Lucifers Hero

Very strong leadership from Green which is so much more than Pickett. Typical media who create a title that leads to click bait. For those that can't read the Age article, here are some extracts: “People ask ‘has it been challenging?’ I said, ‘no, what was challenging was when I lost my wife six years ago’. And after that period, we had the funeral, and I reckon it was four or five days post that that I really struggled to get out of bed and get on with my life. “But then I thought ‘Well, I’ve got an eight-year-old, I’ve got a six-year-old’. And you sit down and go, ‘in the end you’ve got to get out of bed for them’. Green on Simon Goodwin Green said Goodwin had been “weighed down” by media attention until the club reached a legal settlement in November last year. “He’s a premiership coach. He is Melbourne’s only living [premiership] coach and probably from our members and supporters to the wider football world, we need to give respect and kudos to this guy,” Green said. “We had to do something as a board to help lighten that load because we see a coach just getting buried and buried… On Christian Petracca Amid reports that Petracca was unhappy with aspects of the club culture, Green wanted to hear from the player himself. “I caught up with him when it all was all hitting the fan and said ‘mate, what’s going on here?’ And not once through that was he talking about anything other than Melbourne Football Club and where we can improve,” Green said. On Culture “I think what we found is issues get put into the one big basket, and they become [conflated] into a big pile of [censored], really, and that creates different instances of what they say is culture. But what I believe, and what I know, is this is a very driven, strong, talented group that can can achieve anything they want to. Are the Demons a destination club? Green says Jake Lever and Stephen May are proof that Melbourne remains a place players want to come to. “I would think we are always a potential destination club,” Pickett’s future Discussed in a post above Oliver’s tears He revealed the conversation that kept Oliver in red and blue. “I rang Clarry around the time of the B[est] and F[airest night] and said, ‘This is the situation; you’re not going anywhere. Tonight I’m going up to give a speech and say to our members that our starting midfield for 2025 is going to be Petracca, Viney, Oliver and Gawn. OK?’ And he started getting all teary on me. “He said to me, ‘Please, don’t do that because the B and F night, it’s not about me, it’s about the guys that are going to get awarded for their individual seasons’. I said ‘No, Clarry, it’s not about you, but our members and supporters want to know we are committed in this place and this environment. And I’m just ringing you to say, ‘I love you. We love you and we’re going to move forward with that’.’ And he got off the phone and just said, ‘Love you, Greeny ’.” Friendship, love and strength At a pre-season Kumbaya session in Bright, the players came up with a mantra for the year: “There’s nothing wrong with tough, hard conversations between each other.” A new game plan “He [Goodwin] wasn’t happy with any phase of the game: the way we defend, the way we move the ball, the way we attacked and the contest. People think we’re a contest team, but I think we went from first to eighth or ninth last year,” Green said. Proposed changes to the illicit drugs policy “Let’s look at it, let’s review it. But is being hard and fast the answer? I think the model that we have does catch and help players. Is it a deterrent? People are always going to challenge those things. Can we be harder on it? Maybe. But can we help and save players? Yes, in this model. I reckon if you go too far the other way, I reckon you’ll get less vulnerability in emotion and people being able to help.” Caulfield development Green is adamant a new home uniting administration and football at Caulfield racecourse will happen, despite the Demons needing to raise a further $70 million in funding. “We’ve never had our administration, our football department, in one area. Never, and it’s a disaster. We need all those parties to be in one room because until you do that, you’re not one club. Handing over the reins “I’ve got a young family of a 14-year-old, 12-year-old and a 14-month-old. And I run my own business on top of it, so it’s fair workload,” Green said. “I want stability and succession planning for Steve to take over and, potentially, once my boys finish school after three or four years, I take the presidency back over from him.” For me, the parallels with out 2020/2021 preseason are uncanny when: players met on the peninsular and AdV higlighted the lack of professionalism in how players spoke and dealt with each other. Many then committed to each other and resolved to be 'the best teammate I can be'. Goodwin was stressed and under the pump by former admins and others until Roffey and Pert stood by him. Serious review of game plan. And we know what happened in 2021. 🏆 It is a real shame we lost our way in the intervening three years but I'm rapt we have the ship back on and even keel. Now it is time to 'walk the talk' and I am very optimistic of our year. We let 2023 slip. Don't think that will happen this year!

