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For a brief period of time in the early afternoon of yesterday, the Casey Demons occupied top place on the Smithy’s VFL table. This was only made possible by virtue of the fact that the team was the only one in this crazy competition to have played twice and it’s 1½ wins gave it an unassailable lead on the other 20 teams, some of who had yet to play a game. That was also a time before the gloom descended on the MCG and before we realized that Melbourne had turned up to play against the Gold Coast Suns without a forward line. Strangely enough, they consigned Daniel Turner to a 50 kilometre trip down the South Gippsland Highway. Last August, Turner booted four goals in Melbourne’s 54 point win over the Suns but yesterday, he played a blinder at Casey Fields in his team’s thrilling two-point win over Gold Coast Suns VFL team. The game marked a 15 goal turnaround from their final round encounter of 2024. Turner led the charge with five goals from 19 disposals and 14 marks and was cleverly used by coach Taylor Whitford who moved him down back late in each quarter to combat the Suns’ height advantage up forward. Casey had the advantage of the breeze in the opening term and scored first with a goal to Noah Yze, courtesy of a 50m penalty, followed by Turner’s first. Tom Fullarton was an excellent back up for Turner in the forward line with three goals, two of them by quarter time. The Demons’ dominance continued into the second quarter with a string of goals which saw them go to a six goal lead when Fullarton slotted through his third as time on ticked by. The Suns pegged the lead back 21 points by the main break. With injury impacting on team selection, Casey went into the game with only nine AFL listed players against an almost full-strength Suns. The imbalance was exacerbated by the apparent injury to ruckman Tom Campbell who played no further role in the game after half time. This enabled Will Verrall to step into the breach and he worked hard against the Suns’ tall timber for his 23 disposals around the ground, 11 hitouts and 10 clearances. While Gold Coast slowly reigned in the home side’s lead during the third term, Turner stepped up with a couple of timely goals. The 20 point lead at the final break was still not enough and Whitford gambled by going defensive early which was assisted again by the strong marking of Turner down back (who else?), capably assisted by Jed Adams (19 disposals and 10 marks) playing what was probably the best game of his career. When the final siren sounded, it was sunshine and a well earned two point victory. Other AFL Demons to stand out were Bailey Laurie (30 disposals, nine tackles, six clearances and a goal) Taj Woewodin with 18 touches and Kynan Brown with a game-high 10 tackles. The Casey Demons were well led by new skipper Deakyn Smith while Riley Bonner and Riley Baldi were prolific again with 30 and 28 touches respectively and Tyler Edwards had his moments. Casey moves on next week to a real curtain raiser against the Cats at GMHBA Stadium on Friday afternoon. The return of a few players from injury and suspension would assist. CASEY DEMONS 5.4.34 9.4.58 13.9.87 13.12.90 GOLD COAST SUNS VFL 2.2.14 5.7.37 10.7.67 13.10.88 GOALS CASEY DEMONS Turner 5 Fullarton 3 Yze 2 Craven Edwards Laurie GOLD COAST SUNS VFL Knobel 3 Jepson Tsitas 2 Elliott Enders Fyfe Himmelberg Johnston Rosas BEST CASEY DEMONS Turner Baldi Adams Bonner Brown Laurie GOLD COAST SUNS Jepson Evans Moyle Graham Fiorini Davies

