WXV Semi Finals: Reindeers v Brewers, Suns v Spetsnaz

[Purple 77]

Trealor back in! *fistpumps*

I was actually gonna play Dixon this week despite his 35 last week, so that kinda sucks.

Also couldn't help but notice Rich, Trengove, Harbrow, even Myers are out for PNL. Will be interested to see who their benchies are.

We're certainly making the most of the week off.

Picken, Roberton, Dempster, Lever, Buntine, Maguire, Gibbs, Boyd, Scully, Steele, Vandenberg, C.Smith, Lester, Freeman and McLean all out injured. Even Clay Cameron and Kyle Langford have been omitted. While Wilbur and Hrovat are still unseen.

Looking at that again, holy crap! Sandilands is a real hero... I mean wow, look at those names!

Think Pacific would have struggled as well this week with no Devon Smith or Tom Mitchell

[meow meow]

We're certainly making the most of the week off.

Picken, Roberton, Dempster, Lever, Buntine, Maguire, Gibbs, Boyd, Scully, Steele, Vandenberg, C.Smith, Lester, Freeman and McLean all out injured. Even Clay Cameron and Kyle Langford have been omitted. While Wilbur and Hrovat are still unseen.

I think you meant to say, Zac Dawson is suspended.

Forgot D.McKenzie, he's injured too.

Zac is back this week, so we're all good to win the champions league prelim. But that's not all. Shaun McKernan is back too! And Josh Green! Sam Gilbert and Ben Reid are proving their durability! Selection is going to be epic next week.

[Hellopplz]

Parisian Nice Lyon Reindeers

D: L. Hodge, C. Enright, M. Williams, N.Malceski
M: M. Priddis (CC), D.Swan (CC), N. Jones, T. Sheridan
R: T.Campbell
F: J. Westhoff, C. Wingard, C. Rioli, T. Lynch
I:  J. Laverde, F. Ray

E: L. McPharlin, Z. O'Brien, L. Casboult

IN: J. Laverde, F. Ray
OUT: J. Harbrow, D. Rich

Two hits to the team with Harbrow and Rich out :(. Lacking midfielders so Swan once again is called upon to fill in the gap there. Ray comes back into the team and Jayden Laverde makes his first appearance for the Reindeers! It's a big moment and lets hope he lives up to the Finals standards already set!

Marseilles looking a bit thin but still decent (If all play, then 8 players). Lucky we have the week off though.

[Memphistopheles]

This is how I'd see our Best XV this week.

Cape Town Cobras

Def: Shaun Higgins, Jasper Pittard, Shane Savage, Andrejs Everitt
Mid: Josh P Kennedy (VC), Trent Cotchin, Dom Tyson, Ed Curnow
Ruc: Stefan Martin (C)
Fwd: Tom Hawkins, Lachie Hunter, Stewart Crameri, Jeremy Cameron
Uti: Mark Blicavs, Nick Haynes

Eme: Nick O'Brien (M), Cam O'Shea (D), Sam Reid (F)

Which means the reserves are as follows. Guys in Italic are emergencies or on the extended interchange for their clubs.

Durban Pirates

Def: Matt Dick, Cam O'Shea, Billie Smedts, Lachie Plowman
Mid: George Horlin-Smith, Nick O'Brien, Darcy Lang, Trent Dumont
Ruc: Trent West
Fwd: Sam Reid, Brandon Jack, Cam McCarthy

[Jroo]

Mexico City Suns
D: Kade Simpson, Matthew Broadbent, Shannon Hurn, Scott D. Thompson 
M: Steele Sidebottom, Tom Rockliff (C), Brad Ebert, Jordan Lewis
R: Ivan Maric
F: Brett Deledio, Brendon Goddard (VC), Jimmy Bartel, Brent Harvey
U: Nick Riewoldt, Allen Christensen

EMG: Shaun Grigg, Michael Johnson, Nathan Krakouer

In: Scott D. Thompson, Nick Riewoldt
Out:  Michael Johnson, Shaun Grigg

[Toga]

Roarke Smith gets a game for Shanghai! 8)

[Purple 77]

Berlin Brewers

D: Michael Hibberd, Colin Garland, Jarryn Geary, Jack Grimes
M: Nat Fyfe (C), Jack Steven (VC), Adam Treloar, Daniel Cross
R: Max Gawn
F: Drew Petrie, Lewis Jetta, Marco PapaGun, Jack Watts
I: Jack Viney, Jesse Lonergan
E: Jordan Murdoch, Xavier Ellis, Mark Jamar

With Murphy's law in mind, I'm too paranoid so I've named Jamar as an emergency just in case.

