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Man, it was a long drive home tonight, which is probably a good thing, cause I might have alienated the Hawks fans had I posted this right after the game. And theres a lot of Hawks fans in these parts who are awesome. JoshyC for one, was great to see you at the footy tonight- youre boys were just too strong for us. What hurts the most though is that you guys let us back in! Why could you have kicked straight and *not* gotten my hopes so high!

Also, another point of order came from tonight- Im not old! Well, sort of, Im still under 30; well for now anyways!

Gah! Im bloody shattered!! Im tossing up whether to hit the sack, bathed by the soothing sounds of the vuvuzela, or to have a couple of scotches and get myself banned form bigfooty for a bit...

And speaking of the soccer, weve got another big game on tomorrow night, so Ive opened up a chat in the comments here for tomorrow nights big game- Carn Aussies!

Hi all.  Will keep it brief, have been a bit sick this week and not able to do much analysis.

Advice for the week:  Keep trading 2 per 3 rounds on average from here if you have about 9 trades left.  Dont use trades without them being a good upgrade or downgrade.  Id even keep a trade rather than replacing a medium term injured player if you have cover on the bench.

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FRESH MEAT
Not that much.  Henderson with FD MPP looks the goods.

CATCH THE TRAIN
Rioli looking delicious, not for the first time this season but now looks to be ready to start churning out big points.  Is the Hawks revival a mirage?  Well find out on Friday night when they take on the Dons for the first time in 6 games.
Keep an eye on Rob Murphy also with him playing in that half back sweeper role.  If he gets this, he will get large points and take down Hargrave, Harbrow and possibly Gilbee.  If he stays fit could be a really good option.  Not yet but Im a watchin.
Tiprat Milne has played pretty well recently and if you can survive the stench of him in your team, is an option.

ON THE NOSE
Tadhg Kennellys value is being trashed by a poor game and an injury.
Josh Fraser could be a straight swap for Warnock soon and is almost guaranteed selection.  Micks love child.

BEST BUYS
Defenders: Gilbee, Grundy/Waite, Shaw/Hurn
Midfielders: Boyd, Bartel, Montagna, Murphy, Judd/Swan
Rucks: Cox, Bradley, Ryder
Forwards: Rioli, OKeefe, Franklin, Varcoe

Until next week, happy trading.

There is no “i” in team. But there is one in Split round.

Now, because of that, I feel its my duty to remind you all of the loop-hole a partial lockout can bring. (disclaimer- this worked in the round one partial lockout- but VS may or may not have closed it, so proceed with caution.)

The loop hole essentially lets you double dip with your captians, but also with your bench players. Let me explain how it works.

Just one thing though, you *need* to have someone who isnt playing, but would heve been playing next week. (ie- Sydneys McNeil or Collingwoods Seamus to those who went the cheap R4)

Step 1. You place your vice captaincy on a player whos playing this week (ie- Hodge), and your captaincy on someone playing next week (ie- Ablett).
2. You watch and see what Hodge does, if he scores an 80, you do nothing and your real captain will step up to the plate. However, if he belts out a 160, move on to step 3.
3. Move McNeil onto the field for someone else who is playing in week 2 (Didak, Goodes, OKeefe). And set them as captain, dont forget to set the star that youre taking off as an emergency.

Now, because McNeil wont play- your vice captain will now be your captain, while your emergency comes on to cover his zero. - double dipping.

A bit of planning needs to come into it though, for example, if youre going with Seamus, your #1 and #2 rucks will have probably already played, so make sure you set him up on the field with your real emergency named *this* week, you wont be able to change it next week. This could bite hard though if Seamus is a late call up (see: Lobbe last week)

The other thing to consider is that you dont want to name your other emergency, or else the lowest of the two scores will come on. So youll be playing without cover in that position.

The other option, is if you have someone who might play next week, that you might want to play- Like Playfair, you set McNeil on the Field, set your F8 as the emergency (ie- Fyfe) -...

Twelve rounds in, and a youd need a dozen votes right now to be in with a chance if the last 5 years are anything to go by.  Cousins, Goodes, Bartel, Cooney and Ablett each had 13, 12, 17, 19 &amp; 19 after 12 rounds in each of their Brownlow winning years - which gives us 5 main candidates who could take it out in 2010:

5th. Michael Barlow (FREM) - 12 votes, 15/1
Started his first season with a bang, picking up 11 votes in the first 6 games, but has managed just one in the same time since then.  You would expect him to slow down as the year goes on, so hard to see the young fella winning it from here - but a magnificent first year by any standards.

