EurAsia v AAP Alliance: The Furious Fifth

[Purple 77]

This round holds a special significance; there isn't another time where multiple coaches can have an genuine interest behind one team taking on another! I proudly present the 5th installment of our annual epic clash!

Representative Round, AFL Round 14 scores from North Melbourne, Fremantle, Brisbane, GWS, Geelong, Hawthorn + AFL Round 15

Home Team	Away Team	Venue	Head-to-Head
EurAsia	AAP Alliance	Melbourne Cricket Ground	2  v  2

The coaches of the AAP Alliance and EurAsia each year are the coaches who so far rank number 1 in their respective groups, as ranked below:

EurAsia
Dublin Destroyers
Paris Nice Lyon Reindeers
Beijing Thunder
Moscow Spetnaz
Seoul Magpies
New Delhi Tigers
Berlin Brewers
London Royals
Tokyo Samurai

AAP Alliance
Mexico City Suns
Rio de Janeiro Jaguars
New York Revolution
Christchurch Saints
Buenos Aires Armadillos
Pacific Islanders
Cape Town Cobras
Cairo Sands
Toronto Wolves

Which means, for the second year in a row, we congratulate Holz (Dublin) and JROO8 (Mexico City) for the honour of steering EurAsia and the AAP Alliance to great victory, and crippling humiliation.

Hosted at the magnificent MCG, the past four installments has seen the AAP Alliance victors in 2012 (CrowsFan) and 2014 (Nails), and EurAsia in 2013 (Ringo) and 2015 (Holz). Last year was easily the best encounter which saw EurAsia (25.18.168) def AAP Alliance (25.17.167) in a thrilling come from behind victory, which eventually saw AAP Alliance player Kade Simpson falling 8 SC points short as the last man standing.

THE HYPE BOYZ! THE HYPE!

The questions are obvious for both sides:

Which ruck does Holz field? Does he succumb to bias and pick Todd Goldstein or  EurAsia's number 2 averaging player in Max Gawn? He'll probably do both, as he fielded two ruckmen last year. In fact, 4 ruckmen played last year in total and they combined for 573 points! But anyway, I expect the bias to name Goldstein as R1, but the question has gotta be asked.

Should the Worlds #1 player so far this year in Dangerfield be an auto captain? Sure he has gone nuts in the last two weeks, but can humans really do it 3 times in a row?

Who does JROO captain? Of course, he has the amazing consistently awesome Scott Pendlebury to choose from (Worlds #2 player so far this year), or does he go with his own Heath Shaw (World #3 player so far this year)? Or should he go with the tried and tested, 3 time Jim Stynes medalist Gary Ablett Jnr? IHe'll be sure to see who each of these players are up against in the AFL, as the decision could decide the result.

The AAP Alliance captaincy choice is especially important, as they have only 5 of the top 22 averaging players so far this year. Should JROO take a left field option like, a player with a mediocre average but high ceiling like Dom Tyson? Steven Motlop? Mark Blicavs? Blicavs did win the AAP Alliance medal last year and also captained them. But JROO might have to look to left field, as the EurAsian firepower is deep this year, but hey, EurAsia were underdogs iirc last year, and they still managed the win thanks to: high ceiling players firing.

Who will win? I think I like the men from EurAsia purely because they boast 17 of the top 22 averaging players. But, the captaincy choice is crucial, and with the ROLLING LOCKOUT each team basically two shots at getting it right. This match will be a ripper, so be sure to get about it!

[Purple 77]

@Holz & JROO, I'll send you a PM tomorrow with all the players  you can pick and how they've been going.

[ossie85]

EurAsia have 17 of the top 22?

Everyone loves an underdog

[Holz]

EurAsia have 17 of the top 22?

Everyone loves an underdog

This may be the year I cant play the Euroasian Destroyers.

not that many deserving a spot.

Goldy Selwood Sloane Rance Dmart

And we all know that Goldy is playing R1. Gawn can play on the utility spot.

[GoLions]

Rocky C, GfloweringG

[Ricochet]

Congrats JROO and Holz.


Now Holz, lets be honest, we all know that if you really want to win this, you need big Stef at R1

[GoLions]

JROO, Karen shall be supplying oranges for the boys at half time, as we don't have anyone out on the park that's any good :P

However, you are free to take your pick of Beams, Adams, Higgins for loopholing purposes :P

[RaisyDaisy]

JROO, Karen shall be supplying oranges for the boys at half time, as we don't have anyone out on the park that's any good :P

However, you are free to take your pick of Beams, Adams, Higgins for loopholing purposes :P

Probably need Mumford to ruck wouldn't we? Hopefully he is back

[GoLions]

JROO, Karen shall be supplying oranges for the boys at half time, as we don't have anyone out on the park that's any good :P

However, you are free to take your pick of Beams, Adams, Higgins for loopholing purposes :P

Probably need Mumford to ruck wouldn't we? Hopefully he is back

I'm assuming any player we have that's any good will be injured

[Nige]

Paul Puopolo's form demands a spot imo. A solid average of 105 in his past three games!  8)

[Holz]

Congrats JROO and Holz.


Now Holz, lets be honest, we all know that if you really want to win this, you need big Stef at R1

I would have your fingers crossed that Sidey scrapes onto the bench. This is a tough team to crack its not like big Stef is playing for the AAP Alliance

[Toga]

Wonder if any of the Jing boys will make it? Not sure if we've had a representative before :o

[Holz]

Wonder if any of the Jing boys will make it? Not sure if we've had a representative before :o

Zorko, Neale are certainly in the mix

[Purple 77]

So yeah, just a reminder:
- ROLLING LOCKOUT for the whole match
- Only the players from North Melbourne, Brisbane, Geelong, GWS, Fremantle and Hawthorn count this week
- Each team is required to select FOUR emergencies

[Holz]

tentative team

Eurasian Destroyers

Def: Docherty (Moscow), Rance (Dublin), Enright (PNL), Williams (PNL)
Mid: Danger (Seoul), Hannebery (London), Neale (Beijing), Steven (Berlin)
Ruck: Goldstein (Dublin)
Fwd: Zorko (Beijing), Martin (Dublin), Merrett (PNL), Franklin (Dublin)
Util: Gawn (Berlin), Treloar (Dublin),


Bench: Selwood (Dublin) , Sidey (NDT),  Gunston (Dublin), Haynes (Seoul),



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