KC from Casey

20 minutes in and Casey trail by 15 points. Harry Petty is back on the ground.

Sandringham with a quick reply move back to a 16 point lead: 8.6.54 to 5.8.38 at the 11 minute mark of the third quarter.

Goal to Mitch King - Casey trail by 12 points.

Two goals in first three minutes of the second half to Sandy who take a 16 point lead.

Half Time: Sandringham 5.5.35 to Casey 4.8.32 Goals Kent T Smith Stephenson Weideman Disposals Keilty 13 Bugg Gent 12

Keilty is defendng well as Casey are under siege.

Petty off injured - holding his hand. A hand or finger.

Goal to Weideman and it’s a 2 point game.

Tim Smith gets a mark and a 50 for a goal.

All Sandy in the last few minutes. They lead by 15 points.

Dean Kent gets the second goal. 18 to 25.

Two early behinds to Casey before a free to diminutive Will Stephenson sees the first Casey goal of the game. Dees 1.5.11 to Zebs 4.1.25

QT: Sandringham 4.1.25 leads Casey 0.3.3 Disposals Gent Keilty 6 T Smith 5

Casey struggling as Sandringham get their fourth.

Sandy 3.1.19 to Casey 0.2.2 The visitors are making all the running.

Bernie Vince looks to have injured his shoulder.

Went too soon. Sandringham gets its second.

Middle of the opening quarter and Zebs lead Dees 1.1.7 - 0.1.1

First blood to the Zebs - goal to Minchington.

Mitch Hannan is the carry over emergency for tomorrow’s game v Sydney.

Agree that MFC needs an experienced back up for Max but unless that person has a second string to his bow, he isn't going to be playing much footy at the highest level. You would need to recruit a player who is prepared to play that stand in role as Jake Spencer did the last couple of years. Lachie Filipic has had his chances but I'm not sure that he is going to develop into an AFL player based on this year. Big men take time but he hasn't shown enough for me.

Every game’s a big game for the Casey Demons PETER JACKSON VFL 2018 CASEY DEMONS v SANDRINGHAM Saturday 11 August 2018 at 2.00pm at Casey Fields, Cranbourne East CASEY DEMONS B: 11. J. Hutchins, 25. D. Keilty, 20. H. Petty HB: 8. J. Hunt, 21. C. Pedersen, 26. B. Vince ? 12. T. Bugg, 4. J. Lockhart, 27. A. Neal-Bullen HF: 16. D. Kent, 23. S. Weideman, 10. P. McKenna F: 19. M. Hannan, 24. T. Smith, 28. J. Kennedy-Harris Foll: 17. M. King, 15. J. Wagner, 13. C. Wagner I/C (from): 3. J. Briggs, 22. L. Filipovic, 29. J. Freeman, 9. M. Gent, 7. D. Johnstone, 31. M. Lefau, 30. G. Lok, 5. C. MacHaya, 6. J. Munro, 1. A. Scott, 14. C. Stockdale, 18. M. White 23P: 2. W. Stephenson In: J. Freeman, D. Kent, A.Scott, B. Vince Out: O. Baker, M. Hannan, J. Hunt, C. Pedersen SANDRINGHAM B: 40. O. Clavarino, 61. D. Joyce, 13. J. Noone HB: 55. N. Coffield, 37. H. Goddard, 42. B. White ? 51. D. Langlands, 2. K. Answerth, 46. E. Phillips HF: 62. R. Connellan, 23. T. Lamb, 41. D. Minchington F: 17. J. Haidon, 65. N. Smith, 1. D. Weickhardt Foll: 6. H. Mclean, 5. B. Seccull, 9. M. Cook I/C (from): 45. L. Austin, 44. H. Clark, 74. L. Dunstan, 67. S. Gilbert, 24. J. Hille, 14. K. Nissenbaum, 15. J. Sziller, 57. M. Weller 23P: 47. K. Owens

Mentioned first on Demonland virtually as it happened.