I'm not at all confident with this talk of playing Fyfe up forward mind you...

[Ringo]

London Royals


Def: Dane Rampe; Mark Baguley;Tom Lonergan, Zac Tuohy                     
Mids: Daniel Hanneberry (C);David Mackay; Brent Stanton ; Jarrad McVeigh (VC)                                     
Rucks: Jonathan Giles                     
Fwds:Josh Hill; Dannyle Pearce;Chris Mayne,  Callum Sinclair                     
Int:  Sam Wright, Adam Saad                     

Emergencies: Hartung, Sheppard, Hoskin-Elliott     

[Purple 77]

Team submission stuff

No OOP players! Yay!

Agree with all Reserves sides senior best XVs

@Pacific, I named a senior team for you below... if you don't agree with it, happy to discuss.

Rory Laird
Jeremy Howe
Michael Hurley
Alex Fasolo
Cameron Guthrie
Michael Barlow
Michael Rischitelli
Jack Redden
Lee Spurr (OOP)
Marcus Bontempelli
Ben Howlett
Jarryd Blair
Jarryd Lyons
Sam Gibson
Jack Martin
Emergencies
Tomas Bugg
Adam Goodes
Matthew de Boer

[Purple 77]

After last night:

PNL are usually better served by the 4 that played last night, and Berlin are thankful that they didn't go nuts. Despite no players for Berlin last night, perhaps PNL are off to a slow start?

Interesting start to the Suns & Spetsnaz, with 3/3 Suns players failing to do much. Moscow would be overall pleased with last night I reckon.

	PNL Reindeers					Berlin Brewers
POS	Team Format: Traditional	SCO	MUL	ADJ	POS	Team Format: Traditional	SCO	MUL	ADJ
D1	Luke Hodge	60	1	60	D1	Michael Hibberd	0
D2	Corey Enright	0			D2	Colin Garland	0
D3	Marley Williams	0			D3	Jarryn Geary	0
D4	Nick Malceski	0			D4	Jack Grimes	0
M1	Matt Priddis	0	CC	0	M1	Nat Fyfe	0	C	0
M2	Dane Swan	0	CC	0	M2	Jack Steven	0	VC	0
M3	Nathan Jones	0			M3	Adam Treloar	0
M4	Thomas Sheridan	0			M4	Daniel Cross	0
R1	Tom Campbell	0			R1	Max Gawn	0
F1	Justin Westhoff	97	1	97	F1	Drew Petrie	0
F2	Chad Wingard	122	1	122	F2	Lewis Jetta	0
F3	Cyril Rioli	67	1	67	F3	Marco Paparone	0
F4	Tom T Lynch	0			F4	Jack Watts	0
U1	Jayden Laverde	0			U1	Jack Viney	0
U2	Farren Ray	0			U2	Jesse Lonergan	0
E1	Luke McPharlin	0			E1	Jordan Murdoch	0
E2	Zac O'Brien	0			E2	Xavier Ellis	0
E3	Levi Casboult	0			E3	Mark Jamar	0
			Total	346				Total	0

	Mexico City Suns					Moscow Spetsnaz
POS	Team Format: Traditional	SCO	MUL	ADJ	POS	Team Format: Traditional	SCO	MUL	ADJ
D1	Kade Simpson	0			D1	Nick Vlastuin	0
D2	Matthew Broadbent	76	1	76	D2	Lynden Dunn	0
D3	Shannon Hurn	0			D3	Sam Docherty	0
D4	Scott D Thompson	0			D4	Jack Hombsch	52	1	52
M1	Steele Sidebottom	0			M1	Callan Ward	0	CC	0
M2	Tom Rockliff	0	C	0	M2	Dyson Heppell	0	CC	0
M3	Bradley Ebert	67	1	67	M3	Dominic Sheed	0
M4	Jordan Lewis	80	1	80	M4	Ryan Bastinac	0
R1	Ivan Maric	0			R1	Nic Naitanui	0
F1	Brett Deledio	0			F1	Robbie Gray	118	1	118
F2	Brendon Goddard	0	VC	0	F2	Jesse Hogan	0
F3	Jimmy Bartel	0			F3	Joe Daniher	0
F4	Brent Harvey	0			F4	Josh Jenkins	0
U1	Nick Riewoldt	0			U1	Steven May	0
U2	Allen Christensen	0			U2	Darcy Moore	0
E1	Shaun Grigg	0			E1	Angus Monfries	52
E2	Michael Johnson	0			E2	Alex Pearce	0
E3	Nathan Krakouer	84			E3	Tyrone Vickery	0
			Total	223				Total	170

Reserves

Shanghai (176/2) v Durban (0/0)

Imperial (30/1) v Port Morseby (64/1)

[ossie85]

Be crazy if Moscow pull this off

[Purple 77]

Shaw gets about 160...

