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3 hours ago, Demonland said:

Just to confirm. I am not 💩Tom Morris💩. McClure. Morris. Barrett. And now add JayClark. All are Gutter merchants !!!

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    On 05/04/2025 at 22:25, KingDingAling said:

    Harry Sharp is a step in the right direction.

    We are in a rebuild and he fits our demographic.

    It’s all about the next opportunity now. Replenishing our list. We have made a lot of trade blunders, that were forgotten about when we won a flag. That’s why we only won the one. Now back to the well, and hopefully, we learnt something.

    Sharp is just the new Daniel Nicholson.

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    20 hours ago, DeeSpencer said:

    Goodwin developed our entire premiership team and you’re upset he can’t make anything out of a bunch of guys who aren’t good?

    There’s a separate conversation about JJ and Bedford and lack of turnover of the team in 2022/2023. Mistakes made then that we are paying for now.

    Anyone who watched JJ and Toby at their first year at Casey wouldn’t be questioning the coaches ability to develop players. Those 2 were absolutely nowhere near AFL at the beginning of their careers.

    If he is such a good developer of players Which players other than first year players have improved in the past 27 games or so?

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    1 hour ago, jnrmac said:

    If he is such a good developer of players Which players other than first year players have improved in the past 27 games or so?

    It’s very hard to improve players as a team goes backwards and from our players drafted 2020-2023 it’s not a long list.

    McVee is a great player development story. Bowser is starting to turn the corner after some 2nd/3rd year blues and injuries. I’m still confident there’s a player in Disco, he’s not far from putting it together. And AMW had come a long way before injury.

    Howes and Laurie appear to be rare JT misses. The problems in their game don’t seem to be fixable.

    We’ll know more by the end of the year about Jeffo and Adams but they’ve both come from bog ordinary when they started at Casey to at a minimum good VFL players.

    The only talented player who’s really flat lining in terms of development is JVR.

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    Looking back now, how much do we need ANB, Harmes and Bedford right now.

    I blame the Houstin backflip on Trac

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    5 minutes ago, hank said:

    We need Tall KPP not 193cm but 205cm

    We only have 3 players over 200cm, Fullarton (200cm), Campbell (201cm) and Gawn (209cm)

    GCU currently have 6 players 200cm+ so hopefully Kalani sees more progression with us, but we need another giant in the short-term too.

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    3 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

    Just to confirm. I am not 💩Tom Morris💩. McClure. Morris. Barrett. And now add JayClark. All are Gutter merchants !!!

    James Hird makes a good point about the training being in 2 locations. But that's why we desperately need the Caulfield Home Base to come to fruition.

    We certainly need another experienced key forward that is around 200cms.

    Losing Ben Brown due to his knee issues was a blow. But the roll of the dice to get him helped us win a Premiership, so that was definitely worth it.

    We tried for both Tom Hawkins (was too old and never going to leave Geelong) and Tom Lynch (who wanted to stay at Richmond).

    Unfortunately, at the end of 2024, there were slim pickings besides possibly Matthew Taberner from Fremantle.

    I think Tom Fullerton is worth a shot. Especially after kicking 5 goals against Geelong in the VFL. But we shall wait and see....

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    6 hours ago, DeeSpencer said:

    It’s very hard to improve players as a team goes backwards and from our players drafted 2020-2023 it’s not a long list.

    McVee is a great player development story. Bowser is starting to turn the corner after some 2nd/3rd year blues and injuries. I’m still confident there’s a player in Disco, he’s not far from putting it together. And AMW had come a long way before injury.

    Howes and Laurie appear to be rare JT misses. The problems in their game don’t seem to be fixable.

    We’ll know more by the end of the year about Jeffo and Adams but they’ve both come from bog ordinary when they started at Casey to at a minimum good VFL players.

    The only talented player who’s really flat lining in terms of development is JVR.

    You answered my question, thanks. McVee is a good story but no one else of any consequence has improved except TMac, possibly Chandler and up to this year RIvers

    Thats lamentable

    Backwards I would say Salem, Sparrow, Viney, Lever, May, Fritsch, Petty

    No mans land - Woewodin, Brown, Sestan, Fullarton, Verrall, Adams, McAdam, Laurie, Billings, Howes, Kentfield

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    9 hours ago, jnrmac said:

    You answered my question, thanks. McVee is a good story but no one else of any consequence has improved except TMac, possibly Chandler and up to this year RIvers

    Thats lamentable

    Backwards I would say Salem, Sparrow, Viney, Lever, May, Fritsch, Petty

    No mans land - Woewodin, Brown, Sestan, Fullarton, Verrall, Adams, McAdam, Laurie, Billings, Howes, Kentfield

    Thanks lads... between you you both highlight a very big problem at Melbourne.

    Who is actually in charge of development ?

    Get rid of him

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