EurAsia v AAP Alliance: Clash 1 - Gawn v ROB

[Purple 77]

WXV Round 12
Rep Round 1
Rep Round 2
   
Round 13   
Thu 6 Jun 7:00pm    Adelaide v Richmond
Fri 7 Jun 7:40pm    Western Bulldogs v Brisbane
Sat 8 Jun 1:45pm    Hawthorn v GWS
Sat 8 Jun 2:35pm    West Coast v North Melbourne
Sat 8 Jun 7:30pm    St Kilda v Gold Coast
Sun 9 Jun 3:20pm    Sydney v Geelong
Sun 9 Jun 7:20pm    Essendon v Carlton
Mon 10 Jun 3:20pm    Collingwood v Melbourne

AFL Round 14   
Fri 14 Jun 7:40pm    Brisbane v St Kilda
Sat 15 Jun 1:45pm    Western Bulldogs v Fremantle
Sat 15 Jun 4:35pm    Richmond v Hawthorn
Sat 15 Jun 7:00pm    Adelaide v Sydney
Sun 16 Jun 1:00pm    North Melbourne v Collingwood
Sun 16 Jun 4:00pm    GWS v Port Adelaide
   
AFL Round 15   
Fri 21 Jun 7:40pm    Carlton v Geelong
Sat 22 Jun 1:15pm    Port Adelaide v Brisbane
Sat 22 Jun 4:35pm    GWS v Sydney
Sat 22 Jun 7:30pm    Melbourne v North Melbourne
Sun 23 Jun 1:00pm    Essendon v West Coast
Sun 23 Jun 2:00pm    Fremantle v Gold Coast

Representative Round 1, Round 13 scores from Adelaide , Carlton, Collingwood , Essendon , Geelong, Gold Coast, Hawthorn , Melbourne, Richmond, St Kilda , West Coast , Western Bulldogs  + Round 14 scores from Brisbane, Fremantle, GWS, North Melbourne, Port Adelaide, Sydney

Home Team	Away Team	Venue	Head-to-Head
EurAsia (JBs-Hawks)	AAP Alliance (iZander)	Melbourne Cricket Ground	8  v  4

#	EurAsia	#	AAP
1	Seoul Magpies	2	Buenos Aires Armadillos
4	New Delhi Tigers	3	Mexico City Suns
5	Rome Gladiators	6	Pacific Islanders
12	Tokyo Samurai	7	Cape Town Cobras
13	PNL Reindeers	8	Toronto Wolves
15	Dublin Destroyers	9	Rio de Janeiro Jaguars
16	London Royals	10	Cairo Sands
17	Berlin Brewers	11	New York Revolution
18	Beijing Pandas	14	Christchurch Saints

The rules:
- We have a best of 2 games series, where in the event of a tie, the highest combined score wins. If that is also the same, the highest individual team score wins.
- Game 1 MUST use entirely different players to Game 2, and vice versa. There can be no crossover whatsoever. Coaches must co-ordinate with each other WHO will be using WHICH players.
- The highest ranking coach of AAP will go against the highest ranking coach of EurAsia in Game 1. The second highest ranking coaches of each team will clash in Game 2.
- A rolling lockout, traditional team format, 4 emergencies no restings.
- You are able to tag, but you can only nominate a tagger and taggee with non-locked players.
- Loopholing in all forms is permitted.


AAP go in as the favourites. Fortunately, EurAsia have proven experience on its side with 2021 and 2022 winning coaches at the helm.

Last year as a clash for the ages. Can AAP capitalise on its 'premiership window'?



