16 minutes ago, Demonland said:

 

I know there’s a lot going on at the moment, but we can we just take a second to talk about Tim Watson’s glasses?

Why does he look like a poor man’s Groucho Marx? 🥸

8 minutes ago, Nasher said:

I’ve abided by the “if you don’t have anything nice to say…” rule so far in relation to the behaviour of Melksham and May.

I do have something nice to say now, and that’s thank goodness we have our captain. He shoes true leadership, and his method of delivering the message is authentic and believable. Great stuff Max. 

Gawn’s the biggest hypocrite though. His podcast is/was so full of put downs to team mates.

The Burgo episode last year he literally asked Burgo who’s the worst runner out of May, Hibbo and some Port blokes.

He and Gus rubbished Declase last year and we drafted him again a few days later.

Max has to own his own behaviour and the role it’s played in this.

 

1 hour ago, Demonland said:

Max was 100% the right person for this situation. The kids were fighting and it was the leader of the kids that stood up and took responsibility to say that it’s all sorted, we’ll learn from it and move on and respond on the field proving that it won’t derail the mission. 

The parents shouldn’t have been the ones to front the media apologising for the behaviour of their kids promising that they’ll do better next time. 

Agree. Max was the right man for the job and also the man in the right job to front that howling pack of hyenas 

So basically the bits I heard today, May was giving stick to Joel Smith & others& Melksham was trying to stick up for his teammates & may didn't appreciate that. 

Anyway instead of Max talking up Mondays game & Neale he had to talk about his teammates fighting.

2 hours ago, Redlagged said:

Yes, Gawn is an impressive leader, on and off the field. Goodwin? I find his silence thus far on this fiasco a little odd.

To be clear, Max was booked to be at this presser long ago to promote the Big Freeze game. But unfortunately the Big Fight overtook the questioning.

Goodwin has his weekly presser booked for Friday. No guesses needed on which topic will dominate that.

We've already had Richo do a presser this week on the fight.

Would you prefer everyone at the club do a presser and blow it up even further?

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360 about to have another crack. 

"maybe stop getting on the juice and opening your mouth and getting in trouble"

Slobbo should follow his own advice.

4 minutes ago, Stiff Arm said:

To be clear, Max was booked to be at this presser long ago to promote the Big Freeze game. But unfortunately the Big Fight overtook the questioning.

Goodwin has his weekly presser booked for Friday. No guesses needed on what topic will dominate that.

We've already had Richo do a presser this week on the fight.

Would you prefer everyone at the club do a presser and blow it up even further?

Not everyone. But the coach, yes. That might be handy, especially given the cloud of excessive drinking that already hung over the club...and which this fiasco gives credence too. Unfortunately, we can't blame the media. We've given them the ammunition.  Plastered senior players fighting in the street, mid season! If it was another club, we'd be cheering the dopey journos on. There's more to run on this.

43 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

Gawn’s the biggest hypocrite though. His podcast is/was so full of put downs to team mates.

The Burgo episode last year he literally asked Burgo who’s the worst runner out of May, Hibbo and some Port blokes.

He and Gus rubbished Declase last year and we drafted him again a few days later.

Max has to own his own behaviour and the role it’s played in this.

 

He does. He expanded on his failings in todays press conference.

30 minutes ago, Clintosaurus said:

360 about to have another crack. 

Geez Gerard is a bit of weasel. I never had him as someone to continue to back up over a story. Robbo at least acknowledged Max’s leadership. 

 

9 minutes ago, Redlagged said:

Not everyone. But the coach, yes. That might be handy, especially given the cloud of excessive drinking that already hung over the club...and which this fiasco gives credence too. Unfortunately, we can't blame the media. We've given them the ammunition.  Plastered senior players fighting in the street, mid season! If it was another club, we'd be cheering the dopey journos on. There's more to run on this.

What cloud of excessive drinking is that?

Apart from this incident I've not heard of our players going over the top the last 18 months. Unless you are referring to GF celebrations, which were in good spirits. May was caught having a few (literally a few he said) beers when he joined the club 5 years ago. Max had a couple of "quiet frothies" with Goody at the Sorrento pub over summer. Neither constitutes a cloud of excessive drinking hanging over the club 

I disagree that Goody should've done a presser before Friday. Richo is head of FD, his was enough. The media are looking for blood, they hijacked the Big Freeze presser, Goody will have his soon enough. Its not like they haven't heard from us. 

My opinion of Max Gawn just grows and grows. I don’t think I have ever seen a footballer handle a hostile press conference with such aplomb. Answered the questions calmly and intelligently. He will rightfully go down as one of the greatest AFL captains.

As for those “journalists”, that is gutter stuff of the lowest variety: similar to what we saw in the lead up to the election. You watch the presser and see how the likes of Tom Browne twist it for clicks. Utterly shameless, really crappy, lowbrow stuff. Ugh.

 

 

After reading most of this thread over the last couple of days I get the feeling a percentage of Melbourne supporters are devotees of The Reverend Fred Nile.

