We were pumped for Round 11 against Foul Bay but after the tragic passing of Phil Walsh the entire ORFFA round was called off, and rightly so! Here's a bit of news about the team we had prepared for the clash: anthak wrote: TerryinBangkok wrote: anthak wrote: Gariwerd D: ... M: ... R: ... F: ... (em: C. Wingard) I: ...(em: H. Cunningham) Must have a very impressive forward line for Wingard to be EMG. Let me know if you want to trade him down the track. I went to the VFL last weekend for Collingwood v Box Hill, and I was so looking forward to seeing big Mason Cox play, but he was dropped for the game unfortunately - I think he was rested. So, I was really keen to give him a run in the ORFFA this week, and our captain, Mr Wingard was kind enough to step down to an emergency role to make way for the big man. Shannon Hurn will fill in as Captain this week. And as his VC, it was out of three members of our leadership group who are playing in this game - Masten, Christensen and Mackie - and Masten has been rewarded for his strong form this year with the VC duties. Here is our full team for this round: IN: Sam Fisher, Mason Cox (debut), Brodie Smith. OUT: Zach Tuohy, Chad Wingard, Touk Miller. Def: Andrew Mackie Lynden Dunn Zach TUOHY Sam Fisher Shannon Hurn (C) Mid: Brett Deledio Chris Masten (VC) Nathan Jones Mitch WALLIS Ruc: Tom HICKEY Levi CASBOULT - oop Fwd: Taylor Walker Allan CHRISTENSEN Chad Wingard Jeremy Cameron Mason Cox Int: Brodie SMITH Cameron GUTHRIE Harry Cunningham Unfortunately Mason Cox did not get to make his ORFFA debut, but his inclusion in the team shows how he is tracking at the club and we have hope he will get another opportunity soon. With the seniors being called off, many of our players went down to play for the reserves, with only Brodie Smith, Cam Guthrie, Andrew Mackie, Mason Cox and Tex Walker getting the week off from those named in the team above. Somewhat surprisingly, many of the players struggled in the reserves and it was probably lucky we didnt come up against Foul Bay last week. Best players in the reserves were Chad Wingard, Nathan Jones and Chris Masten. Jeremy Cameron did ok, but everyone else struggled. This week we host Cradle Mountain for Chelsea Roffey round and we are looking forward to getting back into ORFFA action after a months' break. RIP Phil Walsh
Round 12 Vs Cradle Mountain Devils. After picking a team for round 11 before the round was called off, Im not sure which team to use to declare ins & outs. I guess our last game was in Round 10, so I'll go from that one. In: Sam Fisher, Brodie Smith, Tom Bellchambers Out: Andrew Mackie, Touk Miller, Chad wingard There were changes to last week's team, and some might ask why that was when there was no game played. Zach Tuohy was rewarded for his great game in the ressies, coming in for Mackie who was rested last week. And Tom Bellchambers came in for Mason Cox because we wanted to show him off as our big ticket signing at our first home game since we picked him up mid season, purely for promotional purposes. It seems to have brought in the fans through the turnstiles, but we didnt expect him to actually end up playing. Here is our team: Def: Lynden Dunn 91 Sam Fisher 61 0 Zach TUOHY 116 Brodie SMITH 69 0 Mid: Brett Deledio 139 Chris Masten (VC) 104 Touk Miller 0 Nathan Jones 97 Mitch WALLIS 82 0 Ruc: Tom HICKEY 0 Andrew Mackie - oop 45 Fwd: Tom Bellchambers 0 Taylor Walker 78 Chad Wingard 99 Allan CHRISTENSEN 71 Jeremy Cameron 125 0 Int: Shannon Hurn (C) 71 Cameron GUTHRIE 90 Levi CASBOULT 0 As was kind of expected, Bellchambers didnt end up getting up for the game, so Wingard came back in... and Hickey was also a late withdrawal, with Mackie filling in admirably in the ruck! We won a close one, 1338 to 1315. anthak wrote: dmandrews wrote: Anthony, well done on winning a great game in which the Gariwerd Cockatoos got the edge over the Cradle Mountain Devils 1,338 to 1,315. Despite the loss I am happy with how the Devils performed, surpassing their benchmark score of 1,300 points for one of the rare times in 2015, however questions are being asked of the Cradle Mountain coach and match committee, in particular their decision to select Tom Boyd as the ruck