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Gawn out today. Make of this what you will.

Casey's Development League team copped a fair towelling from the Northern Blues going down by 58 points. Siren has just sounded and the main game's on in half an hour. 2014 AFL Victoria Development League Casey Scorpions 0.2.2 2.3,15 2.5.17 4.6.30 Northern Blues 4.6.30 6.11.47 7.12.54 12.16.88 Goals Casey Scorpions Anderson Lang Scott Shiels Northern Bullants Walton 3 Dorman 2 Couch Emley McCann Murray Sutton Toman Watson Best Casey Scorpions Drew Rutherford Lang Shiels Thwaites Corrigan Northern Bullants McCann Walton Watson Dirago Taglieri Johnston

It's raining and there's nothing much on other than to try to make it a double header - Scorps at Visy followed by Dees (or the Mighty Demons) at the G tonight. It's a big night for the club - to have truly turned the corner we need to follow up wins with continued good performance. Judging on Sydney from last night, our effort a fortnight ago wasn't all that shabby and we know about last week in Adelaide. Let's see something even better tonight - a game where we dominate for the full four quarters would be nice but perhaps we're not quite ready for that yet.

According to some posters around here he also needs a face lift and plastic surgery.

High time - it's been going on all year from the start of the NAB Cup and there have been some real shockers not paid.

Georgiou isn't one of the named emergencies so it would probably cost the club a fine.

True, or I could treat it as an exercise in microeconomic theory and ponder on the relative incomes of Scully and Kelly, their productive capacities and whether there's a correlation between the amount of calories consumed by their respective parents during the working week. What channel's the game on?

ASADA is going after Dank first because he is the lynch pin in all of this and once the facts come out about his programme, the next will be those who worked with him on the project, which suggests other members of the fitness staff and also those among the coaches and their support people who were complicit or knowing about it, turned a blind eye. On what I've read to date, that most surely involves James Hird, the Weapon, Doc Reid, Corcoran and in all likelihood Bomber Thompson who is now being touted in the Herald Sun as a potential successor to Paul Roos at Melbourne Melbourne Demons to sound out Essendon interim coach Mark Thompson as potential successor for Paul Roos. I can't give much credibility to this unless the ASADA probe clears him and I'm not certain that it will.The players remain very much in the gun and I think they might be getting worn down mentally by the whole thing. They were terrific earlier in the season but have dropped off considerably. They have a pretty good fixture that might help them if they get on a bit of a roll but if the players are hit with infraction notices, they are in a fair bit of bother. As a matter of interest we play them on 15 June and by that time, I think the fan might have met the full force of whatever ASADA has in its armoury. New ASADA boss Ben McDevitt issues 'no excuses' warning to would-be drug cheats

Wise man.

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Passed the same spot last year without the same emotions perhaps because it's a part of world history that I studied and from which I learned you don't trust politicians and leaders of armies (although you have to feel for the kids on both sides whose lives and limb were lost for nothing at all).You've done better than your brother-in-law and sister-in-law who sailed past Gallipoli sitting facing the shore and had to be told later that they hadn't even noticed the place.

I assume you mean Tania Hird in the context of teaching the pirouette?

Can't say I get excited at the prospect of WCE v GWS.

AJAX Maccabi strictly D grade in those days but I was well past my prime and it was only as a fill in to pick up the odd point or two for the team. I did once collide with an opponent who veered into my lane but the tribunal cleared me because the contact was unavoidable.

Shhh ... there are people around here who come from Tasmania and we wouldn't want to offend either of their heads.

Treloar of GWS is said to be unhappy over in the west sydney badlands and will be on his bike home at end of year. IMO, he's better value than Scully and definitely worth looking at.

Perhaps, but we don't know his availability or costs or whether the club assessed the situation correctly in the first place. I agree that Gracey ran a risky strategy but I doubt the Appeals Board would have increased the penalty in these circumstances. On the question of respect or disrespect for the Tribunal, their decision was a shocker. Having been on a tribunal myself I know what it's like to make difficult decisions sometimes but they dropped the ball on this and didn't show 1% of the courage of the players involved in the collision.

I think we owe a debt of thanks to my colleague David Grace QC who played a bit for my old amateur footy club and competed for my old athletics club (where he's a life member). He's been involved in a number of interesting cases involving the AFL and in particular, has now been involved in two interesting cases where, against the odds IMO, he had two major decisions overturned. We know about Vineygate but he also had the Sirengate result of a Dockers/Saints game overturned in 2006. Gracey is President and Chairman of Athletics Australia and interestingly, made it as a QC through the unusual channel starting as a solicitor rather than as a barrister. I know there are bad lawyers and there's bad law but I hope posters around here stop bagging the legal profession. This bloke has performed a great service for our player, club and the game in general.