14 minutes ago, CYB said:

Geez Gerard is a bit of weasel. I never had him as someone to continue to back up over a story. Robbo at least acknowledged Max’s leadership. 

 

Never have had any time for this bloke, always plays the high moral ground.

I wonder who the boys will be targetting on the Front Bar tonight 🤔

Let’s be dead honest, any reputation we built in the last year has been undone by Petracca May and Melksham in a week. Once again the media’s dog to kick, the butt of social media jokes and more. It’s is tht disappointing. in a year we should be enjoying the footy, we find ourselves time warping into 2019/20. 
 

The only way we correct this, is to have a win on Monday and get rid of the naysayers and media. Good luck to the team, but I have little faith

1 hour ago, Redlagged said:

The whole thing is just pathetic and reflects terribly on the club. Senior players drunk and fighting amongst themselves  in the street? Mid season? FFS. May in particular is a fool, and has done a lot of damage. Any repetition and he is done.

Sorry pal, May = Full back of the century and he isn't going anywhere.

 

37 minutes ago, Redlagged said:

Not everyone. But the coach, yes. That might be handy, especially given the cloud of excessive drinking that already hung over the club...and which this fiasco gives credence too. Unfortunately, we can't blame the media. We've given them the ammunition.  Plastered senior players fighting in the street, mid season! If it was another club, we'd be cheering the dopey journos on. There's more to run on this.

That's not true. We would getting stuck into the media for kicking when someone's down and I stuck it right up another footy club for that and walked out.

2 hours ago, DeeSpencer said:

Gawn’s the biggest hypocrite though. His podcast is/was so full of put downs to team mates.

The Burgo episode last year he literally asked Burgo who’s the worst runner out of May, Hibbo and some Port blokes.

He and Gus rubbished Declase last year and we drafted him again a few days later.

Max has to own his own behaviour and the role it’s played in this.

 

This is accurate. As a weekly listener to Gus & Gawny I have always found the "no put downs" story hypocritical. Him and Gus have cheap shots at players weekly :- sometimes subtle, sometimes direct. 

 

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Jesus christ.. now it turns out he was sledging Joel Smith a d Melksham was actually sticking up for Smith.

Sounds like it was Melksham was showing actual leadership by questioning May why he was drinking and having a crack at teammates.

If this true that bravo to Melksham and a big [censored] you to Steven May.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/jake-melksham-has-surgery-on-hand-after-fight-with-steven-may-20220608-p5aryw.html

Jake Melksham escaped suspension for his altercation with Melbourne teammate Steven May on Sunday because he challenged the key defender about his behaviour on the night and then acted to defend himself when the discussion escalated into a physical encounter.

The Demons did not condone Melksham’s decision to resort to violence, but club sources said they took the view that he had acted almost on behalf of teammates in challenging May, who had provoked the fight through his behaviour. 

Sources confirmed that May had sledged teammate Joel Smith in the lead-up to the fight, alongside other banter. Smith organised the evening’s gathering, which the Demons were pleased was at a restaurant rather than a nightclub.

 

Sources within the club said the ex-Bomber questioned him about his drinking on the night and his comments, which included those to Smith.

May took exception and the disagreement escalated as teammates who were present, including Smith, James Harmes and Michael Hibberd, separated the pair.

I don't condone what Melksham done as he simply should not have punched him, but Steven May is a massive [censored] if teammates were trying to pull him up on the drinking and he refused so.

Can see why Gawn and Viney would have been filthy about this. If Viney was giving out sprays to more senior players in his first year I hope he gave an earful to May.

 

6 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Jesus christ.. now it turns out he was sledging Joel Smith a d Melksham was actually sticking up for Smith.

Sounds like it was Melksham was showing actual leadership by questioning May why he was drinking and having a crack at teammates.

If this true that bravo to Melksham and a big [censored] you to Steven May.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/jake-melksham-has-surgery-on-hand-after-fight-with-steven-may-20220608-p5aryw.html

Jake Melksham escaped suspension for his altercation with Melbourne teammate Steven May on Sunday because he challenged the key defender about his behaviour on the night and then acted to defend himself when the discussion escalated into a physical encounter.

The Demons did not condone Melksham’s decision to resort to violence, but club sources said they took the view that he had acted almost on behalf of teammates in challenging May, who had provoked the fight through his behaviour. 

Sources confirmed that May had sledged teammate Joel Smith in the lead-up to the fight, alongside other banter. Smith organised the evening’s gathering, which the Demons were pleased was at a restaurant rather than a nightclub.

 

Sources within the club said the ex-Bomber questioned him about his drinking on the night and his comments, which included those to Smith.

May took exception and the disagreement escalated as teammates who were present, including Smith, James Harmes and Michael Hibberd, separated the pair.

Thanks for the update. What a mess. May has a lot to make for.

 

6 minutes ago, Demonland said:

 

Gleeson is a Collingwood supporter with a deep hatred for Melbourne. Unsurprising that he is having a follow up dig. Pretty balanced for him

Edited June 8, 20223 yr by Kick_It_To_Pickett