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Heading in on the train with the handful of kids - under 15s for free rules - and there’s another Demon getting on at our station Suffice to say we agree that today has gotta be better than yesterday!

bringing five children as it turns out - four demons and a hawk! it's a grand final - gotta be there i remember seeing oliver being the best of a handful of casey players to really work hard and fight to win in the 16 decider against footscray - weed kicked two, a then vfl-listed tim smith three, dunn and joel smith were probably in the best along with kennedy

toby bedford will bring the speed and defensive intensity you want from a small forward, and he'll come on the list as our next generation academy selection, but he's not a 'crumber' per se currently i'd say in terms of rough 'positions' we have: key forwards: hogan, tom mcdonald, weideman, tim smith small forwards: spargo, kent, anb, bugg, garlett mid-sized marking forwards: melksham, hannan, balic hybrid mid-sized forwards / midfielders: petracca, vandenberg midfielders: jones, harmes, viney, brayshaw, tyson, oliver, stretch, maynard, kennedy harris ruck: gawn, king, filipovic rebound defenders: salem, lewis, hibberd, vince, hunt, fritsch, baker, mckenna, wagner, joel smith key defenders: lever, frost, o mac, petty, keilty small defenders: johnstone, jetta spare parts key position utility: pedersen key areas we seem to lack a fair bit of depth to me are ruck and small defender, which is why i'm understanding of being interested in preuss and a bit surprised we're not being mentioned re nick newman, but perhaps they see him more as a rebounder who knows with the likes of these currently uncontracted players will do: vandenberg pedersen kent keilty johnstone kennedy harris filipovic king mckenna tim smith bugg vince and balic have retired, kent and tyson (who has a year remaining on his contract) have been mentioned multiple times this year in the media re being traded to a new club for a fresh start of those uncontracted i would like to keep these guys on the list in 2019: vandenberg kent kennedy harris tim smith and who knows with keilty - we all want to see him stick around cos his brother is a rad dude, but perhaps there's another club crying out for a key back that could do with someone such as him to cover key defender gaps - a gap that we don't appear to have with four players ahead of him for senior selection, and all bar frost younger than him i think? - and he might take that opportunity main areas of concern in terms of depth appear to be: ruck small defenders small forwards potentially midfield why the latter two categories? garlett was awful this year, and if bugg goes as an uncontracted player, then we have two - both of who played today and neither are what i think of as goalkicking small forwards, more defensively minded players and if we trade away tyson (best 22 majority of the year) and jkh (depth) goes, there's not much there beyond the first five of oliver, viney, harmes, brayshaw, and jones, who is certainly not the player he once was

This Minimum expectation is a top four finish at the end of home and away

i'm sure he's bound to top votes for most as he got a heap of the pill, but i thought brayshaw was at the bottom of our best six today 6: harmes 5: oliver 4: petracca 3: avb 2: o mac 1: brayshaw best thing? all players - bar mature ager in vandenberg - are aged 23 and under clutching at straws after today...

found a player in weideman this finals series, harmes has come on in leaps and bounds, oliver continues to astound, brayshaw finally had a no-concussion season, had no plugger mac for first 5 weeks, lever did his knee in round 11, viney only played 7 games for the year before finals, hogan broke his foot with two rounds to go in the year...there's straws to clutch at

when we lost to the aints i didn't think we'd even make finals, let alone win two of em exceeded my expectations in 2018; top four after home and away is the baseline expectation for 2019

I reckon we could go goalless in the half Awful way to end what’s otherwise been a thrilling year

so good

can't wait for this arvo so exciting to be in a prelim two more wins, please, just two more wins

can't wait so excited for what later today brings we have a crack at the contest - i expect we'll give it our best, as we have in pretty much every game since the queen's birthday fiasco...even the horrid saints game we were still trying to win it til the bitter end they're pretty good, but i reckon we can take em but i have no idea whether we will or not; i feel exactly like i did against geelong

If Melbourne wins the premiership, Goodwin is the premier coach of the year

Turning into a massacre

certainly in recent memory we were robbed of keating vs primus due to the latter's knee knacks

no one was near de goey at that throw in stoppage tuggas seriously rattled

tiggas in big trouble

neck tatts looks crocked

grundy drew even with lobb last week, rather than the other way around, and so far nank is on top it is QUICK footy early, but neither team can hit a target

i would love to know just how far over the cap gw$ are going into 2019 it would seem to be a significant amount given the players they're shopping shiel wants $1.2m a year, lobb is on $750k a year...seems gw$ were happy to pay overs, presumably they thought they were losing kelly last year and cos they didn't it's come back to bite

still reckon tuggas over the filth by 42

Just don’t think Pies are capable of scoring enough to challenge the Tigers Tigers are a high scoring club, as are we Should be a cracking game

smith makes sense in terms of meth coke's forwards it's gutting for bailey, but i can understand why they have gone with this change smith looked good watching the vfl game on tv last week

every chance to be straight back in next week make it two premierships in a consecutive weeks!!

would rather t mac, weed and hogan than cameron would love kelly or whitfield, but that's about it greene is a superstar but incredibly aggravating and is too often injured or suspended, and ward and davis are gems but too old for our list profile now

they play an unbelievably selfish brand of football i'm presuming open season starts now on their players? shiel seems certain to leave on ridiculous money; i remain to be convinced he's worth it lobb to one of the wa teams who else will be poached?