digby wolf

I have a different theory on Jeff and the MFC,

I actually think he does it to stir us into action.

Believe it or not i think he has a soft spot for the Dees.

Some of what he said holds water e.g. what will Gary achieve it 3 months?

I think he is trying to push Gary into a longer committment.

Yeah right. The bloke is an absolute peanut and as Garry Lyon said a bully.

Mate I agree with 90% of what he said.

What do we stand for?

I am not sure.

He also said we are a club of nice guys who don't stand up and fight.

I have been saying this for some time.

some one on here suggested we should send back our scarfs in protest and was howled down.

Mine was posted today.

My family came over to Melbourne after the planned strangulation of Fitzroy and the above comment really sums up the difference in culture between Fitzroy and Melbourne. When Fitzroy went to the wall we went there fighting, scratching and eye gouging against an AFL that wanted mergers and clubs out of Melbourne. We just didn't pack up and take off like south melbourne.

This club does stand for something and it carries the name of the great city of Melbourne with all it's history and culture. To hear some of us agreeing with a silly old woman like patrick smith beggars belief.

I'm one of those who will be going down to Geelong. I haven't been down there in a few years and last time I went down was when Robbo turned on a show and we came back and won.

I'm thinking I won't see the same result.

We're going but we live here. We're going to the social club with a mate, should be interesting. I suppose the protocol is to shut up like we expect opposition supporters to do in the Redlegs.

I really think well knock them over... Looking forward to it!

We'll be defeated by the Darwin effect. It's stupid unfair fixturing to expect a team like ours at this stage of it's development to go up there in those conditions and come back and play a fully developed side like Hawthorn.

Am I the only one who can't stand the "Ricky Bobby" nickname?

No count me in, I cringe every time I hear it at the footy or see it in print. My explanation for it is that some over americanised peanut supporter started it. But the americanisation of our game looks irreversable especially now that they went straight to the american name book to get nick names for the two new teams.

OK so we have had an up and down year but I for one am pretty happy to be sitting on 4.5 wins 5.5 losses

The side has shown what they can do even missing 5 of their best 22

It's time to put our eye back on the original goal

Coll - mark it down as a loss but it has to be acknowledged we step up against them and we have some form and confidence

Freo at the G - win

Rich - win

Dogs at ES - should win

port at Darwin - should win

Hawks - loss

Cats - loss

Carlton - loss

Eagles at ES - should win

rich - win

GC -win

Port at aami - probably lose

for mine that puts us on 11.5 wins and 8th spot

We'll do better than the 8, we'll win the Grand Final !

Has anyone else noticed that Nathan Jones has been very conspicuous by his absence on the MFC site tweets. He usually tweets all day but for over a week I have noticed that he is not tweeting just DEMON HQ and some from Brad Green. Is he on a self imposed tweet black ban. Does anyone know what is going on. I know this is not as riveting subject as Tom Scully and probably wont make 34 pages but has anyone else noticed.

I think when he started commenting on politics he went a bit far.

How do you feel about the Brisbane Lions now? Do you hold a soft spot for them as they are part of your old team? Or do you see them as completely separate team?

Also how long did it take you from Fitzroy's demise to take up a new team?

We have no feelings at all for Brisbane. None. We came over to Melbourne a year after the so called merger. We reasoned that Melbourne represented the name of the city we lived in and we didn't want to barrack for any other suburban teams.

In the first year of the merger my partner and I were up at the Gold Coast so we took in a game at the Gabba. Funnily enough Brisbane were playing the Dees and the Dees beat them. After the game we were on the South Brisbane station waiting to return to the Robina. We were wearing our Fitzroy scarfs and I spotted some people near us in Brisbane gear with name tags saying fundraisers or something. I said to my partner i'll go up and say hello. So I walked up and said 'hi we're old Fitzroy people and we came up to take in a game ". The woman rounded on me and nearly spat as she said " we didn't want you, you went broke ' !!! Then she wheeled around and turned her back on me.

So that was it we weren't going to follow a club that didn't want us. It turns out the old bag did us a huge favour because we'd probably be like all those other poor old Fitzroy people that think Brisbane represents them. Also we found and became members of the mighty Melbourne Fc the oldest club in the competition. How good is that !

lost in the hype of gold coast spun and greater western seems-easy is the collapsing state of brisbane as an aussie rules entity. it's easy to bribe a handful of players to start up new teams but who will want to watch them or play for them once the current lot eat all the chaff.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/fitzroy-death-still-cuts-deep/story-e6frf9jf-1226077214505

As ex Fitzroy people we know how deep the cut is. Even though we love our new home ( the Melbourne Footy Club ) we still feel the death of our dear old club as if it was yesterday. And the hatred for Oakley, Mike Sheahan et al still burns brightly. I think what really burns me the most was the injustice of the decision to kill off a foundation club that was older than Collingwood and had eight flags to it's name. Clubs like St Kilda with one premiership and years of abject failure still exist. Oh I forgot Oakley played there didn't he.

