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The boy's are training now (captain's run), Trac moving freely and looking good I've been told.

I was at the Captain's Run this morning. Not only did Trac train, he looked completely unimpeded, ran at full pace and looked sharp. He did every drill and there was no sign of any limp. From what I saw in the first 30 minutes there is no way in the world he is not playing.

Dees hold on to win by 1 point! 2021 VFL Mens Casey Demons 1.5.11 1.6.12 5.10.40 7.15.57 Geelong VFL 1.1.7 3.4.22 6.5.41 8.8.56 Goals Casey Demons Brown 4 Bedford Daw Lewis Geelong VFL Jenkins 3 Burke Constable Fort Jarvis Stanley Best Casey Demons M Brown Stockdale Daw Sparrow Jetta Lockkhart Geelong VFL Fort Okunbor Constable Chalcraft Stanley Brownless Statistics Toby Bedford 1 goal 1 behind 9 kicks 3 handballs 12 disposals 6 marks 3 tackles 70 dream team points Jake Bowey 2 kicks 1 handball 3 8 dream team points (injured) Aaron Bradtke 3 kicks 3 handballs 6 disposals 4 tackles 9 hit outs 42 dream team points Mitch Brown 4 goals 3 behinds 13 kicks 4 handballs 17 disposals 11 marks 1 tackle 1 hit out 110 dream team points Majak Daw 1 goal 1 behind 7 kicks 4 handballs 11 disposals 4 marks 5 tackles 27 hit outs 96 dream team points Corey Ellison 10 kicks 5 handballs 15 disposals 5 marks 2 tackles 65 dream team points Zac Foot 2 behinds 11 kicks 5 handballs 16 disposals 4 marks 1 tackle 58 dream team points Tom Freeman 10 kicks 3 handballs 13 disposals 4 marks 42 dream team points Luca Goonan 4 kicks 5 handballs 9 disposals 3 marks 2 tackles 40 dream team points George Grey 1 behind 6 kicks 2 handballs 8 disposals 3 marks 4 tackles 45 dream team points Jack Hutchins 4 kicks 3 handballs 7 disposals 2 marks 1 tackles 22 dream team points Neville Jetta 11 kicks 11 handballs 22 disposals 2 marks 3 tackles 66 dream team points Mitch Lewis 1 goal 14 kicks 5 handballs 19 disposals 6 marks 4 tackles 91 dream team points Jay Lockhart 12 kicks 6 handballs 18 disposals 6 marks 66 dream team points Cory Machaya 1 behind 3 kicks 5 handballs 8 disposals 20 dream team points James Munro 10 kicks 8 handballs 18 disposals 1 marks 8 tackles 72 dream team points Fraser Rosman 10 kicks 4 handballs 14 disposals 5 marks 4 tackles 50 dream team points Deakyn Smith 10 kicks 6 handballs 16 disposals 6 marks 3 tackles 52 dream team points Ryan Sparkes 10 kicks 3 handballs 13 disposals 3 marks 6 tackles 71 dream team points Tom Sparrow 1 behind 14 kicks 10 handballs 24 disposals 3 marks 5 tackles 93 dream team points Corey Stockdale 2 kicks 3 handballs 5 disposals 6 tackles 33 dream team points Mitch White 1 behind 5 kicks 5 handballs 10 disposals 5 marks 1 tackle 2 hit outs 47 dream team points

Another win today in round 5 sees Moe undefeated and atop the league ladder with over 200% points Dec killed it again today, was named 3rd best on but won the Cam Bars favourite player and a slab (he doesn’t drink so I’m sure the old man will be happy)

Listening to the game with no vision reminded me of my childhood listening to Demon games on the radio back in the 70's when i was a kid. I know people still listen to games on the radio but it'd been a while for me. I enjoyed it. Meanwhile, we seem to have a few players who are able to fit straight in should injuries/form demand it. I'm thinking Mitch Brown, Jetta, Daw, Sparrow and more. It's shaping up as a great year ladies and gentlemen!

Majak and M.Brown superb putting pressure on the senior players.

Should’ve picked him ahead of Weid. *hides*

I reckon Chandler will be an in for Melksham who'll be dropped and used as a medical sub.

Well done Weridee and KC for the updates! is wonderful for those of us who aren't able to get to these games! greatly appreciated!

