FearTheBeard

Anyone brave enough to think we might get to 70K this year? I think we will fall just short but it is still amazing that in 10 years our membership figure has doubled when we are not a massive club.

Without being too stereotypical about Melbourne fans, we do have a high concentration of supporters in Bayside and Glen Eira. Not to say we don't live anywhere else because we are everywhere like every other club. However, Sandringham/Brighton/Hampton/Elsternwick/Caulfield/Armadale/Malvern type areas tend to have a lot of us - as is seen by Sandringham line and Frankston line on gameday (Yes I live in Brighton and am very much the stereotype of a Melbourne fan). But I go to games with people who live in Ringwood, Diamond Creek, Mount Martha so it is very hard to say that most Demons fans live in X location.

Additional tickets for gather round are going on sale at 12:30 Melbourne time today

Our home game, will be in M3 Punt Road End. All of level 1 will likely be reserved seating for Anzac Eve

I am going across on the Friday with 4 4-day passes on level 2. I will be at the Richmond game, our game, port game and the sunday games. There will be a lot of people I think doing something similar. Our crowd will officially be 50k as it will be combined with Port and there will probably be over 30k in the ground I think. Do not forget that Essendon have a massive amount of interstate latent support.

Afl reserve was full of them. Happy to go 30k of us 10 of them and 2k neutrals.

Not being at the game gonna completely ruin your perspective of the crowd then. Would have been about 28k of us, 10 of them and the rest neutrals. F1 probably stopped it being 45.

Currently sold out but they are expecting to release more for unused corporate allocation, just keep checking in the lead up to the game.

Yep I wrote shut, wasn’t an autocorrect so imagine demonland just got a a little angry with me :)

Yep I know was a good turnout. Hoping for 75k against Richmond and Sam McClure to [censored] his stupid mouth.

Looks high 30s, doubt it’s 40

We have had seasons with backloaded interstate games for the past 6 years and they are killers. It is so much better to have 5 of the last 7 at the g. Essendon got sent down there this year and hawthorn won’t because of Easter Monday being a geelong home game.

Ah I see, I don’t take very much in from The age employee’s or ex-age employee’s articles as I find them to be a particularly low class of journalist. But yes he does seem to have an agenda against us. Hope to see 40k today. Bought a guest pass into the afl reserve today and the pax number on the ticket was 29.5k which means we might get close to 40.

Our only fixture gripes are west coast in perth every year and geelong at the pub ground every year. our fans don’t turn up to night games but do turn up to day games. Sunday 3:20 games are good drawing for ratings and crowds. considering we also have two Monday games I’m within 7 weeks you cannot expect to be Friday night very week. Personally I don’t like Saturday games very much especially at the g.

enlighten me, i have no idea what you are implying with him.

Disgraceful journalist from a [censored] journo yet again.

This is very true, I have a keen eye on ANZAC eve and reserved seats are selling very slowly. Still most of level 1 available and no doubt that will all be Richmond supporters and the Dees members will be GA level 4.

The MCC was disappointingly empty I though in round 1. I said as low as 40 and high as 60 and we got 48. MCC reserved seating is a broken system imo, half the people who pre book go and sit in better walk-up areas and makes the reserve look threadbare.

Oh no i do :) Viney is the one player in this team that I really do not like, I cant stand Nibbler's dispoasal but understand that he plays a role for the team. Viney: Takes on too many tacklers and always getting caught Awful kicking inside 50 Sidestepping at the most stupid times Gives away dumb free kicks Cannot be in the same team as Harmes and Brayshaw - too many of the same player - and Jack is unfortunately the least skilled of the three (and that says something considering how appalling Harmes was on friday) Think he tries to do too much because he feels like there's still a burden on him. On the other hand, I hope Rick is the next Captain of the side. Just my opinion but know there's quite a few who share it

Is the point of this thread not saying that he will be captain for the next 6 weeks at least so who will be his vice? Would think it would be Lever.

Jake Lever and he should replace Viney as VC anyway.

I think it’s great. Our problem is that are 2017 jumper is the best special jumper ever made by any club. So it will never be as good as that one was.

If you want to be at the football you will be there, very simple isn't it? Hate all the excuses. Rain, hail, lightening or darkness I am at the games in Melbourne and interstate, because I love the club and game and want to barrack. Just think we need a few more ferals that are willing to make the noise that the pies/blues/tigers fans make.

Agree with you re Swans fans, suspect there will be about 12K of them. But we will most likely regress to our norm of 20-25K Dees supporters at the game. So I think 35K is the max but happy to be wrong. MCC reserved seats are also selling very slowly for Sunday, hoping for 10k walk ups.

Yes they have a right to be confident, but their comments are arrogant rather than confident. Their melbourne based South Melbourne supporters in the AFL reserve are some of the most foul-mouthed angry ferals going around. Im not confident, but hope we give them a bloody tough match.