Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin has revealed he sent a \u201ccheeky text\u201d to retired premiership forward Joe Daniher, hinting at an attempt to lure him into an AFL comeback. <\/p>\n
In a then-shock move, Daniher hung up his boots following Brisbane\u2019s flag triumph last September, walking away from the game at just 30 years of age and having kicked 58 goals that year. <\/p>\n
Since then, though, Sydney has been linked as a club potentially trying to pry Daniher out of retirement \u2014 and on Monday night, Seven\u2019s Mitch Cleary reported Melbourne was the latest to make an \u2018ambitious pitch\u2019 to Daniher to convince him to resume his 204-game AFL career. <\/p>\n
FOX FOOTY, available on Kayo Sports, is the only place to watch every match of every round in the 2025 Toyota AFL Premiership Season LIVE in 4K, with no ad-breaks during play. New to Kayo? Get your first month for just $1. Limited-time offer.<\/a><\/p>\n But on Fox Footy\u2019s AFL 360 on Wednesday night, while revealing he flicked off a \u201ccheeky text message\u201d to Daniher, Demons coach Simon Goodwin said it was \u201cpretty clear\u201d the ex-spearhead is revelling in his time out of the game. <\/p>\n \u201cI might\u2019ve sent him a cheeky text message, just to check in with big Joe,\u201d Goodwin confirmed on AFL 360 on Wednesday night. <\/p>\n \u201cObviously, I coached Joe at Essendon in my early days as a coach, and I sent him a message just to make sure he was enjoying retirement as much as I thought he would. <\/p>\n \u201cThe answer was pretty clear; he\u2019s enjoying it, so it (the attempt) was pretty short-lived. We\u2019re going to leave no stone unturned on how we get better. Whether that be through the draft, through the trade (period), through developing (the) players on our current list in terms of how we look and how we play. <\/p>\n \u201cSo, we\u2019re going to leave no stone unturned in how we go about getting better, and Joe was a sneaky text, but he laughed it off pretty quick.\u201d<\/p>\n However, when probed on his club\u2019s interest in improving that particular area of the ground, Goodwin admitted the forward line was \u201can area we\u2019ve needed to get better\u201d for some time. <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m sure our list management team are asking all the questions needed in that space,\u201d he said when asked by club great Garry Lyon if key-position attack was a priority for the Dees in the upcoming trade and free agency window. <\/p>\n \u201cWe want to get better, and clearly, we have a very inexperienced forward line. So, that\u2019s an area of the ground we want to continue to bolster and get better and grow quickly. <\/p>\n \u201cWe know it\u2019s an area we\u2019ve needed to get better for a period of time, and that\u2019s the part of the ground we\u2019ll certainly look at.\u201d<\/p>\n Small forward Kysaiah Pickett is Melbourne\u2019s leading goalkicker this season with 35 goals, followed by medium forwards Jake Melksham and Bayley Fritsch with 26 and 24 majors respectively. <\/p>\n Foxfooty.com.au\u2019s Will Faulkner first reported earlier this season<\/a> that Melbourne \u2018closely monitored\u2019 GWS forward Callum Brown \u2014 who just re-signed at the Giants for another three seasons, while the Dees last year had also been linked<\/a> to West Coast goalkicker Jake Waterman. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin has revealed he sent a \u201ccheeky text\u201d to retired premiership forward Joe Daniher, hinting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,3237,17349,17352,10145,3231,17351,12935,15651,7804,8016,17348,17347,17350,8014,85,11236],"class_list":["post-15903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-brisbane-lions","tag-cheeky-text","tag-cheeky-text-message","tag-garry-lyon","tag-jack-jovanovski","tag-jake-waterman","tag-joe-daniher","tag-list-management-team","tag-melbourne-demons","tag-premiership-player","tag-retired-flag-star","tag-retired-premiership","tag-retired-premiership-star","tag-simon-goodwin","tag-sports","tag-trade-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}