Melbourne is set to have 14 players in the line-up for Casey against Williamstown on Saturday at Casey Fields - Dom Barry, Mitch Clisby, Michael Evans, Max Gawn, James Harmes, Jayden Hunt, Neville Jetta, Jay Kennedy-Harris, Dean Kent, Daniel Nicholson, Christian Salem, Luke Tapscott, Jack Viney and Maia Westrupp are set to play at this stage. Fourteen players set for VFL clash

Melbourne is set to have 14 players in the line-up for Casey against Williamstown on Saturday at Casey Fields - Dom Barry, Mitch Clisby, Michael Evans, Max Gawn, James Harmes, Jayden Hunt, Neville Jetta, Jay Kennedy-Harris, Dean Kent, Daniel Nicholson, Christian Salem, Luke Tapscott, Jack Viney and Maia Westrupp are set to play at this stage. Fourteen players set for VFL clash

Little bit surprised Jimmy Toumpas isn't going to be running around with them

Little bit surprised Jimmy Toumpas isn't going to be running around with them

Jimmy played all of the practice matches for Melbourne so he wouldn't receive the AFL's permission even if the club wanted him to play.

Meanwhile Williamstown is no longer affiliated with the Bulldogs so it will be interesting how we go against them.

Jimmy played all of the practice matches. He wouldn't receive permission to play.

Meanwhile Williamstown is no longer affiliated with the Bulldogs so it will be interesting how we go against them.

Ah didn't realise that, yeah it will be really interesting, i suppose you lose potentially quality AFL players being in your side at times to gain consistency, port Melbourne certainly show it's possibly to be a very competitive team in the VFL without an AFL affiliation

Hope Kent has a day out. You'd like him to force out the Bails and the Byrnes of the forward line.

Little bit surprised Jimmy Toumpas isn't going to be running around with them

I guess some of those who complained the most in the Toumpas (or was it the Wines) thread would be saying that he wasn't included because he isn't up to VFL standard :-(((

I guess some of those who complained the most in the Toumpas (or was it the Wines) thread would be saying that he wasn't included because he isn't up to VFL standard :-(((

You may be onto something there mono!

Hope Kent has a day out. You'd like him to force out the Bails and the Byrnes of the forward line.

Well if he cannot it is does not say much for his ability

Hope Gawn has a big day. It'd be great to have him back against the Saints to give us a bit of an edge in the middle.

Hope Gawn has a big day. It'd be great to have him back against the Saints to give us a bit of an edge in the middle.

And we could do with him up forward.

Would love to hear that Viney, JKH and Clisby were the 3 best on ground and all players got through with Gawn and Salem impressing. That's the dream.

Would love to hear that Viney, JKH and Clisby were the 3 best on ground and all players got through with Gawn and Salem impressing. That's the dream.

Hang onto it tm everything else has been in short supply the last two years

Anyone know what time the game starts on Saturday.

Hope Gawn has a big day. It'd be great to have him back against the Saints to give us a bit of an edge in the middle.

......and some seriously tall marketing in the forward line in the absence of Clark, hogan and maybe Dawes. Max at his best is a terrific mark. I would not be surprised if they played Spencer,Gawn and Fitz in the first round

Anyone know what time the game starts on Saturday.

2014 Practice Match Schedule

March 15

Scorpions V Williamstowm

11am Development & 1.30pm Seniors

Casey Fields

March 22

Scorpions V Port Melbourne

11am Development & 2pm Seniors

Casey Fields

Thanks DeeVoted will try and get down and have a look

Down here at Cranbourne and the Casey Scorpions Development League 2.4.16 lowered their colours to Williamstown 22.15.147. That follows last week's single goal effort against Box Hill Hawks suggesting the team's young and inexperienced and the Scorps will lack depth in 2014.

The team sheets for the Casey Development League team:-

2. Jackson Anderson
3. Pat Rosier
4. Sam Waters
9. Nick Lang
11. Lachie Meadows
15. Sean Corrigan
16. Ryan Morrison
18. Brenton Hillard
19. Luke Thwaites
22. Bryce Rutherford
23. Tom Corry
25. Jake Thomas
27. Angus Scott
28. James Davidson
32. Luke Collins
33. Andrew Murray
34. Kelsey Currie
35. David Delpapa
39. Joseph West
41. Dale Gawley
42. Kayan Bundle
45. Joel Winderlich

There are 15 Demons on the team sheet for the Casey Seniors (including NZ international rookie):-

2. Jackson Anderson

5. Nathan Page

6. Ricky Ferraro

8. Troy Davis

12. Will Petropoulos

13. Jake Best

14. Edward Morris

16. Ryan Morrison

20. Timothy Smith

21. Andrew Godfrey

24. Joe Fisscher

41. Calum Shiels

46. James Strauss

47. Maia Westrupp

51. James Harmes

54. Neville Jetta

56. Daniel Nicholson

57. Jay Kennedy-Harris

58. Jayden Hunt

60. Jack Viney

64. Christian Salem

67. Luke Tapscott

70. Mitch Clisby

71. Michael Evans

72. Dom Barry

76. Dean Kent

77. Max Gawn

All of the MFC listed players (in bold) are out on the ground beginning their warm up).

How many are pushing for round 1 selection?

For round 1 selection I would say

Viney

JKH

Tapscott

Clisby

The rest have had very little pre seasons and will need a few weeks in the VFL to get some match practice and form.

Of those players I would say

Gawn

Kent

Strauss

Tapscott will have the better chances of getting into the team should their form suggest it.

Salem and Hunt look to be players that will play the majority of the year in the VFL unless they show unbelievable form

Gawn, JKH, Viney, Clisby, Strauss, Evans.

No more and possibly not even all of them.

Can't wait to hear how Salem goes.

How many are pushing for round 1 selection?

I would say Kennedy-Harris, Viney, Nicholson, and Strauss would be the only ones with a chance from that group.

Familiar name for Williamstown is former Demon Ryan Ferguson.

Showing out early with a course of nice clean possessions is Christian Salem.

Casey chipping away with the possession game. A turnover gives Willi the first goal.

Jack Viney received a knock to the head under a pack, went off, came back and off again. Looks like a mild concussion but it's a bit of a worry because he missed some of the pre season with much the same thing.

Casey 0.2.2 Williamstown 1.3.9 - lots of turnovers and untidy football.