Here are the first 9 rounds for Season 2022 Thank you @Bandit & @chris88 for your help with theme ideas and Chris for always writing up the blurbs so neither Bandit or I have to. Round 1 – AFL Round 1 Date: Wednesday 16th March THEME – Out with Old in with the New Round Like a giant slightly out-of-control straw broom sweeping a swathe through a layer of something-or-other, the ORFFA has undergone a wonderful patch of renewal, rebirth and resurrection in recent times. Our first round for the 2022 season bids a hearty welcome to its new coaches, while waving an appreciative farewell to former coaches who have helped make the league what it is today. Gundagai Grasshoppers V Mount Beauty Uglies Charlies Opening Spelunkers v Whitsunday Warriors Venus Bay Vultures v Wineglass Bay Packers Nareewillock Nuffers v Birdsville Battlers Gariwerd Cockatoos v Marble Bar Misfits Lovely Banks Lilacs v Cradle Mountain Devils Foul Bay Chickens v Dunsborough Dung Beetles Wagga Wagga Wombats v Larrikin Lagoon Lefties Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles v Iron Knob Codpieces Round 2 – AFL Round 2 Date: Thursday 24th March THEME - Walesy Appreciation Round This week we direct a respectful nod towards our benevolent overlord Walesy, and thank him for all the work he does, and continues to do, on this fair site and towards the functioning of this fair fantasy league. <Insert respectful nod here> Whitsunday Warriors v Gundagai Grasshoppers Wineglass Bay Packers v Mount Beauty Uglies Birdsville Battlers v Charlies Opening Spelunkers Marble Bar Misfits v Venus Bay Vultures Cradle Mountain Devils v Nareewillock Nuffers Dunsborough Dung Beetles v Gariwerd Cockatoos Larrikin Lagoon Lefties v Lovely Banks Lilacs Iron Knob Codpieces v Foul Bay Chickens Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles v Wagga Wagga Wombats Round 3 – AFL Round 3 Date: Thursday 31st March THEME – Left Footers Round Bravo to our left footers for their precise kicking skills. And in fact bravo to our left feet as a whole for helping all of us stand straight and not lean too heavily to one side when we walk, run or go about our lives. What would we do without them? Probably fall over, but, yeah. Gundagai Grasshoppers v Wineglass Bay Packers Whitsunday Warriors v Birdsville Battlers Mount Beauty Uglies v Marble Bar Misfits Charlies Opening Spelunkers v Cradle Mountain Devils Venus Bay Vultures v Dunsborough Dung Beetles Nareewillock Nuffers v Larrikin Lagoon Lefties Gariwerd Cockatoos v Iron Knob Codpieces Lovely Banks Lilacs v Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles Foul Bay Chickens v Wagga Wagga Wombats Round 4 – AFL Round 4 Date: Thursday 7th April THEME – COVID Round In a landmark move, every player participating in the ORFFA's COVID Round will in fact be presented with a small case of COVID to enjoy privately or share with others. When pressed for comment by the football media on what on earth they were thinking, ORFFA officials muttered several unintelligible responses from behind brightly coloured face masks. Birdsville Battlers v Gundagai Grasshoppers Marble Bar Misfits v Wineglass Bay Packers Cradle Mountain Devils v Whitsunday Warriors Dunsborough Dung Beetles v Mount Beauty Uglies Larrikin Lagoon Lefties v Charlies Opening Spelunkers Iron Knob Codpieces v Venus Bay Vultures Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles v Nareewillock Nuffers Wagga Wagga Wombats v Gariwerd Cockatoos Foul Bay Chickens v Lovely Banks Lilacs Round 5 – AFL Round 5 Date: Thursday 14th April THEME – Let them eat CHOCOLATE Round It is a little known historical fact that, before she lost her head in the most literal of ways, a certain long-gone French queen actually implored her fair subjects to snack on chocolate for the good of their health. Government officials of the time altered the quote to refer