Casey Scorpions Thread

[Squizz]

See him when he gets the ball at AFL level: he looks nervous, apprehensive about what to do with the ball, unsure of his own abilities. Saw him on Saturday and he was assured and confident about his decision making and skill execution.

Totally agree. Not sure about being told he's good enough - needs to come from within. Or maybe he gets a role in the AFL that doesn't suit him and he gets confused? In the VFL he has the freedom to chase a kick.

 

[Persevering Saint]

Dropping him straight after he had a heroic effort that had everyone astonished - that would have done wonders for his confidence no doubt...

 

[Squizz]

Well, he seems to have dealt with it OK.

Official Match Report : The Casey Scorpions were on top of the world and the VFL ladder after cleaning up Collingwood at a miserably cold and wet Casey Fields in their Round 7 VFL clash on Saturday.

By Sunday night the Scorpions were sitting second, conceding the cat-bird seat to Williamstown, but their record of five wins and two losses is impressive stuff for a side that many were tipping would struggle this season.

The Scorpions were relentless in their endeavour as they held the Woods to 3.10 (28).In the opening term Collingwood kicked to the Philip Island end with the aid of the wind and rain, but it managed only one goal. ``That's where we set up the win, in that first quarter,'' coach Greg Hutchison said, praising his team's fierce attack on the ball. Then the Scorpions kicked four goals to none in the second term. In such tough conditions they were never going to lose from there. Classy Chris Dunne, playing as a lead-up forward, finished the match with a flourish, kicking three goals in the final term.

Further up the ground onballers Andrew McQualter (22 disposals) and best-afield Clinton Jones (35 possessions and six tackles) were dominant. Wings Brad Howard (24 possessions) and James Gwilt (22) and skipper Kyle Matthews (22, and seven tackles and 10 contested possessions) were also excellent contributors. Matt Ferguson went from seven goals last week to none on Saturday but he was played in his customary half back role for most of the match. Adam Fiora played at half forward when the Scorpions had the breeze and half back when they were against it, and had a good game. Alex Silvagni got another mention in the best for his blanketing of Chris Dawes (one goal) and James Wall was another Scorpion defender to impress, keeping clamps on Ben Reid. Stefan Garrubba tagged Ryan Lonie and did it well, gathering 17 possessions himself. Rookie ruckman Ben McEvoy finished with two of Casey's 10 goals and he won praise for his contesting too. ``It was one of those even team performances,'' Hutchison said. The Scorpions were also heartened by the performance of Evan Panozza at half-back and first-gamer Beau Vernon, the son of 1987 premiership player Daryl Vernon. Panozza shut down former teammate Rohan Frost, who kept Collingwood ticking over in the first quarter.

Casey meets the Gary Ayres-coached Port Melbourne this Saturday at 2pm and will be restricted to the 12-10 selection rule. But the split was 11-11 on Saturday.

Casey Scorpions 0.0 4.4 5.8 10.11 (71) d Collingwood 1.3 1.4 2.6 3.10 (28)
Casey goals: Dunne 3, McEvoy 2, Rix, Fiora, McQualter, Allen, Steven
Best: Jones, McEvoy, Garrubba, Panozza, Howard, Silvagni

 

[Look2Me4Guidance]

Well, he seems to have dealt with it OK.

Official Match Report : The Casey Scorpions were on top of the world and the VFL ladder after cleaning up Collingwood at a miserably cold and wet Casey Fields in their Round 7 VFL clash on Saturday.

By Sunday night the Scorpions were sitting second, conceding the cat-bird seat to Williamstown, but their record of five wins and two losses is impressive stuff for a side that many were tipping would struggle this season.

The Scorpions were relentless in their endeavour as they held the Woods to 3.10 (28).In the opening term Collingwood kicked to the Philip Island end with the aid of the wind and rain, but it managed only one goal. ``That's where we set up the win, in that first quarter,'' coach Greg Hutchison said, praising his team's fierce attack on the ball. Then the Scorpions kicked four goals to none in the second term. In such tough conditions they were never going to lose from there. Classy Chris Dunne, playing as a lead-up forward, finished the match with a flourish, kicking three goals in the final term.

