WXV Round 1: The Debut of Christchurch and Rio de Janeiro

[Purple 77]

Beijing Hype as loud as their Thunder

A strong pre-season (3rd place overall) and now an impressive round 1 win... is this the year we finally see the lightning after hearing about this thunder for so long?! Toronto would be very disappointed dropping this match, but as they showed last year, this isn't the end of the world and could still make the finals.

Toronto Wolves (21.6.132) lost to Beijing Thunder (21.11.137)

Best
Toronto: Scott Pendlebury, Matthew Pavlich, Richard Douglas
Beijing: Cale Hooker, Oliver Wines, Jared Polec, Eddie Betts, Tom Bell

Late Changes
Toronto: Tom Hickey replaced by Steven Morris
Beijing: Danny Stanley, Ben Kennedy replaced by Liam Shiels, Touk Miller

WXV Debut
Toronto: Nil
Beijing: Touk Miller

Club debut
Toronto: Daniel Merrett, Isaac Smith, James Kelly, Matthew Pavlich, Richard Douglas, Ryan Griffen
Beijing: Cameron Shenton, Cameron Wood, Jared Polec, Matthew Jaensch, Maverick Weller, Tom Bell

Reserves

Manitoba Moose (10.8.68) lost to Shanghai Storm (16.10.106)

Best
Manitoba: Jack Crisp, Jamie MacMillan, Sam Butler, Alan Toovey
Shanghai: Brodie Grundy, Thomas Jonas, Phil Davis, Travis Varcoe, Michael Talia

[Jroo]

Suns waiting for the end of Round 17 in brutal display of dominance

The Suns looked like they didn't exert themselves much in getting the highest score of the week (... I was so god damn close this time), but face the prospect of being without Sidebottom and Rockliff for some while. Seoul was looking at Round 2 at the start of the match, having rested star midfielder Patrick Dangerfield for next's weeks clash against Cairo.

Seoul Magpies (19.8.120) lost to Mexico City Suns (25.7.157)

Best
Seoul: Brandon Ellis, Lachie Whitfield
Mexico City: Kade Simpson, Steele Sidebottom, Jordan Lewis, Bradley Ebert, Matthew Stokes, Kamdyn McIntosh

Late Changes
Seoul: Jed Anderson replaced by Jordan Roughead
Mexico City: Darcy Byrne-Jones replaced by Kamdyn McIntosh

WXV Debut
Seoul: Nil
Mexico City: Kamdyn McIntosh

Club debut
Seoul: Jonathon Ceglar, Lachie Whitfield, Toby Greene, Trent McKenzie
Mexico City: Brent Harvey, Brett Deledio, Kade Simpson, Matthew Broadbent, Matthew Stokes, Tom Rockliff

Reserves
Pyongyang Chollimas (8.7.55) lost to Mexico City Suns (9.10.63)

Best
Pyongyang: Patrick Dangerfield
Mexico City: Allen Christensen, Shaun Grigg, Taylor Hunt, Cameron Ellis-Yolmen

shower, didn't think I would get the top score after my forwards spudding it up.

Lucky we have Kamdyn, dominated against his former team :P

[Jukes]

#NoVlastuinNoLegitimateResult imho :P

Congrats to purps for his first round tho!

[Purple 77]

#NoVlastuinNoLegitimateResult imho :P

Congrats to purps for his first round tho!

Lol, thanks man!  :)

[AaronKirk]

Washington would have to be favourites for the reserve premiership #rebellion

[meow meow]

Nice work Purps :)

100% winning record doges!

None of Gibbs, Hartlett, Shuey, Mitchell (C) or Sandi scored over 90 so we've got room for improvement for sure.

[Holz]

wow closer than I thought. took them a little lightly and almost paid the price. Hopefully I have birchall back or i might need to play 5 forwards.

Selwood has lost the captain armband after almost costing me a game even if he got me the flag. Rumour is new recruit Sloane could be getting captain duties.

[ossie85]

Great write ups and well done Purps :)

[roo boys!]

Well done first up Purps, looking like a seamless transition of the administrative duties!

Yet again congrats Beijing. Good to see the Moose (Meese?) have a victory in their first game under a new name

[Toga]

Don't know how good it is to see our reserves register a score for once :P Plenty of improvement left in us as well, hopefully we won't be playing 2 OOP forwards in the future.

Good stuff Purps, have done very well mate :)

[Holz]

Belfast 57 lost to Port Moresby 57

I call shenanigans

#dublinhaters

[Purple 77]

Belfast 57 lost to Port Moresby 57

I call shenanigans

#dublinhaters

Yeah on reviewing these scorelines, a lot of them don't add up... the total does, just not the goals + behinds.

About to go fix them, my excel document has a flaw it seems  :P

Good lord, what I wrote down was way off between you two in reserves:

Dublin 273, Pacific 553

I shall go and amend all of them now.

[Holz]

Belfast 57 lost to Port Moresby 57

I call shenanigans

#dublinhaters

Yeah on reviewing these scorelines, a lot of them don't add up... the total does, just not the goals + behinds.

About to go fix them, my excel document has a flaw it seems  :P

Good lord, what I wrote down was way off between you two in reserves:

Dublin 273, Pacific 553

I shall go and amend all of them now.

On second thiughts, forget about it

[Purple 77]

Right, I forgot to adjust the dividing factor in every reserves away match from 10 to 5... so basically, if you were an away team, your reserves score just doubled  :P

Have fixed it now, shouldn't happen again  8)

[ossie85]

Sack him. I never made a mistake