KC from Casey

Goal to Munro from a free kick.

Essendon VFL 6.2.38 to Casey Scorpions 0.1.1 close to quarter time.

Scorpions doing an imitation of the Demons here - four goals down.

Bombers away to a two goal lead - Sandy looking slow and making errors.

Under way and no sign of Jack Watts (or Jimmy Toumpas for that matter). Bombers kicking with the advantage of the breeze.

The late withdrawals through injuries to Nev Jetta and Jake Spencer along with the failure of Chris Dawes, Heritier Lumumba and Dom Tyson to come back from injury has severely affected Casey's finals hopes. They look like going into the final tomorrow with no more than 10 or 11 AFL affiliated players and without skipper Evan Panozza and that will make them underdogs in their game against Essendon VFL. It's going to be a tough ask for them to go beyond this game and make it to the semi final stage.

I certainly don't expect Jack Watts to play for Casey tomorrow. He will either play for Melbourne as a replacement for an injured player or he will be the held over emergency. I suspect the former if for no other reason than to help the club avoid prosecution by the AFL thought police.

Highlights: The Casey Scorpions finally get another televised game, only their second for the season after 20 rounds (the only other time was in Round 4!) Rookie Mitch White who started the year in the development league has worked so hard for the opportunity to play an AFL game is off to the big time so he won't be playing for Casey this weekend. Take no notice of the team selected on Thursday night. Four or five Six or seven of the names in the team are likely to end up at Etihad on Sunday or out altogether. This suggests that the team will struggle to go further than the first week of the finals again. Another non-selection is Sam Frost whose season is apparently over. Peter Jackson VFL First Elimination Final Essendon VFL v Casey Scorpions Sunday, September 6 at North Port Oval 11:40am (Channel 7) Essendon VFL B: Al Browne Steinberg Dalgleish HB: Freezer Pears J Langford C: Coghlan Ashby Tipungwuti HF: Edwards K Langford Fantasia F: Polkinghorne Willis Schroder FOLL: Muller* Kavanagh Heavyside I/C (from) Byrne Hardingham Heppell Hickey Hore Long McLeod McNiece Marigliani Milham Purcell Tagliabue Thompson Casey Scorpions B: Stretch Fitzpatrick Jetta HB: Terlich Hutchins M Jones C: Riley Michie McKenzie HF: Neal-Bullen Smith Kent F: Watts Spencer Byrnes FOLL: Jamar Bail Newton I/C (from) Corrigan Gent King Hunt Morris Muir Munro Page Paredes Pattison* Rutherford Scott Toumpas * 23rd player AFL Victoria Development League Elimination Final Casey Scorpions v Coburg Lions Sunday, September 6 at North Port Oval 2:30pm Casey Scorpions B: Corrigan Waters J McDonald HB: Godfrey Keilty Rutherford C: Walmsley Paredes Hannon HF: Rennie King Hillard F: Moncrieff Fisscher Anderson FOLL: Gains K Wilson Scott I/C (from): Battle Droessler Gawley C Johnson D Johnson Lang Mason O'Brien Rosier Welsh T Wilson Wyatt Coburg Lions B: Bamblett Boyd Iacobaccio HB: Hunt Robinson Posar C: Mance Cooper Holdsworth HF: Kalanj Symes Totino F: Schraven Madden Hemala FOLL: Sortino Johns Sturgess I/C (from): Bailey Clarke Easton MacDonald Miles Rogers Tang Urquhart

Finals details announced: 2015 Peter Jackson VFL Elimination Final Essendon VFL v Casey Scorpions Sunday, September 6 North Port Oval at 11.40am 2015 AFL Victoria Development League Semi Final Casey Scorpions v Coburg Lions Sunday, September 6 North Port Oval at 2.30pm

Final siren and Sandringham run out comfortable winners by 51 points The Scorpions managed a single goal in the second half. Peter Jackson VFL Casey Scorpions3.2.20 4.2.26 5.8.38 5.8.38 Sandringham 0.2.2 5.9.39 8.13.61 12.17.89 Goals Casey Scorpions Kennedy-Harris 2 King Rennie Smith Sandringham Saad 4 Dennis-Lane 3 Delaney Jones Shenton Siposs Best Casey Scorpions Kennedy-Harris White Terlich Smith Sandringham Pierce Siposs Cook Jones Weickhardt Saad

It's all Sandy as they kick away to a 38 point lead.

Three quarter time Sandringham 8.13.61 well on top of the Casey Scorpions 5.8.38. Goals Kennedy-Harris 2 King Rennie Smith

Sandy lead out to 21 points.

Max King gets his first but the difference is still 3 goals.

First goal of the quarter to Sandy - making it hard for Casey now.

Goals hard to come by in these conditions

Half time: Sandringham 5.9.39 to Casey 4.2.26 Goals Kennedy-Harris 2 Rennie Smith

Scorps get a timely goal through Rennie but trail by 2 goals.

Casey has made it a habit this year to drop off the pace in one quarter. This is looking the same.

It took a little over 10 minutes but the Zebs have hit the front by 4 points thanks to their domination at the stoppages.

All Sandy in the second and the lead is just 3 points - 17 to 20.

And no further score till quarter time. Scorps lead by 20 points - a fair lead but is it enough given the wind advantage?

JKH kicks his second to make it 3.2.20 to the Zebs' 0.2.2.

Halfway through the first quarter and the Scorps lead 2.1.13 to 0.0.0 after a strong mark and goal from Tim Smith. It should be added that Casey has opened with the benefit of the wind in murky conditions so the boys need to run this quarter out well.

Good to have some extra commentators on board - will make for an easy day.