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After a whirlwind of an NBA season, the playoffs are now about to start. As the title suggests, The Bulls and Spurs have clinched home court advantage throughout the playoffs - and Patty Mills is in career best form leading into the playoffs for those Spurs. I have not been able to get the Grand Final reviews up since our fantasy NBA season finished a few weeks ago, and Steve sent me a gentle reminder today, so I reckon theres no time like the present. Over the break later will be the reviews, but right now, I would like to congratulate Jasmine for winning the Premier League; Steve for winning Division 1; and Jet for winning Division 2. Well done to the 3 of you and to the other 33 teams that played as it was a fun season.

Before we get to the reviews, I want to spend a bit of time on Patty Mills, as he has been in excellent form of late. He was signed by the Spurs in March after the Chinese season came to a close and he has played 16 games this season. Over all 16 games he has averaged 10.3 ppg, 2.4 apg, 1.8 rpg and 0.6 spg in just 16.3 mpg; however he has had some huge games along the way. He started April off by scoring 20 pts in 20 min against the Cavs connecting on 4 of 5 treys, and then followed that up with a 14 pt game against New Orleans a few nights later. 3 nights after that, he earned his first starting gig when Duncan, Ginobli and Parker were all rested against the Jazz and Patty scored 9pts and had 4 dimes in 24min. He scored 9 points on two other occasions during April, but did not hit double figure pts again until the next time he started, which was the 2nd last game of the regular season against Phoenix last Wednesday. The big 3 did not play in this game again and Patty put on a show, scoring 27 pts and dishing off 5 dimes in 34 min - including 2 FTs near the death that clinched the 4 point win for the Spurs.

This super impressive performance earnt him another start this morning (our time) against the Warriors and he stepped...

I love this time of the season! So much to play for ...title race, top 4 finish (or is it now top 3?*), relegation battles and then theres the sub-plots. Will Ferdinand snap JT? Tevez - who has been as popular in Manchester this year as Matthew Newton would be at a Miami hotel - given an opportunity to ride horseback out of Manchester (the blue half anyway) with a winners medal after putting Utd to the sword. Theres only three weeks to go and were in for a big weekend of action...<!--more-->

WBA v Villa

Villa had a real chance to distance themselves from the relegation zone when they took on Bolton at Villa Park. They failed. Bolton took the spoils. Villa are deep in it now, and unlike Bolton, Blackburn, QPR and Wigan they’ve forgotten how to win.

WBA had an excellent win at Anfield that might have carried more kudos in a different season.

Fortune should be back while Dunne has declared himself fit for Villa.

Wigan v Newcastle

Wigan came crashing back down to earth with defeat at Fulham as some of their rivals picked up valuable points. Di Santo and Rodallega could miss but Crusat and Maloney should be available. Cisse is hoping to score for the 7th consecutive game, while his team are looking for their 7th consecutive win in their chase for 4th place (or is it 3rd?*)

Chelsea v QPR

Chelsea will most likely make more heavy changes after a magnificent back to the walls performance midweek against Barca. JT should be fresh after deciding he wanted a one hour rest in Barcelona.

Cahill, Luiz and Ivanovic (suspended) will miss out while Taarabt (suspended) plus Cisse and Diakite could all miss.

With the Terry-Ferdinand subplot, as well as two teams desperate for points in a local derby, this one could be tasty. Pre-match handshakes have been aborted to save JT the embarrassment of even more of his peers snubbing him.

Everton v Fulham

Everton got over their FA Cup disappointment with a sensational draw at Old Trafford. They went to...

With the new keeper league kicking off, were just firing up a live chat here to get the draft happening.

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[span style="color: #000000">Cradle Mountain (dmandrews)
[span style="color: #000000"> Iron Knob (Jimbowan)
[span style="color: #000000"> Birdsville (jolcon)
[span style="color: #000000">Foul Bay (ChiefRussell)
[span style="color: #000000"> Waikikamoocow (chels)
[span style="color: #000000"> Far Kew Frogs (Nick)
[span style="color: #000000"> Marble Bar (lenh)
[span style="color: #000000"> Venus Bay (Fitzy)
[span style="color: #000000">Gundagai (Snoz)
[span style="color: #000000"> Gariwerd (anthak)
[span style="color: #000000"> Powlett Plains (Prap)
[span style="color: #000000"> Mawson Base B. (X)
[span style="color: #000000"> Darraweit Guim (chris88)
[span style="color: #000000"> Nunawading (Melbandy)
[span style="color: #000000"> Whitsunday (TerryinBangkok)
[span style="color: #000000"> Charlie’s Opening (Bandit)
[span style="color: #000000"> Mt Beauty (bama)
[span style="color: #000000"> Namatjira (BigLance)

Not too many surprises late, Lucas and Neale are the subs, the latter of which will severely hit his cash generation early.

