Basil regret over faulty moment

BASIL Zempilas tried to make up for his mistake and get premiership-winning Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin back on stage to make a speech after his grand final blooper last Saturday.

Goodwin was denied the onstage chance to deliver his message of thanks before accepting the cup with his captain Max Gawn in Perth.

Zempilas, who was the grand final MC, opened up on the “regrettable” moment and said he tried to make up for it as the Demons celebrated their drought-breaking win.

“As they were having the team photo, I asked one of the people to go and get Simon – let’s get him back up and let’s do it,” he told Triple M radio.

“And I said ‘Simon, my apologies, that was crazy.’ And he said to me, ‘there’s so much going on, it’s fine, it’s fine’.

“And he stood next to me and we tried to get the PA down … the PA I couldn’t reach, the cup had gone, and BT (Channel 7 commentator Brian Taylor) was down side of stage and said ‘I’ll grab him’, and Simon was ‘hey, no problem at all’.”

Zempilas said the ordeal was “disappointing”.

“Because I don’t want that to be remembered as the moment from Melbourne’s great premiership victory,” he said.