Supreme_Demon

Glad we won! Winning form is the best form. Was an extremely tough and hard fought win in front of a hostile crowd at the SCG. Was extremely worried about Jake Melksham (and Bayley Fritsch) regarding their injuries. Hopefully they are both ok? Jack Viney, Christian Petracca and Bayley Fritsch all played brilliantly! Certainly a great game to play leading into the finals. It will have us toughened up and ready for the Magpies. In some good news, apparently Brodie Grundy kicked 3 goals (and had 33 disposals) and Tom McDonald kicked 5 goals at VFL level. So some "good" selection headaches.

Hope we play well and are "in form" against the Swans. Winning is preferred. As it helps build momentum for us. Don't care where we play in the finals. You gotta beat the best to be the best. Although, obviously at the MCG against the Magpies is preferred. No injuries is important. As we need to be fit and healthy for finals football. Lastly, I hope Christian Petracca plays extremely well and gets the 3 votes in our match today. That helps him to be a sneaky chance to win the 2023 Brownlow Medal! Fingers crossed!🤞

With North Melbourne winning...against a soft as butter Gold Coast....we may still be a "slight chance" to get Harley Reid after all? 🤔

Enjoy your end-of-season Bali holidays Flogmantle! 🤣

I am not against giving Daniel "Disco" Turner a chance against the Swans. My only two concerns are: 1) Adam Tomlinson would be better suited against the "bigger" types of Joel Amartey and Hayden McLean. 2) Wouldn't it be better to have a settled defence leading into the finals?

I think Horrible Hawthorn are a good chance of beating Feckless Fremantle at the MCG. Especially with Jai Newcombe back in for the Hawks. Nevertheless, we shall wait and see what happens I guess? 🤷🏼‍♂️

Christian Petracca still a "sneaky chance" to win the Brownlow Medal this year apparently? Especially if he has a Best-On-Ground performance against the Swans. However, I will admit that a 2023 AFL Premiership Medallion and another Norm Smith Medal would be alot better!

I wish Adem Yze all the best with this opportunity at the Tigers. My only request would be that any senior AFL coaching role he takes on isn't until the Demons finals compaign is concluded.

Don't forget Stuart Spencer too from the 1950s! Another redhead. One of the greatest Demons players ever. Just a shame he moved to Tasmania in his prime!

I am really hopeful Tom McDonald plays as our second tall forward against Sydney. I think structurally it makes sense. Especially as he can also share ruck duties with Jacob van Rooyen in the forward line too. Anyway, the selection committee have a lot to ponder this week. 🤔

I am still quietly confident that Brodie Grundy will help the Demons out during the finals and have an impact for us. Especially against teams who play 2 ruckmen. The balance of Brodie Grundy and Max Gawn playing together and kicking goals worked well in the Pre-Season matches against St. Kilda and Richmond. I was genuinely excited after those performances. Sadly, I don't know what went wrong after that. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Kane Cornes is just a shock jock really. He says controversial things just for the sake of it. Very boring! 🥱 Good on Russell "Robbo" Roberston for standing up for Simon Goodwin, Clayton Oliver and the Melbourne Football Club though! I know "Robbo" is the MC/Host for Melbourne Demons Home Games at the MCG. He does a great job there! However, I would love to see him more in the media. If they ever brought back a variety Football TV show (kinda like the Footy Show or Live and Kicking) then "Robbo" could easily host it and even play in a band due to his musical talents.

Back in 1981?! No idea. Probably only a few thousand. I reckon Ron Barassi signed one master copy and the rest were photocopies.

14/15 Pretty happy with that! 😎👍🏻

It really is a bit of a quandary dealing with who to pick. I think with a top 5 pick you gotta go best talent available. However, wants and needs also need to be taken into account. Here are the "current" rankings for the first round of the 2023 AFL National Draft: https://www.espn.com.au/afl/story/_/id/38116519/afl-draft-power-rankings-august-2023-jasper-chellappah-first-round-locks-starting-take-shape At picks 5, 6 or 7 it has the Demons taking either Nate Caddy, Nick Watson or Zane Duursma. You would have to be "over the moon" with any of those choices. All of them exceptional young football talents. Anyway, I will reiterate that I have total faith in Jason Taylor and the rest of the MFC recruitment team. 🙏

Cheers for that. I personally always find it interesting to know who players barracked for before getting recruited by the Melbourne Demons.

Great stuff! A piece of MFC history there. Ron Barassi was right! But it took 40 years instead of the planned 5! 🤣 Hopefully they had photocopiers back in 1981 otherwise Ron Barassi was signing a lot of letters! 😯

Wonderful news! This is a massive show of faith in Simon Goodwin. It also shows what high regard the Melbourne Football Club has in Simon Goodwin as our coach to lead us into the future. The great thing about doing this before the finals is Simon Goodwin can now fully focus all his attention on winning more Premierships for the Demons! 🔴🔵👹 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆....

Well done on the excellent interview with Jake Melksham, Andy! It was fantastic! I greatly appreciate both you and Jake Melksham taking the time to do this. 😎👍🏻

It's probably a bit too late to ask further questions I assume? I would just like to know what his junior footy was like growing up in Glenroy and playing for the Calder Cannons in the Under 18s TAC Cup (as it used to be called)? He was a pretty talented junior player who won the "best on ground" on the TAC Cup Grand Final actually. Who did Jake Melksham barrack for as a kid growing up? I think it may have been Essendon. Anyway, looking forward to listening to the interview! 🙂

Hopefully not! 😯 Although I would like to see Daniel "Disco" Turner play a few more senior games for the Demons. Apparently he dominated in his game back from injury for Casey in the VFL. The kid has talent and has had some rotten luck with injuries.

He has more Instagram followers. Trent Rivers needs to get his jumper ripped off in a match. That will boost his popularity. 🤣

No idea what has happened to James Harmes. 🤷🏼‍♂️ He may have been an emergency for the Demons Vs Hawks game at the MCG. However, I think others mentioned he was being managed? I know he has had personal issues so I just hope he is doing alright.

Apparently Melbourne was that awful in 1981 (the year I was born) that the coach at the time, Ron Barassi, wrote an apology letter to all Melbourne Demons members! 😖 I can't find it at the moment. But I know a copy of the letter exists somewhere online. 🤔 Who would ever think that 40 years later we FINALLY would win a Premiership in 2021!

Yes, I agree regarding Big Benny Brown. I think his knee is stuffed and he is totally cooked. 😔