{"id":25841,"date":"2025-07-27T21:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25841\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T21:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:12:07","slug":"afl-investigating-threat-against-demons-coach-simon-goodwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25841\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL investigating threat against Demons coach Simon Goodwin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melbourne have reported an online threat made against coach Simon Goodwin to the AFL integrity unit following the Demons’ “devastating” defeat to St Kilda.<\/p>\n

Leading by 46 points at the final change, Melbourne lost following a remarkable Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera goal after the siren to give the Saints the biggest three-quarter-time comeback in AFL history.<\/p>\n

A post from an anonymous account on X, formerly Twitter, implied they were waiting near Goodwin’s car ready to harm him.<\/p>\n

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The Demons are aware of the post and have reported it to the AFL integrity unit, declining to comment further.<\/p>\n

The post surfaced during Goodwin’s press conference, where the shattered 2021 premiership coach was trying to piece together how Melbourne blew their seventh win of the season.<\/p>\n

“Sometimes in your darkest moments can be your biggest growth,” Goodwin said.<\/p>\n

“When you have a last quarter like that, it’s a pretty devastated group in there.<\/p>\n

“It’s a pretty devastated group of coaches, because we’re here to win.”<\/p>\n

Wanganeen-Milera calmly slotted his third goal after flying for a soaring mark with less than 20 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n

Simon GoodwinMelbourne coach Simon Goodwin.\u00a0Photo by Morgan Hancock\/AFL Photos\/via Getty Images<\/p>\n

That levelled the scores, before a 6-6-6 penalty in the middle was paid against the Demons, to the confusion of all players.<\/p>\n

Saints ruck Rowan Marshall was able to perfectly pick out Wanganeen-Milera running inside 50 to take a mark just before the siren sounded.<\/p>\n

Any score would have given the Saints victory, but Wanganeen-Milera went back and kicked the goal.<\/p>\n

“Clearly, we didn’t get that right,” Goodwin said.<\/p>\n

“It’s a pretty simple process to get 6-6-6 done.<\/p>\n

“You need to communicate, get organised.<\/p>\n

“We didn’t get that done … that’s on us to get that done the right way.<\/p>\n

“We’ll have a look at why it happened, how it happened, and make sure that it never happens again.”<\/p>\n

St Kilda kicked nine unanswered goals in the last quarter, but a calamity of errors from Melbourne helped them pinch the win.<\/p>\n

The Saints had the lead for a little more than a minute of the entire game after slotting the first goal of the match.<\/p>\n

Experienced midfielder Clayton Oliver had a chance to almost ice the game when he had a shot on the run with the Demons still in front by six points, but he sprayed the kick completely and failed to score.<\/p>\n

Melbourne superstar Kysaiah Pickett also got stranded on the bench in the dying stages, only returning with eight seconds left.<\/p>\n

“When you’ve had seven or eight goals kicked against you in a row, you need to find a way to execute those things under pressure, and we didn’t do that,” Goodwin said.<\/p>\n

“We’ll learn from it clearly and grow from it, but it’s unacceptable at the same time.”<\/p>\n

In a bizarre season, Melbourne went 0-5, then won five of their next six games to put themselves back in the finals picture.<\/p>\n

But the Demons have lost seven of their past eight matches, the only victory in that time coming against lowly North Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne have reported an online threat made against coach Simon Goodwin to the AFL integrity unit following the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-25841","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-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25841","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=25841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}