emergency, knowing he would have to play unless Toby Nankervis was a late inclusion. The choice of ruck emergency ended up being the deciding factor with the Cockatoos outscoring the Devils by 29 points in a match-up between two out of position players, Mackie (45) versus Boyd (16). Shortly after the game began the Cradle Mountain match committee realised they should have selected Boyd's housemate, Nick Vlastuin as the ruck emergency, Vlastuin, also out of position would have scored 48 points and got the Devils over the line by nine points. Despite being in 13th position and winning only four games Cradle Mountain have a percentage slightly above 100 due to being flat-track bullies and their four wins being by over 100 points, whilst lacking composure in close games and losing all five games decided by less than 100 points, including four games by less than 45 points, 31 points in Round 2, 27 points in Round 3, 44 points in Round 8 and 23 points in Round 12. Cradle Mountain are confident they can perform better in the final five rounds of the 2015 ORFFA season than they have for most of the season and wont be surprised if they finish the season with a flurry, however given that they are three games out of the eight finals aren't even a consideration. Given the way the season is panning out the Devils might fall narrowly short once again and work their way up to ninth which would surely earn them the title of &lsquo;the Richmond of the ORFFA.' Good summary Dean. Very happy to have snuck home with the close win. I had been looking at scores from both of our players through the weekend and thinking it would be a close one. That brings up our 5th win of the season, which is the same as what we achieved for all of last season. Hopefully we can get another win in the next 5 weeks to see that we are improving. Les W medal votes: 5 - Brett Deledio - Gariwerd - 139 4 - Jeremy Cameron - Gariwerd - 125 3 - Dayne Zorko - Cradle Mountain - 124 2 - Shaun Grigg- Cradle Mountain - 124 1 - Michael Hurley- Cradle Mountain - 123 Here are the votes for our B&F: 3 - Jeremy Cameron (Really stepped up for this game when we really needed him to. 5 goals in a close game) 2 - Brett Deledio (In awesome form. BoG in the Les W medal voting) 1 - Andrew Mackie (Came in as a late replacement for Tom Hickey in the ruck and put up a match winning performance against Tom Boyd) And here's the leaderboard (with rounds polled in brackets): 11 - Brett Deledio (7, 8, 9, 12) <div>9 - Nathan Jones (3, 4, 10) 8 - Jeremy Cameron (4, 6, 12) 7 - Sam Fisher (1, 2, 5); Mitch Wallis (2, 8, 9) 3 - Taylor Walker (1); Shannon Hurn (5, 7); Cam Guthrie (3, 8) 2 - Brodie Smith (2, 3); Tom Hickey (5); Allan Christensen (6); Chad Wingard (4, 10); Andrew Mackie (10, 12) 1 - Daniel Gorringe (1); Chris Masten (6); Touk Miller (7); Lynden Dunn (9).
Really good consistent batch of scores Ant. Lots of good efforts across the board. And Lids is in fine form right now. High half-forward and is playing really well.
chris88 wrote: Really good consistent batch of scores Ant. Lots of good efforts across the board. And Lids is in fine form right now. High half-forward and is playing really well. Thanks Chris. Lids has been playing mainly midfield for Gariwerd. He's really relished his move back onto the ground after coming off the bench for most of last season.
Round 13, @ Larrikin Lagoon We travelled down to the swamp and put on a fairly good performance, but couldnt quite get the job done. Larrikin Lagoon won 1338 - 1310... Hickey was once again a late withdrawal and Mackie didnt do too badly himself as the ruck replacement, but he couldnt stop Goldstein from doing as he pleased. Goldstein just did whatever he wanted and racked up a huge 221 points on his own, which ultimately proved too much to overcome. We need Hickey to come good. We keep giving him every chance to get up for each game, but he just doesnt quite make it each week. There was only 1 change this week, but it was reversed on matchday, so we kinda had an unchanged lineup after our win last week. Out: Mackie In: Hickey Def: Lynden Dunn 57 Sam Fisher 72 Zach TUOHY 78 Brodie SMITH 50 Mid: Brett Deledio 141 Chris Masten 104 Matt Crouch 0 Nathan Jones 85 Mitch WALLIS 