A watch again on Jed Adams for this game. I am concerned about his lack of development and lack of adding size to his frame. Do we have a gym? Dees need another key defender with May’s departure but so far Adams has yet to show that he’s capable.

5 hours ago, picket fence said:

I will add some insightful brevity and expert opinion to the action!

Well that would be first on Demonland to be sure 🤔🤔

11 hours ago, WERRIDEE said:

I dropped Petty for Kentfield. Turner and Rivers come in for the injured Jiath and Cross. L.Lual looks to be injured Craven to replace him. I'd like to drop D'Angelo but we have nothing to replace him with at Casey.

Think people are obsessing too much over the egregious errors ( they were horrid) petty made and allowing that to overshadow the things he actually did really well against Carlton - there’s a significant reason why McGovern went out of the game…

58 minutes ago, heath55 said:

Think people are obsessing too much over the egregious errors ( they were horrid) petty made and allowing that to overshadow the things he actually did really well against Carlton - there’s a significant reason why McGovern went out of the game…

If Turner plays I can't see how Petty plays unless he plays forward. Do they want another key forward?

5 hours ago, stinga said:

Berry is only 2cm shorter than Adams, and it's early days yet , but it seems Berry is close to going ahead of Adams as the next 3rd tall for the senior side in defence.

He's only played 1 game. I haven't given up on Adams yet but he has to get better soon.

How come Casey are playing this week?

Is it a non-bye?

9 hours ago, picket fence said:

Yeah, nar Werridee not sure if I can coz 1 If he plays a good game noone will believe me and 2 If he doesn't everyone will say... see told you he was no good!

Your a superstar I believe anything you say on here. Looking forward to your report on not just Jefferson but the rest of the listed Melbourne players as I'm going to the Gold Coast game and won't be able to watch Casey. I'll watch the Casey replay. Is it on Kayo? If it is I'll watch Sunday if it isn't I'll watch Monday. Your report will be greatly appreciated as I won't watch it for a while. I'm sure as you always do it will be a job well done.

11 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

Luker has been told he’ll need to play VFL first.

As for his confidence, dpositive, I don’t think that’s an issue. He’s as confident as he’s been since returning to good health this preseason. The broken cheekbone did nothing to erode his confidence nor has this knee injury. He used to have low confidence, when he first came to us, but playing well at Casey has changed that.

That's a shame would love to see him play but the reason why they don't want to rush him is they don't want another key forward if that's the case I can see Matthews debuting as the small forward for team balance. Matthews in for Cross, Rivers in for Jiath and Turner in for Petty. I think it will be too much of a risk to play Melksham with his knee the way it is.

7 hours ago, picket fence said:

Congratulations to these boys, but this is yet another problem with this basket case competition. As if the byes and mismanagement of fixtures isn't enough, you are selecting a state squad on a couple of very early season games, a farce if ever there was one. The sooner we get a stand alone AFL reserves the better!

I don't know if that's the answer but they have to stop the byes. Just because the VFL have always played 18 games doesn't mean it should continue 23 games it should be just like the AFL.