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I dunno guys, Ive come home early cause Im not feel too crash hot.

Dont think youll get too much biting criticism from me, but feel free to discus them!

Go the Bombers!!

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Geelong Cats
B: Josh Hunt, Matthew Scarlett, Tom Lonergan
HB: Corey Enright, Harry Taylor, Andrew Mackie
C: Jimmy Bartel, James Kelly, Mitch Duncan
HF: Steve Johnson, Cameron Ling, Mathew Stokes
F: Tom Hawkins, James Podsiadly, Daniel Menzel
Foll: Brad Ottens, Paul Chapman, Joel Selwood
I/C: David Wojcinski, Travis Varcoe, Trent West, Allen Christensen
Emg: Darren Milburn, Cameron Mooney, Steven Motlop
In: Tom Lonergan, Mathew Stokes
Out: Shannon Byrnes (Calf), Darren Milburn
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Hawthorn Hawks
B: Thomas Murphy, Josh Gibson, Brent Guerra
HB: Grant Birchall, Ryan Schoenmakers, Matt Suckling
C: Brad Sewell, Sam Mitchell, Chance Bateman
HF: Cyril Rioli, Lance Franklin, Michael Osborne
F: Luke Breust, David Hale, Shaun Burgoyne
Foll: Max Bailey, Jordan Lewis, Luke Hodge
I/C: Brendan Whitecross, Liam Shiels, Isaac Smith, Paul Puopolo
Emg: Xavier Ellis, Benjamin Stratton, Kyle Cheney
In: Max Bailey, Grant Birchall, Lance Franklin, Luke Hodge, Jordan Lewis, Brad Sewell, Cyril Rioli, Shaun Burgoyne
Out: Xavier Ellis, Rick Ladson, Paul Johnson, Jordan Lisle, Shane Savage, Benjamin Stratton, Kyle Cheney, Cameron Bruce (Soreness)
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Collingwood Magpies
B: Alan Toovey, Ben Reid, Heritier O&#8217;Brien
HB: Nick Maxwell, Chris Tarrant, Heath Shaw
C: Dayne Beams, Sharrod Wellingham, Tyson Goldsack
HF: Ben Johnson, Leigh Brown, Alan Didak
F: Steele Sidebottom, Travis Cloke, Luke Ball
Foll: Darren Jolly, Scott Pendlebury, Andrew Krakouer
I/C: Leon Davis, Dane Swan, Chris Dawes, Jarryd Blair
Emg: Ben Sinclair, Simon Buckley, Alex Fasolo
In: Leon Davis, Nick Maxwell, Heath Shaw
Out: Cameron Wood, Ben Sinclair, Alex Fasolo
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West Coast Eagles
B: Shannon Hurn, Darren Glass, Will...

What suprises me is that Richmond only won 2 more games then they did in 2010, yet they seemed to have a much better year this season and I think have taken some massive steps forward. For one they are no longer reliant on Riewoldt to kick all their goals. They have managed to share the load quite well. They had their ups and downs this year but that’s to be expected with such a young side. What amazes me is Melbourne get talked up as one the best young lists going around, I have always said that I believe Richmond will play finals and win a premiership before them, and I stand by that comment. With some good recruiting in this years trade &amp; draft period I can see them winning 11-13 games next year and really push  for a spot in the 8.

Join us over the break as I continue a quick review of the Tigers season before Chris88 takes over for a full review of the key Tigers supercoach season.

<!--more-->The Tiges will look back on Season 2011 and think what could have been if we didn’t sell our home games and have to travel interstate to play Melbourne &amp; Port Adelaide. Especially given how pathetic Port have been this year. A loss to the Gold Coast would also sting when considering most AFL clubs would have pencilled in a win against the new boys this year. How different would their season have been if they had won those 3 games? Well they would have finished equal with Essendon and just miss out on the 8 by percentage. But what ifs mean nothing when it comes down to it. From a non Tigers supporters view i firmly believe there will be some gold in amongst the Tigers list next season for a supercoach perspective. I firmly believe they will take a big step as a club next season and this should also see their players averages rise.

Anyway im sure your sick of me waffling on so thanks to Chris88 here is his review of the players.

The Good

Brett Deledio - Borderline All-Australian and another 100+ ppg SuperCoach scorer. Simply...

