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With such an even group in the pool, it’s going to be an interesting time to follow this year’s draft ~ Who will be No.1? 'Five or six' contenders in wide open draft pool

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PM Bangers of bigfooty has his say:

First-year Demon lays 24 tackles in VFL loss

Fair effort from this lad who played for Richmond’s VFL team yesterday. Whichever club recruits him will have a player on their hands. Captain of the All Australian team too!

CASEY DEMONS 2.1.13 3.3.21 4.9.33 5.11.41 FRANKSTON 1.0.6 8.2.50 9.4.58 10.8.68 GOALS CASEY DEMONS Bell 2 K Brown Kentfield Peters FRANKSTON Johnson 4 Murphy 2 Burke Gown Newnes Quirk BEST CASEY DEMONS K Brown White Hore Steele Verrall SzybkowskI FRANKSTON Murphy Quirk Johnson Voss Grant Barlow Statistics Jed Adams 2 kicks 2 disposals 1 tackle 10 dream team points Jack Behnk 3 kicks 2 handballs 5 disposals 4 tackles 26 dream team points Jack Bell 2 goals 8 kicks 3 handballs 11 disposals 5 marks 1 tackle 12 hitouts 68 dream team points Kynan Brown 1 goal 16 kicks 11 handballs 27 disposals 24 tackles 175 dream team points Tyler Edwards 18 kicks 5 handballs 23 disposals 1 mark 5 tackles 85 dream team points Roy George 1 behind 5 kicks 8 handballs 13 disposals 1 mark 1 tackle 40 dream team points Max Gregory 2 kicks 4 handballs 6 disposals 7 tackles 42 dream team points Blake Howes 13 kicks 8 handballs 21 disposals 5 marks 6 tackles 89 dream team points Marty Hore 20 kicks 1 handball 21 disposals 10 marks 1 tackles 97 dream team points Matt Jefferson 1 behind 6 kicks 8 handballs 14 disposals 1 mark 1 tackles 43 dream team points Luker Kentfield 1 goal 1 kick 2 handballs 3 disposals 2 tackles 12 dream team points Brayden Laplanche 5 kicks 5 disposals 2 tackles 23 dream team points Shane McAdam 3 behinds 9 kicks 5 handballs 14 disposals 2 marks 12 tackles 95 dream team points Nick Moodie 7 kicks 2 handballs 9 disposals 1 mark 2 tackles 31 dream team points Charlie Peters 1 goal 8 kicks 5 handballs 13 disposals 8 tackles 70 dream team points Josh Schache 14 kicks 4 handballs 18 disposals 3 marks 3 tackles 72 dream team points Ollie Sestan 2 behinds 13 kicks 5 handballs 18 disposals 1 mark 1 tackle 55 dream team points Roan Steele 1 behind 19 kicks 4 handballs 23 disposals 3 marks 3 tackles 87 dream team points Mitch Szybkowski 11 kicks 6 handballs 17 disposals 1 mark 7 tackles 76 dream team points Will Verrall 14 kicks 4 handballs 18 disposals 2 marks 2 tackles 45 hitouts 107 dream team points Mitch White 20 kicks 4 handballs 24 disposals 2 marks 13 tackles 120 dream team points Kai Windsor 7 kicks 3 handballs 10 disposals 1 mark 8 tackles 63 dream team points

3QT Frankston 9.4.58 to Casey Demons 4.9.33 Goals Bell K Brown Kentfield Peters Disposals K Brown 18 Edwards 17 Howes Steele White 16

It’s a slog but Luker Kentfield scores the first goal of the second half at the 9 minute mark.

The Dolphins have dominated the second quarter with 7 goals to a single goal from Jack Bell. Will Verrall is winning the ruck hit outs (he has 20) but to no avail. The forward line has been completely shut down in the wet conditions. Kynan Brown is the lead on baller for the Demons and has been a tackling machine as well as leading the team’s disposal count. Half Time Frankston 8.2.50 lead Casey Demons 3.3.21 Goals Bell K Brown Peters Disposals K Brown 13 Steele 11 Edwards Howes 10 Bell Hore White 9

Frankston dominating the quarter with 4.1.25 to nil in the first twenty minutes of the second quarter. They lead by three goals.

Qtr Time Casey Demons 2.1.13 lead Frankston 1.0.6 Goals K Brown Peters Disposals Bell 7 K. Brown Steele White 6

Casey taking a bit of time to get going after conceding the first goal. Charlie Peters scores the Demons’ first after 13 minutes. Cadey 1.1.7 leads Frankston 1.0.6. Kynan Brown showing out early for them.

Some big outs here at Casey Fields today. Ben Brown and Taj Woewodin come out of the selected side and into the team comes only one player, Brayden Laplanche who appears to be the only emergency at the ground. This is the second time this has happened this year. The other big out is our Casey correspondent KC from Casey who is out with the flu. I will cover the game with scores from time to time (but am sparing the battery so Demonlanders please feel free to help out). Dees kicking with the wind and have scored one point.

