ORFFA round 11 review - bring our ya dead

Gundagai Grasshoppers 1430 def Charlies Opening Spelunkers 1301

A perfect way to kick off dead head round as the author is reminded why they feel a little dead inside. The Lefties circus has maniacally handed over a plethora of talent and draft picks to these two sides and have conjured a pretty meagre beanstalk with the proceeds. Note to self – get help.

Credit to the patience of these two coaches as they’ve hit rock bottom and toiled their way out and into contention. Troggs certainly turned up to play in this one and were probably brought undone by a ruck injury and a plucky crow outfit keeping their mids shackled. For the Hoppers, their fruit tingles jingled and jangled a merry dance to victory.

BOG – Weits (Hoppers) / Lizard (Spelunkers)


Iron Knob Codpieces 1206 def Gariwerd Cockatoos 862

Some quality zombie-ism on show in this game with the Cockies trying to take out the leagues’ undead crown (no you don’t Ant, that’s my silver-ware).

A largely unfair match up with many of the visitors having to be rudely awakened from their nanna naps to front up for the second half. One might argue that the best medicine for this sort of mediocrity is to ship the last remaining fit players off to a different nursing home in return for the mythical Sun King.

Fruity and tingly treats again on show as the home side took this in a canter.

BOG – JDG (Cods) / Laird (Cockies)


Larrikin Lagoon Lefties 822 def by Foul Bay Chickens 1262

Faark me, can the zombie- apocalypse hurry up and finish me off!
Unfortunately, the Lefties are looming to emulate all 11 seasons of The Walking Dead in real time.
I think were past the half way mark, so winning!

On the flip side, the perennial Chooks took great delight in rubbing our noses in our laughable delisting of Cox and Logue and the value of recruiting an aging Goldy from us.
Like 20 odd years ago.

Walkover.

BOG – Goldy FFS! (Chooks) / Worpel (Lefties)


Lovely Banks Lilacs 1271 def Dunsborough Dung Beetles 1065

There probably some pun to be had about the Lilacs making Beetlejuice, but I don’t usually stoop that low for giggles. After their dismembering of the Lefties last week, the Dung gatherers crashed back to reality with a deathly stench.
The cocky Lilacs made this contest feels like Childs Play as they fronted up with purely 15 players, nothing more.
Gold.

BOG – Stewart (Liliacs) / Hind?! (Beetles)


Marble Bar Misfits 1181 def Cradle Mountain Devils 1114

Alright, how about them Misfits!
Its not pretty, but its fucking effective.

Plenty of ugliness on both sides here, with the Devils a smidge hard done by with a host of corpses pretending to be AFL stars. Probably sums up their season so far.
Misfits bank a donut and a win.

BOG – Tarantula (Misfits) / Dependlebury (Devils)


Mount Beauty Uglies 1207 def Birdsville Battlers 1165

Tight tussle here with some dead bodies mixed with blue moons.
A bit like American Werewolf in London with a little less ba-ding-a-dong-ding.

An insipid tiger cohort almost brought the home side undone but were saved the embarrassment by a Jekyll and Hyde Battler fwd line.
Too many passengers for the Battlers this week.

BOG – Trac (Uglies) / Moore (Battlers)


Nareewillock Nuffers 1239 def Wineglass Bay Packers 1198

Another nail biter, with the Nuffers sporting a dynamic duo of undead rucks and still jagging the win.
On closer inspection, it appears the home side rocked a swag of over par scores and were helped by an unfortunate Hewett injury.

Nonetheless, an honorable loss for the Packers with plenty of bright lights among their youth.

BOG – Rowell (Nuffers) / Daicos (Packers)


Venus Bay Vultures 1352 def Whitsunday Warriors 1074

If they haven’t already twigged, the comp needs to sit up and take notice of the rampaging Vultures.
In some healthy form and punching well above their 8th placed weight.
Surgical dismantling of the Warriors with 8 tons, none of which came from the midfield!
Spooky.

A Witts lone hand for the visitors was pleasing yet futile.
A good old fashioned flogging.

BOG – Doc (Vultures) / Witts (Warriors)


Wagga Wagga Wombats 1094 def by Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles 1271

Not sure what to make of this one.
Wagga seemed to have added their coach to the dead list as a host of players were left off the team sheet.
The Cows pounced (can cows pounce?) and milked the living shit out of the marsupials.

The Wombat backline didn’t get the memo about the early bye and toiled valiantly and pointlessly.
A mixed bag for the visitors but a stand out was the return of young Mr Nathaniel Fyfe.

BOG – Sicily (Wombats) / Dunks (Cows)

 

Thanks @That KI Guy for the write up

Congrats to @chris88 and the Nuffers squad on securing their club record 8th win of the season.

Hopefully they keep their good form going at the other side of the long MSD break and can also surpass the highest aggregate score set by the 2014 (Nunawading) Nuffers (20109) when most of the current senior side were kicking it around in the Nuffers Under 15's.

 

Thanks KI Guy!

 

Great write up

still shitty at you for winning

 

Thanks Mike, Misfits firing on minimal cylinders, missing key players and somehow have managed to win at least 5 games we should have lost. Doesn't make sense mathmatically either, the 4 teams directly below us all have a higher points for, the 4 teams above us all have a lower points against.

Statistics and Damn Lies - QFT

Not complaining, not expecting it to last either