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Bruce would never have said: BANG. BANG, BANG, BANG. For all the words of the great commentators of the past and present, it horrifies me to have to say that JB nailed it and this will last forever. BANG. BANG, BANG, BANG.

It still feels crazy to think that a Melbourne Demons player put together one of the great Grand Final performances of all time 🐐

We certainly missed Jacks hardness around the ball when he was out of the side but a fit and healthy Jack Viney is something to behold and his last 4 games were his best for the Club. He took some hits dished some out opened up the dogs for Harmes/ Fritsch goal and even hand balled to Lingers whilst undertaking a barrel roll over a fallen dog. Jacks role in the centre clearance spectacle in the third cannot be overstated. Jack is an awesome footballer and it was terrific to see him get caught up in the raw emotion of the game and totally enjoy his / their mighty achievement. 💕❤️💙

Jeff painted his garage door red and blue before the grand final.

Magnificent Finals Series, when it really counted

Look at what the courier just delivered! Worth every cent. I am crying again 🙄 and watching the replay on Kayo for the (n+1) time.

Mentioned this a few years ago ... So the day after he was drafted, the top picks were paraded to media just across from AFL House at the Docklands. While working near by, and in between his interviews, l managed to introduce myself before he realised l wasn't a journo but was more than happy to chat to a dees supporter. Very genuine, he was super excited to be joining MFC and we agreed that he was a great fit as we needed ruck / forward support for Max and that he would learn alot under him. He also wasn't fussed about moving to Melbourne as he had been here before many times for basketball and football rep games and was expecting to leave WA anyway - which pleased me the most. Suspect he was also relieved not to be picked up by Gold Coast or GWS with their early picks

There were some concerns with injury and form going into the middle of the season and there was that embarrassing three week suspension incurred against the Crows but the determined, tough nut was born for finals football in the red and blue. His strength and non-negotiable hardness at the football was so important in the last month of the season. Date of Birth: 13 April, 1994 Height: 178cm Weight: 84kg Games MFC 2021: 15 Career Total: 150 Goals MFC 2021: 4 Career Total: 40 Brownlow Medal Votes 2021: 3 Premiership Player

Some Demonlanders out there will remember the brief appearance of a group of Melbourne Next Generation Academy players at preseason at Gosch’s Paddock in December 2019. The standout was a strongly built tall ruckman, Deakin Pereira who mixed it with the likes of Max Gawn and Braydon Preuss in the ruck and held himself in good stead against the Demons’ tall timber. We were hoping that the young Pereira would try out for a place in the 2020 national draft but Deakin had a long-held dream of making it in the world of professional basketball at its highest level in the USA. Over the past 20 months or so he’s gone a long way to achieving that dream despite the fact that our world is a far different place than it was back then. I reached out to Deakin’s biggest fans, his parents Kylie and Ryan, and they filled me in on his movements in the interim. They report that he’s made it through the world-wide Covid19 storm and is finishing his last year of high school. He has just achieved his first aim by securing a scholarship to a major division 1 college - California State University, Fullerton which is a leading campus of CSU and which serves as an intellectual and cultural center for Southern California. Sholarships are few and far between and Deakin was good enough to get one. He stands around 6 foot 9 inches tall (206cm) and is looking very strong. He says he can’t wait to go to college where he will beef up even more. If things don’t work out, you never know, he might be back at Gosch’s Paddock battling out with our premiership pair of ruckmen one day but in the meantime, we’re looking forward to seeing him proceed to a different draft in the NBA, possibly to join the growing band of Aussies there. Then it could be on to the Olympics in Paris in three year’s time. We all know now how well Demons go in Olympic years.😀 Anyway, Deakin can rest assured that there’s an army of Demons fans following his fortunes in sunny California. Good luck!

We all knew 3 things would happen. Viney would smash September. Max would stamp his authority. Trac was born to dominate on GF day.

I understood none of what you said but I’m in!

l have it on good authority that they are burying Norm Smith's curse

His post game interview on the ground was the most realisitic and insightful when he described the early disasterous years of his career as a young man. He, more than anyone, seemed to understand just how hard its been over the last decade. 1 flag won't be enought for him I suspect.

