Casey’s opponent this week is North Melbourne VFL which, like the Demons, had no trouble in dispensing with Collingwood at their last outing.

Casey needs to keep winning if it is to fall into a top 10 placing and play finals. They have to reproduce the form they displayed against Collingwood. 

Brown, Schache, Jefferson, Fullarton and Kentfield all most likely playing. Someone surely goes to the backline.

29 minutes ago, Nascent said:

Brown, Schache, Jefferson, Fullarton and Kentfield all most likely playing. Someone surely goes to the backline.

Looking forward to see Kentfield again..

Fullarton perhaps going to be held over as an emergency.

Would like to see Schache go back where he's played before at the bulldogs. Leaves us with Brown, Jefferson and Kentfield forward with Brown used sparingly as a ruck chop out.

Edit: ignore above, brain isn't braining today

Edited June 21, 20241 yr by Nascent

Just now, Nascent said:

Fullarton perhaps going to be held over as an emergency.

Would like to see Schache go back where he's played before at the bulldogs. Leaves us with Brown, Jefferson and Kentfield forward with Brown used sparingly as a ruck chop out.

If we hold him over how is he meant to work his way into the side?

very frustrating the vfl fixturing

3 minutes ago, Nascent said:

Fullarton perhaps going to be held over as an emergency.

 

Should be able to make it to Casey by Sunday...

Beat me to it @rjay, Casey game is the day after AFL game, so holdover will be available to play (barring disaster and the need for them to play full game in the ones!).

Apologies, brain not in full flight this morning. Thought it was a Saturday arvo game.

3 hours ago, ChaserJ said:

Beat me to it @rjay, Casey game is the day after AFL game, so holdover will be available to play (barring disaster and the need for them to play full game in the ones!).

I presume you mean that the loss of one of the named 23 would be the disaster, not Fullarton getting a game in the ones? He's not that bad, is he? 

😉

We should have a reasonable contingent of listed MFC players available:

Billings, Laurie, Schache, Jefferson, McAdam, Adams, Verrall, Fullarton, Sestan, Woewodin, AMW, B.Brown and maybe the MFC sub depending on how musch AFL game time they get.

We patiently await team selection: 

‘Clark’ Kentfield must out looking for a telephone box. 

 

Up to 13-14 players, most we've had for a while I'd presume?

4 hours ago, rjay said:

Should be able to make it to Casey by Sunday...

It's a long way from the G on a saturday night, to Casey by the next afternoon.

This week’s Casey team -

B M. Gregory, J. Adams, T. Freeman
HB R. Steele, R. Valentine, A. Moniz-Wakefield
C J. Billings, B. Laurie, T. Woewodin
HF S. McAdam, T. Fullarton, M. Jefferson 
F O. Sestan, J. Schache, L. Kentfield
FOLL W. Verrall M. White M. Szybkowski 
I/C T. Edwards, E. King, N. Moodie, C. Peters, K. Windsor
EMG B. Laplanche, H. Neocleous, T. Sheridan, Z. Toledo

CASEY DEMONS vs NORTH MELBOURNE

Sunday 23 June, 2:05pm, Casey Fields
Head-to-Head: Casey Demons 6-0; At Casey Fields: Casey Demons 4-0; Streak: Casey Demons 6; Last Time: Casey Demons 20.14 (134) def North Melbourne 5.3 (33) – Wildcard Round, 2023, Casey Fields

CASEY DEMONS
B: M. Gregory (57), J. Adams (26), T. Freeman (67)
HB: R. Steele (54), R. Valentine (65), A. Moniz-Wakefield (45)
C: J. Billings (14), B. Laurie (16), T. Woewodin (40)
HF: S. McAdam (23), T. Fullarton (33), M. Jefferson (21)
F: O. Sestan (38), J. Schache (19), L. Kentfield (44)
R: W. Verrall (28), M. White (52), M. Szybkowski (56)
INT: N. Moodie (74), C. Peters (63), T. Edwards (58), K. Windsor (66), E. King (61)*
EMG: Z. Toledo (48), H. Neocleous (75), T. Sheridan (53), B. Laplanche (68)

IN: J. Billings, B. Laurie, J. Schache, R. Valentine
OUT: K. Tholstrup, A. Tomlinson (AFL), B. Brown (injured), H. Neocleous

NORTH MELBOURNE
B: T. Goad (22), B. Nyuon (28), G. Logue (19)
HB: J. Stephenson (2), C. Lazzaro (35), R. Hardeman (17)
C: C. Downie (47), H. Greenwood (1), M. Bergman (27)
HF: C. Harvey (37), G. Payne (23), R. Hansen (46)
F: F. Maley (39), L. Wynd (62), T. Sellers (36)
R: H. Free (45), J. Watkins (56), Z. Duursma (7)
INT: J. Lienert (80), D. Smith (72), C. James (69)*, C. McKercher (10), A. Noblett (68)
EMG: T. Cappelari (61), H. Murphy (51), W. Lambert (76)

IN: R. Hardeman, G. Logue, C. McKercher, B. Nyuon, J. Stephenson
OUT: D. Stephens (AFL), L. Butler (quad), B. George (knee), W. Lambert, H. Murphy
NEW: Griffin Logue, 26, 193cm, Fremantle; Colby McKercher, 19, 182cm, Launceston/Tasmania Devils

Ben Brown injured? Hadn't heard this through the MFC website.

Hardeman - any relation? Gary was one of my all time favourites 

39 minutes ago, Hawk the Demon said:

Ben Brown injured? Hadn't heard this through the MFC website.

Played significant ruck minutes last match.  Looks like that experiment went well.

Edited June 21, 20241 yr by Demon Dynasty

3 hours ago, Hawk the Demon said:

Ben Brown injured? Hadn't heard this through the MFC website.

Could be just a malicious rumour, but I did hear somewhere that his knees are not quite 100% 🤫

For the regular Casey watchers, how is Jed Adams tracking?

Good size, plays every week, but we don't hear much. Just wondering if there's signs we have someone who could potentially do a decent job in May's role in a few years.

2 minutes ago, seventyfour said:

For the regular Casey watchers, how is Jed Adams tracking?

Good size, plays every week, but we don't hear much. Just wondering if there's signs we have someone who could potentially do a decent job in May's role in a few years.

i hear we will wait until he plays 10 very good games down back and then move him fwd for 5 years to see if that works

5 minutes ago, DubDee said:

i hear we will wait until he plays 10 very good games down back and then move him fwd for 5 years to see if that works

TMac, Hogan, Naughton, May have all played back and forward in there time. 
 

You are probably right Dub. 

1 hour ago, seventyfour said:

For the regular Casey watchers, how is Jed Adams tracking?

Good size, plays every week, but we don't hear much. Just wondering if there's signs we have someone who could potentially do a decent job in May's role in a few years.

Has the odd decent game but generally had shown little to suggest he will make the grade. About on par with the solid Casey listed players.

The reserves and VFL are a joke, why does a club need 4 byes per season only one is needed since there are 21 teams. The match against Collingwood reserves wasn't selected until the day we played them because our senior side was playing on the following monday. Does the club want a reserves side ? 

26 minutes ago, Cranky Franky said:

Has the odd decent game but generally had shown little to suggest he will make the grade. About on par with the solid Casey listed players.

Harsh but fair.

Casey are now playing the fast corridor game and more often than not one handball too many. The most powerful weapon these days is the 30 metre kick at a 45 degree angle to a free running player. Unfortunately because we push up so high there is rarely a player to take advantage of the counterattack