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.

What if?

Wollongong Demon
in Melbourne Demons

Featured Replies

Posted

Loving this winning feeling. Every game is like Christmas and birthday combined. If I could bottle it I would. So awesome to hear the roar of Dees fans.

This is what many supporters get every September although ours is no doubt sweeter due to its long time coming.

What if we win not only the flag but a sucession of them and we have a decade just like the glory days?

Imagine no longer a club defined by 50 years of failure and we become better than the powerhouse of old. 

All things are possible. 

.

 

  • Quote
    • Like 2
    • Love 1
     
     
    1 hour ago, Rod Grinter Riot Squad said:

    Right now, I will happily take just one

    Yep, I'd simply be happy with the 1.

  • Quote
    • Thanks 1

    3 hours ago, Wollongong Demon said:

     

    What if we win not only the flag but a sucession of them and we have a decade just like the glory days?

    Imagine no longer a club defined by 50 years of failure and we become better than the powerhouse of old. 

    All things are possible. 

     

    unnamed_(2).gif

  • Quote
    • Like 2
    • Haha 4

    If we win one, we should win more. Our list is young, talented and hungry.

  • Quote
    •  
    22 hours ago, Wollongong Demon said:

    Loving this winning feeling. Every game is like Christmas and birthday combined. If I could bottle it I would. So awesome to hear the roar of Dees fans.

    This is what many supporters get every September although ours is no doubt sweeter due to its long time coming.

    What if we win not only the flag but a sucession of them and we have a decade just like the glory days?

    Imagine no longer a club defined by 50 years of failure and we become better than the powerhouse of old. 

    All things are possible. 

    .

     

    We have to keep turning our list over and to make it Better and stronger than what it is then.

     

  • Quote

    If we won one and then faded like the Dogs I'd be forken furious.

  • Quote
    • Like 2

    I would be happy to see one.

    But next year i want another one.

    And the year after that i want one as well.

    While we are at it, i also want one the following year.

    Year 5... what the hell, might as well throw in another one.

    My internal organs should have failed by then, so what happens afterwards wont bother me. 

    But my family will want more of them.

  • Quote
    • Like 2
    • Haha 3
    • Sad 1

    Bulldogs won a flag with a mediocre list throwing the ball to each other at every contest.

    The Tigers won a flag with a slightly better than mediocre list + a couple of genuine stars

     

    The list that we have demands multiple flags ala Geelong/Brisbane/Horforn.

     

    Anything less will be a failure.

    Yes, I think the future is that bright.

  • Quote
    • Like 5
    • Love 1
    6 hours ago, Wollongong Demon said:

    Loving this winning feeling. Every game is like Christmas and birthday combined. If I could bottle it I would. So awesome to hear the roar of Dees fans.

    This is what many supporters get every September although ours is no doubt sweeter due to its long time coming.

    What if we win not only the flag but a sucession of them and we have a decade just like the glory days?

    Imagine no longer a club defined by 50 years of failure and we become better than the powerhouse of old. 

    All things are possible.

    WD you will enjoy this excellent article by Jack Niall  https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/demons-in-sweet-spot-for-long-term-success-20180915-p50417.html  He says: 

    In the giddy afterglow of Melbourne’s romping win over Hawthorn, I asked a former Melbourne official when the Demons had last been so well-positioned.

    ‘‘1954,’’ he replied.

    He wasn’t kidding. The Melbourne Football Club – out of the finals for a dozen years in a draft system – has the best platform for sustained success of any club in the competition.

    What If?  Not quite ready to dream of the glory days again but happy to shift from 'one week at a time' to 'one flag at a time' :)

    Edited by Lucifer's Hero

  • Quote
    • Like 5

    Aslong as we keep our list and can cover players who are likely to go out over the next half a decade. I believe we will not only be a top team, but THE top team for a good chunk of years. But getting that to translate into grand finals is another story.

  • Quote

    10 hours ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

    i would like to win 6 over the next ten years please. 

     

    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

    Pray let it be a Melbourne-Collingwood  Grand Final. At least we get the opportunity for revenge for the 1958 Grand Final when they prevented us from winning a record six consecutive Premierships (viz. 1955, 1956, 1957, xxxx, 1959 &1960)!

     To beat Collingwood by a point with a Sam Weideman goal kicked after the siren would be a wonderful sight (especially if the cameras were all trained on Eddie McGuire)! ?

  • Quote
    • Like 5
    • Haha 2

    Would be something. So tired of hearing the tired old line “when was your last premiership.”

  • Quote
    • Like 2
    • Author
    7 hours ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

    ?  Not quite ready to dream of the glory days again but happy to shift from

    I posted out of the fact I still cant believe that we are a game from a gf appearance 

     

    Its all so surrealistic and to be honest has surprised me.

    Full credit to the club for not being overwhelmed like me.

    Edited by Wollongong Demon
    Spelling

  • Quote
    • Like 1
    7 minutes ago, Wollongong Demon said:

    I posted out of the fact I still cant believe that we are a game from a gf appearance 

     

    Its all so surrealistic and to be honest has surprised me.

    Full credit to the club for not being overwhelmed like me.

    Yes, my brain almost exploded with 10 mins to go against Hawthorn when it was apparent we would be playing in a prelim....God knows what a flag would do I can't comprehend 1 let alone several!

  • Quote
    • Like 3
    14 hours ago, Rod Grinter Riot Squad said:

    Right now, I will happily take just one

    A variation on the one week at a time mantra: one flag at a time. 

