Dr. Gonzo

I thought week 2 was same price as week 1?

Yep don't doubt that for a second! The reason I'm banging on about it is that I was just stunned at the lack of noise - people around me were imploring the Melbourne supporters to barrack loud but there was just not much enthusiasm other than the brief patch in the 3rd quarter. For example when there was a ball-in near us on the southern stand wing early in the last we'd be yelling support, cheering the players on etc but there was little else coming from our area. I'm not saying we have to be feral like Collingwood/Richmond but some vocal support would be great! I agree about 2018, perhaps I'd just been remembering how great the crowd was then and assumed that finally with a decent turnout this year and it being finals the supporters would finally find their voice similar to those two games but it was very subdued and a weird vibe around the stadium (even from the 1st bounce).

Yes Geelong fans are typically quiet as well - I went to the 2011 Prelim Feel v WCE and couldn't believe the lack of noise/support. I assumed though it was just complacency bred through success. Doesn't excuse our own supporters lack of voice though.

Who gives a [censored] if those dirtbags respect us??

1) we did not make plenty of noise. The crowd was pathetic 2) no one has said that was the reason we lost

Lucky to get 45k I reckon

I reckon Sydney will give them headaches. Assuming Geelong gets over the Pies today.

I never said that was the reason we lost, just that the lack of noise was pathetic for a close final.

Jeez that sounds horrible - hope he's ok

I just see it differently - it seems most supporters are waiting for the team to do something they can react to. My view is supporters should be cheering and generating noise/atmosphere for the side (you know, supporting) regardless of what is happening on the field. Now obviously if the team is blown off the park the supporters will go quiet but when it is an arm wrestle all night I expect the supporters to pull their heads out of their arses and actually cheer the team. Maybe that's just me.

And when we got on somewhat of a roll and put the foot down in the 3rd the Swans replied in kind and outscored us 6 goals to 5. They are a very very good side, I think their losses to Essendon and GC during the year saw many underrate them as flakey (myself included).

Comprehensively beaten? It was 2 goals the difference at 3/4 time. I think some Melbourne supporters have forgotten they're not their to watch the Harlem Globetrotters. Your role as a supporter is to support not sit on your hands and only cheer when something good or exciting happens. The crowd last night was weak as [censored].

The difficulty we've been having is in wrestling momentum back from opposition sides - not momentum as in goals but momentum as in the way the game is played. Teams lock us down and pressure is around the contest and we have trouble winning that arm wrestle and putting it back on them so they are the ones taking possession under pressure. I don't know how we correct it either because we have built our game on winning that contest. We were sloppy due to this whole Sydney was clean. People looking at the 50m penalties are looking at the wrong things I think - the difference was we missed the relatively easy shots (Melksham a main offender) while they were kicking them out of their arses, snapping from packs 40 out and hitting goals from 45 out on the boundary.

Agree, can't stand them.

Absolutely - he's not even taking contested marks at the moment which is the key point of difference in having him forward in the first place.

Yep same, my voice is pretty scratchy, my brother's wasn't much better and my sister was basically imploring the supporters to make some noise - our first final we've attended since 2018, reigning premiers, qualifying final and only a couple of occasions the crowd were up and about. It does my head in mainly because I just don't understand it.

Yep I've said it in the other thread, I thought the crowd was pathetic (where we were sitting anyway). There were a few of us trying to gee up the crowd but they were just sitting there like stunned mullets. No idea how to generate some atmosphere, you don't just cheer when a goal is kicked you cheer to rev the team up and create some energy, create some sense of hostility for the opposition. Melbourne supporters just sit there mute. Edit - It was a good turnout though, a touch under 80k is a great result I think.

The problem is our supporters sit there waiting to react to what is happening on the field. It's a final, chance at a prelim on the line - make some bloody noise for the team!! You don't have to sit there waiting to be wowed, create the atmosphere you want the players to feed off. Start of the last, 2 goals in it, all on the line - [censored] crickets.

Yes to all of these things!!

May did nothing, Buddy flopped the umpire got sucked in and both should be ashamed watching that on replay. Give me a spell.

I was there, southern stand wing. Sounded like a morgue.

Nah that's crap, Melbourne supporters sat on their hands all night, only a couple of goals in it early in the last and couldn't get a [censored] peep out of them. I hate to say it but we have one of the worst group of supporters in world sport. Kick off the tartan rugs and make some bloody noise, it was noticeable from the first bounce and didn't get better even when we got in front. It's embarassing.

They can get stuffed with all the academy free hits they get. Heeney, Mills, Blakey, Gulden who else? Stuff em.

Sydney had 11.4.70 from turnovers when I left with 3 minutes to go. 2 from stoppage. We had 5 or 6 from stoppage I think and only 2 or so from turnover.

Players played like rubbish. Supporters supported like rubbish. Felt like I was at a funeral it was that quiet.