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Tomorrow, we move forward into a new era of the Melbourne football club, but let's take a brief moment to reflect on those that could have been. This thread is dedicated to 12 years worth of Demons who never got to represent us in a final.

We could argue until Melbourne's next premiership (23 days and counting) as to why these players never got to represent the Demons in September. Some went on to better careers elsewhere, some were a victim of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, while others just never developed into the players we wanted them to be, either through injury, poor development or situations we'd rather not remember. Alas, there's some handy names in this line-up, and I didn't even have to call on Blease, Gysberts, Maric, Strauss, Tapscott, et al.

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  • Didn't play in any of our finals games from 2004-2006
  • Represented Melbourne between 2007 to 2017.
  • Current Melbourne listed players haven't been included in this list
  • Selection is based on their contributions from 2007-2017 to the Demons or clubs they joined after playing at the Demons. I considered players like Lumumba, Rodan and Byrnes but their contribution to AFL after being recruited by the Demons was minimal. And I know Mitch Clark only played 15 games with the Dees, but my god they were good. Ditto Daniel Cross' 39 games.

B:   Clint Bartram  James Frawley   Matthew Warnock
HB:  Colin Garland  Lynden Dunn     Joel Macdonald
C :  Jack Grimes(C) Daniel Cross    Jack Trengove
HF:  Jeremy Howe    Mitch Clark     Jack Watts
F:   Ricky Petterd  Liam Jurrah     Austin Wonaeamirri
R:   Stefan Martin  Jordie McKenzie Tom Scully
Int: Chris Dawes, Matt Jones, Kyle Cheney, Cale Morton
Em:  Paul Johnson, Jamie Bennell, Rohan Bail

Coach: Paul Roos

Anyone I missed? 

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1 minute ago, Rod Grinter Riot Squad said:

Why?

I think Bartram played in a final BTW

Because 2 weeks waiting for a match makes the mind go restless.

And Bartram unfortunately got injured in the final match of the 2006 season, missing the Elimination Final and almost all of the 2007 season.

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6 hours ago, Dee man said:

Tomorrow, we move forward into a new era of the Melbourne football club, but let's take a brief moment to reflect on those that could have been. This thread is dedicated to 12 years worth of Demons who never got to represent us in a final.

We could argue until Melbourne's next premiership (23 days and counting) as to why these players never got to represent the Demons in September. Some went on to better careers elsewhere, some were a victim of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, while others just never developed into the players we wanted them to be, either through injury, poor development or situations we'd rather not remember. Alas, there's some handy names in this line-up, and I didn't even have to call on Blease, Gysberts, Maric, Strauss, Tapscott, et al.

Criteria:

  • Didn't play in any of our finals games from 2004-2006
  • Represented Melbourne between 2007 to 2017.
  • Current Melbourne listed players haven't been included in this list
  • Selection is based on their contributions from 2007-2017 to the Demons or clubs they joined after playing at the Demons. I considered players like Lumumba, Rodan and Byrnes but their contribution to AFL after being recruited by the Demons was minimal. And I know Mitch Clark only played 15 games with the Dees, but my god they were good. Ditto Daniel Cross' 39 games.

B:   Clint Bartram  James Frawley   Matthew Warnock
HB:  Colin Garland  Lynden Dunn     Joel Macdonald
C :  Jack Grimes(C) Daniel Cross    Jack Trengove
HF:  Jeremy Howe    Mitch Clark     Jack Watts
F:   Ricky Petterd  Liam Jurrah     Austin Wonaeamirri
R:   Stefan Martin  Jordie McKenzie Tom Scully
Int: Chris Dawes, Matt Jones, Kyle Cheney, Cale Morton
Em:  Paul Johnson, Jamie Bennell, Rohan Bail

Coach: Paul Roos

Anyone I missed? 

Like the thread, don't like the team.

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Rather than go back twelve years, here are 22 from our current list who didn’t make the Finals:

B:    Johnstone.    Lever        Petty

H-B: Hunt.              Keilty.       J. smith 

ctr:  Stretch.          Vince.       Baker

H-F:  Kent.             Pederson.   Balic

For:  Garlett.           Hogan.       Bugg

Foll:   King.            JKH.          Kent

Int:    J. Wagner,    T. Smith,     C. Maynard,    Filipovic

 

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8 minutes ago, CBDees said:

Rather than go back twelve years, here are 22 from our current list who didn’t make the Finals:

B:    Johnstone.    Lever        Petty

H-B: Hunt.              Keilty.       J. smith 

ctr:  Stretch.          Vince.       Baker

H-F:  Kent.             Pederson.   Balic

For:  Garlett.           Hogan.       Bugg

Foll:   King.            JKH.          Kent

Int:    J. Wagner,    T. Smith,     C. Maynard,    Filipovic

 

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