[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Venus Bay Vultures 1161 def by Birdsville Battlers 1234

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]With a top two finish up for grabs, this top rung tussle didn't disappoint. Big Boy (124) dominated the tag team Martin/Kreuzer duo and readily fed candy into the Battlers guts of Smurph (114), Treloar (132) and Risky (99). The late withdrawal of Beams was telling but sub-par performances across all lines was the rub for the home side. Jetta (106) reminded us all that imaginary spear-throwing ultimately leads to war-dancing which leads to booing which in turn leads to more war-dancing and then even more booing. There is no place in the AFL for any of this shit and the sooner the AFL bans all imaginary spears, the better off this game will be.

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Best

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Vultures - Howe 108, Parker 105

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Battlers - Treloar 132, McEvoy 124, Murphy 114, Jetta 106

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Vultures last 3 - Nuffers, Warriors, Cows

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Battlers last 3 - Cows, Chooks, Guim

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles 1116 def Gundagai Grasshoppers 830

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Unfortunately this was always gonna be a one-sided affair. The Hoppers were left stranded following the eruption of the long-dormant Wee Jasper volcano. A fleet of Wicked vans was mustered to get the team as close to the east coast as possible but with most international flights cancelled, the visitors were forced to swim the cruel seas to Mordor. Inevitably, a few souls were lost and the remainder moderately short of breath by the time the opening siren sounded. This was far from a stellar outing for the Cows, with a couple of donuts and some insipid midfield displays. Teen Wolf (134) and Sauce (132) kept the home side afloat while Sinclair (134) chimed in to give the Ranga some respite. Grundy (108) shouldered most of the ruck duties but the Hoppers engine-room looked more winded than a shark in a Mick Fanning title fight. A hollow victory for the Cows with Griffiths suffering a finger injury and Fyfe set to be rested.

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Best

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Cows - Fyfe 134, Sinclair 134, Jacobs 132, Robinson 125

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Hoppers - Grundy 108

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Cows last 3 - Battlers, Packers, Vultures

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Hoppers last 3 - Lilacs, Spelunkers, Nuffers

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Nunawading Nuffers 1161 def by Mount Beauty Uglies 1447

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Lock up your bean-stalks people, cos the giant killers are on the loose! Now I'll admit the Nuffers are perhaps not giant-class (sorry Andy), but following up back to back wins over the Vultures and the Battlers, the Uglies have monstered their opposition this week with a clinical display. Seven tons and four 90+ outings (refer additional colour supplement for BOG fanfare), saw the visitors switch on their mojo right when it counted. Many supporters are still questioning the club culture at the Mount, with Bennell's self-medicating circus being upstaged by Martin's on-field drinking problem. Never the less the old adage of if you can score, you can score” rang true on the day for the Uglies. The Nuffers were far from ashamed in this one with the midfield of Stanton (134), Cross (111) and JPK (108) firing well.

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Best

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Nuffers - Stanton 134, Dixon 123, Cross 111, JPK 108, Nicnat 103

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Uglies - Bennell 140, Viney 133, Riewoldt 135, Boyd 117 Sidey 117, Ellis 117, Gawn 110

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Nuffers last 3 - Vultures, Lefties, Hoppers

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Ugies last 3 - Wombats, Codpieces, Lilacs

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Lovely Banks Liliacs 1101 def by Iron Knob Codpieces 1307

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]The silver lining got a good buffing for the Liliacs this week, despite going down to the grief-stricken Codpieces. With Hanley a late out and the Little Master going down early, the Codpieces were vomiting in their cereal. The shockwave felt across the league was polarising and somewhat akin to the time Luke Darcy decided to wear gloves. Some scintillating footy played by both sides especially the young, purple haze brigade. Langdon (109), Langford (105) and Moore (89) were stand outs, but dog-days for Pyke, White and Rosa saw this one slip away. Some big tons from Hodge (140) and Breust (131) helped the visitors temper the midfield void and roll on for a win.

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Best

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Lilacs - Thompson 115, Langdon 109, Langford 105 <s>Lang</s> Wellingham 100

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Codpieces - Hodge 140, Breust 131, Macrae 122, Swan 119, Griffen 103

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Lilacs last 3 - Hoppers, Guim, Uglies

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Codpieces last 3 - Cockies, Uglies, Liliacs

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Wagga Wagga Wombats 923 def by Charlies Opening Spelunkers 1354

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]With most teams being hit by the injury stick in some form, the Wombats take the cake by copping an upper cut of an entire forest of timber. Take out Watson, Shiel, Gibbs, Swallow, Prestia, Tippett, Pittard and Franklin and you wouldn't blame Lenny for taking a leave of absence to adopt a permanent foetal position in some far away corner. To their credit, the Marsupials continue to show up and blood their emerging youth. A monster from Roberton (144) and support from Sheppard (109) and Bastinac (102) gave the home crowd something to scream about, until&amp;hellip;enter Jack Gunston (165) for the Troggs! With Merrett (140) and the Frenchman (89) assisting up forward, the visitors slipped into 6th gear powered off into the sunset in this one.

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Best

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Wombats - Roberton 144, Sheppard 109, Bastinac 102

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Spelunkers - Gunston 165, Merrett 140, Hooker 128, Savage 102

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Wombats last 3 - Uglies, Devils, Codpieces

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Spelunkers last 3 - Chooks, Hoppers, Cockies

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Gariwerd Cockatoos 1258 def by Whitsunday Warriors 1342

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]With the Warriors developing an addiction to weight-gain sakes during the mid-season break, the former Commish is putting to bed and speculation of pick tanking. New-comers in Douglas (122), Smith (89) and McIntosh (74) repaid the faith and offset the underdone forward line. A well-rounded performance from the Cockies but the ruck absenteeism must be wearing a little thin. With the top 4 still wide open, the Warriors look set to haunt many in their dreams.

