Two rounds remain and we still have 9 teams in contention of making the ORFFW finals, with nobody having locked away a top-4 spot yet either. It is a very close league this season, which showed last round with some margins of 4, 12 and 26 points in three of the games! These three games were fascinating: * The former bottom team Dragons beat the top-4 Wallabies team by 26 after the Wallabies had scored the highest score all year (1097 which is an average of 84 per player!) just the week before. * The top team Galahs finally lost their first game of the season, going down by 12 to the Junee Jets who keep their finals hopes alive. * And in the game of the round, the Valkeries got over the Belles by just 4 points to hold their spot in the top-3 and relegate the Belles to 6th despite them having the third best overall points-for for the season! Its going to be a massive final two weeks of the home-and-away season! Round 9 games: Galahs (1st) vs Dragons (11th) We've got 1st vs 11th and 2nd vs 12th this week! In the first of these potential mismatches, the top team Galahs are coming off a loss and the 11th placed Dragons are coming off a win! This could be a close one, but I reckon the Galahs will get back on track with a good win. Tip: Galahs by 200 Comets (10th) vs Belles (6th) This will be an interesting game to watch with the Belles being the third best offensive team this season and the Comets being the 2nd worst defensive team this season! I am worried the Comets wont be able to contain them and we could see the Belles break the record score this week! Tip: Belles by 275 Valkeries (3rd) vs Trailblazers (5th) A massive game in the race to the finals with the Trailblazers trying to break into the top-4 and there being just one win separating these two teams. Its gonna be a cracking game! Tip: Trailblazers by 15 Wallabies (4th) vs Sirens (9th) The Sirens are technically still a mathematical chance to make the finals, but they come up against last year's premiers in this one and face the top team Galahs next week, so I reckon they can probably call it already and play the kids or get in to mad monday early. Tip: Wallabies by 230 Devils (8th) vs Jets (7th) No matter who wins this one, both the Devils and Jets need teams above them to lose if they are going to be a realistic chance of making the finals but they can go into this one with their finals hopes still alive for at least this week! They both played the top-2 teams last round and both scored almost the exact same score as each other 957-956 respectively, but had mixed fortunes with the Jets knocking off the top team and the Devils going down to the 2nd placed team by 120 points. Tip: Devils by 10 Wood Nymphs (2nd) vs Mystix (12th) These two teams faced off in the semi finals just last season, but now find themselves at opposite ends of the ladder. The Wood Nymphs won last year's semi by 85 points and should get the job done again. Tip: Wood Nymphs by 90 Lockout this week is at 7:15pm AEDT Friday 10th October. Remember this season the lockout is always at the first bounce of the first game each round, and last week's team is rolled over for anyone who doesn't post their team in the weekly thread in time. Good luck everyone for the rest of the season!