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Interesting to see Shane Woewodin has given his 2 cents worth about the Melbourne Football Club.

I understand he is our most recent Brownlow Medallist (2000) but besides his son being at the Club, I don't know how heavily he is involved at the Club.

I think his words have been blown way out of proportion saying the Melbourne Football Club is "a bit of a mess" but we do need to fix things.

Not sure how helpful the comments are for his son, Taj Woewodin. He would want the Club to be stable.

Personally, I really hope Taj Woewodin gets super fit and strong over the Pre-Season would love to see him have a significant impact at the Demons in 2025!

I do agree that there needs to be open lines of communication at the Demons though.

Transparency is key.

We will see what happens after the 2 independent reviews I guess?

Anyway, here is the article from SEN radio for those who may wish to read it: https://www.sen.com.au/news/2024/10/09/a-bit-of-a-mess-former-star-and-father-of-current-dee-makes-melbourne/

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Entitled to opinion, but dont go public with any nebulous statement when your son plays for the same team IMV!

 

If he said things were OK nobody would have heard it.


Why was he even on the radio?

Would’ve thought he’d Be smart enough to realise the only reason they wanted him on was to get a soundbyte about the club’s perils

Nothing wrong with it.

He's obviously worried like every other parent that have kids playing for the Dees with all the noise and leaks coming out of the club.

Spoke to a parent of a current player few weeks back now and they too shared their concerns around some of the player behaviour and culture issues inside the club.

Same parent that told me the Petracca camp had some serious issues against the Melbourne Football Club. Tom Morris then broke the story two weeks after that.

Maybe his comments will dispel the myth that all the perceived woes at the club are media driven. And his comments support the decision of Houston to pull out of a trade to us.

The club apologists need to get their head out the sand. The quicker the results of the review are published, the better. 

 

Two ways to look at this:

- Fair. It's the truth, and truth hurts sometimes. 

or

- We get it. Joining the pile-on isn't helpful.

Not sure which I agree with more. Probably the first one, and I'll feel that way until Pert is gone.

39 minutes ago, seventyfour said:

Two ways to look at this:

- Fair. It's the truth, and truth hurts sometimes. 

or

- We get it. Joining the pile-on isn't helpful.

Not sure which I agree with more. Probably the first one, and I'll feel that way until Pert is gone.

True or not as a parent of a currently listed player he should not be commenting in the media. It’s not helpful. 

he should be all means take it up with the club. In fact he would be a good representative for concerned parents given he’s a former player and has such a special history with the club.


16 minutes ago, BDA said:

True or not as a parent of a currently listed player he should not be commenting in the media. It’s not helpful. 

he should be all means take it up with the club. In fact he would be a good representative for concerned parents given he’s a former player and has such a special history with the club.

Who at the club does he take it up with? The President who has since resigned? The CEO who said that our culture is the best that he's seen in 40 year of football?

I think it's a good thing for the club. We can't continue to sweep things under the rug.

11 hours ago, Supreme_Demon said:

Interesting to see Shane Woewodin has given his 2 cents worth about the Melbourne Football Club.

I understand he is our most recent Brownlow Medallist (2000) but besides his son being at the Club, I don't know how heavily he is involved at the Club.

I think his words have been blown way out of proportion saying the Melbourne Football Club is "a bit of a mess" but we do need to fix things.

Not sure how helpful the comments are for his son, Taj Woewodin. He would want the Club to be stable.

Personally, I really hope Taj Woewodin gets super fit and strong over the Pre-Season would love to see him have a significant impact at the Demons in 2025!

I do agree that there needs to be open lines of communication at the Demons though.

Transparency is key.

We will see what happens after the 2 independent reviews I guess?

Anyway, here is the article from SEN radio for those who may wish to read it: https://www.sen.com.au/news/2024/10/09/a-bit-of-a-mess-former-star-and-father-of-current-dee-makes-melbourne/

You've just wasted 5 minutes of my time. Next time you ost regarding something on SEN please put that up front so I can just scroll past.

SEN are shockers when it comes to clickbait and they need to now fill in 6 months of airtime when no one is listening

Won't we ever learn.

Go dees

11 hours ago, Supreme_Demon said:

Interesting to see Shane Woewodin has given his 2 cents worth about the Melbourne Football Club.

I understand he is our most recent Brownlow Medallist (2000) but besides his son being at the Club, I don't know how heavily he is involved at the Club.

I think his words have been blown way out of proportion saying the Melbourne Football Club is "a bit of a mess" but we do need to fix things.

Not sure how helpful the comments are for his son, Taj Woewodin. He would want the Club to be stable.

Personally, I really hope Taj Woewodin gets super fit and strong over the Pre-Season would love to see him have a significant impact at the Demons in 2025!

I do agree that there needs to be open lines of communication at the Demons though.

Transparency is key.

We will see what happens after the 2 independent reviews I guess?

Anyway, here is the article from SEN radio for those who may wish to read it: https://www.sen.com.au/news/2024/10/09/a-bit-of-a-mess-former-star-and-father-of-current-dee-makes-melbourne/

 

I spoke with Woey at the prematch function in Perth before the Freo game back in August, and I get the impression from him that apart from his son playing for Melbourne (which Woey said was his choice), he still hasn't fully forgiven Melbourne for his treatment back in the early 2000s. He seemed rather guarded and skeptical back then.  I'm wondering if that offers some perspective and context to his thinking.


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