We return from the breaks with teams refreshed and ready to go. In the home stretch now and we see some crucial games this week as we begin to sort the contenders from the pretenders! (3) Useless Loop vs (13) Macquarie Island (7) Wedge Island vs (4) Nangkita (5) Maralinga vs (6) Rutherglen (8) Heard Island vs (2) Neptune Island (16) Port Lincoln vs (1) Mole Creek (UOC) (10) Walpole vs (9) Mt Thirsty (12) Jan Juc vs (14) Cockburn (15) Drouin vs (11) Black Swamp
And don’t forget to tidy up your lists and clear out your teams before submitting fresh ones so that there aren’t ghost players and/or missing slots in our teams for the remainder of the season.
Noahs Def - Rich, Dawson, Brayshaw, Clark (Wilkie) Mid - Viney, Gaff , Duncan, Warner (Drew) Ruck - Wright Fwd - Gresham, Moore, Parker, Libba (Schache) IC - McDonald, Newman (West)
Avengers (Half of them are dead, known fact) DEFENDERS Sam Taylor, Jake Bowey, Alex Keath, Lachie Ash - Brandon Walker MIDFIELDERS Callum Mills, Jack Steele, Matthew Rowell, Callan Ward - Jarrod Brander RUCKS Tom De Koning - FORWARDS Harry Morrison. Sam De Koning, Darcy Fogarty, Joshua Rachele - Kysaiah Kropinyeri-Pickett INTERCHANGE Jye Caldwell, Brandan Parfitt - Jack Bowes
Fugitivies B: Smith Redman Jiath Howe (Aish) M: Macrae, Shiel, Simpkin Shiels (O'Halloran) R: Witts F: Durham Lynch Farrell McCreery (WHE) I: Salem Draper (Rampe)
Mole Creek team Def: Saad. Pendlebury, Ridley, Short (O'Brien) Mid: Laird, Kelly, Petracca, McCluggage (Sidebottom) Ruc: Darcy Fwd: Curnow, Rioli, Brodie, Heeney (McCarthy) Int: Greene, Rankine (Atkins)
Round 15/12 - Useless Loop Virgins Def: Steven May, Liam Baker, Brennan Cox, James Sicily (Isaac Quaynor) Mid: Lachie Neale, David Mundy, Isaac Smith, James Jordon Ruck: Rhys Stanley (Ben Hobbs*) Fwd: Errol Gulden, Josh Battle, Aaron Naughton, Campbell Chesser* (Daniel McStay) Int: Lewis Young, Griffin Logue (Liam Ryan)
The 29ers have made the trip to Drouin @stowie and anticipate a fierce contest, as injuries, suspension and a thin list bite and the home side start as 50 point favourites with the bookies. Neutrals should enjoy the spectacle of Josh Daicos manning up on his younger brother Nick at stoppages in the 29ers forward half.
Also whoever had the job of setting lockout as the first Friday night match might want to set it after the fact now, as the current lockout appears to be the 725pm Melb time game on Saturday night.
The Virgin's finish on 1,121/15 74.7 to the Whales @Darran on 1,437/15 95.8 A big smack down handed out to the home team.
Several close matches and an ORFFF record winning margin to the Glow-Worms and the Noahs highest ever total ensued as the ORFFF recommenced after the break. The top 4 race remains tight with White Pointers surging 2 up two spots into 5th, and a substantial points for advantage over 3rd and 4th who clash next week, while the Bucks favourable draw in the last 3 weeks has them still in the running for the double chance. Both Wedge Island and Nangkita have yet to make finals so history is nigh for these 2 teams if they can maintain momentum. In the race for 5th-8th the Fugs and Boozers are hanging onto 7th and 8th spot by the skins of their respective teeth, while the chasing Shags, Ducks and Woylies will most likely need to be win-win-win from here to once again make the ORFFF finals.