Hawthorn V Sydney

Hawthorn still don't impress me they have been lucky to play Essendon and Sydney with their 2 best players out. Geelong will test them.

Losing 2 of thier best players has put them back in the pack it will be interesting to see how they go with Gulden out for a long stretch.

Adelaide V Western

Great game Adelaide lost no admirers even though they would be disappointed in losing at their fortress. They are really hard to beat at home.

The Bulldogs are the real deal to beat the Crows on their home turf is no easy feat. Fancy Baker kicking the winning goal another ex-demon who has found a new lease of life at a new club. 3 goals for the game good effort. Keeping players like Treloar out. I also liked Khamis game he's improved a lot.

VFL Review V Footscray

We played the benchmark and fell short badly losing by 7 goals. Lucky the dogs didn't kick straight otherwise it would have been a very long day.

I'm not saying it will be a long year for Casey but we are well below the benchmark. Our best players were Bonner, Heath and Moniz-Wakefield the rest were pretty ordinary. No one came up and said pick me this week. Melksham was terrible, worst game for a long time. Laurie was disappointing a step backwards today. Too many mistakes and well and truly beaten out of the middle.

Footscray 19.21.135 V Casey 14.8.92

Goals : Craven, Pipicelli, Stanley 2 Bonner, Cheffers, Cross, D'Angelo, Heath, Laurie, Matthews, Melksham 1

Bit harsh …they were a young team with many new players. Bulldogs had 15 AFL listed players & experienced ones at that. Lack of tall forwards for us. They fell away but far too early to judge yet ..

1 hour ago, Deestar9 said:

Bit harsh …they were a young team with many new players. Bulldogs had 15 AFL listed players & experienced ones at that. Lack of tall forwards for us. They fell away but far too early to judge yet ..

1 hour ago, Deestar9 said:

Bit harsh …they were a young team with many new players. Bulldogs had 15 AFL listed players & experienced ones at that. Lack of tall forwards for us. They fell away but far too early to judge yet ..

It's definitely too early tell. We will be a better when we get our key talls back but we have nothing in the middle. That's where it's won and lost. We also have nothing at Casey, Bonner and that's it.

Melksham really struggled probably should not have played. Don't understand why Gatt and Scapin didn't play they were in form in the pre season. Never heard anything about Sruk and Craven, Sruk was terrible and Craven was quiet even though he kicked 2 goals probably should have made way for those 2.

We will get a better look against Box Hill who we almost beat with a full contingent of Casey players in the pre season games. Footscray already have the VFL premiership in the bag.

Fremantle V Melbourne

Fremantle were fantastic always hard to beat at home.

Melbourne on the other hand were deplorable. As I said worst first quarter since the Gold Coast debacle last year. We are really missing Petracca. Gawn, Steele and Tholstrup are the only 3 who can hold their heads up high. The rest shouldn't get paid. Couldn't watch the last quarter they were that disgraceful.

GWS V St.Kilda

GWS haven't done too bad considering they have half their team out. A win against the Hawks almost beating the Saints. They got belted by the Bulldogs but a lot of teams will get belted by the Bulldogs they are the real deal.

St.Kilda don't know how to win. If you're 21 points with 4 minutes to go you should feel pretty safe not St.Kilda almost threw it away.

West Coast V North Melbourne

West Coast look to be improving and they should too considering how long they have been on the bottom.

North seem to be going nowhere they had a 5 goal lead early in the second and threw it away giving West Coast a sniff and you don't want to give a team that hasn't won for a long time a sniff they play above themselves.

Richmond V Gold Coast

Richmond's reliance on Lynch is too much they have nothing up forward without him. Nankervis is a big blow too. They are a battling team that will struggle even more with those 2 out.

Gold Coast haven't been challenged yet. That's why I don't think they are as good as the Bulldogs, they are a tough team to beat though even without Humphrey and Petracca.

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Port Adelaide V Essendon

Port Adelaide were good but they had no opposition. They still struggle against the better clubs.

Essendon have the spoon in the bag, it's hard to see a team play worse than them.