Thanks for the updates, as per the script the Fugitives just don't stand up when it counts. We pull ourselves together for another tilt next year.
The 2021 ORFFF finals kicked off with some highly entertaining footy across the with Mole Creek making a statement with a record finals winning margin in their qualifying victory over Maralinga. Elsewhere Walpole performed even better in the attacking half to record a triple digit margin over the Ducks who recorded the 3rd highest losing score ever meaning they were around a 99.5% chance of winning a random game with their weekly score. In the cut-throat finals Macquarie Island outclassed the Shags in the battle of the isolated Southern Ocean Islands while Mt Thirsty won the closest final of the week by 95 points by imposing a whole field defensive press that caused the Fugs to record their lowest ever ORFFF score. The Glow-Worms and Woylies now get a week off to prepare their charges for the 2021 prelim finals while watching the 4 Semi Final sides battle this week in Week 2 of the 2021 ORFFF finals.
Semi Final 1 Maralinga Atoms @Brett Sanders vs Macquarie Island Whales @Darran - Maralinga holds a 4-2 H2H advantage having won the last 4, including a narrow 4 point victory a fortnight ago - Maralinga has won 4 of 7 finals while the Whales are 3 from 6 - the winners of this game qualify for a road trip to the 3 peat chasing Walpole side in the 2nd preliminary final Semi Final 2 Jan Juc Ducks @thokash vs Mt Thirsty Boozers @leematty1 - Jan Juc holds a 5-2 H2H advantage also having won the last 4 including the last 2 by over 200 points each time - Mt Thirsty has a superior finals record (6-2 compared to 3-7) including a 12 point thriller in their 2017 Qualifying Final match. - the winners of this game qualify for a road trip to Mole Creek in the 1st preliminary final once again matches are due commence on Friday night, blurb to be added later
Macquarie Island vs Maralinga @Brett Sanders Unscathed from last weeks win, the selection panel are just playing around the edges this week, trying to recapture the golden days of our mid season resurgence & gain some revenge for the narrow loss the Atoms inflicted upon us a couple of weeks ago. Def: Tom Doedee, Brodie Smith, Jack Scrimshaw & Jack Henry (James Harmes) Mid: Ben Keays, Josh Kennedy, George Hewett & Zach Tuohy (Angus Brayshaw) Ruc: Nic Naitanui Fwd: Dayne Zorko, Will Snelling, Aaron Hall & Jamie Elliott (Darcy MacPherson) Int: Tom Hickey & Justin McInerney (Trent Rivers) Subject to change
News today has put a bit of a dampener on our finals series, guess we'll wait and see what updates come out through the day to how they handle it. I assume we either have to postpone a week ourselves or just use averages unless they manage to play the games midweek or something?
Not much to report yet with only 4 AFL matches away. JJD 632/7 MTB 493/5 Menegola and Seedsman clearly didn't want to perform against their old club both scoring only in the 60s.
Plenty to come, but Macquarie Island are out to an early lead at 776/8 (97) compared to the Atoms currently sitting on 697/9 (77.44)
Can we get somewhere to unlock the players who’s games were originally yesterday but scheduled for today now please.
If this system issue lingers everyone’s best course of action is to post their team in this thread and make changes by a fresh post each time.
With everyone locked early. Boozers will have Perkins as fwd emerg and marlion Pickett as OOP on field. With castagna the one to be removed.
Not looking good for the Ducks, after the first match of Sunday Boozers add a Touk 142 and an unexpected Big Boner Brown 102 to their total, with the Ducks unfortunately copping a TMac substitute and full game score of 25 for Will "I score today?" Powell MTB 737/7 leading Ducks 1041/12 Could it be 11 in a row followed by out in straight sets?
Boozers swap Fantasia with Duman so as to loop starcevich on field. boozers also swap Pickett with Fantasia in the forward line. boozers also swap Aish with marlion Pickett so as to loop d smith in the interchange.
I have the boozers on 11-1017 with cumming Jonas lycett and Fantasia to come vs 12-1041 with Aliir Amon and back to come.
Whales finished on 1374 (91.6) and lead the Atoms coming into the last two games who are currently on 813/11 (73.91) with Wingard, Taberner, Burton & Georgiades tasked with overcoming a 561 point deficit. A couple of scores in the 50's mean the Whales still have room for improvement if we earn the right to face Walpole next week.