Supreme_Demon

This is a great initiative to get Jonathan Brown who was a champion player at the Brisbane Lions to impart his wisdom and teach Sam Weideman how to play properly as an AFL forward for the Demons. I think one of Sam's biggest deficiencies has been lack of confidence. He needs to jump more for his marks no matter what is in his way and really focus on his goal kicking. Jonathan Brown will hopefully be a fine teacher for Sam and also teach him to toughen up a bit more.

I unfortunately can't make it. Still super busy with work commitments. I have 2 questions and 1 statement. Question 1 - What is happening when the home training base? When will it be announced? Where will it exactly be? How much will it cost? Statement 1 - Congratulations on appointing Mark "Choco" Williams as Head of Development. We are over the moon about it and we are looking forward to him working closely with our Demons players and helping them develop. Question 2 - This is merely a suggestion but would it be possible to get the Demons players to look to creating a "Creed" for the Melbourne Football Club? Something similar to what Fos Williams (Mark's Father) did at the Port Adelaide Football Club? I think it would be something beneficial to implement as long as it had player and coaching staff contributions and also be something to help with developing a stronger culture at the Demons. That's my 2 cents that I would like for someone on my behalf to please ask at the Melbourne Demons Members Forum. Thank you.

I am absolutely over the moon with this appointment of Mark "Choco" Williams as Head of Development! I was crying out for this for nearly 2 years! Finally! What a massive coup for the Demons to have someone of Mark's football IQ and calibre at the club! He was a great coach at Port Adelaide and also led them to their first AFL Premiership in 2004. I cannot wait for him to start at training with our Demons players and impart his wisdom, skills and knowledge upon them. This is a massive boost to our club! I am now genuinely excited about season 2021! Go Demons!

Unfortunately, I have family commitments and cannot attend. I would definitely appreciate someone asking the Melbourne Football Club what is the status of our Home Base. I would like to know where it will exactly be, how much it will cost and when will building begin? Getting a Home Base should be our number one priority besides winning a Premiership.

It's finals or bust. If we don't make the finals then Simon Goodwin will be sacked.

I was pleasantly surprised with this pick swap. It puts us in a strong position as I was not expecting the Demons to have any picks in the first round of the 2020 AFL draft. There will still be plenty of talent around with picks #18 and #19 in the 2020 AFL draft. I know Archie Perkins has been spoken about, but not sure if he will slip down to us. However, you never know. Finlay McCrae would be very handy. Especially as he is supposed to be an excellent kick of the football and that is something that we are crying out for at the Demons. Personally, I am keen on Nik Cox who is the son of former Fitzroy, Melbourne and Brisbane player Darryl Cox. He would develop nicely playing for the Casey Demons and then be ready to play as either a forward or a defender in a few years time. Anyway, smart move by the Demons and it will be interesting what our recruiter Jason Taylor does.

Quite pleased to be getting Ben Brown from the Kangaroos. He looks much better in a Demons jumper! ? Hope he has an excellent pre-season and gets nice and fit for the 2021! We just gotta make sure our midfielders lower their eyes and kick the ball to him on the lead. The next question will be if he will continue wearing the number 50 or choose a different number?

Does that mean we traded pick 26 for Ben Brown but we kept pick 25? I admit I am a little confused. ?

I thought Oscar McDonald played a good game against Hawthorn earlier in the year and he definitely played some good games in 2018. Sadly, his slow reactions, lack of strength in the contest, and continued turnovers made him a whipping boy here at the Demons. AFL is a tough caper and you either sink or swim. I would have to say I would prefer to keep his older brother Tom McDonald as a defender.

Hopefully this trade gets sorted out tomorrow morning. It will be good to have another tall forward. The only challenge is having Demons players with kicking ability who can hit Ben Brown on the chest lace out.

With Essendon losing Joe Daniher and Ben Brown wishing to join Melbourne you would think they would be keen on Tom McDonald too? Either way, it pushes up the asking price for Tom McDonald which is good for us if we do end up trading him or keeping him and playing him as a defender again. We have the advantage with this situation regarding Tom McDonald and we need to utilize it to benefit our list.

Reasonably pleased to hear Ben Brown wishes to join the Demons. A bit of positive news! Let's hope Darren Burgess can get him fit and firing with a good pre-season under his belt. It will be interesting if he wishes to keep number 50 and wear that at the Demons? I am not against that possibiliity if Ben wants to keep wearing that number even if it is quite a high one. Have the Demons had many players wear number 50? ?

I think Adam Treloar should just bite the bullet and move up to Queensland to the Gold Coast Suns to be with his Wife and newborn child. That's what most people would do. I don't know if the Demons can afford his very expensive contract...but there's no harm and at least speaking to his manager I guess?

