On 31/07/2021 at 05:08, Redleg said:

Helped them that we took extra players for our trip and weakened the team dramatically.

Wallis and West killing us.

Probably only accounts for their injured players, thus an even playing field. They are just a class above, in every way….intent, intelligence, skills. Casey this quarter are an embarrassment by comparison, no disguising it. 

Briggs, Stockdale, Freeman and Spark are serious ball butchers.

Edited July 31, 20213 yr by dazzledavey36

I forgot contested ball work and pressure….not in the same league. 

Three Quarter Time Casey Demons 8.9.57 Footscray Bulldogs 11.5.71

Goals White 2 Baker Bedford Declase Ellison Grey Jones

The Demons stopped to a walk and were beaten all around the ground by the Doggies who scored five goals to one in that third term.

Casey look gone. They have no run in their legs and are being completely outclassed. Can’t believe they were nearly 8 goals up an hour ago.

Footscray by 40 points after trailing by 46 in the second. Casey are now just spectating. No purpose.

This is an embarrassment. Dogs by 47 points. 

George Grey goals at last for Casey as we wait for the siren to sound.

And another to Grey at 31 minutes in.

Siren and it’s all over. Dogs by 37 points.

2021 VFL Mens

Casey Demons 6.4.40 7.5.47 8.9.57 10.9.69

Footscray Bulldogs  0.1.1 6.3.39  11.5.71 16.10.106

GOALS 

Casey Demons Grey 3 White 2 Baker Bedford Declase Ellison Jones 

Footscray Bulldogs Cavarra McNeil West 3 Bedendo Drummond Craig-Peters Glass-McCasker McComb Vandermeer William 

BEST

Casey Demons Jones White Declase Ellison Lockhart Jetta 

Footscray Bulldogs West McComb Sullivan Bedendo Young Cavarra

STATISTICS 

Oskar Baker 1 goal 14 kicks 6 handballs 20 disposals 5 marks 2 tackles 83 dream team points

Toby Bedford 1 goal 7 kicks 7 handballs 14 disposals 3 marks 8 tackles 80 dream team points

Jack Bell 5 kicks 5 handballs 10 disposals 1 mark 2 tackles 12 hit outs 49 dream team points

Aaron Bradtke 4 kicks 3 handballs 7 disposals 2 marks 7 hit outs 22 dream team points

Jaxon Briggs 6 kicks 4 handballs 10 disposals 2 marks 5 tackles 52 dream team points

Kye Declase 1 goal 16 kicks 11 handballs 27 disposals 5 marks 1 tackle 86 dream team points

Corey Ellison 1 goals 6 kicks 2 handballs 8 disposals 6 marks 4 tackles 2 hit outs 61 dream team points

Zac Foot 1 behind 5 kicks 5 handballs 10 disposals 2 marks 2 tackles 38 dream team points

Tom Freeman 8 kicks 8 disposals 3 marks 33  dream team points

George Grey 3 goals 4 kicks 1 handballs 5 disposals 3 marks 6 tackles 62 dream team points

Jack Hutchins 4 kicks 4 disposals 4 marks 18  dream team points

Neville Jetta 8 kicks 5 handballs 13 disposals 5 marks 3 tackles 58 dream team points

Nathan Jones 1 goals 3 behinds 20 kicks 9 handballs 29 disposals 4 marks 3 ttackles 105 dream team points

Bayley Laurie 5 kicks 2 handballs 7 disposals 2 marks 4 tackles 41 dream team points

Jay Lockhart 11 kicks 5 handballs 16 disposals 4 marks 3 tackles 66 dream team points

James Munro kicks handballs disposals marks tackles dream team points

Fraser Rosman 1 behind 6 kicks 2 handballs 8 disposals 2 marks 4 tackles 42 dream team points

Deakyn Smith 5 kicks 7 handballs 12 disposals 1 mark 1 tackles 36 dream team points

Ryan Sparkes 5 kicks 1 handballs 6 disposals 5 marks 3 tackles 44 dream team points

Cory Stockdale 1 behind 7 kicks 2 handballs 9 disposals 1 mark 4 tackles 42 dream team points

Daniel Turner 9 kicks 4 handballs 13 disposals 4 marks 1 tackles 51 dream team points

Mitch White 2 goals 1 behinds 11 kicks 2 handballs 13 disposals 6 marks 3 tackles 81 dream team points

Can see why Bradke will be gone at season end.

Edited July 31, 20213 yr by george_on_the_outer

Not one player out there today who screams AFL quality for us. 
They’re all sitting on a tarmac in QLD. 

What a shame all our top spares sitting in a plane on the way back to Vic, another opportunity goes South for the club and you can’t get them back.!!!!

  On 31/07/2021 at 05:58, Jaded said:

Not one player out there today who screams AFL quality for us. 
They’re all sitting on a tarmac in QLD. 

I didn’t see any of ours stand out. 

  On 31/07/2021 at 05:56, george_on_the_outer said:

Can see why Bradke will be gone at season end.

