WXV Round 10: The New New Delhi v New York

[roo boys!]

Wolves in the upset of the season  8)

[meow meow]

CHRISTCHURCH SAINTS

B: Matthew Boyd (v), Jarrad McVeigh, Ben Reid, Alex Neal-Bullen
M: Bryce Gibbs (C), Sam Mitchell, Hamish Heartless, Connor Blakely
R: Mason Cox
F: Leigh Montagna, Jake Stringer (r), Luke Breust, Kyle Langford
I: Toby McLean, Corey Ellis

E: Jordan Roughead, Daniel McKenzie, Jake Lever

R: Koby Stevens

IN: Boyd, Stringer, Blakely, Ellis, Langford
Out: Gilbert, Dempster, Stevens, Dickson, Garlett

'çhurch going in with SIX second year players this week, with another two on the emergency list and that's not even including Jack Steele who put up 44 possessions and a couple of goals in the 2's last week but probably won't get a call up into GWS' 22. Vandenberg and Andrews are unavailable while Abe still hasn't been given an opportunity to show that he's AFL quality yet but the rebuild is well and truly gaining traction. Blakely is the one to watch again this week, 62% gametime for 15 cont poss and 122 SC points is much better than that guy who got the rising star nom last week. Time to set the record straight.




Injury list
Jobe Watson - Season
Aaron Sandilands - 4-6 weeks
Ryan Griffen - 2 weeks

Harris Andrews 2 weeks
Jed Anderson - 2 weeks
Will Hoskin-Elliott - 2 weeks
Shaun McKernan - Test
Aaron Vandenberg - Test
Clay Smith - NFI

Of course it's our most important player who is out injured for the longest. 211's return has been pushed back until after the bye at least, so it might be looking like Christchurch will have to pull off something remarkable in the finals if we make it. We won't be a top qualifier if our rucks are scoring 60's instead of 110's and have half our midfield playing every week.

[Memphistopheles]

Absolutely nailed our AFL team I think Purps.

We've got the one old key forward gun who props up our team (Hawkins/NROO) and is mentoring the young future key forward gun (Wright/McCartin) then bags of young talent across the board who are inconsistent but on their day can be capable of springing an upset.

You never know which starting lineup you'll see each week because we're still working out who is in our best 22 but there are some guys there already we can build a team around (Prestia, Hunter, Savage, Smith, Wright, Mills, Parish)

And, of course we have one of the Saints most improved players (SC-wise) this season in Shane Savage and one of the Saints rising, yet still inconsistent, stars in Blake Acres. Also got the Saints reserve ruckline in Longer and Pierce.

[Purple 77]

Updated streaks!



Just in case you had doubts about Mexico City...

Also, fantastic to see two bottom 5 teams from just last year in this hot streak!

Team	Points Scored
Mexico City Suns	622
Dublin Destroyers	603
New York Revolution	602
Beijing Thunder	574
New Delhi Tigers	561

Buenos Aires just can't lose at the moment! Whilst PNL have definitely started to turn their year around.

Team	Wins
Buenos Aires Armadillos	4-0
New York Revolution	3-1
Dublin Destroyers	3-1
Mexico City Suns	3-1
Beijing Thunder	3-1
Paris Nice Lyon Reindeers	3-1

New York has featured in every streak so far!

It's always a little harsh that the teams near the bottom often get the most scored against them

Team	Points Scored Against
New York Revolution	568
Seoul Magpies	567
Tokyo Samurai	566
Toronto Wolves	565
Cape Town Cobras	561

Toronto will win sometime...

