On behalf of the FIXture Committee - @Bandit @JC @chris88 and myself, please see below for all your round by round match ups for the coming 2019 season. Thank you to @chris88, who wrote all the blurbs for the rounds I am going to have to put this up in 2 posts as it's to big for one. Round 1 Date Thursday 21.03.2019 – AFL Round 1 THEME: Welcome New Coaches Round Round 1 is New Coaches Round - and we have a couple of new coaches to welcome, with @DaveH and @TheTassieHawk fully aboard the good ship SS ORFFA for season 2019. Fittingly, the Wanderers and Nuffers will square off in Round 1 of the season, so one of them will emerge with a win (unless there is a draw; if that's the case everyone wins, everyone gets a prize and we all go home happy). Gariwerd Cockatoos V Whitsunday Warriors Gundagai Grasshoppers V Larrikin Lagoon Lefties Foul Bay Chickens V Venus Bay Vultures Cradle Mountain Devils V Wineglass Bay Packers Lovely Banks Lilacs V Charlies Opening Spelunkers Iron Knob Codpieces v Mount Beauty Uglies Wagga Wagga Wombats v Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles Marble Bar Misfits v Birdsville Battlers Nowhere Else Wanderers V Nareewillock Nuffers Round 2 Date Thursday 28.03.2019 – AFL Round 2 THEME: Women’s Celebration Round This round is a chance to offer a shout-out to all the great women in our lives, all the great women who help steer the great game of Aussie Rules towards success, and of course all of those who play in the AFLW. For the ORFFA, this round is marked by a marquee match-up between @Jen's Lilacs and @Tracey's team from Wineglass Bay. Nareewillock Nuffers V Whitsunday Warriors Birdsville Battlers V Nowhere Else Wanderers Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles V Marble Bar Misfits Mount Beauty Uglies V Wagga Wagga Wombats Charlies Opening Spelunkers V Iron Knob Codpieces Wineglass Bay Packers V Lovely Banks Lilacs Venus Bay Vultures V Cradle Mountain Devils Larrikin Lagoon Lefties V Foul Bay Chickens Gariwerd Cockatoos V Gundagai Grasshoppers Round 3 Date Thursday 04.04.2019 – AFL Round 3 THEME: Walesy Appreciation Round Hooray for Walesy, our benevolent overlord who ensures the TS site runs as smoothly and efficiently as a ... well ... smooth and efficient website. Importantly, TS offers all of us in AFL keeper leagues and other varied annual fantasy comps a way to prove just how inept our player selections can be. Hooray for Walesy! Whitsunday Warriors V Birdsville Battlers Nareewillock Nuffers V Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles Nowhere Else Wanderers V Mount Beauty Uglies Marble Bar Misfits V Charlies Opening Spelunkers Wagga Wagga Wombats V Wineglass Bay Packers Iron Knob Codpieces V Venus Bay Vultures Lovely Banks Lilacs V Larrikin Lagoon Lefties Cradle Mountain Devils V Gariwerd Cockatoos Foul Bay Chickens V Gundagai Grasshoppers Round 4 Date Thursday 11.04.2019 – AFL Round 4 THEME: Tattoo Awareness Round Body art is a proud tradition among many of the world's Indigenous people which can date back thousands of years and can have important cultural significance to those who have made the decision to have ink placed under their skin with the help of a sharp object. Or you can be Jake Stringer. Tattoos aren't the problem. Bad tattoos are the problem. Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles V Whitsunday Warriors Mount Beauty Uglies V Birdsville Battlers Charlies Opening Spelunkers V Nareewillock Nuffers Wineglass Bay Packers V Nowhere Else Wanderers Venus Bay Vultures V Marble Bar Misfits Larrikin Lagoon Lefties V Wagga Wagga Wombats Gariwerd Cockatoos V Iron Knob Codpieces Gundagai Grasshoppers V Lovely Banks Lilacs Foul Bay Chickens V Cradle Mountain Devils Round 5 Date Thursday 18.04.2018 – AFL Round 5 THEME: Mark Seaby Memorial Round Draft SNAFUs are fun. Choosing ineligible players, making picks in the wrong order ... all part of the great gigantic fun ride that is the ORFFA. Mr Seaby - whose immortalisation as the poster-child of draft choice fun was almost challenged by a semi-SNAFU involving young Bomber Matt Guelfi in the 2018 MSD - is a reminder that no matter how much planning you do, there's always another coach ready and waiting to draft your sleeper pick from right under your nose. Whitsunday Warriors V Mount Beauty