Went along, the Melbourne boys were very nice to my little man (trac in particular). Not a lot else to excite. AMW has a future and I think Verrall will too, even though he made some errors. 

Have significant doubts on Jefferson across a number of facets - competitiveness, athleticism, fitness. Moved like a 35 year old and just did nothing to make defenders worry about him. 

Adams could be something but needs work. 

They missed Dunstan tremendously. Bill Laurie and Schache were walking the boundary - told them they should both be playing. 

Tomlinson is massive in person and Melk walking around without crutches, weird to think he needs the best part of a year of rehab...

A large chunk of the Melb team attended. Didn't see Grundy, koz, Fritsch but struggle to think of too many others who weren't there.

Fantastic contribution from these two.

Two goals for Roan Steele caps of a good afternoon for him.

Roan Steele! Saturday Matinee Idol finish.

Edited September 2, 20231 yr by Tarax Club
5 goals get in on celluloid!

Season over …

CASEY DEMONS 2.4.16 5.4.34 6.9.45 10.9.69

FOOTSCRAY BULLDOGS 5.3.33 10.9.69 16.11.107 22.16.148

GOALS

CASEY DEMONS Steele 5 Moniz-Wakefield 2 Grey Munro Valentine

FOOTSCRAY BULLDOGS Clarke Garcia Khamis Poulter 3 Craig-Peters Macpherson Sullivan West 2 Goater Sweet 

BEST

CASEY DEMONS Munro Steele Freeman Harmes Edwards Moniz-Wakefield 

FOOTSCRAY BULLDOGS Poulter Sullivan Sweet Garcia Crozier Khamis 

Statistics 

Jed Adams 7 kicks 1 handball 8 disposals 5 marks 2 tackles 46 dream team points
Jack Bell 6 kicks 4 handballs 10 disposals 1 mark 6 hit outs 30 dream team points 
Heath Briggs 3 handballs 3 disposals 3 dream team points 
Matt Buntine 5 kicks 1 handballs 6 disposals 4 marks 26 dream team points
Tyler Edwards 12 kicks 6 handballs 18 disposals 5 marks 7 tackles 94 dream team points
Finn Emile-Brennan 3 kicks 1 handballs 4 disposals 1 marks 14 dream team points 
Kyah Farris-White 1 tackle 2 hit outs 6 dream team points 
Tom Freeman 22 kicks 1 handballs 23 disposals 7 marks 2 tackles 101 dream team points
George Grey 1 goals 8 kicks 3 handballs 11 disposals 4 marks 2 tackles 53 dream team points
James Harmes 1 behind 14 kicks 11 handballs 25 disposals 5 marks 4 tackles 90 dream team points
Matt Jefferson 1 kick 1 disposal 3 dream team points 
Tom McRae 7 kicks 3 handballs 10 disposals 2 marks 34 dream team points 
Andy Moniz-Wakefield 2 goals 1 behind 10 kicks 3 handballs 13 disposals 2 marks 2 tackles 57 dream team points 
Ned Moodie 10 kicks 5 handballs 15 disposals 5 marks 1 tackle 1 hit out 56 dream team points
James Munro 1 goal 16 kicks 16 handballs 32 disposals 5 marks 9 tackles 131 dream team points
Harvey Neocleous 6 kick 7 handballs 13 disposals 4 marks 1 tackles 42 dream team points
Deaykin Smith 12 kicks 3 handballs 15 disposals 8 marks 2 tackles 72 dream team points
Roan Steele 5 goals 9 kicks 5 handballs 14 disposals 3 marks 1 tackles 76 dream team points
Ziggy Toledo-Glasman 2 kicks 2 handballs 4 disposals 2 marks 13 dream team points  
Kye Turner 9 kicks 1 handball 10 disposals 5 marks 1 tackle 48 dream team points
Ryan Valentine 1 goal 1 kicks 1 handballs 2 disposals 1 marks 11 dream team points 
Will Verrall 1 behind 7 kicks 5 handballs 12 disposals 2 marks 2 tackles 12 hit outs 60 dream team points
Mitch White 2 behinds 15 kicks 2 handballs 17 disposals 4 marks 3 tackles 72 dream team points 

Good year from Casey.

Those close losses at the end of the H&A, hurt them.

Tough to go back to back.

Gee, they missed Dunstan.

6 minutes ago, fr_ap said:

Went along,

A large chunk of the Melb team attended. Didn't see Grundy, koz, Fritsch but struggle to think of too many others who weren't there.

Fritsch off legs. Grundy back to the shoe shop?

Edited September 2, 20231 yr by Tarax Club

Good effort from Casey boys.

Very badly let down by MFC.

Thanks KC and all posters very sad that we fizzled out like that but losing Dunstan and Melksham last week probably coloured how the club reacted. Rohan Steele is surely one to watch for Rookie list that is a stand out performance in a final. !!

19 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Fantastic contribution from these two.

Jefferson is a concern but is only a kid and has probably lost all confidence and possibly motivation. A huge pre season can change things but sometimes the mould is cast early eg Morton and about 5 other high picks that never eventuated. 

Overall a good performance from Casey for the year.

Dropping the last 3 games didn't help our chances and some season ending injuries as well.

Back bigger and better next year.

Has Collingwood done the same as us, with their AFL listed in the game against Williamstown?

