Rodney (Balls) Grinter

5 hours ago, Go Ds said:

Our new coach until a few months ago was mainly considered a Geelong person. I'm guessing thus we'll play his old team twice, orbat least continue the yearly 'tradition' playing at Geelong with crowd hoping their team beat their former alumnus.

And hopefully the new coach knows how to play at that [censored] heap ground and can inspire us to win there

As an asides, the was SoS (Son of Serge), we could have Kok

1 hour ago, Gator said:

I couldn't care less about the romance. If he was Pickett's Brother I couldn't care less.

Is he any good is the only thing that should matter.

But if he is good and Kuz of Koz, then - Lattrele, come on down!

Talking of social media changes, a theme I hope is discontinued is those set up segments of the players playing party game type activities (get the ping pong ball in the cup, board game challenges...etc etc). They often featured Max and/or Trac and were so fake, un natural and just completely token time waster type segments 🤢🤮🤮🙄

On 29/10/2025 at 09:04, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

I rang the Club recently to speak to the media folks (can't remember the reason but it was a constructive one) and reported on here. I couldn't get past the membership officer but she told me the media group were 'a team' and different individuals were responsible for different projects at different times. So I don't think there's an AFL/AFLW division?

Maybe the girs are just naturally more fun and entertaining in front of the camera.

As a side note, I still can't understand the hype around Ross Lyon. For a master coach, he's never actually won a flag.

Meh.

We win this game and it's basically a non story. I still would have been [censored] as a supporter. Giving up a 40 odd point lead felt to win by a goal or so would have felt like a loss anyway.

Still think we are closer to a flag than St Kilda. Last time I stated that was at the end of the 2020 season.

10 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Dam Gorringe is cringe AF.

Showing your age a bit there old chap 😜

Cringe is cool.

4 minutes ago, Macca said:

Back around that Lorne camp we were in a bit of a mess anyway

Ox said what he said and probably meant well. He didn't name names at least

Don't get me wrong, loved him as a player growing up and from what I understand he still loves the club and means well, but he's made a habit of being publically overly critical and negative about the club as a media personality, which I don't think is actually constructive.

Surely he could have conversations with the likes of Brad Green etc without airing all his views on all our dirty laundry in the open.

On the topic of social media, while I agree that we want something a bit edgy and entertaining, I think there are lines that a club social media account shouldn't cross.

In the recent trade period, I noticed the GWS site practically trolling us with photos of Jessie and Bedford essentially welcoming Trac and Clarry right at the start of the trade period before any deals were done.

I generally like GWS post $cully era, but these posts really got up my nose and feel they were utterly unprofessional for the club's official site to be promoting.

2 hours ago, BoBo said:

I think Gus would actually be perfect (and Max once he retires) to lean into making shorts that are a bit of a [censored] take or memeing on other teams and at times ourselves. Gus is widely liked and seems to have a cheeky sense of humour so that could work.

Outrage gets clicks, that’s just how the algorithm works (and why the world is hell, haha). So if you can walk the line between taking the [censored] but not being overly vitriolic about it, you can draw in a lot of non-Dees supporters. Gorringe has actually hit that sweet spot because he pots everyone (including Carlton and the AFL) but also praises other teams too at times. A lot of people say he’s a [censored], but that misses the point. He’s a [censored] that gets a lot of engagement which is all that really matters in internet world.

This exercise isn’t about promoting Dees upfront, it’s about getting people to click on a person associated with the Dees that flies the flag, making AFL content, mostly to non-Dees fans. Get people to like a Melbourne supporting person.

I’m a musician and coming back from a few years hiatus, that landscape has changed. It’s entirely social media now. You don’t exist unless you have a strong social media presence. So in saying that, we basically don’t exist compared to a lot of other clubs.

Only my opinion though, I’m deffo not an expert.

Yeah, I like the approach that Dan Gorringe takes. He's great all round entertainment value IMHO.

2 hours ago, Macca said:

The Ox's comments was during an interview with SEN and related to the camp down at Lorne

He mentioned a few times that he had witnessed the players getting up to no good. He didn't elaborate but repeated himself a few times

My reading off of it was that the listeners needed to fill in the gaps as he wasn't prepared to name names or describe what the activities were (that he witnessed)

Sorry, but that's [censored] form from Ox. Adds to the media pile on, tars everyone with a guilty brush based in insinuations. Again coming from the guy could have been as good as Wayne Carey on feild, but that destroyed his own career and contributed to bad team culture that derailed the team.

If Ox has concerns and insights based on his own experiences, by all means raise them directly to the club leadership and board etc, but just adding to the public pile on reeks of him putting his own personal media profile and interests above that of the club.

By contrast, Max is the consumate professional trainer, has what 8 all Australian medals to his own name, a premiership and consecutive seasons where the team was a pace setter of the league and top 4 finishes. I'd also suggest that as a captain/leader, Max's easy going affable style is somewhat ballanced by others in the team like the super intense Jack Viney that has more your Joel Selwood mindset, but perhaps not so much the level of interpersonal skills.

