2026 ORFFF Round 5 (AFL Rd 7)

The 8 ORFFF Round 5 matchups, with the current top 8 in bold, are as follows

Black Swamp 29ers (2-2, 8th) vs Walpole Woylies (4-0, 1st)
Drouin Dropbears (3-1, 2nd) vs Mt Thirsty Boozers (3-1, 5th)
Port Lincoln Power (3-1, 3rd) vs Useless Loop Virgins (3-1, 7th)
Neptune Island Noahs (3-1, 4th) vs Rutherglen Fugitives (2-2, 10th)

The Stony Ponys (1-3, 12th) vs Sherwood Magpies (3-1, 6th)
Wedge Island White Pointers (2-2, 9th) vs Jan Juc Ducks (0-4, 16th)
Maralinga Atoms (1-3, 13th) vs Macquarie Island Whales (1-3, 11th)
Nangkita Bucks (0-4, 15th) vs Heard Island Shags (1-3, 14th)

Lockout is set as the Hawks vs Suns revised match start time of 1230pm Saturday.

Good luck all.

 

I've currently got 20 players named to play this weekend or on Sunday extended benches.
It's been a while since we've had this many to chose from!

 

Noahs
Def - Clark, Maynard, Powell, Turner (Howes)
Mid - Kennedy, Dawson , Viney , Dempsey (Lloyd)
Ruck - Gawn
Fwd - Warner, Wright, Neale,Powell (Steene)
IC - Amon, Sweet (Erasmus)

 

Round 5 - Useless Loop Virgins (AFL Rd 7)
Def: Liam Baker, Josh Battle, Brennan Cox, Mark O'Connor (Isaac Quaynor)
Mid: Lachie Neale, Zak Butters, James Worpel, Ed Langdon (Elijah Hewett)
Ruck: Jarrod Witts
Fwd: Cameron Zurhaar, Sam Switkowski, Jack Gunston, Jacob van Rooyen (Aaron Naughton)
Int: Hugo Garcia, Ryan Angwin (Steele Sidebottom)

Out: James Sicily, Jaeger O'Meara, Griffin Logue, Aaron Naughton
In: Mark O'Connor, Ryan Angwin, Jacob van Rooyen, Jack Gunston

 

Don’t know what has happened but if you name a team in this thread, or are specific about what needs to be changed I will know whether you wanted Grundy as R1 or IC1/2 and fix it.

edit @stowie @leematty1 Grundy has been added back into the Boozers lineup as R1.

 

The 29ers match committee have named their lineup (subject to change) for their match with the ladder leading Woylies @JC

There are 3 changes from our Round 4 side with Noah Anderson, Tristan Xerri and Brent Daniels in replacing Joel Jeffery, Sam Banks and Oliver Hollands as we try to stay ahead in the W/L column.

Blakey J Daicos Chapman Noble - O Hollands
Bont H Young LDU Anderson - Lipinski
H Thomas M Hall Daniels JHF - Jordon
Madden - no emg
Schultz Xerri - Cowan

It appears that we have 3 players named for AFL duties that are lining up for the Black Swamp ressies and putting selection pressure on this week's starting side.

 

It's pretty rare that we go into a game as the higher placed team on the ladder, and we want to keep it that way so we're pulling out all the stops to get this win! We've made some big decisions dropping 4 players (Schoenberg has likely played his last game for this club) and we've got some big ins including Lachlan Smith for his debut in the ruck)! We're also very excited to be able to name draftee Tom Burton as an emergency as he nears his debut.


Heard Island Shags

In: Ryan Maric, Lachlan Smith, Jamarra Ugle-Hagan, Mark Keane (Keane is doubtful, and Jedd Busslinger is set to make his season debut as Keane's replacement).
Out: Zane Duursma, Harry Schoenberg, Zane Zakostelsky, Patrick Voss.


