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Round 6, and finally a big(ish) round. At least bigger than the last few that have been.

Well, not for me- I had a shocker, but Im seeing a lot of good ones out there!

Full review is over the break though.

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Western vs Collingwood

Result: Collingwood by 21, 15.8.98 to 11.11.17

Boy, the Pies are just doing enouhg these days arent they- The Doggies were right in this one til the death, and really, with some more accuate kicking would have made it very difficult for the Pies in the first.

Griffen was great for the Dogs, top scoring on a massive 152SC, off 33 disposals and kicking 2.2

Cross was a little jibbed for mine, 31 disposals at a 97% efficiency for just 109SC.

Hargrave and Lake both continue to be fantastic pickups, with scores of 95SC and 91SC.

Boyd disappointed, his 29 touches just making 81SC, but it was Dahlhaus who really let is owners down, some exellent work over the last few weeks really let down by just 12 touches and a 38SC. The dangers of the mid-pricer!

A lot of the usual suspects for Collingwood, with Pendles leading the charge on 145SC. Forward options followed him with Beams and Sidebottom both fantastic with 137SC and 131SC.

Shaw was next, bouncing back with a very tidy 120SC off 22 touches and a goal, and Swan rounded out their top5 players with another solid 112SC.

Clarke is a beautiful pick, his 100SC just fantastic.

Heroes: Griffen, Pendles, Beams, Sidebottom, Clarke.
Villians: Boyd, Dahlhaus.

Essendon vs Brisbane

Result: Essendon by 67, 19.15.129 to 9.8.62

I have to say, as a Bombers fan, its nice to hear the media starting to talk seriously about the Bombers. There disposal seems to have gone up a level this year, along with Hurley and Crameri (The former of which missed this game). Personally, Im keeping a lid on it, but wow, the way its shaping...

Round 6 is best summarised as the round AFL coaches decided to screw their ORFFL counterparts. The late out. Gone, but not forgotten. This AFL witchcraft cursed at least a deformed handful of ORFFL clubs; curse this sorcery! Ah, well. The game goes on regardless. Over the page.



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SARAH ISLAND SAVAGES1484 VSTARWIN LOWER PIGS1071



If only. If only NicNat had played... I dream. Meanwhile in reality, 14 Savages participated in a massacre of a drift of Pigs at Sarah Island, and collected a 413 point win as reward. Despite NicNat feeling like he didn't need to show up, once again 10 Savages tonnedup (BJ, Robbo, JPK, Simmo, JORI, Chaplin, Chip, Minno, Mayney, Prestia), Chris Mayne a 128 on debut. :milhouse:



For Tarwin Lower, it must have been a miserable away trip. Pendles (145) back to his usual tricks, McIntosh (111) proving a consistent performer and astute R3 pick, and NRoo (108) continue to turn back the clock somewhat. That being said, Bastinac (41) and Geary (54) are in form troughs, their early season scores desserting them.











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POOWONG POTOROOS1243 VSJIMCUMBILLY JACKRABBITS1094



The fancied match of the round turned out to be fizzer, 2nd placed Poowong coasting away to a 149 point win over Jimcumbilly. SJ was the star in Captain Gary's absence, a mighty 169 and single handedly lifting his average into the 80's. The Thompson Twins also continued where they've left off in recent weeks; 119 and 104 for the Potoroos this weekend.



For Jimcumbilly, it was a horror. scoring 194 points below their 5 game average. Top liners NDS (46), Fisher (66), Droopy (64), and Beamer (59),...

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Newcastle v Man City

The FA Cup final might be on this weekend but this is absolutely a cup final for both teams here. Newcastle are only 1pt behind Arsenal in 3rd place after a brilliant 2-0 win at Chelsea midweek. Cisse scored another two wonder goals (13 goals in 12 games) to seal the win. Tiote was stretchered off in the game.

Man City are top!! Two more wins and the title is theirs, what a turnaround. They’ve got to do it from here haven’t they?

Tiote could be available despite a nasty blow to the head midweek.

Blackburn v Wigan

It’s last chance saloon for Blackburn here as they face the rampant Latics who aren’t yet safe from relegation.

Wigan are certainly the form team and took four off Newcastle last time out, so will be favourites – but relegation clashes bring out exceptional performances and Blackburn need two of them.

Arsenal v Norwich

Arsenal are now sitting a solitary  nerve-shredding point above both Spurs and Newcastle and therefore 5th place. Norwich, in theory, shouldn’t cause too many problems, and really Arsenal’s desperation for points should see them through. Walcott might be back before seasons end.

Man Utd v Swansea

Oh dear! 4pts from 4games and all of a sudden from being 8pts clear United are now relying on others doing them a favour.

Swansea, who have already passed luminaries like Arsenal off the park, this season won’t lie down either. Especially after Mancini’s motivational speech that this would be an easy game for United.

United must win this or will most likely relinquish the title to their bitter City rivals. Evans and Welbeck are out.

Villa v Spurs

This is another intriguing fixture as CL chasing Spurs play Villa, who steadfastly refuse any help from other relegation threatened teams by continuing their...

