The Scorpions travel down the highway to Sleepy Hollow to play the Cats. Casey is virtually assured of a top two spot and I'm sure will take a good look at Simonds Stadium in the week before their senior counterparts slug it out.

PETER JACKSON VFL 2016

GEELONG VFL v CASEY SCORPIONS 
Sunday 21 August 2016
Simonds Stadium at 11.00am

GEELONG VFL

B: Bews Buzza Murdoch
HB: Ruggles Delaney Smedts
C: Cunico Menegola Luxford
HF: Hayball Clark Horlin-Smith
F: Motlop Kersten Bates
FOLL: Lucey Lang Cowan
I/C (from) Abbott Atkins Close Cornell Dobson Edwards Floyd* Hickey House McLachlan Raidme Sexton Stewart

CASEY SCORPIONS

B: Grimes Garland Stretch
HB MichieHutchins Dunn
C: Trengove Kennedy Kennedy-Harris
HF: Harmes Dawes Terlich
F: Neal-Bullen Weideman Wagner
FOLL: Spencer M Jones Salem
I/C (from): Baker D Collis Cotte* Hulett Keilty Morris Munro Oliver Pedersen Scott J Smith T Smith White

* 23rd player

AFL VICTORIA DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE 
SANDRINGHAM v CASEY SCORPIONS 
Saturday 20 August 2016
Trevor Barker Beach Oval at 11.00am

SANDRINGHAM 

B: Noone Coughlan Grace
HB: Hiscock McTaggart Lloyd
C: Wilkins Weickhardt Payne
HF: Banfield Dobosz Hooy
F: Davis Kreymborg Rich
FOLL: Kelso Freeman Pavlou
I/C (from) Fox Haidon Johnson Jones Laumets McKay McLaren Parsons  Rendell Riley Waterman Woodman

CASEY SCORPIONS 

B: Wyatt Moncrieff D Collis
HB: J McDonald Rutherford Keilty
C: Stockdale Ambler Gordon
HF: Pattison Baker Scott
F: Vander Haar Max King Hannon
FOLL: McInerney J Smith Wilson
I/C (from) F Anderson J Anderson  Beacom Briggs  W Collis Freeman Fritsch Gains Jaffer-Williams Daniel Johnston Lovett Mason

I would suggest the odds of that lineup playing on the weekend are astronomical.  

Is the Dev league playing?  Assume King is still working his way up from there?

No Maynard, that's disappointing

Why is this game this week? Why don't they have this game next Week as a Certain Raiser to the seniors in Round 23

Must admit I'm a bit surprised with Geelong's VFL side. It's like the boulevard of broken dreams.

I had the impression that their young brigade with Bews, Murdoch, Delaney, Horlin-Smith, Motlop, Kersten, Lang & Cowan were future stars all, primed to take over seamlessly from their seniors and lead them away from the cliff. Even if like us, they've just got not much injuries, it's still a mild surprise that none of the above are in their current best 22.

And is their CHF a certain journeyman and former recruiting coup who was going to assure them of future success at one stage? If there is a God, he will line up against Dunn, who will be inside his head the whole game. Could be messy.

5 hours ago, solly21 said:

Why is this game this week? Why don't they have this game next Week as a Certain Raiser to the seniors in Round 23

Or why don't they play them both on the same day? To have the Scorpions Development League game vs the Zebas on Saturday then the VFL Scorps vs the Cats on Sunday is logistically insane (unless KC had typed a misprint)!

Even discounting the fact that 3 of the MFC players will disappear from that side, someone is going to be seriously stiff. 

Can't see how Joel Smith is not going to be in the dev league this week. Competing with Keilty for the last bench spot looking at that.

10 hours ago, FireInTheBelly said:

No Maynard, that's disappointing

You don't think he needs a preseason to get match fit ?

Edited August 19, 20169 yr by ProDee

2 hours ago, ProDee said:

You dint think he needs a preseason to get match fit ?

The initial article mentioned he'd been secretly training with the Scorps and working with Crossy. It didn't say for how long though. With the anouncement I guess I put 1 and 1 together and came up with 3 - that he'd be playing development league this weekend.

Does anyone have info on roughly how much training he's done? How much would he need to play development league?

11 minutes ago, FireInTheBelly said:

The initial article mentioned he'd been secretly training with the Scorps and working with Crossy. It didn't say for how long though. With the anouncement I guess I put 1 and 1 together and came up with 3 - that he'd be playing development league this weekend.

Does anyone have info on roughly how much training he's done? How much would he need to play development league?

I don't know the answer either, but I suspect he'd be more susceptible to injury without a really solid base.  

Are we sure he's eligible?

So we beat Geelong in Geelong this week.

 

Beat Geelong in Geelong next week.

 

Then beat Geelong at the MCG the next game and all is good in the world.

7 hours ago, Rod Grinter Riot Squad said:

So we beat Geelong in Geelong this week.

 

Beat Geelong in Geelong next week.

 

Then beat Geelong at the MCG the next game and all is good in the world.

I love the new brand of optimism on Demonland.

Resilience then Faith then Hope then Optomism then Excitement then Expectations then Nervousness then Premiership then Merchandise spending then Arrogance. Hawthorn is stuck on arrogance.

7 hours ago, Rod Grinter Riot Squad said:

So we beat Geelong in Geelong this week.

 

Beat Geelong in Geelong next week.

 

Then beat Geelong at the MCG the next game and all is good in the world.

Never in doubt...

Sandy Development team well on top in first quarter - 4.4.28 to 1.0.6

Nathan Freeman playing for Sandy Development side. 3 years since drafting and no AFL games yet. Continually injured. We dodged a bullet there.

Edited August 20, 20169 yr by Redleg

The VFL fixture would have to be the worst planned fixtures going around in the country.

Half Time - better quarter from the Scorps but they still trail - 4.2.26 to the Zebs 5.5.35.

KC is Joel Smith playing development league or seniors?

Much better quarter there with Casey now 10.5.65 to Sandringham 7.6.48

Win to the Scorpions by 5 goals.

VFL Development League

Casey Scorpions 1.0.6 4.2.26 10.5.65 12.9.81

Sandringham 4.4.28 5.5.35 7.6.48 7.9.51

Goals

Casey Scorpions Baker Freeman Hillard Max King McInerney 2 Daniel Johnston J McDonald

Sandringham Fox 3 Banfield Dobosz Hiscock Pavlou

Best

Casey Scorpions Rutherford J McDonald Hillard Wilson Briggs Jaffer-Williams

Sandringham Grace Dobosz Parsons Thompson Fox Pavlou

On 8/19/2016 at 0:04 AM, solly21 said:

Why is this game this week? Why don't they have this game next Week as a Certain Raiser to the seniors in Round 23

The GFC appear averse to having a curtain raiser on their precious turf. The last time Casey played Geelong as a curtain raiser was the day we'd all rather forget.

The Cats rarely, if ever, have their VFL side play in a curtain raiser.

1 hour ago, KC from Casey said:

Win to the Scorpions by 5 goals.

Casey Scorpions 1.0.6 4.2.26 10.5.65 12.9.81

Sandringham 4.4.28 5.5.35 7.6.48 7.9.51

How did King perform?  

Did Joel Smith play today, or is he set up for tomorrow?

Thanks for the updates KC!

Thanks for the updates KC greatly appreciated. - Go Scorps!!!

2 hours ago, buck_nekkid said:

How did King perform?  

Did Joel Smith play today, or is he set up for tomorrow?

Thanks for the updates KC!

Max kicked a couple of goals and was handy.

Joel Smith will play tomorrow for the seniors.