4th Mt Thirsty Boozers vs 1st Walpole Woylies 2nd The Stony Ponys vs 9th Sherwood Magpies 3rd Neptune Island Noahs vs 10th Black Swamp 29ers 11th Rutherglen Fugitives vs 5th Port Lincoln Power 12th Nangkita Bucks vs 6th Wedge Island White Pointers - the Bucks host the Wedgies in a gala celebration of both team's 150th ORFFF match 7th Useless Loop Virgins vs 16th Heard Island Shags 15th Jan Juc Ducks vs 8th Drouin Dropbears 14th Maralinga Atoms vs 13th Macquarie Island Whales
We’re excited in Heard Island because it looks like we’ll have 15 players take the field this week! We’ve been playing short every week, so it was a fun night tonight after training when the team was read out! From the backline DEF: Nick Blakey, Riley Bice, Jaxon Prior, Mark Keane (Seamus Mitchell) MID: Noah Anderson, Sam Lalor, Brayden Fiorini, Caleb Poulter (Nik Cox) RUCK: Ivan Soldo (Sam Clohesy -oop) FWD: Kade Chandler, Josh Treacy, Sam Davidson, Patrick Voss (Liam Henry) INT: Judd McVee, Riley Hardeman
Noahs round 9 Def - Clark, Lloyd, Amon, Flanders Mid - Libba, Johnson, Dawson, Powell Ruck - Gawn Fwd - McKay, Kennedy, Parker, Warner IC - Dempsey, Richards
Drop Bears NWM, Sheezel, Florent, Mac Andrew (Darcy Moore) Hopper, Brayshaw, Naicos, Rozee (Dylan Stephens) Luke Jackson Zac Bailey, Higgins, Bolton, Jack Graham (Ginni) Balta, Chol (Darcy Wilson)
Round 9 saw some close margins with the 2 pointer between Nangkita and Wedge Island in both side's 150th ORFFF match now meaning that all 16 ORFFF teams have had a game decided by 2 points or less. Of these 13 games there have been 3 draws and the Power, Magpies and Whales have played in 3 each, while the Virgins, Atoms, Shags and Ducks have played in 2 close ones each. In the more one sided games of Round 9 the Dropbears and Power won by 479 and 357 points respectively, with Port Lincoln managing a club record margin of victory as well as notching their equal club record 6th win of the season to sit in 5th with the table as congested as ever at this stage of the year.