<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]The blue moon was out in full force this weekend and was a sight to see, whilst the corresponding ORFFA round did not not disappoint either...
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<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Birdsville Battlers 1126 lost to Waikikamoocow Incorrigibles 1147
<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Not showing much respect for their opponent, Waikikamoocow decided they could afford to leave a few players home to save on airfares this week, finishing up playing 1 short in defence and with only 1 on the bench. Nevertheless, they seem to know what they're doing, pulling off an excellent victory playing 2 short, which moved them up to 3rd on the ladder. McVeigh (143) and Hannebery (134) dominated in the midfield for Waikikamoocow, with Tom Mitchell (130) running rampant up forward. Birdsville had 6 players battle with less than 65 points each, whilst Lewis Jetta (122) put in a game to remember, dedicating his performance after the game to his mate at Cradle Mountain who missed this week due to personal reasons.
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<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Tons:
<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Birdsville: Jetta 122, Murphy 117, Treloar 111
<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Waikikamoocow: McVeigh 143, Hannebery 134, Mitchell 130, Dal Santo 101
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<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Venus Bay Vultures 1393 def Nunawading Nuffas 1243
<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Nunawading travelled to Venus Bay this week and as promised, they performed their[span style='background-color: #fcfcfc;]Haka cum Spear Dance cum Electric Boogaloo dance, which ended with a blue mooning of the Venus Bay players just before the first bounce. Big Chris Dawes (67) was brought into the side late as a special inclusion for the mooning dance, and it was an amazing show of strength that had the Vultures off their game early. In the end, though, this Venus Bay team is very strong this year and was too polished to be troubled by the visiting team.
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<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Tons:
<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Venus Bay: [span style='background-color: #fcfcfc;]Higgins 138, Martin 135, Parker 114, Kreuzer 111, Steven 110, Picken 104
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<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Gundagai Grasshoppers 1111 lost to Lovely Banks Lilacs 1134
<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]After Whitsunday's late season surge, it has been left to these two teams to fight it out for the wooden spoon, with Lovely Banks's win here moving them up to second last. The coach of Darraweit Guim was quoted this week as being impressed with the Lovely Banks defenders, and they did play particularly well this week, scoring 415 between the back four and holding the Gundagai forwards to just 262 between the four of them; however it should also be noted that the Lovely Banks defence has leaked the most points in the league all season thus far, averaging a whopping 1268 points against per game as a team this season.
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<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Tons:
<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Gundagai: Rockliff 135, Cripps 116, Neale 110, Adams 110, Stringer 105
<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Lovely Banks: Caddy 140, Rampe 127, Saad 107
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<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Mt Beauty Uglies 1209 def Wagga Wagga Wombats 1015
<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]These two teams are going in very different directions as this season unfolds. Wagga started strongly and are really struggling now, whereas Mt Beauty are finishing brilliantly after a slow start to the season. This was a free flowing game with not a lot of stoppages, resulting in the two opposing ruckmen, Leuenberger (21) (MBU) and Longer (13) (WWW), scoring just 34 points between them, whilst the forwards for both teams turned it on. If it wasnt for Kurt Tippett (165) up forward for Wagga, this would have been even more ugly.
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<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Tons:
<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Mt Beauty: Bennell 139, Gawn 104, Viney 100 (and 3 other 97+)
<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Wagga Wagga: Tippett 165
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<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Iron Knob Codpieces 1230 lost to Gariwerd Cockatoos 1323
<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]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.
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<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Tons:
<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Iron Knob: Shuey 117, Swan 116, Gray 113, Hodge 113, Darling 100
<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Gariwerd: Deledio 134, Guthrie 127, Hurn 112, Masten 108, Wallis 101, Wingard 100
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<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Charlies Opening Spelunkers 1318 lost to Foul Bay Chickens 1330
<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]A ripping game saw the Spelunkers just miss out on pipping the top-of-the-ladder Chooks by just 12 points in a high scoring affair. Blicavs's (94) dominance in the ruck over poor Colquhoun (31) saw the Spelunkers mids see first use of the ball with all four of them tonning up, however they were the team's only centurians. There were four Foul Bay matchwinners in Duckwood (171), Heater (145), Vince (134) and Zeebull (134) who played better than the Spelunkers best, Keiran Jack (128), showing their class and powering the team to another W and pretty much shoring up top spot.
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<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Tons:
<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Charlies Opening:Jack 128, Bontempelli 121, Hill 113, Swallow 101
<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Foul Bay:Selwood 171, Shaw 145, Vince 134, Ziebell 134, Dalhaus 101
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<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Whitsunday Warriors 1111 def Marble Bar Misfits 983

After a pre match crowning ceremony that saw the ORFFA's second commish handover to the third, Whitsunday continued their hot streak, winning their 3rd on the trot after starting the season with 11 straight losses! It has been an interesting reign for TiB, and after difficult beginnings that saw him take over a rudderless ship and be compared toKing Henry VIII for his role in reshaping the league, his organisation skills have set up this league to function outside of anyhierarchy, with most coaches participating and seeming to feel ownership of the Association. Well done TiB. Lenh's significant contributions to date have obviously not gone unnoticed as well and it seems we will continue to be in good hands for the foreseeable future, as long as we dont drive him to piss off like the first commish of the ORFFA. Anyway, the game that followed the ceremony was mostly underwhelming, with not one of Marble Bar's players topping 90 and Whitsunday's highlight was finishing on the realisation that their deepest desires are about to manifest!





Tons:

Whitsunday: Motlop 119, Johannisen 111, Boak 111

Marble Bar: Blank
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<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Powlett Plains Packers 1367 def Cradle Mountain Devils 1048
<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]The Packers defence does it again. This team has had the stingiest defence in the ORFFA all year, averaging just 1162 points against per game as a team, helping them to an impressive record of 10 and 4 to be sitting in the top 4. This has been a huge turnaround after finishing bottom 4 last season with only 4 wins. In this game, they completely dominated Cradle Mountain, keeping them to just 1048, led by Dempster (112) and Fasolo (100) in defence, but also scoring the 3rd highest ORFFA score of the round too with 1367, led by Sandi (145) in the ruck and other solid scores all over the ground. The Devils had several solid scorers as well, but none could step up to go huge and a few struggled as well.
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<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Powlett Plains: Sandilands 145, Miles 118, Dempster 112, Carrazzo 106, Matera 106, Mundy 103, Fasolo 100
<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Cradle Mountain: Spurr 106, Heppell 105, Petrie 103, Pendlebury 102, Johnson 101
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<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Larrikin Lagoon Lefties 1423 def Darraweit Guim Dirigibles 1350
<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]The Guim played well this week, but couldnt do enough against the rampaging Lefties who are playing really well and look to have a really strong side coming into the finals. Both teams had strong contributions all over the park, with Darraweit having a whopping 8 centurions, but it was the Lefties midfield, including Goldy (164) in the ruck that won this for them, scoring 627 between the 5 of them, compared to their opponent's respectable 469 from their 5. Both teams sit on equal points on the ladder in 7th and 8th spots and are probably most at risk of missing finals of all the top 8 sides, but both also look like good things to stay up there and both could even push for premiership glory if things go their way.
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<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Larrikin Lagoon: Goldstein 164, Crameri 136, Priddis 125, Lewis 121, Mitchell 110, Montagna 107
<p style='color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;]Darraweit Guim: Westhoff 132, Walters 123, Maric 117, Greenwood 110, Rance 109, Armitage 103, Coniglio 102, Harvey 101
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LADDER





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


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