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Man I can't tell you how excited I am for this game. My brother in 10 years of football has never played in a Grand Final, and nothing on this level. He is absolutely beaming with anticipation (which is rare for him, he's usually very humble and docile off the field) Whatever the result it's gonna be a huge day!

All those weeks of traipsing down to Casey. All that time spent walking round the outer. All those match day reports from KC and the D'landers. All those egg and bacon rolls. It all comes down to this......

Not much to get excited about for the future? Righto then.

Good, glad that's over. Now they can start making the delistings and we can get on with the off season.

Going through these comments I'm stumped at the posts outlining all the 'glaring problems'with Casey. did people miss the fact that they just played in a grand final and were the minor premiers? Clearly they've got something right going on down there. they were beaten on the day simple as that. rather than jumping on (and off) the Scorpions bandwagon just stick to the usual crap you dish out about the demons and don't pretend you come down to casey every week and know what's going on there.

I'd back Daisy against this lot

This. A deadset replica of the two St.Kilda games at Etihad. We, meaning Casey AND Melbourne are horribly lacking when the opposition combines pressure and speed of ball use. It's going to be our biggest obstacle in the coming years, and needs a serious strategy change.

Remember when Roos spoke about the 'veil of negativity'?

I really hate to say it, but Clarry does just charge through tackles like a... steaming locomotive.

Trengove fantastic so far. Can't understand people writing him off.

Are you serious. The Dogs list has had a massive overhaul since McCartney got the sack. They lost Griffen, Cooney and Higgins. Everyone tipped them for bottom 4 in 2015. Players like Johannisen, Wood, Hunter, Dahlhaus, Wallis, Roughead were just fringe players. Picken has been a revelation. Boyd and Morris were on their last legs. 7 other players who played yesterday have arrived since 2015. Just accept what everyone else in the football world can see. Beveridge gets the best out of his players through a brilliantly devised gameplan. And that's the job of a coach.

Awful 3rd quarter and beaten all day. But really Dogs had more to play for, were playing at a ground that's the home ground for their senior players, had the bigger more vocal crowd and have young exciting talent. Why should Dunn, Garland, Grimes, Spencer, Michie, Terlich, Newton, Trengove or Matt Jones step up and deliver in a big game? They never have in their AFL careers and most of them have little to play for. Michie, Terlich, Newton and Matt Jones will surely be delisted, probably in the next week. Grimes won't be offered a new deal either. One of Dunn or Garland gets traded. Trengove is getting another year just based on being a good bloke and Spencer is getting another year because we are stupid. Some of the Casey players had a crack, but due to lack of injuries they weren't exposed all that much during the year and so really the only guys who were regular performers were Keilty, Hutchins and Smith. All had a decent crack but they weren't in the midfield when the game was hot. Oliver was BOG. Weids did his job although he needs to just clunk a few more marks,should've snapped and goal the 2 shots from tight angles IMO. Hulett looked like a young player tiring at the end of a year but offered a bit. ANB and Ben Kennedy were poor but did find the ball. Joel Smith was hot and cold. The Dogs had 2 experienced ruckmen and young up and coming players on all lines. They had guys pushing for a chance of an AFL grand final. They had a true leaders from their VFL list. Get rid of the list cloggers and get some more young talent in the Casey side and hopefully find some more talented experienced VFL players if they lose guys to the AFL and Casey can push forward from here. Still a good year from Casey, but a year built on too many guys who aren't the future.

Fair Dinkum.......I have never heard so much whinging and wining from posters of this site They have sacked half the team........Made calls on players playing in a bloody Grand Final which they lost by 30 odd points to a very good side all through the year The amount of vitrol for the MFC listed players is embarassing. If they are that bad....Go support someone else The same said posters were adulating the team in our two other finals wins A week is a long time in football. The bulldog played some terrific footy.......We had an off quarter which cost us dearly. See you next year???

We don't have a superior list to The Dogs at AFL & VFL level. Get your head out of the clouds... The MFC has got to stop over rating itself. Lots of players had their last game today.

You're right. Pretty pathetic of this unexciting mob of youngsters who've made the VFL Grand Final and have the lead at half time, against the seconds team of this year's Grand Finalists.

Hullet needed to kick that running into an open goal. Love what Oliver brings to the table. All class, space in traffic. Love that he keeps hitting Lin Jong on the shoulder to test it out. He is a mongrel like the MFRC hasn't seen for a long time.

It's painful having to listen to that moron Campbell Brown

You mentioned youself seven times and the club only once. I think that says it all really.

