KC from Casey

VFL SECOND SEMI FINAL Saturday 4 September 2010 at 2.10pm CASEY SCORPIONS v NORTHERN BULLANTS TEAC Oval, Port Melbourne CASEY SCORPIONS Backs Taylor McNamara Cheney Half backs Panozza Mohr Healey Centreline Creed Daniel Bell Wall Half forwards McGough Miller Hughes Forwards Fieldsend Purdy Wonaemirri Followers Cleven MacReadie Nicholls Interchange (from) Blease M Dowse Lees Patti Petropoulos Riseley Tynan Weekes NORTHERN BULLANTS Backs Ellard M Austin Tuohy Half backs Browne Hampson J Anderson Centreline Fisher Iacobucci Walker Half forwards Johnson Gale McCorkell Forwards Yarran Warnock Thornton Followers O'Hailpin B McLean Hadley Interchange (from) Arrowsmith S Austin Casboult Dare Kerr Morgan Lawless Neaves Saad Smith Thomas Woods

Tough ask for Scorps against 'Ants "THE good news is Casey is still alive despite Sunday's 32-point qualifying final loss at the hands of dual premier North Ballarat. "The bad is that a cut-throat final awaits on the back of a six-day break and against a Northern Bullants side oozing Carlton stars."

Saturday September 4 Seniors 2nd Semi Final Casey Scorpions vs Northern Bullants at TEAC Oval 2:10pm No chance of that because Bennell is no longer eligible for the finals now that Melbourne's season has ended. The bad news is that Matty Warnock is also no longer available.

All over and a disappointing 32 point loss to the Scorpions who, at least, live to fight another day. Casey Scorpions 1.4.10 4.4.28 8.4.52 13.6.84 North Ballarat 1.4.10 8.4.52 14.8.92 18.8.116 Goals Casey Scorpions Miller 4 Fieldsend Hughes McNamara 2 Bennell McGough Mohr North Ballarat Smith 3 Dinnell Hale Norris Smith 2 Driscoll Feery Micallef Richardson Tyler Urquhart White Best Casey Scorpions Warnock McNamara Healey Fieldsend Miller Cheney North Ballarat Clifton Peters Feery Sharkey Richardson Couch

Goal to Bennell who has had a shocker today but Casey are 44 points down and on their way to a semi final v the Northern Bullants.

Threw Quarter Time Casey Scorpions 1.4.10 4.4.28 8.4.52 North Ballarat 1.4.10 8.4.52 14.8.92 Goals Miller 3 Fieldsend Hughes McGough McNamara Mohr

Eight goals down and a few Demons aren't getting a sniff. Make that seven as Miller goals.

Ten minutes into the third and a listless Casey are down by 40 points.

Yesterday in the VFL, the Northern Bullants played and comfortably defeated Collingwood in an elimination final. You wouldn't know it if you read some of the reports in the local newspapers. With Collingwood now out of the equation in the VFL, I wonder what the Age and the Huns VFL scribes are going to write about next week?

Scores in the other VFL final: Box Hill Hawks 5.10.40 11.13.79 Bendigo Bombers 5.1.31 5.2.32

Half Time Casey Scorpions 1.4.10 4.4.28 North Ballarat 1.4.10 8.4.52 Goals Miller 2 Fieldsend McGough The Scorps are being well beaten at the stoppages.

Second goal to Brad Miller but Casey down by 2 goals late in the second.

Quarter Time Casey Scorpions 1.4.10 North Ballarat 1.4.10

Not a puff of wind. Casey leads 10 - 9. Miller kicked the goal.

I stand corrected. It's the old Channell 2 now ABC1. Also, it's a Borough Burger but otherwise it's still the best burger available at any VFL ground.

The boys are warming up in their predominantly red jumpers. I can see PJ and Matty Warnock but not Rohan Bail who is probably the emergency for the AFL game. Sam Blease fans be happy. He's out there will Millsy, Belly, Maric & co.

A reminder that today's game is being televised on ABC2 so hopefully fans will be putting in their comments and I won't need to post that often. This will give me an opportunity to taste the famous Port Melbourne burraburger!

I'm not sure what the VFL Record for tomorrow's game is going to look like but the on line record on the VFL website has picked up a little of late. Here's a sample being a preview of tomorrow's big game:-

VFL SECOND QUALIFYING FINAL Sunday 29 August 2010 at 2.10pm NORTH BALLARAT vs CASEY SCORPIONS TEAC Oval, Port Melbourne NORTH BALLARAT Backs Luke Delaney Shaune Moloney Marcus White Half backs Leigh Harding Matthew Sharkey Cameron Richardson Centreline Matthew Tyler Myles Sewell Daniel Feery Half forwards Isaac Smith Josh Smith Derick Micallef Forwards Stephen Dinnell David Hale Matthew Campbell Followers Orren Stephenson Nick Couch Stephen Clifton Interchange (from) Clinton Benjamin Warren Benjamin Sam Conroy Jordan Dillon Bill Driscoll Marc Greig Chris Lynch Ryan McKenzie Brayden Norris Nicholas Peters Oliver Tate Gavin Urquhart CASEY SCORPIONS Backs James Taylor Tom McNamara Kyle Cheney Half backs Evan Panozza Matthew Warnock Rhys Healey Centreline James Wall Daniel Bell Ryan Creed Half forwards Rian McGough Brad Miller Danny Hughes Forwards Matt Fieldsend Michael Newton Addam Maric Followers Paul Johnson Ben MacReadie Danny Nicholls Interchange (from) Rohan Bail Jamie Bennell Sam Blease Glenn Chivers Wade Lees Tim Mohr Will Petropoulos Michael Riseley Ben Waite Melbourne-listed players eligible for this year's VFL finals (applies when Melbourne is not playing): Sam Blease Daniel Bell Kyle Cheney Jordan Gysberts * Rhys Healey Daniel Hughes Neville Jetta * Paul Johnson Tom McNamara Addam Maric Brad Miller Michael Newton Jake Spencer * Luke Tapscott * Austin Wonaeamirri * Injured List Brad Miller turns to Casey Scorpions VFL: Jones to miss Roosters' final VFL: Sewell fit to play Sunday Bailey 'takes hat off' to Miller

What he said - 12 marks. Apologies to D. Hughes.

Brad Miller turns to Casey Scorpions Fantastic attitude from the big feller. The sort that could help the team get up and win a flag.

Will check the stats at work tomorrow Peter and correct them if that's confirmed. Cheers, KC

Qualifying Final next Sunday at 2.10pm v North Ballarat at TEAC Oval. Likely to be the ABC televised game.

Final score - Casey Scorpions 5.2.32 10.5.65 17.8.110 19.11.125 Werribee Tigers 6.0.36 6.3.39 9.5.59 13.9.87 Goals Casey Scorpions Bate Miller 5 Creed Healey MacReadie McGough Nicholls Plummer Taylor Werribee Tigers Castello Gleeson Henderson 2 Dickson O'Keefe Obst Martiniello Pask Laidlaw Speight Best Casey Scorpions Bate Johnson Hughes Miller Fieldsend Wall Werribee Tigers Gleeson Martiniello Hartigan Rockefeller Dickson Chisholm It's a long, long drive back to Cranny so I'm outa here. I'll be back with my report at some time tomorrow.

Getting into junk time with a couple of goals to Werribee who are into the last ten minutes of their season.