86 Ruc: Tom HICKEY 0 Andrew Mackie - oop 48 Fwd: Taylor Walker 102 Allan CHRISTENSEN 121 Levi CASBOULT 0 Chad Wingard (C) 122 Jeremy Cameron 64 Int: Shannon Hurn (VC) 103 Cameron GUTHRIE 77 Touk Miller 0 anthak wrote: grav wrote: anthak wrote: My mob couldnt quite overcome Goldstein's dominance in the ruck Larrikin Lagoon 1338 d Gariwerd 1310 Les W: 5 - Todd Goldstein (LLL) - 221 4 - Brett Deledio (GC) - 141 3 - Chad Wingard (GC) - 122 2 - Allan Christensen (GC) - 121 1 - Brendan Goddard (LLL) - 106 And I was very happy with Touk Miller's 132 in the reserves! Thanks Ant, you were bloody unlucky. Hickey stiff not to get a run. With no mid tons and sub 40's from Scooter and Lumumba, I had no right to snare this one. Goldy's heroics season-defining for the Lefties. Swings and roundabouts of the footy world sees smoky recruit Alex Woodward (on the cusp of breaking into the team) suffer yet another serious knee injury. Feel gutted for the kid. I am a bit disappointed I couldnt win this one, but I was kinda lucky i got so close, Grav, due to some of your better players having a down week. Good to see you win a close one too. You've had more than your fair share of close losses over the last couple of seasons. Here are the votes for our B&F: 3 - Brett Deledio (Another huge game. Almost willed the team to victory) 2 - Chad Wingard (Playing very consistently. A strong captain's performance, but pity we couldnt swing him into the ruck) 1 - Allan Christensen (Top game. Considered a few for the 1 vote, but couldnt go past this game from Bundy really) <div> And here's the leaderboard (with rounds polled in brackets): 14 - Brett Deledio (7, 8, 9, 12, 13) 9 - Nathan Jones (3, 4, 10) <p style='margin-bottom: 10px; background: transparent;[span style='background: transparent;8 - Jeremy Cameron (4, 6, 12) 7 - Sam Fisher (1, 2, 5); Mitch Wallis (2, 8, 9) <p style='margin-bottom: 10px; background: transparent;4 -Chad Wingard (4, 10, 13) 3 - Taylor Walker (1); Shannon Hurn (5, 7); Cam Guthrie (3, 8); Allan Christensen (6, 13) 2 - Brodie Smith (2, 3); Tom Hickey (5)[span style='background: transparent;; Andrew Mackie (10, 12) 1 - Daniel Gorringe (1); Chris Masten (6); Touk Miller (7); Lynden Dunn (9).
[span style='background-color: #eeeeee;Round 14 (AFL Rd 17) - Surnames & Nicknames We welcomed bottom of the ladder Whitsunday down to Gariwerd for this week's match. They had just won their first game of the season last week after a close loss to top 4 side Waikikamoocow the week before, so came down to Gariwerd in pretty good form... And they did enough to get the win against us, 1258 - 1342. A disappointing loss for the Cockies. After some patchy form, we dropped Brodie Smith for this week, and brought in Tom Hickey again. But as was the case last week as well, the change was reversed on matchday as Hickey once again didnt get up for the game. Brodie Smith came into the team out of position in the ruck and did ok. Journeyman, Richard Douglas, played an influential game against us, scoring 4 Les W votes, after training with us all preseason this year. In: Tom Hickey Out: Brodie Smith Def: Andrew Mackie 72 Lynden Dunn 90 Angus LITHERLAND 0 Sam Fisher 73 Zach TUOHY 83 0 Mid: Brett Deledio 98 Chris Masten 83 Touk Miller 0 Nathan Jones 94 Mitch WALLIS 110 0 Ruc: Tom HICKEY 0 Brodie SMITH 41 Fwd: Taylor Walker 79 Allan CHRISTENSEN 80 Levi CASBOULT 0 Chad Wingard 105 Jeremy Cameron 60 0 Int: Shannon Hurn 62 Cameron GUTHRIE 95 0 Here are the votes for our B&F: 3 - Chad Wingard (Almost scored a Les W vote, but playing on the losing side cost him) 2 - Mitch Wallis (Very good 4 quarter performance) 1 - Cam Guthrie (Looks to have turned a corner with 2 90+ scores since mid-season break) background-color: #ffffff; And here's the leaderboard (with rounds polled in brackets): 14 - Brett Deledio (7, 8, 9, 12, 13) <div>9 - Nathan Jones (3, 4, 10); Mitch Wallis (2, 8, 9, 14) 8 - Jeremy Cameron (4, 6, 12) 7 - Sam Fisher (1, 2, 5);Chad Wingard (4, 10, 13, 14) 4 -Cam Guthrie (3, 8, 14) 3 - Taylor Walker (1); Shannon Hurn (5, 7); Allan Christensen (6, 13) 2 - Brodie Smith (2, 3); Tom Hickey (5); Andrew Mackie (10, 12) 1 - Daniel Gorringe (1); Chris Masten (6); Touk Miller (7); Lynden Dunn (9).
