Round 7 (AFL 7) … Snoz Wooden Spoon Round As a real life hero and a three year running wooden spooner, if any coach deserves a round dedicated to him, it is our erstwhile US friend Snoz. Seriously, has to be over-appreciated as it is, it's the man with the button Good set of matchups this week, and here be the spot to moan or brag
Wagga Wagga IN: Oliver, Everitt OUT: R.Davis (omitted), L.Thomas (suspension) D: Dempsey, S.D.Thompson, Macmillan, Sheppard (Impey) M: Shiel, Gibbs, Prestia, Picken (Van Berlo) R: K.Tippett F: Franklin, Lycett, Jenkins, Sicily (J.Cripps) Int: Oliver, Everitt (O'Shea)
Cradle Mountain’s Round 7 team In: N Vlastuin Out: D McStay (omitted) Def: L Spurr, S Gilbert, N Vlastuin J Lever (N Smith) Mid: S Pendlebury, D Zaharakis, S Grigg, J Redden, (J Gresham) Ruc: J Roughead Fwd: D Zorko, S Johnson, B Kennedy, D Petrie (J Walker) Inter: J Steele, L Shiels (Z Jones)
As suggested by @chris88 in the blog thread, should we schedule in a time for a belated fellowship round? Shame we missed it in round 6. Is everyone up for it this weekend sometime? I might start a convo...
Provisional Hops - living up to the standard of mediocrity..... IN: Cripps, Mullett, Aish OUT: Weitering DEF: HGrundy / Aish / Mullett ext / JKolo em (Mason Cox) MID: Rocky / Neale / Cripps / ECurnow FWD: Stringer / Billings / JMartin / Cameron RCK: Grundy I/C: Mills / Cockatoo
Spelunkers depleted lineup... DEFENDER: Shane Savage, Phil Davis, Shaun ATLEY, Blake Acres (OOP) MIDFIELDER: Stephen Hill, Kieren Jack, Ryan BASTINAC, Andrew Swallow (Ben Keays) RUCK: Mark Blicavs FORWARD: Zac Merrett, Jack GUNSTON, Mark LeCras, Liam Duggan (Jack Lonie) INTERCHANGE: Adam Oxley, Marcus Bontempelli The Bont keeps his place only due to injuries... you need to lift son Oh and wouldn't mind Hinkley, Lyon, Cameron and Beveridge giving their first round draft picks a run... sheesh
IN: Saad, Ibbo, Ceglar, Greenwood (I think) OUT: Jonas, Gleeson, Maric, Lyons (dropped, god knows why) DEF: Adams, Saad, Ibbo, Stratton (Jonas) MID: Coniglio, Armitage, Newnes, Tyson (HIll) RUCK: Ceglar FWD: Westhoff, Harvey, Walters, Shane Edwards (McGovern) I/C: Brown, Greenwood (Vickery) Crows dropping Lyons is a farce. We're on the phone to them to express our displeasure. Defensive ins are handy, and Trengove getting closer to a senior return is even better. But given who we are playing this week, probably ain't going to make a lot of difference!!
Larrikin Lagoon Underachievers vs Gundagai Mediocres sNoZ in with a shot this week as we may battle to crack 4 digits and Goldy under a cloud. Def - Baguley, Duryea, Gibson, Fisher (Bugg) Mid - Priddis, Mitchell, Lewis, BJ (Toumpas) Ruck - Goldy (Taberner oop) Fwd - Joey, Lynch, McCarthy, Hill (Howard) I/C - Langford, Lloyd
*SIGH* More and more outs to join Gray, Swan and Roberton Nice to get Hendo back! OUT - Hodge, K.Stevens, IN - Henderson, DONUT D - Harbrow, Sutcliffe, Burgoyne, Garland (Henderson) M - Ablett, Macrae, Hanley, Shuey (B.Dale) R - Darling (OOP) F - Waite, J.Riewoldt, Breust, deGoey (DONUT) I - Sinclair, Puopolo (Mackay)
Reshuffle with Mitchell and Howard out. v2.0 Def - Baguley, Duryea, Gibson, Fisher (Bugg) Mid - Priddis, Toumpas, Lewis, BJ (Suban) Ruck - Goldy (Haynes oop) Fwd - Joey, Lynch, McCarthy, Hill (Taberner) I/C - Langford, Lloyd
WineGlass Bay DEFENDER Nathan Wilson, Paul SEEDSMAN, Jimmy Webster, Sean Dempster MIDFIELDER Tom SCULLY, Rory Sloane, David Mundy, Danyle Pearce RUCK Jonathon Griffin (Majak DAW) FORWARD Alexander FASOLO, Lachie Henderson, Tom Lynch, Sam Kerridge (Jefferey Garlett) INTERCHANGE George Hewett, Anthony Miles (Brandon MATERA) The boys wineglasses have been empty all this week at training lets see if it makes a difference to their game play this week..
Misfits feeling very aspirational after winning 1 in a row for the 2nd time this year; Out Laird (inj) , Tomlinson In Daniel Williams moves to the back Weller to interchange Blakely still doing oop DEFENDER Daniel Rich, Zac Williams, Orazio Fantasia, Michael Hartley MIDFIELDER Callan Ward, Lachie Whitfield, Josh Kelly, Luke Dunstan RUCK Andrew Phillips FORWARD Josh Bruce, Joe Daniher, Caleb Daniel, Connor Blakely (OOP) INTERCHANGE Jack Hombsch, Lachie Weller
A mid-table battle between the Cows and my mate, the artist formerly known as Andy. The Cows left standing as a result of an arduous session in the Tiki Bar after the Pinot Cup game - aka having a quiet drink with TiBby: D - J McVeigh, J McGovern, D Howe*, H Taylor (E: R Harwood) M - D Hannebery, T Mitchell, B Crouch, M Robinson (E: A Neal-Bullen*) R - S Jacobs^ F - D Menzel, T Campbell^, T McLean*, M Wood (E: C Sinclair^) E - A Hall, N Graham (E: B Griffiths) * - RS eligible ^ - listed by SC as a ruck - a new service specifically designed to help Jimbo in the MSD
In an old style union protest the Cow's have dried off early in sympathy with SnOz's long term mediocrity. Sadly, Andy's mob have not understood the underlying meaning of this round. Very unreliable guide after Saturday evening drinks in the maimai* - Nuffers 758/9, Dry Stock 1002/13 * for the uninitiated, or those wondering how badly has chels lost it - http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17123/scrub-maimai
No need to apologise, Jen. We are here to win games after all, so congrats on a well deserved win. Most of your better performers came from the younger brigade as well, which would be even more pleasing I imagine. The only thing I'm offended by is the performance of my team, lol. They were woeful. Sub-1100 fielding 15 starters, no OOP and no injuries that I'm aware of - you can't expect that to win you a game. And with four straight losses now, if we actually had some playing depth I'd be swinging the selection axe with enthusiasm!