KC from Casey

Half Time: Casey Demons.10.10.70 to Box Hill Hawks 4.3.27 Goals Weideman 3 Bedford Brown 2 Chandler Rosman Sparkes Disposals 15 Joel Smith 12 Neville Jetta Aaron vandenBerg

It's a four goal lead to the Casey Demons but temper this with the fact that the Hawks appear undermanned.

QT Casey 5.3.33 to 2.0.12 Goals Brown 2 Bedford Rosman Weideman Disposals 10 Aaron vandenBerg 9 Neville Jetta 7 Joel Smith

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Toby Bedford continuing the tradition of 2021 for Demon small forwards with a nice opening goal. The teams (and Casey looks to have a significant advantage in terms of AFL players and experience) - BOX HILL HAWKS B: M. De Wit M. Hartley E. Phillips HB: L. Bramble E. Le Grice D. Greaves C: J. Cunico D. Mascitti C. Downie HF: T. Brockman E. Jeka F. Greene F: K. Brooksby N. Reeves J. Morris Foll: J. Ceglar J. Cousins F. Maginness I/C: V. Adduci J. Blanck C. Mynott C. Porter Emerg: N. Beasley C Blanck S. Horner J. Newcombe CASEY DEMONS B: J. Lockhart J. Hutchins D. Smith HB: J. Bowey J. Smith N. Jetta C: O. Baker T. Bedford Rosman HF: Z. Foot S. Weideman M. White F: B. Brown M. Daw K. Chandler Foll: A. Bradtke J. Munro A. vandenBerg I/C: T. Freeman L. Goonan G. Grey R. Sparkes Emerg: C. Ellison M. Lewis C. Stockdale

It might come as a surprise but the VFL season has already begun. There was a game earlier this afternoon between Sandringham and Richmond at Punt Road with the Tigers winning by 40 points. There’s a night game on at Frankston with the other Tigers from Coburg leading by a couple of goals. Strangely enough, nobody can find the named teams for any game at this point in time.

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The VFL club lists for 2021 were released today. CASEY DEMONS Primary list James Munro Cory Stockdale Mitch White Zac Foot Jaxon Briggs Lachie Modica Jack Hutchins Tom McCaffrey Mitch Lewis Cory Machaya Tom Freeman Jack Bell Development list Kyle Stainthorpe Riley Baldi Aiden Quigley Nathan Heath Hunter Howden Andrew Courtney Josh Smith George Grey Matt Johnson Jason Stuart Jarryd Barker Nick Lowden Harvey Neocleous Ryan Sparkes Miles Sheppard Luca Goonan Corey Ellison

No info available as yet Matt.

And with the Stingrays and the Demon connection, hopefully we will see some of these NGA youngsters turning out from time to time at Casey.

The Casey Demons’ final pre season practice match is scheduled against Williamstown on Saturday, April 10, 2021 ahead of the season opener against the Box Hill Hawks on the following Saturday. With Melbourne doing well in the AFL and players returning from injury, we can expect some big names taking part in the Casey team this week.

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Casey keeps the Bullants at bay in VFL hit-out ... there you go

Ex-St Kilda rookie Jack Bell joins VFL club Casey Demons The Cranbourne leader reports that the Casey Demons have landed a 202cm ruck man in former St Kilda rookie Jack Bell, a Victorian Metro representative in 2019. He will link with former Sandy Dragons teammate Andrew Courtney, who signed with Casey for the 2020 season that never got off the ground. Kyle Stainthorpe, who has been with Casey since 2018, re-signed last night.

A local update ~ Kurt Mutimer leaves Casey Demons, heads to Narre Warren In this report for the Leader Newspapers, Paul Amy says that while 2020 recruit Kurt Mutimer, formerly of West Coast, has left the Casey Demons and returned to his original club Narre Warren, the club gains a like for like midfielder Zac Foot, who is coming off two years on the Sydney Swans list. The club has retained experienced trio Jack Hutchins (closing in on 100 games), Mitch White and James Munro (already a centurion). Others back this season are Tom Freeman, Mitch Lewis, Nick Lowden, Aidan Quigley and Cory Stockdale while Cory Machaya, who suffered a knee injury ahead of the 2019 season, is back in training. The club’s talented 2019 NAB League signings, Riley Baldi, Andrew Courtney, and Corey Ellison, Luca Goonan and Ryan Sparkes are all back on deck. The Demons expect to have a VFL list of between 20 and 25 players with access to the Gippsland Power and Dandenong Stingrays squads when they need top-ups. Three Melbourne NGA players Deakyn Smith, Kobi George and Ryan Koo Kwet Kim will all be over age players at the Stingrays (Smith is training with the AFL Demons).

Two former MFC NGA prospects Kobi George and Ryan Koo Kwet Kim also training with the Casey Demons.

Followers of the Demonland training reports will no doubt be aware that Dandenong Stingray Deakyn Smith who was part of Melbourne’s New Generation Academy has been training with the club. Smith is a 179cm half forward/midfielder from South East Juniors. Paul Amy is reporting on Twitter that the Stingrays also have a group of players on the track at Casey Demons, including Clayton Gay, Will Bravo and Bryce Milford.

I’ve been out of the loop due to the fact that I’m interstate. Thanks to the posters above who have covered the club’s new faces. With the exception of Foot, most of the new names are players who came to the club from the Under 18 NAB competition after the 2019 season. This year, that competition will become Under 19 so many players will stay a year longer in the NAB Cup system making it a bit tougher for second tier club recruiting. They will probably be looking at more seasoned players from interstate or the country.

The latest - Northern Bullants to return to VFL as a stand-alone club

With the scrapping of the major second tier competitions on the east coast of the country due to COVID-19 for 2020, there will be a single replacement in 2021 meaning that the VFL and the old VFA will be no more. The NEAFL has been disbanded and the clubs that made up the previous competitions have been asked to lodge “expressions of interest” with the AFL by tomorrow. At this stage we know that Melbourne will persevere with its Casey Demons alignment while Carlton have scrapped the Northern Blues (although this could see the return of the Preston Bullants. NEAFL club, the Canberra Demons has stated that it won’t take part in the new competition. There may well be more than 20 teams in the new league next year with plenty of changes in the way the competition is conducted.

Feel for the people who worked so hard to get the team together but that's 2020. See you all next year. Stay safe.

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