Demonland

I fixed an audio issue with the initial upload that had my audio channel a lot softer than Binman and George. It probably wouldn't be as noticeable with headphones (as I didn't pick it up at 1:30am last night) but it was on my car audio. I have equalised the audio so you might need to remove the download and re-download. Sometimes that doesn't work with Apple podcast so apologies if that's the case.

I’d assume they already have their coach all but signed. Dimma will enjoy the Gold Coast Sun.

Don't say I never do anything for you guys. Podcast is up. Who needs sleep anyway?

Podcast won't be up until tomorrow morning (possibly mid morning) as I have to do a bit of post production work. Usually I am able to just take the mix recorded into my mixer from the audio over the internet but as i had some choppy internet connection at home my cohosts were breaking up every now and again and it would not be a good listen. Anyone who listened live would have heard what it sounded like. Luckily I have multiple recordings and one of those is the recordings of my cohosts that is recorded locally on their machines. I don't usually use that mix as it takes longer for me to put together and is only used in cases like this. I won't be able to work on that until the morning now so the final product won't be available until then. Apologies.

Got you 2 in.

I'm going to cut off questions here. I've compiled all the notes for the show now. See ya'll at 8:30pm

Votes Player (Club) 10 Steven May (MELB) 7 Rowan Marshall (STK) 7 Christian Petracca (MELB) 4 Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera (STK) 1 Jack Steele (STK) 1 Angus Brayshaw (MELB) Leaderboard Votes Player Club 91 Nick Daicos COLL 77 Zak Butters PORT 76 Christian Petracca MELB 70 Lachie Neale BL 65 Zach Merrett ESS 63 Connor Rozee PORT 62 Tim Taranto RICH 58 Jordan Dawson ADEL 57 Jack Sinclair STK 56 Marcus Bontempelli WB 55 Noah Anderson GCFC 53 Caleb Serong FRE 52 Toby Greene GWS 49 Adam Cerra CARL 47 Jordan De Goey COLL 45 Matt Rowell GCFC 44 Dan Houston PORT 43 Chad Warner SYD 42 Shai Bolton RICH 42 Errol Gulden SYD 42 Darcy Moore COLL

