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COLLINGWOOD v. GEELONG

Recent game: Round 3 2014 MCG – Geelong 87 defeated Collingwood 76.

Pendlebury v. Geelong

Rd 3 2014: 115 SC points, 26 disposals
Rd 8 2013: 118 SC points, 31 disposals
Rd 16 2012: 135 SC points, 36 disposals
Rd 8 2012: 147 SC points, 30 disposals
GF 2011: 143 SC points, 33 disposals
Rd 24 2011: 135 SC points, 30 disposals
Rd 8 2011: 109 SC points, 20 disposals

Average is 129 SC points with 29 disposals.

Note: Most recently tagged by Guthrie. He has previously played head to head against Johnson or Joel Corey. Four scores 135 or over since 2011.

Selwood v. Collingwood

Rd 3 2014: 138 SC points, 30 disposals
Rd 8 2013: 83 SC points, 20 disposals
Rd 16 2012: 107 SC points, 23 disposals
Rd 8 2012: 140 SC points, 36 disposals
GF 2011: 145 SC points, 28 disposals
Rd 24 2011: 121 SC points, 21 disposals
Rd 8 2011: 153 SC points, 29 disposals

Average is 127 SC points with 27 disposals.

Note: A great recent record against Collingwood except for the game in 2013 when he was limited to 20 touches whilst being tagged by Macaffer. In the 2014 game, Macaffer was sent to Steve Johnson. Four scores over 135 since 2011.

Swan v. Geelong

Rd 3 2014: 70 SC points, 23 disposals
Rd 8 2013: 84 SC points, 29 disposals
Rd 16 2012: 116 SC points, 40 disposals
Rd 8 2012: 97 SC points, 26 disposals
GF 2011: 71 SC points, 20 disposals
Rd 24 2011: 89 SC points, 25 disposals
Rd 8 2011: 98 SC points, 30 disposals

Average is 89 SC points with 28 disposals.

Note: Surprisingly poor numbers against Geelong. Only one score over 100 since 2011. In the past, Geelong normally chose to tag him with Ling.

NORTH MELBOURNE v. RICHMOND

Recent game: Round 12 2014 MCG – North Melbourne 116 defeated Richmond 88.

Goldstein v. Richmond

Rd 12 2014: 166 SC points, 20 disposals
Rd 15 2013: 131 SC points, 12 disposals
Rd 17 2012: 95 SC points, 8 disposals
Rd 24 2011: 96 SC points, 13 disposals
Rd 5 2011: 97 SC points, 11...

The Best Buys is here once again to help with your trading needs, in a week where it looks like many teams will be starting to upgrade. Unfortunately so far this year both Best Buy players of the week have returned their lowest scores of the year straight after being picked so hopefully this week will see a turnaround.

The Best Buy for the week is Scott Pendlebury, after a big game on Friday night and a surprising number of team selections to date. Given the efforts of Sloane and Goldy it will be an interesting game again on Friday, with Dependlebury putting his name to the test against what is quickly becoming a Best Buy curse. Can he come out on top with a big score against the Cats, or will the curse take it's toll?



DEFENSE
ROOKIES



Jake Kelly (ADE) DEF 161.7k 53 +27k
Kelly burst his bubble last week, but at around 160 grand is still pretty affordable. Averaging 53 so far he's been solid without starring, but seems to have decent job security for now.

MID-PRICERS



Tom McDonald (MEL) DEF 475k 112 8.1%

McDonald continues to impress, racking up 122 against the Dockers on the weekend to take his average to 112. Still well priced at 475 grand he is in just 8% of sides and is starting to look like a very solid option.



Jasper Pittard (PTA) DEF 451.4k 99 4.3%
Pittard has snuck onto the radar this week after a solid score of 104 brought his average to 99. Costing 450 grand and playing all games so far this season he sits in 4.3% of teams and could make for a decent POD.

