OLD SAYINGS by KC from Casey

The Casey Demons returned to their home ground which was once a graveyard for opposing teams but they managed to gift the four points on offer to Coburg with yet another of their trademark displays of inaccuracy in front of goals and some undisciplined football that earned the displeasure of the umpires late in the game.

The home team was welcomed by a small crowd at Casey Fields and looked right at home as it dominated the first three quarters and led for all bar the last five minutes of the game. In the end, they came away with nothing, despite winning everywhere but on the scoreboard and the free kick count.

The Demons dominated in the ruck through Tom Campbell who finished with a massive 40 hit outs and his understudy Will Verrall was next with 10. They gave their team a great run at the football in the early proceedings and virtually whitewashed Coburg in the first half.

I appreciate the old saying about “would have, could have etc” but the half time lead should have been 50 points and not 20 so badly did they butcher some of their shots on goal. Their only reliable player in front of goals was Mitch Hardie who kicked three in the first half and had four of the team’s 5 goals 16 at the final break.

There’s another saying that “bad kicking is bad football” and that applied to the remaining 22 in the side. It all came home to roost in the third term when the visitors found their feet and started to reel in a 27 point deficit from about ten minutes into the second half. The Lions were insipid up to that point in the game but the Demons had opened the door for them and, as often happens, they rallied to boot four unanswered goals and by the final break were only three points in arrears.

The final quarter saw a seesaw battle in which the Demons discovered their kicking boots for four goals with two coming from strong play from young key forward Luker Kentfield who had been one of the culprits in the first half with four behinds. When he clunked a mark and converted to give Casey a 9 point lead at the 25 minute mark the game appeared safe but the gods were smiling on the Lions who took the advantage of the umpiring and showed why an accurate shot on goal which is worth six times a lesser effort can be of supreme importance in our game.

Riley Bonner and the goal kicking Hardie were again impressive for the Demons and veteran defender Tom McDonald joined another veteran in Campbell among his team’s best. Apart from Kentfield, there was little for Demon fans to enthuse about in such a disappointing result.

CASEY DEMONS 2.6.18 4.11.35 5.16.46 9.17.71

COBURG 1.1.7 2.3.15 6.7.43 11.8.74

GOALS

CASEY DEMONS Hardie 4 Kentfield 2 Baldi Cross Fullarton

COBURG Johnston Weightman 3 Andrew D'Intinosante Podhajski Thompson Trudgeon

BEST

CASEY DEMONS Campbell Bonner Hardie McDonald Woewodin Kentfield

COBURG Trudgeon Toohey D’Intinosante Kennedy Gillard Bella