WXV Round 12: Will Cairo sink the Destroyers?

[Jroo]

Mexico City Suns
D: James Sicily (C), Darcy Byrne-Jones, Bernie Vince, Jacob Weitering
M:  Lachie Hunter (VC), Jared Polec, Anthony Miles, Jordan Cunico
R: Tom Hickey
F: Christian Petracca, James Harmes, Mason Wood, Jordan Murdoch
U: Jack Silvagni, Mitch Hannan

EMG: Lewis Jetta, Sam Wright, Callum Moore

[Purple 77]

Are Resting players affected by the Rep round? 

No. If you rest a player in WXV Round 12, you'll receive their bonus in WXV round 13 (AFL round 15)

[Nige]

KAREN

Jeremy McGovern, Shane Savage, Nick Vlastuin, Tom Stewart
Dayne Beams (cc), Taylor Adams, Ricky Henderson, Sam Kerridge
Wylie Buzza
Ben Brown (cc), Rory Lobb, Shane Kersten, Mav Weller
Hugh McCluggage, Andrew McGrath

Bailey Rice, Mark Hutchings, Jason Castagna

[upthemaidens]

Are Resting players affected by the Rep round? 

No. If you rest a player in WXV Round 12, you'll receive their bonus in WXV round 13 (AFL round 15)

Thanks you Sir.   I figured as much, just double checking.

[GoLions]

Kate Upton Cobras

DEF: Luke McDonald, Jack Bowes, Jasper Pittard, Aaron Mullett
MID: Mitch Duncan (C), Ben Cunnington, Touk Miller (VC), Brad Ebert
RUCK: Toby Nankervis
FWD: Lewis Taylor, Alex Neal-Bullen, Ben Ainsworth, Darcy Lang
UTIL: Tom Papley, Mark Blicavs

EMG: David Mackay, Jaidyn Stephenson, Cam O'Shea

[Adamant]

Resting: Jack Redden

[Adamant]

@Purple77, a question regarding non-loopholing. I intend to name Macrae at M4, Naitanui at U1 and Redden at U2 next week, however if E1 Hopper scores 120+ this weekend and any of those aforementioned players are unavailable for selection next week, would I be forced to name an inferior player to avoid getting his score as it would be seen as loopholing (when in reality he would have been the next player selected anyway)?

Conversely, if Hopper scores 37 this weekend and one of Macrae/Naitanui/Redden are unavailable for selection, but Dion Prestia becomes available for selection next week (a player that I would have selected ahead of Hopper if fit), would I be prevented from naming him as it would be seen as avoiding Hopper's score?

This is why I was absolutely baffled to see loopholing scrapped. Seems like far too much grey area to me!

[Levi434]

[Jukes]

One of our three good players out, RIP Conigs

I'll let Torp name the team tomorrow as he's in good form

[DazBurg]

PNL Reindeers

Team Format: Traditional

D: Luke Ryan, Jarrod Harbrow, Dougal Howard, Marley Williams
M: Zach Merrett, Chad Wingard, Dylan Shiel, Hunter Clark
R: Will Brodie
F: Jonathon Patton, Levi Casboult, Hayden Crozier, Mitch Wallis
U: Paul Seedsman, Tommy Sheridan
E: Andy Otten, Ben Keays, Jayden Laverde

C: Zach Merrett
VC: Luke Ryan

[Purple 77]

@Purple77, a question regarding non-loopholing. I intend to name Macrae at M4, Naitanui at U1 and Redden at U2 next week, however if E1 Hopper scores 120+ this weekend and any of those aforementioned players are unavailable for selection next week, would I be forced to name an inferior player to avoid getting his score as it would be seen as loopholing (when in reality he would have been the next player selected anyway)?

Conversely, if Hopper scores 37 this weekend and one of Macrae/Naitanui/Redden are unavailable for selection, but Dion Prestia becomes available for selection next week (a player that I would have selected ahead of Hopper if fit), would I be prevented from naming him as it would be seen as avoiding Hopper's score?

This is why I was absolutely baffled to see loopholing scrapped. Seems like far too much grey area to me!

Hmm, that's an interesting thought.

After much pondering, the reason of the rule comes to mind, which essentially is (consistent with normal weeks), to ensure you name your best 18 players at the time of the opening bounce of the first game (minus known and certain unavailabilities). You decide on a sequential order of players: 1-15, then 16, then 17, then 18.

The practice being banned is artificially changing that 'natural' sequence to gain the benefit of known scores from your 16th+ and 19th+ (often known future scores of 0) players.

With that in mind, I feel like that given prestia is not a known and certain unavailablity (and you want his score if he is available), you should name him on your bench before Hopper (or a blank spot in the way you've named your team).

Should it turn out that he doesn't play, then you can't name a player with a known future score of zero in E1 (unless you have no choice). You'll have to name your next best unlocked player.

It's not nice, this situation, but that's the risk you have to weigh up now  :(

Some food for thought once we do our rule review in September.

[RaisyDaisy]

New York Revolution

D: Shannon Hurn, Robbie Tarrant, Reece Conca, Dan Houston
M: Shaun Higgins (VC), Luke Dunstan, Jordan Lewis, Richard Douglas
R: Paddy Ryder
F: Isaac Heeney (C), Josh J Kennedy, Jarryd Roughead, Kyle Langford
I: Hugh Greenwood, Cam Ellis-Yolmen

E: Jack Steele (M), Eddie Betts (F), Alex Sexton (D)

[iZander]

Buenos Aires Armadillos

Team Format: Traditional

D: Jimmy Webster, Tom Doedee, Jamie MacMillan, Riley Bonner
M: Ed Curnow, Adam Cerra, Trent Dumont, Jarrod Berry
R: Cameron Rayner
F: Shane Edwards, Jy Simpkin, Cale Hooker, Will Hayward
U: Paddy Dow, Andrew Brayshaw
E: Oliver Florent, Shaun Atley, Mark LeCras

CC: Ed Curnow
CC: Jimmy Webster

[Holz]

Rance Tmac Omac Davis
Crouch (C) Jelwood (VC) Hoff Holman
Goldstien
Jroo Gunston Hawkins Henry
Daw, XXXX

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Just for my record: players to monitor


Sam Durdin, Braydon Preuss, Dan Nielson ( Round 12 Saturday)
Harley Balic (Round 12 Monday)
Mitchell Lewis (Round 13)
Harison Macredie (Round 13)
Cilian Mcdid (round 13)
Marc Pittonent (Round 13)

[RaisyDaisy]

You don't have 15 available to field Holz?