wrecka45

I think the father son is wonderful quirk of the AFL which encourages long term buy into clubs by supporters. But the current system is [censored]. As are the academy rules. Get rid of all discounts, you already have preferential access to the player. That is the discount! Make it so that any matched bid requires a pick in the same round/next available within ~10 picks and then additional picks to make up the points difference. Any further matched picks (additional father -sons/academy picks) would require another pick as per the same rules There is live trading it can be done. Therefore clubs would have to choose exactly what they want and trade into place to secure the talent they really want as opposed to get gold for a bag of chips and three pie wrappers

Hate the cut of their jib. But hate most things about that club, hate the petulant coach, hate the entitled players, hate that they have been kissed on the proverbial with father sons, hate that they have been given hundreds of millions for their oval that's not an oval, hate the super soft draw that they are given each year Generally don't like that club

Totally agree. And also a significant part of our game plan/brand is that oppo teams need to be strong enough for the entire game, port lost control of that in the third quarter, and were only brought back into the contest by disgraceful umpiring You don’t win every game by 10 goals, you don’t win every single clearance, oppo teams put enormous amount of prep into beating our systems. They do this because they know that if they don’t the game could be over by quarter time. Our defence held up, this is a corner stone of our game plan. May’s kick ins to the left wing position, well guess what, we are the best kick in scoring team the comp by doing this. Melbourne changed the momentum of that game, got it on our terms and then horrendous umpiring changed that momentum, why should any supporter accept that. Filthy that games continue to be decided by poor umpiring, this one just happened to be a game we were involved in

Don't worry the cats are now into De Goey....why is it that whatever comes out of Chris scotts mouth gives me the sh!ts....yep that's it, entitlement, an obscene level of entitlement

Destroyed isn't quite the right word. Draft tampering is. The trade was not ridley for Lloyd and Lucas Freo never had access to Lloyd as he was in the concession (for losing an uncontracted player) draft only open to 16 year olds. Freo wanted Ridley (uncontracted), Tony Delaney and Dale Kickett from essendon. Essendon advised freo that the trades for Delaney (pick 4!!!!🤮) and Kickett wouldn't go through unless freo agreed to not sign any players from the teams that finished the season below essendon and so giving essendon pick 1 in the 16 year old concession draft. Freo being freo agreed to this. Horrible trade anyway, but not quite how it is generally remembered And pure draft tampering by essendon Melbourne stunk up the concession draft by not picking Steven King who was available (we got one of the cockatoo-collins brother)

Hmmm.....Charlie was hunting the football and bent down to pick it up, saw his opponent was in a poor position and stayed low, got tackled high by Burton (who didn't even attempt to get lower with his tackle) Not sure that counts as ducking

I wonder how many players have been nominated for the rising star after winning a premiership? Richmond might have one or two? You would think it would be a pretty small group though!

Would love to see us 'take over' Optus next time (and forever) we have to play West Coast with massive banners along the fences claiming ownership to different parts of the ground, e.g. - Petracca's Pocket - Ed Langdon Wing - the Trent Rivers end (the river end of the ground) - Clayton Oliver Centre Square - Max Gawn premiership Terrace (there is a seating area at optus called the premiership Terrace) Having grown up in the west it has been hard going as a Dee's fan, looking forward to rubbing this premiership in my West coast mates faces forever!

While I don't believe in superstitions, i think they are bad luck...boom, tish...I'll be here all week (well at least that part is true) there were certainly some omens that correlated with the Dees getting up on the weekend....I still cant quite believe that our team are the premiers. So here goes, the omens that foretold of the Dee's victory Last time Melbourne were Minor Premiers - 1964 - Outcome Melbourne Premiers. 2021 Melbourne Minor Premiers and Premiers ✅ Last time Olympics held in Tokyo - 1964 - Outcome Melbourne Premiers. 2021 Tokyo hosts the Olympics and Melbourne Premiers ✅ Only other team to come from 5 goals down after halftime at Geelong to win - 2006 WCE - Outcome WCE premiers 2021 Melbourne come from 42 points down to win at Gellong - Melbourne Premiers ✅ Last time a captain kicked a goal after the siren to win the Minor Premiership - 1987 Kernahan Carlton - Outcome Carlton premiers 2021 Gawn kicks goal after siren to win the minor premiership - Melbourne Premiers ✅ The big one...Age of Norm Smith when he passed - 57 years - Years since Melbourne Premiership - 57 years! The curse is over! And a slightly left field one Melbourne finished the H&A season with 1888 points scored - being lucky in both Christen (Petracca of course) and Chinese numerology (lets go with the Norm Smith medalist, Jock McHale medallist and the Premiership cup) Anyone got any others?? Anyway I think I am going to wear out the internet with the number of times I have already watched the multi-call of the last minute of the third quarter...unbelievable.

Had a bit of joy watching the goals from the past 30 years or so https://www.melbournefc.com.au/greatestgoal I know its a bit of a team goal but surely this one should be in there!

Geez Gill really wants little Gaz to be cherry ripe for the finals, As per usual Geelong get kissed on the proverbial - only 2 interstate games after round 11 (Port and Brissy) they have 6 at GMBHA including 3 in a row in rounds 19,20,21 and 4 out of 5 in rounds 19-23 (exhausting trip to Marvel and the Saints in round 22) and then the remaining games split between the G and Marvel (the G is not an away game for them - they play there 5 times in the season)

Young & Jackson.....that has a certain ring to it. Could become iconic for Melbourne!

I think we all need to take a wider view with this. The vast majority of us posters on demonland, and people around our age, are no longer the target audience of the AFL. We, apparently, are already "rusted on". So they don't really care about us anymore. The AFL needs our children and parents of kids who haven't grown up with football to watch and become engaged with the sport. To do that they need see the AFL as the elite version of the game they/their kids play, which is.....Auskick. Auskick is; - played in zones - The skills of stopping and hindering an opponent (e.g. bumping and tackling) are not permitted and limited at the older age groups - players are encouraged to be of equal size and skill (sorry Max you're too big and too good so we have to penalise you to make it even when the opposition ruck is too small/sh!te) - Having watched many games of Auskick disposal doesn't really matter, just keep the ball moving. Mark my words the AFL/Hocking will continue to push the game towards Auskick over the next few years.

I have never seen any other ruckman penalised with this rule. Ever. Stop being so tall and strong Max. The ruck rules state that that you cannot block another player from contesting the ball in a ruck contest. That is completely fine. Just pay it every time. All anyone wants is consistency.

Sorry regarding the weird text sizing, sending off my phone