Deemania since 56

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.

P2J - if you are there, can you PLEASE let us know on DL what is happening during the match? Here in Sth Aust, the promised free to air 7Plus is not producing a broadcast. Only for VIC residents. Deemania since 56

Yes, it would be nice particularly after he has had his run in the big league last week. He seems to play ok against the Hawks - if he runs to space to create the opportunity.

This is what we need; that competition for spots keeps players thinking and striving for betterment. Anything short of this is cushioning reality if success is to be achieved. For Nev, it is sad - as a sunset is for so many - he has been a great contributor to the Club and a rock in the foundations of our difficult years and gradual improvement. Not forgotten and particularly, not overlooked as his skills are still needed at the Club - he's not at the end yet, in other words.

Happy with the 'ins' as well. Also happy to see Daw as an emergency - he could be really useful and unsettling for the Hawks.

We must continously fit players into the team, not let them wilt on the vine because we hesitate with team selection out of little more that conservatism. We are to go places, instead; real depth, not perceive depth, is critical to that aim. Give the talent games, and thus keep game-day performances at a level of competitive excellence. Pay for footballers should not be a series of sinecures.

There was a close link and information flow between the Firsts and the Reserves - and this was explored and scanned closely by the general public (usually across several clubs at a time) before team selections for the game that week. Tens of hundreds of fans assembled at the ground during Reserve game time to observe, support and familiarise with the Reserve players prior to the main match that followed with the Firsts. It put the supporter '...deep inside the Club and the thinking that the Club employed...' that was updated weekly in 'both-teams' performances. Now that was an aspect of football administration that was effective, highly efficient and professionally organised - but it was scrapped ... never to return. Two games for the price of one every week and some weeks, there was a night series played, as well.

Good example. Steven Newport was one of the keys to our ball movement successes in that era; and, game by game, season by season, his skills shone brighter as he locked in on the Coach's requirements and the team cohesion. A highly underrated player, just like some people these days regard Gus Brayshaw.

It was accidental, so it's ok. Doesn't it make you want to spew, though?

We so far seem to lack the killer instinct. A little mongrel, like Vegemite, goes a long way.

That means he's fair dinkum, then. Outside 50s rehearsals, like the sound of that effort. Onyer, Benny!

I have heaps of support for Angus Brayshaw - on song, he is a terrific footballer, capable of really effective excusions into the forward line and finding (almost the only one onfield for us in recent years) that space to do that damage to an opposition. Highly rated but a midfielder he will always be - Clarry and Viney need to realise he has always been the source of our outside run and/or carry solution that we have looked tirelessly for through the draft. One day, the penny will drop.

He is fast. Have you ever looked at his leap? It's good. His reach is powerful and extraordinarily long; in fact, at least as long as BBrown's and Ben is famous for the height his hands reach. I'd play Daw for other reasons, as well. Not a solo performer but very good with a supporting team about him up front, down back and scurrying around the flanks when he is 'relief' rucking.

It is a 'sipping' scotch ... in the best top 7 for nearly 60 years. It will be a new bottle for me but I doubt that I will drink more than half, saving the rest for Richmond and then, the Swans, sometime in the future. Nothing like a few Carltons after a scotch or two.