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As always, on the <strike>Thursday</strike> Wednesday evening, join us in the live chat as the team<strike>s</strike> come out!!

Oh, and dont forget, if youve got McDonald- you can try your hand at the captains loophole with this weeks partial lockout.

Just watchout if you have Magner to maybe cover as well!!!

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Brisbane Lions v Carlton

B: Niall McKeever, Matt Maguire, Ashley McGrath
HB: Mitchell Golby, Joel Patfull, Pearce Hanley
C: Jed Adcock, Tom Rockliff, Daniel Rich
HF: Jared Polec, Daniel Merrett, Todd Banfield
F: Jack Redden, Matthew Leuenberger, Ryan Lester
Foll: Ben Hudson, Simon Black, Claye Beams
I/C: Cheynee Stiller, James Polkinghorne, Jesse OBrien, Rohan Bewick

Emg: Sam Sheldon, Ryan Harwood, Billy Longer

In: Jesse OBrien
Out: Sam Sheldon

Carlton

B: Bret Thornton, Lachlan Henderson, Jeremy Laidler
HB: Heath Scotland, Paul Bower, Christopher Yarran
C: Kade Simpson, Chris Judd, Andrew Carrazzo
HF: Jeffrey Garlett, Jarrad Waite, Kane Lucas
F: Mitch Robinson, Matthew Kreuzer, Eddie Betts
Foll: Shaun Hampson, Bryce Gibbs, Marc Murphy

I/C: Jordan Russell, Dennis Armfield, Zach Tuohy, Edward Curnow

Emg: Brock McLean, Andrew Collins, Sam Rowe

What a week it's been in ORFFL! Not only did we see some of the closest matches in ORFFL history, we're showing signs that we will dominate' that other game'; currently the 8th best league in SC. So give yourselves a clap and a pat on the back! At the same time! I know you can do it!



A review of the weekend's matches and the first official ORFFL ladder over the break.



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But before we get to that, allow me to put on my Commish's hat and my maid's apron for a moment.



1) Changing the rules ish (as is my want as Commish). You now need to select your team EVERY WEEK.



The reason for this is two-fold. Firstly, it encourages people to be involved, and reminds them to think about who's been selected to play for the weekend.



Secondly, the ORFFL Team Selection page refreshes each week. So you sort of have to if you want to field a team



2) As this as round has a Thursday and Friday lockout, the same rules will apply as in R1. If you want to field a player from Brisbane or Carlton, you need to select them before Thursday nights lockout.



Everyone else, you need to finalise their selection before the commencement of the next game.



3) It's a good idea to check that your team goes in as you wanted. You can do this by logging in a ORFFL_Admin and going to the ORFFL Team Selection page.



If for any reason it doesn't work as you'd like, feel free to send walesy or I your starting 15 and emergencies. Just do it before the lockouts.



4) And this is the most important point. Heed my words, read my OP. The excuse 'I didn't know' will not be tolerated.



Additionally, if you ask a question that's been answered in the OP, I will probably reply to your query. But I will also probably treat you with the unreserved disdain I feel you deserve.



Onward and...

For those that dont know Too Serious has an Ashes League going against players from FanFooty Uk. The basis is if you go and play the Fantasy Premier League (EPL) for Too Serious through FanFooty UK and against their members then you qualify to play in the Ashes league which is nine TS members V nine FF members in both Supercoach and Dreamteam.
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Ill be covering the S/C league for the season. Worth noting this league went inside the top 20 leagues last season !!! (And thats with me doing a Relton for the season) so if you think that its a stroll in the park then dissapointment is fast approching as this makes the cricket Ashes series seem like a CWA cake display in comparison !!. FF will be refered to as The Poms, The unwashed, The bath dodgers ect and the Aussies will be names such as The convicts, The ferrals, The toothless. That said this week I will review the players so the good people of TS & FF know whos who.

1: Conningilos - Brogie - FF

Brogie is an Arsenal man. Brogie is in England terms "A northern spud" a bloke that knows alot and says little..............Is said to know what happened to Shergar ???. Dont know if he walks with a limp but is a match hardened coach that can go "left field". As the pykies would say "A sneaky shyt"

2: Devilish Sauce - Mancdave - FF

Dave is a ManU fan. A Supercoach wild card !!. Is reputed to have won leagues before but had a shocker last season. A "Feast or famine" player and a wild man to boot, its been said he scares Schlocky as Schlock knows Dave is a mad bastard. Dave says hes pumped for this year .............Time will tell.

3: Mind of a toy - Yani - FF

Yani is a Derby man. If you listen to Schlock (And a lot do) Yani is the flukiest shyt around won S/C and DT in Pietri league last season ( FFs own leagues ) . Will have excuses when beaten but rather hard to find and pin down with a question when that occurs . Having said that was the winner of the "Pineapple cup"...

