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<p style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 18px;]Just taking time out of the #spill to get up the teams post.
<p style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 18px;]Remember, we have a Thursday game this week, so it's a rolling lockout in all the non-rolling lockout comps! (And a captains loophole!)
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<p style='color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; background-color: #ffffff;]WEST COAST v ESSENDON

Thursday 27 June, 6:10pm, Patersons Stadium
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B: Sam Butler, Darren Glass, Mitch Brown

HB: Ash Smith, Eric Mackenzie, Beau Waters

C: Matt Rosa, Matt Priddis, Bradd Dalziell

HF: Daniel Kerr, Josh Kennedy, Patrick McGinnity

F: Mark LeCras, Dean Cox, Jack Darling

Foll: Nic Naitanui, Luke Shuey, Chris Masten

Int: Andrew Gaff, Mark Hutchings, Brad Sheppard, Simon Tunbridge

Emerg: Ashton Hams, Blayne Wilson, Will Schofield
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Out: S. Hurn (ankle), S. Selwood (thumb), B. Wilson (omitted), A. Embley...

Thompson v. Gold Coast



Rd 23 2012: 119 SC points, 30 disposals

Rd 1 2012: 147 SC points, 39 disposals

Rd 22 2011: 162 SC points, 51 disposals

Rd 8 2011: 136 SC points, 34 disposals



Average is 141 SC points with 39 disposals.



Note: Small sample size but a fantastic record against the Suns. Most recently tagged by Horsley. He is in poor form at the moment coming off scores of 105, 68, 97 and 84 (average of 89).



Swan v. Port Adelaide



Rd 4 2012: 121 SC points, 36 disposals

Rd 20 2011: 136 SC points, 37 disposals

Rd 1 2011: 166 SC points, 34 disposals

Rd 15 2010: 127 SC points, 39 disposals

Rd 10 2009: 166 SC points, 48 disposals

Rd 20 2008: 118 SC points, 15 disposals

Rd 4 2007: 118 SC points, 21 disposals

Rd 20 2006: 100 SC points, 19 disposals

Rd 5 2006: 107 SC points, 22 disposals



Average is 129 SC points with 30 disposals.



Note: Fantastic record against Port Adelaide. Robbie Gray played on him last year but he is normally tagged by Cassisi. Prior to the bye he had scored 149, 148 and 131 (average of 143).



Ablett v. Adelaide



Rd 23 2012: 122 SC points, 26 disposals

Rd 1 2012: 139 SC points, 42 disposals

Rd 22 2011: 145 SC points, 39 disposals

Rd 8 2011: 198 SC points, 41 disposals

Rd 16 2010: 76 SC points, 19 disposals

Rd 18 2009: 115 SC points, 21 disposals

Rd 4 2009: 197 SC points, 46 disposals

Rd 14 2008: 91 SC points, 25 disposals

Rd 19 2007: 86 SC points, 19 disposals

Rd 11 2007: 104 SC points, 21 disposals



Average is 127 SC points with 30 disposals.



Notes: Fantastic scores against the Crows over the past couple of years: averaging 151 in four games. Most recently tagged by Wright in Round 23 last year. Played head to head against Thompson in the first half in Round 1 last year before being tagged by Van Berlo in the second half. Huge score in Round 8 2011 due to his...

<p style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 18px;]Feels wrong opening this thread on a Thursday.
<p style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 18px;]Still, the round is here now, so make sure you sort out your squad!
<p style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 18px;]We'll have a rolling lockout for tonight in all comps, however as always, the reverse trade button will be shut down once the first game starts!
<p style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 18px;]Anyways, keep us updated through the round on how you go!

<p style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;]The SuperCoach gods have once again made a mockery of most coaches plans, with the byes ending much to everyone's relief, only for a swag of players to go down injured ruining a lot of upgrade plans. Luckily however there are some pretty good options going around the traps this week, and the Best Buys is here to help you sort which ones are the best for you.
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<p style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;]The Best Buy this week is JoeD, the young Daniher with the excellent hands. Most coaches heard the raps on him pre-season, but after seeing him demolish the GCS defense in his last game a fair few more are now paying notice. With a rookie scarcity hitting the forwards and the backs, young Joe will be very popular trade in this week, and those with Stakes will be loving the option to trade out a defender for him (hi Birch).
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DEFENSE
ROOKIES



Blayne WILSON (WCE) DEF 115.9k 73 +65k
Wilson has slipped under the radar for most coaches so far, with the rookie attention being mainly on Nicholls and Mitchell, but has performed pretty well in his 2 games so far. Averaging 73 and facing a 65 grand price rise he has excellent timing, going on the bubble at just the right time, but his job security is a bit unknown with a couple of Eagles defenders currently out of the...

