YearOfTheDees

Much as I would love them too Collingwood can not miss finals.

Guess if they somehow win this they will take a record off us.

Three not 15s in a row then pay a 5 mt kick in the forward line

Special board meeting at Carlton tonight has just st been announced. Looks like it might be spreading.

Does anyone know what the biggest win a club has had the week before the coach was sacked.

I just want someone "anyone" who will make the players accountable on the field. No more learnings or Momentum etc.

The number of people I know who were not going to renew their memberships and the number on here asking how to turn off auto renew, maybe the club saw the writing on the wall. Guess we will have to wait for the club to put out an announcement.

Might be a few more go at seasons end, maybe getting in early.

Gee the $3.90 for sundays match might be worth taking.

Ok I'm going to call it,maybe.

How sad is it, 63 points up and your really not sure if you're safe yet.

Gee I'm looking forward to our next three games Dogs Hawks Pies.

I can't remember just not caring how a game plays out so I'm a good chance to get a call up next week to play.

Mot interesting thing today might be the press conference post game. A lost = Learnings and West Coast just had Momentum we couldn't get back. A Win = The boys have responded and found a way to win against a very good side today.

Going to be one of the smallest crowds of all time. Even with the AFLs 2 4 1 deal.

So Spargo is dropped " must be the reason we lost" and is replaced by Sharp who was dropped the week before "for losing the Carlton game". I really expected the club to make a statement at selection this week.

‘You can’t get consumed’: Goodwin feels the blowtorch after shattering loss By Scott SpitsJuly 31, 2025 — 12.22pm Simon Goodwin says he feels “incredibly supported” by Melbourne’s board as the club grapples with the fallout from losing after giving up a 46-point lead at three-quarter-time against St Kilda last Sunday. The Demons coach presented to the board barely 24 hours after the dramatic scenes at Marvel Stadium in which the Saints notched a miraculous win after Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera’s heroics, kicking the match-winning goal after the siren. Demons coach Simon Goodwin presented to the club board this week after the gut-wrenching loss to St Kilda.CREDIT: AFL PHOTOS But a defeat to last-placed West Coast at Marvel Stadium on Saturday would be catastrophic for Melbourne, who are 13th with just six wins this season. “I feel incredibly supported by the board. I have for nine years. We’ve been able to go through these challenges before with clarity and strength and stability to create success,” Goodwin said on Thursday. “In 2019 we finished second last, and two years later, we won the flag. So you can’t get consumed [by outside] noise. All you can do is be really clear about your strategy, clear about your process, understand the challenge, be clear about it, and go about the process to build the next great team.” Goodwin said Monday’s board meeting was previously planned. It included presentations from the coach and former All Blacks performance head Darren Shand, the consultant who ran the club’s football review at the end of last year. Legend says Demons coach could be axed after lossAFL great Matthew Lloyd says Demons coach Simon Goodwin could be sacked if Melbourne loses to West Coast in round 21. Goodwin reiterated that the list was in transition after the drought-breaking 2021 flag. He has coached the Demons since 2017 and is contracted until the end of next season. This masthead reported that a payout of nearly $1 million for the final year of his contract would not stop Melbourne from parting ways with the premiership coach. “We’re a different team to what we were. We’re a new team,” said Goodwin. AFL 2025AFL investigation finds car in social media post was not Goodwin’s“We reviewed the whole last quarter, clearly it was unacceptable. If you look around, if you looked into the rooms after the game [there was] devastation from the players, and I can only imagine from our supporters and everyone involved. “We knew it was unacceptable. “Every moment matters, every contest matters, irrespective of the scoreboard. And that’s the type of approach that we need to develop. Otherwise, we keep having inconsistencies. “Sometimes when you have moments like you had on a weekend in [the] last quarter, it exposes things quicker, so you can do something about it quicker. “This could be a moment that we look back [that] has been incredibly helpful for where we want to go.” Melbourne supporters have expressed extreme frustration with the loss to St Kilda. Goodwin was the target of a social media post on Sunday night that sparked a report by the club to the league’s integrity unit. An anonymous account posted a picture of a car in a car park, with the words: “I’m currently waiting outside Simon Goodwin’s car: Don’t fret Melbourne fans you won’t need to worry any further.” Security officials at Melbourne Stadium were alerted. The car in the photo was not Goodwin’s, and the car park was not at Marvel Stadium. Goodwin said the AFL and police had dealt with it, and he wanted to move on from it. “Your family hears about it, that’s for sure,” he said. “That’s in the hands of the AFL and the police. Clearly, we don’t want to see that in our game, but I don’t want to make that the focus of today. I want to make the focus of today about our footy club and about what we need to do.” Amid significant confusion about what precisely teams can do after a 6-6-6 breach when a free kick is paid, Goodwin said the Demons had sought AFL clarification. “On a reset clearly they’ve got to reset the field. That was the first thing,” Goodwin said. “The ruckman has to stand mark, but the players inside [the centre square] can pretty much go wherever they need to. “There’s a bit of technicality in that. I think every club has probably taken note of it.”