Alright, as with the start of every new year, we tend to find a group of new bugs that pop up, some are from things that I missed when rolling the season over, others are new, while others got introduced with the server move.

So, I just want to list down the ones found so far here, so you guys can stop emailing me about them!!

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1. The League tracker- Yes, its down at the moment. Well, sortof- down in that its not grabbing any teams- but up in that you can enter in the tids for your leagues. Im currently re-coding how it goes about this, so dont worry if its not grabbing your teams, just get your tids in their and well work it as we go along.

2. The League trackers super secret, donor only, auto upload functionality- yep, this one is down, it needs a bit of a re-coding for the 2012 season (as a lot of the site has undergone) - Ill hopefully get to coding this on Wednesday night... hopefully.

3. Registering - Ive been told that a few people havent been able to register due to their "email accounts already being registered" - if anyone has any more info on this one, Id love to hear it as yet, Ive been unable to replicate it.

4. Ticker - The GWS are currently represented as byes. Yep, they sure are- I remember when we had this bug with the Suns as well- never fear though, Ill get this sorted soon enough, just have some time-critical issues to correct first.

5. Teams are gone - Yep, this is a symptom of #1, as both procedures share the same code base, meaning that when the system rolled over to round 1, it didnt go and grab the new teams as it should have. In the short term, you should be able to simply upload your team again, but I should have this sorted automatically by next lockout.

6. Live scores page- Looks like the darn ad/player stats is blocking the chat from our fine friends using safari. Its on the list.

I think thats the lot of em at the moment. Im getting through what I can, but the team uploads and the league...

Welcome to the first ever SuperCoach SuperSubs article. Basically this article will be about the weeks subs. Who they were and why were they given either vest, when did the player get the red vest and why were they subbed off. As the year goes on we will realise a number of things on how each coach uses there subs. Weather he gives the green vest to a young player, an experienced player, a quick player, a utility or if he just mixes it up! Or the Red vest to an injured player, young player, old player, or a player who just wasn’t performing on the day. So the advantage of all this to you will be you can have a better idea of who the sub will be each week! Anyway, head over the break for the weeks review!
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walesy- Welcome to Fitzys weekly Sub reviews, Fitzy will be dropping in each week to provide us with an update on how each coach has used their sub for the week, the aim of which is not only to benefit us now, but to also provide us with the knowledge later on so that we get a better feel for how each coach is using their subs- helping us with rookie selection in not only the weeks to come, but also giving us a little bit more knowledge that the competition when 2013 rolls round. As always with the new guys, constructive criticism is a good thing, but dont be too harsh - were all blundering through this together for the betterment of us all.
Sydney vs GWS
[span style="font-weight:bold">Sydney

Green Vest: Harry Cunningham

Red Vest: Luke Parker



When did Parker get the Vest? Mid-way through the 3rd qtr

Why? Cunningham is an elevated rookie from the Swans, I think he was chosen as the sub because he can play in the midfield or up forward and sneak a few in! Parker received a hard hip and shoulder from James McDonald in the first quarter has a hair line fracture in his Jaw but played on. He was subbed out in the third quarter because of the pain.
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GWS

Green Vest: Dom Tyson

Red...

<p style="text-align: justify">Hello all and welcome to the Too Serious Donor team of 2012. For those of you who aren’t aware, one of the privileges of being a donor on TS is the opportunity to be involved in the donor team. Last year the team, Ucantbetooserious, managed a top 1000 finish, coming it at number 750-odd, so this year we’re aiming for the top 100! The way it works is each week we set up polls and discussion forums to make our trades, and select captains, benches, and emergencies. Last year the team was run very successfully by Anthak, who has done a wonderful job setting the team up again this year, although the weekly running of the team will now be turned over to Shanaz and myself. If you’re wanting to become a part of the team, jump over to the <a href="http://tooserious.net/donate.php" target="_blank">[span style="text-decoration: underline">donate tab[/url] and send some money the way of Walesy, who’ll promptly put you on the donors list and you can join in the fun.
<p style="text-align: justify">Join me over the break to get into the fun [span style="font-family: Wingdings,Arial">J
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<p style="text-align: justify">The team was setup very committe-esq, with everyone selecting a team via the ticker tab. I’ll let Anthak and his tweaking take it away for a bit, with a great summary of how the results came in.
<p style="text-align: justify">[span style="font-style: italic">Ablett was the most voted for, being on 20 watchlists.
<p style="text-align: justify">[span style="font-style: italic">We voted to have 2 midpricers (230k to 450k) and they are Lake and Dangerfield.
<p style="text-align: justify">[span style="font-style: italic">The player with the lowest amount of votes to make the team was Cripps - with 5.
<p style="text-align: justify">[span style="font-style: italic">There were 10 players who had 5 or more votes that didnt make the side. As follows:
<p style="text-align: justify">[span style="font-style: italic">Malceski,...