I absolutely (but thankfully not literally) knackered right now, so let's keep it simple for the time being.



Rolling lockout works the way it usually does, if you have players you want to play in Thursday night's match, they need to appear in this blog before the game starts tomorrow night. All other players need to be posted before Friday nights game commences.



More to come. etc.



ORFFL ROUND 11:
RIVALRY ROUND III:
THE FINAL RIVALRY ROUND:
GAME ON!



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COULTA COULDABEENS v MALLACOOTA MAGICIANS<br style='color: #444444; text-align: left; background-color: #fbfbfb;[/img]
QUEENSTOWN QUOLLS v MERTON MEERKATS<br style='color: #444444; text-align: left; background-color: #fbfbfb;[/img]
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GLENROWAN GUNSLINGERS v WOY WOY WIZARDS

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Well, we finally made it to the end of the bye rounds, only to be met with the news that the AFL is looking at introducing two byes per team next year&amp;hellip; please no!
Your friendly donor team scored an average 1707 to close out the byes, which placed us at 29,555 for the week, and makes us now 29,020 for the season. We did climb more than 5000 places in round 13, but we've dropped nearly 4000 places over the space of the byes, somewhat hurt by only having 16 scoring players in round 11. Join me over the break to see all about our round 13 performance, and a more detailed update on our leagues.
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As I mentioned, we scored 1707 points in round 13, on the back of 18 scoring players and one scoring emergency who outdid nearly half of our team. Here's the list:

Backmen:
Ibbotson 98
Lester 45
Hanley 42
Webster 25
Midfielders:
Griffen 143 Captain 286
Kennedy 107
Cotchin 86
T Mitchell 84
Goodes 61
Vlastuin 31
Ruckmen:
Cox 115
Naitanui 114
Forwards:
Kennedy 125
Johnson 120
Westhoff 101
Franklin 97
Zorko 91
Rockliff 79

Bench:
Goddard
Heppell
Dixon
Thurlow
Ablett
Pendlebury
Dangerfield
Martin
Nicholls
Currie
Staker 85
Rowe

The obvious one there is Staker, whose 85 points we missed out on due to a full forward line. He did outscore Rockliff, but also outscored a further 6 players in our midfield and backline. Unfortunately we couldn't substitute him back there, as there was no-one to swap him with. Stakers points were the only ones we missed this week, with a maximum of 60 points going begging (swap with Webster), or a less impressive 6 points for a direct swap in the forward line for Rocky.

The good luck story of the round for the donors came in the form of one of our trades. We decided to trade in the 6th highest scoring player of the week, and a huge overall...

G'day TSer's, with the 3 bye rounds over it's on to another week of seeking input/suggestions from the wider TS community for potential bet options to include in the W2SP Punters Club 'combined club footy multi bets' this week.
To recap on previous week's, what the club is looking for here is for anyone within the TS community to provide what they would consider their best footy bet of the week in the comments below.
Your tip could be just a single selection, or it could be a complete multi bet, it's up to you - there is no limit to what particular market you're tip comes from (head-to-head, line bets, pick your own line, first goal-kicker, 1st goal-kicker from particular club, margin, etc), the choice is yours what bet you post in the comments. Just one thing with that though, the club is restricted to betting through Luxbet, therefore we can only actually bet on markets they provide (so unfortunately Walesy, that means we can't get on to QxQ bets).
One thing we would like to see though is for each individual tip (or complete multi) to be posted in a separate comment - so if you have a few tips could you please post each one individually (except if you are suggesting a complete multi bet). This will make it much easier for others to vote via the thumbs and for me to collate all votes on Thursday/Friday arvo to work out the most popular selections to include in the club multi's.
What we will be aiming to do is place 3 multi bets with outlays of $20, $15 and $10 (depending on popularity of bet proposals) - then look at investing the final $5 on a few 1st goal-kicker multi's (if we strike the right 1st GK multi it could mean a BIG payout even for a single dollar outlay)!!!
Unfortunately, last week commitments involving my new business venture ate into my time during the week meaning I wasn't able to prepare an article with enough time to be voted on. Plus a very busy Friday arvo/evening and Saturday morning/early arvo ended up making it impossible to get any...

