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Harry Sharp appreciation post

Turns out one team needs Christian Petracca and it ain’t us!!

One player who is becoming very valuable with a huge improvement in his output this season is Harry Sharp. he has shown himself to be very nippy around the ground . He has great speed and has great endurance. A very useful combination for AFL football. I was reading that he was an elite steeplechaser in his track and field days. This event being a very tough one means that he has a very big tank. His last quarters have shown this. Well done Harry. Keep up the good work and you will become a regular this season.

Jake Melksham is the Rising Star Nomination for Round 4

So many positives but Sparrow was an absolute maniac in that last quarter. Like an out of control boulder with vices for arms .

Give my boy some love. Incredibly underrated and rarely beaten and continued his fine form this year.

This has to be the time we make amends for losing to this mob regularly at Gather Round.

The Demons put four quarters of hard contested, fast running and high pressure football to knock off the ladder leaders and early premiership contenders the Gold Suns by 20 points at the MCG on Easter Sunday.

God Save our gracious King, Long live our noble King, God save Steven King!!! Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over you, God Save our King!!!!

COLD COAST DEATHRIDE IS BACK ON BABY UP THE DEEEEEES

Thank you Mr Steven King for reigniting my love for the Melbourne Footy Club again.. 😭🔵🔴

(censored) it Give the Milkman another one year deal.

I’ll just leave this here

I know he’s not a star at either end but I thought Petty was solid enough as relief ruck today to keep playing that role going forward.

Who is saying it? They know nothing. Couldn’t be further from the truth. His had a knee complaint since just after Christmas that he wanted to manage whilst training/ playing. The club supported him with this. It came to the point in the Freo game where he wasn’t able to run at high speed over distance (a key metric for King) during our transitions. The club have a plan in place which involves him de-loading to manage the inflammation around the knee. Trent is fine with the plan. If the knee is still settled after 2 x training sessions this week, he will come back in.

I commented after the StKilda win how impressed I was with Petty in the ruck. Purely from a ball up perspective, he gives us a different look. What I like even more about the move, is it frees him up to run and jump at marks without the pressure of playing deep forward or in a contested situation down back. He is player who prefers to be 3rd man up and struggles when the ball is dumped on his head. The other bloke who I am happy for is Howes. Hes always looked talented enough to be an AFL player but it hasn’t always clicked for him. I think the penny has dropped as to how he can impact the play with his positioning and his ability to recover and push the ball forward. Got a lot of deflections yesterday which were very important. Lastly, Chin. I just love him. I don’t think I’ve wanted good things to happen to a player like I do with Chin since Travis Johnstone was running around. Different reasons for wanting good things; I wanted Trapper to be great because I thought he could be. I want Chinny to be great because he deserves it. Great clubman, great leader and better bloke.

Our Max is better than your Max our King is better than your King

Shout out to all the Dees fans at the G today. Watching from the UK I could hear how loud and proud you all were, even the commentators were saying the level of noise was amazing. Particularly some of the dodgy frees/non-frees by the umps, Ben King being HTB cold but they called play on. You guys made sure they knew it was a wrong call!

His tackling in the first 10 minutes of the last quarter was the signifier to the rest of the boys that today we are going to do whatever it takes. Tom should be really proud.

Very important to play Rivers here. Two weeks for the knee to settle is nice and an obvious reason he didn’t play at Casey. I’ve heard the inflammation has come right down. He’s a talent who has been loyal and he deserves to slot back in for Laurie.

The Tom Sparrow haters have been very quiet these past two weeks. Hope they are becoming extinct

Steele must be in the conversation for recruit of the year. 26 touches at 92% and 8 tackles. Has arguably had far more impact (on and off the field) than any one of Ryan, Silvangi, TDK and Flanders have had at St Kilda.

I’m fast becoming a Kolt fan.😁

Best win in 3 years

One of those games you go to by yourself, expecting the kind of result to feel “philosophical” about when you get home Then you end up yelling yourself hoarse and high-fiving multiple strangers. I am SO [censored] impressed with our pressure right now. The lads were desperately starving them of space for three and a half quarters. KEEP THAT UP! Welcome back Melky!!!

Not a perfect game from him but Latrelle is the real deal Also Harry Sharp stocks are up

Footy is fun again

Stop it PF!!! Seriously, ease up on Hendo. It’s one thing to critique one of our own but you cross the line at times. You’d be pushing to find someone who works harder than Hendo. He’s determined to make us proud. Clearly the club has faith in him and so too should we. Yesterday he was so proud just for being down as an emergency. You can’t buy that enthusiasm and desire to do well.

