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Peter Jackson VFL Senior Teams Round 4 Casey Scorpions vs. Williamstown Saturday 27th April Casey Fields at 6:00 PM Casey Scorpions Backs Page Davis Sellar Half backs Dunn Panozza Nicholls Centreline Blease Strauss L Tynan Half forwards Best Kent Gillies Forwards Hogan Riseley Fitzpatrick Followers Spencer Couch McKenzie Interchange (from) Dawes Gent Kearns* Lindsay Macdonald Magner Matthews McInnes Nicholson Pollard Taggert Toumpas J Tynan Williamstown Backs Lockwood Sing Masters Half backs Charleston Markovic Howard Centreline Sherman Jolley Johnstone* Half forwards Addison Cordy Grant Forwards McCallum Campbell Pearce Followers C Wood Wheeler Carr Interchange (from) Anastasio Casley Hunter Nastasi Prudden Redpath Roberts Williams Woods * 23rd player Don't put too much store on the team selection above. Sam Blease is named on the wing for Melbourne as well as Casey. Casey Scorpions vs. Williamstown Saturday 27th April Casey Fields at 3:00 PM Casey Scorpions Backs Irwin Fowler Waters Half backs Corry Matthews Hillard Centreline McInnes Lindsay Riseley Half forwards Jackson McPhie J Tynan Forwards Hughes Smith Troutman Followers Hill Gent Pollard Interchange (from) Allen Barry Blackie Clay Corrigan Drew Lang Long Meadows Neville M Rosier P Rosier Stark Williamstown Backs Critchley Casley Hetherington Half backs Dorgan Conway Mead Centreline Wyatt Woods Hoghton Half forwards Deery Redpath Anastasio Forwards Nastasi L Williams McConnon Followers Giles Hunter Prudden Interchange Ball Bench Burgess Christodoulou Flack Galluchi Hevern Hrovat Huts Norton Polizzi

This week the Casey Scorpions host Williamstown in a Saturday evening/night match with the senior game starting at 6.00pm at Casey Fields. The curtain raiser between the development league teams starts at 3.00pm. Conditions promise to be a warmish but windy so anything could happen. The team selections have not yet been released, presumably because of the public holiday.

Before the start of the season, many so-called "experts" had written Casey off due to its well documented off field problems, the late appointment of the coach and some pretty average practice match form. Back in February, the Scorps were tenth in the VFL Premiership betting (at $34.00) and even now, after three undefeated games to start the season, the odds are more realistic but they're still not well fancied. The latest Sportsbet VFL premiership odds are out and incredibly, Casey are on the same line of betting as Essendon who they beat by 82 points at the weekend: $3.70 Williamstown $4.00 Geelong $5.00 Werribee $8.00 Port Melbourne $11.00 Northern Blues $16.00 Box Hill Hawks Casey Scorpions Essendon $34.00 Coburg $41.00 Collingwood $67.00 Frankston $101.00 North Ballarat Sandringham $2,001.00 Bendigo Gold I suppose the bookies have yet to catch up with the Hogan factor.

Scorps win by 82 points - Hogan finishes with four. Casey Scorpions 4.2.26 11.6.72 19.9.123 25.12.162 Essendon 3.4.22 6.8.44 7.12.54 11.13.79 Goals Casey Scorpions Hogan 4 Fitzpatrick Page Rodan 3 Best Couch Kearns Taggert 2 Kent Magner Strauss Tynan Essendon Daniher 4 Bate Duscher 2 Hams Jetta Thompson Best Casey Scorpions Rodan Spencer Hogan Riseley McKenzie Magner Essendon Daniher Hams Hardingham Steinberg Tipungwuti Coghlan Leading Possessions: Magner,McKenzie 31, Rodan 24, Couch 23, Clisby, J Tynan 20, Spencer, Strauss, Hogan 19.

Casey has stretched its lead to 75 points and young Hogan is putting on a bit of a show. I'll leave it to others to wax lyrical.

Three Quarter Time Casey 19.9.123 to EFC 7.12.54 Goals Best Page Rodan 3 Hogan Taggert 2 Couch Fitzpatrick Kearns Kent Magner Strauss Tynan

It's all Casey Scorpions as the march on to a 57 point lead: Casey 16.7.103 to EFC 6.10.46

Late fightback by the Bombers but Casey had all the answers and lead by near on five goals at the main break. Some nice co-operation between Jack Fitzpatrick and Jake Best of the Scorps produced goals for both players. Half time: Casey Scorpions 11.6.72 to Essendon 6.8.44 Stats: McKenzie 20, Rodan, Spencer, Couch,Nicholson 11,Hogan 10 Goals Best Page Rodan 2 Couch Fitzpatrick Kearns Taggert Tynan

Casey Scorpions holding on to their lead. The Bombers peppered the goals, but the Scorps scored against the run of play to go 9.6.60 to 4.8.32.

