Cozmo1964

Not sure i agree with you.

I have bought a membership for the majority of the last 40 years.

However there are occasions when the only protest open to member is to withdraw their support.

I often think that MFC members are too accepting.

Following along no matter how the club performs is IMO one of the reasons we have been so long in the wilderness.

In the current envoirnment I find it responsible to see how the club shapes up before supporting it.

Show us the results and we will show you the money.

It is time for the club to show the members they know how to take the club forward.

The members have put their money up over the last three years.

I could not have put it any better myself!

With so much of a burden on household bottom lines in this current financial climate, some things need to be reconsidered.

A club that keeps asking, asking and asking - whilst never producing anything on the field to justify the continual asking is in deep doggie do do.

I, for one, won't be renewing until the club has convinced me that the personnel within the football department are fit for purpose, and there are measures taken to toughen up our sad culture. Only then will I depart with my hard-earned.

Coz

The OP is correct.

Free agency coming in only makes the situation more urgent.

True, but I would go one step further.

Free agency WILL mean the death of the MFC and clubs of similar stature within the AFL.

We (and some other clubs) just cannot compete in a free agency environment. Just look at all of the handouts we have had thus far, and look where it has got us? Nowhere.

Once you roll free agency into the mixture we are gone for good.

Cozmo

Simple way to deal with tanking: allocate the first round of draft picks based on the team which has waited the longest to win the flag. GWS/GC/Freo go off year of creation.

Thus:

1. Western Bulldogs

2. Melbourne

3. St Kilda

4. Richmond

5. Carlton

6. Fremantle

7. North

8. Essendon

9. Brisbane

10. Port Adelaide

11. Sydney

12. West Coast

13. Geelong

14. Hawthorn

15. Collingwood

16. Gold Coast

17. GWS

What great lateral thinking. I'm impressed!

I'm watching these sad events from Holland at the moment, and I'm quite distressed by them. Kind of glad I'm not there.

Someone on that other forum has an interesting take on where our problems lay.

http://tinyurl.com/3mo3ud6

Hello All,

I have just moved to Holland for work and I am thinking that this is the best way of keeping in touch with all matters Demon related. I normally live in Melbourne (Richmond), but for my sins at work I have been packed off to Amsterdam for the next two years.

A long timer sufferer of the MFC I am, but boy would I enjoy some success. Normally I am not a big contributor to message boards, but as I suspect I will need my footy fix whilst I am over here I think this might be a good place to start.

Can anyone tell me if there are many other overseas contributors to this forum, and where they are located? I would be interested in hearing about their experiences of following the Dee's from afar.

Thanks.

Cozmo