Loved the TV replay cutaways post goal to Melksham, Mihocek & Roo in heavy discussion, seemingly based on forward structure and movement given their hand movements. There's genuine, passionate discussion between Melksham & Mihocek with Roo taking it all in, nodding in acknowledgement. Can't remember when we had this level of leadership in our forward line. This is so good for Roo's development. As a forward, playing with Kingy's game style must be so much fun.

Hit outs: 42 - 27 Clearances: 39-28 Centre Clearances 18-9 Stoppage clearances- 21-19 ——————————————————————- Marks inside 50: 19-14 Tackles inside 50: 13-6 We had 29 shots to 19. Suns kicking 14.5 is super accurate. We very well could have beaten them by 6-7 goals. Missed a few very easy ones and they nailed everything. What stands out to me is that King has instilled so much confidence in us. I keep expecting us to become jittery late in the 4th quarter, but we keep on coming. He’s taught us how to close out games and our composure is through the roof in comparisons to previous years. On top of that, there’s so much more improvement we can do. We also look REALLY fit. Players still mowing down suns players with 4 minutes left in the game. At times we’re phrenetic with our tackling. I’m a little blown away by what King has been able to do already. We look steady and calm

The suns are a plastic soulless team. 22 tried to steal it with some of the worst umpiring seen for a long time. You know what happens when you heat up plastic? It melts. Great team performance. Intensity across 4 quarters was off the chart. We gave them no quarter and that’s why we take the 4 points (Steele and Gawn, incredible). I love that we are fun to watch. Boys are happy and confident and firing. Go Dees!!! 💙❤️

I don’t mind that we barely get a mention. We’ll quietly go on with our business without the added pressure while all eyes are on Carlton and Essendon.

Thank you Greeny…

What a win! Our ferocity at hunting them was incredible. Tommy Sparrow has really turned it on!! I just really hope someone checks in on Trac make sure he is doing okay…

Otherwise known as kneemoania.

The tackling and pressure was finals like The players have bought in!! Unbelievable effort by everyone!!

Brilliant, hard fought, fast Won the Contested Possession, Clearances, Tackles And beat than fn k 22 Williamson

Kentfield has all the ingredients to be a significant player for the Dees. He’s strong, tough, versatile and can kick straight. I personally believe that given time he’s an upgrade on JVR because he seeks out physical contact and has the body size to cope, along with an excellent temperament for such a young man

Daz even the experts get it wrong a lot of the time. Look at the post after yours, where Mitch Cleary got it wrong on Riv playing this week. We don't need to blame our insiders or track watchers, who try and give us accurate info, which I personally love to read. I would much rather read Dees info that is wrong, than people fighting and arguing and putting each other down, which is just boring garbage. I enjoy your posts too Daz, even when you occasionally get them wrong. 😉

My prayer to the footy gods: play Melky this week and next. He’s on 248 games. His 250th would be vs Essendon, his old mob. We’ll smash ‘em and Melky will be BOG. Coming home from Adelaide would be chef’s kiss.

He is phenomenal. His gut running into the forward line when we had a free kick in the middle to present, mark and goal was so great to watch. Then he saves goals at the other end too. He does it in the air and on the ground feeding out handballs to runners. He is just a beast, he may not be the most naturally talented footballer I've seen at the Demons but he is the hardest working (carrying on the legacy of Jimmy Stynes) and most consistent and I would now say the best. He is the best Demon I have seen in my time (1988-present).

When Latrelle has 2 years under his belt and has some idea what he is doing (no offense) he will be unbelievable he is 100% on instinct atm

Are there still any Chander haters in the house, or are they finally starting to see why he'd be one of the first picked every week?

GO YOU LITTLE BEAUTIES! My first game in at least 15 years. My hands and my voice are shot. 😂😈

Another connection between the club and its great Norm Smith era has ended with the passing of his son Peter after a long illness at the age of 78. Peter Smith was recruited to the club from Melbourne Grammar with a reputation as a skilled goalkicker. After training with the Demons at the end of 1965, he was signed as a supplementary list player, but he earned promotion to the main list after dominating the final practice match of 1966. He played 23 games as a second forward and ruck over two years, before departing the club after the 1967 season when members rejected his father's bid to join the committee. He moved to Carlton where he joined Demon great Ron Barassi who was coaching the Blues and strung together 15 more VFL matches but struggled for senior games behind Alex Jesaulenko and Brian Kekovich. He continued his career in the VFA at Port Melbourne and Coburg where he was a noted goal kicker. Smith returned to Melbourne as a runner under Ron Barassi in 1981 and was involved in a fracas with David Rhys-Jones of South Melbourne in Round 18 of that year which resulted in a four match suspension for the fiery Swan who ironically, was later awarded the Norm Smith Medal as best on ground playing for Carlton in the 1987 Grand Final. Wishing Peter’s family and friends our sincere condolences.