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At risk of being accused of being a communist or a socialist, which I can assure you all I am anything but, it is time to recognise - two teams are required to have a match - multiple teams (currently IMO too many at 18) make up a competition - no team actually owns their “home ground” ...... they are all heavily subsidized by the taxpayer So - after deducting any actual outgoing from staging a match by the “home team”, split the gate, or even; - maybe too radical a thought but pool the lot and share the loot, maybe on a pro rate manner related to the membership numbers of the clubs. As it stands, there is a perpetual cycle of the rich getting richer and the poor making up the numbers.

Robbo’s team ........ care factor ZERO Robbo’s opinion in anything ....... care factor ZERO

Given Dean’s injury history and difficulties in staying on the track I don’t know if he would have much trade value.

He is a product of Sheedy's whatever it takes (as opposed to Hird's whatever we can take) Essendon

I listened to most of the commentary and it sounded as if there were Casey players dropped behind the play every few minutes. Amateurish administration of this competition if this is not investigated, punished and stamped out.

Hope the club has insured his big toe

That gutless assault will stick in my mind whenever that dog of a man is swooned about. He got off so lightly - after all it was as I recall only a fairly short time after Phil Hughes died as a result of a blow to the same area. It IS always a very dangerous place for anyone to be hit by another, even by what Broooose calls "an absolute legend".

Can't say much more. But contrast this apologetic excuse ridden 'pseudo criticism' with the absolute bulshit that we had to put up with when Clarrie was hit in the jaw in Perth, and Jesse had his throat assaulted at docklands by a serial basher.

For all the grief that we have suffered under Neeld, I don't think it fair to blame him for this selection. And I have also wondered, and I think said on these forums what TPF39 has said below (though maybe not being quite so enthusiastic as his last sentence. Trac, Brashaw, Oliver >> Wines alone.

Weidemann reads the play well and certainly shows courage into packs. I guess the match committee have at least considered this. Question for training watchers : is Sam still working exclusively with tall forwards? The only fields I have heard of in that country were of the killing variety ? ??? as kicking boy??..

He (Trac) has been good but not brilliant. Maybe this round is his. Cameo midfield appearances is where I see Trac best option but mainly half forward Blasphemy. Trac has already done more than Col did in his hole career Just hope whoever gets the gig realises/ is told that someone needs to be back between the last opponents and the goal No. The architects of tanking get rewarded with a million prime time games.

Frankly I dont give a rat’s clacker what “the media” think (if I fact they do actually think or in some cases are sober enough to think?) or say. And, as another has posted, neither twin is in any way likeable, ranking at about zero or minutely above on the open ended Goddard scale where BG is zero.

INVHO he may fill the intercept spoiler rôle but disposal is a concern.

Can any of the Casey regular observers comment on Joel’s awareness, decision making and disposal efficiency? Especially compared with the other contenders. I am coming around to see him as “the one” if his disposal is as good or better than the others. Size wise he is almost equivalent and IIRC his leap was good, ie “plays taller than his height”.

Trac did at least some of his rehab in the USA under the guru already mentioned earlier in the post. Seemed to have worked (at least so far MFCSS) remarkably well.

Is that who it was? I heard somewhere someone making this ridiculous argument. Regarding the ANZAC round, we had SS V ADELAIDE on the Friday night ✔️ but WB v CARLTON the following Friday night but SS V CATS the Saturday. So this “excuse” is absolute BS. If they just came out and admitted that they had screwed up it wouldn’t change the travesty but could at least make it a little more palatable.

Well one can only hope it bites them in the bum big time. Is Gillon going to take any responsibility at all for this incompetence or will he defer it down stream. He is just a pretty face.

So Tyson and Bugg are not in then?

I am just enjoying the very unfamiliar feeling that I look forward to playing whichever team comes up next. :-))))

Tyson does most things OK but in this team, now, poor disposal is not going to cut it. (Similar with Bugg)

I am supporting them, today, in response to the Crows' supporters schadenfreude over OUR Jack Lever's injury!

OMG the maggots are [censored] scared of letting GW$$ beating Adelaide in front of their crowd. At least it is a close game unlike the boring runaways this afternoon.

Dont you just love the auto censor ;-))). I will give it a test, but I do remember when we couldn't use the name Dick as a contraction for Richard. And, Uncle, I think the surgery for the Irish knees was far more challenging and had far worse outcomes than our sporting ACLs.

I guess it seems between Frost and Keilty to replace Lever ..... great (unfortunately) opportunity to prove themselves. From listening I had also felt that Ped would replace Smith (if not available) but Weideman sounds as if he played his role in the second half and may get the nod.