2015 MFC Season Review

[DeeVoted 583]

Might be a bit early,but if the players have checked out, why not look back at 2015 now. Not a lot will change in the coming weeks.

Fent your disgust, things that were highlights for you. The players,coach,AFL (MFC related). I could write a book of where it went wrong. Lets not just discuss the lowlights, some positives came about this year. Put aside the last few weeks of despair,and look at the whole picture. What went right, and where the improvement came from, areas we failed. Go for it.

I will kick it off will my view on the playing list. You may agree or not but lets hear your point of view, as we all have our own opinions.

[DeeVoted 583]

Another Season : Harmes King , O.McDonald White

These players have shown enough to believe they could be good players, they need more time to develop.

Undecided = Fitzpatrick , Hunt , Kennedy-Harris , Mitchie , Riley , Spencer , Toumpas.

Fitzpatrick: Could be a handy swing man. He played some pretty good games for Casey when moved to the backline.He bought some of that form with him into the seniors for a few games. His infamous tunnelball didn't help his cause. But there must have been more to just that brain fade. Jury is out.

Hunt : Has been on the list for 3 years and has been injury plagued. When he has been fit he hasn't been able to string enough good games together at Casey. Borderline in my book to be a regular,

Kennedy-Harris : Another player that hasnt convinced me yet.

Mitchie : Been useful in a poor team. A depth player in this point in time.

Riley : see above.

Spencer : Will never be a top ruckman. He has some good assets but he is just making up the numbers.

Toumpas : Remember this 'bubbly' kid we dratfed.? Seems his bubble has burst,he is now floundering.

Need upgrading = Cross , Dawes , Dunn , Grimes , Garland , Howe , Lumumba , Pederson

Cross : Was handed a lifeline and made the most of it. He has been a good player for us. But his use by date I think is up.

Would like to see him stay on as a mentor type player at Casey as he would be a great role model.

Dawes : I am marking him down as a big disappointment.Expected a lot more from a key position player.He fails to deliver on a regular basis. Dawes holds his spot only because we have nobody good enough to replace him. Pederson is JUST a player but is name has been thrown around to take Dawe's spot. And Pederson is no game breaker either. We need to find another KPP or we are going nowhere.

Dunn : Lucky he wasnt delisted along with Bate. Dunn got a lifeline when moved to the backline. He is servicable,but lets be honest. He is part of a struggling backline.He will get beaten by a strong marking forward,doesnt have the speed to go with running forward. He bustles,hustles and negates.Thats about it. Offers no run out of the backline. Love his big torps but we need to find someone that will give us a lot more. He stays by default.

Grimes : I seen some improvement this year, but like Dunn, lacks burst speed,will get beaten in the air.Plays loose most times. In general hasn't got enough weapons. Wouldn't blink an eye if he was traded.

Garland : If he has decided to go, he goes. Nothing more than handy down back. Garland is another that doesn't give any run out of the backline. I would like to see him be a Simmo (Carlton) or Kelly type (Geelong). I hope he stays,but couldn;t care less what he decides.

Howe : Looks to me as he has checked out. He wasn't much better playing in the forward line. I get the feeling he doesn't like being a backman. he would rather play foward taking speccies. All good making the highlight reel,but a forward needs to be accountable for his opponent. Howe just doesnt come across as giving 100%. Howe could be a real weapon if he decided to make a real effort.

Lumumba : I liked the Harry 'O' better than this version.

Pederson : Unlucky to get injured when he did. He would have put some pressure on Dawes, and even helped out down back. But just a player. Will have some really good games, then go missing.

Gone : Bail , Jamar , M.Jones , McKenzie , Terlich

Nothing more to be said here, Thanks guys for your efforts,but we need new blood. A special mention to Jamar, was a top ruckman for awhile.

Edited August 24, 2015 by DeeVoted

[DeeVoted 583]

My playing list for 2016. We have holes on every line. We also have players just making up the numbers on every line. We need a Prem Mid or 2. We also need a power forward to go with Hoges. We need a ruckman to help Gawn as I cant see Jamar being part of it next year.

B : Jetta Frost ??

HB : Salem McDonald Stretch

C : Tyson vandenBerg Brayshaw

HF Vince ?? Petracca

F : Kent Hogan Watts

R : Gawn N.Jones Viney

Int : Alex-Bullen Garlett Newton Trengove

This isnt taking into account outstanding injuries (ie Trengove). Its based on a fit list.

