Fitz Fitzpatrick

He'd pack a good one too - all for the greater good of humaity.

Jeez, imagine smoking a cone with this bloke

Just like the liberals of this world seem to think that because the SILENT majority of Muslims are moderate that there is nothing to worry about. But thats another issue. We cant sit back and assume everything will be ok because we have roos and PJ. Our power base is pathetic. I just shake my head every time the nominations come up for board elections.

Exactly Melbman. Ive been a paid up member since the early 80s so dont doubt my passion for the Club. I am a realist however and my blunt rhetoric is more a response to all these people that seem to be of the opinion that we are all ok now, Roos and Co have put us on the right path. That is a very very dangerous way to think. Administration is everything. Ask any player associated with a strong club about what brought the team success. It starts with a strong admin. We dont have the people for a strong admin. Look at the boards just in my time. It has been amateur hour continuously.

This period of governance under Roos and PJ is going to be nothing more than a sloight levelling out in a terminal death spiral. For one main reason. The club has been so poor for so long that the membership and supporter base is miniscule and will only contract further as the generation who grew up during the Clubs glory era pass on. MFC has the oldest supporter base in the league. How many supporters has it collected since the early 60s compared to other clubs do you think? That is no the full issue however. If it was a purely 'arrses on seat" issue it could be resolved through marleting and alternative revenue streams. The real and ultimatley terminal issue is the truly pitiful pool of talent among the MFC supporter base from which to draw the power brokers from. The talent around the board room table at MFC has been truly very very ordinary when compared to other clubs. A club like Collingwood wwith a huge support base has so many highly talented people within the business and leadership community from which to draw top end decision makers. The MFC 'elite' supporter base is just ordinary. Our boards are weak and stuck in stuffy and conservative ways of thinking. That pool of talent doesnt change just because Roos and co come on board for a few years. With bugger all supporters where do we find a large pool of talented community and business leaders to come and volunteer their time to lead this club effectively. This is what will be the demise of the club. There is just no quality leadership among the group of people whio call themselves Melbourne supporters.

Makes me want to stick in the video of that geelong essendon game with salmon at one end and Ablett at the other! Bloody miss those days

Love it, Biggestred!!

What "next premiership" Wiseblood? You're kidding yourself .

what a dead set legend

Heard this morning the afl see backlash with pick 3 and will be giving a hybrid band 1 compo of a mid-1st round pick. Disclaimer: source is twice removed from myself.

How good was footy back in the early 2000s! Interchange numbers were about 30-40 per game. If you stuffed up you game off. Otherwise, get a tank and keep running son! Positional footy. I miss those days. The popular counter argument is the disingenuous one where some poster says footy is better than back in the 70s and 80s. Well, perhaps it is. But we don't have to go back that far to talk about games without congestion. It all changed with Roos and then Malthouse in the mid 2000s. Before that, footy was super quick. Today , players are quick but ball movement can be slow. With congestion the footy can spend a long time in one part of the game. 10 years ago players were perhaps slower due to less rest but with more positional play the footy used to zip from one end of the ground to the other. I remember when it would go inside 50 from one wing, to a 2 on 2 contest, then a few handballs and out it would fly back down the opposite wing to a contest on the outer side. Forget about the 70s. yes footys better than then . But the days of the Bombers and North sides of the late 90s , the Lions of the early 2000s, NOW THAT WAS GREAT FOOTY!!

LOVE IT!!!!!!!

Building a middle of the road list. an upgrade on what we have and a necessity to break this downward spiral the club is in

Good footballers though, the Greeks

Mitch Clark to the Blues for P-7.... Really? ....ffs,

Hahaha, d'landers spend the whole season bagging the spuds, yet miraculously, come trade period, the spuds on the list suddenly have currency. Suddenly. Blease is equal to Robinson, suddenly Strauss and Evans is worth a 2nd rounder etc etc. Support the club by all means, but if you know nothing about footy please keep your fingers off the keyboard and spare us the effort of having to scroll through all this bulls#it

Orourke is a spud. Why are people rating this guy as a 1st rounder?? Classics case of " he's a kid on GWS's list so he must be a gun". Has done nothing and will be seen as a draft failure in the washup. A young Cale Morton. Let's aim higher guys

Haha you're a testy little fella aren't you. You are pretending that what was written in the CFC rooms isn't found funny by young men to try and substantiate this argument of yours. The fact is, that humour is appreciated by young lads the world over - if it wasn't then surely it wouldn't have been place on the photo of the players. That was blokes do for a laugh, they take the pizz out of each other. The comment was not anti gay, it referred to them as looking gay but as there is nothing wrong with that then it's not an insult then is it. If you don't know this is the case then you must have grown up in a bubble. Geez you must be one hell of a wet rag to be around - boring as bat shitt to be honest. The classic thing is that in an attempt to argue at any price you're condoning Harry's response to all this, which makes you as much of a drama queen as he is.

Which is an indictment on the world we live in and unfortunately we have people like yourself to thank for it.

Are you debating for debating 's sake or do you really believe his reaction is the way we need people to be responding to this? I tend to think it must be the former, however the drama queen approach does seem to be in vogue.

You really think HL's reaction to all this "work to do" is a measured and mature response?! Wow

Perhaps you can read too much in to it but the end of Roosys speech when he said that if you don't want to be a part of it then you know where you can go, well , he said that with some gusto and if it wasn't directed at Frawley it certainly would've made him shift in his chair a bit. Cant help but think it was a fairly robust discussion at Chip's exit interview.

Didn't say Australia was "totally" tolerant and yes theres work to do - but the high and mighty's of this world like the character this thread is all about, are more interested in self promotion than the actual issue and will act to blow it way out of proportion to what it really warrants.

You are dead right. It seems a lot of people that cry racism haven't left their own backyard. In my experience Australia is one of the most tolerant societies going around, sexism, racism , the lot.There's a lot of spilt milk here and a shite load of people standing around crying over it - mostly to draw attention to themselves. Look at me, look at me, I'm a new age liberal with feelings. Harden the F up and stop self promoting. I'm all about improving society and helping people in need but there are a lot more worthy causes. The gay community would get more support from me if they just dropped this "woe is me" bollocks No one gives a shite what you do with your [censored], just grow up.

Really wish we could take a lawsuit out against him for malpractice or gross negligence. How does he walk amongst the afl world knowing he quite possibly singlehandedly destroyed a football club. A helluva thing to have on your CV.