The Casey Demons celebrated stalwart Jimmy Munro’s 150th VFL game with a pulsating 34-point victory over the Sandringham Zebras at the Trevor Barker Beach Oval on Sunday. The win was the club’s third in succession and more importantly, saw it return to the top four on the competition ladder. The visitors were never headed through the game and had winners all over the ground with the exception of in the ruck where the Zebras’ seasoned big man Tom Campbell used his vast advantage in size and experience to control the ruck duels and often giving his teammates the first use out of the stoppages. However, his opponent in the absence of regular ruckman Jack Bell was not disgraced. Rookie ruckman Will Verrall battled manfully to accumulate 15 possessions to go with his 15 hit outs and six tackles. It was an education that will hold him in good stead in the future. Elsewhere around the ground, it was the Demons who were doing most of the teaching. Playing in the key forward role, Josh Schache kicked four goals straight which will not hurt his AFL prospects given the club’s issues in finding the best connection between its midfield and its forward unit. Jacob van Rooyen had his moments but was beaten early and played better when further afield. He finished with just one goal. Other Melbourne youngsters with future forward potential in Matt Jefferson and Oliver Sestan were quiet. The best of the Melbourne listed players are all closing in on veteran stage. Adam Tomlinson, unlucky to be out of AFL action at the moment, picked up 27 touches and nine marks playing deep in defence, James Harmes collected 26 touches, had six clearances, eight tackles and kicked a goal while former Saint and Zebra Luke Dunstan had 22 disposals and nine tackles. Blake Howes matched that number of possessions but went off injured late in the game with what has been reported as a severe cramp. Rookies Deakyn Smith, busy with 19 disposals and nine marks and Andy Moniz-Wakefield two goals, were handy contributors. But the day belonged to 150 gamer and Casey premiership player “Moose” Munro who put in a typically hard performance with nine kicks, eight handballs and nine tackles, a performance he would have relished particularly as it was against his original team Sandringham for who he played 22 games a decade ago. Tom Freeman with 19 touches and Tyler Edwards (two goals) both produced their best games for the club in a pleasing effort for the Demons who have a bye next week. Unfortunately, this means they will lose their hard fought for position in the top four because they are equal on points with Box Hill and North Melbourne who meet each other in the next round. CASEY DEMONS 4.6.30 6.8.44 9.12.66 13.15.93 SANDRINGHAM 2.0.12 3.4.22 4.7.31 8.11.59 GOALS CASEY DEMONS Schache 4 Edwards Laurie Moniz-Wakefield 2 Harmes van Rooyen White SANDRINGHAM Heath 3 Gawn Hipwell Hotton Keeler Peris BEST CASEY DEMONS Harmes Tomlinson Schache Dunstan Freeman Munro SANDRINGHAM Campbell Bytel Clark Highmore Hayes Statistics Jed Adams 10 kicks 3 handballs 13 disposals 8 marks 5 tackles 80 dream team points Riley Baldi 3 kicks 4 handballs 7 disposals 2 marks 3 tackles 32 dream team points Kade Chandler 9 kicks 7 handballs 16 disposals 4 marks 2 tackles 61 dream team points Luke Dunstan 1 behind 12 kicks 10 handballs 22 disposals 2 marks 9 tackles 93 dream team points Tyler Edwards 2 goals 13 kicks 1 handballs 14 disposals 4 marks 3 tackles 77 dream team points Tom Freeman 13 kicks 6 handballs 19 disposals 11 marks 1 tackles 89 dream team points James Harmes 1 goal 2 behinds 9 kicks 17 handballs 26 disposals 6 marks 8 tackles 115 dream team points Blake Howes 1 behind 14 kicks 8 handballs 22 disposals 5 marks 4 tackles 82 dream team points Matt Jefferson 5 kicks 1 handball 6 disposals 4 marks 1 tackle 34 dream team points Bailey Laurie 2 goals 7 kicks 8 handballs 15 disposals 3 marks 6 tackles 76 dream team points Tom Macrae 1 kick 3 handballs 4 disposals 9 dream team points Andy Moniz-Wakefield 2 goals 2 behinds 8 kicks 3 handballs 11 disposals 3 marks 7 tackles 81 dream team points Ned Moodie 7 kicks 7 handballs 14 disposals marks 53 dream team points James Munro 3 behinds 9 kicks 8 handballs 17 disposals 2 marks 9 tackles 83 dream team points Josh Schache 4 goals 10 kicks 2 handballs 12 disposals 8 marks 4 tackles 3 hit outs 103 dream team points Oliver Sestan 4 kicks 2 handballs 6 disposals 1 mark 1 tackles 23 dream team points Deaykin Smith 14 kicks 5 handballs 19 disposals 9 marks 79 dream team points Roan Steele 12 kicks 6 handballs 18 disposals 2 marks 2 tackles 64 dream team points Adam Tomlinson 21 kicks 6 handballs 27 disposals 9 marks 94 dream team points Ryan Valentine 4 kicks 1 handballs 5 disposals 4 marks 1 tackles 8 hit outs 35 dream team points Jacob van Rooyen 1 goals 1 behind 6 kicks 3 handballs 9 disposals 4 marks 5 tackles 45 dream team points Will Verrall 1 kicks 14 handballs 15 disposals 6 tackles 15 hit outs 70 dream team points Mitch White 1 goal 7 kicks 5 handballs 12 disposals 1 marks 3 tackles 52 dream team points

