Jumping Jack Clennett

A lot of AMW’s possessions at Casey have been playing on in kick -ins.

I thought  Petty showed promise of a return to form tonight.

Also,he has a bit of nastiness about him that few of our players have. He gets on the nerves of the opposition, and I like that.

Chandler who?
Turner who?
You know some people with weird first names!

I thought of the possibility of Surnames that are also first names, but discounted it since I've never heard of anyone with the first name "McLean". (and I actually met Lord MacLean at Duart castle on the Isle of Mull in 1977)

I guess there's some Rap singer or drummer called MacLean Smith or something!

If Collingwood received the raw deal North got in the last few minutes, the Media would be calling for a Royal Commission.

If a media person wants to improve his popularity rating, it doesn't pay to be critical of  Collingwood or Carlton.

There was ENORMOUS pressure on the umpires from the all-Collingwood crowd in that noisy stadium.

They succumbed weakly.

2 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

North can only blame themselves for that loss. 

Collingwood seemed to get a lot of goals from free kicks.

1 hour ago, joeboy said:

History tells us that pinning our hopes too soon on a forward prodigy is doomed to fail.

Jack Watts says hello

So don't pin your hopes too soon!

45 minutes ago, Farmer said:

The last few weeks have triggered my memory of 1998 when we had a good team and ended up third .

in Round 12 we kicked 7 goals 4 to Geelong 22/9, loss by 95 points 

the following week we kicked 5.13 to 18.15 v StK.  , loss by 80 points 

both matches at the MCG, and after round 13 we had won 7 lost 6 

yet, we beat Adelaide in R1 of the Finals and Footscray in R2 with G Lyon kicking 10. We then lost to North in the Prelim. I recall the sense of hopelessness after the above losses. Reminds me of 2024!

I remember those two terrible weeks well in 1998.

Who would have thought we’d beat the eventual premiers in the semi by 8 goals,then slaughter StKilda in the qual. final.?

We were then wrongly allocated to play Friday night specialists, North in the Prelim., when by rights we should have played Footscray, who we would have murdered, then played Adelaide again  in the GF.

We could have been premiers after abject failure in mid-season.

6 hours ago, DiscoStu17 said:

200cm doesn’t seems to be a problem for many AFL rucks… Nankervis, Grundy, Marshall, O’Brien, De Koning, Stanley, Briggs,…

Many of these did not get a chance until they were 22–23, Grundy and Stanley being the exceptions.

The ruck contests in the current game are more about body strength than pure leap. Especially with the changes this year.

 

I think Grundy is about 204cm.

Kentfield turns 19 in September.

Any chance he could grow a cm or two on to his 194cm? I doubt it....he looks like a boy who has matured early.

He reminds me a bit of Jack Darling, who was overlooked in the first round of  draft by all clubs because  , at 194cm he wasn't considered tall enough to be a KPF.

Unlike any of my Dee tragic mates, I watch replays of our games, whether we’ve won or lost.

I recommend to Demonlanders to watch this game in replay and you’ll see that Melbourne really deserved to be much, much closer to Collingwood.

They just couldn’t miss when shooting for goal, and we had 4 posters, as well as several other misses  much easier than the angle goals they so nonchalantly slotted. Plus a couple of random bounces went their way near goal.

I can see now why I felt we’d win , at half time, despite the deficit.  I didn’t realise at that time, that Petracca had suffered a season-ending injury.  In my huge disappointment straight after the game, I walked away from the ground thinking we’d been outclassed.  Having watched the replay,I reckon  we could have given them a real run for their money, even without Trac.

Also, I reckon Clarrie played much better than I’d realised. Ditto with McVee, Bowie ,Fritsch and Windsor.

Dee supporters…. don’t boo skunkhead. It’ll just encourage him.

What happened to Ipana tooth powder?

1 hour ago, loges said:

Can't be time wasting if it's a ball up because the clock stops. Maybe they believe it's a tactic so they can get their defensive set up right.

If they don’t know the rule about handing the ball straight to the umpire, they probably aren’t aware either that the clock has stopped, so it’s no use time wasting.

What happened to Roy George?

I'm still hopeful for Jefferson.....but he's nowhere near ready yet.

On 19/05/2024 at 22:00, dazzledavey36 said:

Laurie? 🤣 he's genuinely a worse version of Billings.

I thought he was clearly Casey’s best on Saturday. Classy and constructive .

6 hours ago, biggestred said:

At this point it's not luck

Collingwood’s last forward entry ( for the winning goal) was a result of  an Adelaide quick kick bouncing back 15 metres off the back of the head of a player , straight into the hands of a Collingwood player not involved in the play.

Verrall has been easily outrucked by such ordinary opponents as Tom Downie. He is still too light, and needs another pre-season or two to build strength.

His skills are good, though he hasn't taken many contested marks.

I'd give Fullarton a go. He can play forward, and has some AFL ruck experience. Max needs some rest from doing all the ruckwork.

On 09/05/2024 at 15:29, DistrACTION Jackson said:

That was one of the weirdest selections, probably since Schache sub!

Felt like the coaching team panicked on that one.

Charlie S  played so well in the 2023 finals, I think they wanted him back asp.

Did any other Demonlanders see Robinson’s puerile, inane questions when interviewing Caleb Windsor on 360 this evening?  Poor old Whateley was squirming with embarrassment, while Caleb managed ok.

Carlton had a couple of chances to pole-axe Skunkhead last night, but let him off, to my disappointment.

What an inspired pick he was by us from Adelaide!.

I hadn't really noticed that he was that good before we got him.

On 27/04/2024 at 15:50, tiers said:

I was there that day when RDB and Melbourne were cheated out of a flag. I was standing on the Punt Rd side at HFF directly opposite the contest and clearly saw RDB trying to punch the ball down and miss Dean's head.

It was the "stage" of a lifetime but in those days the VFL and the tribunal were ning nongs and couldn't cope with the furore.

I have lived for 60 years with this memory and hope Clarry's puncher getting minimum 2 weeks for a dog act will help assuage my misery over RDB.

I remember it well, too,Tiers.

Dean should have been suspended for staging.They got their come-uppance with Neville Crowe  not long after, an innocent victim in similar circumstances (was it John Nicholls?)

BUT..... I hope M Pickett isn't suspended, because I want Richmond to be at their strongest, and knock off a few of our rivals.

Clarrie disclosed after the game that he had sore ribs, and the punch got him right in the sore spot.  I hope this was noted by the umpiring fraternity, because otherwise it could be interpreted as an exaggerated response to the hit.