Adelaide’s List Manager: “We were very keen to move up the draft to get North’s pick 1. Our offer was slightly better than the one recorded in the media. We basically offered three first rounders, Matt Crouch’s girlfriend, Rory Sloane’s 2nd child, Matthew Nicks’ secret stash of horse dewormer and a Taylor Walker signed KKK outfit. We were close to a deal with the Cats on Daniel Talia before the Cats withdrew due to realising that he was still in his 20’s. We are seriously looking into introducing a whole club mask mandate in order to ensure that there is something covering Tex Walker’s big mouth at all times.” Brisbane’s List Manager: “A lot has been said about Darcy Fort being a part of this trade period’s ‘ruck merry-go-round’. That is simply incorrect on account of Fort having no turning circle. Lachie Neale has thankfully recommitted to the football club after considering a move back to Fremantle, which we are all thrilled about. He is currently diving into his preseason program alongside Joe Daniher, who has been diving for quite some time.” Carlton’s List Manager: “We are excited to help bring Cerra close to his family because he will need their support and sympathy during his years at Carlton. We identified Cerra as a player of need to support Zac Williams who we brought in to support Setterfield who was brought in to support Matthew Kennedy who we brought into support Patrick Cripps. The fact that George Hewett got a 4 year deal raised some eyebrows. For us it was a no-brainer as we wanted him to have the opportunity to impress our next three senior coaches. We were the only club to our knowledge that made an offer for Hewett, ultimately meaning he had a decision to make between going to Carlton or nothing. We realise this was not an easy choice to make. ” Collingwood’s List Manager: “We were shocked to lose Lynch, who we earmarked as our number 1 ruck when Grundy’s contract expires in 2035. We are recommitting to Mason Cox who we spectacularly plucked from an overseas basketball court and we will be looking to do the same to Jordan DeGoey, who we recently plucked from the Supreme Court. Lipinski can play on the inside and outside as we saw from his time at the Dogs where he played both inside and outside their best 22. Lipinski had to decide between lucrative offers from Collingwood and Carlton, which I guess is a bit like deciding between a career as Mark Robinson’s copywriter and a cadetship at the Wuhan lab. We are hoping nobody bids early for Daicos as we face being in more debt than a contestant from Squid Game. We send a request to the general public for help. We are currently trying to release a highlights package of Kreuger for our website. We just can’t find anything. If you have any footage whatsoever, even if it’s grainy, please send it to the club. We will even accept clangers at this point. After issues with our salary cap this time last year, we can announce a new accountant, who this time, can actually add. We can also announce that 118% of our employees are double vaxxed.” Essendon’s List Manager: “We managed to get Jake Kelly from Adelaide who is a son of a gun but couldn’t extract Bobby Hill from the grasp of McCartney, who is a son of something else. There’s a lot of speculation that Dodoro doesn’t get on with McCartney. The truth is, nobody gets on with McCartney. The Bobby Hill result is a real shame, as he is already with elite speed and delivery into the forward 50 and was attracted to the prospect of joining the Bombers to become elite at frees against. We are not fussed with whether or not we land Ben King in 12 months time because we have 2 other key position forwards on the horizon, in the Davey twins.” Fremantle’s List Manager: “Whilst we were sad to give up Cerra, we were happy with what we got from Carlton. It was a win/win really. We get the chance to secure some top-end talent in the draft and Carlton got an excuse not to stuff up another top 10 selection. There was some talk about Jordan Clark angrily putting down the phone on Stephen Wells. This is not true. It was more a case of him being signed up to Optus. A move on Coniglio was thwarted by GWS and a move by Lobb to go to GWS was thwarted by his financial planner.” Geelong’s List Manager: “It was clear that Jordan Clark didn’t fit in our team structure when it became apparent that he was the only player on our list young enough to be eligible to get the Pfizer vaccine. Some were wondering why we opted for Stengle, who is only 21 years of age, but we found out that a history of drug dependence can age you up to nine years, so we think he fits perfectly in our age demographic. We are aware that Stengle is a bit of a risky pickup considering he has more drug strikes than Gary Rohan has possessions in a final. We have given Narkle one more year to try and fit into the dimensions of our team, whilst Zac Tuohy has given his moustache one more year to try and fit the dimensions of his face. Kreuger was sacrificed in order to create enough salary space to get David Mundy in next year. " Gold Coast’s List Manager: “We were so desperate to get rid of Brodie we offered up a pick 19 just so a team could take him. Next year we will look to do the same by offering two first rounders for a team to take Adkins. We