DEF: Ryan Maric, Lachie Jaques, Judd McVee, Mark Keane (Jedd Busslinger)
MID: Elijah Tsatas, Jagga Smith, Massimo D'Ambrosio, Zeke Uwland (Tom Burton)
RUCK: Lachlan Smith
FWD: Calsher Dear, Josh Treacy, Sam Lalor, Jamarra Ugle-Hagan (Zane Duursma)
INT: Riley Bice, Sam Davidson

 

Please note that in the interest of competitive balance and based on four consecutive 530 point losses and multiple weekly donuts to commence the 2026 season, it has been determined that four North Melbourne Free Agents will be loaned to Jan Juc until the midseason break, these being :-
- Aidan Corr,
- Jack Darling,
- Luke McDonald, and;
- Charlie Spargo

All 4 players will be returned to the Free Agent pool and be available for selection at the 2026 midseason draft.

 

At half time the 29ers 9/817 leads them Woylies @JC 6/519 by 298 points.

 

Final unofficial score has the 29ers 15/1381 defeating the Woylies 15/1212 by 169 points with all 16 ORFFF teams now having tasted defeat at least once in 2026.

 

The Power @MrsBear finished on 1,244/15 82.5 to the Virgin's on 1,163/15 77.5

 

This week's round review is brought to you by ChatGPT as we draw parallels between our beloved ORFFF and some classic and not so classic (depending on your tastes) musical tunes from the 1970's

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Round 5 of ORFFF played out like a battered old jukebox — every matchup spinning a 70s lyric that somehow fit a little too well.

Nangkita Bucks 1156 def Heard Island Shags 967
The Bucks came in singing “And you may ask yourself… well, how did I get here?” — and the Shags were definitely asking that by halftime. Nangkita controlled the game from start to finish, leaving Heard Island stuck in a lyrical existential crisis.

Macquarie Island Whales 1291 def Maralinga Atoms 1108
The Whales went full “We will, we will rock you” — and rock them they did. The Atoms copped it from all angles as Macquarie Island piled on the points like a band that refuses to leave the stage.

Sherwood Magpies 1235 def The Stony Ponys 1153
The Magpies channelled “Go Your Own Way”, and they did exactly that — brushing off the Ponys’ resistance and forging ahead late. Stony kept it tight for a while, but Sherwood’s closing act was pure Fleetwood Mac-level drama.

Neptune Island Noahs 1183 def Rutherglen Fugitives 1169
Cue “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” — because the Noahs were absolutely knocking… and somehow got let in. This was a full-blown nailbiter, and let’s be honest, Neptune Island didn’t so much win as get divinely fast-tracked. Blessed, lucky, kissed on the forehead by the fantasy gods — call it what you want, but they pinched it by 14 and ran before anyone could check the paperwork.

Port Lincoln Power 1242 def Useless Loop Virgins 1163
The Power leaned into “Don’t stop believin’” — and more importantly, didn’t stop scoring. The Virgins kept things interesting, but Port Lincoln always looked like the band that knew the final chorus was theirs.

Black Swamp 29ers 1381 def Walpole Woylies 1213
“Another one bites the dust.” And this one was massive. The previously unbeaten Woylies finally hit a wall — and it wasn’t a gentle tap, it was a full-body collision. Their first loss of the year lands hard, courtesy of a ruthless 29ers outfit who clearly didn’t read the script, or just plain didn't care if they did, about Walpole’s unbeaten run.

Drouin Dropbears 1548 def Mt Thirsty Boozers 1216
The Dropbears roared “We are the champions” — maybe a bit early in the season, but after posting 1548 (the second-highest score in club history), and now sitting in the #1 position on the ORFFF Charts they’ve earned the right to sing whatever they like. This was an avalanche. The Boozers were spectators by the third quarter.

Wedge Island White Pointers 1240 def Jan Juc Ducks 933
Wedge Island cruised along with “Take it easy”, while the Ducks… did not. A one-sided affair where the White Pointers barely looked troubled, calmly stacking points while Jan Juc searched for answers. On the plus side the Ducks managed to break 700 for the first time this season as some short term topups debuted in a lineup that up until this point of the season had previously resembled swiss cheese.

Round 5 Wrap:
The Woylies finally stumbled, the Dropbears rewrote the record books (almost), and the Noahs might want to send a thank-you note upstairs. If the season had a soundtrack, this round was all killer, no filler — and just a hint of divine intervention.