Further up the ground onballers Andrew McQualter (22 disposals) and best-afield Clinton Jones (35 possessions and six tackles) were dominant. Wings Brad Howard (24 possessions) and James Gwilt (22) and skipper Kyle Matthews (22, and seven tackles and 10 contested possessions) were also excellent contributors. Matt Ferguson went from seven goals last week to none on Saturday but he was played in his customary half back role for most of the match. Adam Fiora played at half forward when the Scorpions had the breeze and half back when they were against it, and had a good game. Alex Silvagni got another mention in the best for his blanketing of Chris Dawes (one goal) and James Wall was another Scorpion defender to impress, keeping clamps on Ben Reid. Stefan Garrubba tagged Ryan Lonie and did it well, gathering 17 possessions himself. Rookie ruckman Ben McEvoy finished with two of Casey's 10 goals and he won praise for his contesting too. ``It was one of those even team performances,'' Hutchison said. The Scorpions were also heartened by the performance of Evan Panozza at half-back and first-gamer Beau Vernon, the son of 1987 premiership player Daryl Vernon. Panozza shut down former teammate Rohan Frost, who kept Collingwood ticking over in the first quarter.

Casey meets the GaryAyres-coachedPortMelbourne this Saturday at 2pm and will be restricted to the 12-10 selection rule. But the split was 11-11 on Saturday.

Casey Scorpions 0.0 4.4 5.8 10.11 (71) d Collingwood 1.3 1.4 2.6 3.10 (28)
Casey goals: Dunne 3, McEvoy 2, Rix, Fiora, McQualter, Allen, Steven
Best: Jones, McEvoy, Garrubba, Panozza, Howard, Silvagni

Cheeez you know you are struggling when they butcher your name in the VFL report.

 

[Squizz]

LTM4G - what the hell is that picture? I hope that's not Goose's foot post surgery. Maybe its Stevie Lawrence's liver?

 

[Look2Me4Guidance]

LTM4G - what the hell is that picture? I hope that's not Goose's foot post surgery. Maybe its Stevie Lawrence's liver?

You mean this?

Some of oogac's brilliance from Bay13.

 

[Squizz]

Geez, that's scarier than Stevie Lawrence's liver! (or his left hook for that matter).

 

[Look2Me4Guidance]

I think it epitomises the blind faith we all have to follow the Red White and Black!

 

[Kildonan]

Teams: Port Melbourne V Casey Scorpions LINK
Competition: 2008 VFL Seniors
Match Date: 24/05/2008

Casey Scorpions- Player Positions

B Taylor Silvagni O'Bryan
HB Gwilt Wall Jones
C Matthews McQualter Steven
HF Dunne Allen Creed
F Garrubba McEvoy Ferguson
R Rix Geary Fiora
Int Howard Armitage M Gardiner
Matheson Vernon Parker
C Gardiner Campbell Baker
Panozza McDonald Unsworth



Teams: Port Melbourne V Casey Scorpions
Competition: 2008 VFL Reserves
Match Date: 24/05/2008

Casey Scorpions- Player Positions

B Terry Campbell Snow
HB Crespin Mohr McDonald
C Noy Youle MacLeod
HF Unsworth Williams McGrath
F Fridman Quanchi Matheson
R Haretuku Vernon Galvin
Int Waite Wright Leung
Lastrina Salter Hinton
Gibson Mercoulia


Interestingly Raphael Clarke is not mentioned.
He wasn't named as a possible emergency - so he may have sustained an injury (not listed on Saints site).

I was just wondering if he is travelling up with the team ???

 

[TassieSaint]

Why was Armitage named on ball? If he has been dropped from he seniors I will be absolutely spewing

 

[Squizz]

Why the hell is M Gardiner listed on the bench??? This bloke is turning into a very good player again, so guess the Casey team has been cocked up from this and other comments.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

If those are the correct players that would not leave many players for the saints. Seven of them are supposed to be in brisbane the next day.
( Gardner , Jones, Ferg , Armo, Fiora, McQualter, Geary).

