I just thought I might start a positive thread - let's celebrate big Maxxy's 7th AA!!!

 

Well done, Max: You are a champion!

Edited August 30, 2024Aug 30 by Ollie fan
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How sad that in all the drama and negativity that continuously follows our club, we have lost sight of the fact that Max is now arguably the greatest ruckman to ever play the game. 
What an achievement to get 7 AA jackets. Rare company. 

Well done Max. You deserve a lot more celebrating, but as per usual, you are instead dealing with the negative attention directed at the club that you so passionately lead! 

Who can hate this man

7 AA's and more to come

Best Demon I have seen in my lifetime.
Consistently performs to an elite standard and has carried the team in countless matches.

7 x All Australia
Premiership Captain
2 x BNF
AFL Coaches Player of the Year

Legend of the game.

 

Seven is heaven!

Drink it in while you can, it's highly doubtful we'll see it again.

Love you Max.

Maximus Gawnis the God.

The word legend tends to get thrown around a lot this days but big Maxy is well and truly deserving of it. Legend of a player and of a man. 

Max Gawn.  👏👏❤️💙❤️❤️

One of the true Demon greats.

Best ruckman of all time. 👏👏👏👏

The man is a giant of the game.

It is truly astonishing.

 

Ode to Max

Max stands like a Colossus

Enduring indifferent fortune

With swings long and low

Brightened with the rarest

of premiership sunshine

Glimpses from the snow

 

Midfields come and go

Once it was the fearsome four

Now its down to the ageing few

amongst the emerging brew

Give me the Sherrin bounced high

I'll win the ruck again

 

Seven All Australians

Places you amongst the best

 to play Australian rules

May it continue next season

'til the next window opens

Fate surely owes another flag

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 30, 2024Aug 30 by Tarax Club

2 hours ago, Ollie fan said:

I just thought I might start a positive thread - let's celebrate big Maxxy's 7th AA!!!

 

Well done, Max: You are a champion!

Max is just the best ... for so long in a footballing career. He's our own big brother worthy of a knighthood. 

A giant of the game in every way imaginable. And truly a good bloke too…, we’re lucky to have him.

Love Max. 

God knows where we'd be without him. Certainly no flag in 2021 and the situaton we have now would have happened years ago and probably been much worse. 

Suspect he is probably the main reason it's taken till now for it to really bubble over. 

One thing you can say about Max - and it's not true of all premiership captains - is that he truly led us to a flag:

* the game-winning goal to secure top spot in the final round

* 5 goals in an outrageous Prelim performance

* a selfless captain's call late in the 3rd of the GF, a decision which proved pivotal as the game turned.

 In a career full of achievements, I think his role in leading us to the promised land is his greatest. 

Max is a star of the game and a class act off the field. He will go down in the history of the oldest football club as one of its top 5 Legends of all time

Hear hear.

Sad that the off field stuff is distracting, he didn't look his happiest at the function.

Liked Robbo's comment that others are too used to him being good.

Every positive adjective is appropriate Legend, Elite, GOAT. 

So grateful to have witnessed his career 🙏

A superstar player who's enjoyed a great career and is clearly a wonderful leader.

Very happy for the positive thread as with so much negativity on the others, it's turning me off wanting to visit the page.

We've been incredible with our ruck development over the years in Stynes > White > Jamar > Gawn with quite a few All-Australian nods between them all.

I really do enjoy listening to Max speak.  He always seems so genuine and just simplifies things so easily removing some of the [censored].

We're lucky to have him and I'm happy he's signed on for a few more years.  Even though he's getting a bit older, at least he's not getting any shorter and will be a challenging match up for all opponents until the end of his decorated career.

Congratulations on #7 Max. 

All Australian in every season where he has played more than 15 games.

No, wait... he got an AA selection in 2020 with just 14 games. Amazing!

NO, WAIT! TRAVESTY! How did he miss 2023? FOR SHAME. I blame Brodie Grundy.

 

But seriously, so proud our club is led by such a lovable cuddly unstoppable colossus.

 

 

 

All this, with the AFL turning a blind eye to him getting illegally hit hundreds of times a game for 14+ years.

Congratulations Skipper another great year in the Red and Blue you epitomise all that is great in our game and in our club and a loving gentleman off the field.

Agree with all the previous comments.

But looking at his career from another angle, how lucky was Max - and therefor us - that the club decided to keep him on after his 2 significant  injuries.

Who was the coach who showed faith in the young fella?

Just think, if we had chosen Nic Nat instead of Jack Watts we would most likely have lost Max and watched in envy at this superstar player and person as he dominated at another club. Well done CHAMPION!!!! Love you mate.

21 minutes ago, Dingo said:

Who was the coach who showed faith in the young fella?

Neil Craig!

 

Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Max Gawn signs a new two-year deal with Melbourne.

"I didn't want to go anywhere and when [acting general manager of football operations] Josh Mahoney called me last night, he said 'We managed to get a deal' it put a bit of a smile on my face, so I'm rapt," Gawn said.

And we look at our leader ..Max Gawn.. The Goat .. & it puts all the negativity about our club in perspective. You don’t  get players like Gawn..Viney ..Lever commit to our club if it’s the basket case a lot of you think it is.