On 23/12/2010 at 05:24, jayceebee31 said:

Firstly WJ a great festive season to you & yours and wish RR the same for me,as he doesn't respond to me.. Thanks for enlightening me re Wall- I think, we have a great chance to develop a very strong team at Casey which indeed will allow that winning feeling to come through with our young and developing players. A real climate to develop a winnning culture.

I've passed on your wishes to Rhino Richards and just in case he was the wrong RR, I also sent a Xmas email to Rodney Rude

Seasons greetings to all.

  On 23/12/2010 at 21:46, Whispering_Jack said:

I've passed on your wishes to Rhino Richards and just in case he was the wrong RR, I also sent a Xmas email to Rodney Rude

Seasons greetings to all.

Thanks & good on ya WJ- you definately have the right spirit..Rhino should grab Rod's tapes- might brighten him up..But he is OK- Great sparring partner..GO DEES..

The club's first practice match next Saturday (5th March) v Box Hill Hawks has been moved to Toomuc Reserve, Princes Highway, Pakenham so as to help bring the home ground at Casey Fields up to best condition for the season proper. The Reserves commence at 11am and Seniors at 1.30pm.

The following week's practice match (12th March)v Sandringham will now be played at Trevor Barker Oval, Sandringham. Reserves commence at 10am and Seniors at 1pm.

Final scores received from Pakenham

Casey Scorpions 1.0.6 6.7.43 9.9.63 12.9.81

Box Hill Hawks 5.4.34 6.5.41 8.8.56 10.11.71

Good win after a slow start against the wind.

Reserves

Casey Scorpions 0.3.3 3.3.21 5.5.35 9.6.60

Box Hill Hawks 4.3.27 7.10.52 9.15.69 12.20.92

Considering the numbers of AFL listed players available to the respective clubs, it was a reasonable effort from the reserves who should be greatly strengthened over coming weeks.

The club hopes to have Casey Fields back up to scratch by round 1.

anyone know how the melbourne boys went today for casey??

Good win Casey. Was it the recent flash-flooding that put Casey Fields in bad condition?

I couldn't make it down to Pakenham for yesterday's game due to work commitments but hope to get some info during the week.

All I managed to get was the scores and the fact that my correspondent thought Casey moved the ball well, looked slick and pacy.

With Melbourne's injury list and the fact that several players were rested today, It's hard to imagine that many MFC listed players took part today although there was some word around the traps that Max Gawn would line up for the Scorpions and play perhaps half a game. On my reckoning there would be very few Demons in line for a run with Casey - possibly Sam Blease, Cameron Johnston and Kelvin Lawrence.

On the other hand, I know Box Hill had several Hawthorn listed players available including 2008 premiship team members Stephen Gilham, Brent Guerra and Jordan Lewis.

Edit: I have learned from a Box Hill source that Max Gawn and Sam Blease did play. Won in the ruck against much shorter opposition (Max Bailey and Paul Johnson who has committed to Box Hill even if not rookie listed were both injured. Sam Blease showed out in the first half but was probably rested after that.

Scorpions with pretty much a young side against the Zebras were overwhelmed in the first half but came back under the agency of Austin Wonaeamirri who showed some rare form at times around goal. However, you don't get up often from a 50 point half time deficit. Casey missed a focal point up forward and eventually might find their recruit from Brisbane handy once he gets back from holidaying in Las Vegas (provided he can afford the return ticket).

Jake Spencer and Max Gawn won the ruck duels but apart from that, not a great deal to report.

Casey Scorpions 12.5.77 lost to Sandringham Zebras 19.16.130

The reserves won their match of which the feature was the return to football after 12 months out of Kyle Matthews.