Jump to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.
Demonland

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

Josh Kelly

dazzledavey36
in Melbourne Demons

Featured Replies

Hoping not to derail the thread, but my understanding was that Roos said that Melbourne would not have taken Kelly with pick 2 if we had of retained it... weren't we looking at Billings?? 

  • Quote
    •  
    43 minutes ago, boydie said:

    Classic derail, thread titled Josh Kelly but there's discussions of at least 6 other players in the same thread.

    So who would you pick between Kelly, Kelly, and Kelly? And do you think Kelly would be a decent trade for Kelly and Kelly?

  • Quote
    • Like 4
    1 hour ago, Clint Bizkit said:

    If people here could pick one of Kelly, Bontempelli or Cripps, who would you take now?

    I'd go with Cripps.

    toss up between cripps and bont, but i'd go for bont for his x factorand ability to turn a game

  • Quote
    •  
    1 hour ago, Clint Bizkit said:

    If people here could pick one of Kelly, Bontempelli or Cripps, who would you take now?

    I'd go with Cripps.

    Bontempelli, comfortably.

    Blokes who can play anywhere on the ground and can do the things he can are as rare as hen's teeth.

  • Quote
    • Like 1
    32 minutes ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

    Hoping not to derail the thread, but my understanding was that Roos said that Melbourne would not have taken Kelly with pick 2 if we had of retained it... weren't we looking at Billings?? 

    I only recall us being linked to Aish at pick 2 for the majority of the year, which I rather happy about at the time as a Redlegs supporter, and of which eventuality I'm now super-happy about as a Demons supporter.

  • Quote

    2 minutes ago, Skuit said:

    I only recall us being linked to Aish at pick 2 for the majority of the year, which I rather happy about at the time as a Redlegs supporter, and of which eventuality I'm now super-happy about as a Demons supporter.

    Imagine if we had Aish and Toumpas in the same team. 

    That would just about spell the end for me.

  • Quote
    • Like 2
    Just now, Clint Bizkit said:

    Imagine if we had Aish and Toumpas in the same team. 

    That would just about spell the end for me.

    How about Aish/Toumpas/Morton for a knockout combo?

     

     

  • Quote
    • Like 2
    3 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

    Imagine if we had Aish and Toumpas in the same team. 

    That would just about spell the end for me.

    At least those two make it onto the field - I was very keen on Freeman while most were praying Scharenberg would slide to us.

    A lot of talent in this draft, but also a bit of a minefield.

    Edited by TeamPlayedFine39

  • Quote
    • Like 1
     
    1 minute ago, stevethemanjordan said:

    How about Aish/Toumpas/Morton for a knockout combo?

     

     

    And Gysberts to win the inside ball for them.

     

  • Quote
    • Like 2
    1 hour ago, stevethemanjordan said:

    Nobody is the same.

    However, as our list stands right now, Tyson is the least versatile of all our mids and his inside work is hardly far and away better than any of Brayshaw, Viney, Jones, Petracca and Oliver. 

    He may be more valuable once Jones retires.

    But Kelly would be of greater value to us going into the 2017 season. Nobody at our club possesses the running power or class of Kelly. (Hunt has the pace, not the endurance).

    I would actually say that he is the most versatile of our mids.  Can play inside, outside, and can go forward and hit the scoreboard.  You would expect/hope Petracca would become our most versatile in due course, but Dom has him, and the rest of them, covered for versatility at this stage.

    I mentioned recently that Tyson reminds me of Bartel in that he will likely get pushed out of the inside mids group, not because he is significantly weaker than the others, but more that he can play just as effective in other roles.

    If by some fluke we were able to get Kelly, I would love to see Purple's face when the trade is signed off, given how vocal he was when the initial trade of Tyson/Pick 9 for Pick 2 took place.

     

  • Quote
    • Like 1

    help me out here - what actually was Gysberts deficiencies? I quite liked him...