Our injury list is diminishing. With 15 at Casey tomorrow (give or take a possible replacement if James Frawley isn't right) here's the list of outs:- Injured: James Harmes, Jesse Hogan, Max King, Jake Spencer Jack Trengove Suspended: Dean Kent Retired: Mitch Clark

Reasonable player who had his moments but suffered a bit being, at one stage considered as Barassi's understudy and the next big thing as a ruck rover. In reality, he probably suffered in Barassi's shadow. Someone gave him a great nickname after he played a poor game - Can'ardly.

Groom started off as a key forward and played the odd game in the ruck and as ruck rover. When Barassi moved to Carlton after the '64 flag (sorry to spoil the ending of this thread for those of you who don't know it - ), Groom was given the number 31 jumper. In his final year (1968), he found his niche as a CHB and a good one at that before going back home and on to bigger and better things as Premier of Tasmania so he bettered Brian Dixon in that respect. I think Bob Miller also had a crack at Parliament and might have been the member for Prahran at some stage.

I know it's been said many times before but I think the moment of reckoning isn't very far away at all now. ASADA gets new and permanent boss

I have a feeling (and this is not inside information) that Max Gawn will play. The fact that Frawley hasn't done the main sessions suggest he won't play. Gawn as the ruck releases Pedersen elsewhere.

Melbourne's 1964 campaign was shaken when the team went down to St. Kilda at a jam packed Junction Oval on Saturday, 9 May. The 35,000 fans on hand watched as the young, enthusiastic Saints ran over their more experienced opponents winning by 26 points. Melbourne 1.6.12 4.7.31 6.12.48 9.13.67 St. Kilda 2.1.13 7.5.47 8.11.59 13.15.93 THE TEAM B: Neil Crompton Bernie Massey Bob Miller HB: Tony Anderson Brian Roet Brian Leahy C: Don Williams "Hassa" Mann Frank "Bluey" Adams HF: Bryan Kenneally Ray Groom Barrie Vagg F: Ron Barassi Barry Bourke John Townsend FOLL: Bob "Tassie" Johnson Graham Wise Ken Emselle 19/20: Graeme Jacobs Graeme Watson Goals Barrie Vagg 4 Ken Emselle 2 Ron Barassi Barry Bourke Ray Groom Best Ray Groom Bob "Tassie" Johnson Brian Roet Ron Barassi "Hassa" Mann Frank "Bluey" Adams Graeme Jacobs made his debut for the club on a day when Bob "Tassie" Johnson and Hassa Mann both reached their 100 game milestones but they were upstaged by two teenagers in Carl Ditterich, 18, and Ian Cooper, 17. The Demons got to within five points early in the last quarter, but St. Kilda was too strong and the loss left the visitors on 2 wins and 2 defeats for the season. The Liberal Party candidate for the local seat of St. Kilda was Melbourne's own Brian Dixon but he missed out on this unique opportunity of impressing his electorate through injury.

Peter Jackson VFL Northern Blues v Casey Scorpions Saturday 10th May Visy Park at 2.00pm Northern Blues B: Byrne M Watson McInnes HB: Armfield Giles Bootsma C: Scotland McLean Lucas HF: Graham Anthony Bransgrove F: Garlett B Johnson Ellard FOLL: Wood Cripps Cachia I/C: (from) Cattapan Coulson Dufficy Holman Posar Reynolds Sheahan Tardio* Temay T Thomas Totevski Wilkinson Wilson Casey Scorpions B: Clisby Davis Panozza HB: Nicholson Georgiou Strauss C: Barry Evans Blease HF: Michie Smith Tapscott F: Hunt Fitzpatrick Toumpas FOLL: Gawn Riley McKenzie I/C: (from) Best Corry Ferraro Godfrey Hillard Rosier Rutherford Scott Thomas* * 23rd player AFL Victoria Development League Northern Blues v Casey Scorpions Saturday 10th May Visy Park at 11.00am Northern Blues B: Callaway M Gleeson Johnston HB: Posar J Roberts Emley C: Cattapan Tagglieri T Thomas HF: Temay Walton Totevski F: Dufficy Murray Dorman FOLL: Coulson Dirago J Gleeson I/C: (from) H Curnow Gilbert Haynes Kur McCann McDonald Perry Sutton Toman D Watson Casey Scorpions B: Corrigan Waters Hillard HB: Corry Gawley Godfrey C: Anderson Scott J McDonald HF: Wyatt Rennie Murray F: Rosier Rutherford Shiels FOLL: Thwaites Drew Welsh I/C: (from) Collins Davidson Lang Meadows Paredes Pears Symons West Westrupp