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Casey Demons v Northern Blues - Round 18

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Just a note on Harley Balic who retired this week.

Harley played his best game for Casey in Round 1 against Coburg when he starred with six goals, a performance which could have gained him a promotion to the AFL. However, it's worth remembering that was the week when Tom Bugg (4) and Dean Kent (3) got among the goals in Melbourne's win against North Melbourne leaving no place available for Balic in the team. 

From there however, it was a bit of a downhill ride for Harley.

He was injured late in the second game against Werribee after kicking an important last quarter goal just when Casey was asserting its authority on the game. He missed the next two matches with a plantar fascia injury and returned in Round 6 against the Box Hill Hawks. He put in one or two handy performances including a 3 goal effort against Port Melbourne but more lately seemed to have some quiet patches, flashing in and out of games. Some of his last appearances for the club were played in some shocking conditions against Essendon and North Melbourne (who were kept goalless). He certainly never came near to emulating his debut display and his non-selection against Footscray was a bit of a mystery. He played against the Cats but was nowhere near his best.

I suppose that the writing was on the wall and the tale of his more recent vanilla performances has now been resolved. If his heart wasn’t in it and he has lost his passion for the game, then he is doing what his right for his club, his teammates and most importantly, for himself. I wish him good luck for the future.

On a side note, because Balic missed out on playing in Rounds 3 and 4 through his foot injury, every time he ran out to play with Casey, it was a winning game.

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    Beautiful day down here at Casey Fields, bit of wind though. 

    Kent is the carryover.

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    On 7/30/2018 at 11:52 PM, Drunkn167 said:

    Huge game this one. Not for the season or anything but coming into the back end of the year there’s a few boys that’ll need to play some great footy if they don’t want to find themselves traded or delisted at the end of the season.

    Hopefully Keilty did what he did against the Blues this time last year and has 10+ intercept marks.

    Has your bother played for the MFC yet?

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    1 hour ago, don't make me angry said:

    Has your bother played for the MFC yet?

    Hasn’t debuted yet no.

    very windy atm

    Keilty playing on Casboult should be a decent match up

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    21 minutes ago, Drunkn167 said:

    Hasn’t debuted yet no.

    very windy atm

    Keilty playing on Casboult should be a decent match up

    Does not look good for him i think it might be the end  how many years has he been on the list?

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    Not long to go for the start of today's game at Casey Fields. There's a bit of a northerly wind blowing down the ground which often affects games down here at this time of the year. It certainly had an influence on the VFLW curtain raiser between Casey and Carlton in which the Demons prevailed by 10 points scoring 5.7.37 to 3.9.27. They won the toss and had first use of the wind and kicked three goals in the first six minutes.

    I believe that Dean Kent has been held back as emergency for tomorrow and will be sit this game out.

     

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    Welcome back Hunty. Hope he burns it up today. Thanks in advance to all Casey reporters.

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    Keilty has drifted forward following his man down and takes a great contested mark and kicks a goal!!!!!

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    1 minute ago, KC from Casey said:

    Ginger Baker goals with a snap. 31 to 0.

    that would be a ginger snap

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    Smashing Carlton never gets old, whether at VFL or AFL level.

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    40 to Nil. Pretty solid 1st qtr....

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    A kick for goal after the siren from Cory Machaya is on line.

    Quarter Time: Casey Demons 8.5.53 lead Northern Blues 0.0.0

    Goals Baker Keilty Lockhart Machaya Pedersen C Wagner Weideman White

    Disposals C Wagner 9 Machaya Pedersen 8 White 7

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