@Ungarieboy I just noticed your parking question was related to the Captain's run at Gosch's Paddock. Parking in Richmond is fine but best at the Swan street end and walk or tram Swan Street, not Bridge Road. Map below shows the tram stops (the green thing) You could try parking in the Cremorne area but those streets are a maze of one way and dead end streets.

The GP is more likely to affect traffic on the MI freeway than to MCG. From Lakes Entrance, consider street parking in Richmond at the Yarra River end and catching a tram up Bridge Rd or Swan Street. Vehicle traffic on those streets is slow. Not many side streets there will have restricted parking. Trams run every 10 minutes or so. Any tram on those streets will go to the G on the way to Flinders St Station. But you'll need MYKI cards to travel on trams/trains (or the MYKI app). The streets in the above map are 15-30 min walk to the G. There are paid parking stations a short walk to the G but more expensive than MYKI travel. Depending on where accommodation is you could catch a train (using MyKi), Btw, the M1 freeway has tolls so if using it. will need day pass(es). Happy to provide more info.

Bays on the wing are reserved for MCC, AFL or MFC members. The General Admission bays currently available near the wing are M54 and M12 on the 50m arc. They are in the Demon fan areas so you'll be among friends. If you get tickets there you can cross to empty seats on the wing as I doubt all MFC members there will turn up. You will have a better experience in M54 as its closer to the Dees supporting MCC whereas M12 is close to what will be empty AFL member areas. Your kids might enjoy sitting with the Demon Army in M4, behind the goals. If so @Ghostwriter can provide info on those tickets. Also, sometimes M5 is quietly 'reserved' for MFC fans and can feel part of the DA and not risk being blinded/blocked by banners etc. Again @Ghostwriter might be able to advise. Hope you all have a great day! ps had a laugh at the autocorrect in your first post of 'boy' to 'bot' for the 'bored youngster'! AI seems to know everything!!

Semi relevant to the above. Quote from President's recent email: I’m also delighted to inform you about a new community partnership we’ve formed with the  House of Darwin Foundation, in conjunction with our  Jim Stynes Foundation. This exciting initiative – known as “Hoop Dreams” will see us rejuvenate the local basketball court in Nyirripi, home to the Nyirripi Demons, some 460 kilometres out of Alice Springs. More than just a playing surface, this court is a central gathering spot for the community and refurbishing it will offer fresh opportunities for wellbeing and connection. Even more special, its mural design will feature on our  2026 Indigenous Guernsey, bringing the spirit of Nyirripi to the MCG. With Jack Viney and Kate Hore championing this cause, we’re reaffirming our long-standing dedication to the Northern Territory – and paying forward Jim’s legacy – by empowering young people and strengthening cultural ties through the power of sport.

HaHa! 🤔 The cottage is old but not moi! Looks like ladies day in the vicinity of Middle Park! What a time to not be alive!

Many thanks layzie. Hope yours is fab. I'm back on DL now that the season is close ... will be a very good year for the mighty dees ❤️💙

Has the picture on the right been photoshopped? If not his nickname should be dimples !!!!

Correct. Until just a few years ago I owned a cottage on Beach Rd Sandringham. On researching its history it was built in the late 1800's and was originally someone's holiday house. As @Rab D Nesbitt said Sandringham and surrounds were the Portsea of its day where those of East Melbourne would train it to Sandy. It is why that train line was built; the Sandy station is the end of the line. Sandy, Hampton and Brighton Beach stations are opposite the beach but other stations needed horse and buggy to get to the beach.

@Demonland Is the Site update the reason some historical pages of a poster have dropped off. I've looked at mine, Andy, WJ, binman and Redleg and the last page is years after they joined and doesn't match the number of posts on their profiles. Last time I looked at all pages/posts were there from year dot. Also, the number of posts against a user's name on their thread posts is grossly inflated - number of posts on their profiles look right.

Start tonight. Cats vs Bombers @ Kitty Park. On Kayo and Foxtel ... Anyone tuning in?

