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Probably in time for the Polo season at the Manor? Are the ponies being readied by the equirries BBO?

The knife to the heart was BBB's goal in the final quarter within the first minute or so. While we had blown them away so easily in the 3rd, the message Beveridge would have had for the team at 3/4 time would have been 'we are only 4 goals down..., we overcame that deficit in the second...., we can do it again". But the ease at which that first goal was scored, would have just deflated any enthusiasm that they might have hoped to regain. After that it was a one-way procession.

Most of the GF prizemoney goes to the players: "There was a $4.7m increase in player payments, including $0.5m relating to the players share of AFL prizemoney as a result of winning the Premiership." Now for the stuff to keep an eye on: $2.4M in prepayments for merchandise and memberships paid for before 31 October. That alone wipes out the profit. $34M for sale of Leighoak and Bentleigh club. $11M went to paying debt. That is why we are "debt free"...we sold assets. What is yet to be explained is how a Future Fund will generate the $2M of profit in the current environment, that these venues did for us, on a capital base of only $23M. i.e. a 10% return each and every year!

Absolutely. Every year this sort of thing comes out. It is just statistics trying to find a pattern, that doesn’t exist. @Wrecker46is spot on. You don’t get to play 100 games if you are no good. An ordinary player might get there in a struggling team. And to get to 100 games you have to play for 5 years. Success is achieved by having a big group of talent getting to that point together. But without talent they don’t get therein the first place. What this does show is the dire state of affairs at Adelaide. Their average player has just over 2 years experience, and that’s with Tex, Talia and Sloane! What is scary for others is we have just won a Premiership with 8 (9 including Jordon) players under 21.

Does this mean we won't lose a game until the end of 2024? 7 games, never in a losing side, a Premiership medallion and has cemented his spot in the side....well deserved!

Sorry it was Hassa and Brian Keneally, then Stan Alves and Barry Bourke....so many heroes!

Barry Bourke & Hassa

Thinking about the Club and not individuals: * Opening match to the Season. We get all the efforts of the AFL and Ch7 marketing and exposure to sponsors. * Sole coverage on FTA that night. * Get to raise the Premiership flag at the opening match of the season, not after it has started * If we beat the 2nd best team again, other sides will be taking a collective breath after what we did to them previously. * We will be positioned post this game for subsequent Thurs- Friday night games in Rounds 2 & 3. More FTA coverage....= more sponsor interest and income.

NO. It took 5 emails to Ticketek to get 2 accessible seats sent to me instead of the ones I had already purchased for myself ( you have to put in an application form for these and then wait 2 or 3 days to get a response). Whats worse is I have also booked Boxing day test tickets and guess what....Ticketek have sent me the tickets to the Demons Premiership celebration again.! At least I have 4 weeks to sort out that problem. They don't answer phones, they don't have staff attending to complaints.