PREMIUMS



Bachar Houli (RIC) DEF 540.8k 117 2.4%

Houli is starting to really stand out now, racking up a huge 165 points to top score for round 5 and take his average up to 117. Whether he can keep it going or not is debatable with several players injured or not performing at Richmond, but for the 2.4% of coaches who do have him they'd have to be loving his form so far.



Alex Rance (RIC) DEF 509.5k 109 9.4%

Rance has...

You thought the new Princess was big news.
You thought the Mayweather - Pacquiao fight was BIG news.
You'd be wrong.
The biggest news of the weekend was the fact that the TS Donor Team finally got a captain selection correct. Yes, you saw it here first (unless you've already read it in the donor forum ofcourse, in which case, you saw it here second), we put the VC on Pendles, and the bloke scored enough points to not have to think too much about using the loophole - which was good, because our original captain was Goldy!

I'm not going to pretend that we did any better than we actually did, its not like we were top 100 for the week or anything, but this is a big win for us after the past few weeks. Anyway, this past weekend we scored a much more respectable 2,167 points, which placed us at 35,546 for the round. That brings our overall score to 10,273 and has us ranked at 34,352 in the overall season standings.

The round 5 team summary looks a little like this (actually, it looks exactly like the below, but that doesn't have the same ring to it)
Defence:
H Shaw 122
K Kolodjashnij 88
A Saad 85
J Gibson 79
J Newnes 72
B Smith 45
Bench of A Oxley 148 (E) and K McIntosh 70.
To have your highest scoring defender sitting on the pine really hurts, and one of your premiums scoring the lowest of all players onfield doesn't help any. We had the emergency on Oxley, and after his stunning Friday night I was looking for a way to bring his score on the park. Unfortunately all our defenders were playing, so we had no loophole opportunity.
Cheater had a good one, and it fell away from there. We had the same problem last week when Gibson scored well, and no-one else turned up to play. Premiums with less than premium scores is to be expected down back, with a bit of volatility, but Newnes is on really thin ice...
While it wouldn't have been done, picking Oxley over Smith would have earned us an extra 103 points. More realistically, it would have been...

Birdsville 1415 d Cradle Mountain 1296

Best: Birdsville - Houli 165, Mayne 155, 4 other 100+

Best: Cradle Mountain - Pendles 158, Reddan and Goldsack (wow) 115.



The Skinny: Always reckon scoring nigh on 1300 and losing by 100+ is tough, yet the Devils have done exactly that after running into a rampant Battlers' line-up. Battlers' defence is scary-good - little wonder they are top four - while the Devils will play worse than this and win plenty of games. Top quality match-up.





Darraweit 1188 d Marble Bar 1010

Best: Darraweit - Armitage 137, Eddie 113, Hoff 98

Best: Marble Bar - Yeo 119, Ryder 89, Rich/Laird (they usually are) 89



The Skinny: Darraweit remain on top and undefeated after a win against an undermanned Misfits outfit. The Dirigibles dodging more bullets than Neo in the Matrix to keep winning despite subpar scores - though Armitage and Betts shone this week. The Misfits faith in Yeo is being repaid, while Ryder flies high. But a missing backman and a Kelly/WHE red vest-green vest two step was too much to overcome.





Larrikin Lagoon 1316 d Foul Bay 1236

Best: Lagoon - BJ 134, Mitchell 116, Priddis 112

Best: Foul Bay - Dangermouse 119, Heater 122, Mummy 107



The Skinny: The revamped Lefties have been threatening for some weeks, and came through with the win over Foul Bay on the weekend. Goddard justifying the trade (Writer's note - can I borrow him for a couple of weeks?) while solid consistent scores across the park boost the total. Talent left on the bench too. For Foul Bay, regrettably some good scores also left on the bench, while Pav being walloped into next week was a nail in the coffin. James Kelly's injury has most of us wincing.





Powlett Plains 1301 d Gariwerd 1041

Best: Packers - Dempster 134, Mundy 133, Clancee 129, the other Tom Lynch 119

Best Gariwerd - Masten...

