<div style='background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font: normal normal 400 14px/1.3 Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: #434343; line-height: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;border-width: 0px;]
Part 3 in our ongoing series of ORFFL Preseason Previews. This week we take a look at the Glenrowan Gunslingers, the Tarwin Lower Pigs and the Purnululu Bungle Rangers. Three teams that fell well short of making the finals last year, but three teams that I believe are every chance to reverse their fortunes in 2013.
Read on dear traveller.
<div style='text-align: center;]<img alt='' class='aligncenter' src='http://imageshack.us/a/img838/6151/ggshield.jpg' width='300px' style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;[/img]
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;border-width: 0px;]
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-color: initial;border-width: 0px;][span style='font-size: 16px;]GLENROWAN GUNSLINGERS[/b]
[/b]
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;border-width: 0px;][/b]
<p style='font-size: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]Glenrowan finished stone, motherless last in 2012. Is it fair to say that the wheels fell off last year? No, as there were murmurs going around the league that the vehicle they were driving didn't have wheels at all.
<p style='font-size: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]This is not to say that the Gunslingers were or are a wreck of side. Far from it. This is one of the better young squads running around in the comp, and with BockBock (61.8/93.81) learning to fly again and expected improvement from their host of players under the age of 25, Glenrowan could find themselves jumping up the ladder in 2013.
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]What's Working:[/b]
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]Beams (122.9). He went ballistic. As @JohnnyKashman pointed out in his article last week, SleavesBeams increased his avg. by 22 points last year to become one of the dominant players in the comp. Sure he's just a midfielder these days, but if you're scoring nigh on 123 points per game it doesn't really matter where you play.
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]In any case it's often said that when one door closes another opens, and the Gunslingers find themselves even-steven's with Abrtel (98.6) securing his long deserved F/M status.
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]Indeed Glenrowan's forward line retains it's potency going into year two, the aforementioned Bartel combining with Delicious (98.6), Dahlhaus (83.9) and Fasolo (75.5) to form one of the premier attacks in the ORFFL. With Bock as a D/F swingman and Matera (66.9) primed to make 3rd year points increase, the Gunslingers boast a number of options in the front half of the ground.
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]Defensively, I tip Glenrowan to move into the top tier of ORFFL clubs. With Hurn (91.4) a known premium, Bock, a formerly-known-as-premium and impressive youngsters Bugg (69.1) and Brodie Smith (64.9) still developing they have a substantial base to build on. Veteran Firrito (73.4 is quality back-up, and Melbourne duo Nicholson (72.2) and Tappy (52.1) not without a chance of making the grade if Melbourne can start managing to play decent football.
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]What's Not:[/b]
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]Sam Iles (95.6) getting delisted from his AFL clubshocked the fantasy world, no organisation more so than the Glenrowan Gunslingers as he was their second highest averaging midfielder. McKenna? What a guy.
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]This is particularly painful to Glenrowan as their midfield was on the weak side even with Iles contribution last year. The talent is definitely there, but for the Gunslingers to genuinely challenge the likes of Hannebery (82.2), Armitage (86) and Ziebell (81.1) need to become 90+ players at the very least. For Ziebell that means staying on the ground for a fair sight longer than 86 minutes per match.
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]Depth in this area another issue with M5 notionally being taken up by ShouldaBeenaSavage (55.7), the most vested player in the game. With Xavier Ellis (59) and Cale Morton (57.1) filling out that part of the roster at present, fair to say it's a problem.
<div>
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]What Do They Need:[/b]
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]Enter pick one in the draft and Jaeger O'Meara. If the hunter could manage a Greene like debut year in terms of ball getting and durability, Glenrowan's midfield depth for 2013 could be replenished in spectacular style. As much as I'd like to see it, I'm skeptical of Jaeger averaging more than 70-75 in his first year as he's never been a massive ball winner as a junior. In the future though, anything really possible.
