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Was thinking the same thing... Man U are the red devils and they were the most popular club in China well before they picked up the Chinese player too. Oaklad Raiders are pirates, Tampa Bay Buccaneers are pirates... St Pauli FC in the German 1st division are a skull and cross bones... What I find intersting is that our moniker would suit more the people associated with the Pies, the so called ferals. The Demon is so far removed from our supposed supporter base when you think about it. But in this day and age there is nothing wrong with it we are just way to snesitivate to any kind of possible offence. I love the Demons and it should stay. It is about how you continue to attract supporters, winning is the best way...

ap ap ap ap, I apologise from my response, I was on the way out when I read your intial response Wolfm and skimmed the rest.... As I mentioned in the original post it is a great business venture and if we can use it to benefit the club, even with the on sell function, then even better.

True again Jaded, how are the MFC supposed to do this? What has been tried in the past? What will work in getting them over??? The problem is we have 4 or 5 No1 priorites that need prioritising

Tip of the cap to you good man, great business idea. My idea is more along the lines of MFC members tickets and double memberships being used for benefit of parties other than $$ benefit. If we could us our excess member tickets for others who can't afford to go to the footy, who are new to this country or who are in vulnerable situations (suicide prevention, foster children, people trying to overcome addictions or abuse) we are then helping others in our community that need it as well as proving greater numbers at our games. win/win I'd much rather see the tickets used for benefit than profit but it is a godd concept on your behalf and will hopefully make you some good $$. Cards

Completely agree with More Juice and you Rogue.... That is why I said we have a hang over from previous poor deliver from the off field administration and asked aloud if there is any kind of working group with members/supporters currently happening. I think that brick might be being used to prop up the portables the coaching staff use at the Junction Oval....

Have you asked the club? Have you moved address since you bought it? Was it supposed to be sent in the mail to you? I think we have a massive hang over affect from our club having some decent ideas but seemingly poor delivery. At the same time what do you deserve from the club? I'm not having a dig at you personally, I'm just wondering what we "deserve" to recieve from the club besides winning flags and keeping the club afloat (tow things the club has been miserable at). And so far it seems we are just pissing in each others pcokets about ideas. If anyone wants to actually try and do something then please let me know and we can see if we can actually put some solid ideas with solid facts and figures....

Cheers but still not sure it will fly.. Some feasibility work would need to be done on all of the good ideas generated (finally on here.... ) Like I said is this all [censored] talk or are we actually going to put something together showing all of the FEASIBLE ideas gathered from here, 'ology and Bigfooty? I'm living in London at the minute but would love to try and be involved in development of something with these.... Also the idea of a "working group" with members of these sites going forward potentially meeting members of the club twice/three times a year? I think Melb might need to engage members and supporters more than other clubs.. If our club can been seen as wanting ideas and input from the rank and file more than other clubs we might be able to break down some of the "downhill" skiing profile we have.... Overall lets actually do SOMETHING WITH THIS PASSION AND IDEA GENERATION, not just [censored] in our own pockets.....

There a many many ways it could be administered as well... one group of double memberships could be used to take school kids to games, another set we could use to take some of the kids at Jimmy's Reach program, another set to refugees another set to underprivileged, another set to disabled... The options are there, I guess the question is can you actually do that with a membership? Allow someone else to use it for a game if you're not going? I know with AFL memberships you can't but everyone does it.... The 150 club, $150 donation is a really good one too. How do we then pool these ideas and get them to the club? Is there any kind of club to members committee currently set up? I see some fantastic ideas, like some of these and the away strip on here, 'ology and big footy but is anyone actually listening or doing anything or is it a bunch or going nowhere rhetoric?

Wasted money? Why? I mentioned in another thread why can't we actually use the double memberships to boost our supporter base for the future as well... Actually get "new" supporters along, under privelidged or refugee's which I see as a win win for both parties. Boosts our crowd numbers to the AFL and might go someway helping people in need to have somethings to look forward to. Although no one really looks forward to the colesium to support the gladiators vs the lions and elephants each week...