Welcome to the first round review for 2012! Its been a bloody long offseason, but its finally here- the disappointment that is Supercoach.

Seriously, the amount of times Ive heard people asking for a do-over this weekend has been huge.

Guess that happens though when you have 3 tons and an 88 on the bench, while your field consists of such wonders as "17" and "30" and "34".

But, we learn from this and we now have a better idea on how to improve our selections for next week.

So if this was you, and the difference between your heartbreaking 2100, and a mighty 2300 was simple bench selection - then take heart in the fact that a lot of people out their are feeling your pain!

Now, onto the review - it was a magnificent weekend of footy!

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GWS vs Sydney
Result: Sydney by 63, 14.16.100 to 5.7.37

The result was exactly as expected, but the journey to get there differed. The GWS, I thought, looked pretty decent- and for the first half really showed patches that perhaps theyll threaten a few of the lesser teams. Sydney however, isnt one of these lesser teams, and really put the foot down in the third quarter, kicking 5.4 to a single behind.

Of course, they did win the final quarter, a feat which took the Suns 11 tries before they could win their first.

A couple of interesting scores for the Giants though, Ward managed to score 107SC, off 22 possessions at an attrocious 59% Disposal efficiency. Will be interesting to see what happens to that if he can improve on that.

And thats the only higher priced player Ill be looking at from the GWS, cause what we care about is the sheer volume of rookies playing here. Top scoring was Kennedy, who managed a Giants-high 28 possession for a 103SC. Not a bad score at all - unless you had it on your bench! McDonald collected 23 touches for a 99SC, and like Kennedy warmed my bench. Bugg closed out the triumphtant of high-scoring Giants to warm my...

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Everton v WBA

Everton, who would most likely be fighting for a Champions League place every year if they could start a season the way that they finish it, are off the back of an excellent week. Winning 2-0 at Swansea and then 2-0 at Sunderland (FA Cup) - that’s no mean feat. Two clean sheets for Baines (and a goal) &amp; co as well as two goals for new(ish) signing Jelavic has Everton into the FA Cup semis and up to 9th just 2pts behind semi-final opponents Liverpool.

West Brom were comprehensively beaten at home 1-3 last week against a rampant Newcastle. Last time they played Everton at home they didn’t have a shot on target all game.

Villa v Chelsea

Villa were soundly beaten last week at The Emirates and face another difficult game against a rejuvenated Chelsea. During the midweek UCL win at Benfica, Di Matteo followed on from AVB and Fabio Capello this season by dropping Lampard to the bench. He was joined there by Essien, Drogba, Sturridge and Bosingwa.

It would be a surprise to see Kalou and Ferriera start for a second consecutive match though. Villa can take confidence from the fact that they took all 3pts from Stamford Bridge earlier in the season.

* Sadly Stiliyan Petrov will be missing as he was this wk diagnosed with acute leukaemia

QPR v Arsenal

Cisse stupidly got himself sent off for a second time since joining in January when they went down to Sunderland. He’s now suspended for four and will be lucky if Hughes trusts him enough to let him redeem himself for the last four of the season.

Arsenal continue to motor along nicely and are now on a seven game winning streak which has seen daylight open up between them and Spurs. They’re keeping clean-sheets as well as scoring freely and must be hot favourites for the win despite QPR’s desperation for points.

Newcastle v Liverpool

Andy Carroll heads back home to...

Ahh, it's good to have the real footy back, now that all the exhibition matches have been dispensed with. Wasn't last night fun? I thought so. Join us over the break for some ORFFL score updates and your chance to engage in some banters with your direct opponent.



N.B SATURDAY'S SCORES ADDED =D
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But before we get to that, some house keeping.



1) Fez - your team didn't go through. Tried to get in contact with you through various means, to no avail. PM and we'll sort something out.



2) To all - I'm being gentle and understanding this round as it's all very new, and generally, I'm a forgiving kind of guy. However, next round and all others, not so much.



What does this mean? TEAMS MUST BE IN BY SC LOCKOUT EACH WEEK.



If the afore mentioned ORFFL page doesn't work, PM your team before lockout. No calls after the match has started/finished/whatever, that I wanted to change this, but it didn't work.



I repeat, let me know your team, before SC lockout. Or in internet language, PICS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.



Otherwise, you'll bear witness to the iron fisting this Hornsy is capable of.











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HUMPTY DOO...

So, we are fast approaching the second partial lockout, 30 minutes to go!

So after pawing through the teams that were announced (No Hodge, Gray or Stevens!), Make a few tweaks, lock in your Tigers, and Blues - grab a beer, and come <a href="http://tooserious.net/live_scores.php?page=gameday&id=10250970&process=live">Join us in the live chat[/url]