4th. Brendon Goddard (ST.K) - 13 votes, 9/1
Has become St Kildas most important player in Nick Riewoldts absence, and is enjoying a rich vein of form at the moment, polling in each of the last 4 games.  A chance to win it, but will need a few things to go his way from here.

3rd. Gary Ablett Jnr (GEEL) - 14 votes, 3.75/1
Whilst Geelong seem to stay ahead of the pack to remain the clear best team in the comp, there is no doubt that Gary has fallen back to the pack.  His first 6 games were excellent - yet still not at the level of the last two years, and he has certainly fallen away since then.  In the eleven games he has played he has gone under 30 possies on only one occasion, yet hasnt surpassed 40 once (last year he topped the 40 mark no less than 5 times).  Hard to see him going back-to-back in his current form.

2nd. Dane Swan (COLL) - 16 votes, 15/1
A somewhat controversial choice, but I have Swanny firmly in second place at the moment.  Whilst he is only playing marginally better than last year where he picked up just 12 votes for the entire season, there are a couple of differences worth noting:  Firstly, the core group of Pendlebury, Davis, Didak &amp; Shaw took alot of the votes away from Swan last year, whereas only Pendlebury is playing anywhere near 09 form.  Secondly, Dane did...

As we move into the split round, most teams are very much complete and this week saw some whopping scores registered. We also saw the keys being handed to a new owner...2 in fact...meaning Ford should be coughing up 2 sets

So this week we will start with the Pine Warmers who have remained in 17th place overall this week even though the league averaged 2370 this week and had only 2 teams who scored less than 2300 :lol: a top effort.

The leagues overall average is 2215 and this week saw some strong results from tiger4life and9/11WasAnInsideJob. Life Post Richo cemented their spot at the summit while a few teams made ground up on the leaders with 2nd and 3rd both taking losses.

With some cracking SuperCoach league games coming up this week (and some beauties in the league - 1 v 2, 3 v 7, 4 v 6), a lot of key SuperCoach players under injury clouds and semi LTIs, and the split round captaincy trick being played, this is going to be a HUGE round of football...not to mention the hawks have the bumbers on Friday night the triple MCG.

Results are over the break

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ROUND 12 RESULTS
LiQuiD2,359def by2,4799/11WasAnInsideJob

Veni Vidi Vici2,215def by2,385Razors

Year of the CATS2,413def2,346Whoknows?

Krunchy Nuts2,391def2,312fcmeh

Thunder Guns2,197def by2,591tiger4life

Jackson Harvey FC2,388def by2,395Prospectus Boy

Snotties2,304def by2,366PowerfromPort

Life Post-Richo2,412def2,369steamed hams



TeamWL%PRoundAveragePoints

Life Post-Richo72103.39282,4122279.527,354

Jackson Harvey FC63102.55242,388223626,832

9/11WasAnInsideJob63101.97242,4792224.7526,697

steamed hams63101.13242,3692220.4226,645

Krunchy Nuts63100.10242,3912213.6726,564

Year of the CATS54101.74202,4132228.2526,739

Whoknows?54100.81202,3462278.527,342

Veni Vidi Vici5499.74202,2152219.4226,633...

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Round 12 sees a couple of big scores, well, by big- I mean little. Three scores under 30 this week! Makes me think you guys are getting better each week!

Basically, what Im trying to say is that I feel bad for both parlabana (29) and Bucko (28), cause this weeks winner was buzz, with 26 points. Looks like the only one really missed was Ablett.

The winning team for the round was:
namescoreDifference

buzzChris Judd211

buzzLuke Hodge226

buzzGary Ablett1033

buzzAdam Goodes32

buzzMatt Priddis222

buzzDaniel Cross516

buzzBrendon Goddard112

buzzDane Swan148





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UserscoreDifference

buzz826170

Bucko828165

parlabane829171

Pickle830257

joshuac831217

spamman832172

jinnasaur832206

julianc8331008

simonoz837280

thespine837211

GRG838256

beetee839285

Superblues839238

bulldogs17840265

lw840222

m4ttdog841181

steamtrain841144

lgarth80842210

spuddy843241

blizzrd843158

Pop843219

oldpuggler843287

Fish844259

quazy888844231

resch845194

bryansa845200

gnewitt846188

Micka846225

batesy847211

frostylane847162

worksafe847184

MajorLazer849463

ajackl07850238

Carlos851212

liquid851233

The Mob Goes Wild852290

timtimmy852286

PowerfromPort852210

daveo15853151

Kel854475

griff857171

Shapgood857214

snoop857520

tp859343

celinef859283

Stew860211

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foxy_dal865325

haysiebbh865185

sticko5866267

fozzer867208

prem867236

parasite868253

payney3868221

nicks869207

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jrolfe873261

Stripey874335

baggers boys896792

bfish8109442

So this week started off with the home team eeeking out a draw over the favored Mexican squad. Mexican defender, Marquez and the South African with the greatest name ever, Tshabalala top scored with a goal each.

