Jump to content

Featured Replies

Will always be remembered for spewing on Scully

 
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 by YesitwasaWin4theAges

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

 
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.

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 by Demon Jack


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!)

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. 

 
2 hours ago, whatwhat say what said:

great bump

greatest ruckman the game has ever seen

You said this back in 2018 😁

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

Does anyone have a link?

  • Demonland changed the title to Welcome to Demonland: Max Gawn

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!

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. 

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.)


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.

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?


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.

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.

  • 3 weeks later...
 

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

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 


Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

Featured Content

  • PREVIEW: Fremantle

    A month is a long time in AFL football. The proof of this is in the current state of the two teams contesting against each other early this Saturday afternoon at the MCG. It’s hard to fathom that when Melbourne and Fremantle kicked off the 2025 season, the former looked like being a major player in this year’s competition after it came close to beating one of the favourites in the GWS Giants while the latter was smashed by Geelong to the tune of 78 points and looked like rubbish. Fast forward to today and the Demons are low on confidence and appear panic stricken as their winless streak heads towards an even half dozen and pressure mounts on the coach and team leadership.  Meanwhile, the Dockers have recovered their composure and now sit in the top eight. They are definitely on the up and up and look most likely winners this weekend against a team which they have recently dominated and which struggles to find enough passages to the goals to trouble the scorers. And with that, Fremantle will head to the MCG, feeling very good about itself after demolishing Richmond in the Barossa Valley with Josh Treacy coming off a six goal haul and facing up to a Melbourne defence already without Jake Lever and a shaky Steven May needing to pass a fitness test just to make it onto the field of play. 

    • 0 replies
    Demonland
  • NON-MFC: Round 06

    The Easter Round kicks off in style with a Thursday night showdown between Brisbane and Collingwood, as both sides look to solidify their spots inside the Top 4 early in the season. Good Friday brings a double-header, with Carlton out to claim consecutive wins when they face the struggling Kangaroos, while later that night the Eagles host the Bombers in Perth, still chasing their first victory of the year. Saturday features another marquee clash as the resurgent Crows look to rebound from back-to-back losses against a formidable GWS outfit. That evening, all eyes will be on Marvel Stadium where Damien Hardwick returns to face his old side—the Tigers—coaching the Suns at a ground he's never hidden his disdain for. Sunday offers two crucial contests where the prize is keeping touch with the Top 8. First, Sydney and Port Adelaide go head-to-head, followed by a fierce battle between the Bulldogs and the Saints. Then, Easter Monday delivers the traditional clash between two bitter rivals, both desperate for a win to stay in touch with the top end of the ladder. Who are you tipping this week and what are the best results for the Demons?

      • Sad
      • Like
    • 196 replies
    Demonland
  • REPORT: Essendon

    What were they thinking? I mean by “they” the coaching panel and team selectors who chose the team to play against an opponent who, like Melbourne, had made a poor start to the season and who they appeared perfectly capable of beating in what was possibly the last chance to turn the season around.It’s no secret that the Demons’ forward line is totally dysfunctional, having opened the season barely able to average sixty points per game which means there has been no semblance of any system from the team going forward into attack. Nevertheless, on Saturday night at the Adelaide Oval in one of the Gather Round showcase games, Melbourne, with Max Gawn dominating the hit outs against a depleted Essendon ruck resulting from Nick Bryan’s early exit, finished just ahead in clearances won and found itself inside the 50 metre arc 51 times to 43. The end result was a final score that had the Bombers winning 15.6 (96) to 8.9 (57). On balance, one could expect this to result in a two or three goal win, but in this case, it translated into a six and a half goal defeat because they only managed to convert eight times or 11.68% of their entries. The Bombers more than doubled that. On Thursday night at the same ground, the losing team Adelaide managed to score 100 points from almost the same number of times inside 50.

    • 0 replies
    Demonland
  • PODCAST: Essendon

    The Demonland Podcast will air LIVE on Monday, 14th April @ the all new time of 8:00pm. Join Binman, George & I as we dissect another Demons loss at Kardinia Park to the Cats in the Round 04. Your questions and comments are a huge part of our podcast so please post anything you want to ask or say below and we'll give you a shout out on the show. If you would like to leave us a voicemail please call 03 9016 3666 and don't worry no body answers so you don't have to talk to a human.

      • Sad
      • Haha
      • Like
    • 63 replies
    Demonland
  • PREGAME: Fremantle

    The Demons return home to the MCG in search of their first win for the 2025 Premiership season when they take on the Fremantle Dockers on Saturday afternoon. Who comes in and who goes out?

      • Sad
      • Clap
      • Like
    • 473 replies
    Demonland
  • VOTES: Essendon

    Max Gawn leads the Demonland Player of the Year ahead of Clayton Oliver, Christian Petracca, Kade Chandler and Jake Bowey. Your votes please. 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 & 1.

      • Like
    • 24 replies
    Demonland