drdrake

Thats what i posted i reckon we need a certain amount of cash to fund a new admin training base we need to contribute so the afl local state and federal governments will chip in.

Sorry, we went into debt to purchase these machines but we won't use the money from the sale to pay off our debt. Something a bit smelly going on, I will take a stab at it and this is my take only could be way off the mark but makes sense to me. A month ago we go to the media about establishing a home base and finally bringing our club together. I reckon the AFL, State and Federal governments have gone OK we are in but you need to contribute X to make this happen. We don't have X and can't finance the X amount with our current debt. You know what lets take the Moral high ground sell off an asset get the coverage as a socially responsible community club but more importantly raises the X amount we need to contribute for our home base. To me if you have the money to pay off your debts you do it and save the interest, to me if what the age is stating is correct it will be money in money out

Didn't the club go back into debt to finance the purchase of the Pokie licences. Hope the sale has covered our debt

I don't think people would make the decision to re-new their membership based on one round. I think the teasing aspect of 2017 some really good wins, but 5-6 really terrible loses that we happened to have one of those loses in R23.

I live in an area that is in Melbournes West, both North and Bulldogs have a footprint in our area but today Hawthorn said stuff you we are targeting your area for new members. They did a mail box drop in our area with an offer of free family tickets to the Hawthorn V Melbourne game. One think the residents of my community love is anything free

Agree 100%, I will renew at some stage no rush but really have no desire to watch AFL, take the emotional link to the club you support out the AFL product isn't entertaining, footballers are robotic and over coached.

And like all clubs we have another group of band wagon supporters. They are the group you need to get onboard for large growth

Win that Collingwood game and we are 3000 in front. Need to grow not maintain.

Thats what i thought. Took them each week they loved going. Hit school they are the only kids in the class supporting melbourne. They stick fat with dad for a few more years and then they understand winning and losing. I hope for your sake we start winning

Disagree with this. Everyone has the right to decide. Essentially over the past 11 years we have had an inferior product. If any business had a product that bad for that long they would have shut their doors. Our supporters have kept this club alive for an extended period, like our players each supporter decides whether they buy in and turn up each week. Circumstances change both my kids now support other teams you try to steer them towards the team you support but they eventually decide who they will support. Them supporting other teams comes down to on field performance easy to convince kids when your team is winning when their not is easy for their mates to convince them to change.

We have done so much damage it will take a long period of success followed by another one real quick to get the next generation of supporters.

What was and what is are a mile apart and our supporter base that witness and experienced our last successful period would be all over 65 years old. We have lost generations of supporters due to 50 odd years with out success and unfortunately for our club we had sustain periods like the period we are hopefully coming out of now. The Lexus centre has nothing to do with it, all last 50 years of basically being irrelevant killed us, we showed signs of recovery through the Northey and Daniher years on field but that was followed by the Bailey/Neeld era which again would have lost us future members. My 2 kids have zero interest in supporting Melbourne, for the first 8 years of a kids life we can push them to follow the team we do. After that kids jump on the team their mates support and successful teams. If you want to change we need to stop having 10 odd year periods that we don't play finals. You accept that at some stage clubs bottom out, good clubs bounce back quick, bad ones seem to stay down a lot longer

My understanding at MCG and Etihad the stadium sell the corporate boxes, MFC did have their own box a few years back but I'm not sure if we still do. Unfortunately we sit in the bottom third for most key revenue streams, this won't change we need to accept that no point comparing us to bigger clubs we will never compete financially with them.

I think West Coast and Fremantle manage the corporate box sales at their home games. It also could be the money allocated to them by governments to build their new training facilities

DaveyDee, you are extremely dedicated to the Dees. Are you saying that we can't win a flag unless we throw a heap more cash at our Football department? Didn't we already get a truck load of cash chipped into our club by loyal supporters Foundation Heros?

It all about Essendon, we don't play home games against them because their clash jumper really isn't a clash jumper and me a small club that is bullied by the AFL to have a white jumper because the AFL don't have the courage to upset Essendon, same as Collingwood at least they have tried to this year and I think that is more on the back off Richmond having great success both on and off field with the Yellow clash strip

There will be a lot of members that would have opted out of dedicated Demon program, that will explain the difference between this time last year to now. Will be a few that will be wait and see how preseason unfolds and you can't blame them, all we have heard from the club over the past 11 years it the hype of youth and potential, you know what a lot of members aren't buying in on that anymore, we are a laughing stock of the AFL, even the AFL treats us like that. I have lost my kids to other clubs so really for me no point renewing as I won't go to the matches with out them.

Wouldn't like to see this kid in the West Coast Forward line he would dominate playing with Kennedy and Darling

I think Freo just wanted to get it out the way, they have at least 3 other deals they need to close in 24 hours

Spot on, pick 29 and 35 to Bne for 19. Or 28, 29 and 45 to Gold Coast for 20 and 22

Adelaide should back what their Captain put out there about Lever going for Money and not Success. 2017 and 18 pick plus 2nd this year for Lever and Adelaides 1st round 2018, Walker is confident they are better than us in 2018 so lets make it interesting as a bit of a side bet

I know one bloke that will be terrified, a big full forward that has a player that can hit him lace out going to a bloke that can't hit a target except if he is kicking a goal

Just trying to remember the players that had a suspension mid year for drinking, pretty sure the ones involved have had bags packed.

Really, the guy is a solid defender Pick 10 is more than enough. I reckon Pick 10 and 28 for pick 18 and Lever

Agree, our Tall defenders are flakey at best and we don't have 1 that is a rookie. Frost is a monster and needs to learn to use his strength, Oscar is Oscar bit like Tom we never know what we will get so we need a high quality in Lever plus these guys getting better.