WXV Round 12: The Make of Moscow

[Purple 77]

Rolling Lockout - loopholing IS permitted during THIS ROUND ONLY

Round 12, AFL Round 12 + AFL Round 13 scores from Essendon, Fremantle, Hawthorn, Port Adelaide, St Kilda + Western Bulldogs

Home Team	Away Team	Venue	Head-to-Head
New Delhi Tigers	PNL Reindeers	Wipro Stadium, EurAsia	3  v  5
Toronto Wolves	Rio de Janeiro Jaguars	Rogers Centre, AAP Alliance, Americas	2  v  2
Pacific Islanders	Tokyo Samurai	Tuanaimato International Stadium	7  v  0
Moscow Spetsnaz	Seoul Magpies	Luzhniki Stadium, EurAsia	5  v  2
New York Revolution	Cairo Sands	MetLife Stadium, AAP Alliance	3  v  4
Cape Town Cobras	Buenos Aires Armadillos	Newlands Cricket Ground, AAP Alliance	4  v  4
Christchurch Saints	Beijing Thunder	AMI Stadium	2  v  2
Mexico City Suns	Dublin Destroyers	Fireball Stadium	4  v  6
London Royals	Berlin Brewers	London Olympic Stadium, EurAsia, Europe	2  v  5

Fresh off their third 160+ score of the year, the Tigers would be feeling pretty much invincible. The Reindeers meanwhile I'd say would be bereft of confidence, as they look to return to 130+ for the first time in over a month. New Delhi for me.

One of the blue moons is rising where the Wolves are gettable, in my MATCH OF THE ROUND! The Wolves - I tell ya, this pissing contest they have with NDT & Beijing doesn't go unnoticed - just seem incapable of dropping sub-150 at this point. But, they do come up against one of the few teams that could genuinely out-gun them. Albeit with the highest STDEV in the comp, the Jaguars have topped 160 3 times compared to the Wolves 1 time, however, the other 8 matches Rio have scored sub-145, compared to Toronto's just two times. When I have tipped against consistency? Wolves for me.

The Islanders are hanging in there at 9th spot, and just need one of the teams above them to slip and they'll be playing September. The Samurai escaped Christchurch last week, but certainly not the scrutiny. When is this team going to deliver? Pacific for me.

The Spetsnaz have defeated Rio, New Delhi and now Beijing this year to establish themselves alongside Cairo as the giant killers of the competition. The much need win ended a losing streak of 3, and all of a sudden everything seems right in the world. Seoul  - like Pacific - are hanging in there, but I'm a little more confident in the Magpies given they've averaged 145 in the last month. I just think Seoul get up in this one.

The Revolution have successfully scored in each of the 100+, 110+, 120+, 130+ and 140+ ranges in the past 5 weeks, not in that order. They'll need 150+ to make sure of Cairo this week, who are quietly tense at getting as many wins as they can to solidify a top 4 spot. Just don't rest a gun for this one, yeah Cairo? Sands should get up.

Cape Town really have performed admirably without a ruck, so far successfully holding Pacific at bay from claiming its 8th spot with a great win over Dublin last week. The finals dream took a bit of a percentage hit against Toronto last week, but with winnable games against London & Christchurch to finish the year, it's likely the Dillos need two of the next 4 games to make finals. Cape Town at the moment is the most winnable out of that lot, so they REALLY need to win this one. You know what? DILLOS TO WIN!

The Saints nearly pinched one against the Samurai, but their hands are tied until the off-season pretty much. The Thunder's percentage is well down compared to that of Toronto & New Delhi, so they'll be looking to top up in this match. Beijing for me.

The Suns continue on this frustrating deviation of scores from about 125, but don't get any reward when it's a positive deviation. They come up against the old enemy in Dublin this week, who just can't buy a win. I reckon Dublin will stop the 5-game losing streak here.

London, whilst undoubtedly much improved, are still prone to the odd sub-130 and last week was no exception. A return to the late 130s will make any team nervous, especially mine, who continues to be propped up by a working skeleton of Fyfe, Gawn, Walters and normally a 4th guy that varies week to week. I really want to hold on here, and make finals a certainty. I back myself.

