Round 13 (AFL 16) … NAIDOC Round After a one year hiatus in 2015, NAIDOC round is back in the ORFFA, celebrating the ongoing cultures of Indigenous Australian peoples. Check out the NAIDOC website for more info: http://www.naidoc.org.au and to find an event near you (except for probably Snoz, TiB & Chels): http://www.naidoc.org.au/naidoc-events Gundagai Grasshoppers v Darraweit Guim Dirigibles Wineglass Bay Packers v Whitsunday Warriors Charlies Opening Spelunkers v Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles Birdsville Battlers v Nunawading Nuffas Cradle Mountain Devils v Mt Beauty Uglies Iron Knob Codpieces v Foul Bay Chickens Larrikin Lagoon Lefties v Wagga Wagga Wombats Venus Bay Vultures v Gariwerd Cockatoos Marble Bar Misfits v Lovely Banks Lilacs
Misfits have no warm bodies for Thursday. Lefties provisional is; Gibson - - - (Duryea) Mitchell, Lewis - - - - - - - (Shultz) - -
Crap - new players and a Thursday night game - going to play it safe and name a lot of emergencies: DEF: (e - Byrne-Jones) MID: (e - Young) RUCK: (e - Ceglar) FWD: - I/C: (e - Hill) New: Young, Byrne-Jones
Cows' normal Thursday evening is drinks and a meal at the Bulls Hit Tavern, but tomight there will also be some TV watching as one of our favourite sons: D - Dan Howe takes the field.
Sorry Jimbo, just cannot resist looking forward to the next chapter in the continuing saga of "The Strange Case of the Codpieces and the Missing Ruckman."
Cradle Mountain’s Round 13 (ORFFA) team In: T Membrey (Debut for the Devils), Z Jones, J Gresham, J Steele Out: D Zaharakis (suspended), S Grigg (knee) D Petrie (omitted), J Hopper (back) Def: N Vlastuin, L Spurr, J Lever, Z Jones (N Smith) Mid: S Pendlebury, D Zorko, L Shiels, J Gresham Ruc: J Roughead (T Nankervis) Fwd: S Johnson, T Membrey, B Kennedy, J Steele (D McStay) Inter: J Redden, S Gilbert (D Petrie) With two of the four Devils averaging over 90 on the sidelines in S Grigg and D Zaharakis a couple of their team-mates get a reprieve for a difficult match-up against Mt Beauty who have a great combination of proven experienced players and young players on the rise. Zorko has been moved to M2 for a head to head battle with Steele Sidebottom. Forward line coach Stevie J has instructed his team-mates to clear out the forward 50 so he can run amok at F1 against fellow old-timer Matthew Boyd. Tim Membrey makes his debut for the Devils at F2 in his second stint at the club.
