WXV Round 8: Mexico City v Dublin in Aftermath Round

[Purple 77]

Cairo halt Buenos Aires... Momentum

Not a pretty match, as the same problems persist for the Dillos. Cairo have seen better days, but will take the win. One game closer to the return of Beams.

Buenos Aires Armadillos (18.9.117) lost to Cairo Sands (20.6.126)

Best
Buenos Aires: Easton Wood
Cairo: Taylor Adams, Jack Newnes, Karl Amon

Late Changes
Buenos Aires:  Nil
Cairo:  Nil

WXV Debut
Buenos Aires:  Nil
Cairo:  Nil

Club debut
Buenos Aires:  Nil
Cairo:  Nil

Reserves

La Plata Armada (15.9.99) def Alexandria Hieroglyphics (6.9.45)

Best
La Plata: Jack Leslie, Jarrod Berry, Keegan Brooksby, Shane Edwards
Alexandria: Nil

[Purple 77]

Jaguars defeat desperate Beijing

Oomph. It was the game of the round in the end... this team is trying, and had Beijing hosted this match instead, they'd have won, but Rio scored 6 more SC points on neutral scores. The leaders of Rio won this game; Cripps & Jacobs combining for 298 points + 141 captain bonus. Rio continue to impress.

Rio de Janeiro Jaguars (23.10.148) def Beijing Thunder (23.6.144)

Best
Rio de Janeiro: Aaron Hall, Sam Jacobs, Elliot Yeo, Patrick Cripps
Beijing: Lachie Neale, Dayne Zorko, Christian Petracca, Bradley Hill, Jared Polec

Late Changes
Rio de Janeiro:  Nil
Beijing:  Nil

WXV Debut
Rio de Janeiro:  Nil
Beijing:  Nil

Club debut
Rio de Janeiro:  Nil
Beijing:  Nil

Reserves

Copacabana Capuchins (17.6.108) lost to Shanghai Storm (17.10.112)

Best
Copacabana: Brayden Maynard, Daniel Rioli, Jack Redpath, Josh Walker, Zaine Cordy
Shanghai: Daniel Howe, Tim O'Brien, Tom Jonas

[Purple 77]

Pacific pummel sorry Samurai

The all-round strength of the Islanders was again on show and proved too much for the Samurai whose bottom 5 players were terrible. It was good to see Parker finally get some form though.

Tokyo Samurai (19.9.123) lost to Pacific Islanders (24.9.153)

Best
Tokyo: Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti, Luke Parker
Pacific: Rory Laird, Michael Hurley, Tom Mitchell, Andrew Gaff

Late Changes
Tokyo:  Nil
Pacific:  Nil

WXV Debut
Tokyo:  Nil
Pacific:  Nil

Club debut
Tokyo:  Nil
Pacific:  Nil

Reserves

Yuzawa Yakuza (2.10.22) lost to Port Morseby Iguanadons (17.11.113)

Best
Yuzawa: Nil
Port Morseby: Lee Spurr, Sam Gibson

[Purple 77]

Suns signal as the surviving superpower

Some real issues for Dublin at the moment, where I could say most of the competition could beat them at any given round. The Suns however once again showed that the will continue on as the competitions resident top 4 occupier.

Mexico City Suns (24.8.152) def Dublin Destroyers (20.8.128)

Best
Mexico City: Nic Newman, Tom Rockliff, David Zaharakis
Dublin: Alex Rance, Dustin Martin, Nathan Jones, Todd Goldstein

Late Changes
Mexico City:  Nil
Dublin:  Nil

WXV Debut
Mexico City:  Nil
Dublin: Mark O'Connor

Club debut
Mexico City:  Nil
Dublin:  Nil

Reserves

Mexico City Suns (0.11.11) lost to Belfast Braves (11.10.76)

Best
Mexico City: Nil
Belfast: Ed Vickers-Willis

[Purple 77]

Reindeers render Revolution redundant

Dayum! Wtf PNL? Pacific & New York in consecutive weeks? And in impressive fashion? Surely your team is destined to rebuild? Gee, nothing is certain in this game. One feels like New York could have won this game if they had an OOP ruck instead of club debutant Fitzpatrick.

PNL Reindeers (24.10.154) def New York Revolution (21.8.134)

Best
PNL: Luke Hodge, Jarrod Harbrow, Matt Priddis, Zach Merrett, Jack Billings, Patrick Ryder
New York: Shannon Hurn, David Mundy, Josh J Kennedy, Isaac Heeney, Richard Douglas

Late Changes
PNL: Nil
New York: Nil

WXV Debut
PNL: Nil
New York: Nil

Club debut
PNL: Lukas Webb
New York: Jack Fitzpatrick

Reserves

Marseille Kings (6.6.42) lost to Washington Rebellion (11.8.74)

Best
Marseille: Jonathon Patton
Washington: Sam B Reid, Sam Gilbert

[Purple 77]

New Delhi post their first win against Christchurch

Rio make it 3 from 3 against Beijing

Cairo break the Dillo duck

Pacific notch up their 6th win and remain undefeated against Tokyo

[Nige]

Dillo duck broken eh? Good to hear!

Also Corba venom? I hear it's pretty deadly, maybe not as bad as Cobra venom though.  :P

[Toga]

For. flowers. Sake!!!!  :'(

Some good performers to round out the weekend today but still cannot catch a trick. Rio's C/VC combo was immense.

[Purple 77]

Dillo duck broken eh? Good to hear!

Also Corba venom? I hear it's pretty deadly, maybe not as bad as Cobra venom though.  :P

[Ricochet]

Thought we were in trouble after some efforts today

Some of our more stable premo's have been poor this year

Looking at you Gray and Sidey

[Nige]

Thought we were in trouble after some efforts today

Some of our more stable premo's have been poor this year

Looking at you Gray and Sidey

This is how I feel about Dayne Beams.

[meow meow]

Remove the HGA and give it to us and dude we would have had you.

We never had you. We never had our car.

[Vinny]

Remove the HGA and give it to us and dude we would have had you.

We never had you. We never had our car.

Hahahahahaha elite meow.

[meow meow]

Disgraceful performance by Mick Vay and he might join Griff on the scrap heap, never to play again. These flowers cost me Shuey and Zorko and all they do is miss with injury or give spud performances.

Silvagni will take his place, 79, 82, 87 is solid!

Our forwards average 147/ 93.7/ 93.5/ 91/ 83.7/ 81.5 and Lester with 78.2 but his horrible coach doesn't select him. Poor coaching. How can we be shower with these guys?!

Connor Blakely had 3 scores in the 60's followed by 3 tons. Scores better as a semi-tagger. Keep it going Ross.

Rested Masten and he scored his worst score all year, comes in with the bonus and produces his best. Quality coaching. Done the opposite with WHE. Poor coaching.

Fiorini > Heartless

Gibbs > Rocky again

[meow meow]

B: Wilson 99, Silvagni 87, Andrews 77, Montagna 75
M: Gibbs 230, Mitchell 103, Blakely 103, Masten 103 (114)
R: Sandilands 104
F: Steele 114, Lester 97, Stewart 91, Higgins 89
I: Anderson 80, WHE 75

E: Fiorini, McLean, Wells

1538

Spud coach couldn't harness the potential! 8 out of 15 (8/16 if including captain choice) is quite horrible! Would be the same most weeks, could have won every game except one with the correct cattle.