21 minutes ago, Young Angus said:

Good there are some wankers on here sometimes, just had a great win and some still want to whinge about something…oh well, haters gonna hate.

Is it too much to ask Billings to bring some of his vfl form to the seniors? Surely he’s wondering by note why he isn’t getting a look back in the senior team. I mean we all know what sound probably happen, but I feel like he’s been working harder than ever and something has shifted for him because he really is up the top of the stats quite regularly now isn’t he?

This perfectly reflects the huge gap between the two levels .

6 hours ago, goodwindees said:

I agree. Is the lack of young quality players coming through a result of trading away so many 2nd, 3rd & 4th rounders to get back into the first round over recent years?

Wasn’t Bailey Laurie a player that was a result of trading back into the first round?

To be fair the trade was for Holmes

But yes, the amount of rubbish we backed Tim Lamb with these picks rather than Taylor is why we are here today

McAdam, Billings, Hunter
Genuine negligence when you have a guy like Taylor who can find absolute gems

1 hour ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

And, to clarify, I presume '8' will be the lower placed of the two wild card winners? (while Brisbane, 6, get the higher placed?) The only alternatives would be pre-ordained match-ups - 5 gets the winner of 7 v 10 and 6 the winner of 8 v 9 or vice versa. That could see 6 getting a lower finisher than 5! Surely not!

Although, this is the AFL VFL fixturing machine...

this quote is from when wildcard was announced -

The winner of the 7th v 10th and 8th v 9th games will move through to the finals, while the losers will be eliminated. The top six teams will have a bye during the Wildcard Round.

The highest-ranked winner from the Wildcard Round will enter the finals as the seventh-ranked team.

So Casey will play the lowest ranked winner from the wildcard round

Link: https://www.afl.com.au/news/871161/wildcard-round-introduced-in-vfl-finals-shake-up

45 minutes ago, joeboy said:

This perfectly reflects the huge gap between the two levels .

I was at Richmond and Williamstown today and was pretty shocked at the skill level and the coaches i listened to at 1/4 and 3/4 time. Lots of tall, gym built guys who looked like footy players until they ran, turned or tried to hit a target. Two good marks for the day and the biggest skill i saw was tall backman running to ball drop jumping bery high and punching the ball. So yes, its a big gap.

Saw a very likely type, young, athletic , super fit , tall, 6 feet 8 watching the Willy / Tigers today. Josh Giddey

Just now, 48 Year Now said:

Saw a very likely type, young, athletic , super fit , tall, 6 feet 8 watching the Willy / Tigers today. Josh Giddey

currently unsigned at chicago, looking for a long term deal

tim lamb, do yr thang

You know what’s fun? Going into the rooms after the match, seeing the boys sing the song and everyone’s smiling and laughing.

You know what’s NOT fun? Being on the train heading home and realising you don’t have your phone coz you left your phone in the rooms.

All good though, it didn’t dampen the joy of last night’s AFLW win and today’s Casey win. As the portly former AFL Grand Final entertainer says, two outta three ain’t bad. 😃

im

31 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

You know what’s fun? Going into the rooms after the match, seeing the boys sing the song and everyone’s smiling and laughing.

You know what’s NOT fun? Being on the train heading home and realising you don’t have your phone coz you left your phone in the rooms.

All good though, it didn’t dampen the joy of last night’s AFLW win and today’s Casey win. As the portly former AFL Grand Final entertainer says, two outta three ain’t bad. 😃

I’m surprised security allowed you to have a phone in the locker room GW. Something tells me the club has taken your phone to deleted all its images.😳🤣

Edited yesterday at 11:521 day by Nietaphart

1 hour ago, Deez21 said:

McAdam, Billings, Hunter
Genuine negligence when you have a guy like Taylor who can find absolute gems

Taylor is head of recruiting - that those players are at the club is down to Taylor as much as anyone.

Maybe check how all this works?

@adonski , @Tarax Club , @mauriesy:

👏

Some may also say he looks good in shorts.

LEAPFROG by KC from Casey

The Casey Demons ended the regular season on a positive note and gained substantial momentum leading into the finals when they knocked the Box Hill Hawks off the top of the VFL ladder in their final round clash at Casey Fields. More importantly, they moved out of a wild card position in the finals race and secured a week's rest as they leapfrogged up the ladder into fifth place with their decisive 23-point victory over the team that had been the dominant force in the competition for most of the season.

