Casey resurgence continues

[Kildonan]

CASEY SCORPIONS 0.8 3.13 13.15 18.19 (127)
PORT MELBOURNE 3.3 5.8 8.9 13.10 (88)

Goals:
Casey Scorpions: Brooks 4 Armitage 3 Clarke 2 Voss 2 Rix 2 Dunne 2 Ferguson Parker Matthews
Port Melbourne: Bonaddio 2 Dukes 2 Pitt 2 Pleming Pearce Cotchett McMahon Fanning Smith Robbins.

Best:
Casey Scorpions: Geary Matthews Ferguson Harrison Brooks Unsworth.
Port Melbourne: McMahon Obst Hazell Pitt Rowe Baird.

Reports: Nil.
At TEAC Oval.

A ten goal third quarter set up a comfortable win for the Scorps.
The Saints players (blue) figured heavily in the goals and the best players.




PORT MELBOURNE 3.3 6.7 11.12 13.16 (94)
CASEY SCORPIONS 1.1 2.1 5.1 9.4 (58)

Goals:
Pt Melbourne: Nixon 2 Langford 2 Gilham Monteath Plymin Thomas Nayna McGlynn Cain Henshaw Carroll.
Casey Scorpions: Biagi 2 Sweeney 2 Taylor 2 Raymond Rosier McDonald.

Best:
Pt Melbourne: Bloomfield McGlynn Debruin Carroll Monteath Langford.
Casey Scorpions: Frost Youle Biagi Raymond Taylor McGrath.

Reports: Nil.
At TEAC Oval.

 

[Half Back Pocket]

CASEY SCORPIONS 0.8 3.13 13.15 18.19 (127)
PORT MELBOURNE 3.3 5.8 8.9 13.10 (88)

Goals:
Casey Scorpions: Brooks 4 Armitage 3 Clarke 2 Voss 2 Rix 2 Dunne 2 Ferguson Parker Matthews
Port Melbourne: Bonaddio 2 Dukes 2 Pitt 2 Pleming Pearce Cotchett McMahon Fanning Smith Robbins.

Best:
Casey Scorpions: Geary Matthews Ferguson Harrison Brooks Unsworth.
Port Melbourne: McMahon Obst Hazell Pitt Rowe Baird.

Reports: Nil.
At TEAC Oval.

A ten goal third quarter set up a comfortable win for the Scorps.
The Saints players (blue) figured heavily in the goals and the best players.




PORT MELBOURNE 3.3 6.7 11.12 13.16 (94)
CASEY SCORPIONS 1.1 2.1 5.1 9.4 (58)

Goals:
Pt Melbourne: Nixon 2 Langford 2 Gilham Monteath Plymin Thomas Nayna McGlynn Cain Henshaw Carroll.
Casey Scorpions: Biagi 2 Sweeney 2 Taylor 2 Raymond Rosier McDonald.

Best:
Pt Melbourne: Bloomfield McGlynn Debruin Carroll Monteath Langford.
Casey Scorpions: Frost Youle Biagi Raymond Taylor McGrath.

Reports: Nil.
At TEAC Oval.

Can anyone explain to me why Sweeney is in the reserves? Surely Raymond's time is up?
Good to see Geary and Armitage finding some form!

 

[Inside Goss]

After a great start to the season Sweeney has looked a little flat over the last 3 or 4 weeks or so. A spell in the Casey 2's was in order and hopefully enough to find his early season form, It seems that the better Watts plays, the worse Sweeney plays, as early in the year Sweeney was our Key forward coming out of the Square, he just needs to adjust a little bit and he will be right back up there and could be the X factor come September.

Geary did his time in the 2's to gain more consistency, has so much natural ability but at times went missing for stages of games. Definately earnt his right to play in the 1's and probably made him want it more lingering in the 2's for most of the year.

Armo is a workhorse and should be a gun at the top level IMO.

Raymond, well i think he's as good as gone. Unless the saints give him 1 more year as he still is bery lighlt framed (was 66kg when drafted) which is probably unlikely,
Spent a weekend in Adelaide a couple of weeks ago and got out to a Glenelg game where both Raymond and Gibbs were drafted from, Gibbs seems to have more recognition of a great player their than Raymond.

 

[Inside Goss]

By the way it would be Fantastic if as many Saints Fans could get out to Casey Fields in the run home and Really embrace what should be The Club as Casey's first Finals appearance.

We have Tassie this weekend down there, but then play both Bendigo on a Sunday and Frankston on a Saturday in last 2 matches at home.

