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It is hard, and Michie has since shown up a bit since being more in the middle.

I find our run is stifled a bit by some of the less-experienced or game savvy Casey players.

Just before the end of the quarter Barry was running up the wing, and would have completed so great link play from HBF to HFF but the Casey player (19?) didn't come forward or move, and instead stood flat footed waiting for the looping handball from Barry.

Barry should have been able to keep running and receive the ball back in a 1-2 play, but the Casey player waited for the ball to come to him, letting himself get covered, and didnt move once receiving it, instead trying to return the ball from a stationary position, and getting it smothered, making Barry track back and eventually the loose ball was recovered by the Hawks.

If the Casey player had been moving it makes it a shorter quicker handball, draws the defender, but also gives him space to threaten to wheel around himself so the defender has to commit, providing space for Barry to run the line along the wing, and then receive the ball back and move the ball into the F50.

Simple movement, but it didn't happen, and the play broke down.

Whilst some if the Melbourne players do turn the football over, the 15 or so casey players are very lucky to be playing at vfl level, I think se of those players look like they would struggle to make some of the good metro leagues.

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    It's becoming clear why we might be looking for another senior ruck come years end, McEvoy with 5 goals, Gawn busy but kind of ineffectual... Thank Gawd for the Russian.

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    It's becoming clear why we might be looking for another senior ruck come years end, McEvoy with 5 goals, Gawn busy but kind of ineffectual... Thank Gawd for the Russian.

    You think?

    He's taken a lot of comtested marks in the D50.

    Looks like he's being instructed to float across there as a spare.

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    You think?

    He's taken a lot of comtested marks in the D50.

    Looks like he's being instructed to float across there as a spare.

    More about his ability to give us an advantage in the ruck and in some marking contest vs McEvoy, I agree he's ok around the ground.

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    He's not Robinson Crusoe in that regard today. Many MFC Casey players struggling.

    That Sam Blease can't take a trick or break a line at this level is worrying.

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    Standard final quarter from the hapless Casey Scorpions who go down in a steaming heap by 85 points.

    2014 Peter Jackson VFL

    Casey Scorpions 2.0.12 2.2.14 6.6.42 6.8.44

    Box Hill Hawks 3.4.22 7.10.52 10.11.71 19.15.129

    Goals

    Casey Scorpions Fitzpatrick 2 Smith Evans Page Smith Toumpas

    Box Hill Hawks McEvoy 5 Cust 4 Kelly Willsmore 2 Grimley Hallahan Iles Langford O'Donnell Simpkin

    Best

    Casey Scorpions Michie Georgiou Barry Nicholson Blease Panozza

    Box Hill Hawks B McEvoy Lock Woodward Simpkin Cust Kelly

    Disposals Michie 30 Blease 28 Nicholson 25 Gawn 24 Evans 23 Strauss 21 Tapscott Toumpas 20

    Gawn took 8 marks and had 35 hit outs

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    Standard final quarter from the hapless Casey Scorpions who go down in a steaming heap by 85 points.

    Jesus Christ....

    How's Michie, Blease, Strauss, Nicholson, and Tapscott going?

    Any of them looking like a senior call up is soon?

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    Panozza aside the non MFC listed players for Casey are no more than witches hats. Michie and Toumpas OK but no one banging down the door. Strauss and Tapscott are very limited footballers. Nicholson is not a footballer. Blease started ok but just looked for cheap kicks most of the game. Still plenty of deadwood to clear out, most of it to cleanse us of some of the appalling drafting decisions made by the previous regime.

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    Standard final quarter from the hapless Casey Scorpions who go down in a steaming heap by 85 points.

    Wow.

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    second half was horrible too, but against my better judgement i watched and stuck it out

    couldn't say anyone really put their hand up for selection

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    Blease probably best of the dees.... looked more composed than team mates. Toumpas was also good and Tappscott was hard at it as always. Did some good things.

    Rest were ordinary.

    Nicholson and Evans just do not have the ability to make smart decisions consistently with their disposal. Cant see them ever rectifying this which is a shame as both great runners.

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    Jesus Christ....

    How's Michie, Blease, Strauss, Nicholson, and Tapscott going?

    Any of them looking like a senior call up is soon?

    Reckon we should give Jesus Christ a run in the seniors.

    Move Dunn to CHB.

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    Reckon we should give Jesus Christ a run in the seniors.

    Move Dunn to CHB.

    I dunno, a little funny on that, he always gets a lot of the ball but he's decision making is pretty bad, his older brother Paul Roos seems to be going alright though.

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    Very disappointing stuff happening at Casey.

    JKH's review from last week was appalling and it doesn't sound like he responded to it at all. What's going on there?

    Happy to write off Strauss, Nicholson and Tapscott. Blease sounds like he showed more than those three, but not a lot.

    Panozza aside the non MFC listed players for Casey are no more than witches hats. Michie and Toumpas OK but no one banging down the door. Strauss and Tapscott are very limited footballers. Nicholson is not a footballer. Blease started ok but just looked for cheap kicks most of the game. Still plenty of deadwood to clear out, most of it to cleanse us of some of the appalling drafting decisions made by the previous regime.

    Regimes.

    As much as we all hate Neeld, these four players you've mentioned all came to the club in the Bailey era.

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    second half was horrible too, but against my better judgement i watched and stuck it out

    couldn't say anyone really put their hand up for selection

    I also watched it and agree with your assessment. The standard is a long way below AFL yet there are no stand outs. Some talk of Blease above, but I didn't see him do anything that separated him from the pack. Gawn did a few things but certainly was not a dominant big man. JKH looked a VFL player. Tapscott ordinary. Not impressed at all.

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    Big clean out end of year. If your not knocking down the door to get a game, your classed as a passenger.

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    Toumpas and JKH are really the only ones that played today that i believe will make it at senior level, and maybe Michie and Gawn who have had interrupted preperations.

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    End this alignment asap... FFS!

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