Sir Why You Little

Still love ya Robbo....

Norwood are the RedLegs...We are Demons who grew from the Fuschia's!!!

I agree if you don't like the Demons, or the Demons scare you go and Barrack for the saints along with Ned Flanders. Remember Demons 12 & soon to be more Flags. Saints 1 Flag. Choose Wisely.

John Worsfold in a really bad mood by 5.00 PM.

As long as we beat the Weagles next weekend i don't think it will hurt the club too much apart from not getting 4 points we should have, as the media has been very favourable to us since. The Team is moving forward-as long as we beat the Weagles. Remember at 1/4 time last Friday we were $7.00 to win. i haven't watched the replay so i don't know how the commentary called our effort.

IMO i think the side/club over the last 46 years has often felt satisfied with the "honourable loss" proven by Danniher's rollercoster years...What other club has ever done that?? Sure players might have been [censored] off at losing, but where was the mental toughness that brings that improvement? Was it our training facilities or personel? I don't think our present side is going to suffer this problem, but i must disagree that previous Melbourne sides were not mentaly tough enough. Too many players were well paid, who were not challenged from within for their position in the senior side. I think and seriously hope those days are long gone.

We take september action if we earn it. Finishing 8th we may have an MCG final & then who knows what might happen. Experience you cannot buy. I don't think bailey will allow complacency-it just doesn't feel like its around Melbourne at present Maybe Jim Stynes is helping rid that one.

Geelong have a Clean stadium with reserved seating for the lot-with the new Grand stand built they make a Bucket load of cash each game. Massive advantage-almost Wet Coke & Crows like...almost. The Cattery is everything Etihad isn't!!!!!

Yeah i did Swamp, thanks for the concern!!!! After 40 years of following this club i want the luck to turn Positive....!! Waiting for Aussie to return as well-that will be a big day as well.

sure it was one of those games where we got all the press, which is great-so let's back it up next week with a thumping of the weagles.

HaHa! Let me put it another way then rp....In all of ND's 10 years at the club, the results he managed were summed up on friday night. Which is why most other clubs always thought we could be broken if really pushed. The club as a whole lacked something, so how long will it be until the team can push through that barrier? Sooner than we think is the way it looks as long as nobody is too satisfied by our last game.

Aaah yes, i logged on this morning to read that!! Far from impressive way to start a sunday.

Yes of course you can, but at the same time the team should not be satisfied by it.

Lets not Forget ND now works with the chemist in the coaches box. The Rev is a top bloke, but i want him to see the "new" melbourne up close...!

The performance was great of course it was, but the players have to learn quickly that regardless of that it wasn't good enough. In the past i don't think we ever really grasped that concept-that's my point. Last friday nights game is one for the club to use as motivation i believe. That gut busting great proud effort still was not good enough, how do we rectify that? I reckon DB will do it, don't worry i am not trying to be negative. But the whole club has to lift to get out of the position of the last 46 years. We all know it, The boys have got to go out next week with the mind set of smashing Wet Coke all over the ground. We beat the Crows after Collingwood, now the same for the Eagles. Mental toughness this week at training.

we need 40,000+ supporters to the game again, all vocal as hell. People out there are starting to realize that as supporters we do care a bloody lot. Fill that MCG next week.

Totally agree. Just after i read your comment earlier, Robert Shaw & Kouta were talking about Friday nights game. Mark Fine said "All supporters would have left the ground smiling" NO, in past years MFC supporters would have left the ground reasnoably content. But not now. We let one slip that we shouldn't have, this new team has set a very high standard very quickly (admittedly at the MCG, but the rest will follow). Robert Shaw and Kouta both said that now is the time to give the boys a hard week on the track so they learn more about that 1% mental toughness that cost us 2 games so far this season. Maybe you are right, that losing friday nights match will benefit the long term. But this notion of "honourable loss" being acceptable must be erased from the club because it relaxes everybody into that tiny bit of false security. I hear that the players were filthy after the game, really hurting-Good, that means they really care. Next saturday we have to be primed to take Wet Coke apart as atonement-We out played the dogs for 70% of that game but the book says 0 points. The old Melbourne would have been satisfied-no more. The team have progressed way more than i & many have expected so far this year, so it's no use backing off now. I can cop losses, its a tough comp but i don't believe in back slapping after a close loss. (by that i don't mean booing players or anything like that!!!) If we want to win flags going forward the team & club have got to set very high standards, which i think is happening. An honourable loss should now be looked on as 4 points lost-which has now happened twice so far this year. Would be very interesting to know what Tom Scully' was feeling post match after his incredible performance-was he satisfied or furious? I hope the latter.

interesting view..Why do you think so? (not arguing btw-just interested) Is it part of the teaching cycle???

Thanks for that. I wait to hear what the Jimma has to say. He really does inspire us all no doubt & it will make watching St.kilda at Etihad a little more bearable! Go Jimmy.

The umpires are not being being blamed for this one. This is an AFL stuff up. The AFL told them what to wear. They had days to realize the stupidity of that color scheme.

Once again you do not understand what i am writing. I am not talking of the kids. I am proud of them and the improvement. I am talking of the club and the supporters who for years accepted honourable losses as being ok. Which is why we have had the term "Soft" for so many years. You maybe younger than i, but that soft tag has been around a long time & the only way to get rid of it is to beat good sides. In 1988 & 2000 not one person gave us a chance of winning those GF's They might have said they did but deep down we all knew what the result was going to be. I don't like honourable losses, for a lot of hard work you get zero result at the end of the day. I just want my club to have that same attitude going forward. For all the Hard work i have never watched the 88 or 2000 GF replays and i never will. Next time we make Grand Final(s) i want to watch them.

You may well be right, but i believe this club will beat this situation. It won't be easy but if the Team & club play and operate with passion & commitment for an extended length of time (make it standard procedure) we can pull through. The MCG is our home.

As long as we get loads of MCG games i can hack the team playing at the Crappy Cattery. Remember if lots of other teams get sent down there, we will get sent to Etihad heaps more. Lets keep aiming for more games at the MCG at this stage for a few negatives. Patience.

Vlad gets paid 1.8 Million to oversee debacles like the umpire situation last night. What have you got to say Vlad??? Speak.....

Well written, it's all a bit hollow isn't it. 4 points is 4 points and we got duped. The AFL will say "You were lucky to be playing friday night" i bet. We are small on their radar at this moment. The whole thing stinks as they had days to look at the 2 strips close up. Anderson the true numbers man. or should i say Toe Cutter.