12 hours ago, Macca said:

As an aside, earlier this year, the Ox had some very interesting things to say about the player behaviour (off-field)

I'd be interested to know what he did say, so care to share any key points or links to something that does?

That said, I find it very hard being lectured on this kind of stuff by the Ox the way he does. The club wasted so much tallent and oppertunity during his time as a player.

Say what you will about Max, but under his leadership we actually delivered 2 - 3 pretty elite seasons that have no equal in my lifetime as a MFC supporter in terms of performance and results. Even though we ultimately fell short in 22 and 23, the club has never been able to put together such a dominant stretch of form and be the force of the competition that we were from the period of the start of 2021 till at least mid way through 2022.

On 26/10/2025 at 15:36, Ethan Tremblay said:

Sorry, but can someone clarify who it is below?

9 hours ago, Fritta and Turner said:

I am pleased to announce that Dan Taylor will nominate for the Board

So we'll have JT and DT.

On a semi related note of the AGM, I think it would be a great move for the club to make JT a life member of the MFC. ...should nominate him for a knighthood to while we're at it.

9 hours ago, Demons11 said:

The Exec Director of Stan would be a great addition to the board. It would be interesting how the club could leverage this

Wounder if the AFL rights would permit us to run some kind of doco/MFC themed entertainment peice on Stan?

At the very least, you'd expect the standard of our social media and member communications content to improve and be top notch.

Given all the rubbish negative media coverage we've had over the past few years, you'd thing having someone with these kind of connections would also be huge in projecting a positive image and rebrand of the club and position us well in the Melbourne sporting marketplace, which could be critical for the club going forward. On face value this sounds like a great appointment to me.

3 hours ago, Harvey Wallbanger said:

I'm worried that we will kicked off to the Barossa valley for Gather Round.....having had all Adelaide Oval matches so far.

And you're worried about that why?

Barossa Valley seems like the perfect location for Dees fans and it's not like we've actually done any good at Adelaide oval during Gather Rd anyway. Us playing one of the Adelaide teams (or anyone other than playing each other) gather round sux as it effectively gifts them an address home game.

4 hours ago, BoBo said:

I’m seeing a lot more in recent weeks I feel which is good. There’s an opening in the market also for a Dees fan with social media savvy (and a good sense of humour) to do a Dan Gorringe type page too. Other clubs also have these kinds of pages that do really well.

If you want to catch the eye of those youngins’ this is a way to do it. Any budding social media influencers out there Dees fans? Infiltrate their precious little minds with pro-demons propaganda in the algo, haha. Make a little bit of money from it too if it blows up.

Max is our closest equivalent of Dan Gorringe and I think the time is right to give him some more air time in promoting the club again.  His Gus and Gawn podcast was always great entertainment and ended for obvious reasons, but I think a remake is there for the taking.  Should pair him up with Chin, Jake Lever or someone else in the team with a bot of personality and entertainment value.

Website and socials have been pretty average really since Gibbo left.

1 hour ago, 3183 Dee said:

Website and socials have been pretty average really since Gibbo left.

Yeah, with you on this one - BRING BACK GIBBO, he was the GOAT!

Seriously, I thought he was a bit of a weird cat, but actually respected that he did a decent job of bridging old worldly conservative nature of the MFC, while also playing to a younger audience in his own natural authentic way.

13 hours ago, Left Foot Snap said:

That is a great idea for a thread!!!

It exists. Feel free to contribute:

8 hours ago, Cranky Franky said:

There should be an annual Demonland award for the most time wasting post.

Putting in a nomination for the Zac Jones thread and another for "players that need a hair cut" one.

5 minutes ago, rpfc said:

Well that’s fun!

And I am still bitter about that. Top of the ladder rd18 and out in first week… sigh.

Meh, it's such ancient history I'd forgotten all about it. Was probably also in a period that my interest in footy had been sidelined by other life priorities, like moving interstate, buying a house and getting married.

That all said, I still regard 1998 as the premiership that got away from us. We finished 4th and smashed Adelaide (5th) and St Kilda only to loose to North in the prelim who then lost to Adelaide in the grand final. It was under the previous top 8 finals series system which allowed Adelaide to stay in as the 2nd lowest looser or something - in today's superior top 8 finals series they would have been out in the first week.

9 hours ago, Devil In Disguise said:

They have so far devoted 84 posts on him over at Bomberblitz, so where there is smoke… 🤣

Their version of the Bailey Humphrey thread in the making!

2 hours ago, adonski said:

Judd was a solid reliable backman, but don't recall him being that great at the rebound part of the role. I can see us getting much more drive off half back from Jiath.

...just a quick peek at the S last names in Demon Wiki provides a further 4 Jacks from early / mid last century:

Jack Sambell

Jack Smith

Jack Stock

Jack Strong