TooSerious

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.

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<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
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<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;]Matthew Buntine TLP (21yo, ORFFL Career avg. 62.44, 16 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....

Welcome once again to the Best Buys, after a horror week where our Best Buy had his worst score since 2011. Fingers crossed our man this week can do a little better.
And that man, is Todd Goldstein. The Big ruckman has dominated early on this season, scoring over 150 in half of his game to date. Obviously it's still pretty early on in the year, but that's still pretty impressive nonetheless. Averaging a massive 29 points-per-game more than his closest ruck rival Goldy looks set for a huge year, but is still only in around 30% of the teams in the competition. As reliable as a ruckman can be, I'm just hoping the Best Buy isn't turning into a curse.


DEFENSE
ROOKIES

Jake Kelly (ADE) DEF 123.9k 56 +41k

Kelly has started his AFL career in decent form, going onto the bubble this week with an average of 56. With a price rise of around 40 grand on the cards after his next game he looks a decent pick down back, and may well get a call-up for a few of the teams still holding Goodes this week.



Harris Andrews (BRI) DEF 117.3k 47 +31k

Andrews is not far behind Kelly, averaging 47 and looking at a price rise of around 30 grand when he breaks his bubble. With the Lions yet to win a game in 2015 their best 22 will likely still be unsettled, but Andrews looks well placed to keep getting game time.



Brendon Whitecross (HAW) DEF 198.7k 51 +15k
Whitecrossisn'ta rookie, as most reading this will be well aware, but he is currently under 200 grand and should be a strong chance to keep getting games. As long as he stays uninjured anyway. Averaging 51 and looking at a small price rise of around 15 grand this week he'll probably only be considered by those looking for bench cover without worrying too much about cash generation.
MID-PRICERS

Tom McDonald (MEL) DEF 457.3k 109 6.8%

McDonald is still in great form, and while he scored under his average in the last game it was in a win so the ball probably wasn't near him as much as it...

[span style='text-decoration: underline; background-color: #fcfcfc; color: black;]Birdsville Battlers 1184 def Marble Bar Misfits 1009

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[span style='background-color: #fcfcfc; color: black;]Birdsville make it three on the trot thanks to depleted Marble Bar outfit. JC's mob continue to defy expectations with a solid commitment from their midfield and defence despite their depth being tested through injury and form. Tom McDonald (97) continues on his merry way in what is definitely shaping as a breakout year, whilst RiskyTelly (104) winds back the clock to prop up the guts. The Battlers didn't have it all their own way with the Misfits churning out some cameos in a valiant effort to offset three donuts. Ward (140) and Smith (128) grabbed their share of the votes, while Ryder (107) took Big Boy to the cleaners.

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[span style='background-color: #fcfcfc; color: black;]Birdsville - Murphy 123, Enright 109, Treloar 105

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[span style='background-color: #fcfcfc; color: black;]Marble Bar - Ward 140, Smith 128, Ryder 107, H Simpson 3 (double-glazed)

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[span style='text-decoration: underline; background-color: #fcfcfc; color: black;]Cradle Mountain Devils 1347 def Foul Bay Chickens 1241

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[span style='background-color: #fcfcfc; color: black;]Despite their depth, the injury toll is finally catching up with the ever-green Chooks. The loss of Bartel, Yarran and Judd was an un-godly amount of salt to rub into what was already a gaping wound at Foul Bay. Take nothing away from the Devils, who...

Well, we got ourselves back above the 2000 point mark in round 4, with a total of 2,047 points, thanks to Cripps and no thanks to Heeney. This had us ranked at 25,309 for the week.
Looking at the season stats, and we have 8,106 points in 2015, and a total rank of 38,104 after 4 rounds.
We're clearly not back in business yet, as the clich&amp;eacute; goes, but atleast we're headed in the right direction. I'd like to say we're taking it one week at a time, but that would be BS, as we're trying to plan ahead with trades for the current week, and trades for the future, as should be all SuperCoaches. Maybe we're so good that we're out-smarting ourselves???
There'll be no sound effects this week, just words on a screen and some silly comments from JPK.

Defence:
J Gibson 133
H Shaw 69
B Smith 60
J Newnes 60
A Oxley 47
K McIntosh 42
Bench of K Kolodjashnij 83 (E) and N Brown 52.
Obviously Gibson was back with a bang, nearly doubling his score from last week. To counter that, Cheater did his best to halve his score from last week. Meanwhile we gave Oxley a chance on the field this week, and he did manage to better than halve his score from last week! Everyone knows that defenders are a rollercoaster ride of highs and lows, but this is just crazy! We also traded in Smith, to have him (and the rest of his team really) decide not to turn up for round 4. So, with our second-highest scoring defender sitting on the bench, and Brown also pulling half a finger out this week, we missed 46 points down back for round 4.
Midfield:
P Cripps 172 - yay, we had him on field!
S Pendlebury 119 (V)
JP Kennedy 118
A Vandenberg 109
P Dangerfield 101
D Beams 82 (C, 164) - atleast he wasn't R Sloane!
C Ellis-Yolmen 79
I Heeney 7 - yay, we had him onfield too...
Bench of T Miller 83 (E), A Saad 61 (E), and J Nelson 48
Its that tale of two halves thing again. We were one of the fortunate ones who had Cripps onfield, and were able to take his 172. Then we...

Wowzers, how held the faith with Cripps?!? Gunna see some amazing salary growth over the next few weeks with that 172 in his rolling average!
That said, Cripps, Vanderburg and Miller all sitting on my bench this week stings a bit. Specially with Heeney's 7 on the field!!
Reckon364 from the midfield bench has got to be a record of some kind, doesn't it?
How have you gone?

<p style='color: #424242; margin-bottom: 0px;][span style='letter-spacing: 0px;]Ok, well I'd bookmarked this round from the outset as containing one of the most pivotal clashes of the season; the Grand Final of 2014 rematch. On the face of it though, it's looking a sight underwhelming. Which was kind of the popular opinion going into last year's GF, and for the same reasons. Injuries and general absenteeism have thoroughly diminished one side's chances of victory.

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<p style='color: #424242; margin-bottom: 0px;][span style='letter-spacing: 0px;]By my count Poowong have between 17-19 players lining up in their AFL this week; certainly enough to field an full ORFFL XV. Yet it's the calibre of players missing from their line-up that tells the desolate truth; Ablett, arguably still the best player in the game, Brad Crouch, one of the most impressive young talents going around, and in Darling and Cooney two of Poowong's more productive and reliable FWDs. You see a Joel Patful you can replace in a side (ignoring the fact that you may never need to given his elite durability). A Gary Ablett on the other hand, well there's only one.
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