<a class='Forum_NormalBold' href='http://tooserious.net/forum/Forum/tabid/91/forumid/15/postid/77289/scope/posts/Default.aspx#77289' style='background-color: #eeeeee;Round 15 (AFL 18) - Once in a Blue Moon round[/url After losing to the bottom of the ladder Whitsunday Warriors, the Cockies then had to travel to Iron Knob to play the defending premiers! Luckily for us, we have our favorite camping ground in Iron Knob and enjoy the trip over there. We have once again tried to bring in Tom Hickey for his first game since Round 10, just prior to the midseason break. We have named him every week, and he has been a late withdrawal every week, but he was finally good to go this week and played a good game in the ruck, outplaying David Hale. Iron Knob Codpieces 1230 lost to Gariwerd Cockatoos 1323 Gariwerd returned to their favorite camping ground in Iron Knob, and the familiar surroundings may have helped as the Cockatoos looked completely at ease on the still makeshift oval in the mine with the granite 50m arcs. Iron Knob unsuccessfully attempted to get Ablett up for the game, but as expected he was a late withdrawal, with youngster De Goey (44) coming in. Gariwerd finally had an actual ruckman to play this game, with Hickey (71) coming in and completely outplaying his opposition in Hale (39) in a completely unexpected win for Gariwerd. The loss for the defending premiers sees them in unfamiliar territory a game out of the coveted top 3. In: Tom Hickey Out: Brodie Smith Def: Andrew Mackie 87 Lynden Dunn 94 Brodie SMITH 0 Sam Fisher 66 Zach TUOHY 65 0 Mid: Brett Deledio 134 Chris Masten 108 Harry Cunningham 0 Nathan Jones 96 Mitch WALLIS 101 0 Ruc: Tom HICKEY 71 Touk Miller 0 Fwd: Taylor Walker 42 Allan CHRISTENSEN 78 Levi CASBOULT 0 Chad Wingard 100 Jeremy Cameron 60 0 Int: Shannon Hurn 62 Cameron GUTHRIE 127 0 Here are the votes for our B&F: 3 - Cam Guthrie (After polling a vote last week, stepped up once again to BoG status) 2 - Brett Deledio (Back into his awesome form. FTW) 1 - Tom Hickey (First game since mid-season break and was influential in the ruck) background-color: #ffffff; And here's the leaderboard (with rounds polled in brackets): 16 - Brett Deledio (7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15) background-color: #ffffff;9 - Nathan Jones (3, 4, 10); Mitch Wallis (2, 8, 9, 14) <p style='margin-bottom: 10px;8 - Jeremy Cameron (4, 6, 12) 7 - Sam Fisher (1, 2, 5);Chad Wingard (4, 10, 13, 14);Cam Guthrie (3, 8, 14, 15) <p style='margin-bottom: 10px;3 - Taylor Walker (1); Shannon Hurn (5, 7); Allan Christensen (6, 13); Tom Hickey (5, 15) 2 - Brodie Smith (2, 3); Andrew Mackie (10, 12) 1 - Daniel Gorringe (1); Chris Masten (6); Touk Miller (7); Lynden Dunn (9). With two rounds to go, we are a sneaky chance to still make the finals. If we do not make it into the top 8, Brett Deledio has done enough to win his 2nd Gariwerd B&F. <div>
Looks like Lids will win the B&F. We're currently in 12th position on the ladder and would need a lot to go our way if we were to make the finals. So, with only 2 games to go, Lids has got enough of a lead to win it outright. LADDER <p style='margin-bottom: 10px; background: #fcfcfc; Pos Club P W L D F A % Form pts 1 Foul Bay Chickens 15 12 2 1 19019 17238 110.33% DWWWW 50 2 Venus Bay Vultures 15 10 4 1 18811 17050 110.33% DWLLW 42 3 Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles 15 10 4 1 17453 16282 107.19% DWLWW 42 4 Powlett Plains Packers 15 10 4 1 17373 16280 106.71% DLWLW 42 5 Birdsville Battlers 15 10 4 1 17338 16654 104.11% DLWWL 42 6 Iron Knob Codpieces 15 9 5 1 18214 17268 105.48% DWWWL 38 7 Larrikin Lagoon Lefties 15 8 6 1 18139 17063 106.31% DWWWW 34 8 Darraweit Guim Dirigibles 15 8 6 1 17671 17373 101.72% DWLLL 34 9 Charlies Opening 15 7 7 1 17640 17076 103.30% DLLWL 30 10 Mount Beauty Uglies 15 7 7 1 16931 16883 100.28% DWWWW 30 11 Wagga Wagga Wombats 15 7 7 1 16287 17134 95.06% DLLLL 30 12 Gariwerd Cockatoos 