AFL Round 19 – Thursday 17th July ORFFA Round 14 - Late Withdrawal/Unexpected Doughnut Round Four day footballing weekends and a Geelong coach notorious for late withdrawals mean that there's always a bit of suspense added to pre-game lead-ups ... a vibe that may only become more common as the season enters its latter stages. However, on a positive note, such late withdrawals and the doughnuts they leave squads to deal with are a reminder of real life doughnuts, and the tastiness that accompanies them. Cradle Mountain Devils v Nareewillock Nuffers Wagga Wagga Wombats v Venus Bay Vultures Iron Knob Codpieces v Gundagai Grasshoppers Junee Jaguars v Birdsville Battlers Dunsborough Dung Beetles v Larrikin Lagoon Lefties Gariwerd Cockatoos v Wineglass Bay Packers Mount Beauty Uglies v Lovely Banks Lilacs Waikickamoocow Incorrigibles v Charlies Opening Spelunkers
Hmmm donuts Provisional team to face the Cows @graeme ANB determined to show Waikick what they gave up
Mmmm doughnuts. Not doughnuts but missing a few dudes this week ... D: Himmelberg, Idun, Dale, Clark M: Serong, Rowell, Richards, Gulden R: Visentini F: Warner, Ross, West, Voss I think IC: Redman, Brown Holding a raffle for F4, really not sure who to put in. Voss today perhaps but not sure who to put there permanently. Poor Vigo getting a bit of a whacking in the ruck as we speak.
A huge game for both teams in the race to the finals! @Tracey Gariwerd Cockatoos In: Isaac Quaynor, George Stevens Out: Changkuoth Jiath, Touk Miller DEF: Max Holmes, Jake Bowey, Kane Farrell, Isaac Quaynor (Ryan Byrnes) MID: Sam Durham, Willem Drew, Harvey Langford, Sam Clohesy (Caleb Poulter) RUCK: Jordon Sweet FWD: Justin McInerney, Kade Chandler, Ben King, Sam Wicks (Ethan Read) INT: Sean Darcy, George Stevens (Koltyn Tholstrup)
@Bandit , will be interesting to see how ANB goes. I'll be comparing his performance to that of Logan Morris; 9 years younger and 158 less games. Averaging 65 v. ANB's 72 from one less game this season. The kind of decisions one has to make in a rebuild. The future versus the past.
Jaguars looking forward to any and all late withdrawals, our mission to rise to the bottom of the ladder is so far not preceding to plan. Below is the squad nominated for a beating from the Battlers @JC
Have updated the team. Ryan Byrnes comes in instead of George Stevens, on the interchange… and Stevens takes the defender emergency spot.
Cradle Mountain Devils Round 14 team No change Def: D Zorko, N Vlastuin, S Banks, J Battle (R Ginbey) Mid: R Laird, J Steele, S Pendlebury, J Hopper (E Langdon) Ruc: T English Fwd: J Elliot, R Maric, S Mannagh, T Greene (A Naughton) Int: T Nankervis, R Marshall (T McDonald) The Cradle Mountain Devils have won both their games after the mid-season bye to consolidate their place in the ORFFA top four and have made no changes to the team that had a Round 13 victory against the Cows. The Devils are in third place and finish their home and away season against two fellow top four teams, a home game against the fourth placed Nuffers followed by the short road trip to play the ladder leading Charlies Opening in an all Apple Isle battle. With some talk this week regarding experience vs youth in the ORFFA the Devils are well and truly on the experience side of the ledger. CMD only have two players born after 1998 in their Round 14 team, Tasmanian defender/midfielder, Sam Banks (born in 2003) and forward/midfielder Ryan Maric (2004) who has the license to push back into defense. The third youngest player in the Devils team is defender Josh Battle who has his 27th birthday just over a week after the 2025 ORFFA Grand Final, highlighting how experienced CMD are at present. Seven of the 28 players on Cradle Mountain’s list were born this century, equating to 25% of the list. Good luck for this weekend’s game @chris88 and with your search for a permanent F4. In the early years of the ORFFA forward lines and defensive lines scored at a similar level to each other but as the years have progressed this balance has changed, the scoring of forwards has dropped away and defense definitely as the upper hand in the fwd vs def contest. In Round 14 three games are match-ups between teams that are in the ORFFA top 10 and are one position apart on the ladder. The third placed Devils hosting the fourth placed Nuffers, the seventh placed Cockatoos hosting the eighth placed Packers and the 10th placed Jaguars hosting the ninth placed Battlers. The Cockatoos and Packers still have destiny in their own hands and the winner of their head to head game will be at worst seventh on the ladder at the end of the round, at best the winner will lock in a finals berth if the Jaguars defeat the Battlers. One household in Junee will be very happy if there is a Packers / Jaguars double in Round 14 to secure a Packers return to the finals.
Yes I couldn’t believe it! I was actually coming here to say the same thing. Makes up for some of my other players scoring quite low!