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Votes Player (Club) 8 Jordan Clark (FRE) 5 Josh Treacy (FRE) 5 Hayden Young (FRE) 4 Sam Switkowski (FRE) 4 Caleb Serong (FRE) 2 Alex Pearce (FRE) 2 Luke Jackson (FRE) Leaderboard Interim leaderboard due to byes Votes Player Club 71 Isaac Heeney SYD 67 Nick Daicos COLL 59 Caleb Serong FRE 53 Marcus Bontempelli WB 51 Zach Merrett ESS 49 Patrick Cripps CARL 48 Chad Warner SYD 46 Max Gawn MELB 46 Sam Walsh CARL 45 Noah Anderson GCFC 45 Matt Rowell GCFC 43 Zak Butters PORT 43 Adam Treloar WB 42 Jordan Dawson ADEL 41 Jason Horne-Francis PORT 40 Errol Gulden SYD 40 Max Holmes GEEL 36 Christian Petracca MELB 34 Tom Green GWS 34 Hayden Young FRE

LEADERBOARD AFTER ROUND 12 138. Max Gawn 97. Christian Petracca 70. Steven May 64. Alex Neal-Bullen 49. Jack Viney 40. Jake Lever 36. Clayton Oliver 35. Christian Salem 31. Bayley Fritsch 27. Judd McVee 26. Kysaiah Pickett 24. Ed Langdon 22. Trent Rivers 20. Tom McDonald 14. Kade Chandler 12. Tom Sparrow 11. Blake Howes Daniel Turner 10. Jack Billings 9. Adam Tomlinson 5. Caleb Windsor 2. Harry Petty 1. Jake Bowey

All the cool teams are in the Bottom 10.

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Geelong should be 1-3 because the poster included Geelong's loss to Melbourne

The Casey Demons headed into town and up Sydney Road to take on the lowly Coburg Lions who have been perennial VFL easy beats and sitting on one win for the season. Last year, Casey beat them in a practice match when resting their AFL listed players. That’s how bad they were. Nobody respected them on Saturday and clearly not the Demons who came to the game with 22 players (ten MFC), but whether they came out to play is another matter because for the most part, their intensity was lacking and not many wanted to get their hands dirty. They allowed a rag tag bunch of unknowns, many of them suburban players, to overrun them and dominate proceedings after the first half hour of play with a final result, a 26 point defeat, flattering to them. Sometimes a game of football where one team has the upper hand early and the other takes over control is called “a game of two halves”. In this instance, for the Casey Demons, it was a game of one quarter - the first. They appeared to come out firing and doubled Coburg’s score in the first quarter but even that was an illusion because they had the advantage of the early breeze. For the Demons, at least Matt Jefferson with two goals continued on from an encouraging game last week with a couple of goals in the opening term. Mitch White led from the front and Koltyn Tholstrop and Andy Moniz-Wakefield showed a bit. After that, it was a one way street with the home side running rings around them in the second quarter booting seven goals to one. You could tell how the enthusiastic Lions from Coburg went into the rooms at half time compared to the way their dejected opponents trudged off that it was already all over. And so it was, although the home team only extended its lead by a mere four points in the second half. The Demons were beaten in the ruck, at the stoppages and around the ground. Their skills were appalling at times. White stood out and did his best and he had some good lieutenants in Edwards, Neocleous and Steele. Blake Howes picked up a lot of possessions but he was always under the pump while Jed Adams and Bailey Laurie worked hard all day. Too many players came out of the game with clean hands and, unlike last week, it can’t even be said that it was a gallant defeat. CASEY DEMONS 4.6.30 5.8.38 9.9.63 12.10.82 COBURG 2.3.15 9.6.60 14.6.90 16.12.108 GOALS CASEY DEMONS Fullarton Jefferson Lewis Neocleous 2 Moodie Sestan Szybkowski Tholstrop COBURG Weightman 3 Gentile 2 Bromell Coriliano Dammersmith D’Intinosante Gillard Serong Thomas Walker BEST CASEY DEMONS White Adams Laurie Neocleous Steele Edwards COBURG Gentile Rigoni Weightman Podhajaski Bromell Trudgeon Statistics Jed Adams 7 kicks 4 handballs 11 disposals 7 marks 2 tackles 55 dream team points Kynan Brown 7 kicks 4 handballs 11 disposals 2 marks 5 tackles 52 dream team points Tyler Edwards 2 behinds 9 kicks 8 handballs 17 disposals 3 marks 2 tackles 58 dream team points Tom Freeman 6 kicks 3 handballs 9 disposals 3 marks 2 tackles 36 dream team points Tom Fullarton 2 goals 1 behind 11 kicks 8 handballs 19 disposals 4 marks 1 tackle 18 hitouts 89 dream team points Max Gregory 7 kicks 8 handballs 15 disposals 4 marks 5 tackles 53 dream team points Blake Howes 24 kicks 8 handballs 32 disposals 9 marks 3 tackles 129 dream team points Matt Jefferson 2 goals 2 behinds 8 kicks 1 handballs 9 disposals 3 marks 2 tackles 59 dream team points Brayden LaPlanche 2 kicks 5 handballs 7 disposals 1 mark 3 tackles 31 dream team points Bailey Laurie 1 behind 16 kicks 11 handballs 27 disposals 4 marks 4 tackles 100 dream team points Caleb Lewis 2 goals 1 behind 2 kicks 1 handball 3 disposals 3 tackles 34 dream team points Andy Moniz-Wakefield 14 kicks 15 handballs 29 disposals 7 marks 3 tackles 105 dream team points Ned Moodie 1 goal 8 kicks 6 handballs 14 disposals 5 marks 59 dream team points Harvey Neocleous 2 goals 9 kicks 5 handballs 14 disposals 4 marks 5 tackles 82 dream team points Ollie Sestan 1 goal 6 kicks 6 handballs 12 disposals 3 marks 2 tackles 48 dream team points Roan Steele 12 kicks 4 handballs 16 disposals 3 marks 1 tackle 57 dream team points Mitch Szybkowski 1 goal 4 kicks 11 handballs 15 disposals 3 marks 5 tackles 67 dream team points Koltyn Tholstrup 1 goal 1 behind 15 kicks 6 handballs 21 disposals 6 marks 9 tackles 114 dream team points Ryan Valentine 2 kicks 5 handballs 7 disposals 2 marks 3 tackles 31 dream team points Will Verrall 7 kicks 2 handballs 9 disposals 4 marks 1 tackle 18 hitouts 57 dream team points Mitch White 2 behinds 19 kicks 12 handballs 31 disposals 9 marks 4 tackles 124 dream team points Kai Windsor 1 kicks 3 handballs 4 disposals 1 marks 2 tackles 20 dream team points