YES

Whispering Jack on what was once the centre of his universe ... A HIGHWAY OF DEMONS by Whispering Jack CHAPTER FOURTEEN - CATCH THE WIND Our world was defined by boundaries. The beach to the west, the railway line to the east and Dandenong Road, the northern-most point except when we went to school. Princes Park, where we played kick to kick footy in the winter, cricket in the summer and took girls there until the small grandstand burnt down, was the centre of our universe. We played the Beatles, argued whether the Stones were better, discovered Dylan and the beauty of Joan Baez and her voice. And we were always trying to catch the wind. Then one day (it must have been fifty years ago) he died, his parents' only son and just sixteen years old. I still remember his face in faded monochrome; his sad eyes and mine confronting our mortality. The first-time vision of a small black chair sitting low to the floor. Life moved on. I saw little of his parents after that and, in time, the memory of Alex dimmed although I heard they had given birth to another son. That might have been the end of it if not for the emergence years later of two skillful indigenous footballers from Mount Barker WA who became champions with North Melbourne. The fact that they coincidentally bore almost the same surname restored the old memories. Then some five or six years ago, I read of a young junior footballer at AJAX and wondered if this might be a relative of my long-forgotten friend. Today, along with my firstborn son and his oldest boy - a school friend of that young junior's sister- we are going on a journey beyond the boundaries of my old world to Etihad Stadium to watch him play for the Dragons in the TAC Cup Grand Final. The connections are endless. My son was in the inaugural Dragons squad in 1992 until his shoulder dislocated. The club's headquarters and that of the AJAX juniors where my sons trained and played and my grandson now (and I hope more of my grandkids in the future) plays is located at Princes Park, the local ground that once was the centre of our universe. And there is so much more to this story that bubbles under the surface. Sometimes on a warm summer day I go back to Princes Park and when I close my eyes I can still hear the crack of a ball hitting the willow of his bat, hooked high into the air. I run wildly in the direction of its whirring sound but when my eyes open, the only thing for me to catch is the wind.

It aint really Casey Scorpions its Melbourne Reserves!! And on that basis with most running out today for the "Casey Scorpions" its time this club grew some gonads and fielded our own "Stand Alone" Reserves! The proof???? Well chicoryyy just look at what "FOOTSCRAY" Have accomplished! Let Casey Merge with Frankston and So be it!! We should run a 100% Bona Fide Dees magoos! All in favour say.................................... Eye!!

Oh right! It's all the agencies fault! In that case, the players ARE hard done by. They ARE returning heroes. Jobe CAN keep his Charlie. And let's get stuck in to those awful anti drug agencies for fighting an uphill battle trying to protect clean athletes from the ones who will happily cheat for wealth fame and glory. We're on to you ASADA and WADA! The jig is up, thanks to the keen perceptive mind of the Satyr. Well done Satyr!

Sylvia this match is THE match. If you are outscored in the premiership quarter by your opponent 8 to zip and you don't think you have problems then as a club....you have problems. You could play this match with the same lists 10 times and The Doggies would win it 10 times. List still needs a major clean up if the seniors are ever to impact and make finals We had very few injuries this year. Our depth wasn't tested much so we felt reasonably comfortable with what we did see at AFL level at times.

I'd even take PHIL Cleary ahead of him

Think we have one with Joel Smith.

Three players up for the defensive spoil, ball out the back. That's just dumb footy.

If you come back from a broken collar bone after 2 weeks then every player should be testing it out anyway they can.

Can't they text you a photo like normal people. And then you have to say 'what a beautiful baby' even if it looks like it stepped out of Deliverance.

The Bulldogs' banner said it all - "Our club was born in blood and boots Not in AFL focus groups"

The segue between hells bells and the grand old flag is SO jarring and unpleasant. I say let other teams have it and find something that actually works into playing the grand old flag as the players hit the banner. Alternatively as RM suggested, drop the grand old flag and save it to the end of the game. The current pre-game thing sucks.

Incredibly irritating. And I don't get any royalties.

I noted last night that they made plenty of disposal mistakes throughout the game, but they always had a teammate or two nearby to mop up (and the other teammate would then shepherd out opposition players from laying tackles). I haven't seen our players play for each other and cover teammate's mistakes so ferociously in ... ever? I do see Hogan cracking the shits a lot when he doesn't get handed the ball on a silver platter though (as evidenced by his idiotic abuse of Kent for not kicking an impossible 70m bomb to him from the wing -- pull your head in Hoges). It's all about attitude sometimes.

