It wasn't really a superstar performance from the donors in round 18, with only 2007 points coming our way. This placed us at 131,236 for the round, and saw our overall ranking slide to 25,394. Making matters worse, we only won one of our five leagues, although we're quite well entrenched in the top four in all bar one of our leagues.



The team breakdown for round 18 is as follows:



Backmen:
Heppell 99
Gibbs 96
Goddard 92
Ibbotson 58
Clisby 51



Midfielders:
Selwood 151
Ablett 116 VC
T Mitchell 106
Griffen 102
Cotchin 99
Pendlebury 92 Captain 184
JP Kennedy 82
Vlastuin 67



Rucks:
Cox 90
Nicholls 36



Forwards:
Johnson 120
Franklin 119
Rockliff 111
Westhoff 89
JJ Kennedy 79
Staker 60



Bench:
Hanley
Thurlow
Webster 59
Dangerfield
Martin
Rowe 26
Currie
Zorko 89
Naitanui



The most noticeable thing with the team this week is that we only had 21 scoring players, because in all the confusion I messed up and left Hanley onfield and Webster on the pine. There's an instant 59 missed points!



The next thing was our midfield. After putting the VC on Gazza, and watching him only” pump out 116 points, we thought it best to give Pendles a crack at the captaincy (against GWS), as did many coaches this week. We then watched on as he promptly choked his way to 92 points, a long way short of our top-scoring Duckwood on 151 points. No missed points on the pine, but still a potential 24 if we stuck with Gazza, or 59 is we took the plunge on Joel.



In the ruck division we were hampered by NicNat, and then killed off by the Nicholls injury. Funnily enough though, our bench cover in Rowe scored even less, so there were no potential missed points here, just disappointment.



With the great run of super-sub Staker recently, and the poor form of both Rocky and Zorko in the same Vossy team and the same Vossy time, we gave Staker a shot over Zorko, which backfired quite badly. Not only did Zorko outscore Staker by 29 points, but Staker was our lowest scoring forward for the round! There goes another 29 potential points.



All up there a poor score in round 18 for the donors, and with a maximum of 147 potential missed points, we could have had a slightly more respectable 2154 points. Not really good enough, but still much better than we managed.



Anyway, we're nearing the end of the season, but we've still got a few trades left, and some cash in the bank, so come and join us in the donors forum to help us decide how to finish off this year.