Inner Demon

Morton was edged in the head-to-head battle only by virtue of a couple of junk time goals once Roos gave up on Goodes as a damaging midfield option where Morton was breaking even. Very little shame in a 3rd yearp player only being beaten late in the game by one of the all-time greats of the game.

6 - Colin Sylvia 5 - Clint Bartram 4 - James Frawley 3 - Jordie McKenzie 2 - Brad Green 1 - Cam Bruce It speaks enormous volumes of the sensational team performance today that the games of Davey, Macdonald, Jamar and a handful of others couldn't crack a vote.

Almost no doubt in my mind he'll be dropped next week. Sure, he did some nice things here and there, but there is absolutely no way he is going to hold any of McDonald, Moloney or Trengove out of the team. The whole "he needs to be given a few games" argument is all well and good, but Maric won't be the unluckiest to miss out on a spot when those 3 players come back.

Love it, but could do without the little flame thing above the M. Doesn't add anything and doesn't really below. Looks like the Singapore Airlines logo.

He definitely needs to earn game time. Can't recall him cracking into the best for Casey at all this year. Shouldn't be expecting much of a pay rise in his new contract.

Any specific examples or predictions of how this list might be misleading?? Do you think Ricky Petterd is, in fact, going to return to the team this week leaving Sydney reeling and unable to gather themselves to effectively compete??

This is a fair point, but who in the current senior team should be denied their development opportunity in order to gift it to Maric??? With the massive inexperience in our list, there's pretty much only 3 players who aren't 'developing' every time they take the field. It would be fair to say that really only Junior, Bruce & Green are 'fully developed' at this point.

I don't reckon that injury list is really quite as bad as it looks at first glance. Practically speaking if those players all come through fitness tests it really looks like this: James Strauss (knee) - 1 week Jack Trengove (hip) - 1 week Jack Grimes (hamstring) - 3 weeks Ricky Petterd (shoulder) - season So fast forward to the lead-up to the game v Brisbane next week and it could feasibly look like this: Jack Grimes (hamstring) - 2 weeks Ricky Petterd (shoulder) - season I don't think that's anything to be too worried about.

I should clarify. "Deserving" a game isn't a simple as being named in the best for Casey. You have to also deserve the spot more than an incumbent player. At this stage, there is no position in the forward line that Maric deserves more than the incumbents.

He's contracted through next year, so there's no hurry. He'll get a run in the seniors when he deserves it.

Jack Grimes had stress fractures in his back for 2-3 years. Jordan Gysberts does not have a stress fracture injury for 2-3 weeks.

But which of our kids is pushing for Joel Mac's close marking strong defensive role??? I'd say Cheney is the only one really pushing for that kind of role.

The names/numbers are par for the course. The narrative most certainly isn't.

What is that claim based on?????

Quite right. He could get 30 touches and hold his opponent statless and the same people on here would drop him in this thread. He's the poster boy for the "I don't see him as a Premiership player" brigade. Did a good job, again, on Alwyn last week and is probably set for Ballantyne and/or Fyfe this week.

In fact, Joel is only 25.

Why do people always talk about Joel Macdonald as if he's about to turn 30??? He has years and years of football ahead of him.

I'd expect to see McDonald, Bail & Warnock added to the squad tonight with no omissions.

Neita is working for the Club now.

How about we draft Max Gawn, Jack Fitzpatrick & Jake Spencer to see if one of them might work out as an effective #2 ruckman???

The only way to do that is for Bell to enter the draft and him to fall all the way through to the rookie list at which point we determine that he is the best player available to draft onto our rookie list at that time. Personally, I don't think Daniel, at 26 next season, will have as much potential upside as any number of 18/19 year olds we could draft in his place.

I wonder the same thing Nasher. I seem to recall coming across this same question last year and I have a gut feeling that we can pick and choose who is demoted when injured players return but that is based on absolutely nothing at all rather than a hazy memory.

They've both been playing for the last 2 weeks so probably no need to have them on the injury report.

All of those are nicknames used by American sporting teams, but that's not an issue??? The Stingrays in particular are already a TAC Cup team and the Sharks are the biggest AFLQ team.

Because the Sun is an entirely American thing and something that has absolutely nothing to do with our sunburnt country or this football team playing in the sunshine state.