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Couldn't make it to the game today but Eastern Ranges have starred the better and lead at quarter time by 9 points with Ryan Clarke dominating the middle for 11 disposals, three clearances, two score involvements.

Best left Casey where he would have been under the watchful eye of the Demons as well as scouts from other clubs. We need to know why he went back home but the inference is that an AFL career is not uppermost in his mind. Was he told something, did he just work out he wouldn't make it or did he simply decide he had other priorities? Probably a combination of all of those things but in any event, I don't think much of his chances. He had a good season at Casey in 2013 but like the rest of the team, underwhelmed in 2014.

Another great story from Martin Flanagan ~ Remembering Jimmy Melbourne

Way back on the evening of Saturday 19 September 1964 as I watched the replay of the game and a filmed adaptation of Alan Hopgood's "And the Big Men Fly", eating chips and potato cakes (I think I was in heaven), I thought it was never going to end. Now, 18,627 days later, I'm wondering if it will ever start again!

It really reads as if this experience is not only going to assist him in his rehab but also help make him a more well rounded player and individual.

Ankle ops for Heritier ... Lumumba to have delayed pre-season start

The world's worst kept secret unfolds. Danger opts for Cats, but deal up in air

... and still counting ~

OK, nearest to the pin. Give the date and time when Dangerfield announces that he's decided he wants to return home to Mogg's Creek to play out his career and that his preferred new club his Geelong?

Dayle Garlett's fall from grace not isolated

Are you a friend of the Tremeloes, Mr OD?

Tomorrow is Preliminary Final Day with Dandenong and North Ballarat going in as warm favourites. I might go down and have a look at some stage and if I do, I will try to keep you updated on the games and the players likely to feature in draft calculations. Dandenong Stingrays vs Eastern Ranges Saturday September 19th IKON Park at 11.15am Dandenong Stingrays B: Glen Collins Capiron HB: Rice Weitering White C: Jok Holden Mutimer HF: Roscoe Freeman Williams F: Battle Young Gladman FOLL: Nyuon Lovett Batten I/C: Bubb Cox Di Pasquale Hulett McKay Poholke Pickess Prior Z Rouse Eastern Ranges B: Stanley Maibaum Keppel HB: Cotte Collins Brolic C Jacotine R Clarke Harvey HF: Cerra Jeffs D Clarke F: Crocker Hannon Hardwick FOLL: Mitchener Batty Gallucci I/C: Brown Cyster Garner Davies Horner McCormack Prosser Stavrou Stephenson Preliminary Final North Ballarat v Oakleigh Chargers Saturday September 19th IKON Park at 2.00pm North Ballarat B: Simpson Dawborn Lloyd HB: Webster Cleary Tucker C: Wellings Hopper Templeton HF: Eades Korewha McCluggage F: Rioli Hausler Johnston FOLL: Meek Cowan Taurau I/C Byrne Frank Drew Lee Lusby Symons Wheelahan Williamson Oakleigh Chargers B: McLarty Firns Byrne-Jones HB: Hooper Beddison Whitehead C: Pearce Cuningham Duman HF: Adduci Crocker Lane F: Johnstone Thompson P Phillips FOLL: Wenn Sullivan Answerth I/C: Jackson Kerr Larkey T Phillips Ridley Roughsedge Walker The obvious stand out among the two teams is Jacob Weitering who looks bound for Carlton unless the Blues do something really stupid. Here's an article that I found on him - He plays at the back but leads from the front

If he's a Carlton player, it's a sure thing that he'll be starring in the finals at another club next year. On that basis, you would take him and Kreuzer in a heartbeat. Roos would also need to work on Yarran's defensive efforts.

"After finishing fourth in the best and fairest in 2014, Dunn backed up his best AFL season with another fine year and top 10 placing. Playing predominantly down back, the first-year vice-captain was a reliable performer week in, week out. Dunn has now played the past 61 matches in a row, including every game in the past two seasons." Games MFC 2015 22 Career Total 161 Goals MFC 2015 1 Career Total 96 Keith "Bluey" Truscott Memorial Trophy 148 votes (Tenth club champion) * quote from MFC site

The game is changing quickly and the Demons' run with warrior is out of fashion and out of favour with the selectors. Jordie managed only one game in 2015 and has been delisted. Games MFC 2015 1 Career Total 79 Goals MFC 2015 0 Career Total 10 Games CSFC 2015 16 Goals CSFC 2015 5 Keith "Bluey" Truscott Memorial Trophy 0 votes

Traccin in the USA: Part Three

Looks like the type who might relish playing at the feet of Jesse Hogan at some time in the near future.