Should never had been on the list

Opitome of a project player

  On 31/07/2021 at 06:21, Kent said:

Should never had been on the list

Opitome of a project player

Ridiculously out of his depth in the AFL system. 3 years on the list and legit would struggle to get a game even at suburban level. 

I mean this in the kindest way because I'm sure he's a hard worker and certainly comes from a good family. But he'd be the worst player I've ever seen on our list since Brendan Van Shaik.

For every Mason Cox there is always your Austin Bradtke's when taking a punt on these project types.

Thank him for his service at years end and move on.

Edited July 31, 20213 yr by dazzledavey36

In effect best 8 players out vs strong Dogs team. Not surprising they won well.

  On 31/07/2021 at 08:32, D4Life said:

In effect best 8 players out vs strong Dogs team. Not surprising they won well.

They weren't that strong.

  On 31/07/2021 at 06:21, Kent said:

Should never had been on the list

Opitome of a project player

So, Superman, we should never try something out of the norm?   
 

Jimmy Stynes, Sean Wight?????

  On 31/07/2021 at 05:13, dazzledavey36 said:

Briggs, Stockdale, Freeman and Spark are serious ball butchers.

You can add Baker & Grey (outside of shots on goal) into that mix too Dazzle and to a lessor degree, at least today, Chunk as well.  Then there's Foot who burned two options for the greedy shot on goal at one point.

The Doggies showed us how to play team footy and were stronger in pretty much every aspect both at ground level in first possession,  clean distribution then spread on the outside, in the air, coming inside 50 and finishing on goal.  They held their feet more as well, much stronger through the core and better balanced, whereas too many Casey fellas were going to ground and / or unable to escape their direct opponent and under pressure often not taking first options ending up trying to do too much / getting caught.

Nev's decision to handball to chunk on one kick in in the third was diabolical.

There's not one decent deliverer coming inside 50 in the group that played today and no genuine target up forward without the Weid.  And while i realise Bell was filling in for Daw, he is a mile off, even at this level.

The other issue that stood out for me and this also applies to our senior team, when the opp gets a run on we seem unable to man up, even for a brief but meaningful period (say 10 to 15 minutes) within a quarter and shut down their momentum / force more turnovers.

I could also be wrong but we also appear to be happy to continue with a soft zone in our forward half, allowing opponents to find easy short targets out of the square and then do same up the field until about half way where they launch inside 50 or attempt to find a target on the lead.  Occasionally we force them to kick down the line early to about mid field but not often enough.  Against a skilled team like the doggies that's basically handing them the match right there.  And we do same at AFL level.  Haven't seen Goodwin alter this strategy all season and our opponents are having a field day playing off this weakness against us.

Kept looking for one or more players to wrestle back some sort of respect/control and say hey fellas come with me and lets turn this (momentary!?) shiiite fest around.  But alas.  There wasn't one player today you could say was worthy of a call up to senior level.

The other issue for me is that ground.  What a freakin shiiite place to learn the skills of the game with that crappy north westerly almost always blowing a gale from left to right across the field.  I would say no issue if it was only once in a while but it appears to be more often than not and a bloody blight on the game and players in general.  Get the hell out of Casey i reckon.  What a shiite hole.

While we obviously had a number missing we were pantsed after quarter time.  I would love to say i saw someone or something positive come out of it.  Something meaningful i mean that would potentially hold us in good stead if we needed in these last few rounds or finals but sadly i couldn't find a genuine serious player that might be capable of stepping up to make the grade or a difference at AFL level today.

Any comments on D Turner’s game today? He looked good in his first VFL game a while back.

  On 31/07/2021 at 12:52, Dee Zephyr said:

Any comments on D Turner’s game today? He looked good in his first VFL game a while back.

Thought he looked good  seems to be very mature and makes few mistakes 

The only player out there I would have in a senior side would be Declase. Being we took our next best 8-10 away with us that should not be surprising. If you are out of contract and played yesterday unless you are clearly development I suggest you can pack your bags at seasons end.  

A few players clearly are not quite up to AFL standard.  It showed that Casey had about a dozen VFL players.  With 6-7 taken to Brisbane for eventually no purpose, it was hard to watch the Casey boys be overrun. 
 

Declase. Yes he should be on the list and could get a debut game shortly.  

Jones.  Great to see him get back.  He might be very handy come finals time but unfortunately he may not force his way back in if we hit form again. 
 

Lockhart. Really competed well and I’d definitely retain on the list. 
 

Turner is one to keep.  Battled well and his judgement and marking fits as a backup for Lever.  
 

Others like Baker and Bedford are fringe at best and disappointed.  A question to be asked at year end. Bradtke is a no.  
 

For the dogs, Bedendo looked like he’d fit into our team.  At 19, he’s physically ready and good smart footballer. Good one touch footballer. Perhaps he is one to mark down for a end of 2022 conversation.  
 

Edited July 31, 20213 yr by spirit of norm smith
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  On 31/07/2021 at 12:52, Dee Zephyr said:

Any comments on D Turner’s game today? He looked good in his first VFL game a while back.

He was okay. Turned it over a few times.