Robbie87

Lovely day in Wonthaggi - not such a common event. Casey welcomed back skipper Mitch White, Harmes (after subbing last night), Melksham, Woewodin(?). Draft hopeful Zane Duursma also. Moniz-Wakefield and Jimmy Munro (still) missing. Scrappy first qtr with Casey having the better of the play, but not converting. Casey pretty much maintained the ascendancy after that. Some casual AFL listed observations/opinions… Melksham most creative and effective fwd, could have finished with 6 or 7 with a bit of straighter shooting - too good for this level. Joel Smith up forward looked lively at times as well as his 3 goal burst in the second - only fwd that came clean in the air at the ball. Still not convinced though. Tmac got a bit of it mostly pushing up the ground, but his ground game and short passing were underwhelming, as was BBBrown, who struggling to have any impact. Wouldn’t think either are looking at senior duties any time soon. Farris-White swapped with Bell in the ruck and was monstered by Meek, but kept at it and had a couple of wins late in the game. Tall lad - looked to be same height as Gawny, who was in attendance along with Lever and Chandler (and Chocco) that I could see. Think Tim English in early days - light build atm. Thought Turner was our most solid defender in the air and on the ground - the defender I would elevate if we needed one. Looks same height as Tomlinson, who had an Ok game but his ground game made me nervous. Deakin Smith played one of his best games that I have seen. - composed, intercepting, attacking. Woewodin moved well, impacts the game - did have a fair of bench time. Howes not prominent but did what he needed to do. Harmes bullocked his way through the game in his usual attacking, crash-through style - with the usual odd caught in possession. Bill Laurie did some nice things but wasn’t prominent. Jed Adams looked the most composed I have seen him - getting the hang of the level, moves well and raking kick. Jefferson was rarely involved, went behind the ball at times, but showed signs of smarts when he did, and kicked a nice set shot - but a long way off. Dunstan went off with a knee mid-game, was hard at it but not his dominant self from the previous week. Sestan bobbed up here and there, snapped a nice goal, looks to be defending better. Zane Duursma looks tallish and a bit lightly built - bit like Howes - moved well but didn’t impact much with his minimum ground time. The Casey lads had their usual hard crack - George Grey probably the best of them. White and Buntine showed poise under pressure. Other highlights were TMac kicking the ball into the camera scissor lift cage above behind the goals, and the footy going over the clubroom roof, and another on the table tennis club roof and getting stuck behind a roof sign. Overall and enjoyable day and a good result.

How did his path up to, and through, the National Draft play out? I have heard he was touted as a very high pick coming up to his draft year, but didn't grow as expected, and so fell down the order - it there any truth in that?

Get onto the Club's recent special Kayo membership offer, save money (its much cheaper than direct Kayo membership I have had for years), and adds another 'membership' to the Club's numbers - a win/win! If you already have Kayo, you just cancel that, and when you join with the Club, you get sent a code to use when 're-joining' as an MFC Kayo member (for 12 months) - has worked flawlessly for me.

I might have missed something obvious, but I didn't see Melksham last Saturday night for the Williamstown game - anyone know what his status was/is?

Hard to beat that last game of the season in 87 and the euphoria out on the outer wing amongst the Demon faithful - the following two weeks were pretty good too, followed by the worst support experience in my Demon watching history in that gut wrenching preliminary final. But last Saturday night was probably the most epic win I have seen given the opposition and circumstances.

Found the 'C'mon Demons' segment very interesting - I did the artwork for the record cover! Back in the day was doing a bit of graphic design for the Club (and did so up until about 2004 - Demon Magazine amongst other stuff). Remember Jimmy coming out to our office to talk through it. Wasn't my finest work but I seem to recall Jim had a fair hand in directing it - seems it was the case with whole project. Connolls is a very funny bloke - did a caricature of him for his retirement featuring bunged up knees. Bumped into him years later and he still had it - organised for myself and a friend to do a bit of a tour of the Olympic Park and MCG Sports Museum - spent a couple of hours with us with was great. Thanks Connolls!