Ricky P

On June 9, 2016 at 9:34 AM, McQueen said:

"As a privilege of your 2016 membership package, you are entitled to one  free ticket to our game in WA. In addition, you may also purchase tickets for guests to attend the match and sit amongst other MFC supporters."

Interstate members get 1 game per season to attend (outside of Vic) and this is the seating you get offered - Melbourne vs West Coast

And to take the missus along as a non-member you get slugged $67.50 to sit up the very back and have the setting sun make the game almost unwatchable.

Ripped off.

 

67 bucks seems like a lot for a relatively crap seat.

13 hours ago, ArtificialWisdom said:

Without meaning to sound too negative... I would be completely astounded if we are in that race come the last 4/5 weeks if we a still "mathematically" there then great but i think Adelaide is going to put a 2-4 game gap on the 9th-11th teams over the next month and a half. I hope to finish 9th, will be a fantastic result for the club but we would have to improve alot on the first half of the year and adelaide would have to fall on their own sword just to give us a slim finals chance.

We play Adelaide at the G in a couple of weeks. If we beat the maggots, lose to Sydney, then beat Adelaide, we remain in the hunt.

1 minute ago, WhyAlwaysMe said:

Gawn needs a rest &  so does Hunt

Worst post of all time.

8 minutes ago, SaberFang said:

As bad as Collingwood have been all year, they're only one win behind us. 

Haha they had the good sense to beat Essendon.

I wouldn't have minded hearing about how the Bali bombings affected the group.

Thanks for the updates folks.

Awesome that the twos are flying and there's good players in good form ready to come in.

He only left cos he wanted to coach. 

Can't believe people not understanding his contribution to Melbourne. 

A festering turd of an idea. 

Loved Kennedy's response.

Perhaps someone could say what his comments were, for those who missed the segment.

8 minutes ago, Chris said:

Maybe they take travel etc into account at champion data? Not sure, just know they ranked us as one of the hardest. 

Possibly how long your breaks are between games as well. They might also include games in a row against good opposition or something. Champion Data have pretty in-depth stats.  

It's tough to predict before the season starts. Realistically, no-one knows who's going to be rubbish. Richmond, Collingwood, Freo and West Coast are all worse than last year. Essendon are worse but everyone knew that would happen. Port and Hawthorn are also potentially worse.  

I reckon he'll stay and be a premiership star with the Dees.

2 minutes ago, Chris said:

According to the champion data (I think it is) ranking before the year our draw was the 4th or 6th hardest. I remember thinking about the whole AFl bottom teams get easier draws thing and wondering how our draw ended up as it did. 

They are meant to give you a better run with who you play twice. So we play two teams twice from the bottom 6, two teams twice from the middle 6 and one team twice from the top 6. We only play one team twice who finished in the top 8 last year. 

It's obviously a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy because if you beat a side it makes your draw look easier. That said, we have had a pretty easy draw. It gets harder after the next 3 games and then we'll see how much we've improved. 

The AFL designs the draw so that the bottom 6 teams get an easier draw than everyone else so it's no surprise we've had an easier draw. Don't worry - it will be harder next year!

How long is it since we've played in a legitimately big game? A game that fans of other clubs might be half-interested in watching? Feels great!!!

Every successful team needs good foot soldiers. Good on spence - hope he gets some reward for his efforts.

I'm an MCC member and MFC member. I get nothing for the MFC membership - it is purely donation. I don't even pick up the scarf! 

The fact that almost 50% of MCC members buy MFC memberships when they get nothing for it is pretty amazing and is a credit to our wonderful supporter base who have largely stuck by the club in the last decade.

With every passing home game an MFC membership becomes less value for money. So unfortunately, I don't reckon we'll crack 40k this year.

This was great! I think this is much better than the over-hyped [censored] on tv. It seemed to end before u got to Melbourne though.

They send all the young players home every now and then. 

Hopefully all the stupid media coverage of Hogan will convince him to sign on for 25 years at the Dees so he doesn't have to go through this rubbish every few years. 

He'll stay. 

25 minutes ago, GawnWithTheWind said:

Besides T Cloke, who else has had this much media scrutiny + delayed talks... And stayed in the end?

I would say the vast majority of players that delay talks in the second last year of their contract end up staying.

In general they stay too close to the play - I'm constantly thinking "show the bloody game!"

2 hours ago, DubDee said:

I don't think we can keep saying we are a better team than St Kilda when they keep beating us

I have thought we are far superior than them over the past 2 years but the evidence has finally convinced me they are slightly ahead of us right now.  I am still very confident we have the better/younger list and will be much better than them very soon

I think we're better than St Kilda because we won more games than them last year and we have won more games than them this year.

22 hours ago, Skuit said:

Interesting. I had assumed Dunn was dropped for struggling to transition to a zone defense as well. But as to my earlier post, and not having thought about it before, Dunn is another defender who really hasn't been taking the game on this year. This was especially noticeable against North I think (or Collingwood?) when we were attacking hell for leather and he was holding it up a lot. I wasn't critical at the time (beside being disappointed in the slowing of momentum) as I thought he may have been directed to play a steadying role and his disposal was clean - but perhaps his lack of derring-do has seen him dropped. It's as if Roos has given up entirely on the notion of old fashioned KPDs and just wants an entire defensive unit of dashing half-backs.

Ripping word. Should be used more often!

2 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Triple M rush hour interview

http://omnyapp.com/shows/rush-hour-melbourne/max-gawn

Haha that was hilarious - thanks for posting. 

However, as I said in another post - media st is poisonous for the dees!