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Full time the Dees hang on to a 1 point win 57 to 56. Goal scorers 4 M.Brown 1 Lewis, Daw and Bedford

He's got the skillset but I think he's a fair way off a call up. Still very raw.

Nothing to fear from Carlton's changes: Out: Jack Newnes, Michael Gibbons, Jack Silvagni In: Marc Murphy, Will Setterfield, Nic Newman. Cripps will probably put in a blinder as he did a few weeks back when the media put the blowtorch on him. Harmes to take care of him. May will take care of McKay, if the ball even gets down there. A dark horse is their ruckman, Pittonet. Last year he really lifted and was the reason they got back into the game and nearly won. Max needs to be on the ball and dominate. Hibberd to keep Eddie quiet. There will be a day when we lose but I don't think it will be tomorrow.

Chandler deserves his chance. Good luck to the young fella!

Good to see that Bradtke is making steady progress.

I like it a lot. Chandler gets his chance as a small pressure forward. Needed IMO with the inclusion of Weid in our forward half.

I like it. Added some speed and tackling pressure to balance out the additional tall. Melks can't really have any complaints. He's been serviceable but nothing more.

Geelong will be ready to swoop when it runs out.

Wow, Melky out, playing a role but not quite enough impact, though I thought he was improving over the weeks. Could be the med sub. Great for Chandler to get a chance, would like to see him hit the scoreboard early and get the confidence going. Jackson out will cause a disruption, hope we can adjust. I assume Gawn will take the majority of the game on the ball. C'mon Dees get the clearances, hold our marks, have crumbers and kick goals with greater accuracy. Go Dees!

Get those dukes out in front of his head and take some marks, that's what I want to see!

Good to see Melksham held accountable for some average efforts. feel more confident about our mix up forward now

Im of to a curry restaurent tonight I might need these !

Yay Dees! Many thanks @WERRIDEE & @KC from Casey for commentary.

Very frustrating that there isn’t a live stream provided. We all saw in the Richmond vs Casey game how effective one camera following the play with no commentary can be, and it surely isn’t that difficult to set up and execute it. The firsts aren’t playing today so, all the focus easily should be on Casey (besides teams being announced for tomorrow). Sometimes I feel Ben Gibson and the melb media team are truly clueless as to what the supporters really want from them. So much vested interested in watching Casey play, that should be a priority whenever possible at home games.

Don’t you just love that vision of Hardwick head in hands, without a clue. Smug p....k

Anyone else got a funny feeling Jeff might have a tantrum and try and sack Clarko

North Melbourne look like a better team in Tasmania. Maybe they should move there permanently?

Delighted to see the Hawks beaten

M.Brown marks and goals for his 4th. BIG GOAL. GO DEES 57 to 49

M.Brown marks and kicks his 3rd back in front 50 to 48. Go Dees.

One of my huge bugbears in umpiring is when a player who has the ball gets incorrectly tackled or buried under a pile gets pinged for holding the ball. IMO the prime umping duty of care should be to encourage the player to get the ball, and protect him, and ONLY if correctly tackled AND doesn't correctly dispose should he be penalised. All too often we see one ridden into the ground under 3 or 4 players and unable to get rid of it - HTB!!! Even though he has been the subject of "in the back" and often "high tackle / around the neck"! This only encourages the vultures of the game, and discourages the brave ball getter.

Have you & Dr D been smoking crack together? Rosman has been solid at Casey & done a couple of brilliant things but is a mile from a senior call up.

I don't know him personally, but a shout out to Channel 7's Chief Football Reporter, Mark Stevens, who has just had surgery for bowel cancer. https://www.epworth.org.au/newsroom/tv-journalist-undergoes-cancer-surgery And just a reminder for everyone else, particularly those over 50, to get checked regularly.

Not for me unfortunately. What I'm seeing on the field is pleasing and different to many of the false dawns I've witnessed in the past. However my MFCSS is so ingrained that I keep expecting the wheels to fall off at every turn. Only a premiership will alleviate the negativity that I have in my head and my heart and even then it will only be a band aid until the next season. Perhaps a three-peat will help ...

