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So, who's happy with their back line this week?

From Mitchell, Birchall and Hodge on Friday night, to Enright, Hurn and a whole slew of rookies, it was an absolutely clustertruck in the back line!

Anyways, stats are upload now, so I'll let you know when it's done.

In the meantime- how'd this weekend treat you?

We ended up with 32 teams in the group, but 2 of them didn't start with the correct team, so we have 30 teams in the comp for 2014.

I find the round 1 scores particularly interesting, because we all had the same 30 players, so all differences in the scores came down to our selections of benches and captains etc.

The best possible score we could have had for round 1 was 2214, with this arrangement:

Def: Swallow 135; Hurn 99; Laidler 95; Shaw 85; Mitchell 84; Guthrie 76. (Georgiou 64; McDonald 48)
Mid: Ablett (C) 140x2=280; Beams 136; Tyson 111; Polec 107; Dunstan 100; Rockliffe 95; Liberatore 79; Ellis 66. (Thomas 62; Michie 61)
Ruc: Sandilands 127; Lobbe 76. (Derickx 0; Thurlow 0)
Fwd: Dangerfield 107; Martin 102; Caddy 81; Daniher 70; Impey 56; Rohan 47. (Kennedy-Harris 24; Dixon 22)


There was a fairly big range of actual scores with 'BigGuns' the best coming in at 2142, whilst two teams didnt even crack 2000.

It seems that the only differences BigGuns had from the ultimate lineup above, was Daisy onfield for Dunstan, and Dixon onfield for Impey.


Five teams scored greater than 2100.
Three scored greater than 2090, but less than 2100.
14 teams actually all scored 2090!
6 scored greater than 2000, but less than 2090;
and as mentioned above, 2 scored less than 2000.
The lowest score of the round was 'Green Onion' with 1989.

Even though we all started with the same 30 players, there is already a gap of around 150 points between 1st and last, after just 1 round.


Quite a few of us have already made some trades, which will make this even more interesting from here on in

<p style='margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: #fcfcfc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;][span style='color: #444444;]Big scores to start the season with the top ten scores all 140 or above. Watson and Joel Selwood led the way with 157 and they were followed by Treloar with 154. Clinton Jones surprised everyone with a career high 152 from a career high 39 touches (only the 17th time he has scored over 100 in 106 games). Wines rounded out the top 5 with 145. The rest of the top ten were Prestia and LeCras with 144, Nathan Jones with 142 and Ablett and Breust with 140 each.
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<p style='margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: #fcfcfc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;][span style='color: #444444;]Here are the numbers for Round 2 &amp;hellip;
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<p style='margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: #fcfcfc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;][span style='color: #444444;]RICHMOND v. CARLTON
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<p style='margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: #fcfcfc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;][span style='color: #444444;]Recent game: In the Elimination Final last year, Carlton knocked out Richmond 116 to 96. Maric had a big game with 138 and he was followed by Murphy with 132 and Cotchin with 129.
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[span style='background-color: #fcfcfc; color: black;]A cracking first round to the 2014 ORFFA premiership season, with a number of upsets and three games decided by 36 points or less.

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[span style='background-color: #fcfcfc; color: black;]Catch the review over the break...

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<p style='background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;]Round 1 - [span style='background-color: white;]Fantasy Footballers Anonymous Fortnight.
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<p style='background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;]Lovely Banks 1,309 defeatedNunawading 1,004
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<p style='background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;]With pre-season odds painting a fairly even contest, the Purple Haze threw betting circles into a spin with a spirited demolition of the Nuffers.
<p style='background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;]Coach Jen was loop-holing like no tomorrow to make the most of the split round with Hunt, Langdon and Balla all shining early.
<p style='background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;]With an already depleted fwd line, the Nuffers were floored with a one/two punch as Dixon and Palmer tapped out early.
<p style='background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;]Rosa was a stand out for the home side which took out an easy win with strong performances across all lines.
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<p style='background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;]Charlie's Opening 1,104 lost to Wagga Wagga 1,428
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So we kick off the round last night with Richmond taking on the Blues.
Man, it was nearly a repeat of the elimination final, wasn't it? If the Blues could have kicked straight in the final term.
Still, it was nice to see Daisy get a decent result. Repay a bit of faith for those who didn't go chasing rainbows.
Me, my rainbow is Macrae. Lets see how that works out.
Also, Carn the Bombers!

Round 1 has come and finally gone. This means it is time for me to get to work. My setup is not yet great to get this done quickly, but I'll streamline this over the next few weeks. The first round is almost a no-brainer anyway, so I won't elaborate too much.