Regardless though, ion us in the <a href="http://tooserious.net/live_scores.php?page=gameday&id=10251144&process=live">live chat[/url] for some pregame and ingame chat

<div style="margin-bottom: 10px">Well with week 2 run and done and week 3 with an early start SC is hectic with the General making an apperance, the ommisions of rookies, kermit and blood vests aplenty and lots of bandaids to boot. With the Ashes match up at 4/3 going into the weekend we had 6 local derbys and 3 Ashes games on offer..........
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<div style="margin-bottom: 10px">In the 1st of FF derbys we seen Schlock V Yani.
<div style="margin-bottom: 10px">Yani knew it wasnt good when Schlock handed him a gimp ball as lockout approached !!!. To make matters worse for the Yanster it was used as Schlocks 2059 palacked Yanis 1864. Yani making more changes than a drunk blue chips trader but still spinning the wheels unable to get traction. Yani haunted by the evil laugh of the Schlocky !!.
<div style="margin-bottom: 10px">In the 2nd of the warm bitter drinking affairs ( If it was meant to be drank warm it would be served in mugs) Brogie V Edbull.
<div style="margin-bottom: 10px"> Brogies 2082 come home against Edbulls 1969. Edbull a bitter bitter man as a result !!. Brogie not giving a toss Northener style. Edbull not only suffered the loss but a hangover to try and forget the loss !!, Vowels to take revenge. Revenge a word a Northener is comfortable with.
<div style="margin-bottom: 10px">In the 3rd of the rising damp derbys Viddle took on ATX.
<div style="margin-bottom: 10px"> Viddle shot 2013 to ATXs 2011 !!!!. ATX (The sneaky shyt) with a late charge just missed. Viddle with a heart attack watching it. Watch out Viddle word is ATX has touched down in the good old US of A  so  my tip would be to visit friends interstate as ATX doesnt take defeat easily !!!.
<div style="margin-bottom: 10px">In the 1st of the Land of sunshine derbys seen Eleviathan V Nedflanders.
<div style="margin-bottom: 10px"> Both nutted by the injury pineapple during the week and both deciding to conserve trades. Ele winning 2025 V 1969. was an important game for Ele after...

A couple of nice ins this week, but there is definitely a bit of a sting in the tail of the outs.

Hall and Kennedy out in the forward line, Bower and Mohr out in the backline- and suddenly our coverage is looking a little tame. Thank goodness Lake and Birchall hve come back for a little relief in our backlines, while Goodes is back for our forwards.

Sandilands is going to hurt rucks, particularly those who moved Mumford (who after surgury is looking at 4 weeks). Orren and Redden are still no shows- so its going to be donut town for a few of the 1-0-3 rucking combos this week I think.

Ins: Fyfe, Greene, Coniglio, Lake, Horsley, Grimes, Smedts, Birchall, Goodes
Outs: Sandilands, Bower, Mohr, Kennedy, Goldstein, Ablett, Hall
Extended Bench: Parker, Pfeiffer

Full teams are over the break.

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<h3>Fremantle v Carlton</h3>
PS &#8211; Fri Apr 27, 6:45pm
Fremantle
B: Greg Broughton, Zac Dawson, Adam McPhee

HB: Michael Johnson, Luke McPharlin, Tendai Mzungu

C: Paul Duffield, Ryan Crowley, Stephen Hill

HF: Matthew de Boer, Christopher Mayne, Lachie Neale

F: Hayden Ballantyne, Matthew Pavlich, Zachary Clarke

Foll: Jonathon Griffin, David Mundy, Nathan Fyfe

I/C: Garrick Ibbotson, Clancee Pearce, Michael Barlow, Jack Anthony
Emg: Kepler Bradley, Dylan Roberton, Lee Spurr
In: Nathan Fyfe, Jonathon Griffin

Out: Aaron Sandilands (Knee), Nick Suban
Milestones: Jack Anthony &#8211; 50 games
Carlton
B: Dennis Armfield, Michael Jamison, Bret Thornton

HB: Zach Tuohy, Lachlan Henderson, Nick Duigan

C: Heath Scotland, Marc Murphy, Kade Simpson

HF: Andrew Walker, Jarrad Waite, Mitch Robinson

F: Jeffrey Garlett, Shaun Hampson, Eddie Betts

Foll: Matthew Kreuzer, Chris Judd, Bryce Gibbs

I/C: Jordan Russell, Aaron Joseph, Kane Lucas, Edward Curnow
Emg: Paul Bower,...

Well, this is certainly different to the usual captains log.