DAY OF THE MOOSE by KC from Casey The Casey Demons celebrated stalwart Jimmy Munro’s 150th VFL game with a pulsating 34-point victory over the Sandringham Zebras at the Trevor Barker Beach Oval on Sunday. The win was the club’s third in succession and more importantly, saw it return to the top four on the competition ladder. The visitors were never headed through the game and had winners all over the ground with the exception of in the ruck where the Zebras’ seasoned big man Tom Campbell used his vast advantage in size and experience to control the ruck duels and often giving his teammates the first use out of the stoppages. However, his opponent in the absence of regular ruckman Jack Bell was not disgraced. Rookie ruckman Will Verrall battled manfully to accumulate 15 possessions to go with his 15 hit outs and six tackles. It was an education that will hold him in good stead in the future. Elsewhere around the ground, it was the Demons who were doing most of the teaching. Playing in the key forward role, Josh Schache kicked four goals straight which will not hurt his AFL prospects given the club’s issues in finding the best connection between its midfield and its forward unit. Jacob van Rooyen had his moments but was beaten early and played better when further afield. He finished with just one goal. Other Melbourne youngsters with future forward potential in Matt Jefferson and Oliver Sestan were quiet. The best of the Melbourne listed players are all closing in on veteran stage. Adam Tomlinson, unlucky to be out of AFL action at the moment, picked up 27 touches and nine marks playing deep in defence, James Harmes collected 26 touches, had six clearances, eight tackles and kicked a goal while former Saint and Zebra Luke Dunstan had 22 disposals and nine tackles. Blake Howes matched that number of possessions but went off injured late in the game with what has been reported as a severe cramp. Rookies Deakyn Smith, busy with 19 disposals and nine marks and Andy Moniz-Wakefield two goals, were handy contributors. But the day belonged to 150 gamer and Casey premiership player “Moose” Munro who put in a typically hard performance with nine kicks, eight handballs and nine tackles, a performance he would have relished particularly as it was against his original team Sandringham for who he played 22 games a decade ago. Tom Freeman with 19 touches and Tyler Edwards (two goals) both produced their best games for the club in a pleasing effort for the Demons who have a bye next week. Unfortunately, this means they will lose their hard fought for position in the top four because they are equal on points with Box Hill and North Melbourne who meet each other in the next round. CASEY DEMONS 4.6.30 6.8.44 9.12.66 13.15.93 SANDRINGHAM 2.0.12 3.4.22 4.7.31 8.11.59 GOALS CASEY DEMONS Schache 4 Edwards Laurie Moniz-Wakefield 2 Harmes van Rooyen White SANDRINGHAM Heath 3 Gawn Hipwell Hotton Keeler Peris BEST CASEY DEMONS Harmes Tomlinson Schache Dunstan Freeman Munro SANDRINGHAM Campbell Bytel Clark Highmore Hayes Statistics Jed Adams 10 kicks 3 handballs 13 disposals 8 marks 5 tackles 80 dream team points Riley Baldi 3 kicks 4 handballs 7 disposals 2 marks 3 tackles 32 dream team points Kade Chandler 9 kicks 7 handballs 16 disposals 4 marks 2 tackles 61 dream team points Luke Dunstan 1 behind 12 kicks 10 handballs 22 disposals 2 marks 9 tackles 93 dream team points Tyler Edwards 2 goals 13 kicks 1 handballs 14 disposals 4 marks 3 tackles 77 dream team points Tom Freeman 13 kicks 6 handballs 19 disposals 11 marks 1 tackles 89 dream team points James Harmes 1 goal 2 behinds 9 kicks 17 handballs 26 disposals 6 marks 8 tackles 115 dream team points Blake Howes 1 behind 14 kicks 8 handballs 22 disposals 5 marks 4 tackles 82 dream team points Matt Jefferson 5 kicks 1 handball 6 disposals 4 marks 1 tackle 34 dream team points Bailey Laurie 2 goals 7 kicks 8 handballs 15 disposals 3 marks 6 tackles 76 dream team points Tom Macrae 1 kick 3 handballs 4 disposals 9 dream team points Andy Moniz-Wakefield 2 goals 2 behinds 8 kicks 3 handballs 11 disposals 3 marks 7 tackles 81 dream team points Ned Moodie 7 kicks 7 handballs 14 disposals marks 53 dream team points James Munro 3 behinds 9 kicks 8 handballs 17 disposals 2 marks 9 tackles 83 dream team points Josh Schache 4 goals 10 kicks 2 handballs 12 disposals 8 marks 4 tackles 3 hit outs 103 dream team points Oliver Sestan 4 kicks 2 handballs 6 disposals 1 mark 1 tackles 23 dream team points Deaykin Smith 14 kicks 5 handballs 19 disposals 9 marks 79 dream team points Roan Steele 12 kicks 6 handballs 18 disposals 2 marks 2 tackles 64 dream team points Adam Tomlinson 21 kicks 6 handballs 27 disposals 9 marks 94 dream team points Ryan Valentine 4 kicks 1 handballs 5 disposals 4 marks 1 tackles 8 hit outs 35 dream team points Jacob van Rooyen 1 goals 1 behind 6 kicks 3 handballs 9 disposals 4 marks 5 tackles 45 dream team points Will Verrall 1 kicks 14 handballs 15 disposals 6 tackles 15 hit outs 70 dream team points Mitch White 1 goal 7 kicks 5 handballs 12 disposals 1 marks 3 tackles 52 dream team points