acknowledge that a lot of our issues have come about from heavily back ending contracts to extremely average players. We have decided to change strategy and from now on, just like Stewart Dew’s t-shirts, we will be heavily front ending. Chol chose us after consulting with his former teammate, Sydney Stack, who advised him that a prolonged period of time in prison isn’t as bad as it sounds.” GWS’s List Manager: “We were caught completely off guard by Bobby Hill’s request to leave for Victoria. He left it very late by only giving us a few days warning, as opposed to Tanner Bruhn who gave us two years warning. We are cognisant that Hill has a child on the way but you have to understand that McCartney is a child right now. There was some conjecture that Finlayson was pushed out the door, when in fact it was a case of Toby Greene mistaking him for an umpire. We briefly considered making a play for Dumont as cover for Coniglio, as the type of player who can become captain without ever being in our best team." Hawthorn’s List Manager: “O’Brien realised he was on the nose when even the die-hard Hawks fans refused to vote for him for Mark of the Year. There was a lot of talk about us offering up all our best players. Please don’t believe everything you read. The actual truth is that we also offered all of our worst players too. Wingard was very adamant that he was not going to move anywhere, which resembles what he does on the field during clutch games. We have been receiving flak for offering to pay 400k for Ceglar to not play for us and a million for Clarkson to not coach for us but you have no idea how much we would pay for Jeff Kennett to not be our President." Melbourne’s List Manager: “Some were surprised that the best team in the competition would be interested in Luke Dunstan. Whilst it is true that he has poor endurance, is a plodder and criminally turns the ball over by both hand and foot, we still see him as one of St Kilda’s best players. We are happy to report that we are rearing to go for a shot at back-to-back flags with nobody on our injury list besides Steven May who had a 7cm tear in his hamstring and Jack Bowey who actually is 7cm. North Melbourne’s List Manager: “We are so happy to bring in Callum Coleman-Jones, who we have very high hopes for. We realise that he has some things to work on such as improving his physicality in the contest, but we have already tailored a training program for him that would involve a form of ball work but instead substitute the ball with a kebab. That should fire him up! There were a few compelling offers for our number 1 pick but they completely fell over, a bit like Jaidyn Stephenson on his BMX bike.” Port Adelaide’s List Manager: “David Koch brought the whole club together and after two Prelim losses implored us to stop choking and instead take after him by chewing and swallowing. Finlayson is a player we have brought in as forward cover and we have also invested in a new tarp as rest of the ground cover. There was some interest in Powell-Pepper who sees himself as a midfielder and Rozee who sees himself in the mirror.” Richmond’s List Manager: “North were taken by surprise when we secretly approached Robbie Tarrant behind North’s back, but this wasn’t the first time we’ve done that sort of thing. Just ask Mrs. Hardwick.” St. Kilda’s List Manager: “We decided to part ways with Luke Dunstan despite getting 11 Brownlow votes in order to invest more midfield time into Dan Hannebery who will arrive in the preseason in 11 pieces. We thank Jake Carlisle for his service, but we already have a group of youngsters who are eyeing his jumper number, whilst Brad Crouch is eyeing his leftover white powder. Xerri would have provided useful backup in the event a player with a surname beginning in U, V or W gets injured.” Sydney’s List Manager: “We were sad to lose Dawson who featured highly in our best and fairest, but we have a good enough list to cover for him. Already, we have plans to move Lloyd up from the last line of defence and move Rampe down from being perched on a goalpost. When looking at our future forward stocks we realised that players like Hayden McLean weren’t good enough to tie Buddy’s shoelaces, so we went and got Peter Ladhams who is too tall and uncoordinated to tie up his own shoelaces.” West Coast’s List Manager: “The arrival of SPS is great news for Witherden who is now promoted to the second laziest player on our list. Shannon Hurn and Josh Kennedy are weighing up offers to stay at the club or to sign up at local nursing homes. We can happily announce Gatorade as a new game day sponsor of Wille Rioli’s urine samples.” Western Bulldogs’ List Manager: “We cannot lie that we were hopeful for better compensation for Lipinski, who we saw as a required player. The folks at the Pies were able to drive a really hard bargain, which is fine because we have Lachie Hunter who is able to drive into parked cars. Unfortunately, we will be without Weightman for the early part of the preseason after he injured his ankle in an acting injury. This has not deterred him in his quest to perfect his acting craft and we expect him to be back hunched on the ground in no time. Due to a clerical error, it seems we have offered a 2-year extension to Jordan Sweet.”

