The Round 4 fixture is as follows (teams currently in the 8 in bold):- Cockburn Avengers (2-1) vs Neptune Island Noahs (3-0) The Noahs have been in red hot form and should have too much depth and class in this South Australian derby matchup and are heavily favoured to take out their first win over the Avengers side who delivered a rare 196 point smashing to the Neptune Islanders in Round 12, 2017. Heard Island Shags (1-2) vs Black Swamp 29ers (3-0) Heard Island are gunning for their 2nd win in a row against 29ers side whose 3-0 record is largely due to good fortune as a narrow round 2 win has been sandwiched between matches where their opposition have copped donuts. The Head to head is 1 apiece with the Shags winning comfortably in Round 11, 2017 Walpole Woylies (2-1) vs Rutherglen Fugitives (2-1) 4th plays 7th as two of the favourites for the top four clash in an intriguing contest. The Woylies were far too good when the teams last clashed in Round 1, 2017 and the all time H2H is tied at 1 apiece. Drouin Dropbears (0-3) vs Maralinga Atoms (3-0) Maralinga won’t be taking the Dropbears lightly as they strive to win 5 straight for the first time in club history while the Dropbears will be desperate to avoid their 5th straight loss. Drouin are 2 from 2 against the Atoms and dropped 1420 on this week’s opposition when they last met in Round 12, 2017. Useless Loop Virgins (1-2) vs Nangkita Bucks (2-1) 6th vs 9th promises to be one of the closest matches of the round. The Virgins trounced the Bucks on the same ground in Round 6 last season, and the all time series is knotted 1 all. MacQuarie Island Whales (1-2) vs Mt Thirsty Boozers (2-1) The Whales have been a solid offensive team whose back 6 have conceded just shy of 4000 points over the opening 3 weeks of the season. The reigning premier Boozers look to be the stronger side as they strive to make it 3 wins from 4 to start the season. The all time Head to head is 1 apiece with the Boozers winning by nearly 300 points when the teams last clashed in Round 15, 2017. Wedge Island WhitePointers (0-3) vs Jan Juc Ducks (1-2) The visitors appear to be slight favourites against a Pointers side that will want to dig deep in front of their home support, Jan Juc has won both previous encounters including a triple digit win in the corresponding clash in the corresponding round last season Mole Creek Glow-Worms (0-3) vs Port Lincoln Power (1-2) The visitors will took to balance their season ledger against a Glow-worms side that has shown great resolve so far this season and will be looking of revenge and a 2-1 all time Head to Head lead after a loss to the Power in their Round 3, 2017 match. In the third week of the 2018 ORFF* Knockout the 3 remaining teams all play opppnents from the ORFFA in the Round of 16. Mac Island hosts ORFFF coach @anthak's ORFFA franchise Gariwerd while fellow trippers Cockburn and Useless Loop travel to 'FA sides Foul Bay and Cradle Mountain respectively. Once again team entry can be done at http://tooserious.net/forum/tsLeagues.php?leagueId=14 (just click the green button under Submit Team). Once lockout is underway Matchday teams can be found at http://tooserious.net/forum/tsLeagueMatchday.php?leagueId=14&round=4 Good luck all.
Boozers team looking to string two in a row together. Def: H Shaw, M Suckling, L McDonald, M Hurley (J Carlisle) Mid: T Rockliff, T Mitchell, M Murphy, S Motlop (B Banfield) Ruck: M Daw (O Fantasia) Fwd: L Franklin, J Cameron, J Billings, B Brown (J Cripps) Int: J Sinclair, B Hartung
Macquarie Island Round 4 Team Def: David Astbury, Zach Tuohy, Tom Doedee, Sam Murray (Michael Johnson) Mid: Dayne Zorko, Josh P Kennedy, Ryan Griffen, Aaron Hall (Will Hoskin-Elliott) Ruck: Nic Naitanui Fwd: Taylor Walker, Toby McLean, James Harmes, Josh Caddy (Kane Lambert) Int: Shaun Higgins, Nick Holman (Alex Sexton) In: Josh Caddy, Ryan Griffen Out: Jarman Impey, David Armitage
Black Swamp (Round 4) - subject to late change if needed In - Cutler, Beams, JDG Out - Grigg, McVeigh, Hooker Please note that Beams was a late out replaced by Grigg in Round 3 Cutler Geary Jonas SDT - McVeigh Bont Henderson Duckwood S Hill - Grigg Westhoff ANB JDG S Edwards - Hooker Sinclair - no emg Hardwick Beams - Newman Cutler was a late in for the Lions last week and he showed enough to crack his first game of the season, joining JDG who returned through the 2's last weekend. Beams also returns and the trio replace veterans Grigg, McVeigh and Hooker who join Newman as Round 4 emergencies. Mayes, Joyce, Fogarty and Hayward all miss out on the 19 despite making their AFL sides 22 this week while Gallucci, Stretch, Clark and Roughead will also play 2nds after being named as emergencies for their AFL sides. Barlow is once again named in the NEAFL as Stewie Dew plays the kids early on and Sam Reid rejoins the injury list while Viney edges another week closer to his long awaited return.