Uglies Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles V Charlies Opening Spelunkers Birdsville Battlers V Wineglass Bay Packers Nareewillock Nuffers V Venus Bay Vultures Nowhere Else Wanderers V Larrikin Lagoon Lefties Marble Bar Misfits V Gariwerd Cockatoos Wagga Wagga Wombats V Gundagai Grasshoppers Iron Knob Codpieces V Foul Bay Chickens Lovely Banks Lilacs V Cradle Mountain Devils Round 6 Date Wednesday 24.04.2018 – AFL Round 6 THEME: Commentators Round WWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEE. It is ORFFA Commentators Round where we cele- WWWWOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE -brate the most important part of the AFL – the commentators. WWWWWOOOOOWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEE Because if we didn’t set aside a round where we acknow – WWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEE – ledged those fantastic professionals that call our great – WWWWOOOOOWWWWWWWEEEEEEEE – game, we’d never notice them at all, right? Special. Charlies Opening Spelunkers V Whitsunday Warriors Wineglass Bay Packers V Mount Beauty Uglies Venus Bay Vultures V Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles Larrikin Lagoon Lefties V Birdsville Battlers Gariwerd Cockatoos V Nareewillock Nuffers Gundagai Grasshoppers V Nowhere Else Wanderers Foul Bay Chickens V Marble Bar Misfits Cradle Mountain Devils V Wagga Wagga Wombats Lovely Banks Lilacs V Iron Knob Codpieces Round 7 Date Friday 03.05.2019 – AFL Round 7 THEME: FF Anonymous Round I don't have a problem, you have a problem. No, in fact, we all have problems - the least of which may well be our obsession with fantasy football. And there's no 12-step program to deal with this obsession (unless your name is @chris88 and you just up and leave, how rude of him). So we should instead acknowledge our "issues" in a collective way through an appropriately-themed round, and then endeavour to control our desire to check fantasy scores before match scores. Whitsunday Warriors V Wineglass Bay Packers Charlies Opening Spelunkers V Venus Bay Vultures Mount Beauty Uglies V Larrikin Lagoon Lefties Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles V Gariwerd Cockatoos Birdsville Battlers V Gundagai Grasshoppers Nareewillock Nuffers V Foul Bay Chickens Nowhere Else Wanderers V Cradle Mountain Devils Marble Bar Misfits V Lovely Banks Lilacs Wagga Wagga Wombats V Iron Knob Codpieces
Round 8 Date Friday 10.05.2019 – AFL Round 8 THEME: The Spud Round The great Allan Jeans famously compared footballers to sausages - "You can fry them, grill them, bake them ... but they're still footballers. And while we don't condone the frying, baking or grilling of footballers here in the ORFFA, we do condone the baking of spuds. Especially those fantasy football spuds who score abysmally and cost us our weekly match-up. They definitely deserve a good bake. Venus Bay Vultures V Whitsunday Warriors Larrikin Lagoon Lefties V Wineglass Bay Packers Gariwerd Cockatoos V Charlies Opening Spelunkers Gundagai Grasshoppers V Mount Beauty Uglies Foul Bay Chickens V Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles Cradle Mountain Devils V Birdsville Battlers Lovely Banks Lilacs V Nareewillock Nuffers Iron Knob Codpieces V Nowhere Else Wanderers Wagga Wagga Wombats V Marble Bar Misfits Round 9 Date Friday 17.05.2019 – AFL Round 9 THEME: Left Footers Round We all wear labels. And not just on our over-priced designer clothes. For left-footers, those labels are very real, and can vary from somewhat descriptive ("Hookfoot") to the semi-accurate ("Only has a right leg for balance"). But instead of deriding our left-footed friends, let's bask in their brilliance and sublime skills (at least, until one of them coughs up the ball in defence, then its every mollyduker for themselves). Whitsunday Warriors V Larrikin Lagoon Lefties Venus Bay Vultures V Gariwerd Cockatoos Wineglass Bay Packers V Gundagai Grasshoppers Charlies Opening Spelunkers V Foul Bay Chickens Mount Beauty Uglies V Cradle Mountain Devils Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles V Lovely Banks Lilacs Birdsville Battlers V Iron Knob Codpieces Nareewillock Nuffers V Wagga Wagga Wombats Nowhere Else Wanderers V Marble Bar Misfits Round 10 Date Friday 24.05.2019 – AFL Round 10 THEME: Fantasy Saviour