No more will they be able to say, 'Oh, the Queen's Birthday is their Grand Final' or 'Anzac Eve is their Grand Final'. The Grand Final is our Grand Final.

that third quarter, I just can't get enough. 3 goals inside a minute, not once but twice. holy [censored], put the game away. I love the look on the dogs players after Oliver kicks his goal, they are totally gobsmacked

He's never great. He's simply an overexcited Neanderthal. If you like BT I have to wonder if you're under 25 or your IQ is under 70. Same goes for James Brayshaw stealing from Mike Breen and making it worse. Although JB is salvageable if you put him with a good straight man (or woman) and they got the balance between the funny guy and straight up caller. BT has the ability to get excited but often it's about whatever the monkey playing cymbals in his brain is fixated on. He's stuffed up a number of big moments - classic marks and goals by being ill prepared. He spends large chunks of games trying to make mispronunciations of players names, people in the crowd, umpires or officials a big part of the story when they clearly aren't. That's great for radio where there's a need to keep the audience entertained, particularly when there's options to choose the Triple M call or other alternatives. When it's TV we all get to see the pictures. His job is to provide some atmosphere when the game requires and to sit back and let the pictures speak for themselves when it doesn't. Which leads me to perhaps his worst trait - he dominates the call and has no chemistry with any of his commentators or special comments people. He's particularly bad at cutting off Daisy Pearce but he does it to most of the people paid to actually break down the game. Then he tries to rope others in to his silly little sub plots. Brayshaw's a willing participant. Poor old Bruce got dragged down to a whole lot of nonsense. It's great on rare occasions he's on with someone professional like Jason Bennett who wouldn't fall for it and would actually get on with calling the game.

At 22 years of age, he clearly lacked the maturity to play for the Cats.

I think after watching the 2nd half of the 3rd quarter at least 5 times I looked at the Viney contribution and without his efforts the Petracca and Oliver gate crashing of the Bulldogs party would not have happened.

Thought this thread was going to be about Kozi...

It's my understanding that the new facility will be where the current car park F is and it won't be too far away.

I’ve seen this maybe 5 times and I still get nervous every time Goody asks Richo for his opinion. Also I would love to hear JT’s thoughts about Tom Green falling to 10 in the draft. Obviously GWS and Adel weren’t going to bid on him but it was very weird to see him fall

Amazing footage. At least this time Richo made the right call to grab the tall over the mid.

Each to their own but Richmond were/are horrible to watch for me. Annoys the [censored] out of me when we get compared to playing like them. Defensive set up yes, everything else, no. That rolling maul slap it on and anywhere style Richmond had with the ball was ugly as [censored]. They looked good when the skis got to the downhill part and Dusty was one out. Since 3qtr time round 23 we’ve been more exciting than any team in recent memory. There were glimpses during the year. But that was a finals series for the ages. Good luck halting this momentum.

Not in terms of winning three flags of course. But comparing the first, we have a far superior team to the 2017 tiger's team. Far superior. We were the best team in 2021 by a country mile, as evidenced by our home and away record against top 4 teams (and top 8 teams too) and the utter demonlition of the next three best teams behind us in the finals The tigers won the flag in 2017 but were simply nowhere near as dominant, or as good as we were this year. No competition.

I am not saying that clubs don't need good facilities MR but no amount of good facilities will make up for a lack of good players. Nothing will turn a sows ear into a silk purse.

A gift for Uncle Bitter

9 minutes 25 seconds left in the third quarter. Down by 19 points Harmes steals footy and kicks to Fritsch. Goal. Fritsch Brown Brayshaw Petracccccca Sparrow Oliver James Brayshaw “ surely not another one … handball to Oliver… streaming through … BANG BANG BANG BANG!!!!” 9 minutes 7 goals footy exhilaration!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

Before Jack was drafted, he said he had always wanted to play for the Melbourne football club. We were the joke of the AFL at the time, Jack could have played for a better side, but with a great big smile he said he wanted to play for the Dee's, he was 16 years of age at the time when he said it, i was gobbed smacked. From that moment i loved JV and what he brings to our club. A few years ago i was lucky enough to meet him at one of our b&f he was lovely and spoke to me for a while. I'm so glad he got to play in this years GF and come home with a win🥰

I never understood why he copped so much criticism in the home and away season. When players return from foot injuries, it can take some time for them to get back to their best. His performance during the finals showed why the club rates him so highly. He was easily in our best 3-4 players across the entire finals series. We're clearly a better side when he's in the team.

After trading out their round 2 picks for yet unknown later/future picks: Pies have picks – No.36, 46, 48, 55, 58, 78 and 79 Dogs have picks No. 43, 44, 45, 52, 93 We currently have 37, 49, 57 ie 952 draft points. Once Pies and Dogs use their picks for F/s our picks become 36, 43, 49 ie 1167 draft points. If Pies/Bulldogs bring in more picks below our #57 it will further improve the value of our picks. I don't usually put much store on draft points but this year Mac Andrew is in the mix. While there are many options for us, I wonder whether we might keep our powder dry until draft night. Use pick #17 and wait and see where MA is taken. If he is still on the board after pick 20 we can easily match the bid and have points left for another pick in the #45 - 50 range. If he isn't on the board we can then upgrade some picks or trade them into 2022. Footnote: Hope I have the arithmetic right on how our picks move up after Pies and Dogs match F/S.😬 The logic is sound but maybe folks check the calcs before relying on them...

