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<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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Are you tippier than a 6th grader? So far, she's running at 6/9, which isn't too bad for round 1. Particularly when you ti[ the Dogs and the Blues.

Anyways, round 2's tips

Richmond vs Carlton

Essendon vs Hawthorn

St Kilda vs GWS

Port Adelaide vs Adelaide

Fremantle vs Gold Coast

Sydney vs Collingwood

Brisbane vs Geelong

Melbourne vs West Coast

Western vs North Melbourne

Good luck tipping tipsters!

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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<div>In: S.White, K.Lucas

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

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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.

We all should be locked and loaded now for another season of the TooSerious Trading Games

Currently, there are 32 teams in the Trading Games group. After round 1 is complete, we'll have to ensure everyone has started with the same squad of 30 as each other, and anyone found to have started with an alternative lineup will be deemed ineligible.

FYI, you can view the last two TSTG threads [span style='text-decoration: underline; font-size: 18px;]HERE and [span style='text-decoration: underline; font-size: 18px;]HERE.


Since the AFL teams were announced yesterday, Warsaken has posted the final squad in the forum thread.

*** Here is the final squad:

DEF:Mitchell,HShaw,Hurn,Swallow,Guthrie,McDonald,Laidler,Georgiou.

MID:Ablett,Rockliff,Liberatore,Beams,Thomas,Tyson,Michie,Polec,Ellis,Dunstan.

RUC:Lobbe,Sandi,Derickx,Thurlow.

FWDangerfield,Martin,Dixon,Caddy,Daniher,Rohan, JKH,Impey.

If you have the right team selected, you will have $22,000 remaining salary.

Remember, you can already make your own decisions about who to start on the bench and who is your captain etc.
At the completion of round 1, after the game opens back up for round 2, you can make whatever trades and changes you wish.


*** If you have set up the team, but not joined the group yet, here's what to do:


[span style='color: #333333; background-color: #ffffff;]Simply click the following link (you may need to login):<br style='color: #333333;[/img]
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