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might need Wonna back as well. we were getting the ball into the forward line on Saturday but failing to convert.

Yes but problem is who do you play full forward. small leading types like Petterd are not suited to the dome where low stab passes always seem to get cut off. We plonk Juice at full forward and he does very well then thrown into the ruck. So I can't see why we wouldn't play Juice and perhaps bring ni a ruckman. otherwise if you play Juice and Howe I can see us with a team of lost looking players not playing to their strengths. leave Juice up forward for another week and see how we go.

More important is the name Jon Ralph who just wrote a useless nothing pathetic article for the umpteenth time. how many times do you read the headline of his articles and there is nothing just no substance whatsoever in the article ? anyway I think we are doing the right thing by Morton and letting him develop on his weaknesses finally. Does beg the question why he is so behind in tackling etc after 50 AFL games. his tank and height, reach etc should be a nightmare for the opposition if he was tackling, but alas not. right know we have a young Cam Bruce with better kicking skills, maybe we can get it right this time around and teach him how to influence games.

Casey player review Plenty of positives to come from the coaches review. Thought the comments on Morton were interesting and reflect what most are saying on this forum. Good to see he made some progress in that area. Hope he spends some time down there for his own game, so he comes back a more physical player.

any write ups on the Dees players ?

I hope Martin and Juice can stand up as it would be unfair to throw Gawn in when he really has just gone from second ruck with plenty of rest to taking on the no1 ruck duties in Casey seconds. A senior player would be given continuity after a major injury (e.g Petterd look very rusty in early games this year) so given he is just starting his first full season let him have plenty of time trying to handly just getting the tank to be a number 1 ruck. it will be very interesting to track his progress now Spencer is out. I felt we would have been better equipped for a Jamar injury about mid year so timing is not great.

I could see both he and Cook playing CHF and CHB equally as well. I also noticed watts started using his speed more as people have pointed out as his weakness. he was free in the middle of the ground but instead of loping and being run down he immediately put on the after burners then steadied to kick into the forward line. he is learning the game.

I know I am inm the minority but I wondered why we would contest this, unles of course we had inside knowledge. The AFL have cracked down on contested situations where players have been concussed or have been in serious danger. Was Dangerfield in serious danger? Yes he was. He was defenseless in his position. Did Trengove show malice? no, in his short career in fact he has shown he is a model footballer, tough but fair. Still doesn't mean Dangerfield could potentially have been a serious career ending injury. Ask oursleves if dangerfield a hard tackler did the same to Trengove and injured his neck to end his career, what would you think ? and tell me that is out of the question when you watch he replay. Thats all I ask.

where do people get their information from? Watts would be the most closely followed player we have and most would know that is not the case at all. As for Cook having to play half back because of Fev, I hope this will push Melbourne to cut ties with Casey. They need to learn we cannot be stuffed around like this. in fact after we just went tall, tall, tall, tall in the draft it defies logic Gotch and co would need to recruit a fat Fev. Give us experience to learn off? you have to be joking.

all is not lost if we dont panic and we are smart. I think when you go in with a weaker ruck the pressure can come onto the more dominant ruck if you read their taps. Hawthorn have had weak rucks and historically have been able to combat that by basically following the opposition ruckman. Having Jamar did not help us against them. Having said that, are we smart enough to rove to the opposition ? another point, out investment in rucks stocks has not been too bad, with probably Gawn the one we have highest hopes for after Jamar. It's just now the timing is bad, but it was always a distinct possiblity Jamar could get injured and in the very game we did not take a second ruck....hmmmmm.

Rubbish. Yes he is the most progressive financial officer the game has seen by optimising crowd and tv rights through manipulation of the draw. If he was anywhere near your word of 'fairness', teams with less suporters would have equal rights to bigger games on Friday night, Saturday night and playing other big teams. His ability to grow has come out of one thing, to deliberately manipulate the draw for as many block busters as possible so we Melbourne supports absurdly feel grateful when he throws a million our way, whilst denying our right to earn this money ourselves. The AFL is a not for profit operation, so do not confuse company standards of profits and ballance sheets onto what is the AFL. As a company he would have done marvellously well and I would be a happy investor. But the AFL is not. If there ever was a time to instill fairness, now is it with salary caps and drafting rules in place. "Fairness and Equity" - yeah ok see you at the next twighlight game whilst Schwab organises another handout from the AFL/MCC.

any match reports ?

Summed up nicley. those saying he just had an ok game go and watch the replay, his kicking was more dangerous than most, like Tapscott his kicking is a weapon. Don't think people realise how handy he could be if he make the grade. he has shown consistency for a while at Casey so reckon he could do so for the Dees. just needs to be at the contest next week, as North always test us there.