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]Along with this, Glenrowan should really lobby hard to get Mike Pyke (76.7) out of Poowong. With SausagesMumford (91) a premium ruck, but a known health risk, they really do need a reliable understudy. With Witts yet to even debut and McKernan (57) very possibly on his last chance, the Gunslingers will be in quite the jam when the inevitable happens this year, and Mumford winds up in the hospital or the sin bin.
<div>
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]Best 15:[/b]
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]D:[/b][span style='font-size: 100%;]Hurn, Bock, Firrito, Nicholson
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]M:[/b][span style='font-size: 100%;]Beams, Armitage, Hannebery, Ziebell
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]R:[/b][span style='font-size: 100%;]Mumford
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]F:[/b][span style='font-size: 100%;]Bartel, Rioli, Dahlhaus, Fasolo
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]I/C:[/b][span style='font-size: 100%;]Bugg, B Smith
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
<div style='text-align: center;]<img alt='' class='aligncenter' src='http://imageshack.us/a/img856/6818/tlpshield.png' width='300px' style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;[/img]
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]TARWIN LOWER PIGS[/b]
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]I honestly find it hard to get a read on this team. They should be good. But clearly it didn't all come together for the Gippy Pigs in 2012, winning just 6 out of 17 games and finishing the season in the 13th place.
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]It could be said that Riewoldt (95.9), ROK (103.8) Carrazzo (97.8) and Embley (53/90.5) are all in the twilight of their careers, and that the time for Tarwin Lower to challenge for a premiership is in the here and now. And yet even accounting for Carrazzo and Embley missing large portions of the season, 13th place is a long way away from bringing home the bacon.
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]In saying that I definitely feel that a kinder run with injury and some improved performance and consistency from the Pigs younger brigade could have them playing finals this year.
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]What's Working:[/b]
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]A lot on paper by my reading. Pendles (124.7) is the star player that everyone wants leading their midfield, handsomely supported by ROK, Carrazzo and a Mitch Wallis (87.3) who broke out massively in his 2nd year. That's a 400+ midfield on paper, the league standard for heavyweight.
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]If Bustanut (76.2) and iSmith (71.8) can get on up into that 80-85 bracket, and Embley can return to something approaching his unimpeded 2011 form, Tarwin Lower have 7 genuine quality options they can run through the middle and I/C.
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;][span style='line-height: 12px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;]
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]What's Not:[/b]
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]The Pigs depth in the front and back halves is a little shaky. Up forward Riewoldt, Porps (80.4), Merrett (77.1) and McGrath (72.3) are a solid, if slightly workman like group. However, going down the list finds Tarwin Lower relying on either veteran role-players Milne (69.4) and Edwards (68.7), or not quite ripe youngsters Karnezis (49) and GeneralPatton (45.3) to fill the breach when injury eventually sidelines someone.
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]It's a similar story down back with Hanley (90.7), Josh Hunt (77.5), Geary (73.7) and Sam Shaw (72.9) providing solid, if unspectacular scoring. Having to count on 2nd year players Buntine (49.5) and Docherty (DNP) for back up is risky game to play though.
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]What Do They Need:[/b]
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]Like most teams, it would help the TLP's scoring tremendously if their young players decided they wanted to break out this year, particularly those one's just mentioned at either end of the ground. Tough given they're all coming off pretty low bases, but stranger things have happened in fantasy football (remember that year Staker had before he did his knee?).
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]If injury-ridden ruck men McIntosh (102.9) was able to play the majority of the year at his new AFL home this would also free up Giles (93.3) to have a more permanent seat on the bench. There is of course the option of trading one of those guys out to someone in need (rucks fetch a high price for those desperate), but I don't know how much we'll see clubs with two premium ruck men want to give up that advantage.
