Round 4 is here, and unless I'm mistaken - this is our 1st full round without teams on a bye ?? The AFL really know how to organize a dog$hit fixture.......... Get ya GWS/GCS players in (bye last week) and again, if you have any problems post your team. Goodluck all !! Jan Juc Ducks vs Heard Island Shags Walpole Woylies vs Wedge Island White Pointers Rutherglen Fugitives vs Neptune Island Noahs Useless Loop Virgins vs Nangkita Bucks Macquarie Island Whales vs Mt Thirsty Boozers Sherwood Magpies vs Port Lincoln Power Black Swamp 29ers vs Drouin Dropbears Maralinga Atoms vs The Stony Ponys
Dropbears NWM, Sheezel, Darcy Moore, Florent (Stocker) Andrew Brayshaw, Naicos, Rozee, Bruhn (Darcy Wilson) Luke Jackson Zac Bailey, Jack Higgins, Mabior Chol, Shai Bolton (Jack Graham) Ginnivan, Wehr (Harry Cunningham) Edit: Popping Harry C in and Mitch Lewis out
Macquarie Island (subject to change) Def: Zac Williams, Harry Himmelberg, Jarman Impey, Jack Scrimshaw (Trent Rivers) Mid: Conor Nash, George Hewett, Josh Ward, Justin McInerney (George Wardlaw) Ruc: Bailey Williams Fwd: Harvey Gallagher, Jamie Elliott, Harley Reid, Connor MacDonald (Ben Keays) Int: Matt Roberts, Bailey Williams (Patrick Parnell)
Noahs Def - Clark, Duncan, Newman, Lloyd (McDonald) Mid - Dawson, Viney, Libba, Warner (Sharp) Ruck - Gawn Fwd - Powell, Flanders, Dempsey, Fisher (Daniher) IC - Amon, Knevitt* (McVee) *looping to take emergency score
Round 4 - Useless Loop Virgins Def: Steven May, Josh Battle, Isaac Quaynor, James Sicily (Will Graham) Mid: Lachie Neale, Zak Butters, James Worpel, Errol Gulden Ruck: Rhys Stanley (Dylan Stephens#) Fwd: James Jordon, Aaron Naughton, Tom Hawkins, Cameron Zurhaar (Anthony Caminiti) Int: Ben Hobbs, Brennan Cox* (Jacob van Rooyen) Out: Liam Baker (suspended) In: Isaac Quaynor *looping to take emergency score
In a high scoring match so far the hometown 29ers are holding onto a narrow lead 8/744 to the Dropbears @stowie 7/737
The Fixture Sherwood Magpies vs Port Lincon Power Un-official Results Sherwood Magpies 1114 def Port Lincon Power 1027 Hoping the first victory for the year is made official. Dow injury a concern.
2024 ORFFF Round 4 winners Heard Island by 51pts Useless Loop by 65 Sherwood by 82 Walpole by 119 Drouin by 124 The Ponies by 237 Mt Thirsty by 250, and, Neptune Island by 537 Vicwood's Sherwood side notched their first W of the campaign, leaving Drouin, Walpole and Drouin undefeated and the Fugs and Power as the sides yet to open their 2024 account. Despite their off-season firesale the Shags @anthak have won 3 in a row and sit 6th, while the Fugs @tyze1 8th consecutive loss has them sitting rock bottom after the opening month. We now have another 2 bye rounds to play with the Swans and Pies players taking the week off in Round 5.
These 2 team bye rounds are killing me. Really makes this format hard. Only loss was when I had 4 starting players out for bris v Carl. And now have another 4 starting players out this week. hope this round 0 shit is gone next season as it makes some of these early games very lopsided when playing 4 starters less and down to luck of fixture.
While I understand the reasons behind this sentiment I can see the AFL wanting to persevere with Opening Round even if the current format changes over the initial 2 or 3 years.