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Our handball (failures) are playing exactly into what Port want. Get the territory with kicks, and the turnovers will reduce. Pearce is finished and can barely walk around the ground, so they are playing her at FF.

...and that is another example of the complete lack of strategy that has bedevilled our club for years. Despite long time association with the MCC and the MFC, the MCC absolutely creams the money. Do MCC members who support the MFC go to 12 cricket games a year? Yet where does the money for the MCC membership go....and has gone for the past 50+ years? Who gets the ground advertising money? Who sells the catering contracts? The last time I saw numbers, MFC support within the MCC was in the order of 20-25%. Yet as @roy11 notes, any support he provides to the MFC is essentially a donation. Our relationship with the MCC has to be revisited to provide some real equity, but I doubt it will ever happen, as it will require them to give up the "cash cow" that they currently have. And that is only part of the problem. Good on the Dogs and the Saints for what they have done. It's not about trying to sign up already (un)committed supporters. It is all about signing up new and future supporters. It is proper strategy, but that requires a forward thinking Board and CEO. We have neither..... How about replicating what the Saints did? Offer every schoolkid in Casey a free 3 game membership? It costs nothing but you have their name and maybe their heart. 10 years ago there were 2000 families moving into the area every year. About 4-5000 kids every single year! Yet what have we done to attract future support? The Saints offered in addition to the kids in the SMJFL, a $1 membership. Just to get names. The Suns have offered a $1 membership this year if you sign up for the following year. What are we offering for the future?

Rubbish statistics........Average is because clubs play other sides. Play Collingwood twice and your average goes up, without a single extra Melbourne supporter turning up. Loss of members in a year = higher average, because of simple arithmetic. Why is Geelong so low?.....lack of seating at their ground. Why is WCE so low? High membership numbers compared to what they can fit in the ground. Same as Geelong.

The umpires were right. Those are the rules of the game. It is not for the AFL to decide after the event that the level of force was insufficient. It was deliberate, and there is NO mention of force in any rule. Just apply the rules like the umpires did in this case, and the faux masculinity will disappear.

The point is we can remove Verrall, Brown, Woewodin, Billing’s, Fullarton, Henderson….along with Hore going, Spargo elsewhere….and it will not make the slightest difference to our 1sts. We are not in the business of recruiting and keeping VFL players. We MIGHT find something at the bottom end of the draft, but none of the players listed WILL.

Fullarton, Billing’s, Woewodin, Brown, Henderson, Verrall None look like being up to getting a senior game, and all have had their chances. Sad that of the best players named for this game apart from Culley are either Casey listed, or not up to the top level required for AFL.

....and meanwhile Docklands remains empty over the mens finals period and both before and beyond...owned by the AFL, with a roof to avoid wind and rain which really are to the detriment of AFLW games.

Better still see if we can get it to be part of the level crossing removal project??

One does have to ask the question....why in the hell did a "feasibility study" take 12 months, and then a "business case" take another 12 months, when we still don't know where the building will be built.

Commentators for the Casey v Box Hill Hawks game made 2 references to Campbell having been given a 1 year extension........shheesh! surely we can find someone younger who won't play a senior game. @red and blue forever

For a player who has been on two AFL lists, he is just going through the motions, and has been the same all season.

Except that Carlton, Essendon, St Kilda and Richmond still have them.

trouble is that it doesn't produce as much income/profit as the pokies were. ( I'm not a fan of them, but they kept the club afloat for 20 years)

Yes to all of the above. Same for me and @old dee ...we have been seeing it for 50 years!. Brian Dixon at the merger meetings said something along the lines of " we don't want to merge. We don't want second rate facilities like at Glenferrie. We want the best facilities"....how ironic today.

So much for the feasibility case. It is probably stored along side the football department review file at the end of last season. We now have a proposed new site, with different building limitations or opportunities. And it seems nothing is going to happen until we get the new CEO through the door. Back to square one. At least the proposed location hasn’t changed. If this ever gets off the ground perhaps the players can spend the 2 hours spent in their cars getting to and from Casey for each training session practicing goal kicking!!

CH 9 reporting a COMPLETE copy of the 1964 GF has been discovered in Perth! Thought to have been lost, with only about 30 mins previously available. More info as it comes to hand.

....calling for @Supermercado ....

AFL just have to get the umpires do do what they do in the AFLW….stand 5m in from the boundary line. But hey! Why would they do something sensible?

Good kicks still score goals in windy conditions. Poor kicks are still poor kicks, no matter the conditions. The question to ask is why there has been no change to the techniques for Gawn, Petracca etc over the years. It isn't hard to see what they do wrong in their approach.

...and with money tight for everyone in the current environment, people who would have left re-joining until the last possible time, now won't after a 0-5 start, combined with less than enthralling prospects on field in the coming weeks.

22 minutes into the 1st quarter until Clarry got his first touch....his only touch for the 1st! Meanwhile Newcombe has 6 disposals. What an absolute waste of our talent.

Based on previous years....add about 10K to the total at the end of March and that is the end of year total. We are heading for a total around 55k, but I doubt we will make even that mark this year. The numbers have only gone up by 2K in the past month. You need early season wins to convince people to spend their money, and we certainly didn't do that this year.

It is absolutely astounding that @Frosticles & @Demon Dynasty can see and suggest such obvious flaws with Max's kicking for goal, and how they should be corrected, yet Mark Williams has been the kicking coach for ( what ) 5 years? .....and we see no improvement. I would also add, do NOT turn your back on the goal, step backward and keep focussed on where it is going eventually. Then conduct the same procedure each and every time. Do not aim for the right post, because that is where it is going, if you continue to use a faulty technique which swings left.

Don’t get too excited about Fullarton as second ruck…he was only up against Oscar McDonald.

...plus the sponsorship dollars when the sponsors realise there are 20% fewer Melbourne members to sell product to.....