I got the word on Saturday from someone who knows someone inside the Fremantle camp that the Dockers were pumped and supremely confident about getting the W the next day against Melbourne at TIO Traeger Park in the red heart of the country. I was informed that the Dockers were extremely confident for a number of reasons. They had beaten the Demons on their home territory at the MCG at their last two meetings so they didn’t see beating them at Alice Springs as a problem. They believed they had figured out the strengths and weaknesses of their opponents well. In particular, they felt that their two ruckmen had the competition’s overworked but leading exponent of the craft covered, that their midfield was more versatile and could beat the combination that swept all before them when the premiership was played off for the first and only time in their neck of the woods. Moreover, the Freo one wood was a defence they backed to hold anyone to a meagre score and that their attack was lean, hungry and primed to score heavily. My mail came from a reliable source but at the time, I dismissed it as fanciful and over optimistic on the part of a club that had, after all, struggled through 2023 to finish in 14th place, managed only four goals at home against the Swans a few weeks ago, had just fallen in against the Saints and managed to grab a last gasp draw against a wounded and faltering Magpie team, again on home turf. This was not the sort of form that was sufficient to warrant such boastfulness. And seven minutes into the game at Alice Springs with the scoreboard showing Melbourne leading by 2.1.13 to 0.0.0, I was feeling pretty confident that the Dockers were on the wrong track and that the Demons were about to secure their place in the top four. But … alas … they were right and I was wrong. From that time, Melbourne managed only one more goal to half time and by the time the game was over, a number of records had been smashed to pieces. It was a complete demolition with the 92 point defeat, the club’s biggest under coach Simon Goodwin. Fremantle's 22.9.141 was the highest score it has conceded since he took over as coach in 2017. By the time, it was over, his team was outside the top eight for the first time since the 2021 premiership season began and when the round ended, they were tenth on the ladder. What happened? The Dockers’ pre-match predictions were all spot on - that’s what happened! Apart from that opening seven minute period, the pressure they applied was far too much for Demons who were beaten all over the ground allowing the marking power of Luke Jackson, Josh Treacy and Jye Amiss to overpower the much vaunted Melbourne defence without Jake Lever as the glue that holds them together. At the other end of the ground, there was not a pulse to be found in its attack. For a coach, the post match conference is the most difficult task on earth after a flogging. Goodwin described the performance as "completely unacceptable" but … alas … if he was directing his comments to the playing group, he was wasting his time. They had completely switched off much earlier in the day MELBOURNE 2.3.15 3.3.21 5.4.34 7.7.49 FREMANTLE 5.2.32 11.5.71 18.7.115 22.9.141 GOALS MELBOURNE McDonald 2 Gawn Oliver Petracca Petty Viney FREMANTLE Amiss 4 Jackson Treacy Walters 3 Frederick 2 Clark Darcy Fyfe Serong Sturt Switkowski Young BEST MELBOURNE Petracca Salem Gawn McVee Viney Neal-Bullen FREMANTLE Clark Serong Brayshaw Amiss Young Walters INJURIES MELBOURNE Hunter (left calf) FREMANTLE Nil REPORTS MELBOURNE Nil FREMANTLE Nil SUBSTITUTIONS MELBOURNE Taj Woewodin (replaced Lachie Hunter at half-time) FREMANTLE Corey Wagner (replaced Michael Frederick at three-quarter time) UMPIRES Johanson O'Gorman Williamson Mollison CROWD 6,109 at TIO Traeger Park

