In the first half of the season our best score has been 2,324 points in round 5. Our best weekly ranking has been 8,300 in round 8. Our best overall ranking has been 25,432 in round 10. To this stage we've now got 25,015 points for the season, not a poor effort, but not close to the high standards we set ourselves at the start of the year.



Back to our round 11, where we got 1,616 points, on the back of the following team:



Backmen:
Goddard 97
Heppell 108
Terlich 88
Dixon 50
Thurlow 72
Webster 24
Midfielders:
Ablett 153
Pendlebury 132 Captain 264
Kennedy 86
Dangerfield 97
O'Meara 90
Crouch 46
Rucks:
Cox 132
Forwards:
Johnson 111
Macaffer 89
Naitanui 109



That was 16 scoring players, with 14 on the bench. The JJ Kennedy late out hurt us, as did Lonergan, Rowe, and Currie not playing. The only potential points we missed was through captain selection, taking the punt on Pendles to tear the Dees a new one, which he didn't quite do, falling 21 points short of Permacap!



Onto round 12, where we scored 1949 points for the week, on the back of the following:



Backmen:
Goddard 129
Heppell 90
Hanley 91
Lester 75
Midfielders:
Ablett 147
Pendlebury 145 Captain 290
Dangerfield 150
Cotchin 103
O'Meara 116
Goodes 90
Vlastuin 79
Martin 80
Ruckmen:
Rowe 55
Nicholls 76
Forwards:
Westhoff 91
Rockliff 90
Franklin 124
Zorko 73
Not Used:
Staker 53
Macaffer 39



We managed 20 scoring players in round 12, with Staker and Macaffer being dropped from the 18. Again we tried the loophole with Pendles, hoping that he'd outscore Gazza. He missed again, but this time by only two points, and he was only 5 points short of our top scorer in Dangerfield, so only a couple of points missed out here.



Thus far over the byes we've dropped Gawn, Lonergan, and Terlich. We've replaced them with Nicholls, Martin, and Hanley. Rather hard to tell the immediate success of trades while players are missing, but I'd say that the points scored and dollars made by these three has been worth the trades.



Come and join us in the donors forum to help decide the trades going into the final bye week, and how we set ourselves up for the second half” of the season.