Team selection comes down to picking the highest scoring 6 defenders, 8 midfielders, 2 rucks and 6 forwards and supplement these with 2 non-scoring bench players for each position. Then pick the single player with the highest score as the captain. However, I'll most likely run over the salary cap, so I'll need to swap a few players out for cheaper high scoring (but not highest) players to get the highest score WITHIN the salary cap for the season to date (round 1). No rocket science, so here is the team:

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Don't forget, with Thursdays game, we've got ourselves a late lockout in the non-lockout comps.

But being the pro-coach you are, you already knew that.

Anyways, color: #2e2e2e;]McDonough dropped after just one game. Awkward.

[span style='color: #2e2e2e; background-color: #ffffff;]In: C Rioli, L Montagna, J Kelly, Kade Kolodjashnij, K Jack, T Derickx, Nick Robertson, Daniel Currie<br style='color: #2e2e2e;[/img]
[span style='color: #2e2e2e; background-color: #ffffff;]Out: D Wanganeen, J Webster (groin), J Billings, T Clurey, B Martin, J Laidler, B Kennedy, J Rockliff, D Sheed, B Goodes, McDonough

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RICHMOND



B: T.Chaplin, D.Astbury, D.Grimes

HB: B.Houli, N.Vlastuin, S.Morris

C: S.Grigg, B.Deledio, B.Ellis

HF: R.Petterd, D.Martin, J.King

F: S.Edwards, J.Riewoldt, T.Vickery

Foll: S.Hampson, M.Thomas, T.Cotchin

I/C: C.Newman, B.Griffiths, R.Conca, N.Foley



Emg: A.Edwards, S.Lloyd, M.McDonough



In: J.King, D.Grimes

Out: A.Rance, M.McDonough



CARLTON



B: M.Watson, M.Jamison, A.Everitt

HB: C.Yarran, Z.Tuohy, K.Simpson

C: E.Curnow, B.McLean, B.Gibbs

HF: T.Bell, L.Henderson, J.Garlett

F: D.Ellard, J.Waite, M.Robinson

Foll: R.Warnock, M.Murphy, D.Thomas

I/C: T.Menzel, K.Lucas, S.White, M.Kreuzer
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Emg: J.Cachia, D.Buckley, S.Rowe
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Out: A.Walker, A.McInnes

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So, the free hit is over. This week, we need to get our teams in.

]Planning on jumping on those Howlett styled first rounders? Or sticking fat with your Guns? Would love to hear your thoughts.

So, any RMT discussion, go for it in here.

Also, tonight I'm planning on sitting down, activating my AFgold trial and seeing what it has to say about break evens. Remember, prices change this week. So if you want to get in with the fun of cracking it, then get on board.
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<p style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;]Planning on jumping on those Howlett styled first rounders? Or sticking fat with your Guns? Would love to hear your thoughts.

Welcome back to the Best Buys for another year of SuperCoach action here on the infamous TooSerious.net.

The opening round may have dragged on, seriously dragged, but now we're off and running and into the action for another season.

For the first Best Buys of the year things may be a bit rough while we get back into the swing of things, but as always there are some real potential bargains to be found.

This is usually the stage where we point out that there is no Best Buy for the first week, as trades really should be kept to a minimum this early on, but hey, with 30 trades and some serious scores going on around the traps, there will certainly be many coaches out there with an itchy trigger finger already.

With the scores all over the place after the first round we'll only be looking at the players to have scored 100+ so far, as well as some of the rookie-priced options that have stood out and look likely to get some more games.


DEFENSE
ROOKIES

Tom Langdon (COL) D/M 117.3k 111

Langdon will likely be the top trade-in target this week, after amassing 111 points in a losing team and playing the Dockers no less. As a D/M and basement priced at under 120 grand, it's easy to see why he is around 85,000 sides already.





]JeremyLaidler (SYD) DEF 161.8k 95

Laidler has continued the trend of Sydney recycling fringe-players into quality SC additions, scoring 95 in the shock loss to GWS and solidifying his place in the team. With Johnson having some injury concerns Laidler is in the box-seat for more games with the Swans, something his 77,000 coaches will be banking on.


]WillLangford (HAW) DEF 123.9k 77

Langford looked good against the Lions, scoring 77 for his 60,000 odd coaches and freeing up Shiels to play a more attacking role. Whether this trend will continue into the bulk of the season remains to be seen however, but for a first year rookie you can't go far wrong.

MID-PRICERS

]DavidSwallow (GCS) D/M 429.4k 135

After...

In which walesy, at some stage, reviews some games, while somehow figuring out how to roll TS over in the new year.

I hope all of your premiums went large and all of your cash cows are juicy.

Also- if I ever start the season with key forwards, can someone please slap me? Cheers.