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Wade Derksen has apparently requested a trade to the Demons. Whether or not it happens....we shall wait and see?

Just read email. Dr Angela Williams comes onto the Melbourne Football Club Board and Janette Kendall is leaving.

I expect either Jack Viney or Max Gawn to win the Keith "Bluey" Truscott memorial trophy for Melbourne's Best & Fairest in 2024. Either of them are worthy winners. Best first year player should be Caleb "The Duke" Windsor. Most improved player is probably going to be Andy Moniz-Wakefield. However, I think Daniel "Disco" Turner and Taj Woewodin could possibly get honourable mentions too. I also expect there might be farewell speeches from Alex Neal-Bullen, Ben Brown and maybe Lachie Hunter too. Hopefully Angus Brayshaw attends and makes a speech too. But that's up to him. The elephant in the corner of the room will be Christian Petracca's non-attendance. But we already knew that beforehand. Will be interesting what interim President Brad Green, CEO Gary Pert and Coach Simon Goodwin also say at the Best & Fairest event.

Would prefer a fully transparent external review. But we shall wait and see I guess? The 2024 Annual General Meeting for the Melbourne Football Club should be interesting. Gary Pert and Alan Richardson better be prepared for a lot of angry Melbourne members asking for full explanations as to why we have basically "sh*t the bed" since our AFL Premiership in 2021. I kind of feel sorry for Brad Green, filling in as the interim President, but he shouldn't be blamed for the current situation we find ourselves in. Hopefully, we find a suitable replacement as President of the Melbourne Football Club for the long term.

Hopefully Jason Taylor can work his magic. Ideally, we should aim for 2 or even 3 picks in the top 20. But that's probably wishful thinking unless we can do some deals with Brisbane and/or Gold Coast to give them various picks for points.

Saw the other day that Mark "Choco" Williams has a side hustle selling little models of the MCG. He was promoting them on Fox Footy a few nights ago. Here's the link for anyone interested: https://mcgshop.com.au/mymcg-replica-stadium/ A bit too expensive for me. But each to their own. Anyway, I digress, after watching the 2024 Grand Final on TV, I have gotta admit winning an AFL Premiership at the MCG on Grand Final Day is the ultimate triumph. The AFL did an impressive job getting Katy Perry to perform. Although, $5 million dollars for 20 minutes of work is a pretty sweet deal for her! Now, don't get me wrong, the Melbourne Demons winning in Perth at Optus Stadium in 2021 was wonderful. Especially as we ended our 57 year Premiership drought. But winning a Premiership at the home of football at the MCG must be the ultimate objective. I hope Simon Goodwin and many of the Melbourne Demons players got together to watch the Grand Final on TV and it motivates them to aim for Premiership glory next year in 2025. Winning at the MCG would be absolutely amazing for us as long-suffering Melbourne members and supporters. Particularly if it's a beautiful day on the last Saturday in September. The COVID-19 lockdowns back in 2021 prevented us from celebrating the way we deserved to do. I am sure many of us want to celebrate a Premiership win here in Melbourne at the MCG so we can paint the town red and blue. Go crazy and party all night, go to a few pubs, get drunk and pass out in Swan Street, Richmond or some other place in the City. Ideally, we will have our home base built at Caulfield Racecourse in a few years so we can celebrate at our Home Base too! Especially, as I don't think the Melbourne Demons have any specific supporter friendly pubs like the Brisbane/Fitzroy Lions do such as the Royal Derby Hotel on Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. Anyway, let's hope we don't have to wait another 57 years to celebrate our next Melbourne Demons Premiership and that it is at the MCG IN Melbourne!

They're calling it the "Swanny-Wobbles" now apparently.

Christian Petracca was probably a sneaky chance to win the Brownlow Medal if he hadn't got injured. However, Patrick Cripps getting 45 votes was absolutely ridiculous. At least Nick Daicos missed out with an equally amazing 38 votes. Would love to see Christian Petracca, Clayton Oliver or Max Gawn win a Brownlow Medal. But more Premiership Medallions for the Demons are highly more desirable!

