Round 9 (AFL 9) 19/5 - 21/5 Shanghai Surprise Gold Coast and Port Adelaide travel abroad for some well-earned roophied Gatorade and regrettable tattoos. The fixture committee has worked tirelessly on match ups to mitigate the fall out. Don't be surprised if your Suns and Power players have poor showings this round. (Except maybe Gaz, cos he has cobalt in his veins). Charlies Opening Spelunkers v Foul Bay Chickens Iron Knob Codpieces v Whitsunday Warriors Darraweit Guim Dirrigibles v Lovely Banks Lilacs Marble Bar Misfits v Wineglass Bay Packers Gariwerd Cockatoos v Gundagai Grasshoppers Wagga Wagga Wombats v Nunawading Nuffers Cradle Mountain Devils v Venus Bay Vultures Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles v Larrikin Lagoon Lefties Mount Beauty Uglies v Birdsville Battlers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One for the ages. My entire midfield decided to have a bye. Hopefully this hump in the road will put us in a stronger position for the real byes (are we playing through the byes?) Warriors squad to keep the Knob a bit honest: DEF: Johannisen, Suckling, Tarrant, Marchbank MID: Smith, Douglas, Gibson, Ainsworth (Andrews OPP) RUC: Cameron (Lobb OPP) FWD: JJK, Cameron, Motlop, Patton (Lambert) I/C: McCartin, Harmes (Mcintosh)
Cradle Mountain Devils Round 9 team In: S Johnson, L Shiels Out: J Gresham (omitted), T Boyd (omitted) Def: M Hurley, Z Jones, L Spurr, S Gilbert (J Lever) Mid: S Pendlebury, D Zorko, D Heppell, S Grigg (J Redden) Ruc: T Nankervis Fwd: T Lynch, J Steele, T Membrey, S Johnson (T Boyd) Inter: L Shiels, D Zaharakis (J Gresham) After losing a thriller to the Hoppers by 25 points last Round the Devils have fallen down the ladder from second to fifth and host the ladder leading Venus Bay Vultures in Round 9. Tons in the seconds last weekend by experienced duo Steve Johnson and Liam Shiels have led to recalls at the expense of Jade Gresham and Tom Boyd who have both been omitted.
Well aaaaaalrighy then! Look out gumboot Annie, here comes an almost complete Lefties cohort. Def - Bags, Wags, Berry, McKenzie (Duryea) Mid - Langford, Ross, Scheer, Phillips Ruck - Smith (Perryman oop) Fwd - Tabs, Clarke, Jedi, Weller (Knight) I/C - Scooter, Bugg Smith is a Hail Mary for call up as Lions emerg but hey it looks good to legitimately fill 15 spots.
Hoppers.......Rd 9 - Injuries starting to pile up dammit over the last few weeks: OUT: Rocky (Shoulder), Dumont (Concussion), Stringer (Knee), Brayshaw (Concussion) DEF: Adams / Mills / Martin / Hunt (JKolo) MID: Curnow / Cripps / Neale / E Langdon (Aish) FWD: Billings / Cockatoo / Cameron / Jong (Cox) RCK: B Grundy I/C: H Grundy, McCluggage (Weitering)
Welcome to Gariwerd. Prepare to get smashed! Gariwerd team OUT: Chad Wingard, Jared Polec IN: Tom Bellchambers, Mitch Wallis D - SHurn, ZTuohy, BSmith, HTaylor (LDunn) M - NJones, BGoddard, MCrouch, JSteven (RMatheison) R - TBellchambers (CGuthrie) F - TMiller, TWalker, MWallis, CCurnow I - JLewis, CMasten (RHarwood)
Trembling in our (gum) boots Jelly Guy, trembling. A few changes this week as general winter starts to set in. Tentative team: Ins - N Newman (to our shame he was not even on the bench last week), T Papley, A Swallow, D Howe Outs - J McVeigh (injured), T McLean (dropped), A Hall (bye), B Williams (perhaps) D - M Hibberd, N Newman, J McGovern, D Howe (T Barrass) M - T Mitchell, N Fyfe, D Hannebery, S Menegola R - S Jacobs (R O'Brien) F - R Burton, D Menzel, M Wood, T Papley I/C - B Crouch, A Swallow (B Williams)
I'm going to come out bluer than a smurf after the cobalt touch up I'm going to get this week DEF: Cale Hooker, Oscar McDonald, Luke Brown, Jake CARLISLE MID: Marcus Bontempelli, Zac Merrett, Stephen Hill, Sam Petrevski-Seton RUCK: Ben McEvoy FWD: Jack GUNSTON, Mark LeCras, Darcy Tucker (OOP), Oliver Florent BENCH: Mark Blicavs, Liam Duggan
It's not a pretty week for Lilacs. I have lost 4 players from the Power/Suns games and to top it off Stanley is out. I have no ruck and only 3 in my forward line, Chris should have a pretty good win this week. He is going to need to buy me wine and lots of it.
The Blimps are about a half-step better than the Lilacs this week, with three missing Suns/Port players and Coniglio writing off his 2017 season nice and early. Half my mids are forwards, half my forwards are barely playing. Got lots of defenders though. DEF: Rance, AMT, Mackie, Adams MID: Hill, Edwards, Newnes, Tyson R: Smith FWD: Greenwood, Walters, Hrovat, Brown I/C EVW, Astbury Congrats to Shai Bolton who''ll make his debut for the Lilacs this week. More wine.
Have made a few little tweaks which jelly guy might be interested in on Sunday if the fixture were close.
Well, here be Misfits, lots of band aids, Dunstan will be playing on stilts, Household Cup up for grabs! DEFENDERS Rory Laird, Jake Lloyd, Zachary Williams, Marco Paparone - Adam Tomlinson MIDFIELDERS Marc Murphy (Token minority), Josh Kelly, Lachie Whitfield, Callan Ward - Tim Taranto RUCKS Luke Dunstan* FORWARDS Joe Daniher, Will Hoskin-Elliott, Caleb Daniel, Jamie Elliott - Ben Keays INTERCHANGE Daniel Rich, Orazio Fantasia - Will Hayward
Packers very injury & bye hit team to take on ""the other half"" DEFENDER Andrew McGrath, Marley Williams, Lachie Henderson, Nathan Wilson MIDFIELDER Rory Sloane, David Mundy, Tom SCULLY, Alex Neal-Bullen - (Danyle Pearce) RUCK Aaron Sandilands FORWARD Sam Reid, Cameron McCarthy, Alexander FASOLO, George Hewett INTERCHANGE Jack Silvagni, Eric Hipwood
I made a couple of changes to the emergencies. Emergencies are now D- Harwood M- Matheison R- Dunn F- Smedts And hopefully none are required!
And the mid-season trade period. The Devils will finally be entering the ORFFA Auction waters, selling that is as we have been the successful bidder previously.