Bendigo Stung By The Scorpions

Bendigo were comfortably beaten by the Casey Scorpions in the VFL Round 12 clash on Sunday afternoon with the Scorpions running out 29 point winners.

By saladin
Shocking game in shocking conditions. 5 goal wind blowing to one end in the 1st half, moderated a tiny bit in the second half. The Bendigo skills were always going to fall down under adverse conditions, and so it proved. remarkably within striking distance at 3/4 time, but were horrible in the last quarter.

Hocking did not play.

Hislop was good. snapped a very nice goal in the second quarter, had some physicality around the contests and even broke the lines a few times. disposal wasn’t too bad usually, but did struggle to find an option (sometimes coz there wasn’t one!) occassionally. the report was a farce. a casey player was run down after running 6 metres and didn’t dispose of the footy. umpire calls play on. Tommy yells “farking hell, umpire, thats shit”. umpire blows whistle: “against you 35, you cant abuse me. against 35”. i didn’t even realise you could be reported for that?

Hooker: no impact. took a few marks but had to wander miles upfield to find the footy. conditions not in his favour.

Williams: hot and cold. still needs to work harder defensively. work in progress.

Magin: quieter than the last few times i’ve seen him. run off the bench more often. struggled with the bouncing ball to pick it up. a couple of very nice handballs out of traffic though.

Johns: played back into the wind, went forward with it. not too bad in either role. tends to throw the ball onto the boot without looking too often. kicked a couple, some good marks, put the ball out on the full three times into the wind during the third.

Mal: does what he has to do, but the spark seems gone imo. a class above this level – actually, about three classes. the small number of listed players currently available for bendigo must be disheartening.

Bellchambers: good in the ruck contests but struggled around the ground. “nearly” took quite a few marks, but they just didn’t stick. not his conditions obviously. still hugely promising.

Dick: non-event. one scorching run into the wind, not much else.

Cramieri: impressed with this kid. good hands, pretty hard at it, good overhead. i hope he kicks on, and the real shining light from the bendigo list.

VFL ROUND 12

Casey Scorpions 4.6 5.7 9.11 11.14 (80)
Bendigo Bombers 0.0 5.5 6.8 7.9 (51)

GOALS:
Casey Scorpions: Fisher 2 Clarke 2 Ferguson Waite Panozza Fiora Howard Steven Dunne
Bendigo Bombers: Hislop Crameri Hartigan Johns Coghlan Skipworth Chartres

BEST:
Casey Scorpions: Birss Fisher Panozza Waite Steven Silvagni
Bendigo Bombers: Michael Skipworth Flaherty Hislop Chartres Bellchambers

REPORTED PLAYERS:
Casey Scorpions: Nil
Bendigo Bombers: T Hislop reported for abusive language

Posted 29 June 08 in News Bendigo