I’m glad you aren’t involved with running the club. Seriously. There’s so much stuff in here I don’t know where to start!
Agree, much rather go to Marvel to watch footy.
Until we win games consistently, we are no chance to play our home games at the MCG. Who knows when (if ever) that’ll be? Dream on.
Not with that attitude!
Learn to grift!
Essendon this year is the worst team possibly in its history. No success for 20 years. Beaten by 10 goals in rounds 1 & 2. Expected to finish bottom 2. And on Saturday night, the club was selling restricted viewing and standing room only for a game against a small Victorian club. Only empty seats were largely member no shows.
Marvel isn’t big enough to cater for Essendon’s supporter base.
It’s a very simple decision but it needs competent executives to secure the obvious.
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The same argument you could use now for why we deserve more is the same argument we’d use a decade ago.
Every time you go to the ask for something, then don’t perform, you are wasting your time and losing trust.
We have been in freewill for a decade.
By all means…
Ask all you want.
Don’t expect to get it.
We’re one of the worst performed teams not only in the last decade, but for the last two.
When it turns, we’ll be able to demand everything we want. History shows that. Not just ours but Richmond’s, Collingwood’s and even Carlton’s show that.
We haven’t turned yet though.
St Kilda didn’t perform but it didn’t stop them chasing what their supporters wanted. They wanted it, chased it and didn’t accept ‘no’. Good on them… I want an administration that is bold, aggressive and pushes back. Not one of the ilk you’re vouching for. There’s evidence that it can be achieved, irrespective of on field success.
Newsflash!
St Kilda have been better than us since 2020.
That period alone shows improvement on the 5 years before it.
Want to look at our improvement?
We’re going backwards.
When it turns, we’ll get it.
Oh please! They’ve been a basket case too.
You may want to compare basket cases then.
We’ve been ■■■■ for twenty years.
Their good was after that.
And yes, they were ■■■■ in between, but again improved since then.
We’ve gone backwards.
If you cannot see that our onfield results have gone backwards in the last ten years, then I really don’t know what you’ve been watching.
I think your argument is extremely flimsy and smacks of a supporter base that wants to rollover too!
Your argument is based on this is our lowest. Get in on the ground floor before we need it.
Our ground floor hasn’t been set. And is lower than it was 5 years ago and even lower than ten years ago.
You only get one shot at fleecing someone telling them, ‘this is our low’. After that, if you’re timing is wrong and you don’t perform, you’ve burned your trust and need to rely on performance just to get another look in.
Earn your trust through performance. Not through selling the future.
Get the onfield ■■■■ sorted, and you’ll demand everything you want.
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11,000 no-shows?
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I don’t think I have missed a home game at Marvel since 2001, and been to other games on top. If the ground was 40000 plus on Saturday night, no idea where they were. It was pretty empty around us, and when there is over 40,000 the lines for food, drinks and dunnies are long, not Saturday night though.
I’d love to see us back playing more games at the MCG again, but now is the worst time for us to be pushing for it. If we win some finals, we’ll already be making a very strong case, as we won’t have the capacity at Marvel to fit so many long-suffering fans onto the bandwagon at once.
Yep 
Includes obviously empty corporate box seats and Medallion Club seating too.
Moving to Marvel is the worst decision in the history of the club and it’s not even close.
It was the time we signalled to our fans and players that the club cared more about money than about their experience. Fans want to go to the G. Players want to play at the G. The club wanted to make more money and didn’t give an damn about what the club’s most important stakeholders wanted.
it was the time we ourselves elected to put a cap on how big a club we could be. We officially joined the ranks of the “small clubs” the day we made that deal, and surrendered our position as one of the big clubs to Hawthorn and Richmond.
It was the time we lost our soul.
Nothing could have stopped us in 2000 but it’s no coincidence that we haven’t had any success since.
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They were selling restricted viewing seats on level 3. The GA was almost at capacity on the night.
But we moved to Marvel in 2000?
It was the scene for our and the AFLs best season ever.
I’ve been a colonial/etihad/marvel hater but our current day arrangements are very similar to then.
Thats also an issue with Marvel. GA is to limited. Its only the top half of level 3 now.