KC from Casey

Three Quarter Time: Casey Demons 14.12.96 to Northern Bullants 4.3.27 Goals Van Rooyen 4 M Brown Chandler Dunstan 2 Bedford Laurie Moniz-Wakefield White Dunstan is dominating the possessions. JVR the main goal kicker.

Two from JVR. He’s announcing himself today - has 4.

Chandler goal.

First two goals after the break go to Chandler and JVR.

Half Time: Casey Demons 8.7.55 to Northern Bullants 4.3.27 Goals Dunstan 2 Bedford M Brown Laurie Moniz-Wakefield Van Rooyen White

Dunstan starring

All Bullants at the moment. - Casey lead down to 21 points.

Preston goal.

Reply from AMZ courtesy of a neat pass from Dunstan who is in everything.

Preston have their 2nd - now 13 - 40.

The Bullants kick their first goal of the day 3 minutes into the second term.

Quarter Time Casey Demons 6.3.39 Preston Bullants 0.1.1 Goals Bedford M Brown Dunstan Laurie Van Rooyen White Disposals Dunstan 8 Baker 6 Bowey Tomlinson 5

Luke Dunstan goals - there are six separate goalkickers.

Toby Bedford snaps - goal. Casey 5.1.31 to Northern Bullants 0.1.1

JVR marks and converts for his first. Casey off to a blinder in the opening 10 minutes with four goals.

Toby Bedford crumbs and gives off to the skipper Mitch White for Casey’s third goal and it’s just six minutes into the game.

Another goal - this time to Bailey Laurie.

They’re off in the battle between the top of the ladder Casey Demons and last placed and Northern Bullants. Kade Chandler is in the team so he made the red eye from Perth and the Casey team appears as selected. Mitch Brown gets the ball off a pack and snaps truly the Demons’ first.

With a little over an hour to go before today’s game, it’s worthwhile mentioning that Casey’s closest rival Southport is playing Collingwood at Victoria Park and is getting a bit of a touch up at half time. Needless to say that it’s highly likely that the Demons are going to finish on top of the ladder and in doing so will provide useful back up to the AFL team’s finals campaign. In addition, this means that a few of the clubs younger brigade should get some valuable finals experience to assist with their development. The first round of the VFL finals are four weeks away and, although he’s listed as being still 6 to 7 weeks away, there are reports that we’ll see Tom McDonald in action with Casey at around this time. Watch this space.

I think it’s worthwhile contributing to the debate since I have watched a bit of Andrew’s play over the season thanks to the streaming of games on the afl site and more particularly, the Casey v Gold Coast game played a month ago at the Ausworld Centre on the Gold Coast. He has been played mostly at CHB which suits a straight ahead game and with his height in that position, a feature has been his marking. His year began well with that early game vs Carlton his best. He picked up more than 20 touches in a thrashing but the game was played a lot in his half of the ground. Since then, his form has been no better than middle of the road with some mediocre performances. In the game vs Casey, he was average at best and my note were that if he doesn’t fill out he’ll be destroyed by someone. Took some good marks, showed some good second efforts but nothing to get excited about. He was well beaten last week - his opponent kicked four goals. He doesn’t stop trying but I was surprised that he’s been selected this early. As WJ alluded, it’s probably because the game is against West Coast - I couldn’t see him picked against the Cats for instance. Still, like all here, I wish him luck.

CASEY DEMONS B: D.Turner 42 A.Tomlinson 20 J.McVee 41 HB: Joel Smith 44 C.Ellison 79 J.Bowey 17 C: T.Woewodin 40 L.Dunstan 27 O.Baker 33 HF: M.Buntine 71 M.Brown 38 T.Bedford 12 F: B.Laurie 16 J.Van Rooyen 21 K.Chandler 37 Foll: Josh Smith 66 M.White 52 J.Munro 47 IC: R.Baldi 56 B.Howes 22 A.Moniz-Wakefield 36 A.Quigley 57 R.Valentine 65 Emerg: T.Edwards 58 G.Grey 68 M.Shepherd 77 R.Steele 54 In: T.Bedford Joel Smith Josh Smith A.Tomlinson M.White Out: J.Bell G.Grey J.Hunt B.Milford F.Rosman