[Purple 77]

Given it is a rolling lockout, please be sure to make a new post if you make a revision to your team, otherwise I won't count it

[Nige]

Beams out for the season  ::)

[JBs-Hawks]

Seoul

Def: Weller, Haynes, Salem, Wilson

Mid: Kelly (C), Oliver, Smith, Shiels

Ruck: Ceglar

Fwd: Dangerfield (VC), McLean, Lynch, Parfitt

Int: E Curnow, Fisher

Emg: C Curnow, McIntosh, Tuohy

Resting: Murphy

[GoLions]

Kate

Harris Andrews, Callum Mills, Jasper Pittard, David Mookay
Ben Cunnington (C), Mitch Duncan (VC), Shaun Higgins, Shaun Burgoyne
Blake Schleong
Jaidyn Stephenson, Tom Papley, Lewis Taylor, Josh Battle
Touk Miller, Jack Bowes

James Cousins, Gryan Miers, Luke McDonald

[Koop]

Christchurch

D: Phil Davis (vc), Mark Blicavs, Robbie Tarrant, Connor McKenna
M: Sam Lloyd, Brett Deledio (c), Tom Scully, Liam Stocker
R: Brayden Preuss
F: Harry McKay, Paddy Dow, Sam B Reid, Brent Daniels
U: Josh Daicos, James Rowbottom

E: Jackson Trengove, Brennan Cox, Josh Thomas

[GoLions]

Kate

Harris Andrews, Callum Mills, Jasper Pittard, David Mookay
Ben Cunnington (C), Mitch Duncan (VC), Shaun Higgins, Shaun Burgoyne Chris Mayne
Blake Schleong Dylan Clarke
Jaidyn Stephenson, Tom Papley, Lewis Taylor, Josh Battle
Touk Miller, Jack Bowes, Shaun Burgoyne

James Cousins, Touk Miller, Gryan Miers, Luke McDonald

[Nige]

Can't wait to find out whether RD did me a favour or disservice by taking out Dayne Beams this week. Yes RD, I know it was you.  >:(

[Toga]

BEIJING THUNDER:
D: Heath Shaw, Darcy Byrne-Jones, Tom Jonas, James Aish
M: Lachie Neale (C), Dayne Zorko, Tom Rockliff, David Swallow
R: Brodie Grundy (VC)
F: Josh Caddy, Luke Breust, Darcy Macpherson, Liam Baker
IC: Jy Simpkin, Wil Powell

Emg: Mason Cox, Taylor Walker, Jackson Thurlow

[RaisyDaisy]

Can't wait to find out whether RD did me a favour or disservice by taking out Dayne Beams this week. Yes RD, I know it was you.  >:(

He owed me 100k, so I had someone bust his hip up

Soz

[Nige]

Karen

Tom Stewart (c), Alex Keath, Jeremy McGovern, Nick Vlastuin
David Zaharakis, Ricky Henderson, Hugh McCluggage, Mark Hutchings
Shane Mumford
Ben Brown, Mitch Robinson (vc), Shane Edwards, Lincoln McCarthy (rb)
Rory Lobb, Andrew McGrath

Jason Castagna, Daniel McKenzie, Jeff Garlett

[RaisyDaisy]

New York Revolution

ATTACK

D: Brodie Smith, Dan Houston, Xavier Duursma
M: Jack Steele (CC), Tom Liberatore, Jed Anderson, Cam Ellis-Yolmen
R: Paddy Ryder
F: Isaac Heeney (CC), Jade Gresham, Kyle Langford, Richard Douglas, Ben Reid
I: Logan Austin, Shane Kersten

E: Esava Ratugolea (F), Tom Atkins, (M) Josh Wagner (D)

[Jroo]

Mexico City Suns
D: James Sicily, Nic Newman, Jacob Weitering, Aaron Naughton (RB)
M: Lachie Hunter (C), Luke Dunstan (VC), Sam Walsh, Brad Hill
R: Tom Hickey
F: James Worpel, Christian Petracca, Mason Wood, Noah Balta
U: Luke Davies-Uniacke, Anthony Miles

EMG: Matt Guelfi, Jordan Clark, Tim O'Brien

[upthemaidens]

      Pacific Islanders 

D: Rory Laird, Michael Hurley, Matt Suckling, Cam Guthrie
M: Marcus Bontempelli (C), Andrew Gaff (VC), Jarryd Lyons, Adam Tomlinson
R: Jarrod Witts
F: Josh Jenkins, Harrison Himmelberg, Matt de Boer, Steven Motlop
Int: Rhys Stanley, Aliir Aliir (RB)

E: Liam Duggan, Mitch McGovern, Jacob Allison

[Purple 77]

OP and WXV Team Selector updated for those interested