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On the nickname, someone referred to him as a baby bontempelli which I thought was apt. Mind immediately went to Bambi as a nickname. Not that I'm advocating bontempelli to be hunted. Tholstrup can be thumper.

Don't know him but he looked super invested yesterday and cheering on almost like a fan from the bench.

Well that was a fun game to watch twice. Interesting watching the replay and Jay Clark at the start of the game mentioned that Dees would want either Treacy, Jackson or Amiss (in that order) for a potential trade for Kozzie. I just hope we keep him. He's so important to us and if our game style continues its evolution towards a more attacking game then he's really going to flourish as well.

Not many Casey players putting their hands up. Could simply be May for Turner though suspect McVee will make his way in as well.

Main thing I learned from this game is that GWS are flush with talent that we should try and pick off. Aleer, Derkson, Gruzewski, Leake, Angove, Wardius, Angwin, Oliver, Ough, Gothard. These players will struggle to get into the senior team and a couple could be more than useful for us. Edit: added Leake

6: Pickett 5: Gawn 4: Bowey 3: Petty 2: Viney 1: McDonald

Langford will be a pure inside mid with some time resting forward as an aerial threat. Lindsay will be an inside/outside midfielder, has more versatility and can play wing and half back. His u18 year as a centre square mid was outstanding. Tholstrup I see as a hybrid mid/half forward. I'm not convinced Windsor will be a centre square player but will be an elite winger in my view.

Will be a very strong Casey forward line. Also looking forward to seeing Leek Aleer, Wade Derkson, James Leake and Phoenix Gothard from the Giants.

Well earned club debut, good luck tom.

On the plus side Casey's VFL team will feature JvR, Jefferson, Fritsch and Johnson (Rd 1 afl forward line). The first 3 in particular I like for the senior team in the not too distant future, the more they play together the better.

I don't pretend to know better than the FD, but would have liked to have seen; JvR not to be punished after being set up for failure with selection last week, Jefferson in, Tholstrup to return via vfl after a long lay off with injury, Sharp out with Sparrow on cusp of demotion as well. I love melksham and the delivery he provides, but think we need to move forward from a 33yr old low possesion player that shouldn't be part of our plans from next year onwards. Provides much needed leadership though so perhaps is required. Fritsch looked better last week so bit surprised by his dropping but not necessarily unhappy with it. Looking forward to the imminent return of McVee if all goes well at VFL level.

Pickett + another?

Cody Curtin, Liam Hetherton and Louis Emmett are other key forwards to keep an eye on if we go down that path.

You would've thought we would learn after losing Bedford and Jordon due to this. Not that they are world beaters, but thats 2 x, what would easily be now, best 22 players we allegedly wanted to keep gone due to poor selection decisions. Now it sounds like we have disgruntled senior and fringe players with a potential exodus on our hands. Can't exactly see too many people rushing to join our club either. How could this be managed so poorly?

He was AA in the u16s as a top ager. Featured in the first u18 allies championship game as a bottom ager in last year but didn't play any more games. Hope he has a ripper year and chooses us, I just don't think its a certainty yet.