Straight to the point (or the points!) this week:
we scored 2,175 points,
we placed at 20,499 for the round,
we have a total score of 4,251,
and an overall rank of 12,430.



The team breakdown looked like this:
Defence
H Shaw 101
J Newnes 90
A Saad 90
K Kolodjashnij 80
K McIntosh 68
J Gibson 0
Midfield
J Kennedy 130
S Pendlebury 126 (V)
P Dangerfield 109
O Wines 105
C Ellis-Yolmen 98
A Vandenberg 75
D Beams 73 (C, 146)
I Heeney 65
Rucks
T Goldstein 154
N Naitanui 103
Forwards
M Bontempelli 142
D Martin 139
R Gray 114
C Salem 88
M Clark 32
J Bartel 0
Bench
N Brown 34 (E - replaced Gibson)
A Oxley 116 (@#$%)
T Miller 35
P Cripps 0
C Blakely 0
M Cox 0
J Hogan 86 (E - replaced Bartel)
T Lamb 0

As you can see there's a few misses there. Oxely's 134 points on the bench really hurts - but that's probably the same for many a coach. Taking the risk on Beams was a real let-down, which I probably have to take most of the credit (??? Blame ???) for. Had have we picked JPK or Pendles we would have been around 50 points infront. Thats a total of 130-odd points that hindsight says would have given us a score of approximately 2300. A score like that would have had us near the top 2,000 for the week (seriously better than the 20,000 we actually were).

Clearly there's some holes in our team. Blakely stands out as a big hole (or maybe its his coach, who is a hole&rdquo - which will require a correction trade this week. We also have a few rookies who seem to be under-performing, and on the fringe in their AFL teams, which is never what you want. Then there's that premo Beams, who is doing anything but... (atleast he's not Ablett!)

Come and join us in the Donor Forum to discuss trades for the week, and to stop me from leaving the C” on Beams again!