Cranky Franky

And the worst decision Bailey ever made (which still haunts us) was to overlook Dylan Grimes in the pre season draft & pick Joel McDonald instead.

Several major omissions as far as I am concerned. Henry Coles was an excellent rover & goal kicking fwd pocket for us. Also in terms of talent surely Alan Davis & Phil Carman get in - both were brilliant players. Cross, Crosswell & Clarkson were way past their best when they came to us & were only there to teach some of the younger players.

Well knock me over with a feather. Who would have guessed. Same story that we've had from every assistant since about 1968.

Its actually a very accurate comment. I watched Jeffy play at Casey in 2018 & for whatever reason he was poor & not trying very hard. Everybody is subject to different personal circumstances & pressures but when you pull on a jumper & get paid a bucketload of money you have to expect criticism. I can't see why he gets judged by different rules than say Stretch or Kennedy Harris.

Smith, Vandenberg, Hannan, Kolodashnij & Bennell will be injured all year & won't play 6 games between them

The most "beige" player on the list, lacks any physicality to his game. Astounded that they kept him & let Frost walk, very lucky to still be around.

The first intelligent comment on this issue. Demonlanders seem to have lost their ability to think critically & everything the management does gets greeted with loud applause. 5 years is a ridiculous deal for a good solid player. Only Gawn & maybe Oliver would be worthy of such a deal. Over long contracts is how Clubs get themselves into trouble - form & injury can mean a drop off very quickly.

I reckon a lot of Demonlanders have collectively gone mad & lost their objectivity and logical reasoning in their desperate quest for success. What happened to the NO Dickhe@ds policy. Have people forgotten the troubles & dramas this bloke has caused at 2 Clubs !! with regard to drugs and poor discipline. And this is before you even begin to look at his injury problems

Absolute disaster. Has been trouble & a disappointment at 2 Clubs. You start recruiting di#%heads and you reap the result.

The problem with ANB is that his skills are very shaky under any sort of pressure. He also needs more aggression and physical pressure in his makeup. Plus he just has to kick those 50/50 goal opportunities that present to him.

What a load of absolute nonsense - straight out of the Melbourne PR Dpt. Tomlinson might be able to run 3 marathons in a row but he is still an average plodder.

I was flabbergasted to read that our BT rates Frost behind Josh Wagner & Oscar McD because no other sane person who watches football would agree with them. Reminds me that we gave away a Kings ransom to get Lever when we effectively gave away Jeremy Howe who has become one of the top intercept defenders in the competition. And to those who always pipe up that Howe was going to leave anyway - I have never seen evidence of that & recall that we made no effort to keep him & were very happy to trade him away.

You are missing the point - which is - that there are a lot of hidden gems among potential Indigenous recruits. For example we select Johnson & Bedford who at best need years of development whereas Richmond pick up Shai Bolton & Sidney Stack, not to mention Marlion Pickett who are ready to play from day 1. We used to be very good at this - now we are not.

Melbourne used to be very good at recruiting talented Aboriginal players - usually a bit more mature & experienced than raw 18 year olds - we had great success with Matt Whelan, Ozzie Woannemirri, Liam Jurrah & Aaron Davey. In recent years we seemed to have sopped looking. We have picked up Dion Johnstone & Jay Kennedy Harris while Richmond have managed to pick several diamonds out of the rough ie Bolton, Stack & now Pickett. Our recruiters need to wake up.

Are you a dill or just uninformed ? We have a VFL side - its called the Casey Demons & we completely control every aspect of it including player development. Get with the program.

Sorry but I'm still bitter about us recruiting Joel MacDonald over Dylan Grimes. Just cannot get over it. Add that to Paul Roos saying that Toby Green & Shaun Higgins were available to us for loose change a few years ago - what might have been !!???

I thought he was finished last year but 9 goals from 7 games means he was on track for a 30 goal season - even with a dodgy shoulder. He is still a mile ahead of any other small forward we have so I would give him a performance based one year deal. Lets not throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Our current coaching group does not seem to be very good at developing young players. Unless you are an outstanding prospect most young players need to learn the game at VFL level then when they are playing consistent footy at Casey you slowly ease them into first grade. I despair that we have wrecked any chance Oscar McD & Spargo have of being AFL players by playing them when they were not ready & not giving them time to learn the game & develop - now I worry that we will do the same to Dunkley.. Hope I'm wrong.

Spargo's biggest problem is that he has been developed poorly. He should have played 3 or 4 games last year then gone back to Casey to develop & hone his craft not played 15 odd games its really the Club's fault. Also not sure he has the weapons to be a small fwd - I reckon he should go to the mid field to hone his skills.

Give him a break - I know he looks about 40 but he has only played 13 games of senior footy & he came to AFL fairly late. It will be another 3 or 4 years before he becomes an effective player. We probably need a ready made back up while Preuss learns the trade.

All true but a few other facts: Coaches got ahead of themselves we are not as good as we think. Poor planning to lose 3 big forwards - Watts, Pedersen, Hogan without adequate replacements We are slow - other teams have been recruiting fast outside runners & quick small pressure forwards while we have been picking slow plodding mids Some players not up to it & need to be moved on We need better specialist coaches - a forward coach needs to have been a top level forward with lots of experience not a half back flanker who has has done a level 4 accreditation Our injury management has been woeful

This is called being wise after the event. Everyone is a genius in hindsight. Don't forget he was probably our best player over the 3 finals we played. That said I doubt he will play again - 7 games in 3 seasons & 27 years old.

Really disappointed in this bloke & good to see he got a week for headbutting. He used to be one of my favourite non MFC players because of his fearless attack on the ball & unselfish play. Saturday changed that - he was acting up for frees & milking it shamelessly. He was tackled legitimately but went down like he was shot & got paid a free for over the shoulder, later on he again got tackled fairly by Petty I think & milked it again & sucked the umpire in for another free. Spectators at the ground picked it up & he was then booed the next few times he went near the pill. Really poor umpiring.

Virtually from the goal square no less - shanks nearly all his kicks left & has learnt nothing since costing us the Geelong game last year. In an era when most aspects of player training & development are monitored & measured to within a millimetre of their life why on earth don't we put some resources into improving players kicking. Can't we get maybe Brad Green, Yze, Garry Lyon, Neita all of whom were great kicks to spend some time with the likes of Max, Fritsch, Trac, Tim Smith & Hunt to improve their kicking. Develop a routine, consistent ball drop, where to aim and when passing to a team mate learn to hit him on the chest not a metre above the head. Is all this too obvious or what ?

That is a very poor argument. You have made an assertion without providing any evidence at all. You may as well say "98% of those booing were racists because that's what i think". Furthermore you haven't explained why say Michael Long - another "uppity" and outspoken player wasn't booed when he called out racial abuse.