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Winning the premiership last Saturday was a magnificent feeling - which will last me a lifetime.. However, just when I thought things couldn't get any better, our daughter today has had a baby boy, giving us our first grandchild. The only downside is that due to Covid restrictions, we cannot yet meet this future Demon mid. (but may be able to come Monday, as some of our restrictions are about to be lifted). Life really is good

We actually have the easiest draw because we don't have to play Melbourne.

Another update, Dec has been given the Senior coaching role at Moe for the next 2 seasons as a coach/player (see attached for a well written article about it all), I'm sure with his AFL experience he will be able to take Moe to extreme heights over the next few years Dec was named as the CHB in the team of the year, came 4th in the Coaches votes for the season, but didn't poll a single B&F vote from the Umpires, go figure lol P.S. CARN THE DEE'S 2021 PREMIERS BABY WOO!!!! Declan-appointment.pdf

Just putting a suggestion out there. I think it would be great to see a movie or a documentary about the Melbourne Football Club and how we became Premiers this year in 2021 ending our 57 year Premiership drought. Obviously, I am very biased but I think it would make a fantastic movie or documentary. It could go from 1964 until 2021 looking at all the heartache and pain we have been through. The triumph of 1964, the loss of Ron Barassi to Carlton shortly afterwards, the shock sacking of Norm Smith, the wilderness years of the 1970s, losing a game against Fitzroy but 190 points, big Carl Ditterich who liked to belt blokes, Brent "Tiger" Crosswell who only brought a towel with him to training, the shining light of Robbie Flower, the prodigal son Ron Barassi returning in 1981 as coach. Mark "Whacko Jacko" Jackson and his crazy antics on the football field. The Brownlow medalists in the 1980s of Brian Wilson and Peter Moore. The defection of Gerard Healy to Sydney for the big bucks. The amazing year of 1987 trying to help Robbie Flower to make the finals. The heartache of Jimmy Stynes running through the mark in the Preliminary Final only for Gary Buckenara to kick a goal for the Hawks to get them over the line and into the Grand Final. The year 1988 with our humiliating loss to the Hawks in the Grand Final. The early 1990s with Jimmy Stynes winning the Brownlow and the amazing antics of Allen Jakovich. The 1994 finals series under Neil Balme and the wonderful feats of Garry Lyon kicking 10 goals and David Schwarz becoming a super star. The almost merger with Hawthorn in 1996 and the dodgey proxy votes to say we voted "for" the merger. The multi-millionaire saviour in Joe Gutnick. Neil Balmes sacking and the embarrassing wooden spoon in 1997. The recruitment of young star ruckman Jeff White from Fremantle and the appointment of Neale Daniher. The 1998 final series and the emergence of stars like David Neitz, Adem Yze and Jeff Farmer. The salary cap and draft penalties in 1999. The remarkable bounce back to make the Grand Final in 2000 only to be physically beaten up and crushed by Essendon. Shane Woewodin's surprise Brownlow medal in 2000. The yo-yo years of finals under Neale Daniher. The tragic loss of Melbourne player Troy Broadbridge in the Boxing Day Tsunami. The close but just not good enough finals series of 2004, 2005 and 2006. The resignation of Neale Daniher in 2007 and the appointment of Dean Bailey. The years of frustration and embarrassment from 2008 until 2013. The poor treatment of our veteran players like James McDonald, Cameron Bruce, Brad Green and others in favour of a flawed youth policy. Captaincy for the two Jacks in Grimes and Trengove which in someways sadly hindered their careers with far too much pressure. The alleged "tanking" saga with former player Brock McLean spilling his guts against us and sanctions from the AFL. The huge amount of debt the Melbourne Football Club was in and Jimmy Stynes taking over as President. The "Debt Demolition" campaign that helped save our club from financial ruin. The freakishly talented Liam Jurrah who's career was like a comet burning brightly but far too quickly. The horrific "186 game" in Geelong. The Mark Neeld era. The regular thumpings and overall embarrassment for the club, its players and its long-suffering supporters. The turnaround with the appointment of Peter Jackson as CEO. The chase to sign up Paul Roos as coach. The development years from 2014 until 2016 trying to fix our playing list and our club culture. The shining light which was Nathan Jones. The Simon Goodwin apprenticeship. The untimely deaths of Robbie Flower, Jimmy Stynes, Sean Wight, Dean Bailey and Colin Sylvia. The wonderful 2018 finals series. The emergence of Clayton Oliver, Christian Petracca, Jack Viney and other young star players. The unique larrikin and character who got caught smoking on the way to training once and is our superstar Captain Max Gawn who Jimmy Stynes took an interest in. The disappointment of 2019 and the finishing 9th twice in 2017 and 2020. The drought breaking year of 2021! You gotta admit it is definitely a movie or at least a documentary with that story line right there! With movies like "The Club" and documentaries like "Year of the Dogs" I think it is a worthwhile proposition for someone considering making a movie or a documentary about the Melbourne Football Club too. It would be a movie or a documentary 57 years in the making!