Just got the Supercoach Survey e-mail. And heres a list of interesting/funny questions.  Note the thoughts here are not completely those of the owner of this site, or of all who use it, this is just a bit of humour.  Lets hope we have comments that show its been done in the right light...
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[span style="font-family: arial;color: #333399">Thinking of your AFL Supercoach experience, did you purchase a SuperCoach Gold annual or monthly subscription?

[span style="font-family: arial;color: #333399">On which days do you usually read the Herald Sun [span style="text-decoration: underline">newspaper (i.e. the printed version)?  I dont read hahaha

[span style="font-family: arial;color: #333399">Do you own a smart phone?

[span style="font-family: arial;color: #333399">How likely are you to buy an iPad?  (Because we cant be stuffed writing an app tbh)

[span style="font-family: arial;color: #333399">Why dont you subscribe to Pay TV? (Hmmm who owns Foxtel...?)

[span style="font-family: arial;color: #333399">Which brands do you associate with Supercoach (The Age for the luls hahaha)

[span style="font-family: arial;color: #333399">[span style="font-family: arial;color: #333399">SuperCoach is sponsored by the Transport Accident Commission (TAC). In your opinion, how good a "brand fit" is the sponsorship between SuperCoach and the [span style="color: #0066ff">TAC? (very good because your team looks like a car crash at least once per season...?)

[span style="font-family: arial;color: #333399">[span style="font-family: arial;color: #333399">Now wed like to know what you think about the SuperCoach brand (as pictured). Which of the following words, if any, do you most closely associate with SuperCoach? (How about offering Too Serious as an option?)



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Not content with sitting on the sidelines, when the AFL Supercoach finals came around a full strength NBA charged team bashed up the TinLids in the final. I am thinking General Soreness was a key player, but lets just see what they have to say for themselves.

Scores for the combatants:
TS NBA CREW: 37412 (talk about bringing it to the table when it counts)
Defeated
TS Tin Lids: 36192

Congrats to the NBA Crew. Huge performance to win from so far back.
Commisserations to the Tin Lids, though I suspect they copped The General, and that their original wins earlier in the finals were due to storing more trades than their rivals. In the end, sometimes, what goes around, comes around.

Im hoping next year we will still really focus on our overall teams, but for those who are keen to see their leagues progress, we might do some more factoring in the finals to make it easier for the top teams to win. Not sure how because they were whipped!

Finally, here are the top leagues from 2011 from TooSerious:

TS Donor Kebabs - P2
TS Platinum League - P5
Too Serious Donors - P10
Waaaaay Too Serious - P14
TS2 - 2Secs Too Slow - P18
FF v TS Challenge - P19

Id be interested to know how close the TinLids and the NBA Crew got to making top 20.

We continue our trek through our reviews of every clubs supercoach season, today taking a look at that club we all love to hate, Carlton.  Todays review is thanks to Hornsy. I was going to do my own little review of their overall season but have decided to leave this one as it was delivered to me. Im not sure if i agree with Hornsy with his opening paragraph, but hell they can dream cant they. Anyway have a read over the break.

<!--more-->Ah, Carlton. To us supporters theyre known as the Navy Blues, to all others theyre no doubt regarded as their second team. And an improving second team at that.  14 and a half wins in the home and away season in an era of equalisation and salary caps is a pretty good return. Pre-tty good.

But enough baiting, lets head on to some dry statistical analysis. As my rat-headed carnival working cousins say "Hop on the trolley"!

Carlton monopolise possession; both on the inside and outside so to speak. Ranking 1st in least Opponent Disposals and 2nd in both Short Kicks and Marks taken, as well as 1st in least Opponent Clearances, 2nd in Clearances and 2nd in Contested Possessions Differential vs Opponent. They also rank 4th for KE% @ 67.7% and 7th for DE% @ 72.8%.

Thats all well and good I hear you moan, but how exactly is it fantasy relevant?

Along with scoring goals,  getting the ball and keeping the ball is a pretty good way to score points in SC. So Id look at players from Carlton who are pretty good at doing those things; explosive ball-winners and defensive midfield sweepers.

Premiums (The Good)



Marc Murphy, at the age of 24, has had what could be termed a "breakout breakout" season.  Playing all 22 games and averaging 118 over the year, Murphy jumped from ordinary premium to the 5th best scoring midfielder in the competition. The improvement came on the back of improving his number of contested possessions (9th Overall) and score assists (7th), and he got close to magical 30...

