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Let's get behind Melksham: unforeseen-success-melksham-s-role-in-demons-rise “I actually didn’t come to Melbourne for finals and flags and stuff like that,” he said....“The club was struggling – or hadn’t had much success...“It’s been awesome.” While Melksham didn’t receive a premiership medallion in the Demons’ historic 2021 premiership, the role he played in getting the club there should never be underestimated. And seeing some of his best mates achieve the ultimate is something he is incredibly proud of. He has been very good for us, not great now but he was key when we needed some silk and experience while our now stars developed around him. And have now overtaken him. He should be praised for his role in their development and his role for us.

Slowing the vision down it looked like Buddy's fist opened at the end of his follow through. He will still just get a fine: Careless, Low Impact, HIgh Contact is a fine. If they rate it as 'deliberate' then it is a suspension. It won't be deliberate as the argument will be he was aiming for his chest but his hand slid high. If it is rated as 'deliberate' it will be appealed to have it re-rated as 'careless' and every chance it he will get off. It seems that being 'behind play' doesn't feature in the MRO's penalty calculation. Anyway, I don't mind if he plays next week as May will take care of him. It was pretty dumb of Hardwick to keep a new draftee (Gibcus) on Buddy until the damage was done. He kicked 4 goals before putting Grimes on him with just 15 minutes to go. Giving a kid experience is one thing but against the best forward of this generation, they deserved to lose the game on that miscalculation alone.

How does this sound for tips: All the Home teams except Geelong, Lions and Saints😉

Lever says: No! Over may my dead body!! Edit: Changed 'may' to 'my' - bit of a difference eh, seeing we have Steven May in the team 😐

Sydney - Help keep Richmond out of finals Giants - Protects our top 2 spot Crows - Help keep Cats out of top 4 Demons - Cement our top two spot Eagles - Help keep Bulldogs out of finals GCS - Like what they are building Roos - Help keep Saints out of top 4 Coll - Help keep Blues out of top 4 Port - Loathe Ess OK - I know someone teams need to make the top but the harder it is the better.

That is exactly why I didn't start the video straight away!

Eagles would do very well if they trade their #1 or #2 pick for two top 10 picks and upgrade some later picks for a late 1st round pick and aim for some combo of Hewett, Gilbey, Busslinger and Broadbent all from WA. That will get their rebuild off to a decent start and save them the trouble and trade cost of trading WA talent back from interstate at a later date. iirc most of their 2021 draft choices were from WA.

Glad I read the comments before listening to the audio! Saved me from enduring 3 of my least favourite commentators.

Quite right, rules for late withdrawl are the same for all 22. And there is no particular significance to being on the bench rather than the starting 18. My musing was about both McDonald and Petty being hampered last week and played less than their usual game time. Petty more so than McDonald. Then having both Tomlinson and Weideman in the emergencies made me wonder if one or both might play. Having said that our policy is players play through 'niggles'/soreness so my throw away line about 'maybe a late change' was just an idle thought.

Unfortunately, I think the ship has sailed for Baker. HIs best year was 9 games in 2019 when we had a massive injury list. 15 games in 4.5 years isn't a great record, through no fault of his. Others have gone past him and with recent draftees we now have better depth than we had in recent years.

I wondered the same thing. He looked ok in the training video but it was only a few seconds. Also wondered if Petty will start. iirc he had some treatment on the bench last week and played only 82% game time which is really low for our defenders. Also not in the starting 18. Maybe a rare late change coming up.

GA tickets just turn up in my MFC Mobile App. Listed as a separate item to my usual ticket. Each ticket then has its own barcode. Not sure if they are the same as guest tickets you are asking about. It seems to be just when we play interstate teams and they don't expect much of a crowd.

A bit of bf focus on the game: I'm breaking out in sweats knowing what's going to happen in that Thursday team. I'm really hoping it's not a blood bath but just heard JLo on the Radio saying some of the boys are low in confidence at the moment If Langdon plays, his ribs should be tested first time he goes for a mark above his head. Melbourne by 35 points. I'm already prepared mentally. The fact that Goodwin has felt the need to manufacture some motivation for the Dee's says he's (somewhat) worried about them struggling in that dept. We've got far too many softish players Let's back them in and I think we can win in the dry. Freo by 15 points. If it stays dry, not sure we have enough firepower to outscore the Dees, but I guess we'll see....... Oh God I can't believe Goodwin is talking up this game. That their players have been looking forward to it. Without our one and only genuinely classy player forward of centre in Switta this will be over by quarter time. We'll be lucky to kick more than 3 goals for the match against their defence. Good test for our defence though to see if they can get their mojo back on big ground. Keep them under 100 would be something. Not Dees Game related but worth including: Ginnavin is a graduate from the Selwood acadamy of ducking for free kicks. The combination of ducker and show pony is nauseous. Building, creating & sustaining a culture sure can be hard work for the fans. My favourite: You almost want them (Demons) to win the tap, so they stream forward, we win the turn over and expose them out the back... ...yeah that's not gonna happen - it will be more like they win the tap, stream forward, we miss the tackle and then they kick a goal.

