Peter Jackson VFL

Casey Scorpions v Sandringham

Sunday 27th April

Casey Fields at 2.00pm

Casey Scorpions

B: Toumpas Davis Panozza

HB: Clisby Garland Nicholson

C: Blease Riley Strauss

HF: Evans Smith Petropoulos

F: Hunt Fitzpatrick Best

R: Gawn Harmes McKenzie

IC (from) Anderson Barry Corry Drew Ferraro Morris Page Scott* Tapscott

Sandringham

B: Munro Roberton Simpkin

HB: Flanagan Shenton Fisher

C: Shakallis Savage Siposs

HF: Cook Maister Dunell

F: Dennis-Lane Lee Milera

FOLL: Longer Cockie Weller

I/C: (from) Acres Banfield Holmes Le Grice Markworth Minchington Ong Spencer* Zijai

* 23rd player

AFL Victoria Development League

Casey Scorpions v Sandringham

Sunday 27th April

Casey Fields at 11.00am

Casey Scorpions

B: Corry Waters Hillard

HB: Rutherford Fisscher McDonald

C: Gawley Anderson Godfrey

HF: Lang Thwaites Rosier

F: Murray Shiels Page

FOLL: Thomas Drew Paredes

IC (from) Collins Corrigan Davidson Del Papa Jackson Meadows Pears Westrupp Wyatt

Sandringham

B: Le Grice Plostins Kreymborg

HB: Daidone Ritchie Gottliebsen

C: Cameron Ong Davis

HF: Maitland Barnhoorn Weickhardt

F: White McTaggart Beech

FOLL: Holmes Graham Verma

I/C (from) Bolger C Coates Cumming Dawes Harris Hudghton Kelso Waterman

Only Westrupp in the reserves... good stuff. Hate seeing MFC listed players, rookies or not, playing in the VFL reserves.

On the bench of the D league side though. Fair to say this Kiwi experiment isn't going so well.

I'm keen for Garland to come back in. Please have a good hit out and be nice and fit Col!

Same with Gawn and Fitzy. I'd have them both at their best over Jamar and Pedersen. But at least 1 would be nice!

one week til' we see Riley in the 1's, mark my words.

Thought I read somewhere that Roos' son is playing down at Sandy. Anyone know if this is so?

If Dawes and JKH can knock on Roosy's office all week demanding selection, you can bet his protege from way back at the Swans will have his foot in the door all week. What better way to debut than against the foolish folk who delisted him.

Makes me excited for Bulldogs v Dees and the Daniel Cross factor. If you think Crossy is going hard at the moment, just wait.

No King in the development league?

No King in the development league?

They've gone republican this week

No actually, he's the mystery injury of the week.

No Spencer? Emergency for the firsts, but normally they're also named at Casey if playing.

missing:

Clark retired

Trengove season

Hogan indefinite

Mitchie 3 weeks

Kent 1 week

King mystery !!

Spencer

Edited April 24, 201411 yr by spirit of norm smith

No Spencer? Emergency for the firsts, but normally they're also named at Casey if playing.

yes, the other 2 emergencies (clisby, nicho) are named

casey game is the day after seniors so all emergencies could play

suspect the intent with spencer is to give him a rest if not required at last minute

not a bad strategy given our wafer-thin ruck stocks and the need to play a single ruck for 90% game time

Preview from Casey's website - Preview

How does Panozza go compared to the Melbourne listed players?

Thought I read somewhere that Roos' son is playing down at Sandy. Anyone know if this is so?

The Dragons I think, in the under 18 comp.

Yep. Medium size outside mid.

How does Panozza go compared to the Melbourne listed players?

from the games I have seen better than some and as good as the rest.

Preview from Casey's website - Preview

"Congratulations are in order for Christian Salem who makes his AFL debut this week after his best-on-ground effort last weekend. He, along with Mark Jamar and Jack Trengove made the Demons best 22 this week and will take on the Swans at the MCG on Saturday night. Naturally their absence will leave a big gap in the Scorpions playing group."

The former Captain shall at least be excused if he's a bit sluggish, it's not easy to run in a moon boot.