And here we are …

Brown did no harm to his draft prospects. “Melbourne father-son prospect Kynan Brown, the son of former Demon Nathan, was impressive with 26 disposals, six clearances and one goal in the midfield for Vic Metro.” Tassie gun fires as the Wizard bags five in a half

The Allies will be the National Champions for the first time after beating Vic Country today. Vic Metro’s annihilation of WA won’t be enough to give them a chance of winning the competition even if they beat Vic Country in the final game next week. Tassie gun fires as the Wizard bags five in a half Melbourne father/son hopeful Kynan Brown did no harm to his draft prospects. “Melbourne father-son prospect Kynan Brown, the son of former Demon Nathan, was impressive with 26 disposals, six clearances and one goal in the midfield for Vic Metro.”

Tracc is making like a runaway train with this award and Jack Viney is closing in on second place. 184. Christian Petracca 127. Clayton Oliver 114. Jack Viney 65. Steven May 53. Max Gawn 50. Angus Brayshaw Trent Rivers 48. Jake Lever 43. Christian Salem 42. Lachie Hunter 40. Brodie Grundy 27. Jake Bowey 23. Tom Sparrow 19. Bayley Fritsch Kysaiah Pickett 18. Ed Langdon 15. Judd McVee 11. Kade Chandler 9. Ben Brown 8. Charlie Spargo 6. Jacob van Rooyen 5. Tom McDonald Alex Neal-Bullen 4. Michael Hibberd 3. James Jordon Adam Tomlinson 1. Harry Petty

With a return to the winners circle, Melbourne produced a much needed victory against the Saints, in a fourth v fifth on the ladder match. The win also created a small buffer to those below, whereas a loss would have put the team’s whole finals objective on the edge. After losses in the wet, it could be said that the team had accumulated a fair bit of rust, and even in this game it wasn’t a pretty sight for their supporters. There were plenty of unforced errors, miskicks, dumb decision-making and certainly not the free flowing style of game we know the side is capable of, and more importantly, that’s needed to feature in finals action. The game was turned into a dour contest by the opposition coach, who honestly will never produce a premiership side while the main focus is on defence and defence alone. It might prevent the Saints from being thrashed, but it doesn’t teach them how to kick winning scores. This tactic might have been the norm more than five to ten years ago, unsurprisingly when the Saints and Fremantle featured in finals, but it will usually end in failure in the long term. While the Demons were busy trying to find their best on the field, the Saints were badly affected by injury. Pre-match they were without Hill, Membrey, Battle, Higgins and Coffield and less than a third of the way into game they had lost King, Cordy and Ross. This made the Saints even more defensive, and while some supporters criticised players in the backline for not moving the ball quickly, there was nothing open further up the field due to the extreme flooding tactics being employed against them. So the game simply became a waiting and watching scenario, back and forth, back and forth. Melbourne would intercept on the half-back line and try to thread their way through the St.Kilda lines, but not doing such a good job too often. When things didn’t work the Saints would try to switch immediately (another old tactic, that isn’t employed by leading coaches), only to discover the Demons had already covered their move by the time it got to the wing, and another intercept would occur. Start all over again! And intercept Melbourne did. There were 23 team intercept marks, with Steven May leading the way with eight from his 13 intercepts alone. Of course he was ably backed up by Petty with seven intercepts, Lever, McVee, Salem and Rivers chipping in with six each. The absence of any St.Kilda tall forwards certainly helped the situation, but without a change to game plan, the Saints were simply never going to be successful. Their goals almost exclusively came from spillages or dropped marks by the Melbourne players, a sure sign of how rusty some were, especially in the perfect conditions under the roof of Marvel stadium. Let’s hope the rustiness exhibited in the ruck division has finally been ground away, since Gawn and Grundy were given a lesson in not only ruckwork but around the ground play by Rohan Marshall on his own. Thirty disposals, seven intercepts, seven i50’s and ten marks at 86% disposal efficiency equalled or exceeded the totals for both Gawn and Grundy combined. Once again the Gawndy experiment of resting up forward was a miserable failure with zero score from both. They clogged up the forward line, unable to run defensively against smaller fitter defenders who stream away from them bringing the concept beyond the rusty stage to just plain embarrassing. We only need one on the ground at any time, and give the other a rest on the bench. Troubling is that Grundy was only on the ground for 67% of the time, so perhaps more than rust is involved. The much vaunted woes of the forward line had some of the rust scraped away. At least the side was kicking straight from set shots this week. Thanks mainly to Christian Petracca who, with brute strength was able to beat his opponent one-on-one to record four goals for the match. His kicking from set shots was more assured, indicating some considerable work had gone on during the week. The sad indictment is that our best forward is our best mid at the moment. We got away with it in this match, but will that be possible against Brisbane next week who have top rate midfielders to match against. If the ball doesn’t get into attack, it won’t matter how good Trac is up forward. Melksham kicked 2 goals, but rather than get excited about the number, both came from his usual tactic of out the back. Once again zero tackles despite being on the ground for over 90% of the game is more than being rusty. Those type of scoring opportunities won’t be repeated against the Brisbane defence. As they say, a win is a win. Maybe, but if the opponent is swaying on their feet in the first quarter, and only two interchange available for the majority of the game, a three goal victory in perfect conditions is a sub-par outcome. It was the time to grind off the rust and re-discover the shiny, polished metal beneath. By game’s end, only part of the job had been done, with just glimpses being shown. The engine is barely turning over smoothly and the drive train is a bit wonky. Time to get out the WD-40 and apply a hefty measure of hard work.  MELBOURNE 5.0.30 7.2.44 9.5.59 12.7.79 ST KILDA 3.5.23 4.7.31 6.8.44 8.10.58 GOALS MELBOURNE Petracca 4 Melksham Sparrow 2 Brown Hunter Langdon Neal-Bullen ST KILDA Gresham Owens 2 Billings Sharman Steele Wood BEST MELBOURNE Langdon Neal-Bullen May Sparrow Viney Petracca ST KILDA Steele Sinclair Marshall Wanganeen-Milera INJURIES MELBOURNE Petty (back) ST KILDA Ross (hamstring) King (shoulder) Cordy (concussion) REPORTS MELBOURNE Nil ST KILDA Nil SUBSTITUTIONS MELBOURNE Joel Smith (replaced Harrison Petty in the final quarter) ST KILDA Ryan Byrnes (replaced Max King in the first quarter) UMPIRES Chris Donlon Nick Foot Andrew Stephens Nathan Williamson CROWD 30,749 at Marvel Stadium