Firstly, because Jasmine has been waylaid on one of her usual international trips of mystery, suffering what I understand to be some catastrophic damage to her laptop.

And secondly, with me just about to leave the house- Im completely unprepared!!!

But fear not, as over the break, Ill do a terrible job of things, and open the floor to you guys for the partial lockout.

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Before disappearing, Jasmine did tell me that her numbers for both Pendles and Swan were extremely favourable against the Bombers. And that she was leaning toward locking in Pendles for that lovely VC position.

But me, being the completely impartial judge that I am, have got to say that the Bombers are a different outfit this year, and youd be loathed not to lock in Brent "The perma captain" Stanton. Gun.

Wellity, wellity, well. Another Friday rolls around and another weekend of ORFFL action gets underway. Correction: has already gotten underway (is gotten a word, geez it's ugly. I feel shame). Injuries and disappearances (where did I park the good ship, S.S Kepler?), continue to trouble coaches, but I think peeps are finallycoming around to the reality that a fit list preseason means YSCC Jack after 4 rounds of actual competition. And I suppose it would be somewhat remiss of me not to mention the start up rebel competition formed over the week, the ORFFA. Good luck little brother, may you learn from our pioneering footsteps. NOW WITH HAME DAY UPDATES



<!--more-->Just a small not before we get on to the match previews: the emergency system has undergone a slight change.



If you select two emergencies in the same line (eg. 2 DEF emergencies), you will get the first emergencies score if only one player from your starting 15 doesn't play (as opposed to the lowest scoring emergency it was previously). Why did we do this? Because that's the way walesy coded it, and it achieves the same aim of stopping coaches from loading up emergencies for the highest score.







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TARWIN LOWER PIGS(Avg. 1217) 1073/13 VSMILIKAPATI SNAKES (1274)573/8



Tarwin Lower desperately need a win to stay in contention with the top 8, but are going to find it hard going against the 3rd highest scoring team in Milikapati. On their side is the fact that Pendles has already gorged himself at the points trough, and that Snakes' Clarke (52) and LEEROY (59) put in underwhelming performances on Wednesday. On the other hand though, Milikapati scored a very respectable 1251 last weekend without defensive pillar Birchall, and he slithers back into the side this week. Tipping...

Good morning all, and cheers on this fine Anzac day.

This week is a bit different to most, as Im sure you have all gathered, as due to Anzac day we are starting the partial lock-out today at the start of the Anzac game. This means that Collingwood and Essendon players will not be accessible after the start of the game today, and that any trades made this week will NOT be reversible after then. With Gazza out and the rest of the teams unknown, it presents a bit of a challenge for SCers as many will be looking at Pies and Bombers as a replacement for the Little Master. Personally as I am now out of the running for overall Ill be keeping Gaz, and would love it if everyone else traded him out. Who knows though, it could well be a masterstroke.

Gazza to Swannie is my pick of the bunch based on the numbers this week, but there are quite a few good options around for those willing to put in a bit of research. Join me for this and the rest of 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 to...

Welcome to SuperCoach SuperSubs round 4 review. For you new readers this article shows you who got the green/red vests, when and why. So you can decide better who to put on your field and who to put on the bench! Anyway this week was full of injuries that hurt the fantasy world. Hope your team wasn’t hurt to bad. We are starting to learn what coaches like to do with their vests. More is becoming apparent as the weeks move on. So head over the break to see what we learnt this week!

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Fremantle vs St.Kilda
Fremantle
Green Vest: Lachie Neale
Red Vest: Nick Suban

When? Mid way through the third term
Why? Lyon was really having trouble on choosing who to sub off, this was the time to do it though with Neale being a short speedy player and he came on to great effect. Suban was eventually chosen to be given the red vest. He was having an off night with just the 3 disposals and 16 SC points.

St.Kilda
Green Vest: Jamie Cripps
Red Vest: Jack Newmes

When? Late in the third quater
Why? Cripps was chosen as sub for the second week in a row, and my guess is he will be the sub again next week after his performance. He was the SuperSub, coming on and doing his job, in creating goals and kicking 1.1 himself. Newmes was subbed off as it his his first year, first year players get tired more easy and his effect on the game was going away.

Carlton vs Essendon
Carlton
Green Vest: Brock McLean
Red Vest: Andrew Carrazzo

When? Early in the first quater
Why? Andrew Carrazzo went down with a serious shoulder early in the first quarter, which was a serious loss for the blues. This gave McLean his chance to keep his spot in the team for another week, and I reckon he did that, grabbing 17 possessions and a goal.

Essendon
Green Vest: Cory Dell’Olio
Red Vest: Michael Hurley

When? Half time
Why? Hurley strained his hamstring and will miss the Anzac day clash according to the medics. That will be a...