spirit of norm smith

Good call 👏👏💙💙

3rd Nibbler 402 votes 2nd Gawn 405 votes 1st Viney 407 votes amazingly close

JV7. unite next year. Coaches. Players. Fans. Galvanize ourselves. Not win or losses. Not about premierships. Just be proud of ourselves. Start to feel hungry to next year. We feel embarrassed. Like after 2019. Deflected the Todd calling him to see about the Kangas. He’s a great young man.

Riv? May?? Surely Rivers was 6th … thought he’d be top 5 but probably just missed.

winner JACK VINEY 💙❤️💙❤️👏👏👏 2024 MFC BEST & FAIREST

Max Gawn. Tonight shows our spirit. As a footy club, we are united. The lads. Ed. Milkshake. Gus. Nibbler. The Ring. Premiership ring. It means so much. Ring reminds us that we had some miserable years but developed. The hurt is something to build on.

2nd Max Gawn 💙❤️💙❤️👏👏👏… 5 votes between 1st and 3rd

3rd Nibbler ❤️💙❤️💙👏👏👏🥲 he is such an intelligent young man and had a great career … really sad he’s moving on.

4th love KOZZZZY 👏👏❤️💙

5th Ed Langdon 👏👏👏

Goody Gus 👏👏NIBBLER 👏👏 Stafford and Plunkett 👏👏 love the process love the hard work it’s not results success is loving the process it’s not about winning the GF Embrace the process excited for the future fall in love of the process of self improvement bring on 2025

Goody is up now 👏👏👏👏… thunderstruck !!! Yes very appropriate intro.

Gus Brayshaw. Love you. 💙❤️💙❤️A brilliant young man. I am just emotional but proud he is a Demon man. 👏👏👏

Should be an interesting night. Hopefully we get to see Riv in the top 5. Had a great year.

Agree that Xavier Lindsay is an elite kick and I think he will be very popular choice given he’s an inside/outside mid that can easily also play the half back distribution role. So he’s probably going to be around live pick 12/13 so much harder to get clubs to trade in or fall back at this pick. It might take a lot of courage to trade out the MFC future 1st to get 12/13 off say Gold Coast. But you never know … !!!

Like that “5” should get us an high quality youngster likely a midfielder. Agree that Hynes will be sought after given his physical style of play, good size, pace over 5-15 metres is excellent. His kicking can be wayward so that’s why he’s in the 18-25 draft range and not 3-8 range. Strategy could be in the mix (if we get “25” for ANB) to package up some picks to try to pickup say “18” off the Lions (lions want points to bid on Ashcroft & Marshall).

Assume Cats will grab McHenry. He’s a local lad (Barwon Heads) with talent who just didn’t quite make if however has the talent. Will Hamill could not get his body right. Saw him play some decent games for Crows but kept getting injured and he again didn’t show enough to often retain his place. Might get a train on spot over the summer. Bayside boy from the Mornington peninsula so expect Frankston or Casey to sound out his signature in the off season.

Thanks @DeeZone it’s been constant dialogue that our Kozzzy loves the footy club and Goody, but not Melbourne the city. Yes he will probably eventually leave one day but not yet. We love Kozzzy ❤️💙❤️💙❤️

Basically it’s another jigsaw puzzle jumble. Lalor at 1, Ashcroft at 2, big mover Tauru at 3, Smith at 4, Langford at 5, Kako at 6, O’Sullivan at 7, Smillie 8, Lombard 9, Draper at 10. Armstrong at 11 and noted they have Reid falling to 18. It’s such an even group possessing all variety of footy skills, athleticism and strengths. The combine interviews to work through the Character and Fit will be keys to which clubs pick these young stars. footnote. If Lalor is gone by our pick , if we get either Langford or Draper or O'Sullivan than it’s still happy days.

6. Isaac Kako Calder Cannons/Vic Metro Forward, 175cm, 7/3/2006 Talent League stats (avg): 18.7 disposals, 1.7 goals, 7.7 score involvements The Age’s August top 30: 12 Essendon may need to match a high opposition bid on their NGA prospect, with Melbourne strongly considering the dangerous small forward – or are they playing games with the Bombers? Either way, Kako, whose parents were born in Iraq, is considered a top-10 lock after a brilliant national under-18 championships. There should be no hesitation taking a sub-180cm goalsneak with Kako’s ability this high after Nick Watson’s impressive debut season. Kako is powerful, and has a knack for creating scoring opportunities and kicking audacious goals from seemingly hopeless situations. He can improve defensively, but can impact the game beyond the forward 50.

1. Sam Lalor GWV Rebels/Vic Country Midfielder/forward, 187cm, 30/8/2006 Talent League stats (avg): 23 disposals, 6.3 clearances, 6 inside 50s The Age’s August top 30: No.5 The next Dustin Martin could be on his way to Tigerland. Most recruiters who spoke to this masthead believe Richmond are weighing up Lalor or Finn O’Sullivan at No.1. Many non-Richmond talent scouts also rank Lalor that highly despite a serious hamstring injury ending his season amid a severely interrupted campaign. They are confident he will get on top of his physical issues in a full-time AFL environment, and with improved fitness. Lalor’s combination of power, physicality, kicking skills, game-changing ability and penchant for impacting the game as a midfielder and forward make him a closer projection to Martin than Christian Petracca.

Nibbler. ANB 💙❤️💙❤️💙❤️

Sounds more and more that Pert is the problem. Unsure why he is part of the review alongside Green. Sure an external review is needed by external parties in strong sports administration. Do we need Peter Jackson back ?

A handy addition for Casey. Added as a break glass in case of a “Gawn” emergency. I prefer others but understand this strategy. Also adds training ruck partner for Gawn to compete in ruck drills in internal training.

Waking up again and hoping this was just a nightmare. Unfortunately it’s all reality. Media loving ripping into the Demons again, admittedly feeding on the ineptitude of our player management and players discontent. The Oliver situation has been so messed up that a player with multiple B&F wins, All Australian jumpers, ranked top 5 player in the league through 21&22, can now get to be a horrible public deteriorating mess between club and player. Who’s the blame? Oliver? MFC ?? Seemingly it’s both parties and the Trust is Gone. Strangely with a Contracted player through to 2030, it’s the Cats that reportedly have the bargaining chips. Give us little draft picks & Cats will pickup most of the $1m+/yr contract OR Ask for future 1st round pick from Cats but with MFC still paying sizeable part of Clarry contract. Horrible horrible. Horrible. That’s the current status. Dees supporters are torn. And being torn.