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<p style='margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #444444;](a) 2013 Midseaon Trade Period opens now, 2012 and closes Sunday, June 17th at the conclusion of the Collingwood vs Western Bulldogs match match.
<p style='margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #444444;](b) You can trade picks (to the midseason 2013 and the preseason 2014 draft) and players. Trades can be uneven (eg. 2 players for 1).
<p style='margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #444444;](c) You can only trade draft picks in the 2 drafts directly ahead e.g. as above.
<p style='margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #444444;](d) Trades can be vetoed if a majority of 5 non-paticipating teams cast a veto vote.
<p style='margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #444444;](e) Teams will have roughly 48 hours to veto a trade proposed (eg. If a trade is proposed at 2.15pm on a Tuesday, ORFFL coaches have until 10pm on a thursday to cast their votes. I'll be checking/ratifying at 10pm, basically).
<p style='margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #444444;](f) Trades posted on Sunday 17th, June and Saturday 16th, June will only have until 2pm AET, Monday 18th February to have vetoes cast.
<p style='margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #232323;](g) All proposed trades should be posted in the relevant midseason blog (this one). Likewise, all vetoes should be posted in this thread. I'll tally up the votes and update the OP as...

<p style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 18px;]I know there's byes and stuff to contend with this week, but can I just say, that Essendon vs Carlton is year in, year out, my favourite game of the year.
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<p style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 18px;]So tonight, I'm gunna kick back in front of the telly, and enjoy myself some good football, from two long-time rivals, both approaching premiership form.
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<p style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 18px;]Ahhh, yeah.

<p style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 18px;]First round of the byes.
<p style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 18px;]How are the blue dots treating you? Lets hope tonights teams don't squeeze that belt a little too tight hey!
ESSENDON v CARLTON<br style='font-size: 14px; background-color: #fbfbfb;[/img]
Friday June 7, 7:50pm, MCG<br style='font-size: 14px; background-color: #fbfbfb;[/img]
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Essendon<br style='font-size: 14px; background-color: #fbfbfb;[/img]
B: Mark Baguley, Dustin Fletcher, Michael Hibberd<br style='font-size: 14px; background-color: #fbfbfb;[/img]
HB: Brendon Goddard, Cale Hooker, Dyson Heppell<br style='font-size: 14px; background-color: #fbfbfb;[/img]
C: Brent Stanton, Jobe Watson, Ben Howlett<br style='font-size: 14px; background-color: #fbfbfb;[/img]
HF: Jake Melksham, Michael Hurley, Alwyn Davey<br style='font-size: 14px; background-color: #fbfbfb;[/img]
F: David Zaharaki, Joe Daniher, Nick Kommer<br style='font-size: 14px; background-color: #fbfbfb;[/img]
Foll: Patrick Ryder, David Myers, Heath Hocking<br style='font-size: 14px; background-color: #fbfbfb;[/img]
Int: Will Hams, Jake Carlisle, Stewart Crameri, Jason Winderlich<br style='font-size: 14px; background-color: #fbfbfb;[/img]
Emerg: Tom Bellchambers, Leroy Jetta, Kyle Hardingham<br style='font-size: 14px; background-color: #fbfbfb;[/img]
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In: A.Davey, B.Howlett, M.Hurley, J.Daniher<br style='font-size: 14px; background-color: #fbfbfb;[/img]
Out: C.Dempsey (ribs), L.Jetta, S.Gumbleton (ankle), T.Bellchambers<br style='font-size: 14px; background-color: #fbfbfb;[/img]
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G'day fellow TSer's, with some recent success by members of the punters club striking gold with some decent footy multi bets, the W2SP Punters Club is making some minor changes to the way we operate.



We are keen to have a crack at a few footy multi's each week over the remainder of the season and see if we can strike some decent returns.



Up until now, the club has operated on a basis of each member taking their turn to punt using a roster (we bet on a daily basis), this has enabled us to rotate through all 26 members in a month then reward the top 5 punters (based on that month's ROI% [Return On Investment]) with a 2nd crack. Our daily punting allowance has been based on the following formula: Club Kitty multiplied by 0.5 divided by 30 (days in the punting month cycle). This formula has enabled us to gradually increase our daily allowance from $12 per day up to our current $54 per day since we started late September last year.


But like I said, we now want to make a minor change by reducing the top performers for each month from 5 down to 3 and use some funds to have a crack at some lucrative footy multi bets until the end of the season (following that we might look at all sport multi bets when footy finishes, or concentrate on the Spring Carnival Races, time will tell).



What we are looking at is allocating $50 each round to these combined club footy multi bets, however it can be difficult to get some decent input and tally up the votes when things are done in our forum thread (plus we only seem to be getting about half of our club members in there putting forward their suggestions for bets to consider including in the multi's).



This is where the wider TS community comes into the picture.



With the wealth of footy knowledge to be found here in the wider TS community, I thought it would be a fantastic idea to put up a post here on the main page each week and welcome the input of everyone in the TS community!!!



So what...

