Round 12 (AFL 12) … The Spud Round In honour of the humble potato, or this could mean player as there have many a spud in the players of past and I’m sure in the future. Wineglass Bay Packers v Gundagai Grasshoppers Darraweit Guim Dirigibles v Charlies Opening Spelunkers Whitsunday Warriors v Birdsville Battlers Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles v Cradle Mountain Devils Nunawading Nuffas v Iron Knob Codpieces Mt Beauty Uglies v Larrikin Lagoon Lefties Foul Bay Chickens v Venus Bay Vultures Wagga Wagga Wombats v Marble Bar Misfits Gariwerd Cockatoos v Lovely Banks Lilacs Spud away
Misfits, spuds aplenty.. DEFENDER Zachary Williams, Daniel Rich, Orazio Fantasia, Rory Laird MIDFIELDER Callan Ward, Josh Kelly, Lachie Whitfield, Luke Dunstan RUCK Andrew Phillips FORWARD Caleb Daniel, Josh Bruce, Joe Daniher, James Rose - Tomlinson INTERCHANGE Connor Blakely, Lachlan Weller
Wagga Wagga IN: Griffen OUT: L.Thomas (omitted) Def: Dempsey, S.D.Thompson, Macmillan, Sheppard (Impey) Mid: Gibbs, Shiel, Griffen, Prestia (R.Davis) Ruc: K.Tippett Fwd: Franklin, Jenkins, Lycett, Everitt (L.Thomas) Int: Picken, Oliver (Sicily)
Provisional Hoppers - Rd 12 IN: Mullett & Mills OUT: Two donuts DEF: HGrundy/JKolo/Weitering/Mullett (Marsh) MID: Rocky/Cripps/ECurnow/Neale FWD: Stringer/Billings/JMartin/CCameron RCK: Grundy (Witts) I/C: Cox/Mills
Weakest Lefties line up all year. Expecting an icy reception at The Mount. Two more defenders and a quality mid out. Goldy returns, hoping he actually plays. Def - Gibbo, Haynes, Bugg, Cutler (Schofield) Mid - Lewis, BJ, Priddis, Langford Ruck - Goldy (McCarthy oop) Fwd - Joey, Lynch, Taberner, Hill (Howard) I/C - Lloyd, Suban
OUT - Milera, Henderson IN - MacKay D - Sutcliffe, Harbrow, Burgoyne, Roberton () M - R.Gray, Ablett, Hanley, Shuey (MacKay) R - Darling OOP () F - Waite, J.Riewoldt, Breust, deGoey (Sinclair) I - Puopolo, Macrae ()
Gariwerd Out: Christensen In: Touk Miller Matt Crouch scored 130+ last week in the reserves, but still hasnt forced his way into the ones.
Round 12 Blimps: In: Vickery (gets a game oop in the ruck in recognition of Spud Round), Tyson, Gleeson, Greenwood Out: Stratton, Ceglar, Trengove, Hill DEF: Rance, Adams, Gleeson, May (Stratton) MID: Tyson, Greenwood, Newnes, Coniglio (Trengove) RUCK: Vickery (oop) FWD: Harvey, Lyons, Edwards, Walters (McGovern) I/C: Armitage, Westhoff (Hill)
In the big match of the round the Cows (10th) host the Devils (11th). Are we playing for continued contact with the top eight or are we playing for MSD positions? Time will tell. For the Cows - In - J McGovern, C Sinclair, H Taylor Out - T McLean (injured), A Hall (form), N Graham (selection error at CFC), D - J McGovern, H Taylor, R Harwood, D Howe* M - D Hannebery, T Mitchell, J McVeigh, J Dunkley* R - S Jacobs^ F - D Menzel, M Wood, T Campbell^, C Sinclair^ I - M Robinson, B Griffiths ( B Williams*) No 's named () but quite a few in the fallow paddock behind the Bulls Hit Tavern.
Cradle Mountain’s Round 12 team In: D Petrie, B Kennedy Out: D McStay (omitted), J Steele (omitted) Def: N Vlastuin, L Spurr, S Gilbert, J Lever (Z Jones) Mid: S Pendlebury, D Zaharakis, S Grigg, J Hopper (J Gresham) Ruc: J Roughead Fwd: D Zorko, S Johnson, B Kennedy, D Petrie (D McStay) Inter: J Redden, L Shiels (N Smith) Graeme, yes two prizes on offer for our game of 10th vs 11th, winner improves their finals chances, whereas the loser will find it difficult to make the eight but will have the consolation prize of a slightly earlier position in the draft.
Wineglass Bay DEFENDER Nathan Wilson, Paul SEEDSMAN, Marley Williams, Jimmy Webster MIDFIELDER Rory Sloane, David Mundy, Anthony Miles, Danyle Pearce RUCK Majak DAW (Jarrad Jansen) FORWARD Sam Kerridge, Lachie Henderson, Mark HUTCHINGS, Brandon MATERA INTERCHANGE Tom SCULLY, Tom Lynch
Unfortunately Phillips didn't make the cut, neither did Tomilinson so no warm bodies left to play as an oop ruck
Cows ease to a total of 1277 with a couple of players making a last ditch effort to stay contracted - well done Harry. But why leave the anti- performance until now? The Devils have a bit of a mountain to climb. By my rough estimate 271 with Pendlebury and BenKen yet to appear. A "Danger type performance" by Master Pendles would probably be enough to lead his side to victory.
[QUOTE="The Devils have a bit of a mountain to climb. By my rough estimate 271 with Pendlebury and BenKen yet to appear. A "Danger type performance" by Master Pendles would probably be enough to lead his side to victory.[/QUOTE] The Cows are in a very strong position, but yes Graeme the door has been left ever so slightly ajar. For the Devils to get up Pendles and BenKen need to replicate their season best performances of 157 and 115 respectively which is very unlikely but not impossible. A more consistent effort from Cradle Mountain this weekend with seven players scoring at least 80, but as yet no tons. Cows forward Daniel Menzel who due to four knee reconstructions has played very little footy in the ORFFA is the club-house leader for the 5 Les W medal votes, having scored 121 points.
Just on 1070 with Tyson and Greenwood to play today. Given I had no ruckman, lost Adams as a late withdrawal and thus had my two last resort backmen (Gleeson and Stratton) playing, I'm pretty happy with some encouraging efforts. Lyons, Coniglio and Rance vying for the 5 Hindy votes, while lots of 85-95 range scoring across the board. A proper ruckman and Adams in the side would see me around 1150 or so from 13. I'd almost take that and hope for 170 from my last two players. The returns of Adams, Saad, Jonas and Ceglar will be welcomed. Roll on 3 weeks break.