I find it particularly infuriating that as we probably get shut out from our first ever real NGA prospect, in rules that were practically instituted by the AFL overnight, the Pies and Dogs will get a top-five father-son dip this year - those two teams being the ones which have benefitted the most from NGA along with North. Still can't believe there wasn't a better phase-out of the system put in place, with points-matching of the picks which have come before. I love the father-son clause and hope it lives on forever, but in a competition which prides itself and thrives on equality, it's ridiculous that Footscray got a #1 freebie last year and Collingwood get to pick up Quaynor and the 'Filipino' Reef McInnes for next to nothing. North and Freo have also scored top-ten picks in Thomas and Henry. I'm staggered that our club and others might have signed off on the abrupt rule change, rather than a more gradual phase out. What sucks the most is that there were some decent ideas behind the concept, but when the loose rules were exploited by the clubs, the AFL just threw everything out the window. These were the rules that the AFL set up themselves,

Still cant believe people are surprised as if they expected to get their stuff within a week.

He sure picks his moments too. No junk time goals there.

We waited 57 years for our premiership. A few extra weeks from Australia Post won’t hurt. MFC PREMIERS 2021 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

Have to be honest, I always thought the girls would hold the cup before our men did. The Dees ladies don't need to improve by much to win the flag this season. Harris will certainly be a welcome addition if she can play at her best.

I think the merits of NGA and FS picks can be debated, and the Bulldogs have certainly been great beneficiaries, but there are certainly tradeoffs for those clubs that can access those early FS/NGA players 'out of order'. Last year the Dogs selected Ugle-Hagan, but they only took 2 selections in total (other being Dominic Bedendo at pick 55). This year they will do something similar (if Darcy is picked at 3 as some on this thread suggest) by selecting Darcy and then their next pick being at 53 ish. They will get 2 good players in 2 years ..... plus a bunch of hopes and prayers. I'm sure that they would happily make that tradeoff but it's not without its downside. Collingwood is the same but with a list in a different place. They will get Daicos but they'll get nothing else (except for late picks) when they are in the early stages of a big rebuild. They need to build a group of good young players but will only really only get one of them this year.

One of the main Foundations of Culture To play the Game at The Highest Level, and play it well, The Team must be Fit. look at how we finished games in 2021 This Season (Finals Series) should now always be a benchmark as to how fit players need to be. Mind and Body

That two week punishment for molesting Sam Collins did wonders. For too many seasons Viney always seemed to come back from injury early and it always impacted on his ongoing form. What many saw as an injustice turned out to be a blessing in disguise. The extra rest did him well and played arguably his best footy for several years.

I'm certainly guilty of being hard at Jack sometimes and I am sorry as much for thinking and saying, but I'm not too old to learn.

Proved the doubters wrong. Tough as nails like his dad.

One of the aggravating factors during our time at the bottom of the ladder was that it coincided with the introduction of two new clubs, and massive draft concessions. Even as recently as 2019 we were robbed of pick 2, and thank [censored] for that. But it's pretty good to be premiers when there's momentum for a Tasmanian and maybe even a northern team. Right now, it feels like WGAF.

Lost sales opportunity for furphy. I'd buy a six pack to display one in the normal furphy is quite good but the crisp is cats p.. surely they could do some commemorative cans of the normal furphy. I'd buy a summer's worth in one hit

The boy had had enough, it wasn't going to happen again, not under his watch.

It was the beginning of the greatest streak I have ever seen. After that game bang, bang, bang

Maybe I just thought demonlanders would like even more confirmation from inside the club? Seems to be the case doesn’t it? I don’t know what Gary Lyon said, only what what’s being said within the club. Would of thought the more people posting what they know from contacts inside the club the better.

Dunstan, Tomlinson, Hunt, Jordan and Smith provide a boost of skills and talent to our Premiership 22, and most importantly they're all mature, hardened and hungry. Welcome Luke, make a spot yours and we'll be an even better team in 2022.

Hi all, I have a limited edition footy that the players signed after the GF win. PM me if interested.

Just popped into my local pizza place run by a trio of strapping big Greek brothers, diehard Collingwood fans. All year we’ve been ribbing each other’s team (they went to town after QB match). I hadn’t been there since the granny and as soon as I walked in they were raving about how good we are. Then the middle brother says, “I’d turn gay for Clayton Oliver.” I says, “you might have to join a queue, I’m sure a lot of blokes have a man-crush on Clayton.” He says, “a man-crush?! This isn’t a man-crush! I’m in love with him. I wanna have his babies.” 😆 And these are Collingwood supporters!!!