JKH got off lightly compared to a few other players. I won't mention them for fear of setting off a retro whipping-boy frenzy. The red and blue is sacrosanct imv. Wear it and the player should be respected.

Who are the other candidates? Not Smith - he is listed as 7 - 9 weeks. No sign of Hbbered retiring... We don't have any legit LTI.

^^^ We don't have a list spot. The only likely candidate ito create a list spot s Howes but I reckon the club would want to get a few more games into him at the back end of the season and some finals experience if Casey make it. If there is a player in the MSD that we want and who has previously played AFL/nominated for the NAB draft we can select him in the supplementary selection period later in the year as an 'A' Rookie.

With Freo falling away a bit I reckon spots 3-6 will be very close and Carlton will fall into that range. But those spots won't be decided for quite a while as 46 of the top 8's remaining 96 games are where they play each other. So lots of 8-pt games to mess with spots 3-8 on the ladder order; I have Dees and LIons locked in top 2. Laughable that commentators say we got the umpiring benefit vs North. We got more frees because they played rough and were penalised altho not often enough for off-the-ball strikes.

Given that Goodwin said Langdon will be given right up to the game to be deemed ok, reckon he will be named in the selected team even if he is half a chance. Then we wait.

The difficulty I have with the V emoji is that it isn't clear whether they object to my comment or to a quote I have included in the post. I find it rather disconcerting at times.

@Dees_In_October Would like your thoughts on the rules around losing players to the new teams: Each player in the competition has been assigned a points value which is calculated based on age, payment tier, career games and any awards they might have won. To keep their first round draft pick for the upcoming NAB AFLW Draft, existing clubs must lose a total of 28 points worth of players'. That looks quite Draconian. Losing a first round pick is very harsh, especially if the target is missed because players don't want to be traded. Other rules are listed in this article: how-many-players-can-each-club-lose-expansion-rules-explained Any idea what players we are at risk of losing or would be ok letting go?

Relocate GCS to Darwin. They have two games there, it is their Academy zone.

Quite poetic, Layzie! Goodwin has subtly fed that narrative every chance he gets in press conf: "We don't look to play perfect football, we wear teams down and know opportunities will open up". Delivered in his casual and calm style. That message is now in the heads of other coaches most of whom know that even their very best probably isn't good enough. That the team deliver on Goodwin's 'promise' creates the same doubt with opp players. Mind-games don't need to wait for September!

Beveridge has walked back his comments about Naughton's lack of frees last week: "... the Bulldogs had assessed the vision from the weekend and would not be taking the issue any further". He had already made his point but don't think he did himself any favours in the credibility stakes. Not a good year for him so far.

This may sound silly but I hope we don't. Its quite a 'monkey on the back'. Would rather the said monkey was deposed before the finals. Last year we lost a couple either side of the bye. Maybe a couple of inconsequential losses after the bye this year...?

I meant when the Tassie team travels to interstate venues. I wasn't at all suggesting Tassie fans don't travel. But will they travel in sufficient numbers to quarter or half fill stadiums every other week and make a game financially viable? Will the interstate fans go and watch those games? I don't know. Current experience, with even the larger more successful interstate clubs with well heeled fans eg Crows and Eagles, says probably not. Sydney and Brisbane rely on their historical Vic fan base to attend Vic games. Even then the numbers aren't great. AFL crowds are at the lowest level since 1996. crowds-slump-to-lowest-levels-in-26-years for which there are a multitude of reasons. We have 60,000 members and there are various threads lamenting the lack of fan attendance at games. We don't go to Geelong because they won't give us any seats. Anyway, I loved your idea. Just trying to find a middle road that might get the OK from other clubs needed to for a Tassie liscence. I'll bow out of the discussion now.