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“This is the best win I’ve been involved with [at] Port Adelaide, including finals. Best win.”
“This is the best win I’ve been involved with [at] Port Adelaide, including finals. Best win.”
After 2019 became the season from hell, the Melbourne Demons have a chance to start afresh in 2020, taking on the Adelaide Crows in their first Marsh Community Series match on Saturday afternoon. Join The Roar for live scores from 4:40pm (AEDT).
The Saints edged out Melbourne by five points, in a low-scoring game.
Seeking an in-depth analysis of each club’s chances in 2020? You’ve come to the wrong place. Looking for an off-kilter and slightly unhinged reason to watch each club in 2020? Step into my office.
Not even the most broken, pessimistic Melbourne fan could have seen 2019 coming.
The Demons are the league’s most consistently underperforming team.
With the 2019 AFL draft in the rearview mirror and club lists finalised for 2020, we decided – despite overwhelming popular opinion – that it’s not at all too early to start speculating about the season ahead.
Whatever could go wrong for Melbourne in 2019 seemed to do so, with the club finishing in 17th position with a return of only five wins for the year.
After three years without a pick in the first round of the draft, Melbourne enter the 2019 edition with two selections inside the top ten.
Talented midfielder Harley Bennell has overcome injury obstacles and off-field troubles to find a third AFL home at Melbourne.
Talented midfielder Harley Bennell has overcome injury obstacles and off-field troubles to find a third AFL home at Melbourne.
Talented midfielder Harley Bennell has overcome injury obstacles and off-field troubles to find a third AFL home at Melbourne.
A Melbourne merger of the Kangaroos and Demons is an interesting prospect. This would be the best combined list of this speculative scenario in 2020.
A Melbourne merger of the Kangaroos and Demons is an interesting prospect. This would be the best combined list of this speculative scenario in 2020.
A Melbourne merger of the Kangaroos and Demons is an interesting prospect. This would be the best combined list of this speculative scenario in 2020.
The Melbourne Demons appear to have wrapped up all the most important business of their 2019 AFL Trade Period after making two deals on Friday.
Brisbane were undoubtedly the darlings of the AFL in 2019, enjoying a meteoric rise from 15th to 2nd after nine seasons out of the top eight.
As one of the oldest Australian Rules football clubs, Melbourne would have to be disappointed in their achievements to date.
Today my AFL list analysis and offseason preview series continues with the club that fell from preliminary finalists to seventeenth on the ladder in 2019, the Melbourne Demons.
Remember when Melbourne was meant to have a dynasty?
This was not how 2019 was supposed to unfold for the Melbourne Football Club.
It’s a Friday night match up the AFL schedulers would rather forget as Melbourne takes on Sydney at the MCG. Join The Roar for live scores and blog from 7:50pm AEST.
The North Melbourne Kangaroos welcome the Melbourne Demons to Blundstone Arena today. Join The Roar for live scores and a blog of the match, starting from 2:10pm (AEST).
The North Melbourne Kangaroos welcome the Melbourne Demons to Blundstone Arena today. Join The Roar for live scores and a blog of the match, starting from 2:10pm (AEST).
The North Melbourne Kangaroos welcome the Melbourne Demons to Blundstone Arena today. Join The Roar for live scores and a blog of the match, starting from 2:10pm (AEST).
“This is the best win I’ve been involved with [at] Port Adelaide, including finals. Best win.”
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Not sure why they get a free pass with injuries. Collingwood, Richmond and GWS had bad runs with injuries last year and …(more)