Scorps now 8.5.53 to 4.5.29

Casey 7.4.46 to Essendon 3.4.22

Narrow quarter time lead to the Scorps - 4 points in an entertaining game. Casey Scorpions 4.2.26 lead Essendon 3.4.22 Goals: Page 2 Best Kearns Honours about even after the Scorps kicked the first three goals of the match. Bombers are brim full of Essendon listed players and playing with a lot of pep!

Another goal to Casey.

Casey leads by 10 points in a tough fought game: 3.2.20 to 1.4.10. Elusive young Casey small man Nathan Page has two goals.

Casey Scorps boot the first two goals to lead 2.1.13 to 0.4.4.

Great news for the MelbourneFC/Casey Scorpions alignment! The Casey Development League side (ressies) thrashed Frankston tonight at Casey Fields by 52 points. Casey Scorpions 0.1.1 1.2.8 8.6.54 12.11.83 Frankston 2.3.15 3.5.23 3.5.23 4.7.31 Goals Casey Scorpions Smith 3 Drew 2 Hughes Jackson McInnes Matthews Meadows Pollard Troutman Frankston Rennie 2 Farmer Forato Best Casey Scorpions Boland Waters Irwin Lindsay Corry Drew Frankston Cunningham Rennie Jennings Newman Farmer Forato Rory Taggert did not play in this game. I reckon we can safely assume he'll be in the Casey one's tomorrow.

PETER JACKSON VFL ESSENDON v CASEY SCORPIONS Saturday 20th April Windy Hill at 1:00 PM ESSENDON Backs Coghlan Steinberg Toy Half backs Davis Fahey Freezer Centreline Dalgliesh Duscher Kavanagh Half forwards Collyer Shinners Hardingham Forwards Dell'Ollio Daniher Jetta Followers Hill Hams Merrett Interchange (from) Bate Gumbleton Lovett-Murray McPhee O'Brien Sikora Thompson Tipungwuti* Van Unen CASEY SCORPIONS Backs Panozza Davis L Tynan Half backs J Tynan Strauss Clisby Centreline Blease Couch Nicholson Half forwards Rodan Kent Page Forwards Best Fitzpatrick Hogan Followers Spencer McKenzie Magner Interchange (from) Gent Hill Kearns* Nicholls Pollard Riseley Smith Stark Taggert * 23rd player The Casey Development League (reserves) team plays Frankston for the second time in three weeks tonight under lights at Casey Fields. They also met there in a practice match a few weeks before the season started. The players should definitely be familiar with each other. AFL DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE CASEY SCORPIONS v FRANKSTON Friday 19th April Casey Fields at 6:00 PM CASEY SCORPIONS Backs Waters Corrigan Fowler Half backs McInnes Deaurago Corry Centreline Matthews Pollard Allan Half forwards Troutman Jackson Long Forwards Meadows Smith Boland Followers Hill Hughes Lindsay Interchange (from) Anderson Blackie Drew Fusinato Hillard Irwin Land McFarlane McPhie Riseley P Rosier Rutherford Taggert FRANKSTON Backs Hill Beech Cunningham Half backs Newman Jennings Giobbi Centreline Buchan Clement Fox Half forwards Cass Calvert Miller Forwards Matheson Farmer Sutton Followers A Forato Williams Bateman Interchange (from) Clausen Cooper Edwards Johnson Maynard Rennie Smrdel Tuddenham

All over with Casey Scorpions winning by 9 points. Casey Scorpions 2.7.19 10.11.71 13.12.90 13.17.95 North Ballarat 2.5.17 4.7.31 7.11.53 12.14.86 Goals Casey Scorpions Hogan 4 Smith 2 Barry Best Blease Page Pollard Strauss Taggert North Ballarat Clifton 3 George 2 Black Darmody Driscoll Jacobs Rippon Schache Searl Best Casey Scorpions Hogan Gawn Nicholls Strauss Panozza Kent North Ballarat Clifton George Sewell Keeble Driscoll Jacobs Stats: Strauss 26 Magner Gent 24

Scorps fading and lead by just 10 points with minutes to go.

Three Quarter Time: Casey 13.12.90 to N Ballarat 7.11.53

Casey dominate the second quarter - 10.11.71 to 4.7.31 Jesse Hogan has three goals to half time. Stats: Strauss 16, Nicholson 13, Magner 13, Hogan 11 Goals: Hogan 3, Smith 2

Two point lead to the Scorps @ quarter time.

AFL VIC Development League Casey Scorpions 3.3.21 5.7.37 9.9.63 11.10.76 North Ballarat 1.0.6 2.3.15 5.5.35 6.9.45 Goals Casey Scorpions Long Meadows 3 Drew Fowler McFarlane Matthews Troutman North Ballarat Baird Carey Graham Murphy Semens Youl Best Casey Scorpions Lindsay Hill Corry Rosier Rutherford Drew North Ballarat Horbury Currie Graham Carey Scott Youl

Happy to oblige but I'm not at the game. In bed with the flu.

Scorps lead by 28 points at 3/4 time in the development league.