KC from Casey

Three quarter time: Coburg 9.7.61 to Casey Scorpions 8.5.53

Half Time: Casey Scorpions 7.3.45 to Coburg Lions 4.4.28. Quite a turnaround from last week!!!

Scorps dominating the quarter and lead by 4 points 26 - 22.

Quarter Time: Coburg 3.4.22 to Casey Scorpions 1.1.7

Casey's development team got first blood with an early goal but the Lions are on top having scored the next three and lead 3.2.20 to 1.0.6 halfway through the first term.

Both Casey Scorpions teams head north today but they're going to different venues a fair distance apart. The ones travel to North Ballarat which is seemingly one of the coldest parts of the world to visit at this time of year and I certainly don't regret that I can't make it there today due to a commitment on this side of town. Relying on reports from others during the afternoon which I will relay whenever possible and I have a contact who has promised to provide material for a report on the game. The game should be a test for the club's recruiting programme since Justin Plapp's appointment because the MFC's ever- expanding injury list will leave the Scorps with no more than 10 Demons including 3 rookies compared with earlier in the year when about 15 played in the senior team and there were a couple in the development league team. The game against lowly North Ballarat (who are partially aligned with North Melbourne) would normally be eminently winnable and today, we need the Casey boys to step up to the plate and support the likes of the Russian and last week's goal kicking star Max King. Eureka Stadium has always been a difficult assignment, particularly so during the Roosters' recent golden era. Thankfully, they don't have a development league team because there have been times when the temperature was around freezing point at the start of their games. By a strange quirk of the fixture the development boys kick off shortly at Piranha Park or Coburg City Oval against the team that beat them last week at Casey. The Scorps got off to a slow start (their first goal came after half time) and this week they don't have any MFC players to help them out. JKH who played last week on return from injury is going to Ballarat while the unlucky Jayden Hunt is injured again after playing his best game since embarking on his comeback. The game kicks off in ½ hour's time.

Max King's exploits from last week feature on the VFL highlights reel from the round -

Peter Jackson VFL North Ballarat v Casey Scorpions Saturday, June 20 Eureka Stadium at 1pm North Ballarat B: Warren Tippett Kiel HB: Mullett Staley Boseley C: McKenzie Sewell Scott HF: Lanyon Anderson Keeble F: George Black A Hooper FOLL: Marshall* Rippon Bastinac I/C (from) Bacon Bowen Blake Lockyer Powell Schache Semmens Tsitas Youl Casey Scorpions B: Panozza Fitzpatrick Hutchins HB: White O McDonald M Jones C: Michie Riley Bail HF: Byrnes Smith Terlich F: Kennedy-Harris Spencer King FOLL: Jamar Gent Neal-Bullen I/C (from): Fritsch Hannon* Harmes McKenzie Morris Muir Munro Newton Page Paredes Pattison Petropoulos Scott * 23rd player AFL Victoria Development League Coburg v ​Casey Scorpions Saturday, June 20 Piranha Park at 11am Coburg B: Boyd Fairbairn Fox HB: Posar Linton Robertella C: Miles Williams Sturgess HF: Cooper Hill Orr F: Symes Robinson Christensen FOLL: Kovacevic Totino Mance I/C (from) Bailey Corigliano Easton Evans Gleeson Hemala Hobijn-Allen Holdsworth Madden Ogden Sortino Tang Yelland Casey Scorpions B: Stanlake Keilty T Wilson HB: J McDonald Thwaites Rutherford C: Muir Petropoulos Fritsch HF: Rosier Fisscher Lang F: Wyatt Rennie Waters FOLL: Gains Scott Paredes I/C (from): Anderson Corrigan Droessler Gawley Hillard C Johnson D Johnson O'Brien Mason Plummer Walmsley Welsh K Wilson

Correct - neither Jack Fitzpatrick or Dean Terlich played today.

Siren - Casey by 8 points. 2015 Peter Jackson VFL Casey Scorpions 6.0.36 8.4.52 10.8.68 14.13.97 Coburg 3.0.18 6.2.38 11.3.69 14.5.89 Goals Casey Scorpions King 5 Page Spencer 2 Bail Gent Dawes McKenzie Newton Coburg Featherstone 3 Carnell Cauchi Thomas 2 Christensen Fox MacDonald Mance Younan Best Casey Scorpions Bail Newton Smith Harmes M Jones Hutchins Coburg Iacobaccio Clifton Allan McConnell Christensen Venditti Disposals Jones 35, Bail 34, Harmes 29, Byrnes 22

Tigers persistent in fighting back and get a goal as the clock ticks over 30.

Dawsey mark goal 13 point lead 27 minutes. James Harmes has been very good in setting up a few of Casey's scoring opportunities.

Quick reply - this is a real heart stopper. James Harmes passed to McKenzie in front for a goal.

Coburg rally - 1 point in it.

5 to Max King.

Oscar McDonald has a chance to goal but misses - 2 points up

One point game.

King gets his fourth - Casey now leads by 7 points.

Level at 70 each.

Three Quarter Time: Casey Scorpions 10.8.68 trail Coburg 11.3.69 by the narrowest of margins.

Goal for goal as small man Nathan Page gets Casey back to within two points.

Another lead change - goal to Featherstone of Coburg.

King gets his third after Coburg temporarily hit the front.

Only 4 points in it after Coburg get another - 8.6.54 to 8.2.50.

Matt Jones has had a lot of the ball. James Harmes is playing a strong game and Rohan Bail's pace has been telling. King is providing a target up forward.