I am happy with this. Would like to see Jayden Hunt utilize his pace more in 2021 and hopefully cement a spot in the side on a regular basis. He needs to get fitter over the pre-season and work on making sure he has more impact in games. He can kick goals but he needs to build up his possession numbers too. Hopefully Adem Yze can work on improving his field kicking too. I think Jayden should mainly play as a wingman or as a half forward.

Do you have some kind of personal issue with Mark "Choco" Williams? If you don't like him that's fine. I personally cannot stand Mick Malthouse. Is he mad? Probably.....but aren't all AFL coaches? Either way, he is still a Premiership coach and he helped develop Richmond stars like Dustin Martin who he challenged to kick 4 goals in the 2020 AFL Grand Final via a text message and Dustin did it. There was a newspaper article about it the other day actually. Here is the link about the story: https://www.sen.com.au/news/2020/11/01/mark-williams-pre-grand-final-message-to-dustin-martin/ I think Mark "Choco" Williams is well worth the risk and his experience, talents and expertise are being wasted down at Werribee in the VFL. We desperately need to improve the development of our players. If you have anyone else you can suggest then I am all ears. Anyway, we can agree to disagree.

I wouldn't mind Jaidyn Stephenson for Tom McDonald perhaps? Is Jaidyn a good kick? Does he have pace? Will a change of environment do him good? Could he fill a forward and midfielder role?

Time to get Mark "Choco" Williams into a role at the Melbourne Football Club. As I mentioned on another thread, with Sam Radford now stepping down as coach of the Casey Demons in the VFL this is the perfect opportunity to approach Mark "Choco" Williams. We can then look to offer Mark "Choco" Williams the combined role of head coach of the Casey Demons VFL side and also make him head of development for the Melbourne Football Club. I think this is a great opportunity and I hope that the Demons make this offer to Mark "Choco" Williams as I would love someone with his football IQ and his quality character around the Melbourne Football Club. Development has been a massive issue for the Demons over the past 10 to 15 years and me MUST get this problem addressed. I am confident that Mark "Choco" Williams is the man for the job.

This is a prime opportunity for the Demons to finally sign up Mark "Choco" Williams as their new coach of the Casey Demons in the VFL and also make him head of development. I am confident he would jump at the chance of taking on that role here at the Melbourne Football Club. I have been pushing this for a while but I hope with the Demons having a review at the moment that we will now finally look to give Mark "Choco" Williams the chance to be involved at our club. We certainly need good quality people at the Demons and we need to make sure development is a priority at our club as this has always been a big issue for us.

Would like Jesse Hogan back at the Demons....but it sadly seems that ship has sailed.

I am very happy with this decision. It will be great to have another 300 gamer at the Melbourne Football Club. Obviously he has to earn his games next year in 2021 but I will be looking forward to hopefully attending Nathan Jones' 300th game.

I think a big clean out of our assistant coaches is absolutely necessary. If we didn't have to deal with the "soft cap" restrictions then these would be my suggestions. 1) Senior Assistant and Midfield Coach - Michael Voss or Robert Harvey (who I think has been at Collingwood for far too long and probably wants a change) 2) Backline Coach - Justin Leppitsch or Matthew Scarlett 3) Matchday Strategy and Skills Coach - Adem Yze 4) Head of Development - Mark "Choco" Williams (he is the main person I would like to see the Demons recruit) 5) Specialist goal kicking Coach - Brad Green 6) Midfield Development (part-time) - Jordan Lewis 7) Development and Tackling Coach - Lenny Hayes 8) Ruck and Stoppages Coach - Dean Cox 9) Development and Field Kicking Coach - Brent Harvey 10) Leadership and Culture Manager - Brett Kirk 11) VFL Coach - Dean Solomon Obviously this isn't a very realistic list. But it would definitely be of great benefit if we could get good quality football people like this to be part of the Melbourne Demons coaching department.

Sounds to me like Brad Crouch will end up the Cats. As for Jack Viney I will be surprised and disappointed if he left. Of greater interest is what will happen with Tom Sparrow? Will we trade him to Adelaide? Or do we wish to keep him?

I wouldn't mind having a crack at trying to get Jeremy Cameron. I know it is highly unlikely though. I long for the days we were spoilt for choice with our key forwards being David Neitz, David Schwarz and Garry Lyon.

Thought we would keep Kyle Dunkley. He wasn't given much of an opportunity. A bit of a shame he was delisted. Will probably join his brother at the Bulldogs as others have mentioned. Would of delisted Toby Bedford and Oscar McDonald before him. The Wagner brothers were clearly not up to it. So no surprises they were delisted.

He definitely has the talent and can kick a bag of goals. Worth a shot perhaps?