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    What is the one thing that has kept you going?

    in Melbourne Demons

    Posted

    I don't need to tell a single person reading this forum that its been a tough several years for us all. Like many on here I love my footy club, its been mine since birth and I find myself caring about it more than I probably should. I don't need to provide a spread sheet of the potential saviours, false dawns, tragedies, mistakes, anguish and failures we as a club have endured. There has been times in the past few years where in my darker moments I was forced to ponder which club I'd barrack for should mine bite the dust? The sad answer is, there is no answer, I'd probably give the game away. During this time I think we've each held onto something that has kept us going. A thought, a hope, a simple wish. I'm interested to know what yours is?



    What's the one thing that has kept you supporting our club during these lean years?

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    Choco Williams

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    Mark Williams is the coach for our last crack and forming a Premiership side from our current crop of players.

    He will rock a very big ship that just sinking anyway so why not. Does anyone actually believe a bloke like Rocket Eade is going to inspire Colin Sylvia to be the player we all think he can be. I'd rather see Col under Williams than any other coach.

    Williams, like Roos, will connect with our entire playing group, something Neeld obviously had trouble with. But as much as we want Roosy I just don't think the move to Melbourne is attractive at all.

    It's Williams for a shot at and Grandfinal win, or its Eade for a couple more Preliminary Finals then another half-decade in the bottom eight.

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    The awkward equation that must determine our next coach...

    in Melbourne Demons

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    Exactly. I don't mean to sound rude (I realise I do though) but it is terrible. For example and I quote "A coach who can inspire these young men to play sustained out-of-their-skin type football and maybe one day [censored] a Granny from one of those Mc Teams from up north." What does that even mean? Pavlova anyone?

    You do sound rude. Why so defensive? The censored part of the post was essentially 'steal'. I'm sure it'll make sense now. Better get to bed now DeeInWA, school tomorrow.

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    The awkward equation that must determine our next coach...

    in Melbourne Demons

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    Like all Demonlander's I've been churning the potential coaches through my head since Neeld's rather sombre sacking earlier this week. If we can remember back that far, it feels like an eternity ago for many reasons, it really feels to me that something rather significant transpired over the weekend that allowed Pj to make the 7.55am call to sack our then coach. Maybe it was a twilight call from Andy D and his mates letting PJ know that they'll pay for the hit, and fund a major player to take over? To think that the conversation ventured into who that major player might be and if any 'hypothetical discussions' had taken place is perhaps a little paranoid, but one can only hope!

    As the week has gone on the broadly held view that we need a established 'big-name' coach has held firm. It's cause for celebration that the names Roos, Williams and Eade are part of the conversation. Many times this week I've just sat back and relished in the reality that one of those names may one day be announced as our new coach. In 2011 the names Malthouse, Lyon and Clarkson circled but they never felt close or real. Ok, I'll admit that I thought we had Rossy Lyon in the bag at one stage, though I dare not say it out loud, for fear it might then not become true. But that was 2011, back when I considered our Gary a real operator rather than dour git he parades himself as in the media. We would have killed for the names being mentioned now to have been mentioned back then and we would have killed some more for them to be the stark reality they appear as now. Gee whizz you mob, this might be something real! This PJ bloke has me pissing my pants and I'm going to share that I'm lovin' the thrilling wet tingle on me thigh. No more of these perpetual false dawns. No more relying on poor old Jack Watts to save us, or one legged Mitch to carry our load. No more praying that that tough talking skinny bloke in glasses at that now infamous press conference might just know what his talking about or waiting for Jack Viney to put blokes like Hodgey on his arse whilst snapping home his fourth from 45 out on a tight angle. We're now facing an overhaul of every major facet of our club.

    But the brutal reality is of course that our Premiership window remains open by a tiny, single crack. A slight puff of wind will jam it shut for what will be another decade of angst and navel gazing. For me hope is coming from a rather obscure place. In my opinion there is still a glimmer of hope due to Todd Viney's late picks in Dean Terlich, Matt Jones and perhaps even Dean Kent. This is not to say that these blokes are our saviours, but they are a base from which to build. They have us hanging in there by a single thread and the young men with their grip on that thread is Todd's own son Jack, his house mate Jimmy Toumpas and the boy-mountain Jesse Hogan. This very fact must, in my opinion, shape the decision surrounding our next coach. As we are going to have to pull our next premiership cup from nowhere. T'will be a heist of great proportion which calls for special measures which I suggest is not to settle for just any 'big-name' coach, but one suited to the task at hand. A coach who can inspire these young men to play sustained out-of-their-skin type football and maybe one day [censored] a Granny from one of those Mc Teams from up north.