Just a guess and, at best a slightly educated one because the club historically traded down its highest draft pick with GWS when Roos arrived on the scene two years ago and it netted Tyson and Salem. Given the nature of the draft pool, we can do something similar with what will likely be pick 6 or 7 not allowing for bidding picks which won't really effectively change things (i.e it will still be 6th or 7th "live" pick). If we trade it for a player and pick 17, it could work out a win for us judging by the quality of players who I've seen and who are likely to be selected there. The experts are saying that it's a shallow draft and that might well be the case once you get into the late 20s and beyond but that doesn't discount the possibility of a budding Nat Fyfe who was selected at # 20, the year our fourth pick was #18 - and please don't remind me about how those four worked out.

2015 Young Guns Game The Young Guns Game is on again this Sunday at North Port Oval at 12.15pm as the curtain raiser to the VFL Preliminary Final between Williamstown and Essendon. The teams for the game are: BLACK TEAM Coaches George Morgan (Casey Scorpions) and Ross Gemmell (Northern Blues) 6 Tom Papley (Gippsland Power) 13/07/1996 176cm 74kg 7 Jacob Hickey (Western Jets) 4/12/1997 178 79 8 Alex Urban (Port Melbourne VFL) 27/07/1996 180 80 10 Joe Maishman (Werribee FC) 26/04/1996 180 78 11 Jack James (Calder Cannons) 29/10/1996 182 78 12 Lachlan Johns (Coburg FC) 05/04/1993 181 79 13 Jono Daggian (Old Scotch) 22/02/1995 186 74 15 Cody Mance (Coburg FC) 25/01/1995 185 79 16 Tom Anderson (Oakleigh Chargers) 3/09/1997 185 68 17 Marty Hore (Bendigo Pioneers) 5/03/1996 187 72 18 Jack Wallace (Sandringham Dragons) 1/08/1996 187 78 19 Luke Hannon (Casey Scorpions) 28/5/1995 188 83 20 Matt De Bruin (Gippsland Power) 14/01/1996 188 75 22 Guy Hendry (Pines FC) 10/01/1992 193 94 23 Christian Buykx-Smith (Gippsland Power) 27/03/1996 194 84 24 Michael Tilmouth-Turner (Northern Knights) 14/09/1996 191 96 25 Mitch Vandenberg (Werribee FC) 5/10/1993 194 90 28 Fraser Fort (South Barwon/Geelong VFL) 4/10/1995 197 89 29 Jordan Moncrieff (Casey Scorpions) 24/7/1992 197 96 30 Rowan Marshall (North Ballarat Roosters) 24/11/1995 200 94 GREEN TEAM Coaches Sean Kavanagh (Oakleigh Chargers) and Trevor Rowe (Oakleigh Chargers) 6 James Hayes (Footscray Bulldogs) 5/06/1995 181 79 7 Will Hayes (Footscray Bulldogs) 5/06/1995 180 79 8 Anthony Scott (Richmond VFL) 28/02/1995 180 78 9 Goy Lok (Sandringham Dragons) 28/08/1997 180 80 10 Ben Allan (Coburg/Calder FC) 04/06/1996 180 74 11 Andrew Tashevski-Beckwith (Sandringham Dragons) 18/05/1997 183 85 12 Daniel Foley (Western Jets) 24/03/1997 184 82 13 Bruno Laguda (Calder Cannons) 14/04/1997 185 74 15 Matt Hanson (Werribee FC) 26/05/1995 186 81 17 Ben Long (Northern Knights) 21/08/1997 186 72 18 Daniel Vaughan (Cheltenham) 16/12/1992 187 75 19 Bryce Rutherford (Casey Scorpions) 4/12/1994 189 74 20 Dale Hinkley (Birchip Watchem) 23/09/1995 190 83 21 Liam Hulett (Dandenong Stingrays) 14/3/1997 194 89 22 Declan Keilty (Casey Scorpions) 8/5/1995 194 85 23 Brayden Sier (Northern Knights) 12/12/1997 190 91 24 Cameron Tudor (St Josephs/Geelong VFL) 29/06/1992 196 89 26 Lachlan Waddell (Port Melbourne VFL) 12/05/1995 200 96 28 Brody Mihocek (Werribee FC) 4/02/1993 192 97 29 Josh Porter (Werribee FC) 26/04/1994 196 98

Traccin in the USA: Part Two

Facebook quote from the Age:- This is going to make things awfully hard for them to get Band 1 compo if he manages to find another destination.

GWS are reported to have granted defender Curtly Hampton permission to explore trade opportunities. I met him and some members of his family up north on holiday in the summer before he started with the Giants and the research I did on him suggested that he had a good career in front of him. He only played five games this year. Anyone know what happened?

Not worthy of a thread of its own. I understand the operation was successful and unless and until we hear otherwise, this doesn't warrant further comment.

The whole thing's a disgrace. I sat down to watch Footy Classified last night and all I saw was this Laurie Oakes bloke rambling on and on and on ... I mean which team does he coach?

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