2 hours ago, DeeSpencer said:

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.

Fullerton has now played well three times in a row. Named as our best the previous two weeks. Will be interesting watching him in finals

Really great to hear that Kolt is putting together good performances at VFL level

While he definitely needed to go back to Casey to work on his game, I don’t think we were doing him any favours playing him in no man’s land at half forward

To me he needs to be playing predominantly as a midfielder who can drift forward and hit the scoreboard

I think he’s got the skills to do this - he just needs fitness, experience and confidence

Hoping we see him take a big step this preseason and potentially feature in our midfield rotation from next year onwards (even if they’re just cameos)