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binman

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    32 minutes ago, 3183 Dee said:

    Such a good band 🤟🏼

    Playing a free gig at fed square tgis friday with an up and coming local rock band Public Figures.

    It will go off - and super, super packed - starts at 7:30 but I reckon they'll stop letting people in by 6pm such will be the interest (I saw ki g Gizzard lizard there are a few weeks ago and it was super packed - there'll be even more people for this gig)

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    26 minutes ago, rjay said:

    They're happy to have increased female membership but just don't want to put in too many hard yards.

    It's like they think their job is done when it's really only started.

    Invest and set the game up properly AFL.

    It's just sooo short sighted. It does my head in

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    34 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

    Haven’t played Essendon twice in a season since 2004, which AFAIK is the longest active such streak in the competition.

    Really?

    Two Victorian clubs , one big and the other big enough to ensure a 65k crowd at the G.

    And we only play one a year for 2 decades?

    That's bizarre.

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    2 hours ago, rjay said:

    Probably, and I thought about this before writing.

    ...but seriously they are very average.

    She gets by trying to be outrageous and that's a very old song, I've heard it all before.

    Could not disagree more Rjay.

    Out of interest have you seen them live?

    I could not count how many hard rock bands I've seen live. From aprox 1983 when i started regularly going to gigs, there very few seriously good hard rock bands who have toured Australia I've not seen.

    And Amyl and the Sniffers are right up there as one the very best rock bands I've seen live.

    The band, who toiled away for a decade in Melbourne before breaking out when they took London by storm a few years back is super, super tight and Amy Taylor is a force of nature. And powerful as all get out in terms of her personal politics and in your face anti misogyny.

    Far from being performatively outrageous she is one of the most honest, singular, real and direct rock performers ive ever seen live - up there with Mark Arm (Mudhoney), Iggy Pop, Rob Younger, Brendan Huntley (Eddie Current and the Suppression Ring), Nick Cave, Donita Sparks (L7) and Curt Cobain.

    But i guess that's the beauty of art - we all see and hear things differently.

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    2 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Wouldn't mind a signature walk off song after a home MCG win, and after they've played the theme song twice. At the moment they just play random songs as background noise.

    For example, after a win Carlton play Oasis - "Don't look back in anger"

    Are you sure they don't play Don't look back in anger after a loss?

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    57 minutes ago, Wrecker46 said:

    1064 was a good year with the Beatles touring and Melbourne winning the premiership

    A big, big year then. Some other notable events:

    • The Sunset Crater Volcano in what is now Arizona, USA, erupted for the very first time. This volcano is still there today!

    • The Seljuk Turks, a powerful group from Central Asia, began to invade Anatolia (which is modern-day Turkey). They captured important cities like Caesarea and Ani. This marked the start of their expansion into this region.

    • On June 9 1064, the city of Coimbra in Portugal was captured by King Ferdinand I of Castile (a kingdom in what is now Spain).

    • Harold II, who would later become King of England, was shipwrecked in Ponthieu, Normandy (in modern-day France). He was then taken captive by Count Guy.

    • The building of the famous Duomo (cathedral) in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, began in this year.

    • Borivoj II of Bohemia, who became a Duke of Bohemia (a ruler in what is now the Czech Republic) was born

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    20 minutes ago, Melonmonster said:

    Going by these responses

    Your all old

    One advantage of being old is that primary schools in the 1970s had a real emphasis on ensuring young people knew the difference between grammar and their grandmother.

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    1 hour ago, Ghostwriter said:

    Oh, I forgot this one…

    Voodoo People - The Prodigy

    Also…

    Hey Boy Hey Girl - The Chemical Brothers

    Right Here, Right Now - Fatboy Slim

    Yes, I’m stuck in the 90’s. Anyone got a problem with that?!

    😁

    I sometimes reflect that music from say the mid 90s is now 30 years old which would be the equivalent of in say 1995 (when i was rocking out to Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers) listening to music from 1965.

    The top 10 hits in Australia in 1965 were:

    • Shake, N' Bake - Normie Rowe & Playboys

    • The Carnival Is Over - The Seekers

    • Help! - The Beatles

    • Rock and Roll Music - The Beatles

    • Crying in the Chapel - Elvis Presley

    • I'll Never Find Another You - Seekers

    • Under the Boardwalk - The Rolling Stones

    • The Wedding - Julie Rogers

    • Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter - Herman's Hermits

    • Ticket to Ride - The Beatles

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    On 03/11/2025 at 11:57, Demon_JB said:

    Regardless if he has an outstanding year or not, we made the right call. The controversy surrounding him year after year is just too draining for the club. For years we have just allowed Goodwin to play favourites and no one driving a harder stance for professionalism and improvement.

    A new change of scenery is what was neeeded for both Clarry, and a fresh start and new path way for the Melbourne Football Club.

    Supporters are forgetting, we had both Trac and Clarry playing for us and we have been bottoming out every year. Regardless of his output next year, he needed to go so we can reset and play a different faster, more outside game style that is suited for the modern game.

