ORFFA Round 5 - Chocolate Football Round – Review Apologies for the tripe below. A bit of talk in the chat this week about ‘spuds and duds’ and ‘overs and unders’, so let’s take a look at this week’s games from that point of view but using ‘studs’ (90+) and ‘duds’ (50 or less) instead. Junee Jaguars 1182 def by Cradle Mountain Devils 1304 The Jags had 4 players over 90 – including 3 over 140 – but this was more than offset by the 5 that didn’t get to 50. On the flip side, the Devils consistency saw them home with 9 players scoring 90 or better and just the 2 failing to make 50. Jags Studs: 4 – Taranto, Whitfield, Flynn, Kelly Duds: 5 – Briggs, Fisher, Ward, Byrnes, Cadman Devils Studs: 9 – Vlastuin, McDonald, Mannagh, Hopper + five more in the 90s Duds: 2 – Greene, Steele Dunsborough Dung Beetles 1145 def Iron Knob Codpieces 1053 Only 13.5 for the Beetles with both Finlayson and Richards in the fwd were no shows and only Hoskin-Elliott available to cover - plus half of Mac Andrew in the ruck. Nonetheless, that was enough against a Cods line up that copped a couple of sub 20s. Dung Beetles Studs: 4 – Freijah, Roberts, Green, Atkins Duds: 1 – Andrew Codpieces Studs: 3 – Martin, Witts, Macrae Duds: 4 – El-Hawli, Hanily, Reid, de Goey Gariwerd Cockatoos 1119 def Wagga Wagga Wombats 1061 Playing one short each and with two duds a piece – did you two pre-arrange something here? - the margin here is probably summed up by the 3 extra Cockies that made it past 90. Cockatoos Studs: 6 – Farrell, Bowey Miller, Draper, Crouch, Wicks Duds: 2 – Jiath, King Wombats Studs: 3 – Libba, Rozee, Hewett Duds: 2 – Bergman, Setterfield Waikickamoocow Incorrigibles 1088 def Venus Bay Vultures 992 Did someone forget to tell a few Vultures when the game was? 15 v 12 in the end ensures the Cows get it done. Four studs a piece but even the Cows couple of duds were a help against 3 donuts. Cows Studs: 4 – Rivers, Hinge, O’Brien, Fletcher Duds: 2 – Bailey, Treacy Vultures Studs: 4 – Pickett, NWM, Danger, Howe Duds: 0 – well….3 donuts Mount Beauty Uglies 1220 def by Nareewillock Nuffers 1235 Nuffers get it done in a tight one over the Uglies. Possibly a touch lucky with Darcy subbed out for the Uglies in the opening quarter. That’s footy though and there are no guarantees. 7 studs is a good effort though. Uglies Studs: 5 – Butters, Gawn, Viney, Walsh, Petracca Duds: 4 – Darcy, Fogarty, Boak, Rioli Nuffers Studs: 7 – Idun, Rowell, Richards, Serong + three more in the 90s Duds: 4 – Ryan, Brown, Jones, Bedford Charlies Opening Spelunkers 1411 def Gundagai Grasshoppers 1346 Confirmed - Bandit whines about fk all. Imagine complaining after posting 1400 - spare me. Just shit luck of the draw for Snoz and the Hoppers this week given their score would have beaten everyone else. Spelunkers Studs: 7 – Daicos, Bont, Brayshaw, Meek, Merrett, Waterman, Blakey Duds: 1 – Ashcroft Hoppers Studs: 5 – Newcombe, Dawson, Neale, Curnow, Oliver Duds: 1 – Saad Lovely Banks Lilacs 1111 def Birdsville Battlers 1051 Even with 14.5, the Lilacs were too good for a Battlers team that carried the most duds for the round, with 6 listed, but I really should add the coach/list manager as well and make it 7. Lilacs Studs: 5 – Amon, Wilkie, Bolton, McLean, Heeney Duds: 5 – Trainor, Moore, Jones, Larkey, Wood Battlers Studs: 5 – Kennedy, Cerra, Rowbottom, TDK. Andrews, Duds: 6 – Gross, Cleary, Moore, Lobb, Flanders, Humphrey Wineglass Bay Packers 1297 def Larrikin Lagoon Lefties 1084 13 v 15? No worries at all for the Packers who easily accounted for a full complement of Lefties. Nine Packers went past 90 and just the one failed to make 50, while the Lefties back line was.... underwhelming. Packers Studs: 9 – Hewett, Taylor, Daicos, Callaghan, Noble, Sanders, Ash + two more in the 90s Duds: 1 – Collins (2 donuts I guess) Lefties Studs: 3 – Xerri, SPP, Anderson Duds: 4 – Perryman, Sinn, Budarick, Bowes Good luck to all this week.
Great work mate, thanks. Makes sense that most games were won by the team with more studs and/or less duds/donuts. Big games from the two teams with 9 studs each!
Also, how are the Wombats @Lenny120 Currently a winning record and sitting in the top-8, but just 92% for & against percentage. The only teams with a worse percentage are the 3 winless teams. We had a good tussle this week and I was lucky to get up. Im very surprised to also have a winning record at 3-2!
oh, also, @JC I didnt play one short. Ethan Read actually played and scored zero, so he was another dud for me!
@anthak A pity that the Ethan Read playing zero wasn’t notified to the “powers that be” prior to the round rollover as a playing zero or negative score often activated the emergency score such as for the Shags vs Wedge Island game in the triple F, I will adjust Wedge Islands score by 55 points for the purposes of the largest largest of victory and the lowest aggregate in that league.