Injuries, had not played at the MCG since April, arrogance, outcoached and lack of desire on the day. Swanny-wobbles are real!

Not sure if it has already been posted, but here is the 2024 Under 18 All Australian Team. Hopefully the Demons can draft one or two (or even three) of these young guns.

Seeing as he has now helped the Brisbane Lions win a Premiership as as an assistant coach, we should now look to pursue Cameron Bruce to return to the Melbourne Football Club. Cameron Bruce has been at both the Hawks and Lions and been quite successful as an assistant coach. I think he has had almost 10 years of coaching experience now. Cameron Bruce was an excellent player for the Melbourne Demons. We could look to have him take over as our forward line or midfield coach with Nathan Bassett (who is possibly coming to the Melbourne Demons too). Anyway, the more help we can give to Simon Goodwin to strengthen our coaching panel the better!

You're kidding aren't you? I still want Brayden Maynard's blood! As do many other Melbourne supporters. Let's hope we get revenge against Collingwood for the disgraceful injustice against Angus Brayshaw eventually....

He was handy at times Lachie Hunter. Was a bit of a pointless trade in someway. We should of been looking for younger players. Sadly, Lachie's body wasn't up to it. I think he will go into coaching though. I wish him all the best and thank him for his contribution to the Melbourne Football Club.

Watched the 2021 AFL Grand Final last night. Brought back some amazing and wonderful memories. Seeing the Melbourne Demons break their 57 year Premiership drought was probably one of the most happiest days of my life. Finally claiming our 13th Flag. Christian Petracca was a titan winning the Norm Smith Medal. Angus Brayshaw was inspirational too. For us to come back from 19 points down half way through the third quarter was incredible. Just hope we can win our 14th Premiership at the MCG very soon!

Sydney were humiliated today. Brisbane were too good.

Bodie Grundy was useless today in the Grand Final. But he has a lot of team mates in the same boat. Swans sh*t the bed against the Lions!

Great to see Christian Petracca smiling. His interview seemed very honest and sincere in what he said. I could never stay mad at the man who helped us end our 57 year Premiership drought in 2021 and won a Norm Smith Medal. I wish Christian Petracca a wonderful time on his holidays in Europe and hope he enjoys himself at the Redbull Elite Fitness Centre. Fingers crossed Christian Petracca has an excellent year in 2025. Would love to see him in the future win more Premiership Medallions for the Melbourne Demons and possibly a Brownlow Medal too!

Hooray! Finally some progress! Our Home Base at Caulfield Racecourse will be an incredible achievement for the Melbourne Football Club. A Home Base is in many ways almost as important (if not more!) as winning Premierships! This idea of a Home Base at Caulfield Racecourse was first suggested by former Demons President Stuart Spencer way back in 1990. So only 34 years in the making... The concept art is appealing. We definitely need a Melbourne Football Club history museum for our thirteen (and future) VFL/AFL Premiership Cups! I am expecting we as Melbourne members will have to pay for a significant portion of it. They should of started the Home Base fund in 2021 after our Premiership. We would of all been very enthusiastic! Either way, I expect a few fund raising events like the "Debt Demolition" back when Jimmy Stynes was Melbourne Demons President. All I suggest, is that the outside of our Home Base buildings are red and dark blue similar to our jumper. A bit like the style they have at Punt Road for Richmond with the yellow and black.

I am pleased with the re-signings of these young players. I think Kynan "Pup" Brown has a lot of potential, he just needs to get stronger and hit the gym!

I think time is up for Melbourne List Manager Tim Lamb. Unfortunately I think this is the best course of action and Tim Lamb should look for opportunities elsewhere. If you asked me at the start of 2022 I would of said Tim Lamb has done a fantastic job and helped end our 57 year Premiership drought. Sadly, since then, it has been mistake after mistake with our recruiting and trading. There were many failures that he has to take responsibility for as our List Manager. That is why it is best he parts ways with the Melbourne Football Club. We can then look to heavily pursue Graham Wright. A man with a highly credentialled career as a List Manager with success at both Hawthorn and Collingwood. He is the man we want as our new List Manager. I hope that the Melbourne Demons look to try and recruit Graham Wright. Nevertheless, it will be interesting what the outcomes will be after our external review of the Football Department is completed.