  • Quote
    • Like 3
    • Haha 1

    27 minutes ago, Wollongong Demon said:

    I posted out of the fact I still cant believe that we are a game from a gf appearance 

     

    Its all so surrealistic and to be honest has surprised me.

    Full credit to the club for not being overwhelmed like me.

    Sorry if it read like I was having a go at you - it was meant to support your 'glory days' comment.  Hence the :) to go with my cheeky ' Not quite ready to dream of the glory days again but happy to shift from 'one week at a time' to 'one flag at a time' comment.  I'll word things a bit more carefully in future.

    Like you I feel totally nonplussed.  Such a weird and foreign feeling to be this close to the Holy Grail.  Surreal.

  • Quote
    • Like 2

    We have to strike while the iron is hot.  None of this dynasty business, and dreaming of a decade of dominance.  Sure it may happen but we also may totally fall off the cliff next season. 

    We are two wins away from a flag!   If we dont win it this year we may never get this close again.

    THIS IS THE TIME!

     

  • Quote
    • Like 1
    1 hour ago, Cassiew said:

    Would be something. So tired of hearing the tired old line “when was your last premiership.”

    Hopefully in two weeks time we can say 'yesterday'.

  • Quote
    • Like 3
    • Love 1
     
    4 hours ago, CBDees said:

     

     To beat Collingwood by a point with a Sam Weideman goal kicked after the siren would be a wonderful sight (especially if the cameras were all trained on Eddie McGuire)! ?

    Well I hope not. My heart would not handle the stress. A 60 point win would suffice. Even then I wouldn’t start celebrating until there was 5 minutes to go.?

  • Quote
    • Like 3
    • Haha 1

    While we are at it, i also want one the following year.

    Year 5... what the hell, might as well throw in another one.

     

    To beat Collingwood by a point with a Sam Weideman goal kicked after the siren would be a wonderful sight (especially if the cameras were all trained on Eddie McGuire)! 

     

    Why not Dare to Dream.!   If you cannot do it now when can you,   you are a long time dead !

    I have friends from the football years earlier   who have done that   dropped dead without reaching a flag again.

     

    Now is the time   Go Hard,   2 wins away,   its the players who get it done,  support them,  but we the keyboard players may enjoy while we can. Because we can do bugger all from our side of the fence.

    Come on DEMONS !!

  • Quote

    • 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

    • AFLW PREVIEW: Western Bulldogs

      The Dogs reigned supreme in 2018 with an inaugural AFLW premiership cup and the Demons matched this feat by winning the cup as the Season 7 2022 champions.Meggs wasn’t born when the Doggies won their first VFL premiership cup against the Demons in 1954. Covid prevented many Demons fans from legally witnessing the victorious 2021 AFL Grand Final cup performance between the Demons and the Bulldogs, but we all grin when remembering those magnificent seven third quarter goals.  

      • 1 reply
      Demonland

    • PREVIEW: Hawthorn

      Hawthorn and Melbourne. Two teams with impressive form from last week but with seasons that are travelling on different trajectories meet in Saturday’s twilight game for what could well be the most intriguing contest of the AFL’s penultimate round. Sadly, the game has been relegated to that unappealing time slot in the weekend when Melburnians are typically preoccupied with activities other than football. It falls between the morning's shopping, afternoon sport and recreation, and Saturday night fever. A time usually reserved for relatively insignificant events but this one is not a nothingburger for either of the clubs or their fans.

      • 0 replies
      Demonland

    • AFLW: 2025 Season Preview

      Ten seasons. Eighteen teams. With the young talent pathway finally fully connected, Women’s Australian Rules football is building momentum and Season 2025 promises to be the best yet. In advance of Season 10, the AFL leadership has engaged in candid discussions with all clubs regarding strategies to boost attendance and expand fan bases. Concerningly, average attendances in 2024 were 2,660 fans per match, with the women’s game incurring an annual loss of approximately $50 million.

      • 0 replies
      Demonland

    • REPORT: Western Bulldogs

      The next coach of the Melbourne Football Club faces the challenge of teaching his players how to win games against all comers. At times during this tumultuous season, that task has seemed daunting, made more so in light of the surprise news last week of the sacking of premiership coach Simon Goodwin. However, there were also some positive signs from yesterday’s match against the Western Bulldogs that the challenge may not be as difficult as one might think. The two sides presented a genuine football spectacle, featuring pulsating competitive play with eight lead changes throughout the afternoon, in a display befitting a finals match.The result could have gone either way and in the end, it came down to which team could produce the most desperate of acts to provide a winning result. It was the Bulldogs who had their season on the line that won out by a six point margin that fitted the game and the effort of both sides.

      • 0 replies
      Demonland

    • CASEY: Brisbane

      The rain had been falling heavily in south east Queensland when the match began at Springfield, west of Brisbane. The teams exchanged early goals and then the Casey Demons proceeded like a house on fire in the penultimate game of the VFL season against a strong opponent in the Brisbane Lions. Sparked by strong play around the ground by seasoned players in Charlie Spargo and Jack Billings, a strong effort from Bailey Laurie and promising work from youngsters in Kynan Brown and  Koltyn Tholstrup, the Demons with multiple goal kickers firing, raced to a 27 point lead late in the opening stanza. A highlight was a wonderful goal from Laurie who brilliantly sidestepped two opponents and kicked beautifully from 45 metres out.

      • 0 replies
      Demonland

    • PREGAME: Hawthorn

      The Demons return to the MCG this time as the visiting team where they get another opportunity to put a dent into a team's top 8 placing when they take on the Hawks on Saturday afternoon. Who comes in and who goes out?

        • Clap
      • 159 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.