     

  • Quote
    12 minutes ago, Danelska said:

    help me out here - what actually was Gysberts deficiencies? I quite liked him...

     

    He didn't give a rats clacker

  • Quote
    • Like 3
    28 minutes ago, Danelska said:

    help me out here - what actually was Gysberts deficiencies? I quite liked him...

     

    Personally, I thought he had a huge amount of talent and could have been an outstanding AFL footballer... if he wanted to be.

    Four coaches and two clubs couldn't bring that desire out from within him.

  • Quote
    • Like 3
    3 hours ago, stevethemanjordan said:

    Nobody is the same.

    However, as our list stands right now, Tyson is the least versatile of all our mids and his inside work is hardly far and away better than any of Brayshaw, Viney, Jones, Petracca and Oliver. 

    He may be more valuable once Jones retires.

    But Kelly would be of greater value to us going into the 2017 season. Nobody at our club possesses the running power or class of Kelly. (Hunt has the pace, not the endurance).

    Tyson is able to extract the ball when it's locked in tight, he has more strength than the others to do this.

    Viney is a bull at a gate as is Jones but they are both smaller mids and when it gets really congested they can't clear it like Tyson can.

    He mightn't look it but he's the strong man in the engine room, I've seen him wrestling for possession with Mumford and break even.

    I think he is our version of Joey Kennedy in that regard.

  • Quote
    • Like 1

    3 hours ago, Clint Bizkit said:

    If people here could pick one of Kelly, Bontempelli or Cripps, who would you take now?

    I'd go with Cripps.

    Bont in my mind is unique and ahead of the other two.  Can and has broken games (as will Oliver, Trac and Gus for that matter).

  • Quote
    39 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    He didn't give a rats clacker

    Thanks...v.succinct

  • Quote
    • Like 1

    By the end of this season, Jayden Hunt will be spoken about more than Josh Kelly when it comes to the 2013 draft.

    Biased?

    Clearly.

     

  • Quote
    • Like 5
    20 minutes ago, McQueen said:

    By the end of this season, Jayden Hunt will be spoken about more than Josh Kelly when it comes to the 2013 draft.

    Biased?

    Clearly.

     

    you might be on the money, mac

  • Quote

    44 minutes ago, stevethemanjordan said:

     

     

    Disagree. 

    Let's leave it at that.

    Have a closer look this year 'steve', I know you like to look at the finer points of the game.

  • Quote
    56 minutes ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

    Personally, I thought he had a huge amount of talent and could have been an outstanding AFL footballer... if he wanted to be.

    Four coaches and two clubs couldn't bring that desire out from within him.

    Perhaps but that is the nature of all sports as we know. You need more than talent to make it. I think Viney is a good comparison. His major attribute is attitude and a fierce determination to succeed.

    I do find it hard to judge some of our young recruits during this period when the club was floundering and the words professionalism and development were not part of the clubs lexicon.

  • Quote
    • Like 1
    5 hours ago, Skuit said:

    So who would you pick between Kelly, Kelly, and Kelly? And do you think Kelly would be a decent trade for Kelly and Kelly?

    James, he's got the premiership experience which has done wonders for us in the past.

  • Quote
    •  
    4 hours ago, Danelska said:

    help me out here - what actually was Gysberts deficiencies? I quite liked him...

     

    I only recall us being linked to Gysberts for the majority of 2010-12, which I was progressively unhappy about at the time as a Demons supporter, and of which eventuality I'm now super-happy about as not a North Melbourne supporter. 

  • Quote
    19 hours ago, Skuit said:

    This sliding doors business is getting a tad out of hand. In only slightly different circumstances, we could just as well have sent pick 23 to GWS. And then it would have been Tyson, Salem & Hunt for Kelly and the price of a Sylvia rather than Lobb (although possibly then Hartung, McStay or M. Crouch). Or some such. We traded picks 2, 20 and 72 for Tyson and picks 9 and 53. Whom each team picked up thereafter is partly a matter of luck - especially with the later speculative picks - and therefore should be judged according to different criteria. We might have well wanted Sharenberg or Aish, or even Bonts, but who knows? We have Salem. The crux of the deal was giving up a shot on Kelly and a second-rounder for Tyson and a top-ten pick. Was that a win at the time? In my opinion, yes.   

