KC from Casey

Half Time: Casey Scorpions 5.6.36 to Sandringham 5.4.34. Goals Fitzpatrick 2 Bate Gent Gysberts Stats leaders: Collins 21, Magner 14, Gysberts 13, L.Tynan, Moloney 12.

Petropoulos hits the post.

Sandy gets its first score for the quarter. It's back to a one point game.

Fitzpatrick accepts a lead from Josh Tynan but misses.

A courageous mark by Matty Bate and goal gives Casey the lead 5.4.34 to 4.4.28.

Moloney's long shot hits the base of the post and it's a one point game @ 20 minutes. Another point and scores level.

Jack Fitzpatrick marks on a lead and kicks his second to make it 2 points the difference.

Casey's first goal of the second quarter to Gysberts but Casey has been struggling to score with the wind.

Quarter Time: Sandringham 4.4.28 to Casey Scorpions 2.0.12 Goals to Fitzpatrick and Gent. Scorps held them well until a few late goals gave the Zebs the break. The boys need to use the breeze well this quarter. Stats leaders: Collins 14, L.Tynan, Sheahan 8, Magner, Gysberts 7, Bate 6.

Goal to the Mitch Gent puts the Scorps second on the board after Fitzpatrick opened the account. Casey in front 2.0.12 to 1.3.9.

Ten minutes in and Sandy doing all the attacking with the wind and leading 1.2.8 to 0.0.0

ABC telecast starting now. In the 2012 AFL Development League the Scorps went down by 9 points. Casey Scorpions 4.3.27 5.3.33 7.10.52 8.12.60 Box Hill Hawks 0.0.0 2.5.17 7.7.49 9.15.69 Goals Casey Scorpions Fieldsend 2 Alle Cleven Galvin McFarlane Pollard Weekes Box Hill Hawks Johns 4 Cassidy Hughes Monkhorst Otten Phelps Best Casey Scorpions Patti Pollard Cleven Fieldsend Cook Weekes Box Hill Hawks Lock Gordon Northe Tobin Johns Cassidy

Scorps lead by three points at ¾ time in the curtain raiser.

Don't even know if he's in the seniors or in the early game. I'm just passing on the scores ATM. Won't be at the ground for another ½ to ¾ of an hour.

Half Time in the Development League Game and Casey leads 5.3.33 to Box Hill Hawks 2.5.17.

Players eligible for the 2012 finals series:- Lucas Cook, Tom Couch, Troy Davis, Jack Fitzpatrick, Jordan Gysberts, Jai Sheahan, Jake Spencer, Josh Tynan and Leigh Williams.

Casey Scorpions v Sandringham Saturday 25th August Casey Fields at 1:00 PM Casey Scorpions Backs Clay Davis Riseley Half backs Petropoulos Panozza Hill Centreline Sheahan Gysberts L Tynan Half forwards Moloney Gent Nicholls Forwards Smith Bate Corry Followers Fitzpatrick Lindsay Magner Interchange (from) Collins Cook Fieldsend Jamar Matthews Patti Pollard Thompson* J Tynan Sandringham Backs Marigliani Blake Shenton Half backs Hallahan Ferguson Clarke Centreline Polo C Jones Peake Half Forwards Cook Dowler Markworth Forwards Dunnell Archer Michaliades Followers Sikora Cockie Curren Interchange (from) Andreoli Crocker Fallon* Gram Sands Staley Stapleton Waller Winmar * 23rd player AFL Victoria Development League Casey Scorpions v Box Hill Hawks Saturday 25th August Casey Fields at 10:00 AM Casey Scorpions Backs Troutman Johnson Bull Half backs Allen J Roberts Fieldsend Centreline Patti Page Corrigan Half forwards Matthews Cleven Pollard Forwards Rosier Cook Galvin Followers Jamar McFarlane Lang Interchange (from) Chin Dearaugo Johnston Kimitsis McGillivray-Smith Murphy K Roberts Weekes Box Hill Hawks Backs Cassidy Wilsen Gordon Half backs Wood Lawlor Tobin Centreline Cust Phelps Kelly Half forwards Graham Ralph Johns Forwards Hughes Grimley Otten Followers Post Lock Northe Interchange (from) Clifford D Cooper J Cooper Field Grenda Kickett Miles Monkhorst Salopek

Don't know anything about it but when I checked the Tribunal results on the VFL site I noticed it hasn't been updated since round 15. Either they don't report people in the VFL any more or someone involved with the site is a bit slack.

