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  1. We're also trying to get tickets. Asked the MFC for some assistance as part of our player sponsorship, but they don't have any details as fresh as this morning.

    Just spoke to a staff member at Adelaide Oval, and she didn't even have any ticketing info available. Encouraged us to get onto the Ticketek website at 11.30am AEST on Tuesday 18 May to see what we can get.

    The Ticketek website doesn't seem to indicate there is a member preference period, but I can see up the thread that this seems to be the case?

  2. Melbourne’s new $6 million man Christian Petracca signs on for life

    Melbourne will announce Christian Petracca’s mammoth contract extension as early as Wednesday.

    Foxfooty.com.au has confirmed Channel 7’s report, which revealed the Demons star would shun rival clubs to pen a long-term extension.

    The Demons were planning on making the good news public on Wednesday.

    https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-news-2021-christian-petracca-contract-melbourne-free-agent-new-deal-net-worth-how-much-money/news-story/916d148703bf5e714f4db9911e2666aa

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  3. 10 hours ago, DaveyDee said:

    Well said - not to say I agree or disagree.

    But, we play games in Canberra, Darwin, Alice Spring etc the PA systems / acoustics at those grounds are not the best. If all MCC and Victorians vote the same way its a no brainer. 

    But sometimes,  do we have to give a touch - just so the Demon supporters in every state in Australia get to enjoy the song after the game - because this year I hope it gets played after the game many more times than last year. 

    Huh?

    Received a bog-standard Copy & Paste response from the Club this morning:

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    Thanks for contacting the Melbourne Football Club.

    Every clubs theme song has been re-recorded for the 2018 season.

    We are currently reviewing both versions (new and old) and will make a decision in the coming days as to what version we will use throughout 2018.

    Thanks for your support and feedback!

     

     

  4. 2 hours ago, Demonland said:

     

    I know that in the grand scheme of things this is a pretty small matter, however it's one that, strangely, I feel pretty passionately about. I just sent the following to the Club.

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    To whom it may concern

    I've seen on Social Media this evening, that the Club Executive is yet to make a decision on whether to use the re-recorded version of 'It's a Grand Old Flag' or the Fable Singers version in use since 1972.
     
    For what it's worth, as a fairly young, but long-term member of the Club, I'm all for positive change. That is, change that improves on the status quo. Unfortunately, this smacks of change for change's sake.
     
    I understand that the re-records were at the behest of the AFL, which comes as no surprise, given that they seem to continually come up with solutions to problems that don't exist! With this in mind, I would implore the club to think carefully about replacing this important part of the match day experience.
     
    Personally, I find the new version sterile, lacking tone quality and depth of sound, and generally uninspiring as a 'call to arms/battle song'.
     
    I've been very pleased to see that a number of the bigger Melbourne clubs have chosen to stick with the versions we all know and love. I hope that we can count the Red and Blue in that number also.
     
    Yours sincerely

     

     
     
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  5. I'm able to nominate a child under the age of 15 to receive a free Melbourne Football Club junior membership as part of my MFC/MCC package. Alas, I don't have any relatives or friends with kids that age, so if anyone would like a free junior membership which entitles access to all our games in Melbourne during 2014 please send me a PM.


    Apologies if this thread has been opened up in the wrong forum.

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  6. Mark Sheehan to analise the draftee/recruitment list at draft level, VFL or AFL recuitment with constant feedback to the coach who is indicating to him the sort of players the team is lacking during the year (midfielders for the focus of 2012).

    Firstly, his name is Kevin. Secondly, "analising" the list sounds pretty painful :wacko:

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  7. Only players with 60 - 90 games are Morton (63) and Frawley (81). Were you referring to one or both?

    Bartram has played slightly more (94) and although they weren't in yesterday's side, Bate and Dunn also illustrate my point nicely.

  8. Yeah I reckon they should give Macnamara another run next week to see if he can show anything, could have been first game jitters, but he would have to be a big chance to get the chop at seasons end. Is he a rookie list player?

    I know it doesn't sound like many, but if he's still getting first game jitters in his 4th AFL game there may be a problem.

  9. Some posters on here are a disgrace.

    How about you support the players for once?

    We won by 30 points. We played a couple of kids in McDonald and Mcnamara.

    I'm happy that we won. Shame that others on here are such pessimists.

    It's more about being realistic than pessimistic. I don't think you'll find anyone disappointed that we won, it's just the way we went about it was a reality check about how far off the pack we are.

  10. We had a first Gamer today, and Blease has played 4 i think...You take Sylvia out of that side and that explains quite a bit about our clearance efficiency.

    I am not making excuses but i can see what was happening..