Melbourne ended Geelong's undefeated run in a thrilling encounter at the MCG with Bayley Fritsch and Kozzie Pickett providing a highlights package between themselves. The former dribbled through a spectacular goal from the boundary line late in the term to decide the issue. Oh, for the good old days. MELBOURNE 3.2.20 3.7.25 5.14.44 10.14.74 GEELONG 2.4.16 2.8.20 6.10.46 9.12.66 GOALS MELBOURNE Fritsch 3 Pickett 2 Chandler Gawn Langdon Petty Windsor GEELONG Henry Stengle 2 Clark Close Dempsey Z Guthrie Holmes BEST MELBOURNE Lever Gawn Oliver Fritsch May Pickett GEELONG Holmes Z Guthrie Atkins Stewart Miers THE TEAMS MELBOURNE B B. Howes, S. May, J. Lever HB J. McVee, T. McDonald, T. Sparrow C A. Neal-Bullen, C. Petracca, C. Windsor HF J. Billings, B. Fritsch, K. Chandler F K. Pickett, J. Van Rooyen, D. Turner FOLL M. Gawn, J. Viney, C. Oliver I/C E. Langdon, H. Petty, T. Rivers, T. Woewodin SUB B. Laurie EMG B. Brown, M. Hore, L. Hunter NO CHANGE GEELONG B J. Henry, S. De Koning, J. Kolodjashnij HB Z. Guthrie, T. Stewart, M. Holmes C Z. Tuohy, T. Atkins, M. Blicavs HF B. Close, J. Cameron, G. Miers F T. Stengle, T. Hawkins, O. Henry FOLL R. Stanley, C. Guthrie, T. Bruhn I/C J. Bowes, J. Clark, O. Dempsey, M. Duncan SUB G. Rohan EMG S. Neale, M. O’Connor, B. Parfitt IN J. Clark, G. Rohan, T. Stewart OUT P. Dangerfield (hamstring), M. O'Connor (managed), B. Parfitt (managed)

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The Chat will be returning this week for the podcast.

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The Chat Room will make it's return this week.

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SUNSHINE by KC from Casey For a brief period of time in the early afternoon of yesterday, the Casey Demons occupied top place on the Smithy’s VFL table. This was only made possible by virtue of the fact that the team was the only one in this crazy competition to have played twice and it’s 1½ wins gave it an unassailable lead on the other 20 teams, some of who had yet to play a game. That was also a time before the gloom descended on the MCG and before we realized that Melbourne had turned up to play against the Gold Coast Suns without a forward line. Strangely enough, they consigned Daniel Turner to a 50 kilometre trip down the South Gippsland Highway. Last August, Turner booted four goals in Melbourne’s 54 point win over the Suns but yesterday, he played a blinder at Casey Fields in his team’s thrilling two-point win over Gold Coast Suns VFL team. The game marked a 15 goal turnaround from their final round encounter of 2024. Turner led the charge with five goals from 19 disposals and 14 marks and was cleverly used by coach Taylor Whitford who moved him down back late in each quarter to combat the Suns’ height advantage up forward. Casey had the advantage of the breeze in the opening term and scored first with a goal to Noah Yze, courtesy of a 50m penalty, followed by Turner’s first. Tom Fullarton was an excellent back up for Turner in the forward line with three goals, two of them by quarter time. The Demons’ dominance continued into the second quarter with a string of goals which saw them go to a six goal lead when Fullarton slotted through his third as time on ticked by. The Suns pegged the lead back 21 points by the main break. With injury impacting on team selection, Casey went into the game with only nine AFL listed players against an almost full-strength Suns. The imbalance was exacerbated by the apparent injury to ruckman Tom Campbell who played no further role in the game after half time. This enabled Will Verrall to step into the breach and he worked hard against the Suns’ tall timber for his 23 disposals around the ground, 11 hitouts and 10 clearances. While Gold Coast slowly reigned in the home side’s lead during the third term, Turner stepped up with a couple of timely goals. The 20 point lead at the final break was still not enough and Whitford gambled by going defensive early which was assisted again by the strong marking of Turner down back (who else?), capably assisted by Jed Adams (19 disposals and 10 marks) playing what was probably the best game of his career. When the final siren sounded, it was sunshine and a well earned two point victory. Other AFL Demons to stand out were Bailey Laurie (30 disposals, nine tackles, six clearances and a goal) Taj Woewodin with 18 touches and Kynan Brown with a game-high 10 tackles. The Casey Demons were well led by new skipper Deakyn Smith while Riley Bonner and Riley Baldi were prolific again with 30 and 28 touches respectively and Tyler Edwards had his moments. Casey moves on next week to a real curtain raiser against the Cats at GMHBA Stadium on Friday afternoon. The return of a few players from injury and suspension would assist. CASEY DEMONS 5.4.34 9.4.58 13.9.87 13.12.90 GOLD COAST SUNS VFL 2.2.14 5.7.37 10.7.67 13.10.88 GOALS CASEY DEMONS Turner 5 Fullarton 3 Yze 2 Craven Edwards Laurie GOLD COAST SUNS VFL Knobel 3 Jepson Tsitas 2 Elliott Enders Fyfe Himmelberg Johnston Rosas BEST CASEY DEMONS Turner Baldi Adams Bonner Brown Laurie GOLD COAST SUNS Jepson Evans Moyle Graham Fiorini Davies