<p style='text-align: center;]ORFFA <p style='text-align: center;] MID- SEASON REVIEW
The Ladder: Iron Knob 36 14211
Foul Bay 32 13306
Waikickamoocow 32 12691 <a name='_GoBack][/url]
Venus Bay 28 12433
Birdsville 28 12399
Powlett Plains 28 12399
Wagga Wagga 24 12360
Darraweit Guim 24 11991
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Charlies Opening 20 12695
Cradle Mountain 20 12208
Mt Beauty 20 11413
Whitsundays 20 11375
Gariwerd 16 11852
Nunawading 16 10987
Larrikin Lagoon 8 11781
Lovely Banks 4 11182
Marble Bar 4 10739
Gundagai 0 8876

1st: Iron Knob Start of years odds: $5.00 Current odds: $3:00 Results: Round 1: Iron Knob1422 defeated Foul Bay 1252 Round 2: Iron Knob 1501 defeated Gundagai 1133 Round 3: Iron Knob 1440 defeated Venus Bay 1096 Round 4: Iron Knob 1454 defeated Lovely Banks 1289 Round 5: Mt Beauty 1414 defeated Iron Knob 1244 Round 6: Iron Knob 1482 defeated Gariwerd 1278 <p style='margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; line-height: 12pt;]Round 7: Iron Knob 1495 defeated Marble Bar 1187 <p style='margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; line-height: 12pt;]<strong style='font-size: 14.666666984558105px;]Round 8: [/b]<strong style='font-size: 14.666666984558105px;]Iron Knob[/b]<strong style='font-size: 14.666666984558105px;] 1336 defeated Wagga Wagga 1032[/b] Round 9: Iron Knob 1368 defeated Powlett Plains 1195 Round 10: Iron Knob 1468 defeated Birdsville 994
Iron Knob have had an incredible first half of the season, and are now rightly premiership favourites. A dominate midfield led by Ablett and Griffen has been on full display so far this year, and they will be looking to continue their form to ensure a home final. They have only had one...

<p style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 16.363636016845703px;]This week the Best Buys is a shortened version, as it will be for the next two weeks also, due to the byes meaning there are only 2/3 the teams to choose from. We won't be going into bye strategies, as there is already plenty of information floating around on the topic such as if this week is the best for a double-downgrade to accommodate upgrades over the rest of the byes or not, instead we'll just focus on the players looking like being good value.
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<p style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 16.363636016845703px;]The Best Buy for the week, is Dane Swan. Just squeaking into the mid-priced section for midfielders after a few quiet games he bounced back solidly over the weekend, and hopefully can continue on that form. Spending more time through the midfield, and appreciating the excess chips going around, on the weekend Swannie looked more like the star of seasons past once again.
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<p style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 16.363636016845703px;]Bye structure as follows:
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So, our 2153 points gave us 5 wins in our 5 leagues, not too shabby at all. We're now 8th in UCantBeTooSerious, ranked 5th in UcantBe TS, and topping the table in TS Donuts! In our public leagues we're in 3rd and 2nd spot, so if we can keep this up we'll be playing finals in all our leagues.
Our team breakdown for the week looked like this:
Backmen:
Heppell 107
Goddard 79
Terlich 70
Staker 67
Lester 59
Webster 38
Midfielders:
Ablett 129 Captain 258
Kennedy 126
Dangerfield 125
Pendlebury 119 (VC)
Vlastuin 108
Goodes 96
Cotchin 78
O'Meara 72
Ruckmen:
Naitanui 104
Cox 91
Forwards:
Westhoff 107
Macaffer 100
Zorko 100
Johnson 86
Kennedy 82
Franklin 81
Bench (all donuts!!!):
Dixon
Thurlow
Lonergan
Crouch
Gawn
Currie
Rockliff
Rowe
With the look of our bench, we were lucky to field a full 22 this week, and we're going to be right on the borderline for much of the byes if some of our missing players don't become un-MIA. But that's what trades are for, and why they give us three for each of the next three weeks. Its also why the allow us only 18 scoring players.
Anyway, down back, Heppell was good, with his 107, everyone else was rather disappointing. Its not helping that we've managed to trade ourselves into a position where both Goodes and Vlastuin are in the midfield and can only be moved back via Goddard and Heppell. Clearly we'll have to sort that one out over the coming weeks.
The midfield was a much better affair, with our top scoring Gazza keeping his permacap role after Pendles managed a very consistent 119 points (following the 119 and 118 over the previous two weeks, in reverse order, for those that have forgotten). Next on our list after Gazza were JPK and Danger, putting in some good scores after some disappointments of their own of late. The aforementioned Vlastuin and Goodes held their ends of the bargain, while O'Meara looks to be slipping, and how Cotch only managed 78 against my...

Ablett v. North Melbourne



Rd 12 2012: 188 SC points, 42 disposals

Rd 12 2011: 139 SC points, 38 disposals

Rd 14 2010: 106 SC points, 33 disposals

Rd 21 2008: 83 SC points, 27 disposals

Rd 11 2008: 180 SC points, 39 disposals

QF 2007: 171 SC points, 32 disposals

Rd 20 2007: 153 SC points, 31 disposals

Rd 5 2007: 68 SC points, 16 disposals

Rd 17 2006: 9 SC points, 5 disposals

Rd 2 2006: 126 SC points, 17 disposals



Average is 122 SC points with 28 disposals.