Team	Losses
Toronto Wolves	0-4
Cairo Sands	0-4
Cape Town Cobras	1-3
London Royals	1-3
Moscow Spetnaz	1-3

[RaisyDaisy]

Far out our depth is being tested

We're ripe for the picking NDT  :'(

Mundy, Houli, Menzel, Conca, Rosa, Sexton, Sinclair, Vardy, Hrovat and Cockatoo all unavailable  :'(

[Ricochet]

All I'm hearing is excuses RD ;D

[GoLions]

Far out our depth is being tested

We're ripe for the picking NDT  :'(

Mundy, Houli, Menzel, Conca, Rosa, Sexton, Sinclair, Vardy, Hrovat and Cockatoo all unavailable  :'(

Apart from Mundy and Houli, wouldn't they mostly be depth though? (I haven't looked at your team, just guessing)

Especially with the form your key forwards have been in though, didn't think any of those players would be making your team. Maybe Rosa as well I guess.

[Jroo]

Mexico City Suns
D: Heath Shaw (CC), Kade Simpson, Matthew Broadbent, Mark Baguely
M: Trent Cotchin (CC), Brendon Goddard, Brad Ebert, George Hewett
R: Shaun Hampson
F: Brett Deledio, Nick Riewoldt, Eddie Betts, Brent Harvey
U: Jimmy Bartel, Adam Cooney

EMG: James Gwilt, James Sicily, Ryan Davis

Resting: Daniel Wells

[RaisyDaisy]

Menzel has been our F4 all year, and Rosa/Sexton play when needed

4 of our best 15 missing

[RaisyDaisy]

New York Tiger Crushers!

DEF: J.Gibson, T.McDonald , S.Thompson, S.Hurn
MID: M.Duncan (CC), J.Lewis, S.Hill, S.Grigg
RUC: K.Tippett
FWD: J.Kennedy (CC), J.Waite, I.Heeney, J.Harmes
I: L.Picken, J.Griffin

EMG: J.Redpath, M.W.Brown, J.White

[GoLions]

Menzel has been our F4 all year, and Rosa/Sexton play when needed

4 of our best 15 missing

Ah ok, fair enough

[Hellopplz]

Time to pounce on the Lonely Islanders while they are coming off their worst week of the year >:D.

Parisian Nice Lyon Reindeers

Def: C. Enright, Z. Williams, N. Malceski, B. Stretch
Mid: M. Priddis (C), D. Shiel, N. Jones, B. McKenzie
Ruc: T. Campbell
Fwd: J. Westhoff, C. Rioli, C. Wingard, H. Crozier
Int: Z. Merrett (VC), B. Keays
Emg: J. Patton, J. Harbrow, J. Bews

Out: J. Billings
In: B. Keays

Billing out hurts a tad, but we can cover! Back in comes Keays who played his worst game of the season last week, because I back him to come back hard. Unlike The Lonely Islanders of course :P.

[meow meow]

CHRISTCHURCH SAINTS

ATTACKING

B: Matthew Boyd (v), Jarrad McVeigh, Alex Neal-Bullen
M: Bryce Gibbs (C), Sam Mitchell, Daniel McKenzie, Connor Blakely
R: Mason Cox
F: Jake Stringer (r), Kyle Langford, Jack Steele, Toby McLean, Corey Ellis
I: Leigh Montagna, Luke Breust

E: Jordan Roughead, Jake Lever, Sean Dempster

R: Ben Reid

Koby out again joins Sandi, Watson, Griff as best XV players on the sidelines. Hartlett has been dropped after his pathetic form lately.

Now, on to the same old shower that I rant on about every week...

Need depth?

We've got 5 forwards in the forward line, 2 on the bench, 1 in the ruck, 1 being rested, with Jeff and Dickson playing but not making the cut. Vandenberg, WHE and Anderson out injured.

We've got 3 defenders on the emergency list, 1 being rested, with Wilson and Gilbert playing but not making the cut. Harris Andrews out injured, and then there's the guns in waiting Abe and DVR.

That's EIGHT 2nd year players in the XV this week. Thanks for your draft picks a couple of years ago.



P.s.
Gibbs 10
Rocky 0

[Toga]

Only 3 defenders named this week :-[

[AaronKirk]

I think we are in trouble this week. Need some big games from our KPP forwards if we wanna win.