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Just now, A F said:

Kennedy won't be gone, but Grimes, Garland and Dunn should be. Trengove's finished as well. 

I think this says a little bit about the Bulldogs game plan and ours. We're going to need quite a few more gears. It's like watching Melbourne being opened up.

This. A deadset replica of the two St.Kilda games at Etihad. We, meaning Casey AND Melbourne are horribly lacking when the opposition combines pressure and speed of ball use. It's going to be our biggest obstacle in the coming years, and needs a serious strategy change. 

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7-8 goals to no score for the quarter. Even Oliver is tired out and losing contests now. 

Posted
2 minutes ago, Akum said:

Can't remember seeing so many missed tackles.

I don't think they were ever got close enough often enough Akum

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45 minutes ago, mo64 said:

Looking to our future, not much to get excited about other than Oliver, Weid and J. Smith. Plenty of effort and good tackling by the rest, but poor disposal and no speed is the reason why most are playing at Casey.

 

44 minutes ago, Nasher said:

Not much to get excited about for the future?

Righto then.

Y'know Nasher, I think he might have missed the detail that all the kids have been in the firsts and Casey is mostly our older players. :roos:

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Time for a big clean out, 16 Melbourne listed players playing today, at least half of them should be gone this off season. 

when a team with Dunn, Garland, Trengove and Grimes can't show leadership at VFL level it really shows how far off our side has been for such a long time

 

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Well there's a dose of reality. A number of players have damaged their reputations considerably. ANB has barely been sighted, neither has Michie, Newton has been terrible and Grimes and Trengove should now probably give it away.

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Too many players from the 'mentally scarred' days:  Dunn, Terlich, Grimes, Garland, Trengove, Spencer, Jones falling into old bad habits.  No fight. No coming back now.

I never bag our players but I can no longer stick up for those guys.

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Footscray are so Western Bulldogs and  Casey are so Melbourne. Unbelievable.

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Posted
1 minute ago, Webber said:

This. A deadset replica of the two St.Kilda games at Etihad. We, meaning Casey AND Melbourne are horribly lacking when the opposition combines pressure and speed of ball use. It's going to be our biggest obstacle in the coming years, and needs a serious strategy change. 

Yep, if you can't find the run and spread as well as the inside clearances you are toast at both AFL and VFL level. Been that way for a few years now. Doggies have a great balance here.

Minson has killed Spencil. McInerny isn't up to this level to help out either. Our 3 talls in Spencil, McInerny and Weeds (first half excluded) have been unable to impact. Their talls have had a say.

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2 minutes ago, Rusty Nails said:

Yep, if you can't find the run and spread as well as the inside clearances you are toast at both AFL and VFL level. Been that way for a few years now. Doggies have a great balance here.

Minson has killed Spencil. McInerny isn't up to this level to help out either. Our 3 talls in Spencil, McInerny and Weeds (first half excluded) have been unable to impact. Their talls have had a say.

To be fair on Weeds, it hasn't been down there.

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1 minute ago, mrtwister said:

If Footscray get too up themselves in this last quarter I think I might be going for Sydney next week. 

It's going to be a long week, but we just have dished up a lack of effort in the 3rd quarter.. 8 goals to none is just insipid.

Never been fond of the dishlickers.

 

 

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i wonder if apart from different players a new batch of diet, training and Medical staff are required as well, to give us that edge in the last quarters of intense games like yesterday for arguments sake.

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Clearly the Bulldogs, who all train together know each other's game. They are young and quick with good disposal skill and  are showing us why you don't hang on to slow, skilless players.  

Goodwin and Taylor should have put the red line through several of our players.  

I now think we will make more changes to the list than many thought. 

My decade long hobby horses, pace and skill, have been badly shown up in our side today. 

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1 minute ago, Diamond said:

The only player on the ground for Casey who looks AFL is Clayton Oliver. The rest played the third quarter like a bunch of girls.

Hey don't bring our Womens team into this comparison! Doing ok, although even they got beaten by the Doggies

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2 minutes ago, chook fowler said:

I'd back Daisy against this lot

I'd back Quentin

Posted

Dogs list is unbelievable.

They're the most well balanced list within the AFL surely with their players and game style perfectly suited to modern day footy.

With the amount of MFC listed players we have, it's clear we're still a way off. 

Absolutely must inject some more speed and kicking skills to our list over the next few drafts. 

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3 minutes ago, Diamond said:

The only player on the ground for Casey who looks AFL is Clayton Oliver. The rest played the third quarter like a bunch of girls.

You're either watching a replay from a few weeks ago, or a ----head.

If this the link you followed for the game? http://www.afl.com.au/video/2016-09-03/womens-highlights-wb-v-melb

If not, grow up.

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Unlike some of you guys, I reckon the list managers would use more than 30 minutes of bad football to make their decisions going forward. These same guys are the ones who got Casey to a GF in the first place. Admittedly this kind of fade out is all too familiar.

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