<p style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 18px;]Well, the byes are finally behind us, but according tothisarticle, the AFL might be bringing in 2 byes next year.
<p style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 18px;]So ponder THAT as this round comes to a close!


(Reviews, thanks to the fantastic Shenanigans.



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<p style='color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; background-color: #ffffff;]Hawthorn by 20
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<p style='color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; background-color: #ffffff;]A helluva game as the Eagles and the Hawks gave us another greatFridaynight game. Hawthorn jumped out of the gates early to a three goal lead, but the Eagles really turned it on to peg it back and then edge ahead by the first break. The seesawing action continued for the rest of the match, but the Hawks were able to hold off the Eagles' repeated charges, The Hawks ended up on the wrong side of the ledger in a vast majority of the major stats - just not on the scoreboard.
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<p style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 18px;]Right-eo, round 13 is off with a bang, with a smashing quarter of footy from the Hawks and the Eagles.
<p style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 18px;]Last round of the byes, so I'm hoping they've treated you nicely!
<p style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 18px;]Keep us updated with your scores!

Might have had a school soiree to go to tonight, so the teams are late.



But, they are here now.



Great to see Waters, JJK and Hrovat named. Just hoping thatThurlow and Bartel survives the cut!



HAWTHORN v WEST COAST

Friday 21 June, 7:50pm, Etihad Stadium
Hawthorn

B: Ben Stratton, Brian Lake, Brent Guerra

HB: Grant Birchall, Josh Gibson, Luke Hodge

C: Shane Savage, Sam Mitchell, Bradley Hill

HF: Paul Puopolo, Lance Franklin, Jordan Lewis

F: David Hale, Jarryd Roughead, Luke Breust

Foll: Max Bailey, Brad Sewell, Shaun Burgoyne

Int: Liam Shiels, Taylor Duryea, Jack Gunston, Jonathan Simpkin

Emerg: Kyle Cheney, Xavier Ellis, Matt Spangher
In: S.Savage

Out: I.Smith (corked calf)
West Coast

B: Sam Butler, Darren Glass, Mitchell Brown

HB: Shannon Hurn, Eric Mackenzie, Beau Waters

C: Andrew Gaff, Scott Selwood, Andrew Embley

HF: Luke Shuey, Josh Kennedy, Chris Masten

F: Mark LeCras, Dean Cox, Jack Darling

Foll: Nic Naitanui, Matt Priddis, Daniel Kerr

Int: Blayne Wilson, Patrick McGinnity, Bradd Dalziell, Matt Rosa

Emerg: Brad Sheppard, Ashley Smith, Jacob Brennan
In: D.Glass, B.Waters, M.LeCras, J.Kennedy, B.Dalziell, P.McGinnity

Out: A.Selwood (back), J.Hill (hamstring), A.Hams, J.Brennan, B.Sheppard, J.Cripps
PORT ADELAIDE v SYDNEY

Saturday 22 June, 1:10pm, AAMI Stadium
Port Adelaide

B: Matthew Broadbent, Alipate Carlile, Jack Hombsch

HB: Cameron O'Shea, Thomas Jonas, Tom Logan

C: Matt Thomas, Brad Ebert, Kane Cornes

HF: Robbie Gray, Justin Westhoff, Paul Stewart

F: Jake Neade, Jay Schulz, Angus Monfries

Foll: Matthew Lobbe, Chad Wingard, Hamish Hartlett

Int: Oliver Wines, Jasper Pittard, John Butcher, Domenic Cassisi

Emerg: Nathan Blee, Andrew Moore, Campbell Heath
In: D.Cassisi, J.Pittard

Out: T.Boak (finger), C.Hitchcock (ankle)
Sydney

B: Tony Armstrong, Ted Richards, Dane Rampe

HB: Nick Smith,...