    We need some X-Factor because we don't have a list that will win a Grand Final based on skill, talent and silk. Just who this coach is I will leave up to you but for sanity's sake lets leave Clarko, Sheeds and Lethal out of this, because it just ain't gonna happen. Of the names mentioned above I reckon I know who it ain't. Rodney Eade strikes me as a bit of a Pavlova, a neither here nor there kind of cake. Fluffy, airy, particularly pithy and with no real substance. A good coach they tell me but he just don't fit the description above.

    This is our equation Demonlanders. Just who is going to instil the otherworldly passion and guts we need to pull this off?

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    GAME DAY - Round 11

    in Melbourne Demons

    Posted · Edited by the fork

    Lynden Dunn get out of this football club!

    This place would be so much more tolerable without comments like this. Dazzle I like your work mate but this is just disrespectful to a loyal Melbourne player. Sure he's had an ordinary day but far from our worst this year.

    GAME DAY - Round 11

    in Melbourne Demons

    Posted · Edited by the fork


    From our mate Greggy D, apologies to those who actually knew about this.



    Experienced administrator Matthew Drain could head Melbourne's football department





    A NEW-LOOK Melbourne football department could be headed by experienced AFL administrator Matthew Drain.



    The Australian understands Drain has been approached by new Demons chief executive Peter Jackson to head football at the struggling club, which is expected to make several key football department changes, including the replacement of senior coach Mark Neeld a year ahead of the expiration of his contract.


    Drain, 44, has previously worked for Essendon, the Western Bulldogs and St Kilda at the top end, as either general manager of football operations, list manager or high-performance manager.


    He worked alongside Kevin Sheedy at Windy Hill between 1999 and 2002 when Jackson was Bombers chief executive.


    Jackson did not return calls from The Australian last night.


    Drain, a former Victorian Sheffield Shield squad member, left Essendon to become high-performance manager of Cricket Australia, where he oversaw the development of a centre of excellence. Having played first-grade cricket for 13 years, he was also head coach of the Australian women's cricket team.











    After leaving St Kilda several years ago, Drain sought a career change away from elite sport, working in law enforcement.


    Should he accept the position with Melbourne, he would be ideally placed to renew his association with Rodney Eade, who is likely to be sounded out for the senior coaching role from next season.


    Eade is currently a coaching strategist under Nathan Buckley at Collingwood, a position he has held since he coached the Bulldogs for seven years until the end of the 2011 season.


    Drain and Eade had a close working relationship at the Whitten Oval for several years until Drain moved to St Kilda in 2008











    Pedro Wonaeamirri, brother of Aussie, son of Matthew.

    in Melbourne Demons

    Posted

    An interesting article for those who are interested and perhaps for those who struggle to understand the power and pull of family in indigenous Australia:

    Healing art of Tiwi Islander Pedro Wonaeamirri

    It was mid-November 2010, the height of the build-up season across tropical Australia. The sun was sinking over the Tiwi Islands northeast of Darwin. A troop carrier set off from Garden Point community towards Snake Bay, along the winding red dirt haul road, in deceptive light.

    You can cross the pay wall by cutting and pasting the quote.

    GAMEDAY - ROUND 5

    in Melbourne Demons

    Posted

    Then get off the forum if you are sick of opinions. Isnt a hard solution for most people. Seems difficult for yourself though unsurprisingly.

    You need to give it a rest Tiger and think about the lives of the young men you so flippantly punish with your ego.

    See you in a month, I'll make sure of it tough guy!

    GAMEDAY - ROUND 5

    in Melbourne Demons

    Posted

    Wtf? You turn a opinion i make into a personal attack? Seriously go and get [censored]. Hypocrite

    Classy.

    I guess that would mean that Olisk and his cancerous attitude gets a month off then? I am sick to death of you and the things you type, but would never in a month of Sunday's ever say to a players face.

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