If you thought the Casey Demons were tested last week when they took on the then undefeated Box Hill Hawks at Wonthaggi, then what about the test they face this week?

The Gold Coast Suns are undefeated on top of the ladder and last week crushed Richmond VFL by 63 points at Punt Road - just one week after the Tigers beat the Demons by 2 goals at their Casey Fields fortress.

Saturday’s game at Carrara between the VFL’s top two teams is a curtain raiser for the big AFL clash and will present Casey with its biggest challenge since last year’s grand final. 

This is going to be an extremely tough game, especially with Luke Dunstan out. Mitch White coming back last week made a massive differencel. Does anyone have any news on Jimmy Munro (we need him in the side). Because he's not a Melbourne-listed player we don't get any injury news.

Has a selected side been published anywhere yet? Wondering whether Spargs is playing VFL this weekend

12 minutes ago, kieranbj said:

Has a selected side been published anywhere yet? Wondering whether Spargs is playing VFL this weekend

Snap.

Just posted this on the pre game thread:

What's the deal with the VFL team yet to be announced, despite the game being in less than 24 hours and the players will have already flown up there.

I've searched everywhere - including the Casey demons twitter account and nada for both us and the Suns. Seems very strange. 

Any insight you could share @KC from Casey?

 

I expect Harmes and Schache to be held over for the MFC games in case, Harmes as sub again. I think it still means about 15 listed MFC players in the Casey team. If Spargo plays then the forward line is pretty much all listed players: BBB, TMac, J.Smith, Jefferson, Spargo, Sestan, AMW.

Edited May 5, 20232 yr by old55

24 minutes ago, kieranbj said:

Has a selected side been published anywhere yet? Wondering whether Spargs is playing VFL this weekend

 

11 minutes ago, binman said:

Snap.

Just posted this on the pre game thread:

What's the deal with the VFL team yet to be announced, despite the game being in less than 24 hours and the players will have already flown up there.

I've searched everywhere - including the Casey demons twitter account and nada for both us and the Suns. Seems very strange. 

Any insight you could share @KC from Casey?

 

Teams always seem to drop around 5pm on Friday. Have no idea why this is the case.

The team is out ~ Spargo is in.

No TMac for Casey?

Makes sense.. they are very tall .. perhaps a rest is a good idea

Very strong team...with Munro still to come in. Very hard for the Casey demons boys to get a run...must be a very resilient group.

5 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

The team is out ~ Spargo is in.

Gee that's a pretty strong VFL side.

I wish I'd known about this game earlier.

Will be cruising around the Goldy in a boat.

I'd rather be in an empty stadium drinking soap out of a plastic cup and watching our team.

Should be a cracking game. The Suns must be slowly building into a competitive side at both levels

Virtually confirms that James Harmes is the sub for Melbourne and/or that someone is out of the selected side for the main game.

1 minute ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Virtually confirms that James Harmes is the sub for Melbourne and/or that someone is out of the selected side for the main game.

Poita's post mentions Harmes and TMac as injured..........who knows

1 hour ago, Whispering_Jack said:

The team is out ~ Spargo is in.

I hope I wasn't out of line with that crack about there being zero chance Spargo not getting selected if fit....

 

 

2 hours ago, old55 said:

I expect Harmes and Schache to be held over for the MFC games in case, Harmes as sub again. I think it still means about 15 listed MFC players in the Casey team. If Spargo plays then the forward line is pretty much all listed players: BBB, TMac, J.Smith, Jefferson, Spargo, Sestan, AMW.

If you saw that forward line on paper 2 years ago you would think Casey will gallop it in. I especially hope Bbb plays well as I feel his best is needed.

4 minutes ago, binman said:

I hope I wasn't out of line with that crack about there being zero chance Spargo not getting selected if fit....

 

 

Wow, looking at this picture and reading the words I can hear Don Adam's funny voice.

One of the funniest scenes from that show was when 99s mother came to live with them. She witnessed Max fighting with several enemy agents. She looked at 99 and said she had no idea the greeting card business was so tough.

Edited May 5, 20232 yr by leave it to deever

We will all be watching D Smith from now on given Maysie has pumped his Tyres up.  

1 hour ago, Brownie said:

Gee that's a pretty strong VFL side.

I wish I'd known about this game earlier.

Will be cruising around the Goldy in a boat.

I'd rather be in an empty stadium drinking soap out of a plastic cup and watching our team.

Should be a cracking game. The Suns must be slowly building into a competitive side at both levels

 

2 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

If you saw that forward line on paper 2 years ago you would think Casey will gallop it in. I especially hope Bbb plays well as I feel his best is needed.

Similarly experienced line up didn’t help us vs Richmond at Casey 2 weeks ago, but last week was a good win vs Box Hill away, so who knows?

TMac listed as injured! I wonder what is the issue?

41 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Poita's post mentions Harmes and TMac as injured..........who knows

Where does it mention Harmes is injured DJ? 

Edited May 5, 20232 yr by Dee Zephyr

1 hour ago, poita said:

 

5 minutes ago, Dee Zephyr said:

Where does it mention Harmes is injured DJ? 

see the outs in the quoted post above

1 minute ago, Diamond_Jim said:

see the outs in the quoted post above

I think it just says McDonald and Dunstan are injured.

6 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

see the outs in the quoted post above

read again, dj

22 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

read again, dj

I stand corrected