Wait, what. No, thats not right. Round 12 started off with the upset of the round! North Melbourne smashed the Blues around the park for 4 solid quarters. Well, I say that the Roos did, but in reality it was just the one Roo- Lindsay Thomas. 7.5 and 217 points for the boy. a score that will see his salary go up $200k over three weeks. SDT got the next highest score with 152. The Blues big 3 midfielders in Judd, Gibbs and Murphy brought about the next 3 scores. Waite continues his return to form with a solid 94. Meanwhile Bastinac delivered nicely with an 88.

The only game on Saturday saw Hawthorn defeat a pretty helpless Adelaide. Cyril continued his return to form with a delicious 167 BOG performance. And might just break even with the price everyone picked him up for so many weeks ago. A lesson to not sell low peoples! Heck, even Tippett got a 115 and is looking to be tracking in the right direction finally. Hodge scored a solid 156, while Douglas notched up his 6th ton in 7 weeks, Would have been a great buy back then! On the other side of the board, S. Thompson put in a poor 33 while the porpis scored a 35. Might be some bargains in this adelaide squad next year!.

Now, speaking of helpless teams, Saturday night saw the Cats smash the helpless bombers by 70 points. Bartel top scored with a 160 while Kelly put in an outstanding 151. Podsiadly is gunna be fine all year I reckon, dominating with another 5 goal haul as the only tall in the line up (and 131 points). Alwyn Davey top scored for the bombers with a solid 110 while Chappy and Ablett "dissapointed" with 106 and 97. Abletts 97 was more disappointing because it came from 34 touches.

The other game on Saturday night saw the Swans walk it in over the Power, keeping them to 2 points in...

--We interrupt this weeks football to bring you this important post--

Alright, so its not *that* important, but it is kinda. As you all know, tonight Australia is playing Germany in the world cup.

Anyways because I know that a fair few of you guys are gunna being doing the same as me- ie, Up at 4 in the morning watching the game.

So, over the break in this post, Ive set up a chat section specifically for tonights game. So get in their guys and AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE!

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So, tonight were kicking off round 12- and the world cup.

And Ive got to be honest, Ive spent my spare time this week researching my worldcup squad. I am ammused that my final squad has such players as Pernis, BellAid, K(ing). Kong II, Kum II, Welcome, Brockie and MENDOZAA!!!!

Basically what Im saying is that for the next month, I might be a little distracted...

That said though, it should be an interesting week in footy. While the top 8 teams shouldnt have too much trouble with their games (Well, except for that Freo-St game), I reckon there will be an upset or two to throw a spanner in the works...

Also, two points of order- firstly, I tweaked my Bet247 WC team this morning and it used all my trades up- Someone write those guys and tell them that using trades before the actual first kickoff makes the baby Ablett cry.

Secondly, Bandit- you out there mate? Send me an email!

Good luck everyone!

Well, Im back. Better late than never. And Ive learnt something from my experiences in exams-mention Bear Grylls in everything (those doing VCE will get it).

Friday June 11
North Melbourne v Carlton at Etihad Stadium, 7.40pm Top Scorer: Bear Grylls (or, maybe Juddy).

Saturday June 12
Hawthorn v Adelaide at Aurora Stadium, 2.10pm
Essendon v Geelong Cats at Etihad Stadium, 7.10pm
Port Adelaide v Sydney Swans at AAMI Stadium, 7.10pm

Sunday June 13
Richmond v West Coast at the MCG, 1.10pm
Western Bulldogs v Brisbane Lions at Etihad Stadium, 2.10pm
Fremantle v St Kilda at Subiaco Oval, 2.40pm

Monday June 14
Melbourne v Collingwood at the MCG, 2.10pm

All these would be what Bear Grylls would tip if Bear Grylls tipped. As it is, he doesnt, he just tells the teams who is going to win.

Captains:

Bear Grylls

Gablett

Goddard