Will consider myself hugely lucky I didn't face that last week  :-X

Meanwhile, I finally get on the board with Treloar tonning up, but Jetta failing somewhat  :-\

[Hellopplz]

Don't worry Purps, Reindeer boys aren't really firing :-X.

[ossie85]

Surely PNL can't lose this? Maybe the curse continues.

If they lose this - PNL would've lost all 3 finals they have played. Oddly enough - all 3 were HOME finals.

Meanwhile, if Berlin win this, it will be the 4th finals win out of 5. 4 of which were played AWAY from home.

Still a long way to go

[Purple 77]

After the first two saturday games:

Berlin on the board, while PNL would be again disappointed about those two games.

Mexico City had a productive two games, while Moscow needed Ward to go bigger.

	PNL Reindeers					Berlin Brewers
POS	Team Format: Traditional	SCO	MUL	ADJ	POS	Team Format: Traditional	SCO	MUL	ADJ
D1	Luke Hodge	60	1	60	D1	Michael Hibberd	0
D2	Corey Enright	0			D2	Colin Garland	0
D3	Marley Williams	60	1	60	D3	Jarryn Geary	0
D4	Nick Malceski	0			D4	Jack Grimes	0
M1	Matt Priddis	0	CC	0	M1	Nat Fyfe	0	C	0
M2	Dane Swan	88	CC	132	M2	Jack Steven	0	VC	0
M3	Nathan Jones	0			M3	Adam Treloar	114	1	114
M4	Thomas Sheridan	0			M4	Daniel Cross	0
R1	Tom Campbell	0			R1	Max Gawn	0
F1	Justin Westhoff	97	1	97	F1	Drew Petrie	0
F2	Chad Wingard	122	1	122	F2	Lewis Jetta	58	1	58
F3	Cyril Rioli	67	1	67	F3	Marco Paparone	0
F4	Tom T Lynch	0			F4	Jack Watts	0
U1	Jayden Laverde	0			U1	Jack Viney	0
U2	Farren Ray	0			U2	Jesse Lonergan	0
E1	Luke McPharlin	0			E1	Jordan Murdoch	0
E2	Zac O'Brien	0			E2	Xavier Ellis	0
E3	Levi Casboult	0			E3	Mark Jamar	0
			Total	538				Total	172

	Mexico City Suns					Moscow Spetsnaz
POS	Team Format: Traditional	SCO	MUL	ADJ	POS	Team Format: Traditional	SCO	MUL	ADJ
D1	Kade Simpson	0			D1	Nick Vlastuin	63	1	63
D2	Matthew Broadbent	76	1	76	D2	Lynden Dunn	0
D3	Shannon Hurn	0			D3	Sam Docherty	0
D4	Scott D Thompson	0			D4	Jack Hombsch	52	1	52
M1	Steele Sidebottom	115	1	115	M1	Callan Ward	103	CC	155
M2	Tom Rockliff	0	C	0	M2	Dyson Heppell	0	CC	0
M3	Bradley Ebert	67	1	67	M3	Dominic Sheed	0
M4	Jordan Lewis	80	1	80	M4	Ryan Bastinac	0
R1	Ivan Maric	99	1	99	R1	Nic Naitanui	0
F1	Brett Deledio	103	1	103	F1	Robbie Gray	118	1	118
F2	Brendon Goddard	0	VC	0	F2	Jesse Hogan	0
F3	Jimmy Bartel	0			F3	Joe Daniher	0
F4	Brent Harvey	0			F4	Josh Jenkins	0
U1	Nick Riewoldt	0			U1	Steven May	0
U2	Allen Christensen	0			U2	Darcy Moore	70	1	70
E1	Shaun Grigg	84			E1	Angus Monfries	52
E2	Michael Johnson	0			E2	Alex Pearce	0
E3	Nathan Krakouer	84			E3	Tyrone Vickery	143
			Total	540				Total	458

Reserves

Shanghai (258/3) v Durban (178/4)

Imperial (143/4) v Port Morseby (109/2)