spirit of norm smith

My mate Deano headed up. Said it was low key. Weather dreary. Moved on after half an hour. Reckons Hogan is the key to 2018 and he looks in good shape.

VFL website has teams in and out so far. Quiet times at Casey with youngsters & development league players moving to Frankston. Not sure INS for Casey are complete. Corey Wagner not there ??

Love the royal blue for clash games. Retro is back in style. Perhaps some 1970s music as we prepare the games. Dragon? Simon and Garfunkel?

Yes I rang the club today. Spoke to Steph. She said yes the open training session was on the Friday and it’s only been on the Saturday in the past due to having no Qld games in the past year. She was wrong. The open session has always been on the weekend on Saturday. It supported by over 400 locals and Brisbane based Dees supporters. Stephs final words were that we get two MFC games in Brisbane so my 3 kids will have to go the those games to see the players. Poor. Very poor. Club cannot allocate one hour to loyal interstate supporters. WTF.

Like Lamumba, he must stay on the list and salary is included in the year.

Great news

Plenty of the developing youngsters have moved on. Frankston Dolphins to benefit from Development league demise. Hillard, Lovett, Ferreira & Zijai all at the Dolphins.

Will Stephenson from the 2017 Gippsland Power team is onboard at Casey for VFL 2018. Young midfielder/small forward. I was told he was disappointed not to get a rookie spot but excited to get a chance at Casey.

Yes and yes

Karen Woodroofe - 30 years volunteer for MFC awarded life membership Twitter from MFC liked by Jack23Watts Clearly JW will keep his red & blue coloured blood

Yeh really disappointed that boot camp gets missed. Players will instead work on decision making, kicking skills, handballing to running players and tackling around the waist to lock in the footy. Things relevant to their core job.

Ruthless Robbo?

Agree. Watts is just supporting his new team. Do you think he would trash talk Port by saying they are way off or that this is a bogun place!! Really

I hear Casey settling on 15 players with a top up supplementary group of 5 from local league if injuries mount up. Jack Hutchins to captain again. Mitch Gent, Dylan Gordon, Goy Lok and Angus Scott to remain in 2018. Mitch White returns. Tom Couch as playing assistant coach. Col Garland likely to support as required. Corey Wagner recruited to be another live wire forward and midfielder.

Hard work always pays off

Agree. It was rubbish at times but very very funny ... and the Ox has had some very good insights to how footy is. Merry Xmas !!!!

Corey Wagner signed on. Ex Kangas listed and played 8 AFL games with the Roos over 2016 and 2017. To play with his brother Josh plus to show he has some small forward role to play. Very handy player.

Trengove wanted to play AFL and Port have given him the chance. Casey should offer a role to Lachlan Hansen. At 29, he is too good to retire and would be good for him to come back home to the shire. Like Hutchins, he would really lift Casey up. Casey only have Weideman and Smith as key forwards and hopefully Weideman plays 11-12+ games at in MFC in 2018.

Back 6 Jetta. Omcd. Lever Salem. Frost. Hibberd Assume Lewis may step into half back role with Salem moving into midfield/wing type role. Obviously Hunt on a wing is a similar move

Demons will improve because - Hogan hopefully plays a full year - Gawn hopefully plays a full year - Salem hopefully plays a full year - Viney hopefully plays a full year “pain free” - Oliver can still get better with his decision making - Petracca can get better and tear several games apart - Jake Lever now on board - Weideman will continue to develop - omcd gets another summer in the gym - Bernie Vince will not be guaranteed a game and no excuses for stupid turnovers or ill discipline - progress of Hannan, Stretch, ANB & Harmes - Fritsch can fit in as a very handy smart forward

Many of us picked Harmes and Maynard to shift jumper numbers. Great judges here. I like the new allocations. Fritsch at #31 = to his draft pick was as predicted poetic.

Col was a great bloke. Never picked up the responsibility of adulthood. Highly talented. Wasted.

Certainties in life - death, taxes and footy injuries. Unless it’s the Richmond footy club in 2017 when only one player, Nathan Drummond, was injured for more than 2 weeks!

Will Collis. I think Dylan Collis is a bright young player and will give Casey a crack again.

They play with a local club until they get the call up. Likely train twice a week at Casey. It’s a tough call for the fringe like Mitch Cox and Jordan Moncrieff. Some will just stay in local footy or tryout at Frankston