The Demons spent a significant portion of the season outside of finals contention, and after eight rounds, were in 17th position. They regrouped with some good victories but then suffered a couple of mid-season setbacks due to the same rash of inaccurate shooting for goal that was affecting the AFL side. They lost a winnable game on the Gold Coast and suddenly found themselves back in 13th place after their last-minute single-point loss to Coburg in Round 15. Then came the resurgence.

A massive win over former powerhouse Werribee saw them jump into tenth place, and as other contenders fell by the wayside, they consolidated and held onto eighth spot with one game to go. The final round was Bradburyesque as, one by one, the teams above fell. Collingwood dropped their game to lowly Port Melbourne, the Brisbane Lions could only eke out a draw after Frankston goalled on the siren and a desperate Williamstown earned a wild card final when they beat Richmond. The Casey win was icing on the cake — voila, the Demons were in fifth position!

It was a hard earned victory. After a frenetic Casey start that saw livewire Ricky Mentha Junior in everything with five early touches and a goal, Box Hill took charge to lead by 17 points at the first break. The momentum swung in the home team’s favour but it was let down by its usual problems in front of goal. The Hawks’ Ned Reeves was shading Tom Campbell and Will Verrall in the ruck but Casey’s Jack Billings, Riley Bonner, Charlie Spargo and Bailey Laurie were winning most of the ground balls. Billings had a massive 26 disposals by half time, at which stage the visitors held a seven point lead.

From there on, it was all Casey with Campbell getting on top of Reeves as the Demon on ballers made all of the running. The defence led by Tom Fullarton and Jed Adams, supported by veteran Tom Freeman and the athletic Wardell Lual was impassable. The forwards shared the goals - at one stage they had ten goals all kicked by different players. Young forward Luker Kentfield only managed six touches but kicked a game-high three goals.

The Demons went into the final term with a lead of 19 points which soon moved out beyond the four goal mark and in the end, they defended the lead well without taking too many risks to finish 23 points in front at the final siren.

Veteran players Billings (40 disposals, seven marks, six tackles, five clearances, one goal) and Bonner (38 possessions, 7 inside 50s and a goal) were outstanding all day and finished with leather poisoning while Koltyn Tholstrup, Laurie, Kynan Brown, Spargo and Taj Woewodin were all busy on the day. Melbourne’s NGA Draft prospect Toby SInnema had his first run at this level and was impressive in the second half to finish with 15 touches.

And so, after 21 rounds including three byes, the Demons have earned yet another week off work as they prepare for their elimination final in a fortnight’s time.

CASEY DEMONS 1.2.8 5.7.37 10.14.74 12.16.88

BOX HILL HAWKS 4.1.25 7.2.44 8.5.53 9.11.65

GOALS

CASEY DEMONS Kentfield 3 Billings Bonner Cross Jefferson Johnson Laurie Mentha SInnema Spargo

BOX HILL HAWKS Scaife 3 Bianco Butler Farrer McCabe Ramsden Stanley

BEST

CASEY DEMONS Billings Bonner Laurie Woewodin Fullarton Spargo

BOX HILL HAWKS Butler Reeves Serong Mitchell Hustwaite Horner

Ryan Baldi seems to have lost his good early season form.

Billings and Laurie are great at VFL level.

14 hours ago, joeboy said:

This perfectly reflects the huge gap between the two levels .

Of umpiring

2 hours ago, Redleg said:

Ryan Baldi seems to have lost his good early season form.

Billings and Laurie are great at VFL level.

He is playing off half-back. Less time in the mid-field.

2 minutes ago, Harvey Wallbanger said:

He is playing off half-back. Less time in the mid-field.

Yes but half backs regularly get 25-30 possessions and his 5 yesterday has been a trend.

I noticed he fumbled a few times yesterday and struggled to get the ball, so he is definitely down on form.

11 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Yes but half backs regularly get 25-30 possessions and his 5 yesterday has been a trend.

I noticed he fumbled a few times yesterday and struggled to get the ball, so he is definitely down on form.

Fair enough. They all get a week off now - which I suspect they need, and will benefit from.

13 hours ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

Some may also say he looks good in shorts.

We'd have to start calling half-time "intermission".

