On the field today at the MCG, we saw Australian footy at its hard fought, free flowing best.
The magnificent Orange Tsunami almost beaten by a team with 5 debutantes.
But on the other side of the fence, only 23,278 people attended. In the three previous days at the same stadium, crowds of 80,000 twice and then 60,000 showed far more support for other clubs.
Meanwhile today, on Sunday, 131,000 went to see a car race.
The magnificent idea of Jim’s Game, honouring an Irishman who was not born into the game but came to be a true legend, had no traction.
As someone who was a health professional for thirty years, what I see in Melbourne Football Club is a lot of very decent, very good people bullied and ignored in a very cruel society.
Delighted by the footy, but deeply worried about the beautiful Dees.
Bullying. By the media.
So sad.
Geoff Fox, March 16, 2025, Melbourne, Australia
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