In my all-time nightmare game, the team is so ill-disciplined that it concedes its first two goals with the courtesy of not one, but two, fifty metre penalties while opening its own scoring with four behinds in a row and losing a talented youngster with good decision-making skills and a lethal left foot kick, subbed off in the first quarter with what looks like a bad knee injury. The nightmare continues in the second term as the team regains a tiny little scrap of composure but is unable to make any impact on the scoreboard. Our ruckman is winning the hit outs but the midfield bulls, once renowned for their ability to win the ball out of packs and to push forward with consummate ease, are getting beaten to the ball by the opposition young guns. Our most reliable and accurate kick for goal misses two easy shots from a kickable distance and drops an easy mark at close range from goal (he’ll finish with 0.3). We can’t buy a goal and the home crowd has lost its passion for the game by the half time break when it’s 2.9.21 to 5.8.38. Surely, when we wake up from this stupor after half time, the nightmare will end, the team will stop fumbling, the free kick count will start going our way, we’ll get a holding the ball or holding the man go our way or we’ll be paid a lucky goal after the siren sounds? No. The restless, fitful dream continues and gets worse. We continue to give away frees in front of goal. We win the hit out numbers but are smashed in the clearances by 40 to 24. We used to have a midfield that wasn’t afraid of getting its hands dirty. Not anymore. Ben King gets his kicking boots on. Our players are caught flat-footed and out of position, the opposition runs past, we fumble, play on when we should slow down the play, then slow things down when we should get a move on. In this bad dream, we move around in slow motion and take the long way home by playing in the fringes of darkness. We’ve been so mesmerized by our summer of love, that we’re too busy smelling roses than living our dream by playing winning football. We lose to the Gold Coast Suns by 58 points. We hadn’t lost to them since our season of nightmares back in 2014. We come out of it all with very few plusses. Harvey Langford is one. The fact that we have some players coming back who have skills and pace to burn like Kozzie Pickett and Caleb Wilson and maybe Judd McVee. We can even take solace in the fact that twelve months ago, it was Hawthorn that was living this same nightmare and look how they finished and look at where they are now. MELBOURNE 1.4.10 2.9.21 6.12.48 8.14.62 GOLD COAST SUNS 4.5.29 5.8.38 12.10.82 18.12.120 GOALS MELBOURNE Sharp 2 Bowey Chandler Langford Melksham Petracca van Rooyen GOLD COAST SUNS King 4 Miller 3 Graham 2 Anderson Flanders Humphrey Long Noble Read Walter Weller Witts BEST MELBOURNE Langdon Langford Bowey Oliver Gawn Rivers GOLD COAST SUNS Rowell Anderson Collins Miller King Noble INJURIES MELBOURNE Lindsay (knee) GOLD COAST SUNS Nil REPORTS MELBOURNE Nil GOLD COAST SUNS Nil SUBSTITUTIONS MELBOURNE Jake Melksham (replaced Xavier Lindsay in the first quarter) GOLD COAST SUNS Jake Rogers (replaced Nick Holman at three-quarter time) UMPIRES Nicholas Brown Alex Whetton Tom Bryce Matthew Young CROWD 24,506 at the MCG

After a one-year reprieve, the Demons return down the freeway to Kardinia Park — the site of both one of our greatest triumphs and one of our darkest days — as they face the Cats under Friday night lights. This one could get ugly. Who comes in, and who comes out?

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Last week Christian Petracca took the outright lead of the Demonland Player of the Year followed by Max Gawn, Clayton Oliver, Kade Chandler and Christian Salem. Your 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 & 1 votes please.

The Demons barely fired a shot today as they went down to the Gold Coast Suns at the MCG and if the “era” wasn’t already over it is dead and buried now.

It’s Game Day and the Demons will be desperate to open their account in season 2025 as they face the much-improved Gold Coast Suns at the MCG.