I suspect the club will continue to support Lachie but his numbers weren't great and it was fairly clear when others were preferred in the ruck after King's injury, that he was either injured as well or not considered up to the challenge. I would like to think it was not the latter. There are two tall ruckmen on the Casey playing list who I suppose could come in at this late stage if KIng's injury is serious. Kieren Byers is 21 years of age, 203cm and 99kgs and played one game earlier this year in Round 4 against Geelong VFL (the team's last defeat). He was monstered by Zac Smith and Wylie Buzza and picked up 6 hit outs. The other tall on the list is former Gippsland Power ruckman Julian Patterson, also 203cm but more lightly built - he hasn't been tried this year. I'm not sure how the 23rd player rules work (except that you can only have them for three games) but it might worth looking at the local Under 18s (Dandy Stingrays or Gippy Power) but unless they have someone outstanding, you'd be taking a kid as well who might be no stronger in the ruck than Flipper.

That’s a 91 point win to Casey Casey Demons 8.5.53 11.5.71 16.7.103 20.9.129 Northern Blues 0.0.0 4.2.26 4.4.28 5.8.38 Goals Casey Demons C Wagner 4 White 3 Keilty Lockhart Machaya Weideman 2 Baker Gent McKenna Pedersen Stockdale Northern Blues Kerr 2 Fisher Myers Palmer Fisher Best Casey Demons C Wagner Lockhart Pedersen Machaya Keilty White Northern Blues Palmer Kerr Fisher Hill De Koning Schumacher Statistics Oskar Baker 1 goals 6 kicks 3 handballs 9 disposals 3 marks 5 tackles 53 dream team points Tomas Bugg 8 kicks 5 handballs 13 disposals 6 marks 7 tackles 74 dream team points Lachlan Filipovic 1 kick 1 handball 2 disposals 2 tackles 2 hit outs 7 dream team points Mitch Gent 1 goals 14 kicks 12 handballs 26 disposals 6 marks 3 tackles 103 dream team points Mitch Hannan 1 behind 10 kicks 8 handballs 18 disposals 4 marks 1 tackle 64 dream team points Jayden Hunt 10 kicks 11 handballs 21 disposals 2 marks 7 tackles 89 dream team points Jack Hutchins 6 kicks 7 handballs 13 disposals 3 marks 1 tackles 46 dream team points Dion Johnstone 3 kicks 4 handballs 7 disposals 2 marks 6 tackles 47 dream team points Declan Keilty 2 goals 5 kicks 9 handballs 14 disposals 2 marks 3 tackles 60 dream team points Mitch King 1 kick 1 handballs 2 disposals 4 tackles 14 hit outs 35 dream team points Jay Lockhart 2 goals 13 kicks 12 handballs 25 disposals 3 marks 8 tackles 118 dream team points Pat McKenna 1 goal 8 kicks 6 handballs 14 disposals 3 marks 51 dream team point Cory Machaya 2 goals 9 kicks 18 handballs 27 disposals 4 marks 4 tackles 98 dream team points James Munro 12 kicks 9 handballs 21 disposals 3 marks 62 dream team points Cameron Pedersen 1 goal 24 kicks 7 handballs 31 disposals 11 marks 124 dream team points Harry Petty 8 kicks 7 handballs 15 disposals 3 marks 3 tackles 60 dream team points Tim Smith 1 behind 13 kicks 8 handballs 21 disposals 3 marks 8 tackles 13 hit outs 109 dream team points Will Stephenson 2 behinds 5 kicks 2 handballs 7 disposals 1 mark 5 tackles 47 dream team points Cory Stockdale 1 goal 1 behind 6 kicks 8 handballs 14 disposals 3 marks 5 tackles 70 dream team points Corey Wagner 4 goals 3 behinds 17 kicks 9 handballs 26 disposals 3 marks 10 tackles 142 dream team points Josh Wagner 12 kicks 11 handballs 23 disposals 1 mark 11 tackles 103 dream team points Sam Weideman 2 goals 9 kicks 15 handballs 24 disposals 7 marks 2 tackles 7 hit outs 108 dream team points Mitch White 3 goals 13 kicks 3 handballs 16 disposals 2 marks 9 tackles 107 dream team points