6 of the 2020 ORFFF finalists including the 2018-2020 premiers are back joined by Mt Thirsty (2017 premiers) and Mac Island who return after 1 and 3 year finals absences respectively. The first week of finals matches is as follows Mole Creek Glow-Worms (13-2, 20807, 1st) @James84 vs Maralinga Atoms (11-4, 18890, 4th) @Brett Sanders The 2 sides have won 3 apiece in their 6 H2H clashes with the twice consecutive minor premiers winning the last 2 matches (Rd7 2021 and Rd3 2020). Their 6 clashes to date have been blowouts with the closest margin being 126 points Mole Creek have won 7 straight matches but have also lost their 2 finals to date (2016 and 2020) while the 2018 ORFFF premiers Maralinga boast 4 wins from 6 finals and having prevailed over the Whales last week in an epic contest will be confident in their ability to play their best fantasy footy at the pointy end of the season. Jan Juc Ducks (13-2, 20044, 2nd, UOC) @thokash vs Walpole Woylies (11-4, 20312, 3rd) @port_leschenault the Ducks are on an 11 match winning streak and lead the H2H 5-3, with 6 of the 8 matches decided by 76 points or less the record is 1 apiece in finals with the teams now meeting in the first week for the 3rd consecutive year. @port_leschenault was seemingly happy to concede the 2021 regular season match (also ORFFF Round 13) knowing that no team has as yet managed the regular season and finals double lack of finals experience will be no excuse for either side as the Ducks have won 3 of 9 finals and will look to improve that mark against the 3 peat seeking Woylies who have won 7 of their 11 Macquarie Island Whales (10-5, 20011, 5th) @Darran vs Heard Island Shags (8-7, 19139, 8th) @anthak the home side leads the H2H 4-2 (despite only 2 of these being at home) with their 5 point margin in ORFFF Round 13 being the only margin less than 100 points despite a 3 year absence from finals action the Whales hold an advantage in finals experience having won 2 from 5 compared to 1 from 3 for the Shags, Rutherglen Fugitives (10-5, 19303, 6th) @tyze1 vs Mt Thirsty Boozers (9-6, 18925, 7th) @leematty1 the visitors hold a 4-2 H2H advantage including a 13 point win at the same ground in ORFFF Round 11 2017 Premiers Mt Thirsty have the competitions highest finals winning percentage (5-2 = 71.4%) while the Fugs have room for improvement with a solitary win from 6 finals to date Get your teams in nice and early noting that these Qualifying and Elimination matches commence on Friday, best of luck to all who earned their finals ticket
The Ducks and The Woylies are building a serious rivalry over the last few years, Ducks just snuck home a few weeks ago but pretty sure the Woyles have the winning record in finals.
Yeah - you never agreed to our deal! I left a brown paper bag and everything. Can't escape damn Ducks in any final! Good luck, I think JJ and Mole Creek have deserved to be the top 2 teams this season, very tough to beat, insanely stacked on paper.
Macquarie Island vs Heard Island @anthak We welcome back 3 first choice defenders (Doedee, Harmes & Scrimshaw) into our lineup as we look to recover from our disappointing loss last week where we barely missed out on the double chance. Obviously the below is subject to change. Def: Tom Doedee, Brodie Smith, James Harmes & Jack Henry (Jack Scrimshaw) Mid: Ben Keays, Josh Kennedy, George Hewett & Zach Tuohy (Angus Brayshaw) Ruc: Nic Naitanui Fwd: Dayne Zorko, Will Snelling, Aaron Hall & Jamie Elliott (Trent Rivers*) Int: Tom Hickey & Justin McInerney (Connor West)
Fugitives v Boozers @leematty1 Depth has been tested all year with the following all injured at the pointy end: Houli, Witts, Langford, Howe, Gunston, WHE Def: Salem, Rampe, Redman Birchall (Durham) Mid: Macrae, Parish, Cunnington, Simpkin (Sholl) Ruc: Draper Fwd: Lambert, Lynch, Robertson, Walters (Henry) Int: Shiel, Sheed (Cotchin) ** Subject to change **
Mole Creek v Maralinga Atoms @Brett Sanders Mole Creek continues its tradition of losing key players to injury leading into finals, with several key players to miss or under clouds entering the finals. Def: Saad, Laird, Ridley, Short (Z.Williams) Mid: Kelly, Petracca, Perryman, McCluggage (Pendlebury) Ruc: Darcy (Reeves) Fwd: Dangerfield, Walker, Hind, Heeney (Sidebottom) Int: Cripps, Henderson
Good luck finalists. As eloquently pointed out by @TheTassieHawk The silver lining to the Noahs bowing out in 9th is there’s no risk of us losing yet another grand final.
Good luck mate. Heard Island team: D: Jake Lloyd, Luke Ryan, Jeremy McGovern, Ivan Soldo (Brayden Maynard) M: Tom Mitchell, Nat Fyfe, David Swallow, Jack Sinclair (Nick Blakey) R: Patty Ryder (Esava Ratugolea) F: Jake Stringer, Lance Franklin, Jaydn Stephenson, Jack Rewoldt (Alex Neal Bullen) I: Shane Edward, Quentin Narkle.
made some late changes, with possibly more to come through the weekend too. Narkle is out. Ratugolea moves to his spot, with Johannisen now interchange emergency
Late night update, Maralinga 11/947 (86) leading Mole Creek 8/709 (88) Mole creek rack up two more injuries in Williams and Pendlebury (whose 26 will come into play if Josh Kelly doesn't get up) but should be looking to finish out this one well tomorrow with a strong closing lineup. Maralinga to play (Stewart, Coniglio, Taberner, Idun) Mole Creek to play (Ridley, Short, Kelly, Perryman,Dangerfield, Hind, Henderson)
In the 2v3 face off it's another high scoring affair, but strangely both teams have had most of their players play already so its the Woylies in the box seat as it stands. Woyles 1248/12 (Whitfield, Merrett, N Wilson to play) leading Ducks 1264/13 (Hawkins, Menegola to play) Hawkins & Menegola combined for 260 last week and the Ducks will need nothing less than that again to stand a chance.
Boozers move to 11-911 while Fugitives are now 9-756. Very close here with not many premos left for either par Parish for Fugitives.
The Whales finished strongly to end on 1369 to the Shags who finished on 1206, things were lineball coming into today's games but 150 to Kennedy and some injury hampered scores to the Shags made the difference @anthak
Ducks cooked! Woylies ran away 1567 to 1458 winners, a massive 3025 aggregate. Will be back again next week to hopefully pull a 2019 Woylies and go all the way after losing the first final.
Whoa that is a huge score, from both teams! I was worried coming in I wouldnt have enough mids and no idea on form of forwards. GL in the Semis