Above and above left: Star Parkmore full forward Danny Casset booted 13 goals including his 100th for the season in the Pirates’ 61-point win over Cerberus.By Marc McGowan
THE Danny Casset show took centre stage in Parkmore’s 61-point bullocking of a hapless Cerberus at Frederick Wachter Reserve in their Division Three Southern Football League clash on Saturday.
Casset, 32, thumped through 13 majors – despite often having four players on him – to get his century of goals with 104 so far for the season.
It is the fifth time Casset has achieved the feat in his flamboyant career and becomes the first player in metropolitan football in Victoria to bring up the ton this year.
“I’m aiming for 150 for the year – I’m averaging nine a game – and with finals I hope to do it,” Casset said.
He kicked his 104 goals from 172 scoring shots in just 12 games, so his confidence is justified. He has put 24 goals through in the past two weeks and appears to be thundering towards the imposing target.
Pirates’ assistant coach Gary Connolly said Casset was pretty happy to get the 100 out of the way.
Casset had eight goals to half-time and brought up the milestone in the third quarter – attracting a large crowd that mobbed the local star.
“All the little kids ran onto the ground. I haven’t seen that in a while,” Connolly said.
Cerberus was lively early – putting four scoring shots on the board before Parkmore had scored – but once the Pirates got going they were an irrepressible force.
They kicked five goals to quarter-time and, despite five scoring shots, Cerberus failed to put one through the big sticks.
The teams shared ten goals evenly in the second term, before the Pirates’ turn with the wind resulted in an eight-goal-to-one embarrassment of the Seadogs and an unofficial end to proceedings.
Cerberus took the final-quarter honours, but it was to no avail as the Pirates held sway by more than ten goals.
The only danger to Parkmore’s swagger to the premiership appears to be injuries.
Connolly said their depth, as far as their bottom three or four off the bench, needed to step up to the task.
“There is not a lot there,” he said.
This is highlighted by the position of its reserve team – rock bottom.
