Jaded No More

Tom Morris to Trac and Clarry post game

Very happy to be keeping AMW. He had a few clubs show interest in him. He has a lot of the attributes of a modern day half back flanker that we could use. Namely speed and ball use. Reckon he will feature strongly next year.

It could always be even worse. We could be Essendon supporters.

Tonight is definitely the end of an era. I am not sure who goes and who stays, but 2026 will feel like a completely different side with a new coach and multiple changes to the playing list. So long brief period of premiership glory. I will never forget you.

I want no injuries and no reports. Looking at you Kosi. I'll raise a glass or 6 tonight to commemorate the season that was

I had a full blown mental breakdown watching him line up for that goal in lockdown on the floor of my bedroom. And other than lockdown being over, not much has improved with my mental health while watching us play since 🫠

Not sure we should be picking an AFLW team to please the boyfriends.

New coaches want to bring their own people with them in 99% of cases. We have a number of FD employees who are out of contract, and this would have been communicated to all potential candidates. Wherever possible I think we would avoid tearing up contracts, but where contracts are expiring, it makes sense to part ways and give any new coach the ability to bring along their own people. Remembering that FD contracts expire at the end of August, so you need to let people know if they are keeping their job or not. It's the decent thing to do. Anyone vying for the top job would be presenting a list of assistants and FD people they would like to bring with them / replace. It's part of the job interview process. Buckley and other candidates would be speaking with people in the industry that they would like to bring along with them to the club should they get the job. I have no doubt that Buckley especially would have a list of people he would be speaking with, given his long standing experience in the game.

I think in 2025 everyone should know better than to use such derogatory language. The AFL has consistently given big punishments for this type of behaviour and Rankine should have known better. There are plenty of things you can say to your opponent, that don't include vilifying language around sexual orientation, race or religion. Would you feel the same if a player racially vilified one of our players? 'Just a mistake'?

Thank you so much for all the training reports from everyone throughout the year, but most especially @Ghostwriter and @Harvey Wallbanger Your contribution to this site with fantastic reports week in week out, make visiting Demonland worthwhile, even when this place is losing its marbles.

No McClure was. With his -10% hit rate, hence the scepticism.

Extremely pleased that I believed we were no chance to get the Friday night game, and therefore went ahead and made plans. Not sure I can end this miserable season watching the Pies beat us. Again. It's been hard enough already.

Rivers and Bruce haven’t been at the club for years. It sounds like Buckley is seeking out information about the day to day running of the club. Neither of them would have a clue. It sounds like someone who departed recently and worked under this current FD.

Fingers crossed it’s Burgess!

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I do not condone any use of vilifying language on the footy field, be it around race, religion or sexual orientation. It is vile and unacceptable. But on the same level, so is sledging someone's family, or making fun of opponents being seriously injured. What Zorko said to Petty was deadset disgusting. You just don't bring families, kids or partners into any type of on field sledging. At all. Ever. Likewise how did Willie Rioli get only one week for threatening to harm an opponent? I do not support nor condone what Rankine said. It is unacceptable. But it's no more unacceptable than Houston telling him he will knock him out again, like that's some sort of badge of honour. Thank god we didn't get Houston. A lot of talk and not a lot of output for a highly paid snipper.

Very special moment. Let’s hope he follows in his father’s footsteps and becomes a great player. Kudos to the club for developing and supporting him for so many years. This is the one piece of history and nostalgia that I hope remains forever in the league. It’s such a unique initiative and it makes our game great. Well done Kalani. 34 is waiting for you!

Buckley will be 70 by the time Tassie is competitive. For someone who has never won a flag, I’m sure his patience for success is not that high.

What reason would the club possibly have to delay announcing that he has re-signed? We leak like a broken sieve, if he had signed I can't imagine we'd be able to keep it away from the media for more than a few minutes. Tom Morris is hiding in Judd's bushes probably

Grundy was a square peg that we tried fitting into a Jackson gaping round hole.

The Pies had a cry to the AFL about the umpiring in their game versus Adelaide. So you just know they will get every soft free on Friday. Warning: do not enter a 2m radius surrounding N Daicos

If you listen to recent interviews with players, they praise the actual facilities, and when you look at some of the videos the club has taken there, you can see it is a well resourced facilities that is large enough to accommodate not just our AFL team but our Casey side and the AFLW team. It was recently revamped thanks to the generous donations of our supporters. See article here: https://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/1491830/thurin-high-performance-centre-opening

Casey is a brand new state of the art facility now. We spent a lot of money to kit that place out. It is a very nice training base. The issue IMO is not the location or the quality of the facilities, it's that we are not in one single location. If we trained exclusively at Casey, then players who wanted to drive less could do what Gawn, May and Lever have done and move to the very affluent Mornington Peninsula. Not exactly a terrible place to live. But it's the fact that we are all over the shop, that unfortunately means that no matter where you choose to reside, you are stuck travelling to either training base, which are on opposite sides of the city. Nobody will convince me that the locations of some of the other club's training bases is better than Casey. But when you have a singular work place you can adjust your life accordingly. When you are spending half your week in Richmond and the other half in Cranbourne, that is quite difficult.