On a weekend when I wouldn’t mind seeing a Demon victory and a Lions defeat ~

If there was a surprise with the selection of the All-Australian team then the omission of Vic Metro midfielder Josh Smillie who is projected to be close to the No.1 pick in November's draft. He’s an impressive 195cm tall and recorded 16 disposals and eight clearances in the final match against Vic Metro. He also captained the Australian Academy team in two matches against VFL sides. His omission is probably for no other reason than the fact that there were so many mids in contention.

Another article from the Herald Sun on line edition which is probably only available for subscribers. This one is about the many players across the AFL who are left without contracts for next year and asks about their fate. Will they stay or will they go? Josh Barnes looks at Melbourne’s list as follows:- “Unrestricted free agents: Tom McDonald, Jake Melksham, Adam Tomlinson, Marty Hore, Joel Smith Non-free agents: Ed Langdon, Josh Schache, Oliver Sestan, Kynan Brown, Kyah Farris-White, Andy Moniz-Wakefield, Ben Brown Plenty of questions around the Dees as the season carries on. Older players like Ben Brown, Adam Tomlinson, Josh Schache likely go. Ed Langdon will sign a new deal soon and Jake Melksham wants to earn one in the next couple of months. Does Tom McDonald go again? Youngster Andy Moniz-Wakefield should get a new deal, while surely Joel Smith will drop off the list. This masthead revealed last week that young backup ruck Will Verrall had committed to a new deal, while surprise forward Daniel Turner has also inked a new deal. Lachie Hunter has a contract in place for 2025.” Barnes then gives his views on which of the uncontracted players will remain at the club in 2025 as follows- Signing on: Langdon, Melksham, Moniz-Wakefield Holding fire: McDonald Going: Schache, Smith, Tomlinson Retiring: B Brown In the air: K Brown Hore Faris-White Sestan I think Kynan Brown will stay and there’s a good argument for retaining every one of the three “in the air”. Of course, there might be additional list changes as a result of possible trades and it’s Interesting that Lachie Hunter is mentioned given that he’s not getting a game at AFL, having been passed by a couple of the club’s young guns on their way up.

If you have Foxtel and if you’re tv hasn’t been affected by the outages then you can watch the replay - it’s on now.

Despite the Crowd Strike platform failure, all hands are on deck at Demonland cycling away on our backup system in the basement to ensure that its business as usual.

Latest draft order:- ROUND ONE 1 Richmond 2 North Melbourne 3 West Coast Eagles 4 St Kilda 5 Adelaide 6 Hawthorn 7 Fremantle (tied to Collingwood) 8 Gold Coast Suns 9 Gold Coast Suns (tied to Western Bulldogs) 10 Fremantle (tied to Port Adelaide) 11 Melbourne 12 GWS Giants 13 Essendon 14 Fremantle 15 Brisbane Lions 16 Geelong 17 Carlton 18 Sydney Swans END OF ROUND ONE 19 Sydney Swans (tied to North Melbourne assistance package) 20 Gold Coast Suns (tied to North Melbourne assistance package) ROUND TWO 21 Richmond 22 North Melbourne 23 West Coast Eagles 24 Fremantle (tied to St Kilda) 25 St Kilda (tied to Adelaide) 26 Collingwood (tied to Hawthorn) 27 Hawthorn (tied to Collingwood) 28 Gold Coast Suns 29 Western Bulldogs 30 Port Adelaide 31 Adelaide (tied to Melbourne) 32 GWS Giants 33 Essendon 34 Richmond (tied to Fremantle) 35 Gold Coast Suns (tied to Brisbane Lions) 36 Geelong 37 Carlton 38 Melbourne (tied to Sydney Swans) ROUND THREE 39 Richmond 40 North Melbourne 41 Richmond (tied to West Coast Eagles) 42 Melbourne (tied to St Kilda) 43 Adelaide 44 Collingwood (tied to Hawthorn) 45 Collingwood 46 Western Bulldogs (tied to Gold Coast Suns) 47 Melbourne (tied to Western Bulldogs) 48 Port Adelaide 49 St Kilda (tied to Melbourne) 50 GWS Giants 51 Gold Coast Suns (tied to Essendon) 52 Richmond (tied to Fremantle) 53 Brisbane 54 Geelong 55 GWS Giants (tied to Carlton) 56 Sydney Swans ROUND FOUR 57 Richmond 58 North Melbourne 59 West Coast Eagles 60 Fremantle (tied to St Kilda) 61 Adelaide 62 Brisbane (tied to Hawthorn) 63 Richmond (tied to Collingwood) 64 Carlton (tied to Gold Coast Suns) 65 Carlton (tied to Western Bulldogs) 66 Richmond (tied to Port Adelaide) 67 Melbourne 68 GWS Giants 69 North Melbourne (tied to Essendon) 70 Carlton (tied to Fremantle) 71 Gold Coast (tied to Brisbane Lions) 72 Geelong 73 Hawthorn (tied to Carlton) 74 Hawthorn (tied to Sydney Swans)

Just as an aside, Jessica Hull went on a week later to break the 2000m world record (an event that’s not all that often run but a world record is a world record).