The ones that I am interested in:

Toumpas: don't mind him finding form/confidence at Casey but he should be knocking the door down

Garland: Once he returns our defensive will be much stronger (can start dropping the dead wood - Pedo/Georgiou/Terlich

Clisby: A handy player and if his form continues he could find himself replacing Grimes/Terlich

Strauss: Similar boat to Clisby - was in great form preseaon according to reports but suffered yet another injury - I still believe he could become a great rebounding HBF

Riley: If the rumours are true and he is a silkier version of McKenzie then he is just what we need - we need to win some centre clearances and lay more tackles

Fitzy: Has a big opportunity to step up giving our lack of forward stocks - should be given another chance given he is now not the only tall forward - could have helped Jamar with the ruck load this week

Gawn: Our ruck stocks are far from great - we really need Gawn and King to become good ruckman otherwise we will have to pay top dollar for a decent ruckman

Edited April 26, 201411 yr by Young Dee

"Congratulations are in order for Christian Salem who makes his AFL debut this week after his best-on-ground effort last weekend. He, along with Mark Jamar and Jack Trengove made the Demons best 22 this week and will take on the Swans at the MCG on Saturday night. Naturally their absence will leave a big gap in the Scorpions playing group."

The former Captain shall at least be excused if he's a bit sluggish, it's not easy to run in a moon boot.

Both Mitch Clark and Trengove seem to have risen from the grave this week - you wonder who writes this stuff.

yes, the other 2 emergencies (clisby, nicho) are named

casey game is the day after seniors so all emergencies could play

suspect the intent with spencer is to give him a rest if not required at last minute

not a bad strategy given our wafer-thin ruck stocks and the need to play a single ruck for 90% game time

An alternative conspiracy theory would be that Jamar is in doubt with a 4-6 week mystery injury ??

The ones that I am interested in:

Toumpas: don't find him finding form/confidence at Casey but he should be knocking the door down

Garland: Once he returns our defensive will be much stronger (can start dropping the dead wood - Pedo/Georgiou/Terlich

Clisby: A handy player and if his form continues he could find himself replacing Grimes/Terlich

Strauss: Similar boat to Clisby - was in great form preseaon according to reports but suffered yet another injury - I still believe he could become a great rebounding HBF

Riley: If the rumours are true and he is a silkier version of McKenzie then he is just what we need - we need to win some centre clearances and lay more tackles

Fitzy: Has a big opportunity to step up giving our lack of forward stocks - should be given another chance given he is now not the only tall forward - could have helped Jamar with the ruck load this week

Gawn: Our ruck stocks are far from great - we really need Gawn and King to become good ruckman otherwise we will have to pay top dollar for a decent ruckman

I wouldn't worry too much about Jimmy, the kid is motivated as the best of them and has plenty of talent. He was actually named as an emergency for the Suns on the back of two games. He had 22 disposals in the first game and was named in the bests with 29 disposals the following week. Last weekend he had 11 touches in what sounded like a quarter and a bit before being concussed. He will be back soon and our team will be the better for it.

Edited April 26, 201411 yr by Nascent

An alternative conspiracy theory would be that Jamar is in doubt with a 4-6 week mystery injury ??

possibly...that's why i said "if not required at last minute"

I don't quite understand the calls to drop Georgiou. New to the top league and, given that, he has done very well. The player , however, that concerns me is Max Gawn. I remember his first game and even though he missed a sitter I remember being wrapped about what we had. That was a very long time ago now and I have reservations about his ability to 1. Get on the park regularly and 2. Have significant influence in a game. No doubt I need to take a deep breath, chill out and take a long term view but....

Edited April 26, 201411 yr by Return to Glory

Only Westrupp in the reserves... good stuff. Hate seeing MFC listed players, rookies or not, playing in the VFL reserves.

Re Westrupp: Of course we need to persevere. Having said that, if you get the chance to see youtube vision of the boy kicking the ball you'll get an indication of the work that needs to be done. It probably shows why we have focused on the Irish boys as there is a semblance of being able to kick a footy.

Edited April 26, 201411 yr by Return to Glory

Re Westrupp: Of course we need to persevere. Having said that, if you get the chance to see youtube vision of the boy kicking the ball you'll get an indication of the work that needs to be done. It probably shows why we have focused on the Irish boys as there is a semblance of being able to kick a footy.

The idea of recruiting this guy has amazed me from Day 1

Have never been able to see why we took him in the first place.

Why? can anyone tell me ?

From what I have seen at training he is easily the worst player on the list and on a list of the quality of the MFC that says a lot.