    Surely it depends on how good Salem becomes. Yet to fire! If he doesnt then we have lost on the deal

  • Quote
    • Like 1

    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...
    Go to topic listing

    Featured Content

    • Welcome to Demonland: Steven King

      The Melbourne Football Club has selected a new coach for the 2026 season appointing Geelong Football Club assistant coach Steven King to the head role.

        • Shocked
        • Thumb Down
        • Clap
        • Haha
        • Love
        • Thanks
        • Like
      • 611 replies
      Demonland

    • AFLW PREVIEW: Port Adelaide

      The undefeated Demons venture across the continent to the spiritual home of the Port Adelaide Football Club on Saturday afternoon for the inaugural match for premiership points between these long-historied clubs. Alberton Oval will however, be a ground familiar to our players following a practice match there last year. We lost both the game and Liv Purcell, who missed 7 home and away matches after suffering facial fractures in the dying moments of the game.

        • Love
        • Thanks
      • 1 reply
      Demonland

    • AFLW REPORT: Richmond

      A glorious sunny afternoon with a typically strong Casey Fields breeze favouring the city end greeted this round four clash of the undefeated Narrm against the winless Tigers. Pre-match, the teams entered the ground through the Deearmy’s inclusive banner—"Narrm Football Weaving Communities Together and then Warumungu/Yawuru woman and Fox Boundary Rider, Megan Waters, gave the official acknowledgement of country. Any concerns that Collingwood’s strategy of last week to discombobulate the Dees would be replicated by Ryan Ferguson and his Tigers evaporated in the second quarter when Richmond failed to use the wind advantage and Narrm scored three unanswered goals. 

        • Clap
        • Love
        • Thanks
        • Like
      • 4 replies
      Demonland

    • CASEY: Frankston

      The late-season run of Casey wins was broken in their first semifinal against Frankston in a heartbreaking end at Kinetic Stadium on Saturday night that in many respects reflected their entire season. When they were bad, they committed all of the football transgressions, including poor disposal, indiscipline, an inability to exert pressure, and some terrible decision-making, as exemplified by the period in the game when they conceded nine unanswered goals from early in the second quarter until halfway through the third term. You rarely win when you do this.

        • Thanks
        • Like
      • 0 replies
      Demonland

    • AFLW PREVIEW: Richmond

      Round four kicks off early Saturday afternoon at Casey Fields, as the mighty Narrm host the winless Richmond Tigers in the second week of Indigenous Round celebrations. With ideal footy conditions forecast—20 degrees, overcast skies, and a gentle breeze — expect a fast-paced contest. Narrm enters with momentum and a dangerous forward line, while Richmond is still searching for its first win. With key injuries on both sides and pride on the line, this clash promises plenty.

        • Thanks
        • Like
      • 3 replies
      Demonland

    • AFLW REPORT: Collingwood

      Expectations of a comfortable win for Narrm at Victoria Park quickly evaporated as the match turned into a tense nail-biter. After a confident start by the Demons, the Pies piled on pressure and forced red and blue supporters to hold their collective breath until after the final siren. In a frenetic, physical contest, it was Captain Kate’s clutch last quarter goal and a missed shot from Collingwood’s Grace Campbell after the siren which sealed a thrilling 4-point win. Finally, Narrm supporters could breathe easy.

        • Thanks
        • Like
      • 2 replies
      Demonland
    View All

    Configure browser push notifications
    Chrome (Android)
    1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
    2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
    3. Adjust your preference.
    Chrome (Desktop)
    1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
    2. Select Site settings.
    3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.