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]Best 15:[/b]
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]D:[/b][span style='font-size: 100%;]Hanley, J Hunt, Geary, S Shaw
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]M:[/b][span style='font-size: 100%;]Pendles, ROK, Carrazzo, Wallis
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]R:[/b][span style='font-size: 100%;]McIntosh
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]F:[/b][span style='font-size: 100%;]N Riewoldt, Porplysia, Merrett, McGrath
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]I/C:[/b][span style='font-size: 100%;]Giles, Bastinac
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
<div style='text-align: center;]<img alt='' class='aligncenter' src='http://imageshack.us/a/img822/9379/pbrshield.jpg' width='300px' style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;[/img]
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]PURNULULU BUNGLE RANGERS[/b]
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]I guess the question on everyone's lips regarding this club is 'is it TinoTime'? Perhaps not quite yet, but in mind the hour is drawing nearer with each passing season. The PBR were pretty Minsoning terrible in 2012, an 6-11 record and just managing to haul themselves off the bottom of the ladder and into 15th place at the death.
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]Why then is this pundit so bullish about Purnululu Bungle's prospects this year? Simply put, a squad as young as this one can not help but improve. Certainly it's a hard to see them having a year as bad as last's.
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]What's Working:[/b]
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]The Rangers have a bonafide gun on every line; Heater (101.2) down back, Selwood (117.6) in the middle, TexWalker (100.2) up front and Ryder (105.5) holding down the ruck. That's a fairly good place to start when building a successful line-up, because if you don't have high-end quality players to start with, you'll soon find it's a pretty tedious process trying to bring them in or up to that standard.
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]Midfielder's Treloar (83.2), Liberatore (83.1), Swallow (78.2), Trengove (74.9), forwards Lynch (68.4) and Harper (51.5) and newly crowned defender Atley (71.1) are all under the age of 22, giving the team plenty of room for growth, while TheFrenchman returns as a potential 85+ forward to an attack that struggled to even get the requisite numbers on the park for much of last year.
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]What's Not:[/b]
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]As legendary 80's band Poison sang, 'every rose has its thorn'. How prescient of them to write so elegantly of dangers a fantasy football team full of unproven youngsters. The cold, hard truth is that not all young footballers go onto become successes at their trade - even if they were picked in the early rounds.
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]Suban (51.7) has teased for years, but never really put up much in the way of scoring. That reality seems to be dawning on Melksham (59.7) too. And sadly Morabito who didn't play last year looks unlikely to figure in season 2013 either.
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]What Do They Need:[/b]
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]Put simply: breakouts out the whazoo. On 2012 averages, the PBR's best 15 totals a mere 1255 ppg. If Lecras can return to his previous years form and 5 of the 7 young players named can lift their average by 10 ppg or more each, this team can play finals in 2013. A definite possibility.
<p style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;]Look for the PBR to draft a forward with pick 4, or possibly a ruck if they've lost faith in Gorringe (35). I'd try and hold it though if I were them.
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]Best 15:[/b]
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]D: [/b][span style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px;border-width: 0px;]H[span style='font-size: 100%;]Shaw, Adcock, O'Brien, Atley
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]M: [/b][span style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px;border-width: 0px;]J[span style='font-size: 100%;]Selwood, Broadbent, Treloar, Liberatore
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]R:[/b][span style='font-size: 100%;]Ryder
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]F: [/b][span style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px;border-width: 0px;]T[span style='font-size: 100%;]Walker, Ballantyne, LeCras, Lynch
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]I/C: [/b][span style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px;border-width: 0px;]D[span style='font-size: 100%;]Swallow, Trengove
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]PRESEASON ROLLING INFO[/b]
<strong style='margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-color: transparent;border-width: 0px;]DRAFT ORDER[/b]
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
1 GLE
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
2 WOY
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
3 HDH
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
4 PBR
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
5 BDB
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
6 TLP
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
7 JIM
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
8 BDB
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
9 POP
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
10 MIL
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
11 MBD
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
12 COU
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
13 MER
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
14 MAL
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
15 POO
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
16 MIL
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
17 WAR
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
18 MAL
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
19 GLE
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
20 WOY
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
21 HDH
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
22 PBR
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
23 BDB
[span style='font-size: 100%;]
24 TLP
[span style='font-size: 10
ORFFL Preseason Preview - Part III
Discussion in 'Blog' started by tAdmin, Jan 13, 2013.
Comments
Discussion in 'Blog' started by tAdmin, Jan 13, 2013.