Lifelong Demon

Starting tweeting with #demonunity... Lets get them rolling regularly. Is there a published lst of Demons twitter accounts?

Lets come up with a twitter hash tag and get some trending happening. My suggestion would be #demonunity

JON RALPH MELBOURNE concede the club's woeful start to the season and $500,000 "tanking" fine have the Demons on track for a $1 million loss this year. According to the Herald Sun website.

Apparently that was it, thanks Rusty. Positivity abounds in our house about the Dees. We go past the Lions Den on the way to Kindy and my son always says 'Boo Lions' on the way past. The kids wear their scarves even in the heat, and I have the flag from Queens Birthday walk last year hanging on the wall. The ladder is on the fridge and we talk each day about doing your best and working hard. I don't get al the negativity really. If your child came home after scoring 1/100 on a maths test, would you start ranting about getting rid of their teacher, the year level coordinator and the principal because they haven't established a good learning culture? Or would you show support to your child, behave rationally and do whatever you could to HELP the situation?

Absolutely. We can't make th Lions game, but will definitely be at the open training at the Gabba. We will also head down to Metricon later in the year. As a side note, I came home from work sick today to find my three kids (2 daughters and a son) all playing footy out the back in their Demons guernsey's! What a great bunch of kids!!

There aren't 60,000 members, but are we sure there aren't 60,000 supporters in the area?? I live in Brisbane but would be there in an instant and would be there every week with my family of five were it possible... Besides, it's better to shoot for the stars and miss than aim for the gutter and hit.

My pulse isn't good for me I'm sure!

Saw this advertising truck driving round the streets of Brisbane just around the corner from the Lion's Den... Seems Scully might be looking to move further north?!

Surely in this situation it is unfair to penalize the club by taking draft picks off us as we could end up needing priority picks next year... Same goes for a financial fine. Why do that and run the risk of giving us more money later. To me, the best logical way to punish tanking is to wait until the end of the season and give us enough premiership points to put us ninth on the ladder. That way we don't get the best of the draft, but we don't get to play in finals either... The only down side is that we would have to call Richmond Tenthmond.

Although I like the idea of derailing Essondon's season from Round 2 instead of from the first week of June...

Just hang Dawes signed Demons Premiership guernsey next to it in a few years. Throw in a few ex Collingwood coaches too just for good measure.

My dad, who was born in England and supports Liverpool, took me to my first AFL match in 1987 where the Demons thrashed West Coast and I was hooked. Little did I know at the time that it was West Coast's first year in the comp! 25 years on, my QLD born wife and three children all support the Demons because I do and are just as passionate. In the bath, my kids use the Demons facewasher to smother the toy Lion and shout 'Go Demons, boo lions'. My two year old son dresses himself in his guernsey more often than anything else and our supporter flag hangs on the wall next to the family portrait. The way I look at it is that the Demons are a part of our family... You wouldn't turn you back on your kids if they had a run of bad years, so you stick with the Demons the same way.

Isnt a free agent only taken off a clubs list if the club declines the chance to match an offer from a rival club? Just cause Moloney has indicated he wants to leave doesn't mean someone will offer.

What is it that Demonology needs to be revived?

Don't know about at the Gabba itself, but it's quite a warm day here 20 minutes south... All at home are in shorts and t-shirts and my youngest only has his nappy on... I think the heat is back on for the Demons today.

To be honest it was a lot lighter thanihad expected. There were probably 30 to 40 supporters there. Unfortunately most of the training happened at the other end of the field. It looks like they were doing the normal drills and warm ups but with a focus on communcation. There was a lot of shouting and calling by the players whenever they were looking for the ball. The defenders did a training drill where two would be in a contested mark situation and then do a switch across front of goal, up the wing, then switch back across the 50m line. It will be interesting to see if they put this into action today. Not sure who the coach with them was, but I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't get s decent bruise from Jack Watts 'bumping' him out of the contest. They all came over at the end and had a good chat and signed shirts, books etc and they all seemed pretty upbeat. The only concerns may be that the since the rain up here has stopped and it is actually quite warm today. Jamar said that when they flew out of Melbourne that it was cold and rainy, so the weather might impact on them today and theydid ask a few questions about it.

So I came home and told my wife we are going to the Gabba tomorrow to watch the Demons train and she starts asking all the hard questions like is it free and which gate do you have to go to... My answers - which she didnt appreciate were: "Who cares" and "We'll start at gate #1 and go from there". Can anybody help get me off the couch tonight?

Thanks DemonOX - got response from Twitter, found it with Google and got your reply all the same time! My family and I will be there!

So - a while ago I got an email saying that there would be a training session at the Gabba tomorrow with details released later... but I havent heard anything since. Does anyone know of the details?

I guess this was also the main question I had - if another team nominates him but we secure him, do they get to use that pick in the draft, or is it gone?

Just did some research and the last father/son that we had was Christopher Johnson in 2003 who played 31 games. Still looking for another one...

Could be that some of us haven't cared before... who was the last father/son that Melbourne picked up?

Was just reading up on the father son rule: Does that mean that if any team lower than us doesn't nominate for Jack Viney, that we get to use our last selection in the draft on Viney? Or any club can nominate for him at any time and we are just required to use our next pick to secure him? I am also assuming that if GWS/GCS nominate him before the draft with their #1 pick, and then we secure him with our first pick they still get to use their #1 pick at the actual draft? Does anyone have any stats on what picks all father/sons were taken at - is it generally the first pick the club has?

Are there any details about the training session the day before? I can't make it to the pre-match function or the match itself, but my three kids are super excited to come to the training session on the Saturday.

Somehow I doubt that Mitch Clark will let the Demons get beaten by the Lions twice in one season. Now that the team is starting to pick up some form and are working hard for all four quarters I am expecting this to be a cracking game and will definitely tip the Demons for a win.