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
Spelunkers have given a debut to Kai Lohmann against the cows this week, with Callum Brown and Nick Daicos also playing tonight
Likely team to go underground and see the cavemen: D - N Newman, R Burton, M O'Connor, N Answerth (B Williams) M - B Crouch, T Mitchell, B Parfitt, D Prestia (N Cox) R - R O'Brien F - J Dunkley, Z Bailey, B Close, T Sparrow ( J Finlayson) I/C - R Bonner, L O'Brien (D Howe) Milestones: 100th games for Ryan Burton and Boo Parfitt. Starting to get some of the long-term injured back. The real problem is team selection (e.g., Answerth scoring 24). However, Zac enjoyed his return to the pit (104).
Lilacs team for round 5 - NO MASKS this week but lots of chocolate and hot cross buns, since the coach loves them. Red and bold played last night - Thursday DEF - Jonas, Moore 101, Stewart, Wilkie (EMG) Rampe MID - Parish, Duncan, Amon, Lipinski 96 (EMG) RUC - Wright FWD - Heeney, Switkowski, Bolton, Stengle (EMG) McLean INT - O'Driscoll, Pickett (EMG) Ryan
Cradle Mountain Devils Round 5 team Out: A Naughton (Omitted), J Gunston (Omitted) In: H Morrison (club debut for CMD), N Vlastuin Def: D Rich 84, J Lever, D Heppell, J Bowey (H Cunningham) Mid: J Steele, S Pendlebury 98, D Zorko 133, J Redden (J Mahony OOP) Ruc: R Marshall Fwd: T English, T Membrey, J Gresham, H Morrison (L Breust) Int: T Nankervis, N Vlastuin (A Naughton) The three players in bold played last night. After the Thursday night game the Devils are 315/3
@Bandit - should teams be shut before the Monday teams are finalised? edit ; Monday not Sunday you twit!
I've been a bit slack posting teams this year, so here are the Battlers for round 5. Finn Callaghan gets a debut - albeit as a sacrificial lamb in the ruck. DEF: Luke Ryan, Tom Doedee, Alex Witherden 134, Heath Chapman, (Chayce Jones) MID: Adam Cerra, Bailey Smith 135, Matthew Kennedy, Luke McDonald 76, (Dev Robertson - didn't remove him in time) RUCK: Finn Callaghan* FWD: Harry McKay, Dylan Moore, Josh Battle, Curtis Taylor 72 (Logan McDonald) IC: James Rowbottom 105, Lachie Hunter 57 (Sam Berry) Players in bold have already played. Battlers are 6/579 so far.
Apologies mate, missed this one... I have no idea when the lockout kicked in... I was AWOL all weekend
No worries, posted team, went fishing. Came back for more supplies and to finalise team, went fishing. Snagged another lucky win but not much in the way of fish!
Fresh snapper fillets with chips for tea tonight (again). Probably would have been cheaper to go to the fishmonger; but not half as much fun!