Who can ever tire of watching the last 10 minutes of the third quarter…more inspiring on every viewing

My orders so far... Framed, signed jumper Polo shirt T-Shirt Cap Wall pennant with score 4 x stubbie holders 3 x fridge magnets DVD Mounted print Premiers footy magazine AFL GF Footy record. 6 x posters (gifts) Face mask. Yet to buy the premiership jumper or upgrade my membership. (Will do both) Gonna start saving now for next years flag. GO DEES!!

Was looking at some stats and noticed Sparrow only had 66% game time. He played a blinder. Really like his hardness and he kicks like a mule.

Happy to not share what i know each and every year 🤷‍♂️ No skin off my nose. And to the initial question - no mail currently.

Given our record against lowly teams this year, the less we play them the better.

I hope he stays, unlucky to not be in the Grand Final team, we had a good run with injuries this year, that may not be the case next year

I'm sure I'm not the only one in this boat, but for me, one of the best things about winning this premiership is that I will no longer feel the need to apologise to my kids for influencing them to become Melbourne supporters. I've seen their pain, especially of my oldest son (now 19), and to be honest, there have been times that I've felt absolutely wretched about leading them to fall in love with the MFC. But now, instead of me feeling the need to apologise, we will forever have the memory of hugging, high 5-ing, and even shedding a few tears on Saturday night. We have a video that one of my younger kids took of our reaction when Clarry kicked that last goal of the now legendary third quarter. As a parent, it was a very, very special evening. We now want to be able to experience it live for oursleves at the G.

I got it. Just reading out statistics for our club, it’s the first time I’ve ever seen our premierships listed as 13 in print. I even out out the grand final one and compared them. 12 and 13. It’s still setting in. We have 13 premierships, not 12 anymore.

I love life.

I don’t know which way it will go next year but I am very happy that it was us who served up those soul destroying defeats. Hopefully just the start of a long era of payback.

Congratulations to those of you who had faith. 😀

Don’t know about anyone else but I usually find the first weekend after the grannie a little depressing. It kinda takes a while to adjust to no footy. (The cricket season is always very welcome.) But this year it feels different. A Premiership… the gift that keeps on giving. 😁

Excellent. I love that forever and a day, whenever we play at Optus we will be able to whisper in the ears of Eagles and Dockers players, 'How many flags have you won on this ground?'

Thought Demonlanders might appreciate having all this gathered in one spot. Comment anything I've missed and I'll add it to the list. PRE-MATCH Road to the Grand Final – MFC Past players video message AFLW players video message Channel 7 Grand Final intro Dees take to the field ‘One team; One dream’ RADIO SEN full call (audio only) Melbourne fans on post-game talkback SEN Chris from Camberwell Dennis Cometti’s last call: Qtr 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr 4 GAME HIGHLIGHTS SEN Commentary synced with vision [full game] – Yeah the Dees 3AW Commentary synced with vision [full game] – Yeah the Dees MMM (ft Dennis Cometti) Commentary synced with vision [full game] – Yeah the Dees Multi-Call: Angus Brawshaw Puts Melbourne in Front! – The Mighty Dees Multi-Call: Petracca Kickstarts the Demons – The Mighty Dees Multi-Call: Melbourne’s Third Quarter Blitz – The Mighty Dees Multi-Call: The Final Siren – The Mighty Dees Multi-Call: Bayley Fritsch Goes Back to Back! – The Mighty Dees All the goals – MFC Mini-match – AFL Petracca: Norm Smith highlights – AFL Fritta’s six goals – MFC https://www.afl.com.au/news/684511/drought-breakers-watch-each-quarter-as-demons-destroy-dogs PRESENTATION, CELEBRATIONS, GRAND OLD FLAG Lyon presents the cup – AFL Channel 7 post match Team song 1.0 Team song 2.0 In the rooms again Final siren and song in Melbourne cheer squad – gamblore514 Fans in Perth CBD Melbourne Demons sing-along ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ and ‘Grand Old Flag’ INTERVIEWS Goodwin and Petracca presser – MFC Inside the rooms – post-match interview highlights – MFC Petracca – MFC Viney – AFL Brown – AFL May – AFL Gawn – AFL Fritta – MFC Fox Footy: Garry Lyon in the Melbourne Rooms Sunday Footy Show Panel commentary Goodwin Petracca Viney Oliver Brayshaw SOCIAL MEDIA ETC. Gus and Gawny and the Premiership Cup Podcast/Video Viney and Goody call Todd Hectic Fan Vlog from the MFC cheer squad MFC Social Wrap MFC Fan’s View Demon Fan Diaries Celebrations at Forrest Place, Perth Garry Lyon reacts on SEN The Age Real Footy podcast Jeff White reacts Ben Brown run-up meme ARTICLES At long last: For the Demons, this is a grand new flag – Jake Niall (The Age) Dee-Fence: the secret weapon in Melbourne’s drought-breaking season – Nathan Schmook (AFL.com) Luke Jackson re: Max Gawn – Sarah Black (AFL.com) Premiership skipper Gawn a captain for the ages – Peter Ryan (The Age) How the west was won: Decade of dysfunction wiped away in 31 seconds – Riley Beveridge (AFL.com) Everybody loves a happy ending - Demonblog Melbourne exorcises demons to rise from 57-year hell – The Sporting Landscape TV/ANALYSIS Fox Footy panel AFL 360 Countdown with Daisy Pearce On the Couch PHOTOS Oliver goal celebration Ben Brown realises he’s a premiership player The team and the cup Neale Daniher 2021 Premiers ANB ski mask Jack Viney snow angel Kozzie’s air time / team celebrates Kate Roffey and Simon Goodwin Famous Dees fan at 00:47 QTR3 Fritter points to his jumper (Michael Wilson) Gawn and Harmes video call Jonesy (Michael Wilson) POST MATCH Then and now: Jackson's rise to stardom - MFC YouTube Premiership Tales series - MFC YouTube Every Player's Grand Final Highlights - The Mighty Demons YouTube

