Redleg

Silly boy.

I think we need to inject his "get a goal from nothing" talent, even though he hasn't set the world on fire at Casey. I get the feeling he has a few issues off the field, which he has had in the past and they are distracting him. I would tell him he has to apply defensive pressure all the time and irrespective of goals, that is his minimum expectation. Create run and options. No time for star gazing and drifting in and out of the game. If he fails to do that, if given the chance, I think he may not be on our list for too much longer.

Well we haven't added to it on his performance.

I disagree with your suggestion that we will learn from it and then the problem is fixed. We have a deficiency in skill which is highlighted against the better teams. You don't just "learn from it" and suddenly become skillful. That is ridiculous to suggest. If I spoke to Goodwin I am pretty confident he would acknowledge a lack of" great users of the ball and pace." Do we find loose targets and hit them inside the F50 when we play good sides? Obviously not often enough to win. That is the problem. We know that is the problem as we have seen it so many times over the last couple of years. What do we do to fix the problem? We don't just rely on learning from it, we bring in players with the required skill set or develop our own who have them,but might not be getting a game. To say the answer is to " learn from it" is to use your words "twaddle".

You have probably seen more of Dion than I have this year, so I accept your optimism in him. I personally haven't seen it yet. Hope you are right though and he becomes a good player for us.

Disagree that it is an easy fix. You don't just put skill into players that are deficient in that area. Against the Pies for example, we definitely tried to pass into the forward 50 a number of times and sprayed the footy. A number of our players coming towards the forward 50 are not great at hitting targets. Tyson, ANB, Oliver, Jones, Brayshaw, Vince, Hibberd, Hunt when fit etc. It is a skill to be able to hit a target under pressure and we are not great at it. I have said this for a few years. We have concentrated on the hard at it players with success, now we need a couple of players with real finesse, to create the opportunities that the hard won contested ball should provide. Friday we dominated the ball and contest and lost. That just shouldn't happen. Also a lack of pace going into the forward 50 was clearly evident, as shown up by Port being able to find a chip kick into the 50 for a shot at goal. Our goals generally came from the individual effort of say a Tom Mc beating the pack. That is not sustainable.

Now seven.

six now

Now nearly 3/4 time and Sam Frost revelling in the chilly conditions.

Frost has been very good in the first half for Casey today. If Weid isn't ready, surely he is the bloke who can play CHF or CHB and pinch hit in the ruck. Big, strong and quick, while capable of making a mistake, he is surely better value than Tim Smith at this stage. I would rather him on the hff than ANB, because at least he has weapons.

Sorry, you are correct the 42% was for his entire game. The 4 possies after 1/4 time was correct. If it was the same % throughout the game he could have had 1 effective possie for 3/4. He is a mid or small forward. That is pathetic. He also seems to have no feel for the game. See his miss from the goal square and his handball from 2 metres, hard as hell into Jones’ face. I cant believe a tired Spargo wouldn’t have been much better for us.

How can it be explained away by the umpiring department as they will attempt to do, that in an area where 65% of the game was played and we were attempting to kick goals when Port were trying to stop us, there was not one infringement noticed against us.

Umpire 11 the main culprit. An Adelaide umpire, big surprise. Curtis Deboy is an Australian rules football umpire currently officiating in the Australian Football League. He first umpired in the Central District Junior Football League in 2004. He made his umpiring debut in the South Australian National Football League in 2009 at the age of 19 and went on to umpire 119 SANFL games, including the 2013, '14, and '15 Grand Finals. He was on the AFL umpiring rookie list for 2013 and 2014, officiating his first game, substituted on as an emergency umpire, in 2014. In 2015, he was added to the senior umpiring list, and made his debut as a non-emergency umpire in Round 4 of that year, in a match between the Western Bulldogs and Adelaide at Docklands Stadium.

ANB 4 possessions at 42% for the last 3 quarters. Give me a break. Misses from 10 metres. Handballs hard into Jones' face. Drops marks. Spargo dropped and Garlett not considered. No crumbers and no pace, yet we bomb it long all night. Notice the little chip kicks to a loose man inside 50 by Port, after a quick short run, something we were incapable of last night. Despite that and the umpires, we butchered the ball and cost ourselves the game.

Can't believe I did it, but I emailed Robbo at the Hun and told him to write what we all saw with the umpiring. It was disgraceful. The Melksham decision was a disgrace and Ling was laughing at the call, blocking in a one on one contest. One goal taken off us. Then the 100 metre penalty and a goal to them. Umpire 11 is either a Port supporter or just totally incompetent. I think he paid about 15 frees to Port and maybe 1 to us. They had about 12 frees in front of goal for soft incidents and kicked about 6-7 from frees or 50's. We couldn't buy one. The West Coast game was also a disgrace. The AFL should worry less about changing the game and more about the poor standard of umpiring.

Me too.

Yes he got some poor delivery but he didn’t jump at the ball he turned his back and tried to rove to the pack. If his name was Joe Blow he would be dropped on his last two games. Let’s be fair about this he was terrible. I keep banging on about ANB being useless under pressure. When will the selectors see it. I don’t care less about his running he is hopeless against good sides who apply pressure. Garlett or Spargo for him tonight and we might have won.

That was a disgrace, but then followed with allowing them to play on, when everyone stopped ,after calling back 3 of our play ons. Pathetic. One goal taken off us and then onee given to them.

Good boy.

Done the way you show it, a rejig of the pathway over a short distance and the removal and replanting of some trees to line that rejigged pathway, would not see any interference to the park land at all. Surely it is better to have some community use of the area as an oval, than a car park where the ground can be damaged. You can still use the oval when the MFC is not training, yet chopped up ground from cars in winter is far harder to walk across. Plant a few more trees here and there and you have improved the park area. The new building would help deaden the train noise and improve the look of the tracks area, which is an eyesore. I would think the nearby residents would have an improved lifestyle and raised property values. A win/win. Now lets hear from the Greenies.

Think we just missed.

I wonder if they served biscuits or toast.

That sort of long term, big money contract, will probably succeed. I think he will stay an Eagle. He has driven his price and deal up and that was probably the aim of the exercise.

I'm off to the new training oval.

And PJ.