whatwhat say what

21 minutes ago, BAMF said:

I dont think we have the list depth to keep Sparrow out.

His development has been frustrating. After 2023 I expected him to jump to averaging 20 disposals a game, but he went backwards. He seems to have been given a defensive related role under goodwin, so his numbers might not tell the full story.

Maybe King will free him up?

really, he should be the logical 'replacement' for viney in the midfield

i'm yet to be convinced he will be

1 hour ago, Redleg said:

Agree that the lack of any information from the club is frustrating to say the least.

i think, as has been pointed out a few times (by yourself, i think?), the announcement of anything - be it progress or it being doa - is effectively out of the club's control

i'm hopeful, as ever, but not expectant, as always

mfcss writ large - when things are glum there's worse to come!

14 hours ago, binman said:

And also loving Chicag/new york ban Water from your eyes. Not sure of a comparison but they remind me, more sensibility wise than sound, of erudite late 70s new wave bands like Talking Heads.

The Gnomes are a young Frankston band playing early sixties, Beatles style power pop. Great fun.

All three are playing at Golden Plains on Labor day weekend so probably playing gigs in Melbourne.

water from your eyes and this is lorelei are must-sees; nate amos is in both, both playing solo shows around golden plains; the first at the night cat the latter at howler

i'm thinking of doing nick cave into the gnomes next week as they're on the same evening

cmat at the forum on a 45 day degree on this tuesday is going to be interesting; she might melt, sweet irish singer that she is

girls against boys are playing the tote, of all places, in a few weeks - first tour since they came with magic dirt over 25 years ago, i think

3 hours ago, Ollie fan said:

My very close friend and fanatical supporter, with whom I had attended innumerable matches over 30-40 years, died unexpectedly a few weeks before the finals. My daughter is convinced he was manipulating things from above.

Or below?

1 hour ago, binman said:

Sorry, did you say something?

When is Big sound?

just making recommendations and comments and about how excited i am for new, and old, music, all the time

big sound is generally held early september

highlighting two 2026 discoveries...

sunday mourners - la-based nyc-sounding four-piece, whose debut album came out last week

westside cowboy - manchester, uk, four-piece who sound like they should be on the same label as mj lenderman and wednesday, who put out their second ep two weeks back

10 hours ago, Mel Bourne said:

That TFS show also happened to be Gaz’s 50th birthday :). Yeah, I need to start learning those Augie songs soon!

noice

fortunately glenn is a titch more relaxed these days

some of those strops he had in the 90s and early 00s were epic temper-tantrums

tfs bringing the \m/ to marrickville bowlo in sin city last year

meanwhile, i see our very own @Mel Bourne is stepping into adam's shoes for augie march's "moo" 20 year anniversary tour

gonna be fun!

7 minutes ago, DistrACTION Jackson said:

I’d love to know how many MCC members are also MFC members and vice versa. I also think we have a huge opportunity to build our fan base through are affiliation with Casey and that growing area, but I’m not sure we are utilising it well enough. I’d love to see us offering cheaper member options for people living in that area to build the member base, even if financially it doesn’t make anything in the short term it could be a more long term plan.

aints' membership base is artificially boosted - or at least it used to be - by giving away memberships to children competing in the smjfl league, and parents often got memberships thrown in for free too

ultimately i suppose it's not # of members that counts but $ driven from them

17 minutes ago, Jack Vineys Anger Manager said:

Our crowds were pretty good in 2025 considering our ladder position. 449k in total attendance at home (afl 9th) average home attendance of 37.5k (Afl 8th) in all matches 840k attendance (afl 9th)

Our reputation of not turning up is a myth. In 2025 anyway.

remove the alice game and it's stronger again

our membership base is always going to be low as our supporter base is small, but our conversion of supporters: members used to be, and presumably still is, one of the best in the competition

ultimately, we're a minnow club

7 hours ago, Lord Travis said:

Not particular. We're not a desirable club, as we don't get desirable tv time slots and we have a small supporter base. It's only gotten worse since we torched our foundations from 2023 onwards and now sit at the bottom of the league in basically every way sadly.

same as it ever was

i have two posts that have failed to appear in this thread

odd

i take it yr from near byron, @Brownie ?

do you know the grunge throwback threepiece, headsend? working with mike crossey and nick didia on their debut album, which should be a decent listen

i love that the frontman is named rasmus and his brother is kyuss

they were one of the emergent bands at bigsound 2025

chalk me down as another 'rip rob' remembrance post

i first saw the oils just as i turned 18, around the "redneck wonderland" era

from there, did not see them again til the first reformation, and then my final show was the "10-1" in full show at the palais as they farewelled melbourne

incredible band

nice use of tame impala

2 hours ago, adonski said:

SCOUT BOOST

As the Dees sweat out pre-season on the track, they have had a boost off-field by adding experienced footy head Shane Joules to their recruiting team.

Joules spent 16 years at Collingwood in various roles including an opposition analyst and pro scout under coaches Mick Malthouse and Nathan Buckley, before running VFL club Northern Bullants, and most recently a stint working at the AFL as a conduit between schools and AFL HQ.

He boosts one of footy’s most experienced recruiting and list teams, led by list boss Tim Lamb and recruiting head Jason Taylor.

The Demons lost recruiter and AFLW list head Todd Patterson to the Tasmania Devils midway through 2025.

ned guy effect?

18 hours ago, Redleg said:

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don't full stop us @Redleg

yr a font of positivity that is much needed in this thread

On 09/01/2026 at 16:59, Diamond_Jim said:

Next stop... ban password sharing and bring on more ads.

password sharing banning is inevitable and that's when i think it'll be interesting to see what decision people make about how important 'seeing' the footy on tv actually is

we might be going back to the 90s where if you didn't go to the game, radio was yr best bet

no ads siren-to-siren is one of their major marketing callouts that you'd think they would be reluctant to lose

Pass mark is making finals

Anything less is a fail

My expectation is that we will fail, but I also didn’t think we’d make finals in 2021

this one belongs to my mother, but i've adopted it, used it as my own...

in mid-air, there's one person going up and one going down

the one going down says to the one going up, "excuse me, but do you know anything about parachutes?"

the one going up says to the one going down, "no, sorry... do you know anything about pop-up toasters?"

i have no idea why, but it's always amused me

10 minutes ago, 2029_brownlow_medalist said:

pity the only thing you can’t illegally stream is footy😞😞 nba cricket f1 all covered

it can be found, if you look hard enough

15 minutes ago, GawnOfTheDead said:

This is the new world, with everyone moving to subscriptions. Everyone’s paying so much a year for all their various things.

and this is why piracy is on the rise, again

kayo price going up again

https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/foxtels-kayo-sports-increases-streaming-fees-as-aussies-set-for-72-yearly-hike-time-to-boycott-042959308.html

the oztrayan cricket team keeps winning

the mfc does not

3 hours ago, Gouga said:

I know people want to keep things positive, but our last formal update was september 24. Paid up members are in the dark and its just not good enough.

people want to keep things positive? that's very un-mfcss