Membership Year 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 1st game 16/03 H 20/3 H 22/3 A 23/3 H 25/3 H 25/3 A 25/3 H 4/4 H 22/3 A 31/3 H 31/3 H 27/3 H Oct week 3 19,068 21 15,211 20 21,980 22 19,026 26 16,654 22 17,625 25 Nov week 3 30000 26 20,215 21 25,028 22 26,064 18 23,037 26 20,509 26 20,223 25 - 16,287 11,922 Dec week 1 30000 7 28,005 7 30,096 7 28,354 07 27,914 9 24,402 4 22,433 3 22,105 11 18,217 3 18,747 2 17,541 3 Dec week 3 38,000 23 28,447 21 31,759 21 29,053 22 29,426 23 26,217 22 24,097 23 23,542 25 20,623 20,166 Jan week 3 40,000 21 29,764 21 33,226 21 30,068 19 30,200 20 27,027 19 25,112 23 24,558 21 21,873 22,402 22,396 Feb week 1 40,823 7 30,141 7 34,327 7 30,577 2 31,141 3 28,013 3 25,647 1 25,416 4 22,962 8 23,422 23,457 Feb week 2 41,562 14 32,157 14 35,148 14 31,310 14 31,537 10 28,759 17 26,290 12 26,039 12 23,650 12 21,448 12 Feb week 3 42,463 21 32,954 21 32,735 21 36,070 21 32,075 21 32,137 17 29,217 24 26,639 18 26,641 17 23,650 18 24,195 16 25,253 17 Feb week 4 44,526 28 33,458 28 32,985 28 36,973 28 32,948 28 32,679 24 29,450 26 27,066 26 27,736 26 - 25,277 Mar week 1 44,903 7 35,874 7 35,726 7 37,979 7 34,034 7 33,520 3 30,524 7 27,619 4 28,582 4 24,801 5 26,023 27,806 Mar week 2 49,667 14 37,083 14 36,063 14 39,537 14 34,691 14 35,080 16 32,623 16 29,510 16 30,421 15 26,751 14 26,791 14 28,068 Mar week 3 51,513 21 41,055 21 37,571 21 41,513 21 36,513 21 35,756 21 33,146 21 30,257 21 - - Mar week 4 54,164 28 41,325 28 37,888 28 44,008 28 38,089 28 37,025 28 35,117 26 31,035 26 32,324 28 - 29,588 31,087 Apr week 1 55,595 7 42,088 7 38,115 7 45,537 7 39,402 7 38,554 7 35,535 1 32,001 1 - - 32,235 33,359 Apr week 2 56,841 14 43,421 14 38,246 14 46,133 14 40,160 14 39,005 14 36,157 8 33,301 9 33,175 14 - - 33,753 10 Apr week 3 57,289 21 44,934 21 38,286 21 47,174 21 40,557 21 39,281 21 36,731 20 - 34,548 20 Apr week 4 57,802 28 46,093 28 38,431 28 48,080 28 40,636 28 39,634 28 37,597 30 34,068 29 May week 1 59,144 7 46,896 7 38,521 7 49,837 7 41,640 7 40,083 7 37,766 6 34,352 7 35,205 5 - 34,489 35,205 May week 2 60,000 14 46,896 14 38,591 14 50,107 14 41,825 14 40,380 14 38,102 13 - - - 34,961 May week 3 60,303 21 48,784 21 38,673 21 50,422 21 42,057 21 40,549 21 38,327 23 34,871 20 May week 4 60,782 28 48,784 28 38,673 28 50,520 28 42,352 28 40,749 28 38,479 31 35,017 22 June week 1 61,652 7 50,085 7 38,766 7 51,770 7 43,593 7 40,934 7 38,547 6 Jun Week 2 62,095 14 50,085 14 38,985 14 51,770 14 43,791 14 41,022 14 38,653 14 - - 35,403 Final July 31 65,902 53,188 39,774 52,405 44,191 42,102 39,211 35,953 35,911 33,177 35,345 36,937 Post 31 July 66,484 54,495 40,531 52,446 45,178 42,233 2022 Progressive total in Red Actual dates in Blue Date of first game of season Home or Away

Will get it on the Board tomorrow, when I get back to town....

Our Board had best have something to give us this year as promised....... Richmond another $30M Adelaide $70M Essendon $7M Western Bulldogs $36M Hawthorn started on a $120M new facility...looking for government grants ( not while Jeffrey is running the show) Collingwood $15M from Federal government to date and looking for equivalent from State for a health and wellbeing centre at the Holden centre. We still haven't got a basic facility.

When I was doing some volunteer tasks for the club last year, it was because out of the 50K members there were 9,000 who had not provided the club with an email address or an incorrect one. Makes it hard to contact people quickly, or at all......

Yes, the staff are there getting RSI from taking photos!

