Meet our Members - Ash

We won't ask you your age but how long have you been a Melbourne supporter?
41 years

How did you become a Melbourne supporter?
Father worked for the club as a development officer in the early 1980s back when the Goulburn Valley was Melbourne's zone for recruitment.

How long have you been in the cheer squad? And what made you decide to join?
4 years, always sat near the Demon Army on match days at the MCG and then my daughter got me Demon Army membership for Christmas.

Favourite current player?
Christian Salem

Favourite Melbourne player ever?
Garry Lyon

Favourite game?
2021 Grand Final

Greatest player ever? This can be from any club. 
Scott Pendlebury (Collingwood)

Highest point in your footballing career
2021 Grand Final
 
Lowest point in your footballing career
1988 Grand Final - to finally make the Grand Final and then get beaten by, what was then, a record margin.

Any football superstitions?
Try to sit on an aisle seat, near the front.

Craziest thing you've ever done for the Dees.
​​I was forced to sit in a Hawthorn allocated seating area during the 2018 finals. The Ticketek agent allocating my seats saw my brown and gold work uniform and assumed I was a Hawks supporter!