buck_nekkid

Have the same thought. If we keep winning we keep our heads above water. Any loss could see us slip fairly quickly down the table.

Demons start to play attractive footy and now everyone wants to change the rules? Go get [censored].

Huh? I smell troll. Angus has been our best midfielder in games, and a strong contributor since his return. wears a helmet because he went in too hard back to the craft room for you, to sniff some more Uhu glue.

Hope Murphy likes Cranbourne district area...

Yep, great analysis. It shows that Pedo playing as the hit-em-up forward in the VFL (and dominating) is very different to the role that Tim Smith or Wieds plays. Would be hard to imagine that Weids doesn't come in on the back of that, and Pedo is perhaps an option if TMac cant get up (god forbid) and plays a role closer to goal? The setups around the restarts are an issue, and I believe we need a dedicated tagger (not 'tagger of the week'). I know we are building flexibility, but we want our best guys to be getting the ball and doing something with it, not scragging shirts all day. We have some time over the bye to reset, but there is a lot that needs to be tweaked so that we get the most out of our setups. Buckley outcoached Goody, no doubt. Can we carry Viney and Jones both in the middle ATM???

Would people be ok swapping Trac for Tyson? Put Tyson in the guts, move Jones to the wing. ATM Trac is playing a bitza role without really dominating. Is he a mid/ forward? Is he a flanker? Is he a hit up marking target? I think he is important to our success, but ATM is not playing any one role as a standout.

If you believe that we are cactus, go and enjoy your time elsewhere. All us supporters have is hope, we dont have future knowledge of the future. If you ain’t got hope, you ain’t a supporter. I don’t know where we will end up, but I have HOPE that we will stay in the 8. I have more HOPE than I have had in previous years. Its a tough ride, but I have FAITH that the highs will be worth it...

I think there has been some really good analysis here, and some serious questions about midfield and half back in particular. When Trac is in a scoring chain, it is usually successful. However, is he getting it enough? It seems like these areas of the field were the major problem - although there were two other massive glaring issues on the weekend. 1) our entry into forward 50 was rarely to advantage. Too many times we squandered kicks to 'hot spots', rather than seeing the players and their movements and delivering it to advantage. This made many of our entries easy to mark/repel. 2) the lack of switch - were we forced so far off our game plan that we reverted to down the line all day? I thought we were a long way from our best, and we still amassed 91 points. The problem is we gave up too many the other way. I hope they are using the break to think about how we respond. The finals will be all about manic pressure. If we cant find a way to absorb and overcome it, we really will just make up the numbers if we get there. It seems like our best is great, but the gap to everything else we do is pretty big.

Early on, most had the Adelaide game as a loss. We smashed them. Much water to pass under bridge, Grasshopper. Some teams will run hot, others will drop their bundle. the pass/fail is finals this year. 6th or above is a gold star from teacher. We turn at 8/4 with a good percentage. Let’s hope there are 6 more in the tank from here.

Perspective: the Tigers lost on the weekend too

As long as we go into the finals as underdogs. If we go in with bath water dribbling down our chins we will be in trouble....

The break worked for TMac and Viney. Perhaps Hunt will be able to get ‘game ready’ and come back near his best. By then, we will either have gone forward without him, or it will be too late....

Ben Guthrie reports Jayden Hunt is out for up to 6 weeks with an ankle injury. Bugger.

We played bad. Lacked effort and spread, fumbled, had the maggots against us, got bullied in contests and that Isuk Cox idiot kicked 5! Even with all of the above, we kicked 91 points. We lost the game in the middle, and leaking from our forward half way to easily. We failed to switch, we kicked up the line to 2:1s (the Pies ran to make them 2:1s), and let them out too easily. A dark day. 8/4 at the turn, which should set us up to get us into the 8. We will have to do something pretty special to get top 4 based upon what we delivered yesterday.

When we are winning, he looks good. He struggles to help us win. isolated 1:1 he is burned every time. He has to play the quarterback role, but when they man up and run off him, he is dreadfully exposed.

A great tackle, but fumbled way too much, and consistently out positioned. He might find his feet, but he needs to discover the pace at AFL level.

That was poor. We were lucky to kick that score. In summary: we were smashed in the clearances our front half leaked like a sieve. We could not hold a ball in our forward half. we made the [censored] wit Isuck Cox look like a champion. we were completely outworked. Outspread at every contest our skills were deplorable the umpiring was unbelievably bad. Nearly as bad as us. Joel Smith was off the pace Lewis is slow and goes to ground 1:1. He is brilliant when we are winning, but he won’t win us games when we are not. we are 8/4 at the bye. Thank god. The filth played out of their skins. Can see the, keeping it up, but if they do they are a threat. we have to find a way to get energised when we are off the pace. our whole middle tier was really poor today.

I’m glad game day is here. Been a long weekend of waiting... Dees to win clearances and control the ball forward. 1.5 goals better per quarter gives us a 36 point win.

Only looking at how the Casey boys fit into our back development. Hibbard is AA standard, and probably will be for the next 3 years - he isn’t going anywhere! (I did overlook him because he is a lock)

Or: Lever takes the Lewis (quarterback) role Petty takes CHB Oscar dominates FB Dion understudies Nev Smith, Hunt, Keilty play around these as required. Seems like a fairly sound plan....

Spud Frawley or Tim Watson to coach the ‘aints PLEASE!

We have a few older players who will need developing young talent to cover moving forward. Guys building careers at Casey should not be thinking ‘I am not in the seniors this week, I should leave’. How many games did Tuck play in the Hawks 2nds? if we are building a dynasty these guys should be playing the long game. They should want to be part of something pretty spectacular. we are fortunate that atm we have Casey stacked with developing talent and highly capable depth. We look very low on list cloggers ATM. We also have some great VFL talent not on our list, showing the way.

More moves than Flash Dance.. ol’ Rance. I hate the way the seven commentary team want to idolise everything he does, even whe it is a blatant error. Matt Louganis of football.

The the tigers going down , it is a critical game. Win and we sit second, with a solid percentage and in great shape. Lose and we slip into the middle rungs of the 8. Also, I so want to kick the [censored] our of those turgid dog [censored] eating pies.

There to meet Ollie?