ORFFA Round 9 (AFL Round 11) - Indigenous Round Sir Douglas Nicholls Round - staged across AFL Rounds 10 and 11 - carries with it the theme ‘Strengthened by First Nations. Moments. Connections. Stories.’ The dramatic downturn in Indigenous player representation across the AFL since 2020 has been highlighted recently ... one hopes the AFL perhaps heeds some of the messages conveyed by this decline and acts meaningfully to address them. In the meantime, with Sir Douglas Nicholls Round upon us - as well as National Reconciliation Week approaching at the end of the month - the ORFFA again celebrates and commemorates not just those great Indigenous players of past and present, but the meaningful stories they embody and those connections they carry with them. Wagga Wagga Wombats vs Charlies Opening Spelunkers Birdsville Battlers vs Waikickamoocow Incorrigibles Junee Jaguars vs Larrikin Lagoon Lefties Venus Bay Vultures vs Iron Knob Codpieces Nareewillock Nuffers vs Shark Bay Tigersharks Cradle Mountain Devils vs Wineglass Bay Packers Mount Beauty Uglies vs Gundagai Grasshoppers Lovely Banks Lilacs vs Gariwerd Cockatoos
Provisional Nuffers DEF: HH, Idun, Dale, Clark MID: Warner, Rowell, Serong, Richards (Steele) RUCK: Hayes-Brown (Riccardi) FWD: Daniels, Ross, West, Horne-Francis I/C: Redman, Voss Nuffers limping towards the mid season break amidst a shambolic and injury-hit season. The consistency that the team has enjoyed over the past 18 months seems to have just melted away. It looks like a pick at the pointy end of the MSD beckons (and, if this continues, a pick at the pointy end of the PSD too). Some extensive and borderline ruthless list management decisions - trade and delisting - appear to be on the radar.