    Yep, that's where I've landed.

    And I'll think the same even if claz gets back to his very best next season, which I sincerely hope he does.

    By the by, if claz does in fact get back to his AA best that won't mean the call to trade him was wrong. There would be no way of knowing if that would have been possible if he had remained at the dees.

    Perhaps rhe only way he gets back to his best is by a new environment amd the motivation to prove the dees wrong.

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    17 minutes ago, bing181 said:

    Ridiculous generalisation and not what people are saying.

    Of the 60K members you could probably count on the fingers of one hand the number who have in-depth knowledge of the inner workings of an AFL club. And same again for those with high level board/governance experience, and all that that entails.

    Seriously?

    How many of the current board do you think had an 'in-depth knowledge of the inner workings of an AFL club' before joining the board.

    How much 'in-depth knowledge of the inner workings of an AFL club' does Dan from Stan have?

    Bloke lives in Sydney. Does he even support the dees?

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    The other point i'd make is it's a disingenuous straw man argument to correlate having a more transparent and open election process that actively encouraged people to put their name forward with that process necessarily throwing up some clueless footy fan nuffie.

    For one thing that's an implicit insult to the members - 'members are so naive and dull of mind that they will elect some person who has no idea - better leave it to the experts, us, particularly given our stellar track record of anointing board members with gun skills that have underpinned our success'

    But more significantly, it's ridiculous to think that outside of the board's tiny pool of candidates that amongst our 60,000 odd members there are not people who are supporters of the club AND have the high-level skills, knowledge, experience and abilities needed to make positive contribution to the club.

    Further to that point, good governance is having Position Descriptions for board members. Anyone putting their name forward for consideration would have to demonstrate how they meet the PD and related KPIs. Then members can make a decision based on that information.

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    16 hours ago, bing181 said:

    By definition, an open election will throw up whoever it throws up - including people with either similar skills (undesirable) or just as likely, skills we don't need or even zero skills.

    Huh?

    It IS an open election is it not - or at least should be?

    Isn't that the point?

    That's to say it's supposed to be an open election where members get to elect their board member but in reality, it's anything but.

    To be clear, of course its common practice for a board to identify both a skill gap and have preferred candidate in mind -it's ever been thus.

    But I'd make three points.

    Firstly, that approach to filling board seats is often a factor in in scenario's where boards are performing poorly. Why? Because it makes it difficult to get a diversity of experience and viewpoints, critical to good governance (particularly in organisations supper sensitive to market forces - in our case our need to sell memberships to survive, let alone thrive) and reinforces a job for the boy's culture.

    Secondly, there are no issues in the Board identifying Dan from Stan as their preferred new board member however I'd argue it's in not appropriate for a future President in announcing his presidency to essentially anoint Dan from Stan in that statement (or any for that matter).

    Why not simply do something like create a page on the MFC website with info about their preferred candidate, and any other candidates, promote that page and let members review that info.

    Thirdly, the process is just a continuation of the status quo model of filling board seats at the MFC. In all seriousness, how has that model worked out for us since 1964 when the then board sacked a coach who had won the previous years' flag halfway thru a season?

    For almost all of the intervening period we have been a shambles from a governance perspective. And we have been spectacularly unsuccessful in that period - winning the solitary flag in nearly six decades

    At the end of the day the buck stops with the board - they own both success and failure. Does anyone seriously think our lack of success is not a function of our poor governance?

    Hell, the one flag we have won since 1964 coincided with one of the few periods of stability at the board and executive level - and even then I'd question that boards' effectiveness given, amongst other things it signed off on Goody's, Claz and Tracc's contract extensions (a decision we are now paying for - literally), failed to land a home base, failed to leverage our flag into sustained membership growth and oversaw a culture that seemingly now needs to be reset.

    What that saying about insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result?

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    19 minutes ago, Dees_In_October said:

    It's stuff like this that makes me excited for what she could be. I felt she lacked a little aggression and confidence coming at the ball last night, but she generally makes smart decisions like this when she has it and I'm always surprised by some of her neat field kicking.

    Weather forecast looks a little dicey so we might get Casey conditions regardless 🤣

    If Banno hasn't learnt to tackle yet I doubt she ever will haha. It was definitely easier to let slide previously because of her other attributes and X-factor. I was surprised to see that statistically (not the be all and end all, of course), she's about on par with last season. The difference is fewer marks and goals (12 compared to 8 total) but more goal assists. But agree, you never know when she'll light it up and historically has been a player that loves finals.

    I think an issie with Bannon is what is her best role amd position?

    As a tall forward she doesn't take enough marks.

    And as quick as she is, somewhat surprisingly given her athletics background, I'm not convinced she's great option for the wing, or even the high half forward role (by that I meanboth roles require elite fitness and running power- does she have those attributes?).

    If she can really improve her marking I'd like to see her play as a tall forward who gets up the ground in the Jeremy Cameron mould.

    Loved Gillard's game yesterday and i just love how hanks goes about things. A one touch player that is as natural a footballer as you'll ever see.

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