Note: Fantastic record against North Melbourne. One poor game in Rd 17 2006 when he injured his shoulder in the first quarter. Taking that score out, his average jumps to 135 SC points. Most recently tagged by Greenwood last year but played head to head against Swallow in 2011. Four scores over 150. Scored 126 last week which had followed scores of 149, 152, 137 and 160 (average of 140).



Cox v. St Kilda



Rd 8 2012: 139 SC points, 15 disposals, 22 hitouts

Rd 17 2011: 137 SC points, 22 disposals, 36 hitouts

Rd 9 2010: 107 SC points, 21 disposals, 34 hitouts

Rd 15 2009: 62 SC points, 11 disposals, 14 hitouts

Rd 3 2009: 112 SC points, 24 disposals, 27 hitouts

Rd 17 2008: 85 SC points, 18 disposals, 27 hitouts

Rd 21 2007: 112 SC points, 23 disposals, 33 hitouts

Rd 12 2007: 125 SC points, 22 disposals, 25 hitouts

Rd 1 2006: 177 SC points, 26 disposals, 24 hitouts

Rd 8 2005: 132 SC points, 14 disposals, 26 hitouts



Average is 119 SC points with 20 disposals and 27 hitouts.



Note: Fantastic average against St Kilda. Poor score in Rd 15 2009 when he was well beaten by Michael Gardiner and then rested in the fourth quarter. His other sub-100 score was in 2008 when he started cramping up in second half. He is struggling at the moment with scores of 91, 108, 84 and 96 (average of 95).



Swan v. Melbourne



Rd 11 2012: 160 SC points, 42 disposals

Rd 12 2010: 173 SC points, 38...

The Games


Powlett Plains 1382 d Wagga Wagga 1101


Powlett Plains continued on their merry way with a thumping win over the thus-far impressive Wagga Wagga Wombats.

Again, the veterans led the way for the Packers - Jolly top scoring with 136 in the ruck, Kane Cornes scoring 114 and Luke Ball 105.
Lachie Henderson chimed in with 108 in a wonderfully even effort.
For the Wombats, the Kanagroos' duo of Thompson and Bastinac led the way with 117 and 125 respectively. Prestia was next best with 109.



Foul Bay 1348 d Marble Bar 1221


Another even team effort saw the Chickens from Foul Bay score a comfortable, though not entirely convincing, win over Marble Bar.
Foul Bay were led by Dangermouse, Liberatore, Bartel and Roughead, though they enjoyed 14 players out of 15 scoring above 70.
For Marble Bar, it was an impressive effort which belied the Misfits' ladder position. Midfielders Ward, Sewell and Steven top scored, while Danny Stanley's even 100 marks a continued return to form.



Cradle Mountain 1210 d Lovely Banks 1082


For this section of the review I hand over to the eloquent coach of Cradle Mountain, dmandrews:

The visiting Lovely Bank Lilacs gave a brave but undermanned performance against the Cradle Mountain Devils, playing three men short and losing by 128 points, with a full team on the park it is likely that Lovely Bank would have won the match.

Three players from Lovely Banks were in the votes, Mitch Duncan, Dane Swan who spent more time in the midfield than the past two weeks and Craig Bird. Lovely Banks gave a consistent performance with only one player Andrew Krakouer scoring below 60.
Jack Redden was best afield for the Devils, scoring 149 points whilst his captain Scott Pendlebury has been a model of consistency in Rounds 8, 9, and 10 to score 118, 119 and 119 respectively, receiving Les W medal votes in each game.

Another four Devils including young gun Nick Vlastuin...

Got a couple of reviews to get us started, but we'll get more up throughout the day.



Regardless though, drop in- let us know how it's all treating you this week!




Brisbane vs Collingwood

Result: Collingwood by 49.



It was always going to be a rough day at the office for the Lions, what with half of their team out injured. And well, it was. That said, despite losing by 50 points, they didn't get their colours lowered in the second half, kicking just a few more points less over the period (al beit, with the heat already out of the game).



Jack Redden put in a good one though, with 22 disposals and a goal, he managed to collect a mighty 149SC off his 18 contested touches and 95% efficiency rate. Deadly performance. Simon Black and Dayne Zorko were the only other Lions to crack the ton with 115SC and 100SC respectively.



Patrick KARNEZIS actually showed just just why so many players started the season with him, picking up 18 disposals and 74SC, while Brent Staker did a fine job for the many coaches who brought him in this week, despite kist 10 touches, he still made a solid 67SC and plenty of profit thus far.



Brent Moloney had a bit of a shocker, subbed out with just 9 touches and 35SC, while rookie defender, Sam Docherty was subbed on for 37SC. Meanwhile, Marco Paparone picked up 15 disposals for just 35SC.



Over on the Pies side,...