Diamond_Jim

Two forward forays by Casey for two behinds. Could easily have been two goals

Some great Celtic music over the ground speakers at half time. Makes a change from the ads at the mcg Much better second half of that quarter from Casey

Bradtke showing a little at this level. Very pleasing And two nice goals to Casey to finish the quarter 44-18

Yes but none on the sideline. The toilets require a cross country trip through the mud. Worse... the sausages at the sausage sizzle were burnt.

Coburg ground undergoing big redevelopment unfortunately

Very cold here but luckily no wind. Scrappy game. Ok As they say these days.,no connection

Lewis is a good example of a known factor in the salary cap spreadsheet. His salary will be well and truly marked for elsewhere. Where it becomes difficult is dealing with the outliers which Frost could become. Brayshaw was a perfect example of such a player who went from a struggling possible trade/delist to a match winner in the space of 10-15 games and quite properly commanded a large but comparatively unexpected rise. Tom Mac Donald was not too dissimilar. That is what I meant by saying we are not having much luck with our contract renewal windows. Anyway it's a good problem to have.

Fair enough.. averages are skewed by the highs and lows whereas a median is the figure around which the greatest number of players are based. The best figure would probably be median of players in the same game range. I take the salary cap stories with a grain of salt. Every club has to pay a very high percentage of the salary cap so there is never that much room. It's more about front and back loading. In theory we should have been front loading the plus 25 years of age players in anticipation of needing room to pay the emerging stars.. which please please we have. My comment re Garlett was that if unplanned money needs to be found that is a source. The money men would have factored in a reasonable renewal salary for Jeffy. The other unknown in the salary cap component is where Jones fits in for 2020.

the median is far less

we don't have much luck when it comes to the signing window... the spreadsheet boys would have had him in at base plus say $100-150k giving around $250k at most. Another three or four decent games and you can probably add another $100k per annum. Ironically it could seal Garlett's fate.

Has to be a worry... other than Melksham that is arguably our best forward set up. Imagine if we had our usual inaccuracy. Hopefully we see more structure next week. Here's an example of unstructured play.. Gawn has a shot for goal and decides to put it fifteen metres out. Pack flies and knocks it to the 25 metre line where Docker player grabs it and they're off. Surely Gawn has a pre determined signal to team mates telling them what he is going to do and the crumbers know where they should run to??

Hope this fog lifts for the early start. Casey radio showing coverage of the VFL game between Werribee and Williamstown... strange..

May as well continue with Petty and see if he can make it. His trajectory certainly flattened after his call up last year. Worth noting that Baker had not been starring at vfl level but is now showing early promise at AFL level.

Thought Hunt had a reasonable.not great game... pressured well and was one of few forwards who continually presented. The forward structure was woeful. Those two second quarter goals were almost painful to watch.

I see according to the AFL stats we almost broke even on centre clearances. Strange because I can barely remember one good clearance. I raise this because we have the best or second best ruckman and Oliver who is at the top of the clearance specialists. What I saw was a lot of fumbles and good wide clearances by Freo that were then well defended by our Defence who no doubt won us the game. Great win and hopefully a good follow up next week against the Lions... Could Preuss get a game..probably not

Very enjoyable game. As I said during the game thread because of our season it had no stress for me but when we hit the front by eight odd points i I must confess to some nervousness. Pleasant day at the mcg. Thought May had a good game. And boy those great overhead marks in the last few minutes. Looking forward to seeing a lot of smiling faces at Casey game tomorrow at Coburg

Fyfe is seriously good

Lucky this is a meaningless game otherwise it could be quite stressful

Can we play that badly in the second half. Hard to imagine a less functional forward line. Have only seen Hunt leading and he has not been able to hold his marks. Not sure if we have had a clean center clearance

Jones' delivery is atrocious

Pretty bad when dizzy demons is more enjoyable than the football

Getting killed out of the middle. Weid misses three marks. Will be a long day

Not quite on topic but a very good read: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/22/whats-behind-the-afls-sudden-insistence-that-the-game-has-indigenous-beginnings "In 1998 the AFL dedicated a monument to Wills at Moyston, close to where he lived as a child. It reads, “While playing as a child with Aboriginal children in this area he developed a game which he later utilised in the formation of Australian Football.” Yet as recently as 2017, presented with new documentary evidence by historian Jenny Hocking that Marn Grook was played where Wills was raised (this was previously said by Hibbins and others to be most unlikely) the AFL said, “The debate is really one between historians as to what Wills was exposed to.”

Expecting not much more than we delivered against GWS but will be happy if wrong. The three outs have certainly deflated the interest in this match. Why would anyone boo Hogan... infantile to say the least for those who do. Crowd wise if we crack 20k we will do well.. certainly won't have to worry about having less than half a section to myself in the AFL members.

we have Maynard, Stretch, ANB and JKH all coming up for renewal. Cannot delist them all.. which do you keep and more particularly how long an extension do you offer. As earlier posted re the Kent situation another club may offer them a longer term.