5 rounds in, already my SC team has decided that it actually doesn't want to play footy. More cracks than any Western movie involving whips have appeared. Thankfully, Indiana Jones in the form of TS Div 4 has ridden in and saved my SC week from total depression with a highly respectable ranking of 37th, led by Ling's Bling with a rank of 25 overall! No need to mention who is letting the league down, we all know who we are. Currently leading the head to head comp is Nick and Michael, the only two teams with a 4-0 start. Both play current top 8 teams this week, while I'm in a struggle between 14th and 15th on the ladder. Division 4 has started strong, and based on current trends, will keep pushing upwards.

Anyway, how are your leagues going? Is Div 4 really the best ranked TS league? Have I somehow assembled[span style='text-decoration: line-through;] the Avengersthe best SCers in all of TS? Let us all know in the comments - banter is more than welcome!

League Rankings:

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TS Div 4





111
TS Div 2





136
TS Champs CH





140
TS Champs GrpsABC





164
TS Champs GrpsBEG`





172
TS Champs DE





212
TS Champs ADF





433
TS ORFFL





446
Yahoo-TS-5.0



472
TS Div 3





1076
TS Eagles





1777
TS ORFFU

Another Sunday afternoon and another weekend of football comes to a close.
Did you manage to get Oxley onto the field this week? Perhaps Goodes finally did something good for your team? Or did he languish on the bench, Cripps-style?
Either way, seen a couple of decent scores brewing across my leagues, would love to hear how you went!

Where the hell did this week go!!

Teams are up and I haven't had a chance to consider my trades!

Gunna be relying heavily on the Best Buys and Captain Obvious this week I think.

<p style='color: #474747; margin-bottom: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;]CARLTON
<p style='color: #474747; margin-bottom: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;]B Dylan Buckley, Michael Jamison, Kristian Jaksch<br style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px;[/img]
HB Zach Tuohy, Sam Rowe, Sam Docherty<br style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px;[/img]
C Ed Curnow, Chris Judd, Andrew Walker<br style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px;[/img]
HF Andrejs Everitt, Lachie Henderson, Bryce Gibbs<br style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px;[/img]
F Dennis Armfield, Liam Jones, Blaine Boekhorst<br style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px;[/img]
FOL Cameron Wood, Marc Murphy, Patrick Cripps<br style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px;[/img]
I/C Tom Bell, David Ellard, Kade Simpson, Mark Whiley<br style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px;[/img]
EMG Levi Casboult, Matthew Dick, Robert Warnock<br style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px;[/img]
IN<br style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px;[/img]
Kristian Jaksch, Chris Judd, Mark Whiley<br style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px;[/img]
OUT<br style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px;[/img]
Matthew Dick (Omitted), Andrew Carrazzo (Leg), Levi Casboult (Omitted)<br style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px;[/img]
NEW<br style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px;[/img]
Mark Whiley
<p style='color: #474747; margin-bottom: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;]COLLINGWOOD
<p style='color: #474747; margin-bottom: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;]B Alan Toovey, Nathan J. Brown, Marley Williams<br style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px;[/img]
HB Tom Langdon, Jack Frost, Tyson Goldsack<br style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px;[/img]
C Paul Seedsman, Dane Swan, Jack Crisp<br style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px;[/img]
HF Jamie Elliott, Jesse White, Travis Varcoe<br style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px;[/img]
F Corey Gault, Travis Cloke, Jarryd Blair<br...

