BAMF

The interesting thing is that it was mentioned by a few umpires last year that we were a very respectful team. Looks like the frustration is making a difference as Carlton arent getting pinged. This is what practice games are for I guess.

Carlton: 14, 3, 87 Demons: 10, 7, 67 1 min into the last.

Petracca came in and got him high. Was there when shown on replay.

I was at the grand final and the post match. He was clearly a demon man who loved the club. Can't stand him commenting Melbourne games. Constantly negative. I'm enjoying the game apart from him implying that we are getting ahead of ourselves. He has been like it for years. His attempts to be impartial is the problem. He needs to be taken off Demon games.

They look quicker too. We have been chasing them so much. They look a bit rattled too. Need to slow their momentum down and get our forward pressure game up and going.

[censored] Gary Lyon ay? Tell him to shut the [censored] up. Decide if you are part of the club or not. If you want to be then don't sink the [censored] boots in at every [censored] opportunity

This is his big contract year. I don't blame him for holding up till the e d of the year. He seems like such an important part of the players friendship both on and off field. This will get done late in the year. Hunt is the interesting one in my opinion. Free agent will have suitors. It may be that the club deliberately low balls Hunt to encourage him to move and get am end of second round draft pick in return. This would also free up the cash to keep Brayshaw. Just Mt thoughts. I understand if some find this topic unsavoury at this point of the year. Hopefully Hunt would get the premiership medallion this year after being very unlucky last year.

Is the re-surfacing anything to do with the new training base or just a separate thing? Either way it will be better for our players feet.

Did he? I seem to recall that Cameron was on a rampage when Smith got moved onto him and while Smith didn't completely stop him, his output was far less. I'm not the biggest Smith fan, but his output is always better than I anticipate. He grabs and holds his opponents to stay close and gets away with it. In my opinion he has been lucky with the umpires on a few occasions. I thought he was going to be a real gun as a forward a few years ago.

The decision makes a bit more sense to me after reading the article. Sounds like he just wanted a good workplace and a fair opportunity to get a game if his form deserves it Originally I couldn't see why he would want to come here as he wouldn't get the game time I assumed he wanted. Will likely be a great pick-up with covid looking to effect the year dramatically like other sports have been.

Early days. We usually get enough to fill up 2 or 3 leagues I think?

I would like to thankyou for your efforts over the past 10 years. So. Thanks!

Nah. If another team wins that means we lost. No way am I ever wishing another team wins 5.

I was there. It happened. It was glorious 😀

You have no idea about Harris or Nik Nat.

Huge game.

For arguments sake. Hibberd or Bowey could be replaced with Hunt. Some might have Tomlinson ahead of Petty.

Depth will be key this season. Very happy we still have Melksham on the list. Hopefully he has something to prove and is busting his backside to get back to that 2018 form. As for list depth, I think others have covered it already but I will add... We need young tall depth. I don't want Jackson forced to take the number one ruck role next year. I'm not sure I want him to ever take it really. He could be an absolute nightmare matchup as that 2nd ruck/ Tall forward/ Mid /Xfactor/Freak that I don't want locked down as number 1 ruck. I'm a little disappointed we didn't pick up another promising Ruck at the draft, but it's barely worth thinking about.

He has seen one afl game and doesn't know a thing about the sport which found it a bit tedious at times when Tom would have to explain the basics. Overall, I did enjoy it. Tom is always good to listen to.

I'm assuming that he is hopeful of getting onto the Demons list at some point as he is still young. We seem to have ditched the Casey recruiting of previous years. Likely Covid has impacted this as its ruined the VFL season. Good luck to him.

Buntine will be a good pick-up for Casey. Very happy. I remember Brock Smith being highly touted in his draft year but never heard of him post draft.

Ah yes... the academy zones. Given to us because the states in the north had an unfair advantage. A chance for us to develop some talent and get something back. Except when we do develop the kids the states in the north just draft them anyway. Seems really fair and worth our time and money. So yeah. Let not develop them too well so we can actually have access to them.

The sad thing is that I double checked to make sure I used a 'e' instead of an 'a'

I think both you and Dazzle have valid points. I'm happy we have him as depth but think it was an odd choice for him to choose us.

Im predicting Hibbered will play about 5 -10 games this year and will lose his spot in the 22 to a younger player. He will get a one year extension. Hoping that he can get to 100 games for the club. Currently on 89 and 173 in total.