But there you go that's how corporations operate. The end of history.

There is nothing worse than threads bleating about the umpires when their performance was nothing to complain about when the focus of concern should be the performance of MFC.

Nah the umps were shocking and biased.

That is rather funny. Just look at the Saints and Bulldogs. We have 10 more premierships than both of them.

Especially the saints they've only won one premiership by ' one ' point. And didn't they declare themselves bankrupt at some point in their not so distant history.

So while this is not really as important as winning games etc, it seems we are now magenta and blue and no one has even noticed. Does anyone care that our jumpers look pink? When people I meet find out I'm a Melbourne supporter they ask me about it and I have to agree they look pink AND there is no uproar or discerning comments on here. Its just weird!! Its funny how sometimesthey look red ie on ads after colour correction has been applied but lets be honest here the jumpers are pink, the club said they'd be fixed and they haven't been so i think we need to apply some people power pressure on this site and get us back to the RED and blue. I mean the socks are right. every other team can get their colours right. wtf is happening?!

PS id rather wear pink and win than red and lose but pink + lose = rubbish.

Yes they are definitely pink and I believe we should get back to the fire engine red we used to have. Either that or be the only side that goes back to that synthetic wool look jumper we used to have. I just had a thought did the AFL unconsciously start wearing these soccer type tops because of global warming.

Bad Taste to the extreme. We condemn futile deaths (which by the way the USA have caused more than any other sovereign nation) then we celebrate the death of another human being. The world is a sick place at the moment. Interesting that the 'War on terror' has worsened the threat of militant Islam and made the Christians more righteous and blood thirsty than ever before. The images from times Square reflect a sad time in Human History. Those who rejoice in the death of another need to look closely at their own self. The words of Martin Luther King ring true.

I agree with the above. It's been estimated by Johan Galtung director of Transcend the International Peace Institute based in Oslo that the US has directly or indirectly killed 12 to 14 million people world wide since the second world war. Their carpet bombing of the North Vietnamese brings the word terror into sharp focus. Their support of criminal dictators like pinochet of Chile is legendary.

What they experienced on 9/11 is minute compared with what they've done to other sovereign countries over the years.

I've got a related idea.

Was watching replay of the NHL playoffs. Notice that after the goalhorn, the stadium loudspeakers generally play a modern rock song of some sort.

Why shouldn't we adapt something like this? In addition to Grand Old Flag, something else to chant with during the games and/or scream at the filth every time we score a goal would be great.

Yes something more yankee that's what we need. We've got the giants and the suns, halls of fame etc. You're right lets try to be even more like them. Why don't we beg the yankees to become a state of the union or whatever they call it. We could claim to be nearly just like them with a few minor adjustments.

Cringeworthy

Geelong barely sung their song when they were winning (and they still are), we have to raise a flag to celebrate the momentus occasion of a regulation home and away victory.

Further to that, we have a velvet clad trumpeter. Setting ourselves up for ridicule.

I agree with all the above, especially about the ' old school ' trumpeter.

Kevin Sheedy is a senile forgetfull fool.

This article is published April 20, 2010, yet have a look at what he was saying on April 19, 2006:

Hands Off Anzac Day-Sheedy

I rest my case, your honour...

I agree with all the above only having met the man twice ( once in Dublin ) i'd throw in arrogance as well. He can be a very unpleasant man.

And another thing ; I know that Kevin is a great patriot and is a rap for us ex national circus men but I haven't heard it mentioned whether he went to Vietnam or not. And if he didn't how come he didn't. I know some footballers didn't go and I always wondered why.

Should we have gone with the old Red sock with blue top like we wore against the swans for a few years?

Or if the AFL did not like that and all blue sock?

I think instead of hoops we should just wear white socks if there is an away clash. After all we were ' the invincible whites ' in days gone by.

Good morning all ...

I thought I'd kick things off a little early today because of it's unusual nature.

We're playing a game interstate that isn't being telecast live into the Demons' home state either on free to air or Foxtel. Those who were around back when our game went national might recall a promise given to fans at the time by Ross Oakley (Commission Chairman) that every game involving a Victorian team playing interstate would be telecast live.

Pig's!

I suppose I could have flown to Brisbane for the day but I have work commitments so I'm stuck here and I guess I'm going to end up watching the game on one hour delay punctuated by advertising breaks after every goal (and may there be plenty of them after every Melbourne goal).

The quandry is whether we have a game day thread discussing the game in real time or one that's on a one hour delay (perhaps I should come back in an hour's time to ask this question of those who are watching the telecast).

In the meantime, I'm going to find an effigy of Ross Oakley and some matches.

