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So, its the first week of the finals, howd you go? Me- had a bit of a shocker, its not like I did too badly, but when 3 of your oppositions have Riolis 175, you know youre in trouble!

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St Kilda vs Collingwood
Result: Collingwood by 19, 14.5.89 to 10.10.70

I dont think looking at the results of this game fairly states just how competitive St. Kilda actually was, there was never really a chance where I thought they were out of it- which is a rare thing to happen when playing Collingwood this year. To futher state their case though, they actually had more scoring shots than the Pies and absolutely dominated the last 10 minutes of the game- which is really the first time all year Ive seen the Pies tire, perhaps they should have pulled up stumps at half time last week? Any Pies fans out there reckon they could be running out of gas at the business end? Or reckon Im just muck raking?

For the game though, Dane Swan did what Dane Swan does, 34 touches, 2 goals and 156SC, which his mate Dale Thomas trail behind with 31 touches and 133SC. Joey Montagna also managed a 133SC off just 24 touches and 3 goals. Filling out the rest of the top5 was Davis, who had the most possessions for the day with 36 and 128SC and Ben Reid whos 120SC came off 21 touches.,Plenty of villians in the game tonight, but not really in the premium front, NRoo but up another 70+ score, Milne couldnt get started, just 6 touches and a goal for a 35SC, Kozi Kozied with a 29SC while the sub effected Diddles managed just 28SC off a 47DT.

Heroes: Swan, Thomas, Montagna
Villians: Didak, Riewoldt, Milne

Hawthorn vs Port Adelaide
Result: Hawthorn by 165, 31.1.197 to 5.2.32

Well, what can you say, I predicted 102 in my pre game looksee, but wow, once again Port have surpassed my expectations! On the plus side, they managed an extra scoring shot over last week, so woo! Hawthorn on the other hand took full advantage of Port lack of......

Finals time, trades are low but weve got some interesting matches lined up this weekend.

Really looking forward to tonights game, the Saints have really been playing themselves into form since the last time these two teams met- so itll be great to see how far theyve come.

Freo v Carlton should be interesting as far at the final 8 is concerned, as is the Bombers v Bulldogs with both games being do or die for both Freo and Essendon.

The rest of em will probably be blowouts though. Hawthorn by 102.

Hi all, not wanting to mozz the Impromptu, but yes Ive also had a look at the top 3 teams and would have to say current P2 Dont Do...Think is in a great shape at the moment with the reserves.

One would think that with this weeks forwards (Petrie/Harvey) and next fortnights backs issues (Gibbs/Scotland) for the top teams, there should be the 44 points difference.

That is, of course, all things being equal.   But we know in SuperCoach they are not.  Especially if Impro has trades at the ready - and we all know he is prepared to use them to keep his hold on the lead.

Yamum also has some shots in the locker.   As we all know, about 250 is gettable in any given week, and theres probably still hope for those chasing from within 500 points to make some ground so long as their points of difference are solid.   Injuries to captains will prove very costly from here-on, and thats what the chasing hordes will be counting on.

Therefore if I were leading and looking to just make things steady, Id think Pendlebury is the metronome youd be sticking to, though Dal Santo has shown some electrifying form recently.

If its a battle of the top 3 (which it is most likely for the lead next week), then this is what the cheering needs to be for Impromptu (caps for more crucial)

Heroes - His D7, JUDD, Swan, ABLETT, SELWOOD, Boyd, KREUZER, N Riewoldt, Mzungu
Villains - Broughton, Birchall,  M MURPHY, Dal Santo, Priddis, Bartel, Hodge, Mitchell, Goldstein, McEvoy, SYLVIA, Johnson, Fyfe

Still plenty that can go right and wrong.   But Id love to be in a position knowing my key PODS were Judd, Ablett and Selwood.  Time and again these guys have done the job.   Not so sure about the Scarlet Pimpernels D7 though.   You can get lucky with Lower/Heppell/Stanley, or you can choose poorly.   This week its a really tough selection, as all have claims.   Personally, I think Stanley will be well suited by the Q Clash.   But hes certainly not got nearly the up-side of...

Last year a few fantasy nuts that kick around the corridors of TooSerious got together and started the very first TS NFL League. Most of those nuts are back for season 2011/12 and weve got a few more keen to keep the trading trigger-finger limber. As such were opening for business again! The season runs between September and February, and is therefore the perfect off-season to Supercoach. So if you think youre interested, check out the details over the break...<!--more-->

So far we have 14 people keen to enter this season. 10 team leagues are ideal and 12 team leagues are fine too, so im thinking 2 leagues of 10 or if there is a little more interest even two leagues of 12.

The comp starts with a live draft, most likely held on Sunday the 21st after the kids have gone to bed. Teams are drafted so no two teams have the same players. The leftover players go into a pool to replace the injured or dud players from your squad and trading amongst the league members is vital and probably the most fun part of the game.

So if this sounds like a game for you, register your interest below.