    The GC set themselves up for a real crack today...The are an AFL powerhouse in the making, make no mistake. Bluey McKenna was no fool as a player, they are improving.

    I have only seen the second half at this stage, but after all the turmoil of the last 2 months, i will take a 5 goal win.

    As i will next week...Then the hard work begins for next year...we do have good kids who need a Top line experienced coach..Right Now.

    We also have a fair whack of players around the 60-80 game mark who are slow/poor decision makers. The players' motto during the early part of the year was "Simple Brilliance." This meant doing the simple things really, really well, including getting your kick off to an unmanned teammate if advantageous. Too many times today we witnessed experienced players wanting to take the ball back through traffic because of an apparent obsession with the corridor. In fact, once again it was the experienced players who tended to let us down. At least Blease, McDonald and McNamara looked like they were having a crack. Cale Morton on the other hand just swans around trying to make it look like he's getting involved - credit where credit's due, however, it was probably one of his better games of the last few weeks.

    Brian Royal mentioned today at the Before the Bounce function that Todd Viney had challenged the players to absolutely stick to the structures they want to implement - sitting directly in front of the coaches' box I don't think Viney was impressed. A number of times there were fists flying against the glass. I noticed in a video they showed of the team meeting the week before the Richmond game that when asked questions by Mark Williams about tactics or the consequences of doing or not doing something that there was hardly any response from the players. It let me to wonder whether the structures that we are trying to implement are actually understood by the playing group. It's that old teaching philosophy - make your message clear enough that even the dullest student can understand it. I just hope we're not making excuses and that we don't find that some of the players who we thought would form the core of our challenge might not be up to it after all.

  11. Colin Sylvia was a huge miss. You under estimate the GC kids, they are not that bad.

    Yes we all want the season to end, but at least the MFC did kick away when challenged in the last Q.

    I don't think I underestimate GC, in fact that's the thing that irks me most about the whole situation - really we should be miles in front of them in terms of development. Also I'm not sure I'd say they "kicked away" in the last quarter - GC won the quarter 5 goals to 4. Just lucky, as like last week, that we seemed to have something in the Gatorade at 1/2 time.

  12. I was there and found the game incredibly boring. I couldn't even manage a yelp at some of the better goals. Got annoyed with fellow MFC supporters clapping pathetic efforts. There is something seriously stinky about this playing group at the moment, and I'm not sure a "tougher than tough" pre-season is going to turn it around. I feel flatter after that win today than after some of the 60 point smashings.

  13. If players are throwing games because they have issues with the administration then this is an extremely serious issue that needs action. Fruitless to sweep it under the carpet.

    They should be sacked for breach of contract.

  14. The players have indicated there is friction between themselves and their CEO. That friction needs to be addressed for the club to move forward.

    As far as I'm concerned the players have no business being disenfranchised with the CEO. It's like students complaining about a teacher they don't like. Tough shizen I'm afraid. In life you come across people you don't get along with, but you have to make it work for the sake of business/life/whatever. If that truly was a protest by the players on the weekend then every single one involved deserves to be sacked for breach of contract. It is the job of the administration to make tough decisions which might not be liked be all. If Cam is interfering in the daily operations of the FD then that must also be addressed, but for the players to kick up a stink is childish, and if Scully doesn't like it then he can rack off to GWS too. YMMV.

    PS - the club hasn't gone backwards this year because of Cameron Schwab. The members who don't re-sign next year, won't do so based on the absolute pathetic displays put on by two thirds of the playing group over the 22 games. I've never been as disgusted with the effort of 22 well paid, well resourced footballers as I have been over the past two weekends.

  15. I am not that taken with scarf burning, after all I have a collection dating back a number of years and if we have too many more "efforts" like yesterday they will become valuable sporting memoriabillia. However there is a culture within some areas of the supporter base that accepts mediocrity. This culture arose through the really lean years and is noticible in the MCC members who are are terribly good losers. Sending back scarves and even membership tickets, as opposed to not renewing memberships gives a message to the club and players that losing by huge margins isn't good enough. 47 years is far too long!!

    This, I'm guessing, would be the same MCC in which some of the MFC's oldest, most loyal and most generous supporters sit. I don't know where you've been observing from, but the fellow Demons MEMBERS and SUPPORTERS I sit with in the MCC become nothing short of infuriated with some of the weak efforts this year, but you know what? We're there every week, unlike many many MANY other fairweather "supporters". What I find more disturbing is the amount of sycophantic MFC supporters on Twitter who after a perfomance like yesterday's proceed to write to the players that "we're all behind them and it must be so tough for them". TOUGH?? I'll gladly take hundreds of thousands of dollars to dish up garbage like that every week. In most other professions that would earn you the sack. *rant over*

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