I heard that interview and it was a disgrace. This man is (was) the director of umpiring and his complacency towards the rules he is supposed to be enforcing is shameful. The inmates are running the asylum. So two or three highly paid lawyers are allowed to hijack the future of the game because it would somehow be disastrous if they gave up their part time umpiring gig. They would be "lost to the game". Well how about this? Maybe with professional umpires, more would aspire to it, and the game might "find" some decent umpires who were motivated by it being their breadwinning vocation. And juniors might stick with it, suspecting they might get "job security", "tenure", "support from city hall" and a few other quaint concepts that haven't occurred to the literal amateurs currently running the show. With the state of umpiring as it is, would the loss of these so-called "top" umpires be any real loss? Some "bad" free kicks might be paid? Would anyone even notice? Kennedy was asked about that very strange decision where a guy had a kick at goal, it went off the side of his boot, and he was pinged for deliberate. Is there any better indication that the umpires have lost their way and have no confidence in what they are doing? A situation that can be sheeted home directly to ... the director of umpiring. Kennedy said yes, that one actually was wrong, and it was a "communication issue" between the three umpires, which they worked on in training this week. Maybe, just maybe, professional umpires would have the time & the means & the will to work on potential "communication issues" BEFORE they emerge in a match? It's an old cliche in footy that the umpires are blind. In the case of Hayden Kennedy, it might actually be true.

What a pleasant surprise it was to rock up to the ground and flash my membership card and walk in for nothing. None of that tickitek nonsense. Onto the game, it was very messy football. Tackling was good on both sides . Of the demon players I thaught Sparrow and Brown were the best, Daw took some incredible marks in the forward line and it was a more intelligent game by him that I have seen in a while. Jetta did a lot of good things with the ball although he did not get a lot of it. Lockhart was okay as was rosman. In the end it was Brown that carried us over the line but that was only in the second half. Like the senior side they seem to have a knowledge of how to win.

Kennett will probably whinge that they shouldn't play another Tasmanian affiliated team in Tasmania as it takes away their advantage.

Dwayne Russell on SEN yesterday had a long interview with Hayden Kennedy, outgoing umpiring director. It had me climbing the walls with frustration and disgust. The complacency of this guy towards the game he is supposed to be a custodian of really should have him run out of town. If he wasn't already retiring, he should do so now out of shame. I won't bore you with the detail but his attitude towards policing throwing would make you gag. God forbid that one legal handball might be penalised! Oh no, let's let 100 throws go through, instead. Apparently it's better that way. And he had the sheer effrontery to say that enforcement of holding the ball is going well, and also he thinks the fans have a good understanding of what constitutes prior. God help us all. With friends like Kennedy, the AFL competition does not need enemies. But, bottom line, the AFL management do not give a [censored] about any of this.

I would like to add my Thanks to KC and Werribee great effort greatly appreciated. Go Casey....!!!!!

Sparrow 24 disposals Jetta 22 disposals Lockhart 18 disposals. Commentators rapt with Bradtke and Sparrow.

Thanks for all the updates @KC from Casey

Everything is going pretty well for us, this is the worst possible time to bring up something like biased umpiring if you know your MFC history...

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Trac was on the Gary and Tim show earlier in the week for a 10 min segment. The corky was never mentioned. After the segment finished a few texts alerted Gary to the corky (he hadn't known). Said he asked Trac off air if it was an issue and apparently Trac said it wasn't even worth mentioning. Not an issue at all. Unless there's been a deterioration during the week i can't see why he wouldn't play. Would @Yokozuna have any intel?

Good to see Ratten call out the lack of frees for the dropping and throwing the ball by Geelong. It used to be mainly the Bulldogs but now more teams are taking advantage of the lax enforcement of the rules. Not enforcing the rules may speed up the game which is what the AFL wants but if all clubs start dropping and throwing the ball and go unpenalised then it will be a free for all.

So, Wizard of Koz and phuket demon are one and the same poster. How many other aliases do you have? You should probably check which name you are logged in under before you respond to posts.

I was just laughing and my partner asked what was so funny. I then described… ’A bunch of people who support the same team are arguing about singing a song associated with another team, in a completely different sport, which then lead to a heated discussion about singing the national anthem, followed by a debate on the etiquette of making public personal messages’. Demonland ? Never a dull moment.

David Teague just walked past me during school pickup this afternoon. Snuck in a sneaky "Go Dees" and the smirk on his face changed into a look of worry and sorrow. He knows what's coming this weekend. Dees by 6 goals.