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Interesting observation.. The Doggies do it out of necessity as they are the best options they have. They tried big Will Minson as there tall forward and even Brian Lake at times during the year. We can potentially use the same strategy but we still need to get the ball to the forwards who ever they are. Most sides still have the “tall forward”: Brisbane has two, Swans have Hall, Bombers have Lloyd, Blues have Fev etc…Adelaide don’t… It is making the most of the foray’s into the 50 that count. The Doggies are yet to show that forward structure, which looks fantastic at the minute, will hold up in finals.

On field yes!!! Agree totally Off field no...... Whilst I agree with the sentiment the issue remains we have "been here done this" so many times over the last 10/15 years let alone last 30/40 years Fork. We have had how many new boards, how many turn over’s of lists how many CEO's and we have not won a flag (the only real sign of success), we have a debt that is only $500k better off than we were when previous president took over (I thank him for his dedication to our cause when not many others wanted the job). We are still a massive chance of relocation or folding if things don't turn around, our new president has said as much. The AFL is riding us like Fitzroy and North Melb in the past putting us under so much more pressure, they are talking of taking away the ASP (the hand out that has kept us afloat)... WHislt i agree on field we need to be patient this year and the early part of next season to say we need to be patient over all is a furphy.

oh no!!!!! Bailey is a figment of our imaiginations as well????

What do people do with the extra memberships they buy? So if you have bought an extra membership to help pout the club does it just sit in the draw at home or is it used? Maybe we should try and use these extra memberships to kill a few birds with one stone. An idea might be to pool the memberships not used and help under priveldiged kids or recent refugees. By pooling these extra memberships and then taking a group of people to each home game? A) They will be used B.) It will add to our actual numbers as games C) Most importantly it might help out someone who needs a bit of sunshine in there lives. Taking it a step further maybe we could do that anyway.. Each home game we have a register of memberships that can't be used and this is then used to take people to games? Just an idea anyway.

I have not seen Jim's press conference from earlier in the week, in London, but didn't some one post on here that Jim had a sutble/not so sublte comment to Lyon for not doing "enough"? If correct then this thread is spot on the money I would have thought.... He obviously has and does things for the club but the president elect and one of his best mates thinks he needs to do more backs up the orignal post. As to Woey, I'd like to see the "Club" try and bring him back in the fold. We all loved him for doing everything he could to be the best player he possibly could. He would be a great example to young footballers of what you can achieve for the sacrifices.

I'm not sure about that mono.... Morts was from reports in the top 5-10 of a lot of the preseason running program. Fairly athletic for an 18/19 yr old kid in his first preseason

Eastie, Bruce has played many many many a game in defense let alone a defensive role in the midfield. HE used to play on Richo all of the time is the main one that springs to mind with many more. He has been our most versatile player for the last 10 years, Mid, For or back... Bails said CJ is the most unlucky player on the list.... isn't Bails the one not picking him... didn't realise Bails was a lephrican

So what were the great announcements?

Don't want anything to do with that toss bag. Saw him revert to his usual sookie sookie la la approach last week when the ball was not delivered on his [censored]. He didn't chase or put any forward defensive pressure on. The bloke can kick goals when things are going his way but is a cancer to a club especially one trying to rebuild.

Huh? Hang on wasn't there a thread on here the other day, seems to have been taken down, an interview with Grimes? One of the questions was what he thought about the comparisons to Brett Kirk that people have put on him.... His response said he has never been known for being quick..... another slow in an under.. some trades will be made at the end of the season to alleviate this I hope

........ so he can kick his 2 or 3 junk time goals to get us within a flattering 80 odd points..

I must disagree with some of those comments my good man. Trapper starring is a bit rich, he is playing the same game he played with us but is in a better side of players drafted by the brisbane back room staff. CAC should have be aware of Thommo's h@moness sorry homesickness, no stone unturned (being fascitious) Jol's failure??? What failure they traded him away as he didn't want to be 2nd fiddle. Danners hardly played any other ruckman, they traded Symmo too as they though they would get better trade value than actual game time value for the both of them as white was so far away our best option. CAC is waaaayy over rated for his early round draft work, his late round, rookie drafts have been exceptional for us

what we do is run side by side calling for a [censored] handball or are standing still 2 metres away calling for a [censored] handball

give him a face mask ala the NBA players, he'll suit up or his dad will belt him on the nose again

gulp... as respected as CAC....