With the Scorpions a game out of the top four and only five games left in the home and away season, Casey faces up to yet another must win game, this time against Geelong in the curtain raiser at Skilled Stadium starting at 10.40am on Saturday morning. The Cats are out of the eight but their recent form has been good and they have come close to causing an upset or two.

There should be some interesting names in the Scorpions line up with Aaron Davey likely to return through the seniors and Austin Wonaeamirri returning after spending the past seven weeks with family on the Tiwi Islands on compassionate leave dealing with personal matters following the death of his father Matthew and mentor Maurice Rioli. Aussie might however, have to start in the reserves due to the fact that he has just resumed training and may lack the fitness for a game in the seniors.

Star midfielder Danny Nicholls is almost certain to play his first game of the season against the Cats after playing the two games in the VFL reserves in his comeback from injury.

The Scorpions' reserves are on track to play finals for the first time in more than a decade. They are in fourth position and play Frankston just 13 days after their last match resulted in a massive percentage booster. This time the game's on neutral territory at Victoria Park.

I hope to be able to post the teams for both Casey games later this evening.

GEELONG v CASEY SCORPIONS

Saturday 30th July

Skilled Stadium at 10:40 AM

GEELONG

Backs Firman Gillies Stringer

Half backs Bathie McLean Guthrie

Centreline Horlin-Smith T Selwood Cowan

Half forwards Motlop Walker Simpkin

Forwards Burbury B Johnson Schroder

Followers Simpson Hogan Corrigan

Interchange (from) Barham Bews * Cuthill Hollmer Maas Phillips Raidme Sheringham Tutungi

CASEY SCORPIONS

Backs Bartram Warnock Blease

Half backs Morton Mohr Stockdale

Centreline Bennell Davey J Wall

Half forwards McDonald Macdonald Cook

Forwards Davis Waite Fevola

Followers Gawn McNamara McGough

Interchange (from) Baumgartner Campbell Collins Corry * Johnston Nicholls Panozza Petropoulos Purves

* 23rd player

FRANKSTON v CASEY SCORPIONS Reserve Grade

Saturday 30th July

Victoria Park at 11:00 AM

FRANKSTON

Backs Pearce Beech Bleeker

Half backs Collison Ongarello Boland

Centreline Wells J Miller Sienkiewicz

Half forwards Cole Anwyl Uzarevic

Forwards Simpson Bennett Douglas

Followers Elton Bateman Bywater

Interchange (from) Crowe Hayes Heddles Jaroszczuk McGrath Marotta Teper

CASEY SCORPIONS

Backs Bolton Bell Allen

Half backs Collins Cleven Clay

Centreline Fieldsend Fitzpatrick Gent

Half forwards Lees Lawrence Hill

Forwards McShane Matthews Tynan

Followers Panozza Patti Pollard

Interchange (from) McKenna Purdy Purves Riseley J Roberts K Roberts D Wall Weekes

Good team, welcome back Flash

A few notes:-

• Neville Jetta and Michael Evans were two of Casey's best players in the midfield a fortnight ago and both will be sorely missed. Evans has a back injury but it seems Nev is injured again. Bad luck for both players as another good game at this level would have come close to ensuring their promotion.

• Austin Wonaeamirri is obviously not ready to play yet. He's missed a fair bit of training and perhaps might need to undergo what would virtually be another pre season, so it suggests that he probably won't make it back to the AFL this year.

• Jack Fitzpatrick in the centre for the reserves?

• Casey's Danny Nicholls back in the team after a long lay off and co skipper Kyle Matthews starts again in the twos. He deserves a bit of luck to go his way and I hope he gets it.

McDonald (the first-year) named forward? Wonder what he can do! Hopefully a few people will see this game if they're attending the Dees game.

Without Bate and Dunn I'd be really keen to see how Lucas Cook goes playing as a true CHF.

Besides that strong games from Davey (even a half), Bartram and Macdonald should see them return to the seniors

Hopefully we can bounce back from yesterday's Brendan Fevola debacle:

■Melbourne, despite falling out with Casey over the Brendan Fevola debacle at the start of this season, has been persuaded to continue its cautious alignment.

Casey missed a golden arches... I mean, golden opportunity:

HF: McDonald Macdonald McNamara

FF: McShane McKenna McGeogh

A few notes:-

• Jack Fitzpatrick in the centre for the reserves?

Yes - a 200cm centreman and Lawrence 178cm at CHF - inspired !

Disastrous start to the day with the Cats bursting out of the blocks and kicking ten goals straight.

Casey Scorpions 4.1.25

Geelong 10.0.60

Troy Selwood has five goals.

Disastrous start to the day with the Cats bursting out of the blocks and kicking ten goals straight.

Casey Scorpions 4.1.25

Geelong 10.0.60

Troy Selwood has five goals.

I thought the game didn't start untill 2:10

Looking forward to some player updates KC. Thanks.

Shock ... horror

Half Time

Casey Scorpions 6.1.37

Geelong 16.4.100

bloody hell

It's a blood bath

KC, can you explain what's happening in the game. Are we getting belted in the middle??? Is it our defence. It's amazing this is happening given some of the guys we have in there like MacDonald, Davey, Warnock, Bennel, Blease, Bartram etc etc

KC, can you explain what's happening in the game. Are we getting belted in the middle??? Is it our defence. It's amazing this is happening given some of the guys we have in there like MacDonald, Davey, Warnock, Bennel, Blease, Bartram etc etc

The lack of pure midfielders in the list of players you mentioned probably explains most of it.

KC, can you explain what's happening in the game. Are we getting belted in the middle??? Is it our defence. It's amazing this is happening given some of the guys we have in there like MacDonald, Davey, Warnock, Bennel, Blease, Bartram etc etc

They definitely miss Evans and Jetta in the middle, that's for sure!

Geelong 19.4.118

Casey 6.2.38

13 minute mark 3rd quarter. No one showing anything for the scorps!

Geelong 19.4.118

Casey 6.2.38

13 minute mark 3rd quarter. No one showing anything for the scorps!

Far out.

Who's kicked the goals?

LOL

Geelong 23.5.143

Casey 6.3.39

3/4 time

Troy selwoods kicked a gazillion goals!

Seven in fact.

A precursor of things to come no doubt

Good news at last - Scorps Reserves up by 20 goals " 3/4 time.

Good news at last - Scorps Reserves up by 20 goals " 3/4 time.

How is Fitzpatrick going?

A dark day for the Scorpions going down by 128 points.

Casey Scorpions 4.1.25 6.1.37 6.3.39 10.4.64

Geelong 10.0.60 16.4.100 23.5.143 31.6.192

Goals

Casey Scorpions Fevola 4 Waite 2 Blease Cook Corry Johnston

Geelong T Selwood Simpkin 7 Schroder 4 Burbury 3 Corrigan Hollmer Johnson Stringer 2 Hogan Horlin-Smith

Best

Casey Scorpions Davis Bartram Gawn Morton Fevola Davey

Geelong Simpkin Corrigan Guthrie Bathie Schroder T Selwood

A precursor of things to come no doubt

Sadly I fear you may be right today's game fills me with dread