Meanwhile Raph , and C Gardner dont appear on a list. I think the Scorps list is a bit off.
In fact if the above players are all out of the Scorps I dont much like their chances this week.

 

[Casey Radio]

Casey Scorpions v Port Melbourne

Live webcasts from 1.30pm www.3ser.org.au

or live at the ground 97.7FM

 

[Kildonan]

If those are the correct players that would not leave many players for the saints. Seven of them are supposed to be in brisbane the next day.
( Gardner , Jones, Ferg , Armo, Fiora, McQualter, Geary).

Meanwhile Raph , and C Gardner dont appear on a list. I think the Scorps list is a bit off.
In fact if the above players are all out of the Scorps I dont much like their chances this week.

The VFL teams include the emergencies of their AFL club. If there is an extended bench then all are usually included (including those players that will play for the AFL club).

The Raphael Clarke omission suggests he is injured. His last match for Casey was at CHF where he was BOG.

The Armitage demotion is bewildering. Just maybe the club prefers not to take him back to Queensland (where all his late teenage mates are - who knows what rambunctious goings on might occur)

 

[SAINTS 4 07 FLAG]

did we win ?

 

[Look2Me4Guidance]

Port beat us by 30 points.

16.10.106 to 10.16.76.

Gwilt and Armitage named as our two best players.

Obviously Armo isn't going to be a surprise inclusion tomorrow.

 

[Kildonan]

Port Melbourne def. Casey Scorpions
16.10-106 to 10.16-76

inaccuracy seems to be a factor in this one

 

[Darkhour]

Casey Scorpions
Goal Kickers: C. Gardiner 2, M. Rix, S. Garrubba, J. Gwilt, J. Wall, D. Armitage, B. Howard, K. Matthews, A. Silvagni
Best Players: J. Gwilt, D. Armitage, K. Matthews, M. Rix, S. Garrubba, B. Howard

Howard 1 goal 6 behinds .. at least some encouraging signs from the young man finally.. even if he needs to work on his goal kicking, he wasn't alone there..

 

[Squizz]

Howard was quite good last week - seems to be learning where to run to. Has pace and kicks long. Would have needed to see where he was having shots from (we don't need any poor kicking in front of goal with the Saints).

 

[sammm]

the clarke brothers went home becuase their father was very sick.

 

[Squizz]

Some interesting comments from the game :

By 'spiral2'
Caught a quarter and a bit of the game (end of 1st and all of 2nd).
Allen - playing down back, wasn't doing very well. not a lot of intensity
Gwilt - in the centre and forward a bit. looked better on ball, used his strength in close to get through traffic. kicking good
Howard - can do good things but just seems to run around pointlessly half the time, looks to lack intensity and purpose at times. almost kicked a very good goal. skills by foot are good.
Armo - playing tough but not getting much footy
Gardiner - some clever touches and body work
Rix - tried but didn't achieve much
Steven - scooting around and trying but not much happened for him
Bakes - on and off the bench. didn't look 100% to me, seemed slowish. knee heavily strapped
no Ferg or Mini
McEvoy in civies. Goose in moonboot. Gilbo watching.
Wall doing well for casey up forward.
... From the bit I saw Howard was down back and middle/wing? a bit. Seemed to be doing a bit of tagging at one point. hard to figure out quite what he was doing. maybe the coach was throwing him around, not sure.

By 'iceman'
McEvoy is apparently flying up to Brissy as King has a suspect calf, he may still be right though.
So Jones Geary Ferg all made the trip, took 3 emergencies inc. McEvoy, left the Scorpions with 8 AFL listed players and 14 VFL listed, we should have won the game, Wall started Forward, and Allen Started back which proved costly as both struggled a bit, Allen more so than Wall, and the disposal of the Scorps was terrible. Should have won, but thats footy.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Some interesting comments from the game :