So personally I am loving that: * We will get primetime slots for our games. Our games rated well. * That we won the lot with a 'hard draw', now we ARE the hard draw. * We travel as well as anyone, Perth is now sacred ground for us. But most of all, every other side will be a, scared of us everywhere, home or away. b, we are scared of nowhere. c, will feel like they are never enough in front. And lastly, like i predicted after GWS r3, we now have BOOMSHAKALA, am tipping we kick the highest winning score next year as well as the best percentage. 20/20 Cricket scores coming up.

Happy to help. Anything that avoids giving Murdoch money is fine with me.

Watched the second half 7 times

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I see the cheese board and knife sets are never out of stock. Lift your game Dees supporters.

Excellent Read. Stats all updated 13 Flags 1900 1926 1939 1940 1941 1948 1955 1956 1957 1959 1960 1964 2021

I got it thinking it was the pre game record. Got home and realised it was 100% dees. Brilliant

The AFL Record “premiers” Edition is worth buying from the Newsagents Good Photos and Stats on the whole season

This is dangerous. Just woke up with another hangover. After deciding to have a quiet Friday night and only a few beers I put on the replay with 10 mins to go in the third. Before I knew it, all the beers had been drunk, I had watched post game show, AFL 360 and on the couch and it was 2am. 😬 Still get way to excited every time watch replay. I’m still noticing different little pressure acts each time I watch it too

"You're not watching the Grand Final again, are you?" says my 9 year old, bemused. "Yep" I say, a tear in my eye, as my youngest wanders off. Ah, the wistfulness of youth! As excited as I would have been had we won when I was a 9 year old back in 1977, I would have convinced myself that premierships for the Demons were part of the natural order. The wisdom of the years has made me want to savour every single drop of this performance because I don't know when or if it will ever happen again. But I'm hungry too. My Richmond friend said that premierships were like cocaine. While the first hit is probably the best, it leaves you with a burning desire for more. One premiership is not enough. But in the meantime I'll be watching the replay again.

Bah, paywall. Still got giving this mob a cent of my money, even for premiership media/crack.

A decade of rebuilding has meant that I'm programmed to check this forum every day for news at this time of year. We all know that we are going to do sweet f&$# all this year but are all still here. I hate being a creature of habit.

I drank 57 beers during the game. Spooky.

Her article about Goodwin the day before the grand final was atrocious. Took pot shots at his gambling background, Essendon drug history, divorce and near sacking. Absolute gutter journalism.

Maybe covered already but... From 1 min to go in 3rd until 18 min to go in 4th 3 mins of elapsed time. Stats: MELB: 13 K, 11 HB, 2 Mk, 5 Goals WB: 1 HB

I started supporting in 1965. Lived through everything you documented. Not sure I wanna be reminded anymore. I feel Iike shedding all things 1964. My car even has 1964 on the dashboard from Ford factory. I wanna look to the future and get on board with Sparrow and Bowie

Watching the Geelong game then the GF tomorrow. I could do this all summer.

Having a few Friday tipples of gin - gimlets to be precise. Nice floral and spice notes with a good lashing of dog’s hide...

Had my second dose on Wednesday. Feels a lot like a premiership hangover… could just be a premiership hangover.

Started the other night with Round 1 against Freo (one quarter per night). Should be up to the GF in time for Saty's first summer training report

And a bit of a shout out over the boundary line to Will Schofield.

One of the first things I said to old man on the phone was that all was forgiven and the child abuse charges wont continue to be explored!