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A goal to each team at the start of the third quarter with Casey's Petropoulos scoring the first.

Half Time: Casey Scorpions 9.7.61 lead Collingwood 3.3.21. Hogan Hughes 2 Byrnes Couch Gawn Magner Spencer

Wow! Jesse Hogan just took a sensational mark over a pack of about five players. Goal and Casey now up by 39, make that 40 points.

Casey has been peppering the goals but struggling to get on target. Magner's missed a couple but just now Hughes kicks beautifully from an angle for his second.

Pies get their first for the quarter at 20 minutes in.

No thanks to the tricky wind out here. Jetta's just missed everything with a shot from the boundary line after a free.

Goal to Casey newcomer Ben Hughes. Scorps in control.

Tom Couch goals on the left foot and the lead goes out to 26.

Goals hard to come by and the Scorps not taking advantage of some undisciplined play from Collingwood. Scorpions 35-14.

Quarter Time: Casey Scorpions 5.3.33 to Collingwood 2.1.13. Goals Byrnes Gawn Hogan Magner Spencer

Goal to Jake Spencer but Pies answer immediately 33 - 13 late in the quarter.

Goal to Jesse Hogan and Casey now lead by 20 points.

Max Gawn puts Casey two goals up after a free.

Scorps fight back with two goals. Scorps 2.0.12 to 1.1.7.

Collingwood starts the better and are 1.1.7 to 0.0.0 and Casey are yet to go inside 50.

Here's the Casey Scorpions team for today: Backs Taggert Gillies Davis Half backs Petropoulos, Tynan Panozza Centreline Strauss Nicholson Jetta Half forwards Sellar Gawn Gent Forwards Byrne Hogan Nicholls Followers Spencer Couch Magner Interchange Clisby Corry Drew* Hughes J Tynan Not playing from the original squad: Bail (MFC emergency) Barry Lindsay Pollard Smith Stark Tapscott (MFC) Toumpas (MFC)

Casey Scorpions vs. Collingwood Saturday 8th June Casey Fields at 2:00 PM Casey Scorpions Backs Taggert Gillies Davis Half backs Petropoulos L Tynan Panozza Centreline Strauss Bail Nicholson Half forwards Sellar Gawn Gent Forwards Tapscott Hogan Toumpas Followers Spencer Couch Magner Interchange (from) Barry Best Clisby Corry Drew* Hughes Jetta Lindsay Nicholls Pollard Smith Stark J Tynan Collingwood Backs Riddle Russell Sinclair Half backs Seedsman Gault Clarke Centreline Broomhead Martin Yagmoor Half forwards Krakouer Paine Hellier Forwards Mooney Hudson Richmond Followers Witts J Thomas Oxley Interchange (from) Allan Boland Collopy Corr Ferguson Gray Grundy Headney-Steart Mangoni* Moloney Sundberg Wallace S Williams * 23rd player The Development League team has a bye

The Scorpions play Collingwood VFL on Saturday. In addition to what should be an absorbing game, the club is also having a Debt Demolition Day including a luncheon at the club before the game hosted by Aussie Test Cricketer Rodney Hogg. Debt Demolition Prizes Weekend escape in a Mercedes Benz Cabriolet. 7 nights at Yorkeys [censored] Apartments in North Queensland Spring Carnival Package. Helicopter to Caulfield, luncheon & limo home Many more prizes up for grabs. Please phone 59961111 to book.

Actually, Geelong have been very good at the early introduction of their young blood who have had it much easier being introduced into the game with plenty of seasoned, experienced players around them to make the transition so much smoother. And let's not forget that all three who you've mentioned and several other young early draft prospects have had injury problems plaguing them in the early stages of their careers. For those detractors of the club who think we have no future, I reckon there were seven or eight young blokes out there today who will, in 12 months time, be important members of a much improved Melbourne team. Names like Gawn, Blease, Toumpas, Hogan, Taggert etc.

I think it needs to be clarified that there's a difference between the objective of embracing the wider and fast developing Casey/Cardinia region and gaining a toehold there for future membership growth and the current relationship between the MFC and the Casey Scorpions. Nobody doubts the difficulties in an AFL-VFL alignment but you can't call ours dysfunctional. It's not much different to the others and in fact, better than many of the others which have crumbled or are crumbling. The Blues and the Hawks have completely swallowed up their aligned clubs, the Bulldogs are splitting with Williamstown, Essendon's departure from Bendigo decimated that club and the Sandy/St. Kilda combination isn't looking all that healthy, not to mention that there are significant problems with the quality and size of TBBO. Casey itself is virtually broke after issues with pokie licences (I'm sure the cost of Fevola didn't help) and is having its own debt demolition campaign soon. It understands the issues involved with AFL player list management/surgeries and other matters that have plagued the end of their seasons. It's not ideal but against the bigger picture of what benefits can be attained by the partnership in the long run, the Casey venture needs to be looked at above and beyond petty club politics.

It will be a couple of years before you might be able to call either one a gun but I would have Taggert ahead in the race. His four goal effort could earn him a game at AFL level, if not next week, then soon after the break. Tynan could become a steady defender but I don't think he's going to become a champion.

Final score and it's a big win 123 - 52. Casey Scorpions 4.3.27 9.6.60 12.10.82 18.15.123 Sandringham 3.2.20 6.6.42 6.9.45 8.10.58 Goals Casey Scorpions Gawn Taggert 4 Nicholls 3 Blease 2 Hogan Jetta Magner Spencer Tynan Sandringham Dennis-Lane 4 Lee 2 Curren Michaliades Best Casey Scorpions Nicholls Blease Sellar Couch Gawn Taggert Sandringham Shakallis Dennis-Lane Cockie Saunders Dunell Lee Possession stats: Tom Couch 34 James Magner 31 Mitch Gent 26 Jim Toumpas 21.

Taggert, Gawn & Spencer all apply nails in the Zebra coffin and the lead goes out to 57 points.

A touch of rain won't hurt the cause.

3/4 time Casey Scorpions 12.10.82 to Sandringham 6.9.45