By 'spiral2'
Caught a quarter and a bit of the game (end of 1st and all of 2nd).
Allen - playing down back, wasn't doing very well. not a lot of intensity
This is a worry, we have enough players on the list where we can make these sorts of comments.
Gwilt - in the centre and forward a bit. looked better on ball, used his strength in close to get through traffic. kicking good He has played like this with the saints as well, but more oftern used down back where he is not as good ( because he is tall ).
Howard - can do good things but just seems to run around pointlessly half the time, looks to lack intensity and purpose at times. almost kicked a very good goal. skills by foot are good. Does he need some COACHING?
Armo - playing tough but not getting much footy
Gardiner - some clever touches and body work
Rix - tried but didn't achieve much Situation Normal
Steven - scooting around and trying but not much happened for him
Bakes - on and off the bench. didn't look 100% to me, seemed slowish. knee heavily strapped
no Ferg or Mini
McEvoy in civies. Goose in moonboot. Gilbo watching.
Wall doing well for casey up forward.
... From the bit I saw Howard was down back and middle/wing? a bit. Seemed to be doing a bit of tagging at one point. hard to figure out quite what he was doing. maybe the coach was throwing him around, not sure.

 

[Squizz]

Match report (clearly Rix had more of an impact than previously stated):

Scorpions left kicking themselves
It was a test of depth, and the result suggests the Casey Scorpions failed it.But Saturday's loss to Port Melbourne wasn't all done to a weakened line-up.

With St Kilda opting to take three ``spares'' - Andrew McQualter, Matt Ferguson and Ben McEvoy - to Brisbane on Sunday, the Scorpions were left with only eight Saints for Saturday's Round 8 clash at TEAC Oval.

As it was St Kilda didn't require the trio, which would have significantly strengthened the Scorpions. That said, they had a lot of the ball, but drowned in a sea of mistakes.

Their kicking for goal was particularly poor. They had 2.10 on the board at half-time, and club great Denis Knight, down from Queensland for the weekend, opined that four of the misses should have been kicked at this level.

The Scorpions also gifted Port a handful of goals, most notably in the third quarter when Jimmy Taylor turned the ball over, allowing Adrian Bonaddio to kick one of his five goals.

Still, Casey was well in the game in the last quarter. Alex Silvagni, who'd battled not only a stomach bug but powerful Port forward Bonaddio, went forward to kick a goal and put the Scorpions within five points.Port responded with a burst of goals that buried the visitors, two from little Jonno Mullins as he broke free from Taylor.

The inside 50s told a story: Casey had 53 and Port 50. But Casey had no dominating forward. Jarryd Allan, always a good target, was used as a key defender, at the request of St Kilda.

That meant James Wall, who has sparkled at centre half back this season, played in the forward line, where he did little damage.With St Kilda withdrawing McEvoy on Saturday morning, Casey had to pull Ben McDonald out of the reserves. He was stripped and ready to play when told he would be making his senior debut. Adding to his thrill, Knight presented him with his jumper.

McDonald, recruited from Scoresby two years ago, made a handy entrance to senior football, having 14 touches and making three tackles and five spoils. He stood speedy Port little man Robin Nahas. But wingman James Gwilt, who had 29 possessions, continued his campaign for a St Kilda call-up with a fine game on the wing.

Ruckman Michael Rix, a player with a heart the size of a pumpkin, took 11 marks and had 21 possessions. David Armitage, Brad Howard and skipper Kyle Matthews did their bit.

Casey has this weekend off owing to the state game against the SANFL. It hosts Geelong on Sunday, June 8.

Casey Scorpions 1.3, 2.10, 5.13, 10.16 (76) lt Port Melb 3.1 6.4 10.7 16.10 (106)

GOALS: Gardiner 2 Garrubba Matthews Silvagni Armitage Howard Rix Wall Gwilt.
BEST: Gwilt Armitage Matthews Rix Garrubba Howard.

 

[HoldenMCaulfield]

Jarryd Allan, always a good target, was used as a key defender, at the request of St Kilda.

now that's interesting - I thought we need forwards ?

 

[Squizz]

It was interesting. They have done it a few times (asked Allen to play back). I'd have to say though, he has been struggling to get near it as a forward. If Rix or Allen came up as a defender, we could play Sam F forward which is where I'd prefer to see him if we had the luxury (or even on the wing).