Full Time Casey make it 15 in a row. CASEY DEMONS 0.3.3 5.7.37 7.9.51 9.12.66 FOOTSCRAY VFL 1.2.8 3.6.24 6.6.42 6.7.43 Goals Casey Demons Chandler 4 Grey Laurie Moniz-Wakefield Valentine Van Rooyen Footscray VFL Darcy Jones Martin O’Sullivan Raak Vandermeer Best Casey Demons Baker Chandler Bowey Hunt Munro Ellison Van Rooyen Footscray VFL Hunter Martin McLean Garner O’Sullivan Butler Statistics Oskar Baker 1 behind 29 kicks 4 handballs 33 disposals 8 marks 121 dream team points Riley Baldi 5 kicks 4 handballs 9 disposals 2 marks 1 tackle 34 dream team points Jack Bell 4 kicks 7 handballs 11 disposals 1 mark tackle 16 hit outs 51 dream team points Jake Bowey 19 kicks 1 handballs 20 disposals 6 marks 3 tackles 89 dream team points Mitch Brown 1 behind 12 kicks 3 handballs 15 disposals 7 marks 1 tackle 66 dream team points Matt Buntine 15 kicks 5 handballs 20 disposals 10 marks 2 tackles 1 hit out 92 dream team points Kade Chandler 4 goals 11 kicks 4 handballs 15 disposals 5 marks 1 tackle 72 dream team points Luke Dunstan 1 behind 12 kicks 7 handballs 19 disposals 3 marks 9 tackles 92 dream team points Corey Ellison 6 kicks 3 handballs 9 disposals 4 marks 2 tackles 38 dream team points George Grey 1 goal 4 kicks 2 handballs 6 disposals 2 marks 1 tackle 29 dream team points Blake Howes 11 kicks 9 handballs 20 disposals 6 marks 1 tackles 79 dream team points Jayden Hunt 7 kicks 7 handballs 14 disposals 1 mark 1 tackle 42 dream team points Bailey Laurie 1 goal 5 kicks 6 handballs 11 disposals 2 marks 5 tackles 53 dream team points Judd McVee 7 kicks 4 handballs 11 disposals 3 marks 3 tackles 47 dream team points Bryce Milford 3 kicks 4 handballs 7 disposals 2 marks 23 dream team points Andy Moniz-Wakefield 1 goal 4 kicks 3 handballs 7 disposals 1 mark 3 tackles 33 dream team points James Munro 2 behinds 6 kicks 8 handballs 14 disposals 1 mark 11 tackles 85 dream team points Aidan Quigley 5 kicks 2 handballs 7 disposals 1 marks 7 tackles 49 dream team points Fraser Rosman 1 kick 1 handballs 2 disposals 1 mark 8 dream team points [injured] Daniel Turner 7 kicks 7 disposals 1 mark 5 tackles 46 dream team points Ryan Valentine 1 goal 7 kicks 6 handballs 13 disposals 3 marks 1 tackles 2 hit outs 53 dream team points Jacob Van Rooyen 1 goal 1 behinds 5 kicks 7 handballs 12 disposals 4 marks 2 tackles 2 hit outs 58 dream team points Taj Woewodin 7 kicks 6 handballs 13 disposals 5 marks 2 tackles 53 dream team points

JVR breaks the deadlock with a goal.

3QT: Casey Demons 7.9.51 to Footscray VFL 6.6.42. The Demons have a 9 point lead at the last break but the skies have opened and it’s going to be hard to score in the final quarter. Goals Chandler 3 Grey Laurie Moniz-Wakefield Valentine Oskar Baker picking up a swag of kicks off half back. He has 23 touches.

Dogs fighting 45 - 36