Round We all know the feeling. That feeling when some normally non-descript performer steps up with a Messiah-esque performance to propel your underperforming bunch of triers to something resembling brilliance. Of course - most of the time - this is something that happens for other teams, and usually occurs when you are playing those other teams. So let’s celebrate Fantasy Saviour Round with the hope that we all get a God-like performance from one of our chosen 15 this weekend. Disclaimer: Hope for God-like performance only valid if your bunch of triers isn’t playing my bunch of triers. Whitsunday Warriors V Nowhere Else Wanderers Marble Bar Misfits V Nareewillock Nuffers Wagga Wagga Wombats V Birdsville Battlers Iron Knob Codpieces V Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles Lovely Banks Lilacs V Mount Beauty Uglies Cradle Mountain Devils V Charlies Opening Spelunkers Foul Bay Chickens V Wineglass Bay Packers Gundagai Grasshoppers V Venus Bay Vultures Gariwerd Cockatoos V Larrikin Lagoon Lefties Round 11 Date Friday 31.05.2018 – AFL Round 11 THEME: Muso Round Each year the ORFFA's Muso Round sees the league celebrate the great Australian (and New Zealand) artists that populate our Spotify lists and sometimes even play their own musical instruments. So let's put on the headphones, drown out the background noise and annoy the person you are sitting next to on public transport by playing your favourite "local" musical artist until all of our ears bleed. Whitsunday Warriors V Gundagai Grasshoppers Gariwerd Cockatoos V Foul Bay Chickens Larrikin Lagoon Lefties V Cradle Mountain Devils Venus Bay Vultures V Lovely Banks Lilacs Wineglass Bay Packers V Iron Knob Codpieces Charlies Opening Spelunkers V Wagga Wagga Wombats Mount Beauty Uglies V Marble Bar Misfits Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles V Nowhere Else Wanderers Birdsville Battlers V Nareewillock Nuffers Round 12 Date Thursday 27.06.2019 – AFL Round 15 THEME: The Non-Themed Theme Round There’s some memorable themed rounds set down in the 2019 ORFFA FIXture. This isn’t one of them. In fact this round has no theme, unless having no theme is actually a theme – if that is the case, then this is just another of those rounds with a theme and a suitably nonsensical introductory paragraph before the games are listed. We’re through the Looking Glass here, people. Foul Bay Chickens V Whitsunday Warriors Cradle Mountain Devils v Gundagai Grasshoppers Lovely Banks Lilacs V Gariwerd Cockatoos Iron Knob Codpieces V Larrikin Lagoon Lefties Wagga Wagga Wombats V Venus Bay Vultures Marble Bar Misfits v Wineglass Bay Packers Nowhere Else Wanderers V Charlies Opening Spelunkers Nareewillock Nuffers V Mount Beauty Uglies Birdsville Battlers V Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles Round 13 Date Friday 05.07.2019 – AFL Round 16 THEME: NAIDOC Round Each season the ORFFA stages NAIDOC Round to coincide with NAIDOC Week which, in 2019, is staged from July 7-14. NAIDOC Week helps us all celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. And the impact that Indigenous players continue to have in the AFL (and the ORFFA) is something most definitely worth celebrating. Whitsunday Warriors V Cradle Mountain Devils Foul Bay Chickens V Lovely Banks Lilacs Gundagai Grasshoppers V Iron Knob Codpieces Gariwerd Cockatoos V Wagga Wagga Wombats Larrikin Lagoon Lefties V Marble Bar Misfits Venus Bay Vultures V Nowhere Else Wanderers Wineglass Bay Packers V Nareewillock Nuffers Charlies Opening Spelunkers V Birdsville Battlers Mount Beauty Uglies V Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles Round 14 Date Friday 12.07.2019 – AFL Round 17 THEME: Late Withdrawal-Doughnut Round If Allan Jeans thought footballers were sausages, then it is pretty clear what missing players are. Doughnuts. Lovely, round, doughy doughnuts. And no matter what sort of doughnut that missing player or late withdrawal may be – iced, jam, cinnamon or one of those fancy-schmancy custard filled treats that block important arteries – one thing’s for sure … chomping down on a doughnut in fantasy football carries with it a very bitter taste indeed. May this round bring with it no player doughnuts, but many iced doughnuts - preferably with sprinkles. Lovely Banks Lilacs V Whitsunday Warriors