Ross Oakley was just another corporate w#%nker with a cash register for a heart and a TV for a brain.

Brisbane Bears were created in 1987. The Bears merged with Fitzroy in 1996. This was a great merger as it allowed the histories and traditions of both to be continued.

With two new teams coming into the comp. Gold Coast and GWS. What is the likelyhood we could see another two melbourne teams merge with Gold Coast and GWS?

I wonder if the AFL is open to the idea of a similar Bears and Fitzroy merger?

I'm tipping Gold Coast and North Melbourne will merge at some stage.

Leaving GWS open to merge with the next weakest Melbourne team.

The advantages of this is it reduces the number of teams in the comp and number of teams in melbourne.

discuss...

You don't know what you're talking about disco. Our family were Fitzroy and are now proudly Melbourne because of that so called merger. It was a corporate AFL takeover and most real Fitzroy people I know never followed the Brisbane bears.

My pride at the time wouldn't allow an individual ( w*nker ) like ross oakley to dictate to us which team we followed in the football. So we looked at the other clubs to follow because we love top level football and decided on Melbourne because this club carries the name of the city we actually lived in. Also the club needed help so i'm a Gold member now and very proud of it.

Fitzroy unlike South Melbourne, North Melbourne, Footscray and St Kilda had a great and proud history which is about as far frome Roma st and the city of Brisbane that you can possibly get.

But eight premierships ( two more than Geelong ) and nine Brownlow medals didn't protect Fitzroy from the corporates.

But the one point, one premiership club St Kilda WAS protected by one of it's ex players, none other than dear old ross oakley. No matter that St Kilda had also been bankrupt and never paid it's debts.

Makes you wonder why clubs put so much store in winning premierships and having success when the people that run the league value them somewhere near zero.

So please don't talk to people like us about successful mergers because you haven't been there. And hopefully we never will.

Just watching the replay. Our socks are blood red, but the yoke on the jumper is decidedly pink, not blood red.

Most disappointing.

I agree they do look pink but only on TV. In trying to achieve blood red they've achieved pink on TV which means they should go back to the bright red next year. Another thing i'd like to know about the jumper is, which genius made the red cuffs disappear ?

Anyhow it's TOO close to Moe.

Before you generalise about a region, unnecessarily, might want to ensure you are beyond criticism.

You obviously work in marketing, WE ARE MELBOURNE must have been your genius. That bought a whole new generation of supporters to the club.

Not sure why the club didn't continue down that same path.

Maybe your insight could share?

Maybe you could come up with something rather than your very average attempt at humour.

Using the Moe card? Bogan is as bogan says.

Your sense of humour AND your excellent spelling precede you hill. Private school education ? Lighten up 'old chap', you obviously live in the area and are slightly defensive about it. We can't all live in the inner suburbs so good luck to you.

as much as i like casey, we have to [censored] them off, clearly not interested in what we are trying to acheive

major stumbling point in we are trying to expand out that way, and if we [censored] them off then it would be taking a few steps back when trying to gain more supporters out that way

I agree lets get rid of them. Melbourne means ALL of Melbourne not just some bogan back water on the cities eastern fringe. Anyhow it's to close to Moe.

I don't know what's happened to Demon fans lately. Collingwood is and was always the # 1 enemy, followed by Carlton. I just couldn't be bothered wasting any energy on hating or even disliking Essendon. They might be riding high in March but they'll be shot down by May.

With apologies to Dean Martin I presume.

Sitting at home bored watching Essendon give it to the Saints. Just thinking to myself - i cannot stand that football club. The smugness of their supporters is as bad as Hawthorns, the clubs stance against getting a clash jumper adds to it, all the defeats they've inflicted on us over the past 30 odd years.

Must have been 1999 or 2000, can't quite remember, we were up by 11 points with under 2 minutes to go and lost. Don't even need to contemplate the 2000 GF, however Danners said at the post GF wake at schwaters pub that he would never step foot back in windy hill after the pre-emptive hits on Simmonds and Green. Fricken Sheedy's bullying tactics (which unfortunately for us, left us as their [censored] for meany seasons), now Sheedy's love child Hirdy coaching them....... They really really just give me the shits.

/end rant. many apologies.

However I will add, the last few years of dishing out complete garbage as a football club, watching this rebuild take place, has left me numb watching football. No real energy or passion. The glimmers of hope, the spark the started in round 2 last year, that continued on Queens birthday, has relit the fuse. I can hate opposition clubs again, the competitive beast that lies within may well come back to the fore. i can't wait for opposition clubs and supporters take us seriously again and start hating us and wanting to beat us as much as i hate Essendon

/end rant properly

I agree completely. I've always said Essendon supporters are just Collingwood supporters, minus a sense of humour.

Looks like he's... wait for it... " GAWN ".