The Demon stalwart surpassed the number of his father's appearances for the club towards the end of the season. As he approaches his thirties, his pace is inevitably slowing, and he is likely to explore alternative opportunities beyond the team's midfield.

Date of Birth: 13 April 1994

Height: 178cm 

Games MFC 2025:  18

Career Total: 237

Goals MFC 2025: 3

Career Total: 69

Brownlow Medal Votes: 8 votes 

Melbourne Football Club: 10th Best & Fairest: 313 votes

Had a bit of a meh year by his standards, but hey at least he put on a good show against the Saints in Rd 20 😜

Still think he has something to offer the team and will be interesting to see what he does under the fresh approach of King. Think he could really thrive.

Would like to see him be moved into a pressure forward role, not sure he still has the ability to be a good midfielder

When he's 'on' he's still far and above one of the best bash and crash clearance midfielders in the competition.

Without any intel, it looked as though he was fighting a few niggles this season. Just didn't look quite right for most of the year.

Still an important player for us.

Edited October 1, 2025Oct 1 by Demon Jack

A Gen X player in a Gen Z world, love his fierceness, incredibly important player for us. Will remain a tackle machine, a human version of a big cat hunting on Animal Planet. Think back to that 1st tackle in the 21 GF. When we play finals next he will be leading the way in pressure acts. Between him and Kossie we go very well for pressure around the ball.

17 hours ago, Flagdees said:

Would like to see him be moved into a pressure forward role, not sure he still has the ability to be a good midfielder

Goodwin listened to us and started him as a small forward in the second GC game. It lasted a quarter.

5 hours ago, DEE fence said:

A Gen X player in a Gen Z world, love his fierceness, incredibly important player for us. Will remain a tackle machine, a human version of a big cat hunting on Animal Planet. Think back to that 1st tackle in the 21 GF. When we play finals next he will be leading the way in pressure acts. Between him and Kossie we go very well for pressure around the ball.

what year will we be playing finals?

His days as a starting midfielder are over. Needs to find a new role if he wants to remain relevant - hard tagger maybe.

Jack is a hard, tough tenacious player, a good coach will always have a role in mind for him. Looking forward to seeing JV having a big year in the new environment.