This week's main game at Casey Fields is between rivals Casey Scorpions and Sandringham with the ga,e starting at 1.00pm. It's definitely the ABC telecast match of the round (apologies to anyone who might have been misled last week) but with the Dees not playing till Sunday, let's hope we can get a good crowd to the game to support the dwindling band of Demon players turning out for the Scorpions. A little bit of early news on players gleaned from various Demonlanders who attended the Foundation Heroes function the other night:- ■ Mark Jamar should come through his fitness test and could be a chance to line up with Casey this week; ■ Leigh Williams suffered an ankle injury against Geelong and is on the way to recovery but probably won't be available until the second week of the finals; and ■ Michael Evans has had a bit of back strain so it's mothballs for him until the pre season starts. Purely precautionary. I'll be back with the teams for Saturday's games.

I checked my records and I think Tall Defence has it right. On the criteria set down by the VFL for eligibility, this is what would happen:- • Week 1 No limitations as the round co-incides with Round 23. Therefore any player not playing for Melbourne that weekend can play with the Scorpions. • Weeks 2 - 4 Eligible players are Lucas Cook, Tom Couch, Troy Davis, Michael Evans, Jack Fitzpatrick, Jordan Gysberts, Jai Sheahan, Jake Spencer, Josh Tynan and Leigh Williams. James Strauss has played 4 games for Casey seniors and 2 with the Casey Development League side making a total of 6 games so he would have to play with Casey this weekend (unlikely). Casey has applied for permission to enable Jack Viney to play (more likely).

A couple of weeks ago I heard Brett Lovett Say there were 17 MFC players eligible to play in the finals. Since then I believe the number has dropped to 13 with Cale Morton (?) and Ricky Petterd (both injured) and Liam Jurrah (interstate) and Kelvin Lawrence (left the club) off the list. I will see if I can either get a list of the players available or work it out and post it in the next few days.

Firstly and no disrespect to the players named in the bests, it was a very even team performance and I wouldn't necessarily agree with a couple of the players included. IMO Moloney was good enough to get in the best six (as was Viney). Fitzpatrick had a bad day with his kicking for goal and missed quite a few shots in the blustery conditions. I'm a believer in coaches doing more than just getting teams fit and developing tactics and strategies. There's too much talk around of players being dumped because their not fit enough, fast enough or strong enough but I'd like to see our football department work on developing player skills in the off season. If we can get Fitzpatrick's kicking for goal right as well as work on his weight and strength we might have a player.

The Casey Scorpions' stats from today's game against Possessions Dave Collins 28, Jack Viney 24, Matthew Bate, Brent Moloney and Mitch Gent 23. Hardball gets Jack Viney 11, Dave Collins 8 and Matthew Bate 6. Tackles Chris Clay 6, Jordan Gysberts and Matthew Bate 5. Inside 50's Tom Corry 7 (on debut) and Dannyw Nicholls 6. Hitouts Luke Hill 32. Co-captain Kyle Matthews in his comeback game had 18 touches, 5 hardball gets & applied plenty of forward pressure!

To answer the main question which seems to be about Jack Viney, he is going to be a quality AFL footballer. He got plenty of the football in a winning midfield dominated by Beamer, Dave Collins, Gysberts and Bate when he went in there. And young Jack was not overshadowed at the coal face by any of these players including some of the seasoned Collingwood midfielders.

Final Score Casey Scorpions 3.5.23 4.6.30 7.12.54 11.19.85 Collingwood 0.2.2 3.8.26 4.9.33 5.10.40 Goals Casey Scorpions Petropoulos Smith Tynan 2 Bate Collins Fitzpatrick Hill McGough Collingwood Cribbin Thomas Wallace Witts Yagmoor Best Casey Scorpions Hill Collins Riseley Corry Bate Petropoulos Collingwood Gault Thomas Krakouer Riddle Ferraro Wallace Back later to answer some of your questions.