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Best

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Cockies - Wallis 110, Wingard 105 (plus five 90+ efforts)

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Warriors - Motlop 144, Douglas 122, Barlow 115, Wines 105, Suckling 105, Johannisen 100, (Lambert ton on the bench too)

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Cockies last 3 - Codpieces, Misfits, Spelunkers

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Warriors last 3 - Misfits, Vultures, Chooks

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Foul Bay Chickens 1454 def Powlett Plains Packers 1155

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Well strap me down and hose me off with custard! This Chicken juggernaut is really getting out of control. Now you probably remember that movie The Karate Kid where Ralph Macchio got stronger and more agile through performing common maintenance tasks, then got to fight an entire Karate Dojo with lame-arse snake motifs, then got mortally wounded, then came back from the dead and won the Championship. Well this Chook team has no similarities to that story. It's more like Reservoir Dogs where the Chooks are Mr Pink and all the other teams get slaughtered. This movie analogy ain't over yet but I don't like where it's heading.

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Anyway, in this match up the Chooks had 27-odd tons and a hand full of 90+ games to put the Packers on the slab with ruthless efficiency. A blue moon from Lynch (146) was a limp parting gift from the hearse.

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Best

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Chooks - Selwood 142, Danger 141, Hawkins 136, Shaw 127, Roughy 117, Bartel 111, Vince 103, Kelly 102&amp;hellip;whew!

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Packers - TJ Lynch 146, Mundy 122, Dempster 107

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Chooks last 3 - Spelunkers, Battlers, Warriors

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Packers last 3 - Devils, Cows, Misfits

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Marble Bar Misfits 1073 def by Larrikin Lagoon Lefties 1298

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]The Lefties travelled to the hottest place in the universe expecting to walk away with an easy win. The home side had other plans, and deliberately left the iron on in the change rooms just to try and spike the ambient air temp a notch. Gus and Scooter couldn't handle the heat and refused to get off the team bus until after 3pm. To compensate, the Lefties resorted to dirty play and the game got more unsociable than a Malthouse v Stevens press conference. Lewis (150), Gibbo (98) and Mitchell (105) had the umps blinkered for most of the game and bullied Ward and Rich into sub-par efforts. Ryder (104) and steak-knives&amp;rdquo; Laird (124) were able to hold their heads high for the home side but the rest were all pretty&amp;hellip;meh.

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Best

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Misfits - Laird 124, Ryder 104

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Lefties - Lewis 150, Priddis 135, Goldy 127, BJ 117, Mitchell 105

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Misfits last 3 - Warriors, Cockies, Packers

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Lefties last 3 - Guim, Nuffers, Devils

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Cradle Mountain Devils 1263 def Darraweit Guim Dirigibles 1144

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Football can be a cruel bastard. Just needed to put that out there. The Blimps would have rocked up to this one full of hope and happiness of a young side with a healthy street cred but were ultimately left feeling empty (ha, you thought I was gonna say deflated). With Boomer (107) in his 400th posting the only ton, this game had more regrets than Madam Speaker's rotary wing faux pas. The Devils had a host of stand outs with Petrie's 146 a highlight. The home side defence was spanked by a pretty solid Guim forward set up, but the Blimps midfield couldn't cut it.

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Best

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Devils - Petrie 146, Gilbert 116, Pendles 109, Redden 108, Grigg 101

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Guim - Boomer 107

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[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Devils last 3 - Packers, Wombats, Lefties

[span style='color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Guim last 3 - Lefties, Lilacs, Battlers

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[span style='text-decoration: underline; color: black; background-color: #fcfcfc;]Ladder

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<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]Pos

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<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]Club

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<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]P

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<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]W

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<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]L

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<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]D

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<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]F

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<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]A

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<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]%

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<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]Form

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<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]pts




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<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]1

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Foul Bay Chickens

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<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]14

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<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]11

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<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]2

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]1

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]17689

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]15920

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]111.11%

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<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]WDWWW

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<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]46




<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left; background-color: #dddddd;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]2

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left; background-color: #eeeeee;]

Birdsville Battlers

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<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]14

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left; background-color: #eeeeee;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]10

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left; background-color: #eeeeee;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]3

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left; background-color: #eeeeee;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]1

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left; background-color: #eeeeee;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]16212

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left; background-color: #eeeeee;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]15507

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left; background-color: #eeeeee;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]104.55%

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left; background-color: #eeeeee;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]WDLWW

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left; background-color: #eeeeee;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]42




<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left; background-color: #dddddd;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]3

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left;]

Venus Bay Vultures

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<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]14

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]9

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]4

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]1

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]17418

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]15807

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]110.19%

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]WDWLL

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]38




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<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]4

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Iron Knob Codpieces

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<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]14

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<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]9

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<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]4

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left; background-color: #eeeeee;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]1

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left; background-color: #eeeeee;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]16984

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left; background-color: #eeeeee;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]15945

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left; background-color: #eeeeee;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]106.52%

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left; background-color: #eeeeee;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]WDWWW

<td valign='bottom' style='padding: 2pt 2pt 2pt 5pt; text-align: left; background-color: #eeeeee;]
<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]38




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<p style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;]5

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Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles

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