It is that time of the year again where we look forward to another huge round of ORFFF football in Round 9 and @leematty1 can brush off their best trading threads ahead of the 24-day long midseason trading period opening on Tuesday night 26 May. This week's fixture with teams currently in the top 8 in bold:- Drouin Dropbears (6-2, 2nd) vs Port Lincoln Power (UOC, 6-2, 4th) Neptune Island Noahs (6-2, 3rd) vs Mt Thirsty Boozers (5-3, 8th) - the home side are playing their 190th ORFFF match Sherwood Magpies (6-2, 5th) vs Macquarie Island Whales (5-3, 6th) - the visitors are celebrating their 170th ORFFF match Black Swamp 29ers (6-2, 1st) vs Nangkita Bucks (3-5, 12th) - the home side are playing their 170th ORFFF match Rutherglen Fugitives (3-5, 10th) vs Useless Loop Virgins (5-3, 9th) - the home side are also playing their 170th ORFFF match The Stony Ponys (2-6, 13th) vs Walpole Woylies (5-3, 7th) Wedge Island White Pointers (3-5, 11th) vs Heard Island Shags (1-7, 15th) Maralinga Atoms (2-6, 14th) vs Jan Juc Ducks (0-8, 16th) Once again we start the round on a Thursday night before a full lockout for the Saturday 1:15pm game so please lock your players in early and tweak again on Friday or Saturday as needed. After that we have AFL round 12 off before playing ORFFF Round 10 in AFL Round 13, with Tigers and Giants players having the week off. Best of luck to all teams.
Drop Bears Blakiston, Balta, Florent, Mac Andrew (Bo Allan) Brayshaw, Darcy Wilson, Naicos, Bruhn (Trezise) Luke Jackson Zac Bailey, Sheezel, Ginnivan, Shai Bolton (Chol) Seth Campbell, Hopper (Mitch Lewis)
Ducks are back to just the 14 players including top ups for this week with an eye to the MSD. I'm sure we don't keep records for this but the Ducks have 7 AFL listed emergencies this week which is pretty crazy in itself (Hastie, Travaglia, Visentini, CDT, Gross, H Oliver, Leake for those playing at home) - hardest part of team selection was picking the emergency line just in case of a late in.
Heard Island Shags In: Lachie Jaques, Elijah Tsatas (we try again), Sam Clohesy, Zane Zakostelsky, Cameron Nairn (and likely Riley Hardeman). Out: Jedd Busslinger, Nik Cox, Calsher Dear, Sam Davidson, Tom Burton. (Burton likely to come in as a late inclusion) DEF: Riley Bice, Ryan Maric, Lachie Jaques, Judd McVee (Harry Schoenberg -oop) MID: Elijah Tsatas, Jagga Smith, Sam Clohesy, Zeke Uwland (Tom Burton) RUCK: Zane Zakostelsky (Riley Hardeman -oop) FWD: Josh Treacy, Patrick Voss, Zane Duursma, Cameron Nairn (Sam Davidson) INT: Massimo D'Ambrosio, Jake Soligo