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Caro wants us punching on outside kebab joints like Sydney Stackhat and Cassius Coleman-Jones.

https://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/1017557/mcdonald-signs-new-deal MELBOURNE forward Tom McDonald has signed a new contract extension that will see him remain a Demon until at least the end of 2024.

This is my favourite GF thread so thought I should contribute my demon decor efforts: The last photo is to acknowledge the 1964 Premiership team (on the wall) and be ready to celebrate the handover to the new Premiers on Sept 25 (if we win), in true Melbourne supporter style with wine and cheese!

Melbourne's Jake Bowey set for seventh career start in AFL grand final

Set this up at my work station. By the way, I am deep in enemy territory.

Was shaking my head in complete disbelief when I watched this last night. Just a real nothing story.

He has publicly said doesn’t want to go and is happy to watch from home. Not sure why this petition is still going?

Andy Moniz-Wakefield Midfielder “Age: 26/10/2003 Weight: 73kg Height: 180cm Club: NT Thunder/Allies Stats 2021 NAB League (2 games) 121 ranking points, 23 disposals, 5.5 marks, 5.5 clearances A wingman or outside midfielder, Moniz-Wakefield is a smooth mover and uses the ball well. He was one of the standouts for NT Thunder in the two NAB League games they played this year, after making his senior NTFL debut for Nightcliff as a 16-year-old in the 2020-21 season. Moniz-Wakefield possesses breakaway speed, good agility and uses the ball well. He is clever around stoppage situations and works hard to find space. Moniz-Wakefield is a member of Melbourne’s Next Generation Academy”.

Guardian Article: Move Over WB - You've had your AFL Fairytale

The reason I have enormous respect for Tom isn’t that he turned it around - it’s that he didn’t just think of it as ‘getting his confidence back’, but instead worked on specific attributes that would make him a more valuable player in the modern game. Listening to him talk about training for mobility, and changing the focus of his strength, he makes you realise that he’s a complete professional, who understands what the game requires at the top level. I really wish him well over the coming years.

The lengths we're going to in order to fund T Mac's contract is quite absurd it seems

Smoothing out the coin! Cerra must be on the way

Lest we forget...

The Orrong is looking glorious 😍

Imagine the new three year deal may stretch some of his 2022 salary out a little?

Eddie also dropped a bombshell news story that Melbourne won’t be coming back immediately after the GF, instead electing to celebrate the win ((hopefully ) and take holidays in a state that doesn’t have COVID or severe restrictions. That news rattled me. I thought the club would be on the red eye after the GF and celebrate in VICTORIA…. via ZOOM.

Geez fair few low blows and uncalled for whacks going on in this thread. Expected Dees fans to have a bit more grace now we're 'successful'. Pull it in a bit I reckon.

No not our curfew. The boys curfew. The biggest non-story. If they let them come back at 11pm they'd be spinning a story about how irresponsible the club is. Fugazi. I have no problem with the curfew. The job isn't finished. No distractions.

Long term security for Tom and they have most likely reworked his average salary to give us TTP room. Pretty happy with this.

Bar on chapel st!

I saw this place today in the back streets in Everton Park in Brisbane.

He’s just doing the prudent thing to prolong his career - I can’t see breaking back in to the side becoming any easier next year. He’s been a good player for us over the years and I’d wish him all the best. I think the likely trade would be a token one.

Looks like someone beat you to it

Wow, sounds like she's the possessive type.

Good God man. Please consider those of us trying to digest dinner.

I was wrong about you TMac and I’m glad you proved me wrong…you’re both real and spectacular!

If you told me this time last year that TMac would earn a new 3 year deal i would have said you were stark raving mad. I can't think of another player who has ever turned their career around to such a degree. So lucky that no other club showed any interest. With BB and the Weid getting injured like they did in preseason we would have been stuffed without him this year Kudos to you TMac. You proved me well and truly wrong.

In a few years time the football world will look back at 2021 and say "Well of course Melbourne won it. Have a look at the list. Gawn, Petracca, Oliver , May, Lever, Viney, Brayshaw, Langdon, Pickett, TMac, Brown, Fritta, Jackson , Rivers .... They had a rock solid game plan with all those guns playing for each other and on a single minded mission."

I currently have six of them. I have a huge front yard and an even bigger backyard so they have tonnes of room out there. At night they sleep in the laundry coz I would be devastated if a fox got to them. Sometimes they come inside and sit on my lap. Chooks are the best pets ever. I’m like the crazy cat lady, only they’re hens. 😁

Hunt gives are pure speed off half back and offers another way to move the ball out of the defensive half. We are quick to forget his form prior to his injury. His ability to break the lines and open the game up was second to none. He was also a great lockdown defender who can play on the oppositions faster small / medium forwards. We all know he lacks in disposal efficiency and at times has made some poor decisions, but i think as an overall package he is in the 22. His year has been above expectations and has shown great improvement. I like the balance of having two different types of HB flankers as it offers something different in terms of rebound and back half transitions options. This is why we should experiment with Bowey further up the ground where we can benefit from his exceptional ball and decision making to further improve our forward 50 connection. At the end of the day, this is where ball use really matters as it translates to score involvements.

Found another Scarf 🧣

Very little to do in Perth after 9pm of a weeknight anyway, especially up Joondalup way where their hotel is/I live. Media trying to create a story out of nothing. Best ignored

Here’s one dog that’s on our side. My wife sculptured this full size Shikoku and I dressed her appropriately. Come on Demons!