I also hope that the Home Base at the Caulfield Racecourse gets the green light. The MCG precinct was stolen from us by Collingwood when they took Olympic Park from under our noses. We can thank Eddie McGuire's sneakiness and Joseph Gutnick's failures for that happening. The MCG will always be our ancestral Home, but we sadly missed out on the opportunity to have a proper Home Base there. Missing out on Olympic Park, Punt Road Oval (apparently the Richmond Football Club threatened to leave there in the 1930s), the East Melbourne Cricket Ground being demolished in the 1920s for rail yards and the failed Jolimont Train Station Project a few years ago due to selfish local East Melbourne NIMBYs. We probably should of built a Home Base in the late 1950s or 1960s after the 1956 Olympics, but I think there was a severe case of hubris that infiltrated the Club due to all our Premiership success at the time. I am sure Norm Smith wanted a proper Home Base and training ground due to the impracticality of the MCG during cricket season. Apparently former Demons legend and President Stuart Spencer proposed Caulfield Racecourse as a Home Base way back in 1990. So this project is 34 years in the making. It would rejuvenate the area around the Racecourse and there are many Melbourne supporters in Caulfield, Malvern and nearby Ormond as well as Bentleigh. We would literally be building a Home Base in our old "heart land". It makes sense to do this.

Probably not the best public display by a coach in Ken Hinkley. He may get a fine. Having said that, Jack Ginnivan gave the ammunition with his social media post. That was foolish of him. What disappoints me more is that Simon Goodwin didn't at least attempt to use what happened to Angus Brayshaw by that vile thug Brayden Maynard when we next played Collingwood this year in the King's Birthday Game. We were as soft as butter and players were shaking Maynard's hand?! It was humiliating and will remain an embarrassment until vengeance is served back cold against Collingwood and Maynard. Angus Brayshaw will hopefully get justice one day whether it is on the field or in the court room we shall wait and see.

Ahh had some great memories from those video highlights... Jeff "The Wizard" Farmer was probably one of the most exciting players to ever play at the Demons. I remember people WANTING to go to the footy to see him play for the Demons. The excitement when Jeff Farmer had the ball in the forward line was far better than even anything Charlie Cameron has produced for the Brisbane Lions. Jeff Farmer was probably one of the best forward pockets of his time. It was such a travesty when he left to go to Fremantle. I still reckon if we had kept him we could of won a Premiership in the early 2000's. Imagine if we had both Jeff Farmer and Aaron Davey in the same team!

Not having access to an NGA young talent like Tairon Ah-Mu for the Melbourne Football Club is actually a disgrace! Especially after missing out on Mac Andrew! Who is now the $12 million(?) dollar man at the Golf Coast Suns. Why should we even bother with the NGA at all?! There is no benefit for the Melbourne Football Club to do so if we cannot have access to the players we develop. It's literally a waste of time and money. I would strongly suggest either Brad Green or the next Melbourne Football Club President to make a formal complaint and heavily lobby the AFL asking why we cannot have access to the NGA talent we develop?! This is grossly unfair! We need to kick up a big stink about this!

"Diamond" Joe Gutnick is yesterday's news. He did save the Melbourne Football Club from merger but that was in 1996. That is 28 years ago! I remember his Presidency being full of drama and fighting with the AFL. He then lost the Presidency in 2001 or 2002 to Gabriel Szondy, from what I recall? He still owes the Melbourne Football Club around $400,000 dollars. A debt he never paid. He stuffed up our opportunity to have a proper Home Base at Olympic Park but unfortunately Eddie and the Magpie scum swooped in and stole the location from us! Now in 2024 after many years in ignominy and being bankrupt (at least it says that in past newspaper articles) he has the "chutzpah" to think he speaks for us?! In my opinion Joseph Gutnick has lost any respect he once had with most Melbourne supporters and members many years ago.