The teams are in and so are the umpires. No doubt @Redleg will be pleased that we going to have the company of his favourite umpire # 25 😀

True, but Charlie’s a nice bloke so …

Charlie Cameron has won his appeal against the 3 week suspension imposed by the AFL Tribunal on Tuesday night. He’s free to play against the Swans on Sunday.

Where do these jackasses masquerading as “journalists” get off with their gaslighting the Melbourne Football Club? Clayton Oliver is a little over halfway through his career and yet, has already been winner of the Keith “Bluey” Truscott Trophy for Melbourne’s club champion for an equal number of times (four) including in our only premiership season in the past six decades. We can run our club and look after our own when they’ve gone through tough times without taking advice from the clowns on that program who quite frankly need to be better at their jobs than they are at trying to be sensational. Had they been doing that, then they might have noticed how well Simon Goodwin has managed his player given the difficulties he had to face over the second half of last season and the disrupted preseason he endured this year. Clarry’s still important enough for opposing coaches to find the need to put heavy tags on him and sometimes it works. Mostly, it doesn’t because Clarry is that good. The simpletons on Footy Classified somehow managed to miss how Goody kept him on the bench in the early goings against the Bombers (he had only one touch in the first quarter). Yet by half time Clarry had added 10 possessions to his tally and by the end of the game, he had 25 disposals (75% of game time) which put him at the club’s equal third ball gatherer behind Ed Langdon (100%) and Trent Rivers (67%). Sure, his disposal efficiency was down but it was wet and someone who plays the way he does at a frenetic tempo is never going to hit every target. He gained 392 metres on the night, second only to Rivers. Not long after the siren, it was pleasing to see who Goody was embracing and slapping on the back. Clarry of course because his was a significant contribution to the team’s win. I’m looking forward to more and better from Clarry over the rest of 2024 and even more so in the years to come when he’ll be able to put in the hard yards over the summer time, add a 5th & 6th Bluey and maybe a premiership or two and we can sit back and watch Cormes and co eat humble pie over their stupidity.

This is an article written by David Johnston which appears in the Weekly Times Jim Sandral was one of the greatest players in the Ovens & Murray's 131-year history. Read about his remarkable career. Ovens & Murray: Corowa and Rennie champ Jim Sandral passes away, aged 91 Jim Sandral, one of only seven official legends in the Ovens and Murray league's 131-year history and a member of Melbourne's Olympic Games year VFL premiership team, has died, aged 91. Sandral grew up on a family farm at Buraja, north of Corowa, attended boarding school in Sydney where he played rugby league at St Gregory's College. But his return home to life on the land in 1948 coincided with the start of a truly great country football career. Sandral first played for Rennie where he earned the wrath of the umpire in his first match for wrongly wearing his rugby league boots with steel stops. After only eight matches with Corowa, Sandral was picked to play for the O&M. The long weekend carnival held in Albury consisted of three games in three days and Sandral was best-on-ground in two games and second best in the other. North Melbourne guaranteed him six games the following year, but Melbourne had the inside running courtesy of former player Ken Carlon, who had coached Rennie. Sandral flew from Corowa on a small plane for a midweek training session with the Demons in July 1955 before returning to play for Corowa the following Saturday. Although he found it difficult to break into the powerful Melbourne team, Sandral had the greatest respect for legendary coach, Norm Smith. "He was one of the hardest men you'd meet," Sandral said in 2021. "Whatever he said went. No one could backchat him." Sandral played 15 matches in 1956 including the second semi-final and grand final wins over Collingwood. Sandral didn't stay in Melbourne for the Olympics because harvest awaited on a farm near Coreen he had bought. Corowa-Rutherglen's last premiership coach and former Melbourne player Peter Tossol said he had "not met a better bloke in football" Tossol's father and Sandral lived together in the city when they were both at the Demons. "In every game I coached at Corowa-Rutherglen, Jim would walk in the changerooms 15 minutes prior to the start of the game," he said, "He would just stand at the back of the room and this presence provided so much comfort to me and the players. "He wouldn't need to say anything, but he made you feel good. "I am so sad he is no longer with us. I could always go to Jim for advice and I often did." Sandral returned to play for Corowa in 1958 and was appointed coach. He won the first of three Morris Medals the following year. Sandral played in only one grand final for Corowa in 1963 when it lost to Benalla. He was also a premiership player, coach and league best and fairest winner at Rennie. In 2013, he became the fourth legend in the O&M Hall of Fame and has been a regular attendee at the annual function that will be held again next week. His son Dennis, who played 333 matches for Corowa-Rutherglen, has also been inducted into the league's Hall of Fame. Jim and Dennis both won five best and fairests for Corowa with Dennis playing in two country championships winning teams in 1985 and 1987. The father-son duo were also picked in the O&M's Team-of-the-Century. O&M chairman David Sinclair said Sandral was a true legend of the league. "His devotion to family and commitment to the Corowa Football-Netball Club and community were limitless," he said. "His humble and selfless leadership, was inspiring. "He was a beautiful man to meet. He will be missed." Sandral had been diagnosed with leukaemia and his funeral will be held in Corowa on Thursday.