<p style='color: #424242;][span style='letter-spacing: 0px;]An ORFFL curio for you all; only 2 players have spent 3 years at an ORFFL Club (and are going into their 4th) while having played less than 20 AFL games. Want to guess who those 2 lucky folk are?
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<p style='color: #424242;][span style='letter-spacing: 0px;]SPOILER ALERT
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<p style='color: #424242;][span style='letter-spacing: 0px;]Matthew Buntine TLP (21yo, ORFFL Career avg. 62.44, 16 games)
<p style='color: #424242;][span style='letter-spacing: 0px;]Daniel Menzel HDH (23yo, ORFFL Career avg. 0.00, 0 games)
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<p style='color: #424242;][span style='letter-spacing: 0px;]Before I proceed with some mild condemnation it behooves me to point out that generally I'm in favour of giving 3 year contracts to recruits under 21 years of age. Any number of those 51 weeks could be spent in the lower leagues, suffering from injury or sent to a remedial school to learn how run defensively. You suffer these absences in the hope that by the end of this 3 year contract that they'd have shown something in the preceding years on your list to suggest that by the end of their next 3 year contract they'd be firmly established in your sides B15. Warranting the investment of both a presumably early draft pick and the 3 years they've spent on your list doing probably not much.
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<p style='color: #424242;][span style='letter-spacing: 0px;]So let's cut to the chase and get out the blowtorch and pliers; I don't think Buntine has shown that he'll be in GWS B22 in 3 years, and thus if he's not playing, he won't be making any ORFFL sides B15.
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<p style='color: #424242;][span style='letter-spacing: 0px;]And similarly thusly, Daniel Menzel. Nup.
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<p style='color: #424242;][span style='letter-spacing: 0px;]PLAYERS IN THE FIRING LINE FOR...

Last week it was Cripps on the bench, this week it's Oxley.

That said, I'm using Heeney to loop Cripps score onto the field this week, so expect a massive one from Vandenberg.

CARLTON v. COLLINGWOOD

Recent game: Round 15 2014 MCG – Collingwood 91 defeated Carlton 76.

Pendlebury v. Carlton

Rd 15 2014: 131 SC points, 24 disposals
Rd 7 2014: 102 SC points, 26 disposals
Rd 15 2013: 154 SC points, 33 disposals
Rd 2 2013: 121 SC points, 23 disposals
Rd 3 2012: 62 SC points, 15 disposals
Rd 17 2011: 145 SC points, 26 disposals
Rd 3 2011: 94 SC points, 21 disposals

Average is 116 SC points with 24 disposals.

Note: Solid record with only two scores below 100 since 2009. Normally tagged by Cachia or Carrazzo. Most recently tagged by Carrazzo. Tagged by Carrazzo in Round 3 2012 when he was limited 62 SC points which was his lowest score for the season (whilst Carrazzo picked up 29 touches).

Swan v. Carlton

Rd 15 2014: 90 SC points, 30 disposals
Rd 7 2014: 93 SC points, 32 disposals
Rd 15 2013: 148 SC points, 41 disposals
Rd 2 2013: 103 SC points, 26 disposals
Rd 15 2012: 112 SC points, 31 disposals
Rd 3 2012: 109 SC points, 31 disposals
Rd 17 2011: 107 SC points, 31 disposals
Rd 3 2011: 108 SC points, 34 disposals

Average is 109 SC points with 32 disposals.

Note: Solid record against the Blues with only two scores below 100 since 2009. Most recently played head to head against Judd. In Round 7 2014 he played a lot of the game marked by Walker. He had played the matchups in 2013 head to head against Judd.

Murphy v. Collingwood

Rd 15 2014: 73 SC points, 15 disposals
Rd 7 2014: 90 SC points, 20 disposals
Rd 15 2013: 54 SC points, 18 disposals
Rd 2 2013: 92 SC points, 26 disposals
Rd 3 2012: 130 SC points, 39 disposals
Rd 17 2011: 113 SC points, 23 disposals
Rd 3 2011: 79 SC points, 18 disposals

Average is 90 SC points with 23 disposals.

Note: Terrible record against Collingwood with no scores over 100 since 2012. He was tagged by Macaffer in both games last year.

RICHMOND v. GEELONG

Recent game: Round 7 2014 MCG – Geelong 81 defeated Richmond 76....