2023 Series (iZander/FTC): AAP Alliance (58.13.361) def EurAsia (58.12.360)
    2023 Clash 2 (JBs-Hawks): AAP Alliance (28.7.175) lost to EurAsia (31.6.192)
    2023 Clash 1 (iZander): AAP Alliance (30.6.186) def EurAsia (27.7.169)
2022 (kilbluff1985): EurAsia (28.7.175) def by AAP Alliance (28.6.174)
2021 (JBs-Hawks): AAP Alliance (28.6.174) lost to EurAsia (29.6.180)
2020 (Holz): EurAsia (30.9.189) def AAP Alliance (27.10.172)
2019 (FTC): AAP Alliance (29.6.180) def EurAsia (29.6.179*)
2018 (Purple77): EurAsia (28.11.179) def AAP Alliance (26.10.166)
2017 (Ricochet/elephants): AAP Alliance (25.8.158) lost to EurAsia (26.7.163)
2016 (Holz): EurAsia (27.11.173) def AAP Alliance (23.11.149)
2015 (JROO8): AAP Alliance (26.12.168*) def EurAsia (26.11.167)
2014 (Nails): EurAsia (24.11.155) lost to AAP Alliance (25.18.168)
2013 (Ringo): AAP Alliance (25.22.172) lost to EurAsia (27.21.183)
2012 (CrowsFan): AAP Alliance (28.8.176) def EurAsia (27.11.173)


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ROLLING LOCKOUT PERMITTED / FOUR EMERGENCIES PERMITTED

[Purple 77]

Oh my, those ladder positions.

How could AAP lose this one?

[iZander]

AAP

Def:   Harry Sheezal, Jordan Clark, Nic Newman, Bailey Dale
Mid: Caleb Serong (C), Sam Walsh (VC), Rory Laird, Tom Green
Ruck:             
Fwd: Isaac Heeney, Harry Mckay, Zac Fisher,    
Util   Luke Davie Uniacke , Tom De Koning      
            
Emg: Jake Soligo, Liam Baker, Toby Nankervis, James Sicily

[iZander]

AAP

Def: Harry Sheezal, Jordan Clark, Nic Newman, Bailey Dale
Mid: Caleb Serong (C), Sam Walsh, Rory Laird (VC), Tom Green
Ruck: Toby Nankervis             
Fwd: Isaac Heeney, Harry Mckay, Zac Fisher,    
Util: Luke Davie Uniacke , Tom De Koning      
            
Emg: ,Jake Soligo, Liam Baker, ,

[iZander]

AAP

Def: Harry Sheezal, Jordan Clark, Nic Newman, Bailey Dale
Mid: Caleb Serong (C), Sam Walsh, Rory Laird (VC), Tom Green
Ruck: Toby Nankervis             
Fwd: Isaac Heeney, Harry Mckay, Zac Fisher,    
Util: Luke Davie Uniacke , Tom De Koning      
            
Emg: Jake Soligo, ,Liam Baker, ,

[JBs-Hawks]

Europe

D: Jordan Ridley, Dan Houston, Elliot Yeo, Jack Sinclair
M: Zak Butters, Matt Rowell, Josh Dunkley, Patrick Cripps
R: Max Gawn (C)
F: Jake Waterman, Dayne Zorko, Charlie Curnow, Alex Sexton
I: Brodie Grundy, Tim English (VC)
E: Jordan Dawson, Adam Treloar, Dylan Moore, Mitch Hinge,

[iZander]

AAP

Def: Harry Sheezal, Jordan Clark, Nic Newman, Bailey Dale
Mid: Caleb Serong (C), Sam Walsh, Rory Laird (VC), Tom Green
Ruck: Toby Nankervis             
Fwd: Isaac Heeney, Harry Mckay, Zac Fisher, Sebit Kuek    
Util: Luke Davie Uniacke , Tom De Koning      
            
Emg: Jake Soligo, James Sicily, Liam Baker, ,

[iZander]

AAP

Def: Harry Sheezal, Jordan Clark, Nic Newman, Bailey Dale
Mid: Caleb Serong (C), Sam Walsh, Rory Laird (VC), Tom Green
Ruck: Toby Nankervis             
Fwd: Isaac Heeney, Harry Mckay, Zac Fisher, Sebit Kuek    
Util: Luke Davie Uniacke , Tom De Koning      
            
Emg: Jake Soligo, James Sicily, Liam Baker, Joe Daniher

[JBs-Hawks]

Europe

D: Jordan Ridley, Dan Houston, Elliot Yeo, Jack Sinclair
M: Zak Butters, Matt Rowell, Josh Dunkley, Harley Reid
R: Max Gawn (C)
F: Jake Waterman, Dayne Zorko, Charlie Curnow, Alex Sexton
I: Brodie Grundy, Tim English (VC)
E: Jordan Dawson, Adam Treloar, Dylan Moore, Mitch Hinge,

[Purple 77]

After AFL Round 13

Plenty happening in WXVs most illustrative game of the year!