Iron Knob Codpieces V Cradle Mountain Devils Wagga Wagga Wombats V Foul Bay Chickens Marble Bar Misfits V Gundagai Grasshoppers Nowhere Else Wanderers V Gariwerd Cockatoos Nareewillock Nuffers V Larrikin Lagoon Lefties Birdsville Battlers V Venus Bay Vultures Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles V Wineglass Bay Packers Mount Beauty Uglies V Charlies Opening Spelunkers Round 15 Date Friday 19.07.2019 – AFL Round 18 THEME: Bad Hair Round Extensive scientific studies have proven that there is correlation between a player's talent and success and the amount of derogatory comments made about any questionable hair-do they may be sporting. Look at Dustin Martin - we all love his hair now that he is a Brownlow Medallist. But whatever your hairstyle preferences, one thing's for sure - if you decide a man-bun is for you, then you may well be beyond help. Whitsunday Warriors V Iron Knob Codpieces Lovely Banks Lilacs V Wagga Wagga Wombats Cradle Mountain Devils V Marble Bar Misfits Foul Bay Chickens V Nowhere Else Wanderers Gundagai Grasshoppers V Nareewillock Nuffers Gariwerd Cockatoos V Birdsville Battlers Larrikin Lagoon Lefties V Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles Venus Bay Vultures V Mount Beauty Uglies Wineglass Bay Packers V Charlies Opening Spelunkers Round 16 Date Friday 26.07.2019 – AFL Round 19 THEME: Imports Round Bíonn tionchar suntasach ag imreoirí ó thíortha eile ar ár gcluiche iontach de Rialacha na hAstráile. Ní hamháin go bhfuil lucht féachana cosúil le Tadhg Kennelly, Nic Naitanui agus Mason Cox go hiontach le faire, ach meabhraíonn dúinn cé go bhféadfaimis Rialacha na hAstráile a chluiche, is cinnte go bhfuil an cluiche domhanda anois. Wagga Wagga Wombats V Whitsunday Warriors Marble Bar Misfits V Iron Knob Codpieces Nowhere Else Wanderers V Lovely Banks Lilacs Nareewillock Nuffers V Cradle Mountain Devils Birdsville Battlers V Foul Bay Chickens Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles V Gundagai Grasshoppers Mount Beauty Uglies V Gariwerd Cockatoos Charlies Opening Spelunkers V Larrikin Lagoon Lefties Wineglass Bay Packers V Venus Bay Vultures Round 17 Date Friday 02.08.2019 – AFL Round 20 THEME: Fellowship Round Fellowship Round is a chance for all of us to gather together in the wide white virtual void that is the world wide web (not to be confused with Antarctica, as our white void is far warmer and has far fewer penguins), raise a glass of something to our fellow ORFFA coaches and celebrate the fact that our love for fantasy football brings our lovely band of misfits together each week. All past and present ORFFA coaches are invited to party in the virtual void, with or without penguins. Whitsunday Warriors V Marble Bar Misfits Wagga Wagga Wombats V Nowhere Else Wanderers Iron Knob Codpieces V Nareewillock Nuffers Lovely Banks Lilacs V Birdsville Battlers Cradle Mountain Devils V Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles Foul Bay Chickens V Mount Beauty Uglies Gundagai Grasshoppers V Charlies Opening Spelunkers Gariwerd Cockatoos V Wineglass Bay Packers Larrikin Lagoon Lefties V Venus Bay Vultures
I'd almost forgotten how good these entrees are. Home against the NY, NY guy in the Imports Round - scrumptious. Well done Jen and friends.
This is a magestic thing of beauty. Way better than anything produced when I was involved. Well played all.
Evidently the powers that be decided the Battlers were no longer a good enough draw to maintain their position in the Seaby Cup. EDIT - which is probably fair enough these days!
Great fixture, but yeah @JC can’t believe you lost out on playing in the Seaby Cup...unless you are still playing in it and I’m not (in which case, I am equally outraged)
Lol, all good mate. Maybe next year. But change can be good and I imagine the H2H record between us probably shows it hasn't been much of a 'contest' over the journey. I fluked a couple of wins in the finals, but you've generally beaten me pretty soundly - if I'm being kind.
Great stuff, when does the FA fixture get loaded onto TSLeagues ? I am particularly keen to get my team loaded up early so that I have 1 less thing to remember in the busiest week of the SC year.
@TheTassieHawk, as long as I didn't stuff up the coding, Len said over the weekend he will look at putting it up.