WXV Round 2: New York & Pacific Mean Business

[Purple 77]

Royals Rally to Expose Saints' Sins

Well! I didn't see this one coming! Luke Shuey, take a bow, and Fantasia & Jong too. Great win Royals, you've dodged my scorn for at least 1 week. The Saints though would be looking squarely at 13 point Blakely and Captain Gibbs for this loss, and the rest of the team did OK really.

London Royals (22.8.140) def Christchurch Saints (19.11.125)

Best
London: Luke Shuey, Tom T Lynch, Orazio Fantasia, Lin Jong
Christchurch: Sam Mitchell, Ryan Lester, Shaun Higgins, Will Hoskin-Elliott

Late Changes
London: Nil
Christchurch: Jarrad Waite replaced by Will Hoskin-Elliott

WXV Debut
London: Nil
Christchurch: Nil

Club debut
London: Josh Bruce
Christchurch: Will Hoskin-Elliott

Reserves

Imperial Princes (11.11.77) def Wellington Weta (8.7.55)

Best
Imperial: Brad Sheppard, Josh Hill
Wellington: Nathan Wilson, Ryan Griffen, Tom Boyd

[Purple 77]

Seoul's Demons haunt Dillos

All time high scores from Clayton Oliver & Chris Salem coupled with the brilliance of Danger, Kelly & Greene would spell trouble for any team. The Dillos simply need more centuries past Ed Curnow.

Buenos Aires Armadillos (19.9.123) lost to Seoul Magpies (23.7.145)

Best
Buenos Aires: Ed Curnow
Seoul: Christian Salem, Patrick Dangerfield, Josh Kelly, Toby Greene, Clayton Oliver

Late Changes
Buenos Aires: Nil
Seoul: Nil

WXV Debut
Buenos Aires: Nil
Seoul: Nil

Club debut
Buenos Aires: Taylor Walker
Seoul: Nil

Reserves

La Plata Armada (12.11.83) def Pyongyang Chollimas (9.11.65)

Best
La Plata: Lindsay Thomas, Marcus Adams, Shaun Atley
Pyongyang: Rory Thompson, Will Hayward

[Purple 77]

New Delhi Enact Brutal Revenge on Jaguars

Although Round 2... this would have felt good for the Tigers. Holy balls though, our first 160 of the year! Robbie Gray's amazing performance catapults New Delhi as highest score of the round, whilst there wasn't much the Jaguars could do, except be concerned about the potential end of the dominant days of GAJ.

Rio de Janeiro Jaguars (22.7.139) lost to New Delhi Tigers (25.10.160)

Best
Rio de Janeiro: Patrick Cripps, Brad Ebert, Sam Jacobs, Elliot Yeo, Matthew Wright
New Delhi: Bachar Houli, Jake Lloyd, Robbie Gray, Marc Murphy, Stefan Martin, Jeremy Cameron, Travis Cloke, Sebastian Ross

Late Changes
Rio de Janeiro: Nil
New Delhi: Hamish Hartlett replaced by Nick Vlastuin

WXV Debut
Rio de Janeiro: Nil
New Delhi: Nil

Club debut
Rio de Janeiro: Brad Ebert
New Delhi: Nil

Reserves

Copacabana Capuchins (11.11.77) lost to Mumbai Elephants (17.6.108)

Best
Copacabana: Danyle Pearce
Mumbai: Nil

[Purple 77]

Islanders caught off-guard by Sandstorm

WOW! What an upset! The Sands have done it on HGA, and you could almost say Jeff Garlett's 4th quarter tackle won the game for both them and Melbourne. A very handy club debut from Jeffrey, coupled with Beams, Adams and a VERY solid forward line performance means Cairo took home the 4th highest score of the round, so the 5th highest score wasn't going to cut it for the Islanders. A very unlucky result for Pacific, whom would be having stern talks with Andrew Swallow.