It's a common story isn't? EurAsia, blessed with the best rucks in the game, once again taken down by the AAP talls with a point to prove. Masterstroke selections of Nankervis and the exploding TDK have clearly out-performed Max and English, although Max has performed well as Captain for EurAsia.

The forward lines will be tough to get right this year, so I'm inclined to think EurAsia have done OKish with 80s from Curnow and Sexton, and a ton to Waterman, especially considering McKay failed to fire for AAP.

There is zero tolerance though for the midfield, which is often where this clash is won and lost, and to this end... both teams are yet to register a ton, with all of Walsh, Laird and Rowell failing to fire.

EurAsia's trump card appears to be the defence, with a mammoth performance to Jack Sinclair backed up with servicable tons in Yeo/Ridley seemingly destined to outshine the Alliance defence.

EurAsia has the points on the board, but would feel it has slightly underperformed. AAP meanwhile, despite Nank/TDKs starring games, have little else to ride home about. A captains knock from Serong though will bridge the gap, and AAP may also be tempted to bank Sicily's and Baker's score.

Overall... I worry that EurAsia needed a stronger start, and that the B-team might be lacking.

	AAP Alliance					EurAsia
POS	Traditional	SCO	PEN	ADJ	POS	Traditional	SCO	PEN	ADJ
D1	Harry Sheezel (Cape Town)	0		0	D1	Jordan Ridley (Tokyo)	112		112
D2	Jordan Clark (Toronto)	0		0	D2	Dan Houston (Rome)	0		0
D3	Nic Newman (Mexico City)	57		57	D3	Elliot Yeo (Seoul)	127		127
D4	Bailey Dale (New York)	95		95	D4	Jack Sinclair (New Delhi)	147		147
M1	Caleb Serong (Buenos Aires)	0		0	M1	Zak Butters (New Delhi)	0		0
M2	Sam Walsh (Mexico City)	87		87	M2	Matt Rowell (Berlin)	82		82
M3	Rory Laird (Pacific)	86		86	M3	Josh Dunkley (Tokyo)	0		0
M4	Tom Green (Buenos Aires)	0		0	M4	Harley Reid (Dublin)	0	DNP	0
R1	Toby Nankervis (Cape Town)	144		144	R1	Max Gawn (Seoul)	132		132
F1	Isaac Heeney (Toronto)	0		0	F1	Jake Waterman (Seoul)	112		112
F2	Harry McKay (Mexico City)	66		66	F2	Dayne Zorko (New Delhi)	0		0
F3	Zac Fisher (Toronto)	0		0	F3	Charlie Curnow (Seoul)	80		80
F4	Sebit Kuek (Buenos Aires)	0		0	F4	Alex Sexton (New Delhi)	87		87
U1 (MID)	Luke Davies-Uniacke (Mexico City)	0		0	U1 (RUC)	Brodie Grundy (Beijing)	0		0
U2 (RUC)	Tom De Koning (Rio de Janeiro)	146		146	U2 (RUC)	Timothy English (London)	88		88
E1 (MID)	Jake Soligo (Pacific)	74	0	0	E1 (MID)	Jordan Dawson (New Delhi)	117		117
E2 (DEF)	James Sicily (Mexico City)	98	0	0	E2 (MID)	Adam Treloar (Rome)	94	0	0
E3 (DEF FWD)	Liam Baker (Toronto)	103	0	0	E3 (FWD)	Dylan Moore (Rome)	89	0	0
E4 ()	()	0	0	0	E4 (DEF)	Mitchell Hinge (New Delhi)	79	0	0
C	Caleb Serong (Buenos Aires)	0		0	C	Max Gawn (Seoul)	132		132
VC	Rory Laird (Pacific)	86		0	VC	Timothy English (London)	88		0
		Total:	681	7			Total:	1216	10

[Purple 77]

Salty seconds* (the semi-realistic ones)
AAP may have missed a serious trick here in omitting Sam Flanders (152), who would have made a big difference in Clash 1. Brayden Maynard (115) may also constitute as a miss.