to cake in a bid to aid the country's then struggling bakery establishment. Or, alternatively, happy Easter everyone. Gundagai Grasshoppers v Marble Bar Misfits Birdsville Battlers v Cradle Mountain Devils Wineglass Bay Packers v Dunsborough Dung Beetles Whitsunday Warriors v Larrikin Lagoon Lefties Mount Beauty Uglies v Iron Knob Codpieces Charlies Opening Spelunkers v Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles Venus Bay Vultures v Wagga Wagga Wombats Nareewillock Nuffers v Foul Bay Chickens Gariwerd Cockatoos v Lovely Banks Lilacs Round 6 – AFL Round 6 Date: Friday 22nd April THEME – ANZAC Round Lest We Forget Cradle Mountain Devils v Gundagai Grasshoppers Dunsborough Dung Beetles v Marble Bar Misfits Larrikin Lagoon Lefties v Birdsville Battlers Iron Knob Codpieces v Wineglass Bay Packers Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles v Whitsunday Warriors Wagga Wagga Wombats v Mount Beauty Uglies Foul Bay Chickens v Charlies Opening Spelunkers Lovely Banks Lilacs v Venus Bay Vultures Gariwerd Cockatoos v Nareewillock Nuffers Round 7 – AFL Round 7 Date: Friday 29th April THEME – Muso Round "I'm high on the hill Looking over the bridge To the MCG. And way up on high The clock on the silo Says eleven degrees .." Choose your favourite muso, home teams. Invite them to provide the pre-match entertainment this weekend. And no, Paul Kelly can't appear at multiple events. Gundagai Grasshoppers v Dunsborough Dung Beetles Cradle Mountain Devils v Larrikin Lagoon Lefties Marble Bar Misfits v Iron Knob Codpieces Birdsville Battlers v Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles Wineglass Bay Packers v Wagga Wagga Wombats Whitsunday Warriors v Foul Bay Chickens Mount Beauty Uglies v Lovely Banks Lilacs Charlies Opening Spelunkers v Gariwerd Cockatoos Venus Bay Vultures v Nareewillock Nuffers Round 8 – AFL Round 8 Date: Friday 6th May THEME – Mark Seaby Round 400 years from now, amidst the smouldering wreckage of human civilisation, one man will rise from the rubble, football in hand, a saviour and a fearless leader. That man? A re-incarnated Mark Seaby. And nearby? The descendants of the original coaches of Birdsville and Foul Bay engage in a desperate knife fight to again draft him onto their ORFFA team. Larrikin Lagoon Lefties v Gundagai Grasshoppers Iron Knob Codpieces v Dunsborough Dung Beetles Waikikamoocow Incorrigible sv Cradle Mountain Devils Wagga Wagga Wombats v Marble Bar Misfits Foul Bay Chickens v Birdsville Battlers Lovely Banks Lilacs v Wineglass Bay Packers Gairwerd Cockatoos v Whitsunday Warriors Nareewillock Nuffers v Mount Beauty Uglies Venus Bay Vultures v Charlies Opening Spelunkers Round 9 – AFL Round 9 Date: Friday 13th May THEME – Mother’s Day Round Welcome to Mothers' Day round, wherein we celebrate all the mums of all the people all around us, be they footballers or otherwise. Happy Mothers Day to you all. Gundagai Grasshoppers v Iron Knob Codpieces Larrikin Lagoon Lefties v Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles Dunsborough Dung Beetles v Wagga Wagga Wombats Cradle Mountain Devils v Foul Bay Chickens Marble Bar Misfitsv Lovely Banks Lilacs Birdsville Battlers v Gariwerd Cockatoos Wineglass Bay Packers v Nareewillock Nuffers Whitsunday Warriors v Venus Bay Vultures Mount Beauty Uglies v Charlies Opening Spelunkers
Thanks for your efforts in getting this done @Jen just another one of the thankless tasks that keep the ORFFA machine running
Thanks @Jen for a great read. Left footers it is for next week's review. Just so you are all aware. Paul Kelly has graced the cows Muso round right from it's inception; so no carpetbaggers thank you. RIP Shane Warne; as Paul Kelly wrote, and I love these three lines: "Each time he came in to bat or bowl He believed in his powers to take control Even when he was not in the peak of condition"