[FireOath 290]

If I was to make a 2016 team with who we have now it would look something like this;

B: Neville Jetta, Tom McDonald, Colin Garland
HB: Jack Grimes, Lynden Dunn, Heritier Lumumba
C: Dom Tyson, Jack Viney, Christian Salem
HF: Jeff Garlett, Cam Pedersen, Dean Kent
F: Jack Watts, Jesse Hogan, Jeff Garlett
FOLL: Max Gawn, Bernie Vince, Nathan Jones
I/C: Angus Brayshaw, Alex Neal-Bullen, Jack Trengove, Aaron vandenBerg
EMG: Billy Stretch, Sam Frost, Christian Petracca

I put Petracca as a emergency as we haven't sen him yet, although he could slot somewhere into that side.

[DeeVoted 583]

Now the game plan:

I cant; say for sure, if Roos is at fault or if the players just don;t have the smarts to carry out instructions. Either way its up to all involved to find the solution.

When we decide to switch on, we look a million bucks.Too many times this year we failed to deliver.

We lack burst speed, we fail to man up when we don;t have the ball.We play too far away from our opponents. We play like we train. That is we give off a handball to a player 3 feet away, then fail to block, sheppard, or give off to a player on the run. Not one player is prepared to make an effort to run past to accept a handball, they are all flat footed. Then watch as their opponent runs off them.

Leading forwards are overlooked. if spotted we are too slow to move the ball, and the worst, we miss a target and a turnover results, then everyone is caught out. And so it goes. The mids cop it for not presenting support for the backs. But if the backs didn't play so far off their opponents they could be 1/2 a chance to repel an attack.

[Sir Why You Little 36,676]

This season has been a bad Fail

Yes we have had some good wins BUT NOT ONE OF THEM WAS BACKED UP with a consecutive win

We are still where we were in 2013 just with different personel

Careers need to be terminated for many.

Yesterdays first half is all the evidence needed

[jnrmac 19,908]

This season has been a bad Fail

Yes we have had some good wins BUT NOT ONE OF THEM WAS BACKED UP with a consecutive win

We are still where we were in 2013 just with different personel

Careers need to be terminated for many.

Yesterdays first half is all the evidence needed

Infuriating

[old dee 23,506]

This season has been a bad Fail

Yes we have had some good wins BUT NOT ONE OF THEM WAS BACKED UP with a consecutive win

We are still where we were in 2013 just with different personel

Careers need to be terminated for many.

Yesterdays first half is all the evidence needed

I would be delighted with consecutive crappy wins.

[Bluey's Dad 3,419]

I'd give the season a pass if I had a reasonable explanation as to why the players chose to give effort one week and chose not to the next.

I would be happy with the 6 wins as a sign of improvement if I could point to the games we lost and see consistent effort.

But I can't.

We're just bad.

Fail imho.

[Jaded No More 67,850]

6 wins is a fail, pure and simple.

8 wins would have been a pass. Yes we won games we didn't expect, but we lost so many games we absolutely should have won. To lose to Essendon and Carlton this year is unacceptable, and we barely beat Brisbane.

The lack of consistent effort is what hurts. We have shown glimpses, but we did that under Bailey too, with some massive wins and upsets.

Have we improved since the days of Neeld, yes? Is that an achievement to be proud of? no.

It's like being at rock bottom and not digging yourself an even deeper hole. Well done, you haven't gotten worse and you climbed up a few inches only to fall back down.

We hold some of the most embarrassing records in league history, especially when it comes to winning 2 games in a row.

I see positive signs in Hogan, Brayshaw, Salem, Viney, but then I think why would these players stick around, or worse, not follow their current leaders and become the same inconsistent bunch of players they currently look up to?

To still be leaving games of football after so many years wanting more effort, is unacceptable. I do not care how young the list is, effort should never be questioned, and sadly with our team it's been in question for a decade and nobody has given us answers or solutions.

[Jesse Christ 2,884]

A low budget Horror with zero heart and character development.

Dogshit!

[Emerald 1,744]

We can't have losses like we did against Hawthorn,Essendon and Carlton and call the season a pass.We won 6 games and can play 1 quarter so we're about 25%.

Edited August 24, 2015 by Emerald

[P-man 13,366]

I said a pass was getting out of the bottom four, whatever that required. If that remains the case, as bitterly disappointing as the last couple of weeks and the losses in general have been, I can't shift the goalposts now even if my inclination is to do exactly that. So it will be a begrudging pass. A win on the weekend actually would've pushed us up another spot to 13th.

The fact remains that we need the opposition to only half show up in order to grab a win. The commentary when Melbourne win is often about how poor the opposition were. The sad thing is, that commentary usually has merit. But we're at a stage now where winning is what matters most. Doesn't matter how they come or who gets credit. This club needs to win games. 6 wins has gotten us out of the bottom four, but it's fair to say a lot of improvement will be needed in order to continue that rise next season. On form, we'd be close to the worst side in the league right now.