CLEAN HANDS by KC from Casey The Casey Demons headed into town and up Sydney Road to take on the lowly Coburg Lions who have been perennial VFL easy beats and sitting on one win for the season. Last year, Casey beat them in a practice match when resting their AFL listed players. That’s how bad they were. Nobody respected them on Saturday and clearly not the Demons who came to the game with 22 players (ten MFC), but whether they came out to play is another matter because for the most part, their intensity was lacking and not many wanted to get their hands dirty. They allowed a rag tag bunch of unknowns, many of them suburban players, to overrun them and dominate proceedings after the first half hour of play with a final result, a 26 point defeat, flattering to them. Sometimes a game of football where one team has the upper hand early and the other takes over control is called “a game of two halves”. In this instance, for the Casey Demons, it was a game of one quarter - the first. They appeared to come out firing and doubled Coburg’s score in the first quarter but even that was an illusion because they had the advantage of the early breeze. For the Demons, at least Matt Jefferson with two goals continued on from an encouraging game last week with a couple of goals in the opening term. Mitch White led from the front and Koltyn Tholstrop and Andy Moniz-Wakefield showed a bit. After that, it was a one way street with the home side running rings around them in the second quarter booting seven goals to one. You could tell how the enthusiastic Lions from Coburg went into the rooms at half time compared to the way their dejected opponents trudged off that it was already all over. And so it was, although the home team only extended its lead by a mere four points in the second half. The Demons were beaten in the ruck, at the stoppages and around the ground. Their skills were appalling at times. White stood out and did his best and he had some good lieutenants in Edwards, Neocleous and Steele. Blake Howes picked up a lot of possessions but he was always under the pump while Jed Adams and Bailey Laurie worked hard all day. Too many players came out of the game with clean hands and, unlike last week, it can’t even be said that it was a gallant defeat. CASEY DEMONS 4.6.30 5.8.38 9.9.63 12.10.82 COBURG 2.3.15 9.6.60 14.6.90 16.12.108 GOALS CASEY DEMONS Fullarton Jefferson Lewis Neocleous 2 Moodie Sestan Szybkowski Tholstrop COBURG Weightman 3 Gentile 2 Bromell Coriliano Dammersmith D’Intinosante Gillard Serong Thomas Walker BEST CASEY DEMONS White Adams Laurie Neocleous Steele Edwards COBURG Gentile Rigoni Weightman Podhajaski Bromell Trudgeon Statistics Jed Adams 7 kicks 4 handballs 11 disposals 7 marks 2 tackles 55 dream team points Kynan Brown 7 kicks 4 handballs 11 disposals 2 marks 5 tackles 52 dream team points Tyler Edwards 2 behinds 9 kicks 8 handballs 17 disposals 3 marks 2 tackles 58 dream team points Tom Freeman 6 kicks 3 handballs 9 disposals 3 marks 2 tackles 36 dream team points Tom Fullarton 2 goals 1 behind 11 kicks 8 handballs 19 disposals 4 marks 1 tackle 18 hitouts 89 dream team points Max Gregory 7 kicks 8 handballs 15 disposals 4 marks 5 tackles 53 dream team points Blake Howes 24 kicks 8 handballs 32 disposals 9 marks 3 tackles 129 dream team points Matt Jefferson 2 goals 2 behinds 8 kicks 1 handballs 9 disposals 3 marks 2 tackles 59 dream team points Brayden LaPlanche 2 kicks 5 handballs 7 disposals 1 mark 3 tackles 31 dream team points Bailey Laurie 1 behind 16 kicks 11 handballs 27 disposals 4 marks 4 tackles 100 dream team points Caleb Lewis 2 goals 1 behind 2 kicks 1 handball 3 disposals 3 tackles 34 dream team points Andy Moniz-Wakefield 14 kicks 15 handballs 29 disposals 7 marks 3 tackles 105 dream team points Ned Moodie 1 goal 8 kicks 6 handballs 14 disposals 5 marks 59 dream team points Harvey Neocleous 2 goals 9 kicks 5 handballs 14 disposals 4 marks 5 tackles 82 dream team points Ollie Sestan 1 goal 6 kicks 6 handballs 12 disposals 3 marks 2 tackles 48 dream team points Roan Steele 12 kicks 4 handballs 16 disposals 3 marks 1 tackle 57 dream team points Mitch Szybkowski 1 goal 4 kicks 11 handballs 15 disposals 3 marks 5 tackles 67 dream team points Koltyn Tholstrup 1 goal 1 behind 15 kicks 6 handballs 21 disposals 6 marks 9 tackles 114 dream team points Ryan Valentine 2 kicks 5 handballs 7 disposals 2 marks 3 tackles 31 dream team points Will Verrall 7 kicks 2 handballs 9 disposals 4 marks 1 tackle 18 hitouts 57 dream team points Mitch White 2 behinds 19 kicks 12 handballs 31 disposals 9 marks 4 tackles 124 dream team points Kai Windsor 1 kicks 3 handballs 4 disposals 1 marks 2 tackles 20 dream team points

This one may have come to an end but it's still a record we can be proud of.