Melbourne City FC Thread

[Falastur]

Fuck me that's an over reaction! Your club was founded in 2009!!! 2009!!! You're 5 years old! MK Dons have more soul than your club do and that's saying something. Your clubs record appearance holder has 82 appearances and your record goal scorer has 15 goals... we have players who score more than that in a season. Get a grip! Whilst David Villa may have had an off day I believe he has already scored a couple for you and you should be proud that he is wearing the shirt considering what he has achieved in his career.

I'm curious. At what age do you believe a club "earns" the right to have fans?

Incidentally, it's only seven years since our top scorer for the season struggled to score seven goals (lower than Heart have ever had as a top scorer total), and that despite having played almost twice as many games as Heart/City have ever played in a season, so that's a pretty poor insult to aim at another club.

I'm curious as to why you're being such a pedantic moron. I've never questioned a clubs rights to having fans. But it's about perspective. The club is 5 years old. Are you saying that fans of Melbourne City will feel as aggrieved as Cardiff City fans for changing their shirt colour. Or Hull City when it was mentioned that they would be changing their name? These are clubs with stories to tell and success and misery over a long period of time. It's the same as listening to a 5 year old talk about the hard times or the good old times and then listening to a 90 year old. Even moving to the Etihad stadium took time to get used to. There was no history to it and the atmosphere at times was a bit flat. Now we have stories to tell and things are different. You can't seriously feel too aggrieved for this poor Melbourne fan who has to suffer watching David Villa jog around a pitch and succumb to their worst derby defeat ever (5 years). Get a grip.

I'll admit that I let my emotions get into that last post too much - I've been on the Melbourne City forum since the buyout there and the NYCFC forum since it first came into existence and have seen so many examples of MCFC fans coming along and telling people on both of those places that they have no right to feel upset about anything because their clubs are too young - it's kind of a trigger for me to get angry now.

To answer your question, though - yes I do believe that many Melbourne fans feel as strongly about their change of colours as Cardiff or Hull fans do, from what I've seen of them. Many, perhaps most, of the Melbourne Heart/City fans cite the exact same feelings of emotion and attachment to their club as (Manchester) City fans do about ours, and they react in exactly the same way to positive and negative news. I just can't get my head around people on this forum constantly believing that they can determine whether another person feels an emotional attachment to something or not.

You could use the exact same arguments that you are using to describe, say, a relationship break-up. A person who has been with their girlfriend for five years has some memories, has been on a few holidays together, but they don't have the experience of someone who has been married for 35 years - spending decades of their life with their partner, having kids and watching them grow up, getting to the point where they don't remember life as a single person. Does that, however, mean that a relationship of five years doesn't really hurt compared to a divorce after 35 years? Could someone who has just divorced the only partner they ever had in life realistically tell a guy who has just left their gf of five years to "get a grip" and proceed to berate them for feeling upset simply because their relationship did not last 35 years like his own one has, and doesn't have a fraction of the memories?

 

[moomba]

(Melbourne) City v (Adelaide) United on at BT Sport 1 at the moment. Current 1-0 to Melbourne, nearly half an hour in. Game the Melbourne really need to win given last weeks effort.

 

[carlos tevez is a blue]

Hi all,

Went down to my first game in the Melbourne City Era last night and I would like to say a massive thank you to the City Group

-Thank you so much for providing my team with our worst ever derby loss
-Thank you for providing my team with a marquee player who couldn't be bothered trying in our most important game of the season
- Thank you for promising an improve in results and professionalism and delivering worse results than we had at this point last year

Thank you for taking away my club- my main club in world football and replacing it with the most plastic, cringe worthy club in world football. there is no identity with this team. If not for the old heart fans chanting the same chants with no mention of city and chanting for our boys in red and white, then there would be no support whatsoever for Manchester City of Melbourne FC.

Thank you for replacing my team, and my passion. Thank you for you care in our clubs colors and fans.

Thank you for completely removing my interest in Australian club football.

To the Manchester city fans thinking why is this a big deal:

Was your club bought out and made to change colours, made to change your name, and your identity as a whole? no.

So big thanks to all at the city group for ruining one of the great joys of my life.

You are my club, and you will always be- Melbourne Heart FC

Now that is a fucking rant.

 

[moomba]

1-1. Adelaide been on top for a while so no surprise really.

 

[moomba]

1-2 Adelaide penalty. Defence went missing. 10 minutes to go.

 

[without a dream]

It seems a woeful defence is part of 'the City way'.

 

[moomba]

Finished 1-2. The good start the club would have hoped for to build on the interest from the takeover isnt going to happen I guess. 2 points from 4, and the end of Villa for now (maybe for good).

Was never going to be a short term thing, but a disappointing start.

 

[heartman]

Another loss, another pitiful performance. Villa has now gone pressure mounting on the coach. Got last years champions next week who also are struggling so far.

We know this is going to take time, but as it stands we seem a million miles away.

We need a left back, right back a genuine number 9 and a half decent keeper.

Any ideas?

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Another loss, another pitiful performance. Villa has now gone pressure mounting on the coach. Got last years champions next week who also are struggling so far.

We know this is going to take time, but as it stands we seem a million miles away.

We need a left back, right back a genuine number 9 and a half decent keeper.

Any ideas?

The owners just want to educate you in the cultures and traditions of being a City fan. If the coach goes, you can have Stuart Pearce.

Left back - you can have Clichy. We'll pay you.
Right back - we've this great young prospect called Dedryck Boyata. It'll be a wrench but it'll be good for him to develop his career.
Number 9 - How would you fancy the Bosnian captain? He'd be perfect.
We can also supply a half-decent keeper. I think we'd get away with the description half-decent.

 

[moomba]

Another loss, another pitiful performance. Villa has now gone pressure mounting on the coach. Got last years champions next week who also are struggling so far.

We know this is going to take time, but as it stands we seem a million miles away.

We need a left back, right back a genuine number 9 and a half decent keeper.

Any ideas?

Hopefully you can take a bit of heart from our struggles in the first season under Sheikh Mansours ownership. We were copping much of the same comments I've seen directed at your supporters this week. Just makes you enjoy it all the more when it does come good.

I've seen all 4 games so far, I reckon you have about half the team you need to be competing at the top. Will take time not only to bring in the players you need but to get rid of the ones you don't.

Not sure whats happened with Villa, but think the club need to fill the supporters in whether he's likely to return or not. Bit of info on the Australian marquee could be a bit of a lift for the supporters as well.