Kreuzer out? Not so!
Gaz out? Yeah, still gone- love to hear how his run today went though!

In the meantime though- dont forget to join our <a href="http://tooserious.net/live_scores.php?page=gameday&id=10251146&process=live">live chat[/url] over the weekend. Should be fun as always!

As we turn into Round 6 of the ORFFL, let us reflect on the times we've had and what lays in store for the future. For many in the lower reaches the first five weeks have been sad ones, and the future is concerned with improvement and midseason draft picks. For those teams at the top, the past has been glorious, and midseason draft picks are an irrelevant sideshow to the main meal that is winning. And yet the present continues to be, well, present. The only true reality. Over the break, we preview it.



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SARAH ISLAND SAVAGES(1430) 1062/10 VSTARWIN LOWER PIGS(1220) 823/11



Match of the round! Well sort of, it features the Greatest Team in ORFFL history going up against Tarwin Lower. And who doesn't like to see the best go out and strut their stuff? Okay, that was rhetoric. Seriously though, the TLP have some heavy hitters in Pendles (avg. 126), McIntosh (avg. 106), NRoo (avg. 101) and first year ruck Giles (avg. 98) that will seek to inflict the Savages with their first beating of the season. I wish them luck.







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POOWONG POTOROOS(1249) 1093/13 VSJIMCUMBILLY JACKRABBITS(1217) 770/10



Nah, actual match of the round! 2nd placed Poowong go up against 6th placed Jimcumbilly in a topish of the table clash. With the Potoroos missing Gary for the second match in a row, the Jackrabbits would fancy their chances in knocking them off this week. In fact, they've said just as much. To achieve this aim they'll need Beamer (avg. 76) to stand up against Geelong at Cat Park. Which seems long odds. The odds of Hawkins (avg. 104) kicking a bag for the other team is, on the other hand, fairly high.







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Hi all,

Quick post for you Friday Night punters before the game starts:

Prediction: Collingwood by 10 points
Line: Western Bulldogs +38.5 points

Remaining games and further analysis to follow prior to tomorrows games...just not gonna get it up in time for your multis...

Round 5 recap: A couple of weeks ago I was thinking how easy this job was: Ablett, our perma-captain was back. Lock him in every week. Flip a coin for your vice captain and sit back and watch Ablett knock out a score over 130. Unfortunately for most of us, and football in general, he has injured himself and now we have to worry about whether we keep him and importantly, for my purposes, who we give the captaincy too. In Round 5 I am hoping that most of you would have used the captain’s loophole and put the “VC” on Pendlebury (140) (my pick) or Swan with his Anzac Medal and 180.

Round 5 regrets: Following the Collingwood players, I had expected Goddard to have a big game against Melbourne and he disappointed all with a score of 58: his second lowest score ever since 2007. My smoky pick of Harvey was looking good at quarter time with over ten touches but he faded for the rest of the game and only finished with 85 against Gold Coast.

The numbers point to a couple of clear choices …
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Swan v. Western Bulldogs

Rd 6 2011: 104 SC points, 28 disposals
Rd QF 2010: 186 SC points, 39 disposals
Rd 11 2010: 118 SC points, 35 disposals
Rd 1 2010: 145 SC points, 31 disposals
Rd 22 2009: 98 SC points, 21 disposals
Rd 15 2009: 136 SC points, 34 disposals
Rd 13 2008: 117 SC points, 17 disposals
Rd 8 2007: 80 SC points, 19 disposals

Average is 123 SC points with 28 disposals.

Note: Has played most of his games being matched up against Boyd. Has not yet been tagged by Picken. Came into form last week with a huge 180 (but remember that his average from the four games before that was only 106).

Pendlebury v. Western Bulldogs

Rd 6 2011: 103 SC points, 25 disposals
Rd QF 2010: 146 SC points, 30 disposals
Rd 11 2010: 145 SC points, 33 disposals
Rd 1 2010: 91 SC points, 21 disposals
Rd 15 2009: 85 SC points, 23 disposals
Rd 13 2008: 138 SC points, 28 disposals
Rd 8 2007: 88 SC points, 21 disposals

Average is 114 SC points with 26...

Wow, so many backs this week- where you might have had donuts last week, youll more than likely have coverage with 5 highly selected defenders making their comebacks.

Kreuzer out is going to hurt a few, but Longer, Lycett and Goldstein all coming back could aleiviate some of those concerns.

Ins: Hargrave, Shaw, Dempsey, Longer, Spurr, Porplyzia, Birchall, Bower, Lycett, Goldstein
Outs: DellOlio, Drummond, Fyfe, Kreuzer, Treloar, Wingard
Extended Bench: Bower, Greene, Smith, Pfeiffer, Goldstein

Full teams are over the break.

