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The straw that stirs the drink
Technically this can't happen because #FistedForever ended on 25/09/2021. Could get a run in whatever the following era gets called just for the Max Gawn press conference disaster.
Mega Thread General MFC Discussion IV – Roffey and Pert Gone, Bartlett Case Settled, Board Election Finalised
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2022-2079: #Refisted
2080-2137: #FistedWithAVengeance
Don't worry though, that 2079 premiership is gonna be for the fans, in front of a packed MCG, and we're all gonna love each other for ever
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Sigh, I'm only going to see one premiership in my lifetime.
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Actually strike that. I'm only going to see one Dees premiership in my lifetime.
C'mon Devils 2035!
MarcMaverick
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I hope that the Devils win as well.
Gonna be weird for me trading Red and Blue for Red,Green and Gold.
Topkent
Confirmed ITK Drafting King
Watched the highlights of last nights game and then I was wondering when was the last time I actually enjoyed watching a Melbourne game.
Round 18 2023 when Melksham kicked the winner against Brisbane.
Ever since that moment me love of Melbourne has gone. Even the finals that year we were so shit to watch I actually was happy when Acres kicked the winner cause my bet came through and I didn't have to watch us be shit as **** anymore. I think by the end of the Collingwood game my investment in us winning was dead because of the game style
Didn't enjoy a single game last year and I won't until it changes. How sad.
Round 18 2023 when Melksham kicked the winner against Brisbane.
Ever since that moment me love of Melbourne has gone. Even the finals that year we were so shit to watch I actually was happy when Acres kicked the winner cause my bet came through and I didn't have to watch us be shit as **** anymore. I think by the end of the Collingwood game my investment in us winning was dead because of the game style
Didn't enjoy a single game last year and I won't until it changes. How sad.
Praetorian
Premiership Player
Melkshams ACL was a big turning point for the club - poorly coached but getting by on talent to poorly coached and also shit at footy. His form had me still believing in 2023 until the finals
A11dAtP0w3R
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Article anyone?
Lord Nev
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Demons forced to broaden CEO search after string of missed candidates
After initially targeting a football-savvy chief executive to help the club confront some upcoming complicated questions, the Demons have had to broaden the search for their next CEO.Melbourne has been forced to broaden its CEO search after initially targeting a football-savvy chief executive to help the club confront a complicated web of list and football department staffing decisions at season’s end.
The team’s downward spiral to start the new season has heightened the need for an experienced new CEO to help steer the club through what could be a difficult post-season including calls on a trio of contracted stars Kysaiah Pickett, Clayton Oliver and Christian Petracca.
The Demons completed another round of interviews with CEO candidates on Monday in a bid to make an appointment by the end of April.
Highly-respected GWS Giants’ football manager Jason McCartney, 51, was considered a leading candidate, but does not want to leave the Giants as they chase a flag.
It continues the club’s string of misses on their top targets including MCC boss Stuart Fox and Fremantle’s Simon Garlick which has prompted the club to think more laterally on a new CEO and consider leading candidates from other sports and backgrounds.
AFL Coaches Association boss and former Demon Alistair Nicholson is in the mix.
After an extended four-month process, the club wants the new boss in place well before the end of the exchange period.
The Herald Sun revealed the Demons admitted they bungled the trade process involving Oliver last year when former CEO Gary Pert reached out to Adelaide about their interest levels without Oliver’s knowledge.
Oliver, 27, could become a target for St Kilda, which is in the market for an explosive A-Grade midfielder, and looks likely to miss out on North Melbourne free agent Luke Davies-Uniacke.
Oliver also last year met with the Cats, who could rekindle their interest in the Demons’ hard nut, if Gold Coast Brownlow Medal contender Matt Rowell remains with the undefeated Suns.
The key figures in Melbourne’s football department including the coaching staff will also come under review with premiership senior coach Simon Goodwin contracted until the end of next year.
New Melbourne director Steven Smith will play an influential role in the make up and direction of the football department as he prepares to take over as new president at season’s end.
Demons’ senior figures said at the club’s annual general meeting in December they believed the Demons had a list which was capable of playing finals in 2025.
But the club has endured a disastrous start to the campaign led by a faltering midfield which has been belted by Gold Coast (58 points) and North Melbourne (59) points over the past fortnight.
McCartney, who was contacted by the Demons in the process, was premiership list boss at the Bulldogs and has since steered the Giants to consecutive finals campaigns, but will stay up north.
Priority candidates led by Fox, Garlick, Brisbane Lions’ veteran Greg Swann, Western Bulldogs’ CEO Ameet Bains, North Melbourne’s Jen Watt, and former Fremantle chief Steve Rosich are also out of the race.
Unless one of their priority football targets backflips on their decision over the next few weeks, Melbourne may be forced to think more laterally on a new CEO.
President Brad Green has helped lead the search which has included talks and recommendations involving up to 200 people.
Chief operating officer David Chippindall, who has a strong
commercial background, is fulfilling the CEO role on an interim basis and is being considered for the permanent job.
Green said the club has led a thorough process to find the right person.
“We are going through this process which we have undertaken since January and we are taking our time,” Green said on 3AW.
“The CEO who we have got at the moment in David Chippindall is in the running for the gig, and we are so confident in the way the club is being run by him at the moment.
“We are going through a process, we are in a shortlist of interviews at the moment.”
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McCartney pulls out too. ffs.
Lord Nev
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PJ did like Chippindall, so might not be a shock to see him get the gig eventually.
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Lloyd giving us a nice clip re: "Love" on Classified.
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Might be the last man standing the way its going. Promoting from in house scares the shit out of me regardless of PJ recommendations.
Lord Nev
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Funniest bit about that segment was he ran out of things to say and no one stepped in and he just kinda stopped talking cos he couldn't think of anything.
Bluelegs
Digging into the why
Just get Josh Mahoney or something idk.
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No, yucky. Give McCartney a decent offer. Poach someone, be aggressive, let's go.
Lord Nev
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Bluelegs
Digging into the why
Really enjoying how much this big public show has blown up in our faces.
Scythe
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You would've thought after last year's 'best culture I've seen in 38 years' fiasco, the club would have learnt just to shut the hell up and work on fixing things behind closed doors...but no, we just had to have another own-goal forged from our own hubris play out through the media.
No club talks as much as we do.
No club talks as much as we do.
Toump Ass
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Nah **** it, go harder I say. Will be funny as if we keep getting belted by ten goals and still spend every presser talking about how much we love each other.
Keep going right up until trade week when everyone leaves lmao.
Keep going right up until trade week when everyone leaves lmao.
Bluelegs
Digging into the why
Oh it's much worse.
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God its funny to see that Green interview on 3AW in video. Think it was lost on me when reading the article originally that it seems the board told Goody and Richo we need a plan to fix the issues within the club and they went away and had a meeting of the minds and came back to the board with "Lets say love a lot".... ****ing hilarious
