ORFFA Round 14 - Late Withdrawal/Unexpected Doughnut Round - discussion and teams

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    chris88 1000 Monkeys at 1000 Typewriters Staff Member

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    AFL Round 19 – Thursday 17th July

    ORFFA Round 14 - Late Withdrawal/Unexpected Doughnut Round

    Four day footballing weekends and a Geelong coach notorious for late withdrawals mean that there's always a bit of suspense added to pre-game lead-ups ... a vibe that may only become more common as the season enters its latter stages.

    However, on a positive note, such late withdrawals and the doughnuts they leave squads to deal with are a reminder of real life doughnuts, and the tastiness that accompanies them.

    Cradle Mountain Devils v Nareewillock Nuffers
    Wagga Wagga Wombats v Venus Bay Vultures
    Iron Knob Codpieces v Gundagai Grasshoppers
    Junee Jaguars v Birdsville Battlers
    Dunsborough Dung Beetles v Larrikin Lagoon Lefties
    Gariwerd Cockatoos v Wineglass Bay Packers
    Mount Beauty Uglies v Lovely Banks Lilacs
    Waikickamoocow Incorrigibles v Charlies Opening Spelunkers
     
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    :donut::donut::donut::donut::donut::donut::donut::donut::donut::donut::donut::donut::donut::donut::donut::donut::donut::donut::p
     
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    Bandit Moderator Staff Member

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    Hmmm donuts

    Provisional team to face the Cows @graeme

    ANB determined to show Waikick what they gave up
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    chris88 1000 Monkeys at 1000 Typewriters Staff Member

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    Mmmm doughnuts. Not doughnuts but missing a few dudes this week ...

    D: Himmelberg, Idun, Dale, Clark
    M: Serong, Rowell, Richards, Gulden
    R: Visentini
    F: Warner, Ross, West, Voss I think
    IC: Redman, Brown

    Holding a raffle for F4, really not sure who to put in. Voss today perhaps but not sure who to put there permanently.

    Poor Vigo getting a bit of a whacking in the ruck as we speak.
     
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    anthak Moderator Staff Member

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    A huge game for both teams in the race to the finals! @Tracey


    Gariwerd Cockatoos

    In: Isaac Quaynor, George Stevens
    Out: Changkuoth Jiath, Touk Miller


    DEF: Max Holmes, Jake Bowey, Kane Farrell, Isaac Quaynor (Ryan Byrnes)
    MID: Sam Durham, Willem Drew, Harvey Langford, Sam Clohesy (Caleb Poulter)
    RUCK: Jordon Sweet
    FWD: Justin McInerney, Kade Chandler, Ben King, Sam Wicks (Ethan Read)
    INT: Sean Darcy, George Stevens (Koltyn Tholstrup)
     
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    @Bandit , will be interesting to see how ANB goes. I'll be comparing his performance to that of Logan Morris; 9 years younger and 158 less games. Averaging 65 v. ANB's 72 from one less game this season. The kind of decisions one has to make in a rebuild. The future versus the past. :D
     
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    I think you have made the right call FWIW
     
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    Bandit Moderator Staff Member

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    Some seriously bad hairstyles in that lineup, much like a Cockatoo!
     
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    Thank you, different phases in a squad's life cycle lead to different decisions.
     
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    Jaguars looking forward to any and all late withdrawals, our mission to rise to the bottom of the ladder is so far not preceding to plan.
    Below is the squad nominated for a beating from the Battlers :) @JC
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    anthak Moderator Staff Member

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    Definitely a key criteria used by the Cockies in recruitment
     
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    The only reason Caleb Poulter is still on our list too
     
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    Have updated the team.

    Ryan Byrnes comes in instead of George Stevens, on the interchange… and Stevens takes the defender emergency spot.
     
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    Cradle Mountain Devils Round 14 team

    No change

    Def: D Zorko, N Vlastuin, S Banks, J Battle (R Ginbey)
    Mid: R Laird, J Steele, S Pendlebury, J Hopper (E Langdon)
    Ruc: T English
    Fwd: J Elliot, R Maric, S Mannagh, T Greene (A Naughton)
    Int: T Nankervis, R Marshall (T McDonald)

    The Cradle Mountain Devils have won both their games after the mid-season bye to consolidate their place in the ORFFA top four and have made no changes to the team that had a Round 13 victory against the Cows. The Devils are in third place and finish their home and away season against two fellow top four teams, a home game against the fourth placed Nuffers followed by the short road trip to play the ladder leading Charlies Opening in an all Apple Isle battle. With some talk this week regarding experience vs youth in the ORFFA the Devils are well and truly on the experience side of the ledger. CMD only have two players born after 1998 in their Round 14 team, Tasmanian defender/midfielder, Sam Banks (born in 2003) and forward/midfielder Ryan Maric (2004) who has the license to push back into defense. The third youngest player in the Devils team is defender Josh Battle who has his 27th birthday just over a week after the 2025 ORFFA Grand Final, highlighting how experienced CMD are at present. Seven of the 28 players on Cradle Mountain’s list were born this century, equating to 25% of the list.

    Good luck for this weekend’s game @chris88 and with your search for a permanent F4. In the early years of the ORFFA forward lines and defensive lines scored at a similar level to each other but as the years have progressed this balance has changed, the scoring of forwards has dropped away and defense definitely as the upper hand in the fwd vs def contest.

    In Round 14 three games are match-ups between teams that are in the ORFFA top 10 and are one position apart on the ladder. The third placed Devils hosting the fourth placed Nuffers, the seventh placed Cockatoos hosting the eighth placed Packers and the 10th placed Jaguars hosting the ninth placed Battlers. The Cockatoos and Packers still have destiny in their own hands and the winner of their head to head game will be at worst seventh on the ladder at the end of the round, at best the winner will lock in a finals berth if the Jaguars defeat the Battlers. One household in Junee will be very happy if there is a Packers / Jaguars double in Round 14 to secure a Packers return to the finals.
     
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    Jordan Sweet with the most unexpected 200 in SC history I reckon.
     
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    Yes I couldn’t believe it! I was actually coming here to say the same thing. Makes up for some of my other players scoring quite low!
     
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    @Bandit - ANB went good and we were very happy for him. Had a few drinks with him after the game.

    There is a moral to this story: The cows are good people to trade with. We always offer a fair deal. ANB just underlines that point.
     
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    This was such a massive game and my narrow win has locked in a spot in the finals which Im looking forward to a lot.

    @Tracey it was a very even game between us, and Jordon Sweet's shock 200 was probably the difference. I feel a little bad because you are so close and you have scored ~1500 more points than me across the season. I hope things go your way this weekend and you can get into the top-8 too!
     
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    chris88 1000 Monkeys at 1000 Typewriters Staff Member

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    Geez @dmandrews, I reckon there should be a rule that if you score 1400 and lose you get a couple of points for a half win.

    I thought you had the win after Shaun Mannagh went nuts against StKilda. I didn't think Patrick Voss had that in him, but I was wrong.

    That's the best score a team I've looked after has registered since the very first week of the ORFFA, when my old Darraweit team scored 1510 or something.

    Though that all pales in comparison to the 1600 Bandit's team just scored of course. Not sure if anyone is catching the Spelunkers.
     
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    Blown away by that, and left 49 points on the bench with Duggan too

    By far my biggest score ever
     
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