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<h3>Western Bulldogs v Collingwood</h3>
ES &#8211; Fri May 04, 7:50pm
Western Bulldogs
B: Easton Wood, Brian Lake, Dylan Addison

HB: Ryan Hargrave, Mark Austin, Robert Murphy

C: Luke Dahlhaus, Matthew Boyd, Daniel Cross

HF: Adam Cooney, Liam Jones, Patrick Veszpremi

F: Justin Sherman, Jordan Roughead, Nathan Djerrkura

Foll: William Minson, Ryan Griffen, Liam Picken

I/C: Daniel Giansiracusa, Shaun Higgins, Mitchell Wallis, Thomas Liberatore
Emg: Clay Smith, Michael Talia, Tory Dickson
In: Daniel Giansiracusa, Ryan Hargrave

Out: Jarrad Grant (Hip), Ayce Cordy (Back)
Collingwood
B: Heritier O&#8217;Brien, Ben Reid, Nathan Brown

HB: Simon Buckley, Nick Maxwell, Tyson Goldsack

C: Dane Swan, Sharrod Wellingham, Ben Johnson

HF: Heath Shaw, Chris Dawes, Ben Sinclair

F: Dayne Beams, Travis Cloke, Alex Fasolo

Foll: Darren Jolly, Scott Pendlebury, Steele Sidebottom

I/C: Alan Toovey, Martin Clarke, Lachlan Keeffe, Kirk Ugle
Emg: Cameron Wood, Paul Seedsman, Jackson Paine
In: Heath Shaw, Ben Reid

Out: Jarryd Blair (Leg soreness), Paul Seedsman
<h3>Essendon v Brisbane Lions</h3>
ES &#8211; Sat May 05, 1:40pm
Essendon
B: Dyson Heppell, Dustin Fletcher, Cale Hooker...

Welcome once again to the Best Buys.

Once again the SC gods seem to be punishing us this week, with a swag of new injuries, and some recurrent old ones. This week many people will be looking to try and claw back some early points with an early upgrade, whilst coaches such as myself will also be looking to stem the bleeding. Due to the all-around carnage occurring this year the premium stocks are awfully low outside the mid-field, and mid-pricers are looking better all the time. Hopefully the Best Buys can give you a few good options to choose from, or at least offer up a couple that you hadn’t previously considered.

My pick of the week this week is Daniel Cross, who at just over 500 grand offers great value and if the Dogs can start performing again will be an absolute bargain. Doubts will remain over his ability to keep pace with the elite mids but for an early upgrade he’s a great player and priced perfectly.

Join me for all the Best Buys, over the break.

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The Best Buys uses a mix of price, form, break-evens and projected salaries to assess the Best Buys of each round. These are essentially the players that represent the best “value” which is determined by the above factors. Some player will not be mentioned on here even if they are playing well, as value is the key for this article. If a player is averaging 110, which is certainly solid, but priced at an average of 112 then they will not be rated. This does not mean these players should be avoided or not picked due to this, but simply that they aren’t as good “value” as the others in the Best Buys. For all the player I’ve missed, and any more you’re wanting opinions on, the thumbs are always there.

The thumbs act as a polling tool for the TS community, if you pose a question with either a yes-no answer or a “thumbs-up X, thumbs down Y” in there then the community as a whole can give you some great feedback into your choices and what they think about it, while also catering...

It looks like the donor team has continued to improve – beating our average yet again, scoring 2068 this week (to an average of 2058.2). This put us in the top 24,000 for the week, and we’re inside the top 40,000 for the season, so a long way off the top 100 unfortunately.

In our leagues we won four and lost one, and are now sitting between 5th and 11th on each of the ladders.

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We had 21 scoring players this week, with a hole in our forward line. The donut hurt the score a bit. Here’s how the team went:

,POS,SCORE
1. Deledio,DEF,129
2. Goddard,DEF,58
3. Broughton,DEF,105
4. Bugg, DEF,101
5. Clarke, DEF,69
6. Morris, DEF,57
7. Lake, DEF,85
8. Kennedy,MID,173
9. Pendlebury VC,MID,280
10. Selwood,MID,114
11. Magner,MID,79
12. Shiel Em,MID,84
13. McDonald,MID,79
14. Giles, RUC,114
15. Cox, RUC,82
16. Dangerfield,FWD,141
17. Franklin,FWD,72
18. Martin,FWD,112
19. Milera,FWD,64
20. Smith, FWD,17
21. Treloar,FWD,53
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1. Ellis Em,DEF,42
2. Shaw, DEF,0
3. Ablett, MID,0
4. Smith, MID,0
5. Mumford Em,RUC,0
6. Redden, RUC,0
7. Porplyzia,FWD,0
8. Kennedy,FWD,0
9. Dickson,FWD,0


In the defence we had a lovely 129 from Deledio, nicely backed up by a 105 from Broughton and a 101 from Bugg. The big disappointment was Goddard and his sub-standard 58, while Clarke, Morris, and Lake contributed 69, 57, and 85 respectively. On the bench we had Ellis’ 22 and Shaw’s zero.

Moving onto the mids and we took advantage of the captains loophole, sticking with the fantastic 140 from Pendlebury, as with most coaches keeping this score (or Swans 180 if you had him!). New recruit Kennedy did really well with a 173, while Selwood’s 114 was also nice. Permacaptain GAJ was replaced in the side with emergency Shiel’s 84, while regular rookies Magner and McDonald each came...