There is definitely something salvageable from the last couple of games but for heaven's sake, they need to bring effort to give themslves a chance. The start to the game on the weekend is inexplicable after the embarrassment of the previous week. Somehow they need to dig deep and find something for the sake of the supporters cause really, it's beyond a joke now. Find something. Have some pride in yourself and your club and show the 35.000 members that their time and money isn't a total waste.

Edited August 24, 2015 by P-man

[Wilbur 447]

We had good wins over the geelong, pies, tiges, dogs, bears and gold coke. I reckon we would have rolled the aints and dons and carlton if a few more players been available.

Next year will see improvement from the younger players again and a few more passengers gone.

[Wadda We Sing 10,685]

Terrible second half of the season again, the only shining light being that win against the pies. (what do they do during that bye round?)......seems to literally mean bye bye. Not expecting anything for the last 2 games.

Our scores for the 20 games so far in a nutshell look like this. 12 loses by scoring 60pts or less.

115 W

56 L

55 L

83 W

50 L

50 L

50 L

103 W

54 L

85 L

83 L

113 W

60 L

Bye

60 L

60 W

46 L

91 W

92 L

55 L

55 L

Edited August 24, 2015 by Wadda We Sing

[BAMF 4,127]

Hunt : Has been on the list for 3 years and has been injury plagued. When he has been fit he hasn't been able to string enough good games together at Casey. Borderline in my book to be a regular,

2 years. Drafted in the 4th round, pick 57 2013. I hope he is given more time in some capacity, be it senior or rookie list. We could really use his pace.

Cross : Was handed a lifeline and made the most of it. He has been a good player for us. But his use by date I think is up.

Would like to see him stay on as a mentor type player at Casey as he would be a great role model.

I hope we hang onto him for another year. I think what this year showed us is that our list is extreamly shallow.

When we got injuries we were forced to bring in NQR's and young players who in better teams would be playing in the 2's.

Now of course there are injuries. So you will need to bring in a ready to go replacement.

And you will also want to give young players a taste of the big time. But there should only be a maximum of 2 of these replacement players per game.

So that would be 46 games per year to these players.

Angus Brayshaw - 20 games

Aaron Vandenberg -14 games

Ben Newton - 9 games

Alex Neal Bullen 9 games

Viv Michie - 9 games

Billy Stretch - 9 games

Matt Jones - 8 games

James Harmes - 7 games

Rohan Bail - 6 games

Aidan Riley - 4 games

Jordie McKenzie - 1 game

Total = 96 games (so far)

Lets keep Cross with the hope that he only needs to plays about 10 games next year.

Edited August 24, 2015 by UTAH

[monoccular 17,340]

We had good wins over the geelong, pies, tiges, dogs, bears and gold coke. I reckon we would have rolled the aints and dons and carlton if a few more players been available.

Next year will see improvement from the younger players again and a few more passengers gone.

Yes - there were some good and unexpected wins but I have to strongly disagree with your assessment of the Bears win as a good one.

And in the good wins the players seemed unrestrained, perhaps unrestrained by expectations, and took the game on. And they looked good....only the following week to revert to their introverted game plans the following weeks and losing. The bears game was the only one we scrambled a win from using the negative game plan.

Yet the coaching panel and / or players didn't seem to realise this, so we looked bad and lost.

Terrible second half of the season again, the only shining light being that win against the pies. (what do they do during that bye round?)......seems to literally mean bye bye. Not expecting anything for the last 2 games.

Our scores for 20 games in a nutshell look like this. 12 loses by scoring 60pts or less.

115 W

56 L

55 L

83 W

50 L

50 L

50 L

103 W

54 L

85 L

83 L

113 W

60 L

60 L

60 W

46 L

91 W

92 L

55 L

55 L

Can anyone remember any time since the great finish to the 2000 season when we played any good games in the last part of the season?

It has been totally uninspiring and cannot do anything for membership renewals.

[old dee 23,506]

We had good wins over the geelong, pies, tiges, dogs, bears and gold coke. I reckon we would have rolled the aints and dons and carlton if a few more players been available.

Next year will see improvement from the younger players again and a few more passengers gone.

No let me think when have I heard that before?

[defuture15 891]

Positives.

Brayshaw

Vanders

Hogan

Gawn

Vince

Too many players not up to it. I would like to see frost play as a tall mid and Fitz

To come in for Dunn. Dunn to go in the midfield rotation as a big bodied mid swapping

Off the HFF.Salem HBF,Kent HFF, Petracca HFF. Need everyone fit. Dawes to go. Waiting to see

What happens with Howes and garland. Need a KPF to take the heat of Hogan

[LuckyPhil 2]

The obvious player that everyone has missed is Jack Watts. This bloke wandering around the ground missing tackles, dropping marks , chasing no-one, regularly turning the ball over and totally avoiding any physical contact. And yet he is picked every week. Why?