Those interested or in the first league so far include
Stowie
Anthak
Wiggles
Karlos
Sainter
Bandit
Under Achievers
Markso
Fez
bgt2110
Johnson
Boldin Showers (invited but no reply yet)

Others who have registered interest
Maggot
FoxSportsNews
Apolis
Limo23
djcee
hontas
Gaol
N1lz
Walesy

So, thats 21, it means we need either 1 or 3 more people otherwise walesys on-call

Theres still time people!!! cmon

So, with 4 weeks to go, its time for our Inaugural League vs League Challenge.

Its all knockout so without further ado, its time to welcome our matchups.  Obviously seeding means that the 1 ranked team plays 16.   Just like the "round of 16" in the tennis majors.

Match 1 - At Lambs Souvlaki in Carlton
TS Donor Kebabs (2) v  TS Donuts (40)

Match 2 - At Panton in the Kimberley
TS Platinum (5) v TS Cant Be Serious (39)

Match 3 - At Bloodbank Melbourne HQ, Southbank
Too Serious Donors (11) v TS Expats (37)

Match 4 - At Leafy Green Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn
FF v TS Challenge (15) v Too Serious Legends (35)

Match 5 - At Flushing Meadows, New York
Waaaay Too Serious (18) v TS Superleague (34)

Match 6 -  At Scotland Yard Response Team, London
TS 2Sec Too Slow (20) v Why So Too Serious (32)

Match 7 - At Jimmy Barnes Backyard, Sydney
TS Tin Lids (26) v TS I am Serious (31)

Match 8 - At Loftus Road...Welcome back welcome back...
TS Premier League (28) v TS NBA Crew (30)

So then theres the working out of next rounds:

Match 9: Winner Match 1 v Winner Match 8

Match 10: Winner Match 2 v Winner Match 7

Match 11 - Winner Match 3 v Winner Match 6

Match 12 - Winner Match 4 v Winner Match 5

Match 13 - Winner Match 9 v Winner Match 12

Match 14 - Winner Match 10 v Winner Match 11

Match 15 - Winner Match 13 v Winner Match 14

Good luck to all TS members involved in these leagues in particular, but also in your work and social leagues where pride and a few slabs/coins are surely on the line.

In addition feel free to offer your assistance at moderating the results of your league if youre involved in matches above.   It would involve going in on Monday to the "Rank by Overall Points" and totaling the scores for this week from the teams in the league.   Should be good fun this weekend!

Well the pressure is on now. First week of finals. Without doing any analysis, it seems to be a difficult week to pick. By now, most Supercoach teams should be full of premiums which makes the choice even harder. Lots of question marks this week: is Ablett fully fit? Is Cox fully fit? With St Kilda playing Collingwood, will there be no big scorers? Brisbane is playing the Gold Coast Suns this week. Are there any Brisbane players who can score big?

I have added more players than normal and I have also gone into a little more detail in my notes section which may assist in determining matchups etc. Let’s look at the numbers:

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Ablett v. Brisbane

Rd 7 2011: 75 SuperCoach points, 20 disposals
Rd 17 2010: 144 SuperCoach points, 26 disposals
Rd 8 2010: 102 SuperCoach points, 31 disposals
Rd 5 2009: 149 SuperCoach points, 42 disposals
Rd 22 2007: 99 SuperCoach points, 25 disposals
Rd 12 2007: 142 SuperCoach points, 35 disposals

Average is 119 SuperCoach points with 30 disposals.

Note: Very solid record against the Lions. A poor score in the Suns’ win against the Lions in Rd 7 this year as he was tagged by Raines and also Polkinghorne. Played the game out after receiving a hit to the knee and also to the ribs in the first quarter. Tagged by Polkinghorne in Rd 17 2010 when he scored the big 144. Has averaged 142 over his past 8 games (not including the game where he was injured and only scored 19). Question mark over his hamstring injury?

Pendlebury v. St. Kilda

Rd 11 2011: 149 SuperCoach points, 32 disposals
GF 2010: 123 SuperCoach points, 29 disposals
GF 2010: 87 SuperCoach points, 19 disposals
Rd 16 2010: 106 SuperCoach points, 27 disposals
Rd 3 2010: 73 SuperCoach points, 16 disposals
QF 2009: 22 SuperCoach points, 4 disposals
Rd 7 2009: 128 SuperCoach points, 28 disposals
SF 2008: 92 SuperCoach points, 23 disposals
Rd 19 2008: 74 SuperCoach points, 23 disposals
Rd 8 2008: 123 SuperCoach points, 25 disposals
Rd 14...

Wow, from a worry that we wont have any rucks with Smith out, to Smith staying in, Sandi coming in, Vardy coming back and Bailey hanging around. What a fantastic selection of teams- suprise inclusions, rather than the usual pain of suprise exclusions.

The big ins and outs are as follows:

INS: Sandilands, Carrazzo, Higgins, Sylvia, Ablett, Vardy.
OUTS: Buckley.
Extended Bench: Darling, Chapman.