15 6 8 1 17369 17439 99.60% DWLLW 26 13 Cradle Mountain Devils 15 6 8 1 17072 17197 99.27% DLWWL 26 14 Nunawading Nuffers 15 6 8 1 16252 17134 94.85% DWWLL 26 15 Whitsunday Warriors 15 3 11 1 15800 16926 93.35% DLWWW 14 16 Marble Bar Misfits 15 3 11 1 15669 17322 90.46% DLLLL 14 17 Lovely Banks Lilacs 15 2 12 1 15267 17756 85.98% DLLLW 10 18 Gundagai Grasshoppers 15 2 12 1 14656 16886 86.79% DLLLL 10 <p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background: #fcfcfc; <p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background: #fcfcfc; <p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background: #fcfcfc;The run home, in order of the current ladder: 1. Foul Bay, currently on 50pts. Due to play[/b]@ Birdsville & @ Whitsunday[/b]. Two away games to finish. This team knows how to win. Could finish as high as 1st, and as low as 4th maybe. Likely to finish around 1st. 2. Venus Bay, 42 pts.[/b]vWhitsunday & vWaikikamoocow.[/b]Two home games to finish, but tough matchups.Could finish as high as 1st, and as low as 8th. Likely to finish around 2nd. 3. Waikikamoocow,42 pts.[/b]v Powlett Plains & @Venus Bay[/b]. Playing two other top4 sides.Could finish as high as 1st, and as low as 8th. Likely to finish around 3rd. 4. Powlett Plains,42 pts.[/b]@Waikikamoocow &v Marble Bar.[/b]Tough game in NZ this week, and is very important.Could finish as high as 1st, and as low as 8th. Likely to finish around 4th. 5. Birdsville,42 pts.[/b]v Foul Bay & @Darraweit Guim[/b]. Has the lowest points total of top 8, with two tough games to finish.Could finish as high as 1st, and as low as 8th. Likely to finish around 8th. 6. Iron Knob, 38 pts.[/b]@Mt Beauty &v Wagga Wagga[/b]. Tough games, but should do enough to stay in the 8.Could finish as high as 2nd, and as low as 11th maybe. Likely to finish around 5th. 7. Larrikin Lagoon, 34 pts.[/b]@Nunawading &v Cradle Mountain.[/b]On fire since mid season, should keep it going, and may push for top 4.Could finish as high as 3rd, and as low as 14th. Likely to finish around 6th. 8. Darraweit Guim,34 pts.[/b]@Lovely Banks &v Birdsville[/b]. Probably the only top 8 team who realistically could miss out, but will probably hold on.Could finish as high as 3rd, and as low as 14th. Likely to finish around 7th. 9. Charlies Opening, 30 pts.[/b]@Gundagai &v Gariwerd[/b]. In Ok form, and both winnable games.Could finish as high as 5th, and as low as 14th. Likely to finish around 9th. 10. Mount Beauty, 30 pts.[/b]v Iron Knob &v Lovely Banks[/b]. In excellent form and both games at home.Could finish as high as 5th, and as low as 14th. Likely to finish around 10th. 11. Wagga Wagga, 30 pts.[/b]v Cradle Mountain & @Iron Knob[/b]. Struggling with a lot of injuries and poor form.Could finish as high as 5th, and as low as 14th. Likely to finish around 13th. 12. Gariwerd, 26 pts.[/b]v Marble Bar & @Charlies Opening[/b]. Even if DGD lose both, will struggle to jump ahead of COS and MBU.Could finish as high as 7th, and as low as 14th. Likely to finish around 11th. 13. Cradle Mountain, 26 pts.[/b]@Wagga Wagga & @Larrikin Lagoon[/b]. Two away games to finish and unlikely to make the 8.Could finish as high as 7th, and as low as 14th. Likely to finish around 12th. 14. Nunawading, 26 pts.[/b]v Larrikin Lagoon & @Gundagai[/b]. Almost impossible to make it. Would need to score huge!Could finish as high as 7th, and as low as 14th. Likely to finish around 14th. Looks like the top 8 may remain fairly settled. <p style='margin-bottom: 10px; background: #fcfcfc; <p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background: #fcfcfc;
