drdrake

Agree with this, fielding locals will attract local supporters back to this level. It is going to be an interesting few months as the AFL works through 2021 and what their clubs look like. I love the idea of community football at this level, it will be better product then watch the way AFL players are turned into robots.

Sam is an almost there player, he is getting to the right spots, he is getting hands to the ball but he just didn't hold on to the mark. If he can start hanging to the ball he will be a good player. Not much to beat at the moment Tmac can't mark, is getting outmarked by his opponent, push off the ball to easy and offers nothing once it hits the ground. At least Jackson has an excuse and will get better with each game, not sure about Tommy though he seems a spent player

That would be interesting, I think unfortunately the Casey alignment will end at years end. Not sure what it is going to look like but hearing either AFL reserves, then the current Non AFL clubs forming that third tier competition. If you do what Kennett wants I reckon as posted above two AFL divisions 10 teams in each add in a NT and Tasmanian team to increase to 20 sides. I actually don't mind this.

I do look at our match day attendance when we were up and about in 2018, the finals we had the majority of the crowd in 2 finals, from memory close to 90k attendance in both finals. 2000 the mcg was pumping and the even years that followed, winning seasons brought in big crowds. Crowds get you better fixture which gets you free to air TV coverage which gets more sponsors. Then I don't because I just can't see how we are going to change the losing culture that has got a stranglehold on our club.

I do get the point, we have had 50 years to get the culture right at our club, we need to change from accepting this losing culture that is ingrained at our club. Yes potentially we can be a big club, but that is all we have talked about on this site since it was started the potential of our club and teams. At some stage potential needs to be realised or it becomes irrelevant.

No we can't, for some reason our on field continues to fail us, no matter what we do off field the on field is and has been a massive issue for the majority of the last 50+ years. We are a long way off from being a good on field side and until that happens we will be considered as a small club that is becoming a Burden to the AFL. I agree with Kennett, the product is so poor at the moment, we have a deluded talent pool, terrible pathway programs. AFL 10 sides Div 1 with 10 sides in Div 2 add in a Tassie and NT side, promotion/relegation bottom 2/top 2 each year. The two biggest clubs in the AFL are West Coast and Adelaide, with out those 2 clubs coming into the VFL/AFL there would be a lot of traditional VFL clubs that would not be running around today. Today both these clubs would be the strongest financial clubs in the AFL.

Like to see Jackson at mcg Tmac has been woeful for 18 months, he is getting a game based on 2018 form. Jones, Melksham are almost done Kosi comes in for Jones or Melksham Tmac is lucky that you wont play Weiderman and Jackson as the key forwards, just yet.

Went from attacking fast football to trying not to lose, what a disgrace

This is pathetic

Our mids will be licking their lips with Gawn and Jackson this week. The game is going to be fast and players will be spent, Gawn wouldn't be able to ruck 90% like he normally does, expect him to be standing in the goal square for periods of the game. Skills will be down so the ball will be contested, look at last nights game, the players couldn't run after half time, the could run to defend but then couldn't run to attack. We are just adding a lot of run and will back ourselves to run Carlton off their legs.

I reckon these selections are based on the speed the game is going to be played at.

Having our 3 small forwards as Pickett, Bennell and Bedford would be pretty exciting. Bennell is the silky skills we need kicking the ball inside our 50m arc, Bedford and Pickett bringing the forward defensive pressure. I hope ANB and Spargo become back up players. My team Jetta May Hibbard Salem Lever Lockhart Tomlinson Oliver Langdon Petracca Weiderman Fritsch Pickett TMac Melksham Gawn Brayshaw Viney Bennell, Harmes, Bedford, Jones

To Trengove's defence he couldn't run after all his foot injuries. Prior to that he showed enough, we did completely stuff him up though. Pick 8 was the one we really stuffed up.

Dangerfield would be one of the best kicks at our club if he player for Melbourne, he kicks the ball great. Don't need to tackle when you have the ball in your hand so much and damages you with his foot skills Buddy is going kick 1000 goals before he retires must be a half decent set shot. These three players can turn a game in a short burst, we don't have players that can do that. Petracca may be able to do this but doesn't at yet.

Elite players need to be able to execute all the skills of the game at an extremely high level. We don't have to many players that we have confidence that they can hit a target by foot. If you can't execute the fundamental skill of the game at an elite level your not elite.

Amend the first one to be last kick out of bounds and only between the 50m arcs not inside the 50s. It will be to hard for last touch with congested footy. 20m kick neither here nor there just gets rid of that questionable short kick that we see now. I reckon bring back the 25m line means every point kick in should go beyond this line and helps umpires with kick distance inside 50m arcs

But female participation is up The AFL has hidden behind Female Football for the past 4 years. The VFL is an amazing product, lucky for me I can work down and watch a stand alone club which still has that community football feel about them. Casey has been a strong team based on good top up players and the Melbourne players being strong at VFL level but struggle to step up to AFL level.

If only we could have kept guys fit. Ox would be number 1 by a mile if his body stayed sound. That 1998 forward line is the best we have ever had Farmer, Lyon, Neitz, Schwarz, Robertson, Smith. In fact I still rate that the best side in that era

Did we take over casey anyway. I thought about 2 years ago we took the over, still run seperate but essentially is our 2nds side with top ups and our coaches same as other all clubs we just kept the casey name

Winning masks or makes a lot of bad stuff go away. The Club severely failed with a group of young men.

The worse thing is the Eagles didnt play well and I reckon played lazy football, they just let us turn the ball over and players were free forward of the ball. To me eagles were going half pace and we just kept giving them the football

Oliver and Bradshaw can only run one way, Lockhart, viney and Pickett the rest are just woeful. Push May forward and Tmac back. May has done nothing wrong, and Tmac has done nothing

Great to see our skills have improved. Can't remember the last time we had a side that could do the basics off the game well

Consistency, they end result will take care of itself if we can narrow the gap between our best and worst football. Putting a win loss target or what position we finish to hard for 2020, just play good strong consistent football and I will be happy. No more quarters where we are just plain terrible.

Charge admission, the AFL will be losing a bucket on AFLW, it's not cheap to host a game with venue hire, staff, umpires and everything else you need to pay. Simple solution we have to pay to watch men at both AFL and VFL level, we should have to pay to watch the elite females of the sport and they should get a percentage of the gate receipts. The AFL is scared as they don't want attendance numbers to drop, if you have a premium product people will pay to watch. The issue with AFLW is it's not a premium product, the talent pool is way to small to cater for the number of sides in the competition. It should be 8 sides max and only the elite players get drafted. Expansion for the sake of expansion doesn't make sense, it killed the mens game for 10 years and the product is still no where near as good.