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Goodwin on On The Couch tonight said there is a Wednesday deadline. I suspect something to do with announcing delistings prior to the FA/trade period so that players know where they stand? Edit: or maybe the deadline was that the players get their CBA-mandated annual leave starting from Wednesday so we had to run exit interviews today and tomorrow, or something like that.

Yes this irrationally excites me too. I never thought I'd see a Melbourne jumper with the gold reigning premiers logo, but next year its ours!

On The Couch tonight looked at the Dogs' set up in those critical centre bounces. How utterly ironic, poetic even, that we won a Grand Final by getting on top through our opponent succumbing to the "bees to the honeypot" problem.

Gawn, Martin, Oliver, Salem, Cordy and May all tied with 2 intercept marks.

There's a clear flaw when Petracca gets 23 out of 30 votes available (76%) but is beaten for the award by someone who got 25 out of 40 (62.5% of the votes available).

No issue with the Daniel tackle. Come on guys. But I have an issue with the Bont bump. He chooses to bump and contacts the head. How many times has the AFL said the head is sacrosanct, and that if you choose to bump and make high contact, you're in trouble? It shouldn't matter that it's the GF and the season's over.

Apparently there were also calls from Adam Papalia on 6PR and Derrwayne on AFL Nation. I can't get enough coverage!

You are a legend! You don't happen to have the Perth Triple MMM commentary, with Dennis?

This is fantastic. I wonder if the Perth Triple MMM commentary is out there somewhere. Would love to hear Dennis Commetti's take on those goals.

My priorities: Sign up our 2022 out of contract players (Jackson, ANB, etc.). That is all. For the first time ever, I don't otherwise care about the trade period. Take whatever picks we have to the draft.

Looks like it, and a lot of other stuff, has sold out. I wonder whether the club can make them available for pre-order? Even if it takes weeks/months to be shipped? Better than having nothing there and people potentially going to other websites to get them?

I can really only recall one outrageous decision and it went in the Dogs' favour - Pickett not getting a free for a high tackle, despite Hunter having got one for the exact same tackle earlier. I really can't recall any other big umpiring errors. Thought the game was well umpired.

I can't help but feel the Dogs put a huge amount of time into Gawn, Lever and May. To a small extent maybe, a degree of disrespect towards the rest of our team. Riewoldt said on the post-match Fox coverage that we can beat sides in different ways. He's right. The simpletons in the AFL media think we're just a defence-first side who wins games based of intercept possessions. We're a lot more than that.

So the radio commentary - is the best option to play it alongside the replay, with the replay on mute, to hear the radio commentary with the game?

Is that right? Interesting. Where did you hear that?

Melbourne - the 2021 premiers!

May told Channel 7 that he had a scan, the doctor didn't tell him the result, but that the scan apparently showed damage. He looked shaky early but I thought he and Lever in the third quarter lifted and that made a big difference.

Thought maybe a thread to discuss merchandise and memorabilia would be a good idea. https://shop.melbournefc.com.au/premiers/ is a starting point - looks like plenty might have already sold out (e.g. the adults guernsey). Do they still do DVDs of the replay? I don't have a DVD player but what if the internet ever drops out when I need to watch a replay? I'm also going to buy a printed newspaper tomorrow, for the first time in years.

They were trying to get him off the camera just then I reckon. He comes in and says "I spoke with Gary Pert on the ground, he was telling me about how in a minute Garry Lyon is going to hand us the premiership cup". That is zero insight, that's just a waste of space talking himself up.

With 60 seconds to go in the third quarter, we were 6 points up. We won by 74. That is utterly, utterly insane.

2021 Norm Smith Medal voting 15 - Christian Petracca (Melb) 10 - Bayley Fritsch (Melb) 3 - Clayton Oliver (Melb) 1 - Christian Salem (Melb) 1 - Caleb Daniel (WB) Judges' voting Luke Hodge (Chair) – C Petracca 3, B Fritsch 2, C Oliver 1 Harry Taylor – C Petracca 3, B Fritsch 2, C Salem 1 Tania Armstrong – C Petracca 3, B Fritsch 2, C Oliver 1 Andrew Krakouer – C Petracca 3, B Fritsch 2, C Daniel 1 Callum Twomey – C Petracca 3, B Fritsch 2, C Oliver 1

6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 all go to the club. But if we need to do it: 6 - Petracca 5 - Oliver 4 - Jackson 3 - Fritsch 2 - Brayshaw 1 - Salem

The analysis will come (there is so much reading and re-watching to come), but I'm coming around to the thought now that when all is said and done, the 2021 Melbourne season will go down as one of the greatest seasons of AFL football in recent memory. Only 4 losses, blowing three of the next four best sides in it off the park in our finals, and doing it all through a pandemic away from home.

I can't believe it. I can't believe this has happened. Not ashamed at all to say I cried after the final siren. We've been through so much here on Demonland, as all Melbourne supporters have. To finally do it, is just unreal. A quick shout out to @Wiseblood, who I hope still kicks around here, as well as @Rogue and @45HG, two of the posters who were constants on here during the terrible eras. Hope you guys are lapping this up wherever you are now. GO YOU MIGHTY DEMONS!!!!