Here we gooooooo folks! The big dance, the granny, the decider, the don’t come Monday knockout… call it what you want. There can only be one winner and no doubt some tears will be shed over the course of the weekend. Call him greedy, call him skilled, call him a content legend, this weekend all those monikers will be cast aside as @Peter W takes on the title of… arch enemy! The ORFFW final game of 2026 sees the Timboon Trailblazers face off against the Vivonne Bay Valkeries. Let’s hope for a clean, fair fight and no injury impacts. Let’s do this!
Valkeries Grand Final squad Def- Elliot, Webster, Barr (Bennetts) Mid - Hanks, Purcell, Kennedy, Newton (McEvoy) Ruck - Scholz (Hickie) Fwd - Harris, McLaughlin, Banfield (Woodley) IC - Cann, Prespakis (Skepper)
We’ve also got several ORFFW teams playing this weekend in the Intercomp qualifiers! See this post from TTH for more info:
Pomona D: Tilly Lucas-Rodd, Jade Ellenger, Serene Watson (Darcy Moloney -oop) M: Ebony Marinoff, Grace Egan, Bec Beeson, Ash Woodland (Abby Favell) R: Poppy Kelly (Lauren Pearce) F: Ryleigh Wotherspoon, Alicia Eva, Jenna Bruton (Lexi Hamilton) I: Tamara Smith, Brit Gutknecht (Daria Bannister)
Timboon Trailblazers: DEF: Maddi Gay, Tarni White, Charlotte Thomas (Breanna Koenen) MID: Kiara Bowers, Abbie McKay, Sarah Goodwin, Shineah Goody (Lauren Young OOP) RUC: Alice Edmonds (Josie Bamford) FWD: Chloe Molloy, Ash Centra, Vicki Wall (Gemma Houghton) INT: Lucy Single, Jasmine Fleming (Sabrina Frederick) Rolling the dice with Single into the starting side and Lauren Young OOP instead of Single backing up mids and Young on the bench. Single has averaged 91.5 against the Giants in the past two outings, while Young has been a little out of form last few weeks. She plays the Saints which makes me very nervous of a high score. Didn't go haywire vs Pies though and mids usually score more so fingers crossed. Losing Usher (suspension) hurts given it meant it has to be one of the other with Schleicher, McLay and of course Srhoj all injured. Still, a good enough side and coming off a big performance. Will need a massive one again to be a shot in this one.
Single 101, Centra 104, White 93, Gay 84 = 382 so 10/790 But now Valks have Harris, Hanks, Purcell coming up in the Dees/Crows game to make it 10 players against Goodwin (Blazers go to 11) Then it's Newton, Kennedy & Banfield vs Bowers & Molloy.
I did the numbers based on ytd averages of the remaining players last night, I looked like being a very close GF
Melbourne has managed Purcell too which is stiff for the Valks (had that last year in the other league for me with a player). So McEvoy's score now becomes relevant. Definitely looking like a nail-biter regardless though which is great!