Cloughie

Wohoooo...now that was a proper 10th anniversary Melbourne Heart match. Thanks for the (repressed) memories!!!

Credit to membership team - got a callback this morning honoring the offer

Phoned up just after 7:30pm and on recycling hold music until 8:00pm ticked over and then announced the line was closed. Thanks City. Guess that means the drive has been working, but I missed out. Reckon I deserved a half price season after watching us since inception and surviving Aloisi and Joyce

Don't get me wrong, first priority is young guys running at tired defenders. But there are always those games where it is windy or wet, or the big centrebacks are carving chunks out of calves while the ref left his cards in the changeroom and you're chasing a goal. That's when I want to turn to the bench to the tough old forward with less pace left in him but a tonne of guile.

Wily aging forward happy to warm the pine and come on in the 82nd minute to provide another attacking option. Don't think we have ever had one

I hope to treat this Joyce period like that time I woke up next to the extremely weight challenged Sandra Adamson after a few too many at a party: lets bury the memory as quickly as possible and pretend it never happened.

At least they were our ice bins. We could sing about them, joke about them, revel in being the poor little downtrodden brother of Melbourne. In other words, we had a club.

Foundation member here, even followed the club to away days in each place. Also attended matches in locations like Shep, Moe. CFG and Wozza finally lost me mid season and I cancelled auto renew membership. Too much over too many years and by the end I was only there for the mates and beers. Win or lose I had no emotion either way and that is a completely odd hollow feeling. That is not football. Will always keep an eye on results and might flick on the broadcast every now and again next season.

Two goal giveaways now for Retre. His best match for Heart/City

I don't get the whole zucchini flowers as dish idea. I mean, what the hell, it's a flower not a food. And the two Peruvian ladies give me the shits. Especially the one with the frozen botox duck's bum face.

I hope Bruno is the one chosen to give his farewell speech

I have also been told extremely reliably he was informed in the days prior to the derby that contract will not be renewed but announcement will be withheld. Until when is the question. Munn is also no longer just skating on thin ice. A loud cracking sound has reverberated around the parent club. And I have never made a claim to be in the know before if that helps!

This City team reminds me a lot of my adventures at 3:00am at a nightclub as a young batchelor: A fair chunk of desire, lots of time spent fumbling and poking around at the edges, but very little real penetration.

One day we are going to look back on this as the darkest of dark times for this club. Even worse than Aloisi days. Hated manager who cant get along with his players and has the absolute ugliest style of football I have ever seen. Support off a cliff. Lachie Wales hasn't played as a striker since junior football FFS. That tells you everything.

You ever start a round of "You've lost that loving feeling" and I'll double the volume and nudge the lads around me in Still the best chant (and underexposed) I've ever heard at any football ground.