Yes. Our overall 'Allowed' list size goes from 44 to 46 for this year only where we will have 8 Cat A rookies instead of 6. Note: we still have a Cat B vacancy so all up the current list size is 45. McAdam and AM-W keep their current status and are counted accordingly. At the end of the year, SSP players can be promoted to Primary list, remain Cat A or delisted.

A fabulous development for indigenous pathways and football in NT. 57m-donation-to-central-australian-footy-program "The Redtails Pinktails Right Tracks Program offers mentoring for young people and has opened a pathway for talented athletes to play professionally in the Northern Territory and South Australian football leagues". "Club president and organiser of the Right Tracks program Rob Clarke said it was a "jackpot" donation for the community, which will continue the program's work and help improve the lives of local young people". "Mr Clarke said they hoped to use the funds to build a "home" for the Redtails Pinktails, and to broaden their Right Tracks program to include more sporting codes...He said they were eyeing off Traeger Park in Alice Springs as a potential site for the facility, which they hoped would also provide accommodation for travelling sporting teams and schools". "We want to partner with … any organisation that has the same mindset, who wants to achieve great things for our region." As Traegar Park is a Home ground for us and the club has invested greatly in its development and committment to playing there long term, I hope MFC is in on this. It would be a real shame if another club especially from SA, jumps on the bandwagon. I particularly like the 'Right Tracks' program as it shares the values Jimmy created in the Reach Foundation. Reckon he would be mighty proud of mfc's connection with such a program as he invested a lot of TLC in indigenous players. Hopefully Alice remains our NGA zone... Now if the AFL are serious about more indigenous players into the AFL they need to stand up and support this program.

The chat about pick 28 for McAdam is but a small part of the picture. Big picture: We had him free of charge for 2024 as we traded a F2 which turned out to be #28. If we made 2024 finals as expected F2 would have been #34 or higher. We got #28 back for ANB then traded it to Ess as part of the #9 trade. Because of all the comp/FS/Academy picks it became #37 for Ess. Sad, not sad! So it would be true to say the F2 we traded for McAdam was in fact 37. #28 was an important part of the Ess #9 trade, without it we would not have #9 and not have XL. It is really unfortunate what has happened to McAdam but he doesn't have any say in the trade currency so maybe we just let it go. We got the pick back and JT was never going to take a late 2nd round pick to the draft.

The answer was all players were drafted at #13. Chris Scott was drafted at #12. Thanks for playing everyone!

Another correct answer by @tilly18 earning Australia Day honours.

Another correct winner! No prizes left but Australia Day honours are in order for @demosaw Edit: On reflection @demosaw deserves a prize as he correctly identified why C Scott didn't quite fit the criteria ... something I failed to ask of other prizewinners. Being Australia Day and am in a magnanimous mood their prizes will remain.

I'm assuming these questions relate to signing Roy George as an SSP. As I understand it if a player goes onto the LTI and the list spot is filled by a 'new' player via the SSP or mid-season draft the LTI cannot return to play in the season. I don't think there is anything that says that 'new' player is to be delisted - he can be offered a contract eg Luke Kentfield replacing Gus. Regarding Spargo, I think his injury was in 2023 and he missed all of 2024 with an archilles issue. imv Charlie deserves the chance to play for his spot and a new contract as he is OOC this year. The club played him in round 1 2024 on no preseason risking more injury. I've mentioned elsewhere, if we wanted George we should have kept a list spot for him; we knew his talents as he played for Casey. I would love to seem him signed on but if there is no list spot it is our own fault.

No new answers forthcoming so unlike the cryptic clues in a few of my posts above, here is a real clue: lucky for some, unlucky for others!

All prizes are gone. As indicated this quiz was quite easy, too easy perhaps - didn't need to use any of the great clues I had lined up! Will leave this run for the rest of the day as I'll be out and to give others a chance to have some fun!

The has been claimed by @Harvey Wallbanger! Congratulations!

It will be an honour ( I think 🤔) for your friendly cuddlies to be named 'Luci. Hope the name change brings you luck!

Only the 3rd prize left and no clues needed so far!

The second prize goes to a regular to finish on the podium: @Timothy Reddan-A'Blew Well done!

I figured that as my comment didn't give you anything at all 😀