Dr. Gonzo

And only won finals in two of those seasons. The flag is the trump card of course but looking at the performance over the entire tenure it feels like an underachievement.

You're happy to wait another 57 years? Premierships are won each season, once the next season starts the last premiership is yesterday's news. It's always about the next flag and under Goodwin we were moving further away.

He should be gone tomorrow (probably should've gone first).

It's clear we still have leaks within the club, likely at Board level. This isn't the only example only the most recent.

Bring him in with Bartel as head of footy?

On another note, seems we still have leaks in the club. The first thing PJ stamped out was the leaking to the media and it has been creeping back in over the last couple of years. The fact that scumbag Tom Morris broke this before the club had the opportunity to tell the players is a disgrace, the Board still has issues that sacking a coach won't resolve.

First coach to be sacked after a win??

Best coach in my lifetime. Delivered a drought breaking flag. A Demons legend. But the time is right, the club needs a fresh voice. Thank you Simon and all the best

I got Gold in 2003 I think, never attended one either 😕 Been to a few Prelims tho with my wife who supports Geelong. I actually binned the AFL membership for a couple of years around the Bailey/Neeld era as wanted the money to go the club rather than AFL. When I realised how much finals tickets had increased I relented and went back to AFL after a couple of years, they let me back as a Gold paying an absentee fee for the years I'd missed. In 2022/23 I paid about $20 for finals tickets instead of the $80 or so it would've cost as a club member.

Agree on Trac, Oliver can go

It's always closed now, they used to open it on days with no rain forecast but the shadows from the roof/stands played havoc on TV so it's always closed now.

There is?? Shows me how much attention I pay 😂 Actually that's my one major hate for Docklands, the amount of empty seats on level 2 and they want to charge an arm and a leg to sit there. It's ridiculous, AFL members should have some walkup access to level 2 especially now the AFL owns the stadium.

I'd also like to know whether it is usual across the league. Perhaps it is something that happens a lot we just don't know about it but it doesn't feel like it passes the pub test. What are the benefits to being on the MFC board to a non-MFC member? Access to the top end of town? MCC?

It's not bad, easy to get to and seats are pretty good no matter where you are. I hate being indoors on a sunny day and nothing will beat the G but it's not bad as an alternative venue. I presume a large part of the hate from Melbourne supporters comes from the MCC members who don't have the same access or facilities at Docklands.

It shows how loyal our supporters are, I genuinely thought we'd struggle to get 10k there today considering our supporters disdain for the venue and the form of the team.

You can enjoy what you want 🤷

Not only that, you couldn't look at today's game and have any confidence in our gameplan or ball movement. We didn't look to play aggressively through the corridor, kept bombing down the line and playing around the wings. We smashed them through experience and talent, not because of our gameplan. All year we've been hearing about this new gameplan, today was the day you'd expect to see it but there was nothing. Some forward handballs out of congestion but no different to what we were doing in previous years and hardly revolutionary.

The number of times they turned it over inside our forward 50 under no pressure was astonishing, would have to be a record. Topped off with the kick straight to Trac, he must've thought all his Christmases had come at once. West Coast were truly abysmal which you love to see. They can rot at the bottom of the ladder for years for all I care, they've been as much a thorn in my football life as the Hawks - will never forgive them for 1990, 91, 94 or 2018.

Put a two year extension in front of Goodwin you reckon?

Demolition job of a team that would struggle against park footballers. Langford and Windsor looked good, Rivers and Turner were good in defence. Happy for Culley who took his chances. Fritsch had a pretty good game and Max was Max. Hard to take much out of it, the Eagles were pathetic and we weren't much better for a bit more than half the game. The third quarter was fun though, don't get many 10 goal quarters.

Well done Jai, the boyhood dream has come true!

I'm watching today to see signs of our new gameplan. What is our ball movement like, what is our forward structure like, are we looking to use the corridor etc Not seeing much different from our previous gameplan to be honest.

Melksham Kozzie Langford and Gawn Gawns efforts for a guy 208cm tall cannot be spoken of highly enough, he is an absolute legend. His game last week including two smothers in defence was overlooked because of the debacle in the last quarter but he was Herculean.

This game should've been in Alice and Saints at the G West Coast are VFL level, we should be up by at least 5 goals already they just keep giving it to us and we can't take advantage. I can't overstate how bad the Eagles are. Any other team and we'd be in trouble.

Hopefully we continue with Windsor on the ball and give time in the centre to Rivers, Langford and McVee as well. Petty to defense and Turner up forward. Not holding my breath. Only thing worth watching today is whether Kozzie goes berserk. Eagles have only won one game for the year, if we don't put them away they will sniff a win and go balls out while we will panic and keep it close.