Thread is here. First round of finals... I am waiting on @snoz and @dmandrews to give me their picks, but before you throw rocks at them, I only messaged them 5 minutes ago! First round of Finals (this will be updated) The Big Show: Gundagai vs Lovely Banks Charlies Opening vs Larrikin Lagoon Cradle Mountain vs Wineglass Bay Gariwerd vs Narrewillock The Zac: Venus Bay vs Iron Knob Junee vs Mount Beauty Shark Bay vs Wagga Wagga Birdsville vs Waikickamoocow
The Hoppers select the Lilacs The second match for the Zac should be an interesting watch, for the odd folk, I am playing my own old self?
OK fourth time lucky! Fixture locked and loaded Junee now not playing with themsleves... although rumour has it they do that anyway Spelunkers team to take on the molly dookers
Oh ffs, I’m playing the Troggs! 300 point pounding coming up. That’ll teach me to wet sail into finals. Worst of luck @Bandit
Lefties shot in the dark Def - Burgoyne, Wilmot, Worner, Blamires Mid - Thomas, WDuursma, Langford, Stephens Ruck - Xerri Fwd - Hall, Georgiades, Lalor, Berry (Cook) IC - Sweet, Rowston (Sharman)
We've decided to load manage our 1st ruck this week. We think it's the right time for him to have a rest.
Ok im in the lead, blow the siren! Lefties 272/3 Vs Spudlunkers 99/1 Unfortunately I probably needed Xerri to have a blinder and crack 250. Alas no. Now relying on 12 blue moons and a my voodoo troll doll.
Nuffers team to play Ant's Cockatoos D: Himmelberg, Clark, Redman, Idun (Brown) M: Gulden, Richards (already played), Serong, Rowell R: Visentini (Riccardi) F: Warner, Ross, Horne-Francis, West (already played) (Langford) I/C: Fitzgerald, Voss (Annand) Good luck Ant!
Good luck to you too mate Gariwerd Cockatoos In: Kade Chandler Out: Lachlan McAndrew DEF: Jake Bowey, Riley Bice, Isaac Quaynor, Changkuoth Jiath (Tobie Travaglia) MID: Noah Anderson, Sam Durham, Willem Drew, Nathan O'Driscoll (Sam Clohesy) RUCK: Sam Draper FWD: Touk Miller, Toby Bedford, Koltyn Tholstrup, Francis Evans (Ethan Read) INT: Blake Hardwick, Kade Chandler (Sean Darcy)
Cradle Mountain Devils team for home quarter final against the Wineglass Bay Packers Out: S Pendlebury (calf), J De Goey (glute), L Schultz (omitted) In: D Zorko, R Laird, T Greene Def: D Zorko, R Laird,J Battle,J Lever (S Banks) Mid: J Steele, D Wilson, T Greene,E Langdon (T Sonsie) Ruc: T English T Nankervis Fwd: R Marshall, P Wright, D Byrne-Jones, S Mannagh (L Schultz) Inter: T Nankervis, N Vlastuin (A Naughton) In their 20th ORFFA final of all-time the Cradle Mountain Devils host fellow Tasmanian team, the Wineglass Bay Packers in week 1 of the 2026 finals. The Devils have made three changes including two forced due to injury, midfielder Scott Pendlebury (calf) and midfielder/forward Jordan De Goey (glute). A trio of experienced players return from injury, defender duo Dayne Zorko and Rory Laird along with forward/midfielder Toby Greene. With the Devils being closer to full strength forward Lachie Schultz has been omitted. The Devils only have four midfield eligible players in their 15 player team - Jack Steele, Darcy Wilson, Toby Greene and Ed Langdon. Wilson and Langdon will increased midfield minutes this weekend and will be able to utilise their running endurance. CMD are going with a different structure for week 1 of the finals. This is partly due to Pendles and De Goey out injured and partly to try and nullify the Packers greatest strength, their defense. For the first time mid-season recruit, defender/forward Darcy Byrne-Jones will start the game in the Devils forward 50 rather than the defensive 50. Byrne-Jones will play a defensive forward role on one of the four Wineglass Bay defender that average 90+ points per game. The Packers are one of only two teams along with @Jen’s Lilacs that have named an entire starting defensive quartet for week one of the finals that averages 90+ points each per game. 12 of the 14 Cradle Mountain players that average 80+ points per game in 2026 are playing against the Packers, the exceptions are Pendles and De Goey due to injury. The Packers scored an ORFFA round-high 1,378 points Iin a home victory against top four team the Gariwerd Cockatoos in Round 15. Whilst it took Wineglass Bay until the final round to book their finals ticket and they finished in seventh place with seven wins, four wins behind the third placed Devils the clubs are more evenly matched than that. Over the 15 round home and away season Cradle Mountain averaged 1,248 points per game, 28 points more than the Packers 1,220, equating to an advantage of under 2.5%. Congratulations @Tracey on the Packers earning a much-deserved finals berth, good luck for the game.
Packers Team DEFENDERS Lachie Ash, John Noble, Bodhi Uwland ,Josh Daicos - Liam Baker MIDFIELDERS George Hewett, Ryley Sanders , James Worpel , Xavier O'Halloran - Samuel Cumming RUCKS Darcy Cameron FORWARDS Tom Sparrow, Jacob van Rooyen, Seth Campbell, Cooper Trembath - Leonardo Lombard INTERCHANGE Andrew McGrath, Sam Taylor - Ben Keays*