Gday guys, over the next few weeks we will have a season review for each club from a supercoach perspective. They will include The Good, The Bad &amp; The Ugly and will also include a small watchlist of players to keep a eye out for heading into season 2012. Each review will have a big part of them written by fans of each particular club, which will hopefully give you better insight into the year, cos lets be honest who knows the clubs better then the fans. We kick things off with the Saints Season Review.
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The Saints season is a tale of two halves. It started off with off field drama after off field drama. That’s all on top of the heartbreak of losing a Grand Final for second successive year. Every Saints player seemed to have the weight of the world on their shoulders at start of the year. At Round 8 the Saints were sitting on 1 win, a draw &amp; 5 losses and finals looked like just a dream. All the experts were saying it was time to do a full rebuild and just play youth for rest of the year.

At half way mark of season the Saints had managed to get to 4 wins, a draw &amp; 6 losses. They had been playing some terrible football and looked far from the team that had played in the Grand Final the 2 previous seasons. This showed in their players supercoach scores, with most of the gun players all well below par. Only a handful of players had either improved on previous year or played at a consistent level. All of a sudden the Saints found their mojo in second half of the season, winning 8 games and only losing 3 times. This was on the back of some the lesser known players (McEvoy, Steven, Peake) all stepping upto the plate, but also their core group of players started playing like we have grown to know.  As a result all the premium players finally became premium players again.

What are you actually trying to say you may ask? Well basically it means going into next year a lot of the Saints players will be a little bit...

With no EPL due to the international break and for those who didnt make their Supercoach GF, it must have made for a frustrating weekend. Especially if you spent it trying to pronounce the Thai goalies name: Sinthaweechai Hathairattanakool.

Dont fear though, EPL will resume again this weekend and well get a chance to see how the new signings get on at their new clubs. Over the next few weeks well get a better idea of how the teams are looking for the season, but Im going to jump in head-first now and give you my thoughts.

<!--more-->Man Utd and Man City are looking certainties to battle it out for the title, with possibly Chelsea and, at a push, Liverpool looking to join them. Arsenal have brought in some good signings but havent been able to replace the quality of Fabregas and Nasri, and having already dropped 8pts, I think pushing for a top four place is a realistic aim.

What about relegation though? One TS contributor suggested that this could be a year when one of the established clubs like Everton could go down, especially with promoted club QPR making some quality signings. This is a valid point. Theyve brought in SWP and Luke Young, as well as serial nut-job Joey Barton and if he can stay out of jail for the season he will add some extra quality to the midfield.

Of the other promoted teams, Norwich I think are in for a tough year, theyve done an incredible job by getting promoted in consecutive years, but when the injuries and suspensions start to bite I just dont think that theyll have the strength in depth to cope. Swansea I think will fare better than Norwich, but enough to stay up? Possibly! Theyve looked quite solid (four second-half goals at Man City apart) with two clean sheets to their name already. If they learn to start scoring then theyre in with a chance.

Everton to get relegated? My wife can spend more money in one trip to Baby Bunting than what Davie Moyes has spent at Everton. Theyre a big club but due to financial...

Nervously twitching away whilst awaiting the outcome of the TAB decision?  Consider this:

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<td height="16">Mitchell (HAW)
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<td height="16">Boyd (WBD)
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<td height="16">Swan (COL)
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<td height="16">S Thompson (ADE)
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Hey guys - will have round and season review up in the next 2 days, in the meantime, if you hear any news on multi betting options within any agency throw it up here.

Well let me start out by saying that due to Fathers day commitments- good luck in getting a review out of me today! Too busy living it up in the lap of luxury!

But what I can say is this- Well done ImpromptuSCE mate, unless Boomer and Petrie had a little punt against themselves and start kicking goals for the opposition- its all yours mate!

Youve put in a fantastic season mate- its been great seeing how you do it. Same as all you other boys who managed a personal best this season.

Myself, I reckon this year will be a top100 finish- which should be a personal best- however, since I tend to run these crazy TooSerious leagues, its another season where the competition was simply too strong and I failed to win a granny. Ah well, maybe next year!

Let us know in the comments how youve gone! Cracked a personal best? Won that league you wanted? Put in a poor one but youre committing to doing extra laps this pre-season? What ever the deal, Id love to hear about it!