Deemania since 56

300 games is a terrific marque, but it can wait when it affects the team.

Correct, but we could have a general message to our players, particularly those who have good mobility, to take him on and so do as hard and straight as you can. He won't recover so well if he's impacted time and again. He's no Petracca!

Send a forewarning sms to the umpires because it surely is going to happen. Whie you are at it, request some head-high protection from Lynch's elbow.

One hopes your dreams come true, praha. I'd think that if we run until we spew, at the end of 100 minutes of game time, we will win reasonably comfortably; our other football skills are building and improving so we might just surprise the Tigers. However, more than any other side in the League that we come up against, these are going to be big requirements: play bloody good footy across a full 100 minutes, tackle hard, pick best options (not just convenient exits) and deploy widespread mongrel so that Richmond players keep looking over their shoulders. 'Carna Dees! Put 'em off their game.

Tom did play well in terms of marks, some spoils and intercepts. His disposal, by hand and foot, still reeks of signalling of his intention when on the move - he should become more 'cagey' in his decision-making, less predictable in his disposals.

The other fella in the photo, Tomlinson, gets Goodwin's shoulder. A few times in the match, Tomlinson was evidently not quite at the ball as a defender and yet, a little out there, radially, he was poised to break with the ball, well. It is time that Tomlinson was returned to the wing to effect his movement both ways, his spatial awareness and drive, and his improved accuracy in disposal. What he has learned/displayed in the backline will be an enormous boost for his wing role and play in support of the team. Gus, put there 'out of position' is similarly strugling at times - Gus is an outside midfielder with talent for that role supporting Tracc and Oliver and Gawn through that midfield array. Let's see Tomlinson back on the wing (a position in which I believe he will display vast improvements) and Gus back to the midfield.

No, they both cannot succeed against Richmond's clearing defence and run. Who is the greatest threat to Richmond (?) - that is the question, enabling/contributing to effective dispersement of the ball in the Demons favour. BB has the runs on the board in terms of the grab and the reliability off the foot - and getting into telling positions to receive the ball. Weed has had a great game with Casey and performed astonishingly well - right now, holding runs on the board for senior selection opportunity. The selection must come from the respective delivery of the ball to teammates and attacking smalls. The possible return of Fritta may well affect the selection, anyway. Brown, for mine. TMac rested if the Weed is selected but the Weed is very static week-to-week (perhaps to be trialled again at CHF where he will have to run and find space to execute his skills).

Terrific report, thorough and honest. Despite the weaknesses of the opposition, footy is still a team game and the blend of Casey players met that challenge well, it seems. There are a few peaks and a few troughs for the AFL Team emerging; and certainly in my mind, the loss of Joel Smith to injury once again is a major disappointment as I consider him a valuable asset in the AFL team as a forward. Thanks for this report.

Yep, more cut-offs for the Dees are created in that habit of our new smalls to run them down so well, they (the opposition) hear footsteps and panic.

My Dad bought a new Holden Premier, blue with white sidewall-tyres. 1965, the year that I discovered girls and found them to be quite fascinating and exciting. As for football, the Dees were hot-to-trot, the team to beat, tough as nails, and football was not overly commercialised with thousands of 'hangers-on' profiteers.

There is no 'i' in TEAM. The draw says that we play the Tigers next; in so far as this is the case, Jones' 300 games will have to wait. He is not up to running against the run of the Tigers. Simple. Footy is more than one 10seconds sprint. We will need legs, legs and more legs to overcome the Tigers' game.

Not a truer word has been spoken. Time, gentlemen, please. Far chem all off. MCG is the epitome of Demon Land.

6. Gawn 5. Lever 4. Oliver 3 Salem 2. Petracca 1. Langdon

Easily, no favourites, please.

Off to Foxtel for the big game. Thanks again folks - proud to belong, so to speak - so many DL contributors keeping others nof able to sync with the game - doing such pleasing things. We were updated, informed, happy. This dual-team MFC/Casey association has immense benefits for our future hopes. Great effort.

Pure poetry - and you guys down at the game have performed brilliantly on your mobile devices for all of us stuck in 'cannot get to the game' mode. Looking forward to the next match in an hour or so - Foxtel is working and it is already set up to record the game at the 'G.

Linkage play for BB today, so far; all over the ground sounds very much like he is using the game to beef up his fitness/readiness in the big time. No static forward, at all. Great sign...reverse the deck of cards - he'll be feeding the smalls in the team in future.

I just might have misread the Weed's slow development based upon the reports of today.

That is the fourth time I have heard this about DSmith in two weeks.

Imagine him playing where he should be playing - in the forward line - permanently.

Goodwin's spell.

Bluddoath@desparate!

Not here in SA, either, despite network promises earlier in the week.

Your updates are great. Happy to hear Joel Smith is shining, too.

Thanks folks, great commentary for us interstate and very much appreciated. Seems as though we have 3 players on top of the Box Hilliers - BB, Rosman and Bedford.