John Dee

6. Hogan 5. Viney 4. Jones 3. Gawn 2. Watts 1. Tyson

The Casey team on the MFC site has Matt Jones in, still no Weed.

Tennis starts this week but I have begged off; I'll be there!

Rance got three, a guilty plea will downgrade it to two.

Straight swap for Brayshaw and Oliver. Brayshaw is just not quite right, give him a rest not play VFL. No other change unless forced.

6. Viney 5. Gawn 4. Vince 3. Tyson 2. Watts 1. Garlett

Terlich is 62

If scores are level after full time and level again after a further ten minutes plus time-on then I am happy with next score.

I remember watching Andy Moir. I thought we had a real good one but, as mentioned, he was a highlight reel and very inconsistent. I also remember a story about how he collapsed from heat exhaustion during one pre-season.

6. Watts 5. Gawn 4. Viney 3. N Jones 2. TMac 1. Pederson

6. Gawn 5. Viney 4. Vince 3. Watts 2. Oliver 1. Lumumba

Melbourne membership gets you in. Car is about the only way to get there. Forgot to mention, rug up!

Watts was not our worst player today. He didn't play overly well, and that is the problem. He had what many would consider a bad game and he was still one of our better players.

6. Kennedy 5. Vince 4. Tyson 3. Harmes 2. Pederson 1. M. Jones All apart from Kennedy and Vince are lucky that you have to award the votes.

A lot of our inside 50s during that period were actually pinpoint passes to opposition defenders.

He is recovering from an operation on one of his knees.

As an atheist, how can I blaspheme?

Dunn for Omac Brayshaw for Oliver; I would like to see him rested.

6. Viney 5. Watts 4. Kennedy 3. Gawn 2. T McDonald 1. Oliver

I'd prefer Ted.

Now that the practice matches are over, the mangling of the English language will be over until next year. I advise you all to take my advice, you practise football at football practice. A simple mnemonic is to remember that ice is a noun, is is a verb.

Me, for one. I thought he was on very thin ice and gone at year's end. I am very impressed with the way that he has applied himself and the new game plan seems to suit him.

I was there on the outer side, close to Goodwin, McCartney, Mathews and, after quarter time, Rawlings. I go to Casey a fair bit and Goodwin is always in the same spot. Some interesting conversation between Goodwin and McCartney early on. McCartney commented that Mitch King is a better natural ruck than Max King and that Max has a lot to learn about ruck work. The better games I have seen from Max have always been as a key forward but they persisted with him in the ruck all day. Mitch is very raw but there is nothing not to like. Later, McCartney queried Rawlings as to whether it was true that Lumumba had run 10K in training yesterday, apparently it was. Also, even though he has changed his name, they still call him Harry O in the heat of battle. He played out the full game and will be better for the run. ANB, Stretch and Michie tried but were well beaten. Terlich was Terlich, forever trying things beyond his capabilities. Weed and Hulet were unsighted but that was not unexpected. I watched Hunt at Casey a few times last year and he flashed in and out of the game. When he was good he was very good but went missing for long periods. The move to half-back seems to have been the making of him. He has a primary responsibility to mind his man first and break off to attack as a secondary action. He was, to my mind, Casey's best player although that doesn't mean much. He is seriously quick, at one stage a Willy player was going to collect a simple chest mark near the boundary just in front of us, Hunt came from some metres back and got a fist in to knock the ball out of bounds. The response from the Willy player was well worthy of Dean Kent.

The Titus 'n' Paradise podcasts are great. Sergio Paradise and Titus O'Reily are two Melbourne tragics. Well worth the listen.

My tennis team has made the grand final but the Waverley association has a long history of not playing on long weekends. So, I will head out to Casey on Saturday as a precursor to Sunday.