You might want to re-watch the game. His game was very good. In the first quarter, he set up the first 2 goals with excellent kicks then hit up Wonna who dropped a sitter soon after. He then proceeded to set us up like that for the rest of the afternoon. 31 possies and 10 inside 50s gets him top 5 easily. His ball use was excellent. has ok pace but may lack the acceleration for forward pocket. I can easily see him becoming another midfielder though. his effort todat was not unlike last week for Casey, he was selecting good options continually. I also don't know why so many supporters say 'good to see he has pulled his finger out' finally and all that. his last few years to me have been pretty honest, he continually runs hard for Casey and racks up decent possesion numbers. He has slowly been getting better. I think he is a natural outside player so needs to commit to contests more, and start laying more tackles, much like Morton. He played a decent games in our Sydney win lasy year and was dropped unfairly i thought. He has had to earn his spot more than just about anyone on the list andI think has not dropped his bundle and worked hard. Get his defensive game up and he could be a good player. if you think otherwise, go watch the first quarter again and ask who was supplying the ball to Petterd, Jurrah and co. If we had a big power forward it would have been an avalanche of goals early.

Hmmmmm interesting interpetation there. Trengove and Morton are both ahead of Sylvia at the same stages of their careers, so do you want to scrap Sylvia as well as he was sh1te early on? Cannot see how we would regret Scully and trengove on what i have seen so far. The football world would have told you Watts would be behind Hurley yet most would have picked Watts first. We start playing well as a team and watch these blokes come up in the rankings. if you were our head of 'respective' recruitment you would have Palmer and Rich as captain and vice captain.

I'd back him also, as long as he can improve his tackling and learn to go when it is his turn. Like Watts he needs to commit to a contest more and not try and corral blokes and play keepings off. If and when he gains weight he could be a very handy player against dangerous talls for the opposition. not many talls can run and kick like Morton so lets not give up on him just yet. I reckon the scape goats should be the ones who continually let us down when we are getting pumped, and unfortuntely Brad Greens name comes up for me.

unfortunately your first mistake is making someone the 'sole' person responsibly for kickouts, yet at the same time try to decrease the time taken to actually kick out. Unless that person positions themselves 20 m out from goal all day, it's impossible. you need multiple kickers and whoever is nearest goes bang. it is however mind boggling how we seem to still have no real urgency in bringing the ball in. it's like some psychological barrier to get a good aggressive kick out happening.

Actually no you are right with your thinking. The last Collingwood game we fought back after a disastrous first qtr again when we were all at sea but they did not bury us on the scoreboard, just like the hawks. This trend is becoming far more entrenched than some people think. We time and again cannot keep up the intensity when the heat is on.

which again highlights the ridiculous mind numbing decision to recruit Fev. Cook and Howe were playing half back last week for goodness sake.

Green down back has already been tried,and he is not as good as a backmen, his goal kicking is better than his field kicking as well. Sylvia down back is not a bad idea, his kicking skills would be useful and he could provide good pressure down back, can spoil well and more disciplined these day. that backline has too many midsized players though, needs more height and more pace. Blease or Nicholson type may be required in the back pocket by the end of the year. Also wonder how morton would go playing defensive Centre half back. did ok on Goodes and could take the athletic talls ok.

North did not look good at all in early games but you would back them in to bounce back before us. they have shown more guts and fight than us for the last 20 years with less money and currently I believe on less talent. It has to come from the players to salvage this. we start doing all the one percenters, blocking, shepherding, sacrificial acts and we can do it. Watching the Casey game I thought Joel MacDonald gig this better than most of the Dees players and reckon he may come in to help.

"Next Sunday, against Adelaide at the MCG, is the biggest game of Bailey's life." Right on the money there. you could almost re-name the thread with that qoute. Lose this badly and it may be called the Mothers Day Massacre that destroyed Bailey.

Reckon Bate a stong chance to replace Dunn. Why would we drop Gysberts for one average game ? also petterd didn't look like he could run out a game properly and played well only in patches. not something we can afford to risk at present. Maric thoroughly deserves another game, he has tried his guts out and today was very good, we need his field kicking skills. I would have In: Bate, Maric Out: Dunn, Wonna Bennell on last chance.

McDonald is someone they will consider as he is playing consistently and at least has a red hot crack. Let's see how blease oes in the next month. we just want him playing well continually before he gets his chance. i als othink Aussie might get dropped for someone like maric.

my god as a weagles hater, that makes me sick. you had a bad night !!