Particularly Frankston in what is beginning to be known as the 'local derby'
Make sure you tell your friends and get down to support us, those who has never seen VFL footy before will be pleasently suprised, we have to make this a a win with a big crowd, particularly as Frankston prepare a bid to have St. Kilda as full time tennants at frankstin oval. The saints play the Eagles on the Friday night, so there is no clash with the saints.

It's not too late to Get on Board!

 

[darion]

Can anyone explain to me why Sweeney is in the reserves? Surely Raymond's time is up?
Good to see Geary and Armitage finding some form!

Sweeney Was Off Injured The Week Before Maybe He Needed The Outing

 

[darion]

By the way it would be Fantastic if as many Saints Fans could get out to Casey Fields in the run home and Really embrace what should be The Club as Casey's first Finals appearance.

We have Tassie this weekend down there, but then play both Bendigo on a Sunday and Frankston on a Saturday in last 2 matches at home.

Particularly Frankston in what is beginning to be known as the 'local derby'
Make sure you tell your friends and get down to support us, those who has never seen VFL footy before will be pleasently suprised, we have to make this a a win with a big crowd, particularly as Frankston prepare a bid to have St. Kilda as full time tennants at frankstin oval. The saints play the Eagles on the Friday night, so there is no clash with the saints.

It's not too late to Get on Board!

Good To See Ross Lyon And A Lot Of St.Kilda Players Giving Their Support At The Port Melbourne Game

 

[Kildonan]

Scorpions ‘point’ to big win

By Marc McGowan

9th August 2007 02:05:25 AM

Saints defender Matthew Ferguson provided constant rebound for the Scorpions in their 39-point victory over Port Melbourne.

THE Casey Scorpions’ juggernaut kept rolling with a comprehensive 39-point come-from-behind win over Port Melbourne at TEAC Oval on Saturday.

The victory overshadowed another horrid goal-kicking display, with 19 behinds in its 127-point total.

It was an important result for the Scorpions, after dropping last week’s blockbuster clash against the highly fancied Coburg Tigers and gave the club its fifth success in six outings.

Casey now sits in sixth position, with seven wins, seven losses and a draw and a healthy percentage in excess of 100.

To make the triumph even more noteworthy, it was achieved without inspirational captain Nigel Carmody, who was serving a one-game ban for charging Tiger ruckman Angus Graham in the previous round.

And it was not solely the St Kilda-listed stars that delivered the goods for the Scorpions, with a host of Victorian Football League players making strong contributions.

The most impressive showing came from 188-centimetre debutant Daniel Unsworth, who matched up on Borough tall Jeremy Dukes and kept the danger man to just two goals.

Casey knocked up getting the ball, with Saints foursome Jarryn Geary (37 touches), Robert Eddy (27), Andrew McQualter (26) and Andrew Thompson (26) leading the way.

In all, the Scorpions gathered a mammoth 392 possessions to the Borough’s meagre 241 in an imposing performance.

The scoreboard did not reflect the dominance early, however, with Casey’s goalkicking woes reaching comical proportions as it racked up 10 behinds before David Armitage (22) slotted its first major in the second term.

Another two six-pointers followed in the quarter, but so did three more behinds, with the Scorpions entering half-time on a scoreline of 3.13 to be seven points in arrears, despite more shots on goal.

Whether it was some of Casey coach Peter Banfield’s brilliance, or a belated awakening from its slumber, the Scorpions came out with all guns blazing in the third stanza to blow the contest apart.

All of a sudden Casey was on target and it backed up the flogging it was giving Port Melbourne all over the field to drill 10 majors from 12 shots to thunder out to a 36-point buffer.

Scorpion guns Kyle Mathews (24), Troy Makepeace (22) and Steven Harrison (22) headlined the midfield party, while St Kilda backman Matthew Ferguson repelled the few attacks that came his way to do his AFL prospects no harm.

With the result basically already decided at the final break, both teams managed five goals in the fourth term.

Banfield was typically reserved in his pre-match assessment, but was pleased to be back on the winners’ list.

“It was good to have a win. We played solid footy, but we didn’t kick straight early but got our game going eventually and were able to run over the top of them,” he said.

“I suppose when we play good sides we can’t miss those early goals, but our time will come when we will kick straight – I have no doubt about that.”

Casey’s continued good stretch of form even allowed Banfield to joke about his half-time influence on the team.

“I think all of my half-time addresses are pretty special. For us to come out and kick 10 goals, obviously it was very inspiring,” he said.

“All I told them was to be confident and stay positive and it will come.”

With their last three opponents currently sitting outside the top eight, the Scorpions appear certain to feature in September action.

The first of those remaining fixtures, at Bellerive Oval on Saturday at 2pm, is against bottom-placed Tasmania that has scrounged just two wins in 2007.

 

[ChrisFooty]

Casey have doc clarke with them this week - i bet they won't mind that!