\n New Demon ruckman Max Heath has revealed how he earned his unique moniker.\n <\/p>\n
NEW Demon Max Heath arrives at the club with a 204cm frame and an iconic nickname.<\/p>\n
He takes big pack marks and speaks with a laid-back, easy-going energy.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s just the recipe for the makings of a cult figure, especially when you pair the Melbourne Faithful\u2019s affinity for a big man named Max.<\/p>\n
So if you hear cheers for the Moose ringing around the MCG in years to come \u2013 here\u2019s why.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the old strength and conditioning coaches at the St Kilda footy club, Steve Forcone, gave me that nickname,\u201d Heath told AFL Trade Radio.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe sort of just thought the way I ate and the way I moved had few mannerisms of a moose about me.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s pretty much stuck ever since then.\u201d<\/p>\n
Like most great nicknames, the origin is often an offhand comment that doesn\u2019t stand up to too much close analysis.<\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn’t tell you (how a moose eats) but apparently he knows what it looks like,\u201d Heath says.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cIt must be something similar to how I eat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Heath is an advocate of his time at St Kilda, but found the opportunity for development offered by the Demons too good to refuse.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had a sit down with Melbourne and it was the tutelage under Max Gawn and Tommy Campbell and what they were doing was a bit too hard to overlook.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like rucks usually take more time to develop, especially in the AFL system.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat’s probably the goal to be a permanent AFL ruck, but I\u2019m not setting my sights too long-sighted.. It’s probably more short-term goals, even day by day.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0I feel very privileged to be at Melbourne now and working under the two big boys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Demon ruckman Max Heath has revealed how he earned his unique moniker. NEW Demon Max Heath arrives…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-213005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213005","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=213005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}