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Volume off. Getting drunk watching weaker teams play for a spot in the Granny. Geelong pulling frees like Bill Wyman pulling you know what. I repeat, turn the sound off and some cruisy music on.... Go Casey. The only real joy left this season

Such a great post. I was really disturbed watching Steven May getting more and more abusive with his team mates on Friday night as things went pear shaped. Really poor behaviour and leadership. Might be back to the bathwater again.

Yeah that was really sad for Rosman, he's had a pretty solid season. Casey have been the silver lining in the last 3 months of a sliding season. I'm really pumped to see our team succeed, especially for a couple of the older leaders such as Munro and White. TMAC and JVR are great to watch together in the forward line. We've been a great cohesive team at VFL level as compared to the frustration of watching games slide in the seniors and opportunities getting wasted in our forward line.

should have definitely been given the second franchise. A big successful sporting club.

Just imagine if it had been a match winning move made sometime in the third quarter. Would have been extra nice for Petty after getting sledged all game.

Great move by the AFL to introduce club / supporter centric commentary. I watched the whole game listening to how good St Kilda we're because I couldn't find the Naarm channel! Great win Dees. Big game next week. It should be the curtain raiser to the vfl granny.

That's interesting. I watched Casey do the opposite yesterday. Michael Barlow I think it was commentating who talked about how good the forwards were at stretching the Lions defence. Mitch Brown or TMAC would lead up on to the wing, mark and wheel around fast to kick to JVR etc. This high up the ground leading created space for the Dees forwards to lead into. We tried it in the seniors with Gawn and LJ and it failed pretty miserably. I'm not sure how Grundy is going to fix it next year. Also, for most of the season I heard players kept talking about the game plan being to get it in to the forwards fast and lock it in. It didn't work and they kept doing the same thing for the whole season. I don't really believe we tried to adjust our game style too much at all. It just wasn't evident onfield. I can't help but think he's stubborn or fearful of making dramatic changes to game style or personnel. Petty forward with five minutes left in the season is a classic example. Geez, how many games did we not even use the Sub when we were being overrun?

Via 7mate on demand or AFL website. Google "watch vfl Casey" you should find a replay. Worth a watch to see a cohesive 4 quarter team performance (as compared to Friday's hot mess)

Totally agree. On form (and today's performance), there were a handful of players that should have been the sub ahead of Smith too. Geez I enjoyed watching Casey today. A high performing, cohesive team. Bittersweet

Gus came to life as soon as he was released from Tagging Neale which was handed to Sparrow IN THE LAST QUARTER. Goody seems stubborn or too scared to make the changes when he should. Probably both I guess

There was a point about 14 mins to go in the third and May was kicking in. He had the courage to drill it hard down the centre corridor to a one on one and back Rivers to beat his opponent. It was great to see him try something different. The problem was that Rivers next closest team mate was Hunt out on the wing. He was at least 5m outside of his opponent on the far wing. He has the pace. He was supposed to have the hunger? Remember he was supposed to have the HUNGER! But he just was jogging behind his opponent outside of the kick. Was he coached to stay out wide? Or was he just dumb or lazy? He had the opportunity to make the dash into the corridor to help his team mate but he didn't. Result.... Rivers lost the contest, turn over and then goal to the lions I think. It's just so frustrating and excruciating to watch us slowly die over three quarters in a final.

There were at least 5 out on the full. Disgraceful entries into F50 and totally dysfunctional forward line. I know BBB has been poor but try having two opponents and the ball bombed in on your head all day. He's great as a second tall forward with lots of room to lead into one on one. Where did our kicking skills go over summer. We were laser like last year and all applauding Chocco for his skills coaching. So many stupid kicks in the air to team mates instead of flat fast passes.

We can all sit back and watch JVR, Chandler, Dunstan. And Bowie carve it up in the VFL tomorrow. It's criminal to not have given them a better run at seniors based on their form and the lack of form and fitness of others. Wat does it say to these young blokes and subs who sit there all game watching injured team mates run out of legs in the second half. Insanity indeed

I'd second that.

Just like days of old. Numerous goals in deetime in numerous quarters. No mental or physical stamina

There's about six out there that are going to be dubious by the last. Should be aN interesting finish if we don't bury them in the third

Crazy odds with our form in the last ten weeks

We always have a secret weapon when we play Brisbane. That weapon is Joe Daniher. Hoping for some more slapstick magic and hand on hips second efforts from him tonight.

I was watching Kozzy limp around at the Gabba the other week too. I don't think he's quite himself either.

I'd prefer JVR to replace Melksham. I've watched a fair bit of VFL this year and the kid takes a great mark and is a quality set shot. He'd take a lot more pressure off BBB as a leading forward option than Smith would. We should have given him an opportunity six weeks ago. Goodwin really hasn't rewarded good form in the vfl much at all this year or punished poor games in the seniors. I'm pretty dirty with Melksham's misses opportunities but I doubt anyone will get dropped. Is it stubbornness by Goody? I dunno. I feel like creating some more tension for spots might outweigh the benefits of backing your regulars but it's not going to happen. If we drop this next final what does it say to JVR who has been consistent all year while watching BBB struggle and Gawn not perform forward. Dunstan, who failed with his opportunity mid season but absolutely dominated that first final Chandler, who has been playing absolutely manically the last few weeks. Casey has been a bloody solid team all year who have responded to a lot of challenges and knuckled down and won (apart from one game). I would have liked to have seen more rotation between the two teams all year. But nope.

Umps doing everything they can for the cats

Geelong are tired now. Poor kicking, I reckon they're shot

That's what methamphetamines does for an atmosphere.

I'm really reflecting on the performance of our forward line two weeks ago vs last night. When the pressure is on, our skills and decision making falls apart. The same forward line that had us eleven goals up at half time were rabble last night. It's all about the delivery upfield and the space to lead into. I can't see how we're going to get that right against the top three teams but probably will next week against the lions. Really disappointed with Melksham's misses amongst others. I wonder if strategically, we would have been better blooding JVR six weeks ago and giving him a decent run. He's going to be the answer to our second key forward problems I think. He's got a great set of hands and kicks well too.