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If our womens side was offered the to do the same camp they would jump at the opportunity.

Agree with this and for this to be needed to be addressed at the AGM is a concern. Deal with it in house keep it in house don't let others get wind of a story that should be dealt with and put to bed. Goodwin should tell his sports science team and Dave Minson to take a spell from training this week and turn the clock back to your 100 x 100's, put the balls away and have the flock them to death sessions.

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.

He isnt wrong. Port played finals last season and have added experience players to fill gaps. We havent played finals in 11 seasons and showed in 2017 we still are mentally soft till we can address that we have no chance playing finals let alone a gf. Moving Jack on was a step to address this but only a small one

Only difference Rigoni really hurt you by foot, his kicking especially over distance was elite

Could he turn into a Cameron Ling type run with player, someone that can stop but also get his own ball.

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?

You cant test for mongrel and determination, you watch kids you see the most skilled and talented kids stand out at junior level you draft them to find out that there is nothing else. That was our issue with drafting we picked kids that stood out at Junior level, unfortunately most off them didn't have mongrel and that real determination.

I think Phil Davies and Jack Zeibell should stay at 9 and 10

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

Along with most other AFL clubs. Lets revisit in 5 years when other clubs are hitting 100000 members and we are stuck on 42000 playing less and less games at the mcg.

I think BP was hard done by Cameron, he left him with nothing on the list

Sorry, massive difference between Trengove and Garland, firstly age, one has had a full year back from injury and the other is a lot older and still in rehab after knee reco. Trengove wants to play AFL who wouldn't VFL is a development league you are either developing or waiting to be delisted, our powers to be believe he is not good enough to get a game and contribute at Melbourne, Port are willing to give him a chance. Just like the Glass House that Collingwood snatched from us, we had this idea of Team Melbourne but I bet another club makes it happen and we will be sitting back with our 45,000 members wonder how we let this slip.

Correct, others will do this add layers to their club that will see their supporter base grow.

Sorry, how did he do a brilliant job at Melbourne, all I can recall is a large number of failed draft picks and recruiting errors, and continued this form over at Richmond

I went Victory but maybe you go City for the $$$$$

It's time to reignite Team Melbourne. The concept was good the timing wasn't. I read in The AGE AFL clubs are looking at NBL basketball clubs, this is on the back off Netball doing this successfully this year. It is really turning the clock back to local sporting clubs where you could go and find a sport you like and have a real social environment, much higher level but really sets the platform for community clubs. Melbourne Demons Men and Women, Storm, Victory men and women, Vixons, Rebels, United(not sure if there is a Melbourne named team in WNBL). All teams home grounds are within a stones throw MCG/AMMI or Tennis Centre. Maybe start with something like mega clinics, a combine membership would love this I have Demons/United/Vixon memberships at the moment, then look at back office and wouldn't it be great to have the Melbourne Centre that is the state of the art training centre that housed all clubs staff playing and off field and for us supports a function area we can call ours. Never going to happen but it is a good concept

He stuffed our recruiting moved to Richmond and stuffed theirs, GWS should be celebrating that he has gone.

Our first all red jumpers were the best, I still can't understand why we can't have the all red instead of white

Don't agree with this, if you can't kick the ball no point getting it. The pressure part for sure you need to balance but if you don't have the ability to hit targets you will struggle at AFL level