Cairo Sands (23.10.148) def Pacific Islanders (23.7.145)

Best
Cairo: Dylan Roberton, Taylor Adams, Dayne Beams, Jeff Garlett
Pacific: Marcus Bontempelli, Tom Mitchell, Jarrod Witts, Jarryd Lyons, Sam Gibson

Late Changes
Cairo: Nil
Pacific: Nil

WXV Debut
Cairo: Nil
Pacific: Nil

Club debut
Cairo: Dom Sheed, Jeff Garlett
Pacific: Andrew Swallow

Reserves

Alexandria Hieroglyphics (17.7.109) lost to Port Morseby Iguanadons (22.7.139)

Best
Alexandria: Jack Lonie, Karl Amon
Port Morseby: Andy Otten, Ben Howlett, Lee Spurr, Michael Barlow, Mitch McGovern

[Purple 77]

Midfield Thunderstorm blocks out Suns

If you include the captaincy bonuses and ruckman Brodie Grundy, Beijing's midfield combined for 750 points. Good, god. For two years in a row, Beijing have managed to claim the massive scalp of the Suns, whom couldn't have performed like this last week, I'm sure. Riewoldt's absence has already been felt.

Beijing Thunder (25.6.156) def Mexico City Suns (21.8.134)

Best
Beijing: Dayne Zorko, Lachie Neale, Callan Ward, Ollie Wines, Brodie Grundy
Mexico City: Trent Cotchin, Tom Rockliff, David Zaharakis

Late Changes
Beijing: Josh Jenkins subbed out for Dan Butler
Mexico City: Brett Deledio replaced by George Horlin-Smith

WXV Debut
Beijing: Dan Butler, Jayden Hunt
Mexico City: Nil

Club debut
Beijing: Nil
Mexico City: Ben Cunnington

Reserves

Shanghai Storm (13.11.89) def Mexico City Suns (5.8.38)

Best
Shanghai: Ben Lennon
Mexico City: Jeremy Laidler, Nic Newman

[Purple 77]

New York prevail against Samurai despite defeatist Coach

Didn't know that either

GG Tokyo, I guess

God I do want to introduce a rule where an early surrender means you forfeit the game :P

I still think you're clear favourites to win :P especially given Tokyo's OOP ruck scored just 13 more points than you, and their Captain had a poor game

Meanwhile, Tokyo would be kicking themselves that they couldn't get it done and would be blaming Luke Parker entirely for the loss.

New York Revolution (19.8.122) def Tokyo Samurai (19.6.120)

Best
New York: Robbie Tarrant, Joel Selwood
Tokyo: Luke Dahlhaus

Late Changes
New York: Nil
Tokyo: Nil

WXV Debut
New York: Nil
Tokyo: Nil

Club debut
New York: Nil
Tokyo: Billy Stretch

Reserves

Washington Rebellion (21.11.137) def Yuzawa Yakuza (11.6.72)

Best
Washington: Ben Reid, Dan Houston, Dom Tyson, James Harmes, Reece Conca, Sam B Reid, Sam Gilbert
Yuzawa: Adam Kennedy

[Purple 77]

Reindeers fail to maintain Dublin pace

A better performance with PNL's midfield stepping up, but not nearly enough as Dublin decelerated towards the end of the game. Brayden Preuss had arguably the best WXV debut in Goldsteins absence

PNL Reindeers (21.9.135) lost to Dublin Destroyers (23.11.149)

Best
PNL: Matt Priddis, Zach Merrett, Dylan Shiel
Dublin: Adam Treloar, Dustin Martin, Rory Sloane, Jack Gunston, Nathan Jones, Braydon Preuss

Late Changes
PNL: Tom Sheridan, Jonathon Patton replaced by Teia Miles, Jackson Nelson
Dublin: Todd Goldstein replaced by Braydon Preuss

WXV Debut
PNL: Teia Miles
Dublin: Braydon Preuss

Club debut
PNL: Billie Smedts
Dublin: Nil

Reserves

Marseille Kings (2.8.20) lost to Belfast Braves (10.6.66)

Best
Marseille: Nil
Belfast: Lachie Plowman, Majak Daw

[RaisyDaisy]

Ha!

[Purple 77]

Also, Moscow claim their first win against Cape Town in their 6th encounter

[Torpedo10]

Also, Moscow claim their first win against Cape Town in their 6th encounter

Glad to see Docherty didn't lose it for us.  :P

Have to say though, we got lucky. 17th scoring side this week and we play 18th, however it's making up for our awful streak of bad luck.

[Ricochet]

Boom


And with Sidey below par and no HH

[Jukes]

I'm more impressed that our ressies did great than the league win tbh

[iZander]

I'm more impressed that our ressies did great than the league win tbh

Im just happy we had a ton

[GoLions]

Yuk.

[Nige]

JEFFREY!!!

Thanks meow, you were absolutely right about just how good he is!