Maralinga Atoms Round 4 Team DEF - M Hibberd, B Vince, T Stewart, B Reid (R Burton) MID - D Martin, B Gibbs, S Coniglio,T Kelly (T Dumont) RUCK - T Goldstein FWD - C Wingard, J Roughead, M Taberner, J Waite (W Milera) INT - B McEvoy, J Dunkley(J Berry)
Unchanged 15 for this week for the Noahs. Depth gets thinner with Tyson and SPP awol. Def - Haynes, Howe, Finlayson, Morrison (Florent) Mid - Sloane, Sidey, Gaff, Ross (Tucker) Ruck - Gawn Fwd - D Smith, Taylor, Fisher, Menzel (Betts) IC - Hunter, Lynch (Turner)
Round 4 Team - Useless Loop Virgins Two big in's for the Virgin's with Sicily back from anger management classes and the long awaited return of JJK. Def: Kade Simpson, Shannon Hurn, Ed Vickers-Willis, Steven May (Zach Guthrie) Mid: Lachie Neale, David Mundy, Isaac Smith, Jared Polec (Nicholas Coffield) Ruck: Aaron Sandilands Fwd: Robbie Gray, Josh J. Kennedy, Levi Casboult, James Sicily (Jacob Townsend) Int: Cameron Ellis-Yolmen, Tom Phillips (Aaron Naughton) Out: Liam Ryan, Rhys Stanley In: James Sicily, Josh J. Kennedy
Mole Creek Round 4 IN: Fogarty, Rayner OUT: Hrovat, McDonald D: Richards, Scharenberg, Aish, Williams (Saad) M: Cripps, Miller, Heeney, Petracca,Fiorini, (Fiorini) R: Graham F: Gresham, Curnow, Gray, Petrevski-Seton (Fogarty) I: McCluggage, Dale (Rayner)
Fugitives Round 4 Team v Walpole No Change, Sheed edging closer to a debut D - Hodge, Salem, Bonner, Macmillan (Rampe) M - Cotchin, Macrae, Pendlebury, Shiel (Sheed) R - Martin F - Gunston, Lynch, Parish, Watts (Rioli) I - Cunnington, Goddard (Harbrow)
We had a look around Drouin but there ain't much to bring in... DEF: Savage, Sheppard, Tomlinson, Conca (Jones) MID: Danger, Steven, Shuey, Duncan (Brayshaw) RUC: Bellchambers FWD: Walters, Cuningham, Melksham, Atley (Cunningham) INT: Wright, McIntosh (O'Brien)
The Avengers for round 4 DEFENDERS Luke Brown, Alex Witherden, Callum Mills, Robbie Tarrant MIDFIELDERS Edward CURNOW, Callan Ward, Jack Steele, Lachlan Weller - Adam Cerra RUCKS Zachary SMITH - Matthew Kennedy* FORWARDS Blake Acres, Jack Martin, Brandan Parfitt, Brett Deledio - Daniel Venables INTERCHANGE Jack Bowes, Eric Hipwood
Some debutants this week with Gaz and Hanley going down both for the 2nd time this year already. DEF: Houli, Crisp, Lever, T.McKenzie aka THE CANNON (Glass) MID: N. Jones, Zaharakis, Lewis, Hannebery (Hewett) RUC: Grundy (Lycett) FWD: Boak, Robinson, Wallis, Hawkins (Jenkins) INT: Douglas, Atkins
Even with the late late out of Murphy, the heroics of Ben Brown’s 167 has helped the Boozers to a strong position against the Whales. 9-855 vs the oppositions 13-1045
Late in the 3rd quarter at Heard Island the home side have managed 13/1001 to lead the visiting 29ers 8/673 in an evenly poised match. Daniher and Brayshaw run out for the Shags on Sunday while Westhoff, Jonas, Henderson, ANB, Hardwick, Geary and Duckwood are still yet to play for Black Swamp.
The Virgins are on 971/11 88.3 and the Bucks are on 783/11 71.2 Home still have Polec, I Smith, R Gray & Sicily to come while the visitors have Robertson, S Selwood, O’Meara & Dunstan.
At the end of the Essendon game, we may be looking at some low scoring records.... Mole Creek 13/870 being led by Port Lincoln 13/1050 Port with Bruce and Brand to come, Mole Creek with Petracca and Gresham
Boozers trying to lose this one. Rocky with 29, motlop 36 and titch a rare bad game. Boozers have a 42 point lead and billings vs tuohy. Billings trying to lose this one also.