Welcome to Demonland: Max Gawn

[DubDee 25,590]

Will always be remembered for spewing on Scully

[YesitwasaWin4theAges 6,684]

10 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Will always be remembered for spewing on Scully

How good that he spewed up on the wretched piece of 💩. It's like he predicted the future 😂.

Probably Prentergast's finest bit of work at the club.

Edited August 11 by YesitwasaWin4theAges

[Bitter but optimistic 22,218]

Max will retire not only as a great of this club but a great of the game. 
 

He is enormous both on the field and in his representation off the field. 
One can only guess how many new supporters he has brought to the club

[John Demonic 5,747]

On 01/12/2009 at 04:36, jayceebee31 said:

I have just watched the highlights of this unbelievable big athlete. This young man could be anything- actually could end up a megaSTAR.Best recruit in this draft or at least the potential. Unbelievable- are our midfielders going to LOVE this hulk.

Gawnie go and get them- after making sure your recovery is definate.

The has to be one of the best posts on demonland.

[Demon Jack 6,859]

Even at 32-33, his best football still stands as close to competition best.

He and Xerri (who has been fantastic for North this season albeit W/L ratio) should both make the final AA squad.

Hopefully Maxy still has a few years left in him as we continue looking for a protégé. 

Edited August 11 by Demon Jack

[Timothy Reddan-A'Blew 5,065]

2 minutes ago, Demon Jack said:

Even at 32-33, his best football still stands as close to competition best.

He and Xerri (who has been fantastic for North this season albeit W/L ratio) should both make the final AA squad.

Hopefully Maxy still has a few years left in him as we continue looking for a protégé. 

Please tell me we are!

 

And thanks everyone for the original and 'years later' posts, rightly lauding 'Gawnie' (sic!)

[whatwhat say what 22,683]

great bump

greatest ruckman the game has ever seen

[DiscoStu17 724]

1 hour ago, John Demonic said:

The has to be one of the best posts on demonland.

Absolutely. Nailed it. Took predictive text to a whole new level. 

[Lexinator 1,659]

2 hours ago, whatwhat say what said:

great bump

greatest ruckman the game has ever seen

You said this back in 2018 😁

[monoccular 17,413]

i didn’t seem able to find the original clip of Max pre draft.  

Does anyone have a link?

[Dee Dee 1,105]

I attended the club AGM just after Max was drafted and remember Jim Stynes introducing him, then having them stand back to back to emphasise how tall Max was. Jim was certainly no midget but Max was a good half to three quarters of a head taller. There were audible gasps from the audience and a few laughs as well.

And of course at the time most of us in the audience didn’t know who this kid Max Gawn was, we had come to see the Melbourne Football Clubs new saviour Tom Scully!

[layzie 33,748]

Well this kid turned out to be one of the game's greatest. 

[The Taciturn Demon 457]

12 hours ago, DubDee said:

Will always be remembered for spewing on Scully

I don't care what history says. In my mind, now and forever, he did it deliberately, aiming the gush, in full knowledge of who Scully was and what was about to happen. 

[whatwhat say what 22,683]

12 hours ago, Lexinator said:

You said this back in 2018 😁

I was right then and I’m righter now!

[Fat Tony 5,217]

Max had an AFL player rating of 30.0 on Saturday night, which was his 5th best game ever. He also had 177 Supercoach points, which was his 7th highest ever. (Surprisingly his AFL player rating for the Cats prelim game was only 24.4.)

[Bring-Back-Powell 14,762]

2 minutes ago, Fat Tony said:

Max had an AFL player rating of 30.0 on Saturday night, which was his 5th best game ever. He also had 177 Supercoach points, which was his 7th highest ever. (Surprisingly his AFL player rating for the Cats prelim game was only 24.4.)

That is an incredible effort despite his ankle issue.

Probably puts to bed people's request to put him on ice the last two games.

[titan_uranus 24,970]

13 minutes ago, Fat Tony said:

Max had an AFL player rating of 30.0 on Saturday night, which was his 5th best game ever. He also had 177 Supercoach points, which was his 7th highest ever. (Surprisingly his AFL player rating for the Cats prelim game was only 24.4.)

Out of interest, where did you find this?

[Fat Tony 5,217]

21 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Out of interest, where did you find this?

This is a great site https://www.wheeloratings.com/

[chook fowler 19,444]

The geatest Dee behind Tulip in my time as a supporter - 1965

[DistrACTION Jackson 8,602]

Once our training facility is finally finished he deserves a statue right at the front

[Swooper1987 3,322]

46 minutes ago, Fat Tony said:

Max had an AFL player rating of 30.0 on Saturday night, which was his 5th best game ever. He also had 177 Supercoach points, which was his 7th highest ever. (Surprisingly his AFL player rating for the Cats prelim game was only 24.4.)

He's also the third highest rated player in the comp this season, and over the past 5 weeks he's rated number 1 - which is a major achievement given he missed two games in that block. Should put to rest all this debate about the AA ruck.

[titan_uranus 24,970]

23 hours ago, Fat Tony said:

This is a great site https://www.wheeloratings.com/

I should have known the great @WheeloRatings would have the answer!

[Nascent 9,104]

Pretty sad state of affairs when a Tom Morris tweet generates 26 pages and 600+ posts of discussion and angst within 24 hours, yet the original thread on our generational skipper and one of our all time greats has a total of 2 pages and 46 posts in 14 years.

Back to Max, what a legend and future hall of famer. It's been a privilege to watch his career and can only hope he has another few years yet in the tank. Agree with distrAction Jackson that he deserves a statue.

[spirit of norm smith 16,268]

Get the statue ready 

Max Gawn 💙❤️🏆

2010– current (end of 2024) 

224 games 

captain since 2020 

Career highlights so far

AFL premiership captain: 2021

Frank 'Checker' Hughes Medal: 2024

7x All-Australian team: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 (c), 2022, 2024

Melbourne captain: 2020–

2× Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medallist: 2018, 2019

AFLCA Champion Player of the Year: 2018

Neale Daniher Trophy: 2016

[Demonsterative 3,020]

3 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Get the statue ready 

Max Gawn 💙❤️🏆

2010– current (end of 2024) 

224 games 

captain since 2020 

Career highlights so far

AFL premiership captain: 2021

Frank 'Checker' Hughes Medal: 2024

7x All-Australian team: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 (c), 2022, 2024

Melbourne captain: 2020–

2× Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medallist: 2018, 2019

AFLCA Champion Player of the Year: 2018

Neale Daniher Trophy: 2016

Love the sentiment, but everyone is in the drama filled threads. Including the one you just started