Meanwhile, EurAsia's biggest miss so far is Will Day (137), whom had a series of tons prior, as did Zach Merrett (125).

*may be selected in Clash 2


Biggest scores so far

Player	WXV Club	REP1	P
Bodhi Uwland	Dublin Destroyers	157	0
Sam Flanders	Mexico City Suns	152	0
Jack Sinclair	New Delhi Tigers	147	S
Tom De Koning	Rio de Janeiro Jaguars	146	S
Toby Nankervis	Cape Town Cobras	144	S
Will Day	Seoul Magpies	137	0
Max Gawn	Seoul Magpies	132	S
Elliot Yeo	Seoul Magpies	127	S
Samuel Collins	Seoul Magpies	126	0
Zach Merrett	PNL Reindeers	125	0
Alex Witherden	Toronto Wolves	124	0
Joel Jeffrey	Buenos Aires Armadillos	121	0
Bailey Williams (WB)	Pacific Islanders	119	0
George Hewett	Christchurch Saints	118	0
Jeremy Howe	Dublin Destroyers	117	0
Rowan Marshall	Toronto Wolves	117	0
Luke Nankervis	Buenos Aires Armadillos	117	0
Jordan Dawson	New Delhi Tigers	117	S
Jamie Cripps	London Royals	116	0
Brayden Maynard	Rio de Janeiro Jaguars	115	0
Elijah Hollands	Seoul Magpies	115	0
Liam Jones	Berlin Brewers	115	0
Joshua Weddle	Seoul Magpies	115	0
Jordan Ridley	Tokyo Samurai	112	S
James Worpel	Rome Gladiators	112	0
Jake Waterman	Seoul Magpies	112	S
Christian Salem	New York Revolution	111	0
Trent Rivers	Cape Town Cobras	111	0
Will Setterfield	Cairo Sands	111	0
Patrick Lipinski	New York Revolution	110	0

[iZander]

AAP

Def: Harry Sheezal, Jordan Clark, Nic Newman, Bailey Dale
Mid: Caleb Serong (C), Sam Walsh, Rory Laird (VC), Luke Davie Uniacke
Ruck: Toby Nankervis             
Fwd: Isaac Heeney, Harry Mckay, Zac Fisher, Sebit Kuek    
Util: Sean Darcy, Tom De Koning      
            
Emg: Jake Soligo, James Sicily, Liam Baker, ,

[iZander]

AAP

Def: Harry Sheezal, Jordan Clark, Nic Newman, Bailey Dale
Mid: Caleb Serong (C), Sam Walsh, Rory Laird (VC), Luke Davie Uniacke
Ruck: Toby Nankervis             
Fwd: Isaac Heeney, Harry Mckay, Zac Fisher, Sebit Kuek    
Util: Sean Darcy, Tom De Koning      
            
Emg: Jake Soligo, James Sicily, Liam Baker, Cameron Rayner

[iZander]

AAP

Def: Harry Sheezal, Jordan Clark, Nic Newman, Bailey Dale
Mid: Caleb Serong (C), Sam Walsh, Rory Laird (VC), Luke Davie Uniacke
Ruck: Toby Nankervis             
Fwd: Isaac Heeney, Harry Mckay, Zac Fisher, Sebit Kuek    
Util: Sean Darcy, Tom De Koning      
            
Emg: Jake Soligo, James Sicily, Liam Baker, Tom Papley

[JBs-Hawks]

Europe

D: Jordan Ridley, Dan Houston, Elliot Yeo, Jack Sinclair
M: Zak Butters, Matt Rowell, Errol Gulden, Harley Reid
R: Max Gawn (C)
F: Jake Waterman, Dayne Zorko, Charlie Curnow, Alex Sexton
I: Brodie Grundy, Tim English (VC)
E: Jordan Dawson, Adam Treloar, Dylan Moore, Mitch Hinge,