Sorry didn't see the start, (watching the US open, Djoko won after being 2 sets down).

Given the quarter-time score, it appears so.

Looks like the low jumper numbers are out there, so, I guess not.

Edited September 2, 20231 yr by kev martin

Strange that MFC kept aside 8 emergencies put aside for next week … Hibbo Schache Grundy Tomlinson Brown (assume fit)  JJ. Spargo Woey jnr   All eligible but none played.  I think the Thursday night match schedule makes it hard for Casey and Collingwood VFL this weekend.  

Edited September 2, 20231 yr by spirit of norm smith
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Can’t knock the system as Casey has produced many of our senior players but removing so many players is questionable.Unfortunately I think Harmes time is up, his kick to Fritsch to kick start our comeback in 21 GF will always be remembered 

Edited September 2, 20231 yr by Demonsone

8 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Strange that MFC kept aside 8 emergencies put aside for next week … Hibbo Schache Grundy Tomlinson Brown (assume fit)  JJ. Spargo Woey jnr   All eligible but none played.  I think the Thursday night match schedule makes it hard for Casey and Collingwood VFL this weekend.  

Are you sure all were eligible?

I’d imagine Grundy, Spargo and possibly JJ  and Hibbo weren’t.

Would like to hear the club protest because if they’ve had players pulled out due to the afl bye making them ineleigible it’s a joke. 

23 minutes ago, kev martin said:

Has Collingwood done the same as us, with their AFL listed in the game against Williamstown?

Sorry didn't see the start, (watching the US open, Djoko won after being 2 sets down).

Given the quarter-time score, it appears so.

Looks like the low jumper numbers are out there, so, I guess not.

The pies have just about named a squad of 25 for the afl final where as we might have 26/27 in contention,

The difference might be in the ineligible players. They’ve had a settled line up for most of the year so probably less players ruled out by afl/VFL rules nonsense 

42 minutes ago, Wizard of Koz said:

Jefferson is a concern but is only a kid and has probably lost all confidence and possibly motivation. A huge pre season can change things but sometimes the mould is cast early eg Morton and about 5 other high picks that never eventuated. 

Not too worried about Matt Jefferson yet.

He just needs to have a big pre-season and look to build fitness and muscle in the gym. It is only his first year on an AFL list.

Plus he isn't Jack Watts and we can't put all our hopes in him. Matt Jefferson just needs time to develop at Casey.

 

Lastly, I thought Andy Moniz-Wakefield played really well actually. There were a few positives at least! 🤷🏼‍♂️

Leaves a bad taste to finish a year like that.  I have always liked the VFL comp and have spent many a pleasant afternoon at the old suburban grounds along with the trek to Casey.

Hard to keep up the interest if MFC are going to treat the team like this. There's a balance and they missed it by a country mile

Disappointing end to the season but I would like to take this opportunity to thank @KC from Casey for all your efforts this year.

 

the vfl competition is a joke

1 hour ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Fantastic contribution from these two.

Jefferson will be lucky to make it sadly. I wish him well but there just isn't anything about him that screams afl other thanhis height.  Little urgency, no physicality or mongrel or even skills compared to say Sestan that has skills,  footy nous and natural goal awareness.  Sestan may not make it either but there is at least a core skill set to work with. 

1 hour ago, KC from Casey said:

This game is very similar to last week’s game but in reverse with Casey copping the flogging.

AMZ with two goals.

Similar, except that at least North last week weren't playing an opponent who had had a week's rest and Casey were also playing off a 6-day break today!

I still can't understand why the Wildcard Round was played on a Sunday. Maybe the argument was that North, Casey & Richmond all played Round 22 on the Sunday and Collingwood on the Saturday. On that basis I guess there was an argument for the Collingwood-Richmond Wildcard game being played on the Sunday but absolutely no argument for the Casey-North game.

Basically this just confirms everything that's wrong with the concept of the Wildcard Round. It was basically close to impossible to win from 7th or 8th previously. It's now totally impossible. All about the money and nothing about anything else. That's the AFL administration in a nutshell 🙁.

54 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Strange that MFC kept aside 8 emergencies put aside for next week … Hibbo Schache Grundy Tomlinson Brown (assume fit)  JJ. Spargo Woey jnr   All eligible but none played.  I think the Thursday night match schedule makes it hard for Casey and Collingwood VFL this weekend.  

I don’t think so. It was the 4 day break that was the reason and that solely is in the AFL / VFL fixturing blunder. 

1 hour ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Strange that MFC kept aside 8 emergencies put aside for next week … Hibbo Schache Grundy Tomlinson Brown (assume fit)  JJ. Spargo Woey jnr   All eligible but none played.  I think the Thursday night match schedule makes it hard for Casey and Collingwood VFL this weekend.  

I think it is really a poor show by MFC, imo. There is no way that Schache, Brown, Woey and Spargo would be getting a game on Thursday so they should have played today, which would have really helped Casey, and at least made them competitive. To my mind they have really let down Casey, and let down those 4 who go without a game. I’m [censored]. 

2 hours ago, KC from Casey said:

This game is very similar to last week’s game but in reverse with Casey copping the flogging.

AMZ with two goals.

i, similarly, truncate his name like this

if you are doing it too, as far as i am concerned, he's now andy moni-zwakefield