Diamond_Jim

Has one of the players imported from other clubs post 2021 established himself in the best 22. I can't think of one Pre-season I had us tagged as a 6-10 club which is most likely correct. The club has lost its way at the Casey level which doesn't help. (Recruitment of Casey listed players)

You won't win a GF with the old gameplan. We know that. I'd rather fail miserably now trying than go out in straight sets against the fast ball moving sides

I like the gameplan at a theoretical level. The problem is that Goodwin had the team playing the boundary for so many years we had lost the fast movement skills necessary for the new gameplan. Nowhere is this better demonstrated than at Casey.

Have you watched Casey lately. We lost to Coburg yesterday... a team that is winless this year and has maybe won five games in the last three years

I think we can call this game now

Almost a full quarter since our last goal. The window is closing

We've never had an NT following... It's a money trip

Getting ugly

Hard to get a handle on VFL form given where Casey is as a team.

Strange cats those Crows

Verral centres the ball. Misses by 15 metres. Coburg goal

Coburg winless for this season and a perennial cellar dweller. Not the greatest by Casey

Tholstrup is plateauing. Gets a reasonable amount of the ball but not delivering that little extra

Not the greatest forward delivery by Casey.

Loving the dog in the sound mic

Lucky Freo left Perth yesterday as a refuelling issue has thrown Perth airport into chaos https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-01/perth-airport-planes-grounded-refuelling-problem/103922850 Perth Airport said a problem with load pressure in the fuel lines was causing the issue. "Further cancellations are expected and in-bound flights which have not already left their departure points will also be impacted," a spokesperson said in a statement. "Airlines have been advised not to send aircraft to Perth Airport until further notice unless they have sufficient fuel to make a return flight." It's understood some flights have been delayed since Friday night, leaving thousands of passengers stranded.

Read that article last night. It suggests a number of possibilities for the reasons as to the level of injuries but none are conclusive. There is little doubt that it's a combination of smaller lists, lengthened seasons and shorter off seasons. With competition equalisation luck has now become a major player. The luck of the fixture, the luck of the draft, the luck of father son selections.. the list goes on

Ticketmaster supposedly hacked and now Ticketek. The available evidence at this time indicates that, from a privacy perspective, your name, date of birth and email address may have been impacted,” the company said in emails to people who had bought tickets through the company https://www.theage.com.au/national/ticketek-customers-private-details-exposed-in-cyber-incident-20240531-p5jiez.html

I've often thought of syncing Bang bang bang to the cannons of the 1812 Overture

Is he playing VFL tomorrow. I see we're playing at Coburg. An excellent venue (1:05pm Saturday)

Not quite They just beat the third placed team on that team's home ground by 6 goals

Time to get a King perhaps.... St Kilda forward Max King’s career is being wasted. The towering 202-centimetre key forward, selected at No.4 in the 2018 national draft, should be entering the prime of his career, dominating big games in front of appreciative crowds and emerging as one of the AFL’s premier spearheads. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/forget-the-contract-max-king-must-leave-the-saints-20240529-p5jhjn.html

I was a big rugby fan during its glory days. Once they introduced the international club competition and went behind paywalls I lost interest which I rarely regain. The more recent negatives at inter- country level were the "forever" dominance of the All Blacks and the increasing dominance of the long range penalty kick as the major means of scoring as compared to tries

As an aside Ticketmaster (the main competitor of Ticketek) was reportedly hacked recently and the data of 560M users is now up for sale. https://www.9news.com.au/national/ticketmaster-live-nation-hack-560-million-customers-data-reportedly-stolen/7c5baa93-eba6-41c0-8868-9f72e22c6128

If it is a concern limit the throw to 15 metres. We have that distance for bouncing the ball and minimum kick length.