spirit of norm smith

About 15 players injured and no practice matches yet. Cotton wool may be ordered in bulk to get us through to round 1 !!!!!

agree to keep supporting this young bloke. he must be in a bad place but should be under no pressure to get back. Keep working on his own mental capability and the light fitness work to keep in good shape only if he and the doctors make the call to stop, then we can look to the top up process.

I think we need to get through the preseason with minimal injuries. Need to get a fit and firing squad for the season start. Gawn, Brayshaw, Tmcd and May are crucial. All in my top 10 MFC players.

Great insight into the club Goodwin - yes you got it wrong. It does take courage to admit it. It takes absolutely internal thinking to change And get it right this year Vandenburg- hope this guy gets back. Great attitude. Would be a huge in for 2020. Bennell - it’s a honest call from the club. This is his last chance. Hopefully he has good support at the club and importantly away from the club. Fingers crossed. Burgess - seems to be the man to lift and push the players. Wait and see how it goes. I’m backing him.

Good article imo. Everyone is unclear whether the Demons are as good as the 2018 model or as bad as the 2019 version. that’s fair enough. 2018 was an easy draw. 2019 was a tough draw and a shocking run of injuries to key players. still our ability to score and actually to kick the footy to hit targets was shocking. This simple improvement to AFL standard would be a huge lift. I’m tipping a 7-10 position this year with a good draw. Tmcd and Weideman have to be better. They have to get strong and mark the footy. We need a 40+ and a 25+ goal scoring year from these two. Fit and firing, we can beat anyone. Yes Anyone. But getting a fit squad is already proving hard to achieve and we haven’t even had a practice game.

Farrkkk me !! He’s on $600k and we need him fit and firing. Fingers crossed

Love it

There’s 8 blokes already very doubtful imo for round 1. Wow. And not even up to preseason matches. Gawn is crucial!!

Looked very good in the preseason at Maroochydore. We are cursed!!!

Expect Jonesy to be ripping for round 1. Bloody legend.

Weid to kick 50+ goals this year. I’d like to see that !!!!

Williamstown signed up Jack Leslie. He is one to keep watch on as he proved a very versatile tall defender at AFL level. Willy seems to always recruit very well and Andy Collins obviously drives a good discussion around the opportunity to “play” consistent game time at a stand alone non aligned club. I think they also have some $$$$$ to offer which helps recruit other VFL Players like Corey Rich and Luke Meadows. They lost GF by 3 points last year and imo will be top 2-3 again.

Surely the AFL could give us these kids as compensation for long term suffering. (?!?) Lord is a Tom Hawkins type key forward and Phillips is a gun young midfielder who should go in the top 10 picks in 2020.

Round 21 bye again !! Regular season Ends mid August. All day games?!?!?! 11/30 ...11/45... 12 midday. Wow. Early to bed for the Casey boys.

Thanks. That’s not good. Willy probably offer guaranteed game time and find extra $$$ to throw in.

Any news on Jack Leslie coming to Casey?? Big defender. Strong and quick. Injuries has impacted on his past few years but 2019 showed he was good enough in AFL quality. Was a very good junior and I thought he’d be a reasonable chance to get picked up post Suns delisting. One to watch in 2020 hopefully in a Casey jumper.

Gillon Mc has seen this and granted the Dees some compensation. We will get 1st priority pick in 2020 draft mid 1st round pick in 2021 draft exclusive access to Gippsland zone for the next 5 years Gillon Mc said “for the benefit of the game and the long term strength of the code, we need every team being competitive across many years” sorry- it was all a dream!! we are not the Suns

Omcd has shown nil and yet still gets represented in our best 22. Ridiculous

Very handy free pickup. Versatile. Smart player. Played some good footy last year and provides insurance to cover Weid and Tmcd which we didn’t have last year.

Chess piece number 1 Mitch Brown now in place

Billy Stretch and Jkh are off the list

G. Lyon. Wow. Absolutely let himself go. Mick Molloy looks in better shape!

Optimistic outlook for us to get Kolodjashnij, Vandenburg, Jsmith and then also Bennell all injury free and fit. If we can , the best 22 looks impressive.

So do Bennell and Brown now train with us from next week. Assume we have 2-3 months to top up with 2x rookies or an upgrade.

Both got picked up as rookies. Desperately unlucky not to be drafted.