old dee

I think I know the censored word and agree. MERRY CHRISTMAS

Having read the last page of this august thread I can only assume that a number of people have been into the Christmas cheer a little early. I only hope after an early start you all have the stamina to go the distance.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder Nasher.

Loosen up guys it is a small joke.

Unless we win 3 flags in the next five years 70k is dreaming. The main driver of membership numbers is success on the field.And sustained success. The MFC has had so little success for half a century it is going to take a lot to get never before members.

Your big mistake Mr. Leg is you are being logical. That will never succeed with Greenies using logic.

There are a number of rumours a couple I am not going to put in print.

Sorry I meant the FD has inside knowledge

So I am not to blame for our having only 45k members. Thanks.

Inside knowledge dieter?

I have no idea how my being a member for most of the last 45 years has caused the club to have low members and low results. Can you explain how my membership for 45 years and attendance at games has caused the MFC problems?

I am not going anywhere CBDees I am just making the point that as the numbers rise then the benefits of going to games falls. Eventually you reach a cross over point where watching games on some form of media is more enjoyable. I will not go to Collingwood or Richmond home games next year, just too hard.

Oh Rubbish the supporters / members have not been the major problem SWYL. For many years MFC members could only elect a percentage of the board the rest was nominated by the MCC. The members of the MFC have had to suffer through decades of mismanagement and players who were not up to winning enough matches to even make finals let alone grand finals. Appearing in two GF's in 54 years says it all and has not been caused by the long suffering members the majority of which pay there fees every year and get no say in how the club has been run. I am not the problem!

At 100 000 members you wont be able to get into anything SWYL. It will purely be a donation to the club. At 100K members they wont need me anyway and by the time they get to 70K I will be either dead or dribbling down my chin and not know what day it is. Oh by the way It is not been me holding the MFC back I have been a member for most of the the last 45 years including the last 16 straight.

The only thing you can do is remove all the type. Go figure!

SWYL I will always be a Dees supporter but I wont be a member when there are 100 000 members. Why would you be a member in that number? Imagine Richmond playing Melbourne with 100k each. Less than 50k can get into the MCG once you take out AFL members and MCC members, it would be impossible to get a seat. When the MFC reaches 50K I will become a three game member and then go to Games against interstate sides. At 70K it will become a TV game for me. However I don't envisage this happening any time soon so watching the Dees in person will continue to be fun.

I live for the day this problem arises CBDees. On reflection it is possible in the next couple of years and you can guarantee nothing will be available by then. If we are playing in a GF the club will arrange a venue for the occasion if required.

Grand plan Steve but I think the Dees is here to stay.

Their ground is not even in Richmond.

They should have flung their crap square game and used that money on player services.

They have been using our ground for home games for 50 years dc stranger things can happen. Having said that I think there is next to no chance the MFC have anything but Yarra park in mind.

At last nights AGM there were a number of questions on this subject. Bartlett and Pert consistently held the line that Yarra park was achievable and they were pressing on. When the subject of other options was raised they quickly moved the conversation back to Yarra park. Too costly or too far away seemed to be the comment about other options. IMO they see yarra park as easily the best option if they have a plan b they were not going to give it air last night. Again it is only my opinion but they are locked into a Near MCG option and nothing else is on the radar. They could of course be using this to get better support for option b we will all just have to wait and see.

Yes et there is more to this story.

He was there last night LDC.

You have my vote Dante.