Take a quick look at the full teams, over the break
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St Kilda v Collingwood
ES &#8211; Fri Aug 12, 7:40pm
St Kilda
B:Sam Gilbert, Zac Dawson, Raphael Clarke
HB:Brendon Goddard, Sam Fisher, Farren Ray
C: David Armitage, Nick Dal Santo, Jason Gram
HF: Brett Peake, Nick Riewoldt, Adam Schneider
F: Stephen Milne, Justin Koschitzke, Jack Steven
Foll:Ben McEvoy, Clinton Jones, Leigh Montagna
I/C: Jason Blake, Jarryn Geary, Sean Dempster, Dean Polo
Emg: Steven Baker, Tom Simpkin, Ryan Gamble
In: Zac Dawson
Out: Ryan Gamble
Collingwood
B: Leon Davis, Ben Reid, Heritier O&#8217;Brien
HB:Ben Johnson, Nick Maxwell, Tyson Goldsack
C: Dane Swan, Dale Thomas, Alan Didak
HF: Jarryd Blair, Chris Tarrant, Andrew Krakouer
F: Steele Sidebottom, Travis Cloke, Leigh Brown
Foll:Darren Jolly, Scott Pendlebury, Luke Ball
I/C: Sharrod Wellingham, Dayne Beams, Luke Rounds, Alex Fasolo
Emg: Cameron Wood, Josh Thomas, Simon Buckley
In: Heritier O&#8217;Brien, Sharrod Wellingham
Out: Cameron Wood, Simon Buckley
Hawthorn v Port Adelaide
MCG &#8211; Sat Aug 13, 2:10pm
Hawthorn
B:Paul Puopolo, Josh Gibson, Thomas Murphy
HB:Brent Guerra, Ryan Schoenmakers, Grant Birchall
C: Jordan Lewis, Sam Mitchell, Isaac Smith
HF: Chance Bateman, Lance Franklin, Shaun Burgoyne
F: Cyril Rioli, David Hale, Luke Breust
Foll:Max Bailey, Luke...

We are closing in on our best ranking, after another decent round, moving up almost 400 spots to be ranked 1,428th now!  We scored 2,460 this week, with our only real stuff up being the goo on the bench (but that only lost us 20 odd points).

We didnt do any trades last week. We went with Swan as cap which was pretty good as he had 130+ but there were a few ahead of him - <a href="http://tooserious.net/if-my-captains-were-perfect-i-would-be/comment-page-2#comment-106981" target="_blank">and on that note, you can see a compilation of our captains choices over here..[/url]. And our bench selections were pretty good, starting Heppell and ISmith over the likes of Jacobs and Richardson; however Mzungu was on the pine and scored 14 and 22 more than ISmith and Heppell respectively.

Now I dont usually write about league performances, except for a passing comment here and there, but its the end of the home-and-away season now so I thought I should give an update. We won all 5 league games this week so we got good form going into the finals, and over the break will be the details of those finals etc, and also the usual individual players points from round 20::::

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First up are the points from round 20:
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<td colspan="2">SCORING PLAYERS



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1. <a href="http://supercoach.heraldsun.com.au/player/130">Scotland[/url] (DEF)
<td align="right">133



2. <a href="http://supercoach.heraldsun.com.au/player/110">Gibbs[/url] (DEF)
<td align="right">104



3. <a href="http://supercoach.heraldsun.com.au/player/632">Goddard[/url] (DEF)
<td align="right">100



4. <a href="http://supercoach.heraldsun.com.au/player/627">Fisher[/url] (DEF)
<td align="right">115



5. <a href="http://supercoach.heraldsun.com.au/player/575">Deledio[/url] (DEF)
<td align="right">115



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Hi all, sorry I have not put up a thread in the main page this week.
I think this week the main trades are going to be focussed on replacing players who are out, so possibly related to team selection more than any time this year.

For forwards, those with Harvey and Petrie will be scurrying for cover, but the Boyd/Ablett likely to return in the middle should help, especially if MPP can be utilised.

The main concern I think this week could end up being Smith being rested with no Petrie in coverage for teams on the limit. I guess there are options to upgrade a ruck to someone like Mumford, but that takes 2 trades, and Im guessing thats not on the agenda of everyone (not with Petries imminent return).

The best ruck sideways from Smith arent great. West is there for Geelong (likely to be replaced by Ottens or at least see his score shrink), but Id say the battle for a week would be between Maric and Bailey. Both have fairly solid spots in their teams, with Maric scoring surprisingly well last week even though Jacobs is still the main banana at AAMI.

Dont think there are too many other good options. Possibly Vickery. The Tigers dont have the worst run home.

Anyway, put some thoughts in the comments section and Ill respond when I get the chance.

Howdy all, with only 3 days remaining before lockout, I reckon its time to bring this thread back up to the front page.

(And of course, get in before the comments close)

The biggest news of course is that we need to keep a close eye on these riots as any games postponed on GW1 is a player you want to avoid!!

So if anyone hears anything, jump in the comments- and in the interim, keep the RMTs and general discussion coming!!