Fans of melbournefc need suffer no more. On Sunday about 35,000 Demons diehards will gather at the MCG to celebrate the team's first premiership in 57 years | agerealfooty AFL MCG
On Sunday they will gather, about 35,000 Demons diehards, at the MCG to celebrateTogether, they will, above all, have fun watching a replay on the big screens of the grand final victory won in Perth over the Western Bulldogs, this time confident - most of them will be, at least - that the result will go their way.
John Northey was one of the coaches who tried and just fell short since Smith departed with former Demon defender Rod Grinter a key part of his team that lost the 1988 grand final and the 1987 preliminary final to Hawthorn. “We had schoolkids and adults dressed in their Melbourne attire [at the pub] and it was just a wonderful scene to see those little kids and grandmas and grandpas clutching the cup.”