Misfitted DEFENDER Rory Laird, Zachary Williams, Daniel Rich, Orazio Fantasia (Michael Hartley) MIDFIELDER Callan Ward, Josh Kelly, Lachie Whitfield, Lachlan Weller RUCK Shaun Hampson (Andrew Phillips) FORWARD Caleb Daniel, Devon Smith, Joe Daniher, Adam Tomlinson (James Rose) INTERCHANGE Luke Dunstan, Josh Bruce
Lefties (One seriously hopes one hasn't cocked this up) DEFENDER Josh Gibson, Taylor DURYEA, Nick Haynes MIDFIELDER Sam Mitchell, Jordan Lewis, Matt Priddis, Brendon Goddard (Nick Suban) RUCK Todd Goldstein FORWARD Jay Schulz, Leigh Montagna, Tom Lynch, Matthew Taberner INTERCHANGE Jake Lloyd, Josh Hill
In unprecedented news, the Hoppers have 19 available played for the first time in about 2 seasons !! IN: Aish, Adams, Sam Collins (debut), Cockatoo OUT: JKolo (rested), Mullett (delisted), Billings (inj), Cox (rested) DEF: HGrundy - Aish - Weitering* - SCollins (JMarsh*) MID: Neale - ECurnow - Rocky - Cripps (Dumont*) FWD: Stringer - JMartin - CCameron - Cocky (ELangdon*) RCK: Grundy (Witts) I/C: Mills* - Adams * RS Eligible
Full Guim team - just as well I organised emergencies last night - ultimately I think there'll be around 6-7 changes at The Paddock compared to just before the bye. DEF: Rance, May, McDonald-Tipungwuti, Adams (e - Byrne-Jones) MID: Newnes, Coniglio, Tyson, Greenwood (e - Young) RUCK: Maric (e - Ceglar) FWD: - Harvey, Lyons, Edwards, Walters I/C: Nicholls, Cooney (e - Hill) Ultimately, Ceglar, Young, Byrne-Jones - the three guys that were going to be named in the team but who played as emergencies last night - are playing anyway now that Adams, Greenwood and Maric are all slightly unexpected outs (well, maybe not Maric, he's struggling a bit). Nicholls, Byrne-Jones, McDonald-Tipungwuti, Young all make their debuts for the Guim. Cooney makes his return to the Guim.
The Cows will line up as follows to try to explore the darkness in the souls of the Spelunkers - D - D Howe*, J McGovern, J McVeigh, H Taylor M - D Hannebery, T Mitchell, B Crouch, M Wood (J Dunkley*) R - S Jacobs F - D Menzel, T Papley*, B Griffiths, A Hall I - M Robinson, N Graham (C Sinclair) On a bright note our third pick in the MSD (Tom Papley) makes his debut. However, we do not have the luxury of a full 19 players with our first pick in the MSD (Ciaran Byrne) incurring an ACL injury which will see him out for the best part of 12 months. Ciaran joins Nat Fyfe, Toby Mclean, Bailey Williams, Ryan Harwood and Ryan Burton in the tender care of our nursing staff. Kade Stewart, Tom Campbell, Nic Newman and Reilly O'Brien are being "rested." Michael Hibberd tells us he is looking forward to 2017 which, coincidentally, is all the Cows have to inspire them for the rest of the 2016 season. * denotes eligible for the RS award.
Gariwerd Round 13, travelling to Venus Bay IN: Allen Christensen, Matt Crouch OUT: Touk Miller, Jared Polec B: Hurn, BSmith, Tuohy, Mackie (CSmith - oop) M: Steven, NJones, Wallis, Guthrie (Polec) R: Hickey F: Walker, Wingard, JCameron, Christensen (TMiller) I: MCrouch, Masten (Jong)
Who needs a ruckman? You have made a massive start. The pre-game chat you had has done wonders. I doubt that a ruckman will be required.
A few teams without functioning ruckmen this week. Think the Lilacs are lacking Mr Stanley as well. Counting my blessings Jono Ceglar went nutso last night.
Jim, Iron Knob aren’t breaking new ground in having three unplaying ruckman on their roster – the Cradle Mountain Devils perfected that in 2015 with Trent West, Toby Nankervis and a back-up Melbourne ruckman, Mark Jamar until the mid-season break and Jake Spencer after the mid-season break. Jamar was also the Devils ruck coach until he was delisted. It is good to see Jamar back on an ORFFA squad. Jim, I hope you can consistently get one of your ruckman out on the park from Round 14 onwards.
Wineglass Bay Team DEFENDER Billy Stretch, Sean Dempster, Eric Hipwood, Paul SEEDSMAN MIDFIELDER Rory Sloane, Tom SCULLY, Anthony Miles, Danyle Pearce - (George Hewett) RUCK Majak DAW - (Jonathon Griffin) FORWARD Tom Lynch, Lachie Henderson, Mark HUTCHINGS, Sam Kerridge - (Alexander FASOLO) INTERCHANGE Brandon MATERA, David Mundy - (Jack Silvagni)