$1m payout won’t stop Demons making tough call on Goodwin if necessary By Michael GleesonJuly 30, 2025 — 5.30am A payout of nearly $1 million for the final year of Simon Goodwin’s contract would not stop Melbourne from parting ways with the premiership coach should the board decide the change was the circuit breaker the club needed. Melbourne are determined to make significant changes this year after another season that has spiralled into misery. There is a harder edge to Melbourne’s decision-making this year and the potential of a payout for Goodwin or other contracted staff will not be an impediment to change should they decide it is required. Simon Goodwin has a contract for next year, but Melbourne’s poor form - including Sunday’s loss to St Kilda - means the Demons are under pressure to make changes.CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES Goodwin’s position remains under serious threat at season’s end, and possibly sooner should the club lose to bottom-of-the-ladder West Coast at the weekend. The Demons board held a scheduled board meeting on Monday, which included presentations from both Goodwin and former All Blacks performance head Darren Shand, the consultant who ran the club’s football review at the end of last year. Board member Steven Smith, who will take over as club president from Brad Green later in the year, joined the meeting by conference call from Europe. While the board did not settle on what its next course of action will be, it was agreed that significant changes to the football department are needed. The timing of decisions on those changes will not be reliant on the handover of the presidency. Senior Melbourne sources said the board would analyse the football department and performance again, look at Shand’s review conducted at the end of last year and examine whether changes recommended then were properly implemented this year. They will consider Alan Richardson’s role as the club’s head of football, the broader coaching panel as well as the senior coaching position, and most pointedly, consider whether changing the senior coach is necessary to prompt cultural and seismic change at the club, or simply the easiest and most symbolic change to make. What change would have the biggest impact at a club that needs to halt a continued slide from their premiership year? Moving on the one coach in the past 60 years to take the club to a premiership? Overhauling the rest of the coaches and football figures? Being more aggressive in turning over the playing list? Or all of the above? Advertisement The potential availability of a number of experienced senior AFL coaches – namely Adam Simpson, John Longmire and Nathan Buckley – cannot be ignored when considering whether Goodwin’s message is still getting through or the group needs a new voice. Melbourne believe they could cover the impact on the soft cap of paying out the final year of Goodwin’s contract, or other contracts, if it came to a decision to part ways. The only certainty, as a senior Melbourne figure said, was that all options were on the table for the football department, with the board agreeing the status quo was not working. The dissatisfaction and resignation of members and sponsors is not lightly dismissed. While all options are on the table for the broad football department and strategy, the same does not apply to the playing list, as players such as Max Gawn and Kysaiah Pickett will not be up for trade. The Demons are aware they have stuck with the same midfield of Gawn, Christian Petracca, Clayton Oliver and Jack Viney since their 2021 premiership. That midfield blend was formidable when their game style, predicated on contested ball and strong defence, was the successful dominant method of play, but has waned in the years that the trend has been towards transition running and repeat speed. Debate has been had internally about whether Melbourne’s list is suited to that style of play or, if it is, then is the style getting trough to the players? That is the list-versus-coaching debate every club that finds itself in this situation argues about (see Carlton). Melbourne refused to trade Oliver to Geelong last year, believing the return offered was insufficient, and shutdown Petracca’s restlessness for a move. The club still believes it would need a significant return to entertain moving any of its players, including that pair, on. The Demons do not have a first round draft pick this year. As a senior Melbourne figure observed of their season, doing nothing is not an option.

Did we make any moves at all, send Petty back anything. I know we placed Cozzie on the bench but did we do anything else.

They had 90 seconds to get that last center bounce right and still couldn't.

I just want to go back to when we were [censored] because we had a [censored] team.

No thats all on us.

Learnings guys.

Cant even get a point.

This is ok, they would have been drinking bathwater all week and next year if it had continued.