14 hours ago, Nietaphart said:

I’m surprised security allowed you to have a phone in the locker room GW. Something tells me the club has taken your phone to deleted all its images.😳🤣

Here’s the thing… I didn’t even get my phone out in the rooms. Others did, but mine stayed in my pocket until it didn’t and instead somehow ended up not in my pocket. 🤷‍♀️

Anyways, nothing that warrants deleting since it was my regular phone, not my burner phone 😉

18 hours ago, Billy said:

Laurie - I can't understand why he can't translate this to AFL

Because he hasn’t had a tenth of the opportunities that some of Goodwins favourites have been given

Disgrac

18 hours ago, Billy said:

Laurie - I can't understand why he can't translate this to AFL

Because he hasn’t had a tenth of the opportunities that some of Goodwins favourites have been given

Disgraceful

He has had 15 senior games and shown very little at senior level. Of the senior games I have seen he has never justified a spot the following week. Sadly he is one of those players that is good at vfl level but not good enough at the next level.

17 hours ago, Young Angus said:

Good there are some wankers on here sometimes, just had a great win and some still want to whinge about something…oh well, haters gonna hate.

Is it too much to ask Billings to bring some of his vfl form to the seniors? Surely he’s wondering by note why he isn’t getting a look back in the senior team. I mean we all know what sound probably happen, but I feel like he’s been working harder than ever and something has shifted for him because he really is up the top of the stats quite regularly now isn’t he?

I would normally say that he has shown over many seasons with 2 teams that he is nqr at senior level. However there are a number currently playing at senior level that are giving less than he would. After Saturday's senior game he should be selected for the game against the pies if we are serious about winning the game.

16 hours ago, whatwhat say what said:

currently unsigned at chicago, looking for a long term deal

tim lamb, do yr thang

I can hear the commentators now EVERY SINGLE TIME he gets a possession:

'He has a basketball background - so good in traffic and such good peripheral vision'

17 hours ago, joeboy said:

This perfectly reflects the huge gap between the two levels .

I would like to see Billings get a go, I feel like he's shown way more than some of our current seniors but this is the issue...there are absolute galaxies between AFL and VFL level its a massive gap!

Having watched the replay:

Midfield stoppage dominance was the reason for the victory. Not a lot of quality outside ball movement but some good work not just winning clearances but running the ball out of stoppage.

Kolt was the main driver of it. Probably the best game I’ve seen him play particularly in tight. Laurie solid, Billings good around the ball but excellent work rate in space. Any time he had to nail a kick it wasn’t pretty.

Down back: Adams had a stinker of a first quarter. He was tepid at the contest, lost in space and turned it over. But after quarter time he was excellent, defending, interception and rebounding. Fullarton played well but it was mostly uncontested footy, any hopes of a Lobb like resurgence don’t seem likely. Lual - he does a lot of nice things and moves exceptionally for his size, don’t think he’s on an afl trajectory at 26 apparently, if he was 21 you’d sign him up.

Forwards: Metha flashed early and had more chances, he just needs to be consistent with his defensive attention to detail, he has good pressure when he’s switched on. Spargo very solid and consistently made great space.

The key forwards had a tough day against AFL level defenders in Frost and Blank and with poor entries. I’m excited to see where big AJ can get to with a full preseason, he’s much more mobile than people think. Luker had a stinker of a first half followed by a clinical second half.

The Jeffo hate is a bit misplaced, he really played as a flanker with the other 2 taking most of the contested marking chances. He actually took 2 marks but one was a free against after a Cross unrealistic attempt, the other got paid down field. He went off after 12 minutes of the 3Q. Hopefully just minor. But in <2.5 quarters he kicked 1.1, had 10 touches and would’ve been involved in 3 or 4 other scores. Ground ball gets inside 50 are super valuable. I think he lost 1 contest with the ball kicked over his head then barely had another genuine marking contest. Maybe could’ve found more space on the lead but against a really good backline Casey weren’t exactly kicking it to leads.

2 hours ago, Harvey Wallbanger said:

Fair enough. They all get a week off now - which I suspect they need, and will benefit from.

Hopefully they can run deep into the VFL finals and give some of the younger players some more experience in tougher finals games.

3 hours ago, old dee said:

He has had 15 senior games and shown very little at senior level. Of the senior games I have seen he has never justified a spot the following week. Sadly he is one of those players that is good at vfl level but not good enough at the next level.

Well I disagree Old Dee. In the firsts Laurie has barely been given a run on the ball. Always on the forward line. Whenever I’ve watched Casey( not often) he has pretty much dominated as an on baller.