TooSerious

Courtesy of @JC

ORFFA Round 13 Review – NAIDOC Round

Gundagai Grasshoppers 1225 def by Darraweit Guim Dirigibles 1307

Coach Chris’ gamble to double up in the ruck paid dividends as Ceglar (128) and Nicholls (119) dominated to keep the Blimps finals hopes alive. Walla and Newnes were also good.

Look out if snoz ever figures out he needs a couple of decent defenders. Outside of the terrible backline effort (this lot were shite tbh), it was a pretty good showing from the Hoppers with 8 scores over 90, 7 of which came from a promising group all aged 23 or younger. The Hoppers are on their way, perhaps just not quite as quickly as the coach would like.

Wineglass Bay Packers 959 def by Whitsunday Warriors 1133

Rough day at the office for coach Tracey as the Packers, with exception of the superstar Sloane (114), future star Lynch (123) and Matera (95), stunk it up all over the park. Hipwood continued to show some promising signs but it’s probably room full of mirrors time for the rest.

Two wins in a row now for the enigma known as TiB after a tough first half of the year. JJK (115) was the star for the Warriors with good support from Gibson (104) and Wines (99). A fairly even effort after that but enough to get the job done. Young Lobb (86) looks to be coming along nicely.

Charlies Opening Spelunkers 1108 def by Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles 1292

An easy in for the Cows over an undermanned Spelunkers outfit. While no doubt pleased that McGovern, Hannebery, Mitchell and Sauce Jacobs all cracked the ton, Graeme was probably most pleased with return to form of Hall (94) and Brad Crouch’s first ton in almost 2 years (23 August 2014 was his last one for those playing at home).

el Bandito and his charges were gallant but the efforts of the Bont (140), Jack (123) and Zerrett (129) were in vain as 13 warm bodies just wasn’t enough against solid Cows outfit.

Birdsville Battlers 1079 def Nunawading Nuffers...

Firstly, I had no idea what Walesy was going on about – gyms, eevees, lapras... I seriously need to out from underneath this rock.

Meanwhile, the BoTW curse is in full effect now – JJ didn’t even crack 70!
It’s really just got to the point where I’m thinking of naming players I don’t like or North Melbourne players to give Brad Scott something else to whinge about…

But I’m not going to do that, after all “if at first you don’t succeed, try going to the AFL for handouts… I mean try, try again”.

So read on to find out who we name as our Buy of the Week this week – if or no other reason, you know to not get him!

So, some scumbag just knocked me out of my gym and dumped a 1400+ Lapras on it.

Rude.

Least I get to evolve my Eevee tonight though. And I've still got that other gym that I had to trespass with the kiddoes to reach- doesn't look like anyone else has been game enough for that yet.

All after lockout of course.

So, how have you all gone? Personally, I've been trolling the streets with my kids hunting electrons, but I heard there was some footy on also!

Another good week of tipping with 5 from 6 and Gold Coast were a nice “50:50” tip. Certainly we’ve found ourselves sneaking back up towards the top of our respective tipping ladders following the Round 12 debacle. We’ll try and focus on games between finals contenders for the remainder of the season and so this week we take a look at the Cats vs Swans and Eagles vs Roos games so turn over for the TipBetPro match previews and all the remaining Round 16 tips.

the Thursday night teams are as follows, can all mods please feel free to update this post when Friday-Sunday teams and 25 man squads get announced ?

PORT ADELAIDE V HAWTHORN

Thursday July 7, 7.20pm at the Adelaide Oval

POWER

B: D.Byrne-Jones, L. Austin, J.Pittard

HB: M.Broadbent, T.Clurey, N.Krakouer

C: K.Amon, O.Wines, B.Ebert

HF: J.Neade, J.Westhoff, C.Wingard

F: J.Impey, C.Dixon, J.Schulz

R: J.Trengove, T.Boak, R.Gray

I/C: K.Mitchell, H.Hartlett, C.O’Shea, A.Young

EMG: J.Butcher, P.Stewart, S.Gray

No change

HAWKS

B: S.Burgoyne, J.Frawley, B.Stratton

HB: S.Mitchell, J.Gibson, G.Birchall

C: I.Smith, L.Hodge, B.Hill

HF: L.Breust, T.O’Brien, J.Gunston

F: J.Sicily, B.McEvoy, C.Rioli

R: J.Ceglar, J.Lewis, L.Shiels

I/C: P.Puopolo, B.Hartung, K.Brand, T.Duryea

EMG: D.Howe, A.Litherland, B.Whitecross

IN: C.Rioli

OUT: D.Howe (omitted)

GEELONG CATS V SYDNEYSWANS

Friday July 8, 7.50pm at Simonds Stadium

CATS

B: J.Kolodjashnij, T.Lonergan, L.Henderson

HB: M.Blicavs, H.Taylor, C.Enright

C: A.Mackie, J.Selwood, S.Motlop

HF: J.Murdoch, M.Clark, J.Bartel

F: D.Menzel, T.Hawkins, N.Cockatoo

R: Z.Smith, P.Dangerfield, C.Guthrie

I/C: M.Duncan, L.McCarthy, D.Lang, T.Ruggles

EMG: C.Gregson, S.Kersten, R.Stanley

IN: M.Clark, N.Cockatoo, D.Lang

OUT: C.Gregson, S.Kersten, R.Stanley

SWANS

B: N.Smith, T.Richards, Z.Jones

HB: C.Mills, H.Grundy, D.Rampe

C: J.McVeigh, J.Kennedy, D.Hannebery

HF: J.Lloyd, L.Franklin, L.Parker

F: J.Rose, G.Rohan, G.Hewett

F: C.Sinclair, T.Mitchell, K.Jack

I/C: A.Aliir, S.Naismith, T.Papley, D.Towers

EMG: B.Jack, T.Nankervis, X.Richards

IN: T.Richards, A.Aliir, S.Naismith, T.Papley

OUT: J.Laidler, I.Heeney, T.Nankervis, B.McGlynn

GWS GIANTS V COLLINGWOOD

Saturday July 9, 1.40pm at Spotless Stadium

GIANTS

B: J.Patfull, P.Davis, H.Shaw

HB: A.Kennedy, Z.Williams, N.Haynes

C: J.Steele, S.Coniglio, T.Scully

HF: J.Patton, R.Lobb, L.Whitfield

F: T.Greene,... Round 16 squads over the page...

I didn’t want to say it, I hoped that if I pretended it didn’t exist that it would just go away, but unfortunately its back… the Buy of the Week curse.

For about the 5th week running a Buy of the Week failed to really perform, with Monty only getting 70 points. Even Trengove got dropped and he was supposed to be a safe bet as a mid-season cash-cow.

Nevertheless, we will keep at it. So read on to find out who we name as our Buy of the Week this week – if or no other reason, you know to not get him!

So, the last bye round AND a federal election. What a time to be alive.

Hopefully you managed to pick up a few snags and avoid Gaz as captain!

Home stretch now. Let us know how you're sitting after these byes kicked our ass. (Or was that just me? )

We got the crucial Collingwood 50/50 Tip last week to get 5 from 6 with just the huge St Kilda upset tripping us up. A good round of fixtures for the last bye round with four games standing out as potential close ones. Turn over for all our Round 15 tips and a look at the TBP Model Mid-Season (well Round 14) All Australian Team.

These Thursday night games, while good for the watching, really throw out my week!!

Teams over the break.

Well It’s up… Finally… Sort of.

I won’t lie, it was rushed and not the greatest Best Buys of all time, but I’ve got the normally lists up and will add some comments as we go.

Most importantly I’ve picked a BoTW, so read over for more…