FearTheBeard

We tried that in 2019, it didn't work. He's also badly banged up and may not play this week anyway. Also don't need Tomlinson in defence, he was awful.

Potting the Cheer Squad as if they are the problem what a load of crap. How about the MCC members who are crickets every week, how about the 45k members who don't show up? When the boys run out the only noise we hear is the cheer squad. These guys travel the country to watch every every game, most of our fans can't be bothered going to Richmond. I have pathetic Melbourne fans around me in the AFL reserve who get all upset when I'm shouting and angry. The demon army is not the problem.

Yep that was my point.

Pathetic effort from our fan base tonight. Dont want excuses that it was cold and wet. They all showed up and probably more of them than us tonight. Doubt there were more than 15k of us. As for the Sydney fans, they are a clueless bunch of knobs.

A reminder to those who are reserving seats for Queens Birthday that the cheersquad will be at Punt road end in M3. Can still reserve behind the goals in M4 and a couple tickets left in M2 and in M56/M57 Collingwood home game reserved tickets are considerably cheaper than at our home games.

Would rather see him have a week in the VFL and then a 9 day break to QB or wait till after the bye.

The funny thing is that this year our pressure and tackling numbers are among the worst in the comp.

They gave two free GA tickets to every member for that Giants game and it was guaranteed that we would be making finals for the first time in 12 years. I reckon it'll be just under 40K on Saturday. Sat Night isn't a good drawing timeslot. Queens Birthday will be interesting, it is a replacement home game for us and if the Pies bet Hawthorn it may crack 80

does saying "not that bad" mean I said it was a great crowd?? 29k was about par, as would 40 next week.

29,812 is the biggest crowd we've ever had against Fremantle at home, so really not that bad.

M5-M10, M29-M36 and M55-M57 will all be GA and you could just get there a little early and sit in the undercover seats, rows AA-Back

There is a tickets thread where this is probabaly more appropriate. But, do remember that QB is an away game this year. So if you have home and away access you'll be able to scan in and sit in GA by using the ticket that becomes avalibale 72 hours before the game in the app.

I think we should expect to be let down again when the last four weeks are announced. Round 20 vs Fremantle should definitely be a Friday night but expect it to be Saturday or Sunday because the AFL hates both clubs.. Round 21 vs Carlton should definitely be a Friday night but there are three games at Marvel so it will be shunted into Sunday 3:20 or Saturday night. Round 22 Vs Collingwood will end up in the Saturday 1:45 as it always does when we play them late in the year Round 23 vs Brisbane should be Friday night but can just see Gill's lovechild Saints getting it against Sydney.

Would love to see how many other reigning premiers have had one Friday night game through 19 weeks.

35,737 is a pretty decent crowd imo. Third largest on mothers day for the last few decades. If it wasnt mothers day it would have been 40K and if it wasnt for covid probably 45K. Also, it was our first mothers day game since 2013, so we cant be complaining about that. Because of three marvel games in round 22, Carlton game will be a Saturday night I reckon and will crack 70K imo.

Thursday night game is at 7:20 not 7:50. Dees been shafted for the Swans game.

We couldn't buy another Friday night game this year. Thursday night against Brisbane will ensure we don't get more than 35k.

The Brisbane game I think is a lock for Friday night. The Swans game may end up as a Sunday 3:20 or Saturday night. They have two Friday night games in a row before they play us and we play Monday the week after.

Also remember that it is a replacement home game for Hawthorn members. Can expect 45K (maybe 50) against Hawthorn and hopefully 40K against the Saints on mothers day. I suspect a lot of Melbourne supporters who are accustomed to Sunday games will go. We got 53K against the Saints in 2017 on the 1:10 slot when it was 9th vs 10th and a battle to make the 8.

Think we should be expecting a similar mid season drop off as last season. Imagine that Selwyn will be following a similar regime to burgess. don’t think we complaining if we are top 2 with a 18-4 season.

All of the reserved seat packages with GF guarantee have sold out. Was a about 3 weeks ago I believe.

Ah, you should have waited till this morning. They were selling bays Q48-Q40 up to row X and when they sold out last night they only updated the system this morning. Now, all bays level 4 MCC Q37-Q48 are available up to the very back (row MM). Perhaps buy three free junior tickets together so you can sit with each other? Hate that this game is category 1 in the MCC, it won't come close to selling out. 70K looks a reach at the moment.

Can get at ground but may be easier if you get on ticketek get now. Costs about $22

First of all you are incorrect regarding when I posted. Tickets in the AFL reserve and MCC went on sale well before I posted and the sales in the MCC are still not good. They still haven't sold out level 1 in the AFL and level 4 will be 80% empty. MCC still haven't opened up half the bays on level 4. Tickets for away members and Richmond members went on sale before I posted as well. There were 5 bays that sold out in that process, M7-M9 and M28-M29. You seem to think this is our home game, it is not. Yes there will be a very small proportion of our members who have away GA access who will receive GA tickets on the app 3 days before. But that is a very small amount of people. So your point on reserved seat holders is rubbish because it is not our home game. I know exactly how the process works for ticketing so get off your high horse and stop trying to explain it to me. This will be another disappointing road because of Covid, ticketing process and Richmond fans not turning up.

Not hugely but it will add to the narrative of our poor crowds this year. fwiw I think there will be at least 20K of us there.