If I was a team-mate I would be looking at him and thinking "He does nothing and gets picked avery week. Why should I bust a gut?"

We should put all players on performance based contracts. We would soon be the richest club in the competition because our salary bill would be tiny.

[M C 221]

The obvious player that everyone has missed is Jack Watts. This bloke wandering around the ground missing tackles, dropping marks , chasing no-one, regularly turning the ball over and totally avoiding any physical contact. And yet he is picked every week. Why?

If I was a team-mate I would be looking at him and thinking "He does nothing and gets picked avery week. Why should I bust a gut?"

We should put all players on performance based contracts. We would soon be the richest club in the competition because our salary bill would be tiny.

There are plenty of others I would be having a go at before Watts LP. Has improved markedly since dropping himself earlier in the season

[Emerald 1,744]

For the amount of time Watts has spent as a forward this season,you can't call his 9 goals a pass.

[Bombay Airconditioning 6,217]

My playing list for 2016. We have holes on every line. We also have players just making up the numbers on every line. We need a Prem Mid or 2. We also need a power forward to go with Hoges. We need a ruckman to help Gawn as I cant see Jamar being part of it next year.

B : Jetta Frost ??

HB : Salem McDonald Stretch

C : Tyson vandenBerg Brayshaw

HF Vince ?? Petracca

F : Kent Hogan Watts

R : Gawn N.Jones Viney

Int : Alex-Bullen Garlett Newton Trengove

This isnt taking into account outstanding injuries (ie Trengove). Its based on a fit list.

Jetta Frost Dunn(Dunn has to play, had great season last year. Two more seasons until Oscar or someone else comes along)

Salem McDonald Stretch (I like the HB line, Tmac is a gun defender, spoiler, picks off opposition kicks, needs class either side to dish off to)

Vince Tyson Angus (Tyson/Viney need to take the next step. Jones- getting tagged, no longer an excuse)

Watts ,?? , Petracca (Watts stays for now?? It's a tough one, produce nothing next year it's all over. Isn't he quick over 20m? Utilise it)

Kent Hogan Garlett (need two small/med fwds)

Gawn Jones ??

ANB VB Viney ??

Newton?

Trengove?? Needs to play a few at Casey.

[RalphiusMaximus 6,012]

At the start of the season there was a thread asking us what would be a pass mark for the year. I looked at the draw and said we should finish 10-12 on the ladder, probably with 8-10 wins. I stand by that. We should have had those numbers. The form we've shown when the team actually turned up to play says they were more than capable of doing that. Right now we sit on six wins, an improvement on last year, but we've lost to Essendon, Carlton and Saint Kilda (twice). That's a disgraceful return and one the team should be ashamed of.

FAIL

Positives for the season:

vandenBerg - He hasn't had a full pre-season yet and he's already shown an ability to dominate and intimidate opponents. He's going to turn into our midfield enforcer, and can hit the scoreboard a well.

Brayshaw - I never expected him to have a first season as impressive as this. He's the sort of hard uncompromising player you can build your midfield around.

Viney - I was having doubts last year given his low output. His second half has been amazing, he's been shutting players down and getting big numbers himself. Really showing his worth now.

Hogan - He's everything we hoped. What we need now is for the rest of the team to learn how to use him. Gawn's efforts on the weekend were a disgrace.

Garlett - He's been gold for us. Even with his poor set shots, he's closing in on 40 goals for the season. We've been crying out for a player like this.

There are a few others who have shown signs, but I don't see them as great beacons of hope quite yet. Not on the back of a season like this.

[JV7 2,348]

Going into the game Sunday I thought, we win this then pinch the GWS game in the last round makes 8 wins and a pass mark for the year. Yes we lost games to Essendon, Saints twice but in all reality we are better primed then those 2 sides and beating the likes of Richmond, Collingwood, Bulldogs is a far better achievement then better essendon & st.kilda because in the long run were better off then those 2.. But after the weekends performance and the week prior against the Dogs, I can't take that stance anymore. The weekend especially, what a disgraceful performance it was. Almost 2 full years in Roos tenure I thought these performances would be gone.. The year has been a failure, the shining lights been Hogan & Brayshaw.. The recruitment of Garlett and the suprise packet in Vandenberg. Gawns 2nd half of the season also.. That's about where it stops. After the promising performance of round 1 I thought this club has turned the corner, in actualy fact we have stagnated