Tough Kent

Take this with a massive, massive grain of salt. What a mutt this bloke is. A #whispers EXCLUSIVE “His head is that far up his own...” A club source today confirmed that the so called “infected dog bite” is a smokescreen for the real reason “CP5” will miss this weekend; he was dropped after concerns about his “arrogant” and egotistical behaviour #AFL 16 replies1 retweet18 likes Reply 16 Retweet 1 Like 18 Direct message AFL Trade Whisperer‏ @AFLTradeWhisper 14m14 minutes ago More Petracca underwent minor finger surgery this week and was medically cleared to play this weekend. The decision comes after repeated warnings from club officials, coaches and the leadership group. 2 replies0 retweets6 likes Reply 2 Retweet Like 6 Direct message AFL Trade Whisperer‏ @AFLTradeWhisper 12m12 minutes ago More The dog bite, while severe, was not severe enough to miss an AFL game.

Maynard, Bugg, Hannan, JKH. Our senior players and they all butcher the footy. Our list severely lacks class.

He was training with the forward group this morning.

Not yet mate. If you count Frosty there were 24-25 on the track. A few will be left out of that squad.

I got down to training this morning for an hour. It was a beautiful morning for it, if a little dewey which caused some handling issues. I spoke to Brendan McCartney briefly and he said the mantra this week was ‘Get in and bang some bodies’. Ben Matthews took the session. Here are some observations: - A few of the Casey lads were running when I got there. They play tomorrow so it was only the senior squad that was training today. -T-Mac did the majority of the session with the main group. The big fella looked fantastic and can’t get be too far away. -Jack Viney is moving well. Straight line sprints, lateral movement stuff, kicking in boots over distance. -Forgotten man Aaron vandenBerg was moving as well as I have seen him for a long time. He can’t be too far away from joining the main group either. -Sam Frost was training with the re-hab group. I’m not too sure why. -Jordy Lewis’ hand was heavily bandaged. He was the chief mover of the witches hat. -Hunt, Stretch, Tyson, Tim Smith and Weideman all trained today with last week’s team. There was no Bugg so I assume he has been dropped and will play tomorrow? I assume we’ll have two or three carry over players who will not play tomorrow and will be emergencies for the senior team. -No Balic, Hannan, Pedo or Maynard. -It was a spirited session. The boys looked keen for Tuesday.

I believe Balic pulled up tight in the hammy last week.

Just spoke to the bloke who is supposed to be calling the game for Casey FM (They thought they might go live in the second half but are still not operational) He was very impressed with Baker.

Believe it or not, the Casey FM van is bogged at the Coburg ground. That's why I'm listening to Bob Dylan instead of a call of the game at the moment.

I reckon I'm batting at one for twenty-four at trying to pick Goodwin's teams on a Thursday night. I keep telling myself that he knows the players far better than I, but I've seen enough to know that Josh Wagner is not taking us forward.

I'm hearing there is no change to the side this week. This could well be wrong, but it would hardly be surprising as Goody has shown he will back in the players that get that win for him.

I got down there today. Yokozuna did a wonderful summary. Here are some little observations from me: I watched the re-hab group very closely. They worked with Crossy, Garlo (who did a lot of the work the boys) and a few others. This group consisted of Viney, Tommy Mac, Patty McKenna and Jesse. Jesse looked a bit ginger and seemed to be conscious of a groin/upper leg issue. He moved pretty slowly but later joined the main group and looked okay. Viney and McDonald worked for about 45 minutes. They did some dynamic stretching, run throughs, ladder work, kicking, shots at goal and some interval running. It was far from intense and both seemed to be in good spirits. Viney had on these Nike shoes with the most cushioning in a runner I had ever seen. Weid is doing all the work with the ruck group now. He spent a lot of time with Flip and Kingy working with Greg Stafford doing agility stuff. Benny Matthews took the session. It was in beautiful conditions and the mood was very upbeat.

1. Jesse looks like he is enjoying his footy again. Makes my heart melt. 2. Our ability to go coast to coast and make them pay for turnovers that we forced. 3. Gawn v Martin. Gawn early, Martin fought back. Great contest.

He had to kick that goal. I'd love to know his conversion rate for shots inside 35.

It seems like our answer to surges at the moment is to throw numbers behind the footy. The problem with that is that the other side have all the momentum, smash us around the footy and don't let us clear our defensive 50. They get opportunity after opportunity to score. I'm not sure the coaches can do too much else at this stage. It's up to our leaders to say " [censored] this. I'm going to put my nose over the next contest. You're not getting past me." See Joel Selwood, Luke Hodge, Josh Kennedy.

In: Frost, Brayshaw Out: Wagner, Bugg Gus rotates through the middle. Salem returns to a HBF. Frost rotates through Waite and Brown allowing Lever to play on the third forward and Hibberd to play on a small. Would consider playing Hunt as that defensive forward to run him back into form.

You want Lewis out of the side but then go on to say he cost us finals last year by being out of the side???

It sure does. They’ll put you upstairs and you can watch the game with fellow Dee supporters. I used to watch our interstate games at our other pub the Leighoak as I live 500m away. You’d get a few Dees supporters in there, not a bad atmosphere. I turned up to watch the St. Kilda JLT game a couple of weeks ago only to be told they gotten rid of Foxtel! So you can’t even watch our club at our club run pub. Wtf?!

A win is a win tonight. The last two formal games we’ve played have left a really bitter taste in our mouths. We need to get the winning feeling back and build some momentum. This will make footy fun again.

I'm going to call you Nostradamus!

I thought our composure really let us down yesterday. Too many times players threw the ball on their boot in a panicked fashion. We gave our forwards zero chance. Until this improves we'll be making up the numbers.

You really are a sad old man. You can't handle that others may be privy to information that you are not.

Good luck to Wattsy, but if you want to build a game based around relentless pressure, ferocious tackling and every player playing their role you just can’t have a weak link in the chain.

JKH would have carved out a nice little niche playing in our midfield 5-6 years ago and played some good AFL football. As Stretch suggests, he is a fair way down the pecking order now. I still think Dean Kent has a role to play. He just needs to play consistently at Casey and keep putting his hand up. Spargo has Caleb Daniel written all over him, both in his size and the way he goes about. He will be a good footballer.

Nibbler doesn't have a strained groin and he is playing tonight? You know what.. You're not worth the effort. I actually enjoyed reading the majority of your posts, but the way you have gone after me for providing information because you weren't privy to it is nothing short of juvenile. "I didn't tell you all that, Nibbler didn't tell me that, it can't be true".

Last I’ll say on this but maybe they were happy with the progress he had made over the last 4 days so they go him out for some gentle straight line running. Not that hard to comprehend.