Putting aside Dermott's anti-Melbourne bias, picking Richmond to be there when they have lost Astbury and Houli out of their backline that leaked goals in 2021 and put Tarrant in there, is a bit hard to understand. Martin missing was critical to their fall this year, and highlighted the lack of depth and talent. Cotchin is well and truly finished. Nankervis can't jump off the ground any more and Soldo is a poor mans second option. Getting rid of Chol was nonsensical with the injury clouds hanging over these two rucks. Dogs will be back, so will we and watch out for Essendon. Toiyges...nah! Still it's all just an opinion.

@Satyriconhome

This isn’t 1960! Training starts in November not the Thursday before the first game in April. There are no gyms, medical facilities, plunge pools, lecture theatres at the MCG. Go have a look for yourself where the admin and football departments are and the piece-meal facilities they have to work in. Go and have a look for yourself at the infrastructure involved in the grass lighting. It is not a few globes, and covers the whole ground and has to be left there for days in winter to make the grass grow, so that games can be held on the weekends. They are on during the day and night since it is winter and there is little sunshine. That is why they are needed. Training is not just a couple of hours kicking the football around on the grass.

This isn't just about a training field, and it is not the 1960's. This is 2021 and all teams are professional and to get to the top you have to give yourself an edge or just equal footing to everyone else. It is why WCE have played in 25 finals series in their 34 years of existence! We currently lease closet sized offices in the MCG not in the one location. We share facilities with Storm, Victory and Rebels at AAMI. We have to book the gym or the pool around them. Our current training ground is small and 500m away from the Football department, and 1 km away from the admin department. It is all second rate. We are fortunate we have a group of talented people who got us to a Premiership this year. We cannot depend on that alone. With Hawthorn and Adelaide building $120M facilities, and Brisbane, Port, Fremantle, WCE, Bulldogs, Richmond and GC all receiving state government handouts to IMPROVE their facilities, we will fall even further and further behind.

Notice the two big sun-shades that are proposed, so that we can train in the shadow at the height of summer!

In short term Brisbane will be the real challengers. As @deelusions from afarnoted, losing Hipwood and McStay for the finals simply blew their season away. The same would have happened to us without Brown and McDonald in the same scenario. They were really unlucky to lose to the Dogs in the semi, and could have actually been our opponent in the GF. However, the one that will be up and coming are Essendon. Draper, Zerk-Thatcher, Perkins and Harrison Jones are exactly the types of players around which to build a premiership side....just like we did! And Parish is finally showing the form in the same way that we knew Petracca would show one day. When we played them, they really took us to the wire, and have that same youthful enthusiasm that can take you a long way. Pity is they spent capital on Shiel, Devon Smith and Stringer, who are brilliant one day and miserable the next. Worse is that when they do come good, their sactimonious fans will be even more unbearable!

Missed 16 games due to persistent hamstring injuries in 2021. 5 games, one of which was as a medical sub. Now delisted from a side which finished bottom of the ladder.....after being moved on from Port as well....and people entertain the idea of bringing him to Melbourne?

Thoroughly approve of the name….

We now know who the oldest former player is: https://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/1027591/a-special-visit-for-melbourne-s-oldest-living-past-player He played 1 game in the Premiership year of 1948. http://demonwiki.org/Des+Bell

And that Bontempelli didn't get any....

I wish people would get over their MFCSS. We are the best side in the competition. 1. Do they remember that we absolutely belted the Bulldogs in the GF? They would be traumatised by the prospect of playing us at our home ground in front of rabid supporters, after what we did to them at a neutral venue. 2. Sponsors bring more money into the club than members. Here is the opportunity to grab a prime time exposure for the sponsors in front of a huge crowd. This sort of prospect make the club marketable. The AFL won't fixture us for this type of exposure if we are playing GC. You have to make hay while the sun shines. 3. Playing the Dogs is the opportunity for the players to show they are serious about giving their home fans the chance to see us playing in another GF at home. Beat the Dogs again , and the rest of the competition takes a collective breath. Win this game and all those members who waver about stumping up their money for 2022 quickly head for their wallet.