Following the 2022 Premier League pre-season draft we have crafted an opening round with matchups between half a dozen teams that drafted players delisted by their 2022 Round 1 opponents, with the exception being Canberra vs Korea - where Korea drafted the Conservatives Sarah Allan but failed to draft a Kickers discard in return Kyoto vs Lima - the Abbie McKay/Mim Strom Cup ==> last time they met Lima won by 27 Canberra vs Korea - the high scorers in their previous clash have inspired the Kiara Bowers/Tyanna Smith Cup ==> last time they met Korea won by 25 Vixens vs Royals - the Eden Zanker/Elise O'Dea Cup ==> last time they met Vixens won by 23 Storm vs Legends - the Daisy Pearce/Mikala Cann Cup ==> last time they met the Storm won by 122 Please enter your teams via this link http://tooserious.net/forum/tsLeagues.php?leagueId=22 and post it here to help get discussion flowing. Cheers TTH
@dmandrews @Peter W @Chloe @hoschke118 @FreoDockers @Pearcey47 Please note that I am continuing efforts to locate bkp130 and/or recruit a temporary or permanent replacement now or prior to the MSD - if you know someone who would be keen PLEASE let them know.
Round one team for Kyoto is named - Def: Kate Lutkins, Janelle Cuthbertson, Hannah Priest (Jordan Ivey) Mid: Bri Davey, Amy McDonald, Maddy Prespakis, Jenna Bruton (Meagan Kiely) Fwd: Charlie Thomas, Kate Surman, Ebony Antonio (Jess Fitzgerald) Ruck: Parris Laurie (Celine Moody) IC: Alison Drennan, Kaitlyn Ashmore (Abbie McKay)
Vancouver Vixens Provisional Round 1 team Def: Chelsea Randall, Kerryn Harrington, Maddy Collier (Nicola Barr) Mid: Jaimee Lambert, Hayley Miller, Aisling McCarthy, Olivia Vesely (Sophie Van De Heuvel) Ruc: Lauren Bella (Olivia Fuller) Fwd: Erin Phillips, Kate Hore, Eden Zanker (Georgia Gee) Int: Stephanie Cain, Courtney Hodder (Charlotte Wilson)
The Storm selection committee have named the side to take on the visiting Las Vegas side @Pearcey47 with Mikayla Cann handed her club debut. Def = TLR, Watson, Sheriff (Koenan) Mid = Parker, RIddell, Lamb, Webster (T Brown) Fwd = O'Dwyer, Lochland, McEvoy (Georgostathis) Ruck = L Pearce (Tighe) IC = Egan, Cann (Reid) 2nds - Garnett Injured - Newton, Gavalas
At half time in an exciting clash the Storm 7/481 leads the visiting Legends @Pearcey47 side 8/412, by 69 points.
DEF: Tarni White, Eleanor Brown, Annie Lee (Naomi Ferres) MID: Jasmine Garner, Emily Bates, Alicia Eva, Emma Swanson (Sophie Conway) RUC: Mim Strom (Viv Saad) FOR: Gemma Houghton, Tahlia Hickie, Chloe Sheer (Kalinda Howarth) INT: Elle Bennetts, Jamie Stanton (Haneen Zreika) Sorry I'm late. I was waiting for the sunday teams and then got busy. The Lima v Kyoto game is pretty close at half time. Lima 8/494, Kyoto 8/506
The Korean Kickers are playing with: DEF: M. McDonald, G. Pound, S. Allan (J. van Dyk) MID: K. Bowers, K. Paxman, M. Bowen, S. Hosking (J. Hosking) FWD: S. Scott, K. Loynes, K. Brennan (G. O'Sullivan) RUCK: B. Moody (Z. Prowse) INT: R. Dillon, G. Campbell (C. Wakefield)
Quick indicative results from the first three games look like: Lima 793 (Eva 105, White 100, Swanson 86) def Kyoto 730 (McDonald 94, Bruton 81, Ashmore 78) Canberra 750 (Bonnici 96, Conti 94, Prespakis 79) def Korea 642 (Bowers 123, Brennan 77, Moody 71) Vixens 743 (Miller 91, Lambert 87, Zanker 82) def Lagos 715 (Marinoff 97, Hanks 97, Gay 72) Scores from Stuttgart vs Las Vegas to come. @dmandrews @Peter W @Chloe @hoschke118 All subject to change but for Kyoto's sake it would need to a hell of a lot.... And potentially losing Bri Davey and Kate Lutkins is going to hurt!!
Based on unofficial scoring the Storm appear to have recorded a triple digit victory over the visiting Legends @Pearcey47, 822 to 701.
Official scores have now been declared. The Abbie McKay/Mim Strom Cup was won by 71 points by Mim Strom's new club (Abbie McKay's old club) @hoschke118 The Kiara Bowers/Tyanna Smith Cup was won by Canberra by 108 points despite Tyanna Smith herself being out for the year and Bowers running amok as she always does for the visiting Kickers. In pleasing news for the competition we have a coach ready and willing to step into the hotseat for Canberra who in a historic week for the club replaced most of their deadwood in the PSD and inspired by the debut of 2022 Premier League Draft Pick #1 and future GOAT Georgie Prespakis recorded their first every win after a series of unlucky high scoring losses in season 2021. Cities across the globe are trying to entice the new ownership to shift the glamour franchise from their Canberra base, and to bring them a slice of the world's most prestigious fantasy footy competition to their doorstep, so stay tuned for further news. In other matches - 2021 Minor Premiers Vancouver @dmandrews defeated Lagos by 7 points in a match decided late in the final stanza, with the Eden Zanker/Elise O'Dea Cup going to Eden Zanker's new side (Elise O'Dea's old side) in part due to Zanker racking up 82 points to O'Dea's undisciplined 36 effort in her Royals debut. Finally the 2021 Premiers Stuttgart easily dispatched Las Vegas to win the Daisy Pearce/Mikalya Cann Cup despite @Pearcey47's new recruit and namesake Daisy Pearce edging Legends delistee Cann 42-31 in their head to head battle, the eventual match margin blowing out to 178 points. Notably for Las Vegas, despite being named Ash Brazill was AWOL having missed a connecting flight from London to Stuttgart in a small leave window granted while representing the nation in her other sporting endeavours. With Round 1 of the Premier League soon becoming a distant memory the teams now ready themselves to board their private jets to navigate the journey to their Round 2 matches commencing this Friday.