<strong style='color: #000000;Round 16 - Mark Seaby Memorial[/b] After scoring 2 votes last round and pretty much wrapping up the B&F, Brett Deledio stopped turning up to training this week and we have dropped him for the round 16 match against Marble Bar. We won the match easily, 1302 - 935, with all Les W votes going to 5 Cockies. In: Brodie Smith Out: Brett Deledio Def: Andrew Mackie 109 Lynden Dunn 90 Levi CASBOULT 0 Sam Fisher 39 Zach TUOHY 59 0 Mid: Chris Masten 66 Nathan Jones 69 Touk Miller 0 Mitch WALLIS 137 Cameron GUTHRIE 113 0 Ruc: Tom HICKEY 73 0 Fwd: Taylor Walker 111 Allan CHRISTENSEN 107 Harry Cunningham 0 Chad Wingard 78 Jeremy Cameron 60 0 Int: Shannon Hurn 62 Brodie SMITH 101 Matt Crouch 0 Here are the votes for our B&F: 3 - Mitch Wallis (Dominated the midfield in Deledio's absence. Having an excellent season) 2 - Cam Guthrie (Continuing his form revival since mid season) 1 - Brodie Smith (Back into the side and performed well) And here's the leaderboard (with rounds polled in brackets): 16 - Brett Deledio (7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15) 12 -Mitch Wallis (2, 8, 9, 14, 16) 9 - Nathan Jones (3, 4, 10);[span style='color: #000000; background: transparent;Cam Guthrie (3, 8, 14, 15, 16) <p style='margin-bottom: 10px; background: transparent;8 - Jeremy Cameron (4, 6, 12) 7 - Sam Fisher (1, 2, 5);Chad Wingard (4, 10, 13, 14) <p style='margin-bottom: 10px; background: transparent;3 - Taylor Walker (1); Shannon Hurn (5, 7); Allan Christensen (6, 13); Tom Hickey (5, 15);Brodie Smith (2, 3, 16) 2 - Andrew Mackie (10, 12) 1 - Daniel Gorringe (1); Chris Masten (6); Touk Miller (7); Lynden Dunn (9).
Round 17 14.08 - 16.08 Left Footers round For the final game of the season, we have brought Brett Deledio back into the team after he put in a good showing on the training track, to make up for his indiscretions the week previous, however we have him coming of the bench even though he has dominated in the midfield all season. In: Brett Deledio Out: Sam Fisher In the game, we thumped the 9th placed Charlies Opening, 1340 - 1077, to jump ahead of them on the ladder to finish in 9th place at the end of the season, just missing out on playing finals footy. Charlies Opening coach, Bandit, has been talking about tanking most of the season, and he may have finally decided enough was enough (not serious). anthak wrote: Bandit wrote: Charlie's Opening lights go out in the last round... put to the sword by Gariwerd 1077[span class='Apple-tab-span Charlies Opening[span class='Apple-tab-span vs[span class='Apple-tab-span Gariwerd Cockatoos[span class='Apple-tab-span 1340 5. S. Hill 144 (COS) 4. M. Wallis 138 (GC) 3. C. Guthrie 135 (GC) 2. K. Jack 123 (COS) 1. A. Christensen 108 (GC) Good luck to the teams in the finals... first time in ORFFA history the Spelunkers haven't made it Thanks Bandit. With the win, I jumped ahead of you and finished in 9th. Finishing 1 win out of finals, Im now rueing the losses against Gundagai, Wagga and Whitsunday who all finished lower on the ladder to me. Post Mid-Season, I finished the season with consistent scores: 1338, 1310, 1258, 1323, 1302, 1340, averaging 1312 over the final 6 games. But, importantly, on the season, I only managed to beat 2 teams that finished in the top 8, so we're not quite at the level yet. After the Robbie Gray trade, many of you suggested it was almost a certainty that I would make the finals this season, and I tried to say it was not a fait accompli. I would have been disappointed if i had not improved on last season, but I have done that, so I am happy with 2015. Good luck to all of those in the finals! Def: Andrew Mackie 86 Lynden Dunn 70 0 Zach TUOHY 48 Brodie SMITH 76 0 Mid: Chris Masten 56 Nathan Jones 81 Touk Miller 0 Mitch WALLIS 138 Cameron GUTHRIE 135 0 Ruc: Tom HICKEY 93 Sam Fisher - oop 0 Fwd: Taylor Walker 100 Allan CHRISTENSEN 108 Harry Cunningham 0 Chad Wingard (C) 102 Jeremy Cameron 60 0 Int: Brett Deledio 105 Shannon Hurn (VC) 62 Matt Crouch 0 Here are the votes for our B&F: 3 - Cam Guthrie(Finished the season in amazing form, polling B&F votes in the final 4 games) 2 -Mitch Wallis(Also finished the season extremely strong) 1 - Allen Christensen (Yet another that finished the season in great form) background-color: #ffffff;