Not sure if this deserves to be in a thread on its own so I'll put it here and let the powers that be move it if they think it's warranted. Well well well, living close to Lathlain Oval is a bonus. Steve my mate who is also local and who I'll be in attendance at the GF with thought he'd have a drive up to the oval just to see if there was a sneaky chance that Melbourne might be training there. He'd been fortunate to spy a training session there before the prelim whilst out for a walk, it was just before lunch and was pretty well wrapped up so didn't call me but kept the timeline forefront of mind. I'm building a "teenagers retreat" at the back of my place, it was supposed to be real simple but somehow or other it has taken on a life of its own. I know, people keep telling me she'll never leave with a laugh, I agree and laugh too but you only have them for a short while. Anyway I've taken the measurements and I'm cutting the skirting. You can imagine my excitement when Steve calls at 10.30 to say he's at the ground and so is the MFC. Holy smokes I threw on my Demons shirt and jumped in the car, I literally live a park and I reckon 6 houses down from the oval, I saved a good sixty to ninety seconds by driving. Met Steve and we positioned ourselves behind the cyclone fence that divides "Optus Oval from the MCG" the MCG is open and anyone can access it at anytime. We are at the Bishopsgate Street end close to where the Club is set up on the boundary line. The boys are pinging yellow with red stripe balls off at the goals and I thought demonland will be happy about this. I didn't take much notice of accuracy I was too busy just checking out the whole scene. Marty Hore and Adam Tomlinson run past at a fair lick, Steve said they had already completed a number of circuits before I arrived. Adam's without a shirt and looks magnificent, incredibly fit and focused. A couple more laps from the pair and Adam was maintaining the pace, Marty was, fair to say, struggling to keep up but who wouldn't be AT looked to be on a mission. Then the yellow tops came out and the team split into 2, it was the 1st s v 2 s. The game/sim started and was clearly based on fast ball movement, pressure but not tackling. The 2nd s flew out of the gates fast and precise it reminded of the quick ball movement that I'd witnessed at Optus last Friday. I said to Steve wow the 2 s are doing a number on them. After a shot on goal play continued immediately with the other team playing on from half back. I'm not sure if the 2 s went 2 or 3 goals up, then the 1s stepped up. Brown took a towering mark, arms fully stretched like he has been, dare I say...."at the top of" no, I won't say that haha, mega runup and kicked the goal. TommyMac then took two strong grabs for shots at goal, geez I'd love to see him have a blinder Satdy week. I liked how during play a coach would yell out "ground ball" while ball was still in the air, instead of trying to mark it they brought the ball to ground and play continued. All in all what you would expect from a team that finished on top of the ladder, fast accurate play and smothers too. The whistle blew, yellows removed their tops and they immediately were back into, yes...... goal kicking. I've mentioned my admiration for Jake Bowey in a couple of previous posts, again he impressed me, this time it was his goal kicking, he was slotting them easily from the boundary, if he finds his way forward and has looks on goal, put your glasses down! The session wound up and where the boys would be walking back to the bus, security permitting we would be able to engage with the boys. So we headed over there along with a few other Demons who had gathered, and, security didn't!! Ok this is looking promising, let's see if we can't get a photo or 2. Pleasingly the learnings we learnt were the boys and staff were more than happy to mingle, we had brief chats with Melky, Choco and longer chats and photos with Jayden, who is good to go if a spot comes up. Shannon Byrnes, Salo, TMac and Maxy and photos with Track, Clarry, Nev and Ed. We can't believe our luck over here and it was succinctly put by Choco after I said to him " I feel sorry for everyone over east" he said "It makes a change from them feeling sorry for you over here" Gee whiz that's my day nearly done, got to go and get my daughter from school and then get back to that skirting. Go Dees.

You can only sell an asset once. Wisdom in spending the proceeds is key.

I suspect we were wearing the redback jumpers because we've sent our regular jumpers off to get the Grand Final logo heat pressed onto them. We stopped wearing the redback jumper after the 2019 season. We don't sell it any more. The AFL has already confirmed we're wearing our regular jumper, too.

Yes, they all have family in Perth. The future 1st has future cousins apparently in Fremantle.

I've heard we're trading out Brayshaw, Gawn and a future 1st as per the Age?

Reckon he's re-negotiated his wage, and it's all to help us bring in Cerra and maybe others

Geez that's some turnaround in fortunes. Well done Tom! Still all quiet on Weid. Interesting.

”What’s” that???? I think you mean “who’s” that. She’s my beautiful pet bantam. 🥰

Today’s (sadsack) effort… Still got nine days to go. I’m pacing myself.

Perth 28-Day Rainfall Forecast Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 16 High 17 High 18 High 19 Low 20 21 22 23 24 25 Low chance of a dog's win 26 27 28 29 30 Oct 1 2 Low 3 Low 4 Low 5 Low 6 Low 7 Med 8 High 9 Low 10 11 12 13 Low 14

Hope he goes to a rival club that needs good forward tackling pressure. I kid I kid. Good luck to him. Kinda serious.

I long for the day the media doesn’t seek out the rubbish opinions of washed up coaches on complete non issues just to get a click I fear that day will never come though

Nice article. I think she echoes many Victorian based MFC diehards in that a premiership this year would be nice but the true dream is to see the boys live at the MCG celebrating with friends and family in more normal times.

He said publicly that he doesn’t want preferential treatment. But another reason that isn’t being publicised is probs that it would take too much out of him. The petition should be abandoned imo.

Absolutely I’m sick of it. my favourite BS line is the one game in 27 days nonsense. Or you could add two days and it’s 3 games in 29 days. Who gives AF?!