We went in to this game looking like we were playing another home and away game and they went in to it treating it as a grand final, that was the difference. Unfortunately some of my favourite Melbourne players showed today that they will never take the next step and they will always be a little off the pace in games that matter.

I never was. They sure do have some 'special' supporters and way too may players getting around with a strut. Hope the Swans pulverise them.

Spencer wasn't given an extension on his ability, he was given one out of necessity, if Gawn was to go down. Neither of the Kings were and are not ready.

Rubbish. This kind of 'better list' nonsense really makes me laugh. How can you possibly say we have better lists when they consistently get monstered by the team's you claim are inferior?. It's pie in the sky garbage.

Too many players from the 'mentally scarred' days: Dunn, Terlich, Grimes, Garland, Trengove, Spencer, Jones falling into old bad habits. No fight. No coming back now. I never bag our players but I can no longer stick up for those guys.

I don't care about Casey either per se, but I do care about the players who have busted their arses all year, several of whom have given a lot to the MFC over the years. They deserve this reward for effort and I really hope they get it. If you have little or no vested interest in this game, I'm not sure why you're in this thread raining on everyone else's parade.

Isn't it stating the obvious to say the players who have been in the VFL all year might not be AFL grade? It's our 23rd-44th ranked players playing in this game. I'm not sure what people are expecting.

Most intense game i've seen from Ben Ken this year at any level...he's added something around the packs and his attack on the ball carrier is solid....Newton as well in this area

The weed is a gun

Weideman kicks his second! Scorps by seven points!

Lyndon Dunn just tested out jongs collar bone big time

The problem is that most player agents are cowboys, and many of them are formerly of player union circles, and as such they go to great lengths to keep the clubs as far out of the loop as possible. Malthouse, Matthews, Eade, Mark Williams, and Lyon have all said as much, hinted that managers act like they're in it for their client but really they're in it for themselves. The best "business" decision isn't always signing the bigger contract. Sometimes that's actually the worst business decision. But it's an immediate payback to the manager who benefits significantly for the duration of the playing contract. Hogan won't do the "right thing" and he won't do what's right for the club. This is not between "Hogan and Melbourne", it's between Hogan's management and Melbourne. As such, we should not allow ourselves to be in another Frawley-Scully situation. Sign an extension, or you'll be traded.

Well Jack as you may have guessed , I was at a prayer group. dc, I am certain would have been indulging in his Saturday night "hobby" of rogering blue rinsers. picke fence would be buried in his ongoing stud fantasies that mostly sexualise early model motor cars I have good information that Moonie is currently in a land far away creating a huge credit card debt The ever feckless and unreliable Biffen was, I more than suspect, indulging in a cocktail of illegal substances Earl Hood was at a currently fashionable hipster hamburger joint delicately sipping on what , to most, would be an unpalatable craft beer. Probably brewed from hoarhound and yams. od was most likely enjoying a free Pinot ( he will deny this and claim supplies are exhausted) As to Ernie well he would be wrestling with the moral dilemma of whether or not to post on this thread bb and RL play their cards close to the chest - their whereabouts remain unknown. Although I have heard that RL has more (less) than healthy interest in Redtube. As more information comes to hand you can be sure I will reveal it

I want Hogan to sign more then anyone, but watching the doggies proved you dont need the big hulking forwards to win you games of football. Just 22 solid contributers. While it will be disappointing if Hogan did leave, i definitely won't lose sleep over it.

Honestly, I think it all goes to sh!t when our club song cuts in as the boys run through the banner. It's a classic chalk and cheese moment where a great guitar riff gets cut off by a wanky trumpet (btw, I love our song). There's lots of other songs we could use to run out to. AC/DC has plenty on offer... Dirty Deeds, TNT, If you want Blood, etc.. My favourite, and preferred song is this: For those about to rock (we salute you)

Wonder how stevie J is feeling. He would have been handy around the packs today.

Those scenes after the game were amazing. I was happy for the Dogs and their supporters, empathized with the conflicted feelings of Bob Murphy but my overwhelming emotions were a mixture of jealousy and hope. Our time is coming.

This is my situation: 1. I have already extended my contract til the end of next year. As in: the end of next year. 2. Next year has unknowns. Firstly I'm getting a new, first-time, largely untried boss. This may be good, I like the guy, but... 3. My dad is pretty ill and I'm 20. I don't know how this may pan out. 4. The club is keen for me to re-sign so they can plan. This would be nice for them. 5. The media and Demonlanders have little else to talk about. 6. I have already extended my contract til the end of next year. (Yes I may have mentioned this before). Points decision: think I'll wait a bit.