Whispering_Jack

No ... they’re still living in the past (10 March, 2018).

Image from the game -

I looked up Box Hill Hawks on twitter and they’re covering the game with Casey 9.13.67 leading Box Hill 4.2.26. Jetta, Garlett, Harmes, Weideman, Frost, J & T Smith, Kent and Tyson on the field in the first half at least.

I went to the Casey Demons website to see if there were any updates or team lists available as I was tossing up whether to go to the game. I discovered that the Casey Demons website is no more - I was redirected to a page on the melbournefc.com.au website which covers Casey Demons news but nothing much really on the team side of things and certainly nothing on the practice match series. Hopefully, things will change once the season starts.

Like others, I wonder at the timing. The way the news cycle operates these days, the story is ancient history and, as a consequence, has no impact. Sadly for the Age, it’s a sign of the times and yet another example of a once great newspaper on the decline.

First mystery injury of the week award for 2018.

Injury report: pre round one This one interests me. No mention at all of the metatarsal injury - so it’s either migrated from the toe to the metatarsal and back to the toe or it was always the toe and there was no hot spot? Tom McDonald (toe) – test “Tom’s just had a bit of a sore toe for probably four to six weeks, and we’ve been managing his loads. But we just felt we needed to bite the bullet and get him off legs for 10 to 12 days. We’re going to start to load him towards the end of this week, and just see how that goes. We’ll make a decision on Tom next week.”

According to Ablett’s manager (and player manager’s never tell porkies), he’s playing in round 1:- ABLETT WILL PLAY ROUND ONE

And certainly not Chris from Camberwell

By way of background Sudan is constantly the subject of civil unrest and its President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir is wanted for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity for his crimes in Darfur.

The problem the selectors face with Viney is how to get match practice into him if he’s not considered right to play in Saturday’s game v Box Hill Hawks at Casey Fields because Casey has no practice match scheduled for the following weekend. The next one after this week is not until 30 March 2018 v Frankston at Skybus Stadium, Frankston.

With so much negative press about our Sudanese Community, I thought this one was worth a read - IDENTITY: GOY LOK

The final JLT LADDER at the end of the two rounds of relentless football:- Richmond 2 - - 252 95 265.3 8 Gold Coast 2 - - 134 71 188.7 8 Sydney Swans 2 - - 177 111 159.5 8 Melbourne 2 - - 243 164 146.9 8 Carlton 2 - - 191 164 116.5 8 GWS Giants 1 1 - 167 118 141.5 4 Fremantle 1 1 - 182 130 140.0 4 Port Adelaide 1 1 - 152 128 118.8 4 ——————————————————— Western Bulldogs 1 1 - 180 191 94.2 4 Adelaide 1 1 - 163 179 91.1 4 Collingwood 1 1 - 149 176 84.6 4 Essendon 1 1 - 138 221 62.4 4 West Coast Eagles 1 1 - 87 155 56.1 4 Hawthorn - 2 - 175 202 79.2 0 St Kilda - 2 - 160 208 76.9 0 Geelong - 2 - 126 186 67.7 0 Brisbane - 2 - 82 142 57.7 0 North Melbourne - 2 - 129 252 51.2 0

What I was warning against is the complacency that comes from underestimating your opposition because they might have certain players missing from the side or coming back from a limited pre season. I gave the example of a round 1 match where Melbourne took that attitude into a game against Hawthorn that had a few star players missing. We were thrashed. I note that even today, Mitch Duncan stood up in the absence of Danger and Ablett to pick up 38 disposals. That was the point I was making.

Geelong selectors will play cat (pardon the pun) and mouse with their injuries for the next two weeks. Don’t discount Dangerfield just yet.

And that’s that - a 35 point win which sounds great but if percentage plays a role next week, we might rue not pushing harder during this game after leading by 38 points at quarter time. But a win is a win is a win. Melbourne 8.9.57 defeat Carlton 3.4.22

Kate Hore gets one back for us.

Spoke too soon. One for them.

The goals seem to have dried up. None since half time and we’re halfway through the last.

3QT: Melbourne 7.8.50 to Carlton 2.2.14 A bit of a stalemate but we did triple their score for quarter.

Previous best would have been 5.4.34 to Bulldogs against Carlton 0.0.0 in the second quarter of Round 4, the same round we copped a belting from Collingwood.

Half Time: Melbourne 7.5.47 to Carlton 2.1.13

If we don’t beat them then we don’t make the grand final anyway. Cunningham just kicked her third.

We have to do something about them second quarter blues. 40 to 13

Comeback started.