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This. We got two first rounders last draft, and they both look like diamonds, so am perfectly happy to forego early draft picks this year considering the quality and balancing out of list age balance that Hibberd and Lewis provide. And, Hibberd is a gun, just the power and propulsion we need off halfback.

The Doggies have just destroyed a whole bunch of assumptions. Winning from 7th, with a huge injury list, not a glamour club, and with a solid list of non-stars, with only a few exceptions. This game is as much about collective psychology ('buy-in', if you wanna call it that) as anything. It's truly a TEAM game, and they've just proved the essence of it.

Agree totally, but the umpiring needs to improve. It's the biggest blight on our game.

How are the umpires getting away with this?!!!!

Not forgetting he might have trouble curbing his instinct to mow the other runners down with bone crunching tackles.

Was all over the Dogs to go all the way before last weekend, but the ease of Swans dispatch of Geelong and the emotional rollercoaster of the Dogs last gasp over Giants points to a blowout today. Swans in a second half canter.

Rubbish. This kind of 'better list' nonsense really makes me laugh. How can you possibly say we have better lists when they consistently get monstered by the team's you claim are inferior?. It's pie in the sky garbage.

It's very very sad, but Trengove's actually too slow for VFL footy, let alone AFL. His footy brain lets him get away with it up to a point, but it's very stark.

Oliver, Weideman (although he needs to get a lot stronger and fitter) and Joel Smith. That's the only promise out there from today's game as far as I can see. Anyone else?

This. A deadset replica of the two St.Kilda games at Etihad. We, meaning Casey AND Melbourne are horribly lacking when the opposition combines pressure and speed of ball use. It's going to be our biggest obstacle in the coming years, and needs a serious strategy change.

What a horribly gutless way to play a third quarter in a Grand Final. The Scorps showed too often during the season that they're frontrunners and so it comes to pass now. Woeful stuff when the big prize is there.

Next to Jack Watts, best kick for goal at the club.

Three players up for the defensive spoil, ball out the back. That's just dumb footy.

Run and gun and pressure at the breakdown will always beat the kind of waffley predictable sideways nonsense Casey are playing. Oliver knows how, otherwise it's gonna get very ugly.

Dom ruptured his PCL at GWS which put a dent in the rate of his career progression, and on his top-end speed. By his own admission he was always going to be an inside midfielder but also reads the ball very well and has an ability to find space when he puts games together, as we've seen this year. We're yet to see his very best, and as someone else mentioned on here, he'll be a Brownlow darling for some years to come. His goalkicking and play creation are still on the rise.

It's something we supporters have just taken for granted too. Very unlikely to be this good again next year, statistically speaking. All the more reason to maintain strength at Casey and hold onto those players who might otherwise be looking for a senior gig somewhere else. If they stay, likelihood is they'll get their chance.

I saw Dom in his draft year with some minor injury (don't remember what) and knowing only that he was playing for the Oakleigh Chargers and a Trinity boy, asked him how his draft prospects were looking. With all humility he told me he was likely to go top 10 (he went at 3 I think). That being the GWS draft year, I asked how he felt about the 50% likelihood of being a Giant. He said he was happy to get a gig anywhere. I then suggested in half jest that as a Melbourne supporter I was sure we'd be thrilled to have him at the Dees, or that if he got picked up by GWS and felt homesick later on, we could probably fit him in. Funny how things transpire!

Mine too. And was at the Vic park game in '76, the only game I ever went to at Vic Park. I was 11, and stood on those steel spined cans (imagine standing on cans now) behind the goals at the Kew end. Had no idea what was going on down the other end. Also remember the crowd being feral in a way I'd never encountered before. Was that the year they moved Ray Biffin to full forward? Hard to believe nothing came of that, and it took us 11 years to get close again. That Bulldogs game was the first time I'd been to the Western Oval as well. Hmmmm.......maybe I should get down to Kardinia Park in a couple of weeks.

Actually, most of it IS luck.

Perfectly summarised RBG.

This was a much more impressive win than many on here are giving credit for. How the suddenly elevated expectations have distorted people's perspective! Withstood the home crowd run on and consequent umpiring blindness in the third, then basically outmuscled, out skilled and out smarted Port in the last. Without doubt our second best win of the year. That being said, Port do play some of the dumbest football going around, and they are poorly coached.

Wow, this idea that we were 'the better team' just continues to baffle me. Adelaide and St. Kilda are better teams than us, it's just a fact. The Eagles we should have beaten on the day, but they too are a better team. Ladder positions at this time of the year speak the truth. Skills, vision and decision making are all things that constitute quality, and those three teams have more of all of them, hence they are better.

His agility is his point of difference for me. Evades, sidesteps and wrong foots like nobody else in the team. A natural footballer from the moment he stepped on the scene, he's smart and clearly committed. Once he hits 50+ games, the extra polish and poise will only increase his core value.

1. We got the four points 2. We deserved the four points 3. That was an unspeakably horrible performance.

I've seen some dodgy victories over the years, but never one so undeserved or so clearly umpire assisted in the last quarter. And yet as always, nobody is accountable. We deserved to win, we should have won, and yet we now go into our fifteenth year without a win in the west.