2015 End of season ladder: LADDER ; Pos Club P W L D F A % Form pts 1 Foul Bay Chickens 17 14 2 1 21769 19703 110.49% WWWWW 58 2 Powlett Plains Packers 17 12 4 1 19863 18537 107.15% WLWWW 50 3 Venus Bay Vultures 17 11 5 1 21412 19431 110.20% LLWWL 46 4 Iron Knob Codpieces 17 11 5 1 20987 19632 106.90% WWLWW 46 5 Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles 17 11 5 1 19852 18750 105.88% LWWLW 46 6 Darraweit Guim Dirigibles 17 10 6 1 20164 19579 102.99% LLLWW 42 7 Birdsville Battlers 17 10 6 1 19976 19445 102.73% WWLLL 42 8 Larrikin Lagoon Lefties 17 9 7 1 20730 19648 105.51% WWWWL 38 9 Gariwerd Cockatoos 17 8 8 1 20011 19451 102.88% LLWWW 34 10 Charlies Opening 17 8 8 1 19947 19512 102.23% LWLWL 34 11 Cradle Mountain Devils 17 8 8 1 19617 19237 101.98% WWLWW 34 12 Mount Beauty Uglies 17 8 8 1 19554 19235 101.66% WWWLW 34 13 Nunawading Nuffers 17 7 9 1 18559 19572 94.82% WLLLW 30 14 Wagga Wagga Wombats 17 7 9 1 18174 19657 92.46% LLLLL 30 15 Whitsunday Warriors 17 3 13 1 17918 19606 91.39% WWWLL 14 16 Marble Bar Misfits 17 3 13 1 17788 19828 89.71% LLLLL 14 17 Lovely Banks Lilacs 17 2 14 1 17212 20261 84.95% LLWLL 10 18 Gundagai Grasshoppers 17 2 14 1 16807 19256 87.28% LLLLL 10
I suppose we better update what happened in the who cares cup. All teams not in the finals were drawn to play each other in the first week of the who cares cup, and as the team who finished 9th, we got to play the wooden spooners - the Gundagai Grasshoppers. For some reason all games were on neutral territory, except this one. We had to travel to Gundagai. This from the Commish, Lenh: ' [span style='font-size: 14px; color: #000000;All games will be at neutral venues, except for the Gariwerd vs Gundagai game. Unfortunately for Gariwerd the Gundagai coach is a proclaimed Collingwood supporter, and the AFL equalisation process requires that all Collingwood affiliated teams play their finals at home in their home strip, regardless of whom they are playing, Given the Hoppers are spotting the Cockatoos 200 points the impact is likely to be nil.[span style='font-size: 14px; color: #434343;' We played a heap of kids in this game: anthak wrote: As has been the case in all previous Who Cares Cups for Gariwerd, we have swung the changes... IN: Angus Litherland, Matt Crouch, Touk Miller, Levi Casboult, Ben Newton, Harry Cunningham OUT: Shannon Hurn, Nathan Jones, Chris Masten, Jeremy Cameron, Brett Deledio, Andrew Mackie. We are expecting there may also be a couple of late changes, with all 4 emergencies travelling with the team just in case. Def: Lynden Dunn Zach TUOHY (VC) Shannon Hurn Brodie SMITH Angus LITHERLAND Mid: Mitch WALLIS Cameron GUTHRIE Nathan Jones Matt Crouch Touk Miller Ruc: Tom HICKEY Fwd: Taylor Walker Allan CHRISTENSEN Jeremy Cameron Levi CASBOULT Chad Wingard (C) Int: Ben NEWTON Harry Cunningham Brett Deledio With Hurn out of the team, Zach Tuohy has stepped up as Vice Captain for this week. Quite remarkably, the kids did better than alright anthak wrote: Man, I waited until the who cares cup to score over 1500 for the first time ever! Damn Even playing the kids too! Players that did NOT play for me, scored: Sam Fisher 107 Brett Deledio 103 Andrew Mackie 93 Nathan Jones 86 And I also noticed that big Mason Cox kicked 5 goals in the VFL this week Here are the players that did play for me: Def: Lynden Dunn 82 Zach TUOHY 125 Shannon Hurn 62 Brodie SMITH 108 Angus LITHERLAND 0 0 Mid: Mitch WALLIS 108 Cameron GUTHRIE 141 Nathan Jones 0 Matt Crouch 98 Touk Miller 72 0 Ruc: Tom HICKEY 121 0 Fwd: Taylor Walker 114 Allan CHRISTENSEN 121 Jeremy Cameron 60 Levi CASBOULT 0 Chad Wingard 122 0 Int: Ben NEWTON 78 Harry Cunningham 111 Brett Deledio 0 Im obviously pretty happy to top 1500 for the first time But who cares, right? haha and we won the game 1523 to 1161. Which saw us progress to week 2. In the semi/prelim, we were drawn to play Charlies Opening at Gariwerd. And we planned for