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<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;]The final three, who will it be? That rhymes and you know it does, admit it. Remember it's just one man's opinion, but that that man comes with a pretty high recommendation. The ORFFL premiership says hello.
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;]So this wraps up the club preview component of the ORFFL preseason. There's a still a trade period going on that has around a month to go, and there'll be a preview of the up coming draft, and update threads along the way in case anything gets closed. Happy February everyone!

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<p style='font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]They say in the AFL that near on every year a team from the bottom half of the ladder rises to the Top 4 the next season. I don't have the exact figure handy, but whatever, I believe the same rational is applicable to the 18 team ORFFL. And I think Jimcumbilly is the team that could make such a jump in 2013.
<p style='font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]For a team that finished 12th in 2012, I was always of the opinion that the Jackrabbits were a better side than what the table read. Moloney suffered a severe drop in form, but has already been replaced by the indefatigable Hayes (102.3). The other big offseason move was the recruitment of Swan (126.2) to the middle. You don't often see a Top 10 draft pick change colours.
<p style='font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #424242;]What's Working:
<p style='font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]Swan (126.2) makes this midfield one of the best in the game. With McLean (106.3) and Dal Santo (101.8) and Rosa (89.8) this midfield could already keep pace with the ORFFL peleton. When you add in Swan (126.2) and Hayes (102.3), that's 5 players that combine for 527ppg, more than 50ppg greater than the league average.
<p style='font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]In other parts of the ground Jimcumbilly are just average at the minute, but you can clearly see where important may come from. Up forward Monfries (66.7) could find his way to his 2011 form (84.4) at his new AFL club, while Devon Smith (63.4) hit the 60ppg mark in his debut year, a strong indicator for future success in my eyes.
<p style='font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]Down back the 2011/2012 splits are intriguing. Fisher (96.2/83), Grundy (87.3/74.6) and the newly acquired Gibson (87.1/78.6) could conceivably add 30ppg to the Jackrabbits' defence taking it into the top echelon. It's just a question of what roles those players will be playing in 2013. If I was to guess what they're chances were to do that I'd go with no, maybe, yes.
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<p style='font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]Figuring out who to delist. Seriously, try to play this game at home. Stephenson (59.9), Renouf (61.8) and NLM (56.1) are easy pickings, after that though it gets tough.
<p style='font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]Ellard (85.4) doesn't get many games, but scores well enough for a M6. With a new coach he a question mark going into the season. Van Berlo (76.9) didn't reach great heights in 2012, but averaged 10 points higher the year before and is pretty much assured of playing every game if fit.
<p style='font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]Hudson (92.9) is not going to play anywhere close to 22 games, but he can sure score when he gets on the park. Pederson (52) is a bit of a dud, but at a new AFL club there's a case to be made that he could return to his 2011 average of 84.1, or near enough. Plus he's the only D/R in the game!
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<p style='font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]This is a pretty well balanced side with a top 10 pick in the upcoming draft. In my mind that suggests a Wayne Hughes style best available selection. I honestly think that player is Jordan Murdoch (63.6), but I'm sure a Wines, Toumpas, or Viney will be around if they want to go balls deep in the midfield.
<p style='font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]While we're on the subject of the draft picks, the Jackrabbits should seriously consider off loading a couple of their 18th-22nd ranked players for some draft picks. Would be a shame to have all that depth and not get anything out of it.
<p style='font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]Best 15:

D:Fisher, McPharlin, Gibson, Grundy

M: Swan, McLean, Dal Santo, Hayes

R:Luenberger
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<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]My nemesis. I tip my hat to thee. Going into writing these previews I had my GF opponent somewhere around the 6th-8th range. And then their coach EV came back from some altitude 'training camp' in Nepal and quickly set about a head hunting exercise tailored to plug the scoring gaps in the Warburton list.
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]Harvey (95. 5) and Higgins (79.5) - who is TTHD BTW, were brought into a forward line that had lost MJ (89.4) and Chornes (84.3) to its positional ranks, while the recruitment of Vince (84.7) fills the M$ position vacated by Hartlett's (91.4) move to defence.
<p style='margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #424242;]What's Working:
<p style='margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]A forward line that I've coined The Wand'renation (368.1). Lewis (96), Hale (95.6), Harvey (95.5), Sylvia (81), and Higgins (79.5) at F5 to fill in for Harvey's sabbatical. That's just mean to there teams.
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #424242;]What's Not:
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]Like Jimcumbilly, Warburton rank just average in a lot of areas of the field, but like the Jackrabbits their is a great scope for improvement across the board.
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]Hill (80.9) and Scully (79.4) still have time to jump into the 90ppg bracket, Kreuzer (92.4) is still young enough as a ruck to gain 10ppg, while Hartlett (91.4) has the potential to be anything if he can stay on the park. Boak (90) could also reach the 100ppg game mark this year now that he has the captaincy at Port Adelaide. You never know&amp;hellip;
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]&amp;hellip;Thornton (63.4) could return to his ~80ppg game form at GWS. The ball will be down there a lot.
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<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]Hard to say as they don't have a pick until the 4th round, and lord knows what trash/treasure will be around at that mark. Regardless they seem as well placed list wise as any. As long as Howard (61.4) can keep his head on his shoulders, and Hill and Scully mature in a football sense, Warburton should be vying for the number one prize in the ORFFL.
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #424242;]Best 15:
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]D:Hartlett, Johnson, Rivers, Schofield
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]M:Murphy, Griffen, Boak, Vince
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<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]F:Lewis, Hale, Harvey, Sylvia
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<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]Hey now, Hey now
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]Don't dream it's over
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<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]There's a message in that. The message is don't believe that just because in 2012 the Savages trekked all over this great brown land smacking the living daylights out of most any team that dared challenge them, don't believe they won't do it again in 2013.
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]That 3 week period between rounds 4-6 where Sarah Island averaged 1509; that's our bar. That's the level we want to play at. That level that all you others can scarcely contemplate except for those brief occasions where the Savages come to your home town to put on a show.
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]The Jar isn't going anywhere, gentlemen. Game on, mole.
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #424242;]What's Working:
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]It's a veritable roll call of class and sheer scoring power as you run down the list. In fact Dion Prestia (79) is the only player below average for his position, but even then he's basically playing as an M6 so he's actually well above it!
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]Reigning David Mundy Medalist David Mundy (89.2) looks set to return to the absolute cream of the competition's midfielders - averaging 114 in his last 8 games, while Nic Naitanui (114.2) ranks as the highest averaging player to have dunked over the top of a person at a Perth Wildcats game. Pretty impressive stuff.
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #424242;]What's Not:
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]Nic Naitanui's suspected injury woes puts a little bit of a dampener on the start of the season, but that why you have a guy like Wilbur Minson (95.1) around to put his finger in the dyke.
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]Other than that everything's fricken-tickity-boo! Would love to Tom Mitchell given a run in the NAB Cup. He's gonna wreck y'all!
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #424242;]What Do They Need:
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]Sarah Island's first pick was essentially Garrick Ibbotson (72.6), and we're fin with that. Did you know that Ibbotson is the highest averaging player with the first name of Garrick?
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]Other than that, I don't think you can go past the Wayne Hughes best available selection. With a first pick at 32, I think character will have to come into it to a degree. How many characters the lad can play, and how well they can adjust to those roles will be a large part of what they can bring to the team.
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #424242;]Best 15:
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]D:Goddard, Taylor, Chaplin, Frawley
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]M:Kennedy, Sloane, Simpson, Mundy
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]R:Naitanui
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]F:Waite, Robinson, P Adams, Mayne
<p style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #424242;]I/C:Minson, Christensen
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1 GLE

2 WOY

3 HDH

4 PBR

5 BDB

6 TLP

7 JIM

8 BDB

9 POP

10 MIL

11 MBD

12 COU

13 MER

14 MAL

15 POO

16 MIL

17 TOR

18 MAL



19 GLE

20 WOY

21 HDH

22 PBR

23 BDB

24 TLP

25 JIM

26 QUE

27 POP

28 MIL

29 MBD

30 COU

31 MER

32 SAR

33 POO

34 MIL

35 BDB

36 SAR



37 GLE

38 WOY

39 HDH

40 PBR

41 QUE

42 TLP

43 POP

44 QUE

45 POP

46 MIL

47 MBD

48 COU

49 TOR

50 SAR

51 POO

52 TOR

53 TOR

54 MAL



55 GLE

56 WOY

57 TOR

58 PBR

59 BDB

60 TLP

61 JIM

62 QUE

63 POP

64 TOR

65 WAR

66 COU

67 WAR

68 SAR

69 WOY

70 POP

71 WAR

72 HDH



73 GLE

74 WAR

75 WAR

76 PBR

77 WAR

78 TLP

79 JIM

80 QUE

81 MER

82 HDH

83 MBD

84 COU

85 MER

86 MAL

87 POO

88 MER

89 WAR

90 SAR



91 GLE

92 WOY

93 HDH

94 PBR

95 BDB

96 TLP

97 JIM

98 QUE

99 HDH

100 MAL

101 MBD

102 COU

103 JIM

104 MAL

105 POO

106 MIL

107 WAR

108 SAR
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<p style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #424242; border-width: 0px;]110 POO
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