Man, I should have written the first half of this thing last week- the ol memory aint what it used to be.

It does remember the first game of the round, particularly Franklin single handedly dominating the Bombers with a couple of runs down the win and quite posibly goal of the year. He top scored for the game with 159, with Watson coming in behind him with 150. Mitchell has finally put in two games in a row with a 110, while Rioli brought up his 4th ton in a row, 102. Schoenmakers had a day out with 95, but Id hazard a guess that anyone who had him has traded him out by now. Hodge has finally had a bad game putting in a 67, but the effects on his salary wont be seen in force til next week.

Saturday night saw Fremantle keep back the Blues with Sandilands scoring a big 157 and Barlow following closely behind with a 146. Eddie Betts top scored for the blues with 129 with a 4 goal haul. Jarryd Waite broke a lot of hearts, not because of his 100, but because of his 2 week holiday, while Kep continues his solid form. The biggest news from the game was Mathew Kruezer, doing himself an ACL and is gone for the rest of the season. All of us here at TooSerious are hoping for a speedy recovery for the guy, and not just from a fantasy football front.

Richmond continued their good form knocking off the Lions. Chris Newman top scored with a 137, with Deledio (129), Tuck (126) and Riewoldt (114) following. Staker top scored for the Lions kicking 3 goals and scoring 113. Rockliff put in a solid 106 to put out the gauntlet in the Rock/Pod challenge.

North Melbourne and Port both continued there current form. Good and bad. Harvey top scored with a 152 with Ports Pearce and Schulz taking out 2nd and 3rd spot with a 138 and 127, With Schulzs seven goal haul not being enough to get them over the line. Lachie Hansen kicked 5 himself which got him a return of 116 points. Its around now that my memory of the Sundays games gets a little hazy. Honestly I blame the soccer- all these late nights and early mornings arent helping at all!

Anyways, the next game for Sunday saw the Bulldogs dominate the West Coast Eagles. Gilbee top scored with 151, with the next highest scorers being Cross (136), Giansiracusa (131) and Griffen (127). Dalziell top scored for the Eagles with 106, while Scooter Selwood but in a great game with 99. Sheppard did just nicely scoring 89 as a rookie while Grant scored a 68. Steven put in a decent first game scoring 42 but sadly, Hurn scored a 33 and got himself injured.

Then we had an intermission. Australia made up for their dismal German performance, but it just wasnt enough to see them get through. Which was sad because last night, Ghana managed to beat the USA in over time- should have been us!! Ah well, bygones.

This week saw three games, starting off with a grand final rematch. It started off as many would have expected, a tight game, with Geelong pulling away in the second. What no-one expected to see though, was Geelong being kept goalless for a whole half of football with the Saints running away victorious. Even in defeat though, Ablett still top scored with 154. Personally, I reckon second place, Dal Santo was a little ripped off, with one less handall but 4 more marks and tackles (149)- but hey, thats Supercoach. Bartel and Johnson look to have done themselves some damage, so well have to keep a watch on them throughout the week. While Podsiadly bottom scored for probably the first time this year, with a 24. (Another point to the Lobster!)

Saturday saw the Pies go about it, beating the Swannies by 25 points. Steele Sidebottom (and <a href="http://nameoftheyear.blogspot.com/">name of the year winner[/url] - personally though, I liked Spontaneous Gordon and Nohjay Nimpson.) top scored with a 133, while Shaw had a welcome return to form scoring 126 points. Mattner and Malceski both scored 118 points while Jolly had a day out against his old team scoring 115 points. Goodes on the other hand failed miserable, with a pitiful 16- shame shame mate, like the balloon boy, in the balloon town with a pin, youve let us all down.

Finally, Adelaide are playing themselves back into some form, getting home over the Demons. The top three scorers for the Crows were Goodwin (144), Johncock (132) and Symes (126). Bate top scored for the Demons with 120 while the TipRat brought it home with a 118. With three 110+ in the last 4 weeks, I wonder if any coaches will have the cajones to jump back onto him with Krueze going down? Slone and Jaensch did a great job for their price, both breaking the ton, while Scully scored a 89.

Anyways, Im getting this post up early because I know that Im not going to have the time to write anything on the post-lockout stuff later on, I will get the stats up though.

Now, with Hurn, Goodes, 2 zeros and a swag of failures, I reckon Ill be lucky to break 2k this week- the season is in absolute tatters!! So, after the split round, hows everyone else going? Happy with your year? Or have the wheels fallen off? Give me a couple of good news stories! Cause surely some of you guys have got to be doing well!