As far as I know we are the only AFL team that trains at Casey. Jokes aside zero

Add it to the list of reasons we need our OWN training base close to home.

https://www.melbournefc.com.au/teams/training-times

Max’s knee, sloppy ball handling in the greasy humid conditions, the unfitness for purpose of the Gabba light tower and a late comeback were all highlights of a night to otherwise forget. MELBOURNE 2.1.13 5.2.32 7.3.45 13.4.82 BRISBANE LIONS 6.2.38 8.4.52 13.5.77 14.9.93 THE TEAMS BRISBANE LIONS B B. Starcevich J. Payne D. Rich HB C. McKenna H. Andrews D. Zorko C W. Ashcroft Z. Bailey J. Berry HF C. Cameron J. Gunston H. McCluggage F C. Rayner J. Daniher E. Hipwood FOLL O. McInerney J. Dunkley L. Neale I/C D. Fort D. Joyce L. McCarthy D. Wilmot SUB D. Robertson EMG T. Fullarton J. Prior J. Tunstill IN D. Fort D. Joyce D. Zorko OUT K. Coleman (hamstring) J. Prior (omitted) J. Tunstill (omitted) MELBOURNE B T. Rivers A. Tomlinson J. Bowey HB J. Lever H. Petty J. Harmes C A. Brayshaw C.Oliver E. Langdon HF A. Neal-Bullen T. McDonald J. Viney F B. Fritsch M. Gawn C. Spargo FOLL B. Grundy L. Hunter C. Petracca I/C B. Brown K. Chandler T. Sparrow J. McVee SUB J. Melksham EMG J. Jordon J. Smith IN Fritsch Viney OUT B. Laurie (omitted) K. Pickett (suspended)

The Demons return to the MCG for the first time since King's Birthday a month ago to take on Brisbane in a Top 4 clash. Who will come in and who comes out for the match against the Lions at the G?