Melbourne premiership hero Steven May makes honest admission about 2024 season: ‘We were boring’
A brutally honest Steven May has sunk the boot into Melbourne’s 2024 season.
The Demons, who had finished in the top four the previous three seasons, including winning the 2021 premiership, were expected to challenge again last year.
However, despite winning six of their first eight matches to sit comfortably in the top four at the halfway point of the season, the Dees crashed and missed the finals completely.
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By continuing you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy.Never afraid to say it how it is, May was scathing in his assessment of Melbourne’s game plan last year.
“We felt we were a bit boring and safe,” he told 7NEWS.
The good news for May and Demons fans is newly married coach Simon Goodwin has changed things up, which has May excited for the new season.
“It’s really exciting, we got some new coaches and new players and it feels like an injection of youth ... young guns look good, the draftees. Everyone is excited,” he said
“Goody’s changing a bit with the game plan, which is nice especially when you’re 32 and been playing the same way for a number of years. Always nice to stimulate the brain a bit differently.
“If you look around the league, the teams that are daring and take the ball through the corridor or back their kicking and play to their strengths, they’re the better teams to watch ... look at the way Hawthorn play, they’re so confident and I think that’s the way the game’s going.”
As well as adjusting to a new game plan, May is adjusting to life as a new father after partner Sachi Dade gave birth to daughter Millie last September.
“It’s like a football season in itself, learning all these new things, having no sleep,” he said.
“I’m still trying to figure it out, learning every day, it’s very rewarding.
“Trying to juggle that and back into pre-season, I come into training and I see all the guys with kids and I take my hat off to them. I’m loving every minute of it.”
May also couldn’t resist making a cheeky joke about captain Max Gawn.
The skipper fractured his larynx in a freak training accident just before Christmas.
He’s expected to resume full training later this month.
“It’s been nice not having him speak every meeting,” May said of Gawn.