a rave: anthak wrote: Bandit wrote: We having another rave party Ant? It's at your home ground Sounds good mate. Who cares about the game. Lets make it a 2 day event and play the game through the middle as a bit of a sideshow. Jeff Mills and Troy Pierce have both already confirmed they will be able to DJ! More big names expected to follow... But bad news. This report from the blog thread: 'In the who gives a stuff (Zac Dawson) cup, Charlie's Opening accounted for Gariwerd when the setup for the dance party didn't arrive, leaving Timmy Trumpet having to play sans backing tracks.' After bringing all our best players back into the side, we lost that week, 1191 to 1246. So that was it for the who cares cup in 2015 for the Cockatoos ! The players decided to have a quietish mad monday this season, much to the dismay of Mason Cox who had been really looking forward to it all season. and theyre all having a well earned rest now, staying away from the club in the leadup to the trade period. There have not been any players who have requested to be traded which is nice.
just realised that the week I scored over 1500, I averaged more than 100 pts per player from all the 19 Gariwerd players that week. the 19 players scored 1912, which is an average of 100.6 ppg per player. and Mason Cox kicked 5 goals in the VFL that week - his best haul of the season Good week for the Cockies. Must have been the sledging from Snoz
still disappointed this thread hasn't transferred over to the new site very well. Have been a bit tardy in my updates since then. there have been a lot of changes to the gariwerd squad that I should update in here...
2016 has started! Round 1 is complete. We started with an away trip to Nunawading. And we got a win: 1325 to 1161 D: Mackie 54, BSmith 94, Mathieson 0 DNP, Hurn 66 (Tuohy 86) M: Steven 101, Guthrie 72, NJones 90, Polec 60 (Cunningham) R: Hickey 157 F: Wingard 125, Christensen 93, Walker 76, TMiller 76 (JStewart) I: MCrouch 96, Wallis 79 (Casboult) Votes: 5 - Tom Hickey 4 - Jack Steven 3 - Allen Christensen 2 - Chad Wingard 1 - Cam Guthrie
Ive just looked through this mess of a thread (still so sad about this thread) and found what I was looking for. We traded in Tom Bellchambers in the Mid Season Break of the 2015 season, from Marble Bar for a 2nd round PSD draft pick. As mentioned in this comment back in June 2015, Tom then injured himself at the first training session in Gariwerd. It was a serious injury, but he has done well in rehab and we are very pleased to see that he will be able to line up this weekend, Round 6 2017 for his cocky debut! Well done Tom
It has been a long time since we have posted any updates in this thread. After we had 5 players retire at the end of 2020, it looks like we will have another 5 or so players retire this season as well. We thank all players for their service to the club and wish them well for their futures. Despite the changing of the guard, we still managed to qualify for finals in 2021, and we hope to work our way through this period and stay competitive each season.
We have a sentimental trade to announce to our members. After trading out one of our gun players to Iron Knob at the end of the 2014 season, we have now traded him back in as a veteran for what might be his last ORFFA season. We drafted Robbie Gray with the 171st pick in the inaugural ORFFA draft. He played three seasons for the club, winning the club B&F in 2014, before we traded him out at the end of that season to the 2014 Premiers, the Iron Knob Codpieces. We thought Robbie would enjoy premiership success himself at Iron Knob, but despite finishing top-4 the next two seasons, and then making the finals the next three seasons after that, he never did get that premiership at the Knob. Now he returns to Gariwerd where it all began, and we hope he can experience finals footy again in what will likely be his final season before retirement. Welcome back Robbie!