she had a falling out with someone at Freo, and was looking forward to a fresh start. She's only 22, so hopefully she still has plenty of football she can offer someone. She didn't look like she was in the same form this season as she's been in previous seasons, I hope she's able to regain that. I wonder if it was predominantly match fitness that was lacking this year as she had all of last season out with injury.

After my rant from a couple of weeks ago, yes I got my pack last week. Impressed by the packaging for premium members (I'm a Redlegs member) and my scarf, card, stickers and medalion came in a lovely little presentation box, very nice! My nephews got their junior membership packs, a lunch pack, a small footy, stickers and card. According to the club the junior members don't get a scarf, which is a bit sad.

God forbid we'd have a season where we didn't have to travel to bloody Geelong!

A lot of people had the same view as you initially had, which is the unfortunate result of that media backlash. I'm glad a lot of Melbourne supporters have seen what a magic human being she is. She's been a fantastic piece of that premiership puzzle, both in the forward line and in support to Loz in the ruck. She's clearly loving her time at Melbourne, and she deserves the happiness this is bringing her.

You're spot on there. From my understanding, Tayla struggled with the lockdowns given her family were in another state, and she approached Carlton for support, surprised she didn't get much, other than "Why aren't you playing well?" To be fair it's hard to perform at your best when mental health is struggling. She was quite surprised by the amount of money Carlton claimed she was asking for (she didn't ask for that at all) and she told me herself, she didn't make the decision to leave Carlton, they effectively delisted her, which left her absolutely distraught. It does upset her how she's been completely misrepresented. She is nothing like she's been portrayed in the media. All she wants to do is enjoy playing footy with her mates. Lisa, her mum, and I were talking about this on Saturday night. She told me that if she had it her way, she would have played out her entire career at Melbourne, because she as a mother loved the vibe from Melbourne from the exhibition games, but ultimately it was Tayla's decision to initially play for Brisbane (which I understand, it's her home town) and then Carlton. She's thrilled she's at Melbourne, and getting so much support from the club. You can see she's much happier, and playing her best footy.

The players are so approachable. I can't imagine the type of interactions with the men that we've been able to enjoy with the women. It's not some exclusive club, it's a matter of going to the games and supporting them. They love it just as much as we do. It's the girls who make the decision to turn up to things like banner making, even non playing players helping out on match days holding the banner up, etc.

I asked Daisy at the Best and Fairest, "Burning question for you, Daisy. Did Sylvie get her face painted?" She laughed and said yes, she did, followed up with "Gotta love three year olds!!"

Harris came to Melbourne on the base wage scale. She didn't care how much she was being paid, she just wanted to play football. I do think she deserves to be on a higher tier than that, though!