WXV Round 1: Have no fear, we've got seasons for years...

[Koop]

FYI, I'm still kicking around Melbourne today, so may not see any score updates this weekend unfortunately.

Feel free to just skip this round entirely

[JBs-Hawks]

FYI, I'm still kicking around Melbourne today, so may not see any score updates this weekend unfortunately.

Feel free to just skip this round entirely

[Purple 77]

"Hang on Purps, you got a few of my emergencies in the wrong order"

I'm glad you brought that up WXV coach! A bit of off-season rust I see - a reminder that if Jimmy Toumpas is named at E3, he played Wednesday, and you re-shuffle your emergencies on Thursday where he is now E4... well he stays at E3, he doesn't move.

Several coaches have fallen victim this week, hence the reminder

[Purple 77]

After GWS/Syd

(please watch out for bugs)

Score Summary
Mexico City Suns (796) from 7# vs PNL Reindeers (591) from 6#
Pacific Islanders (731) from 9* vs Buenos Aires Armadillos (810) from 6#
Seoul Magpies (799) from 7** vs Beijing Pandas (844) from 8#
Toronto Wolves (890) from 8# vs New York Revolution (889) from 9#
Berlin Brewers (641) from 8# vs London Royals (676) from 8
Rio de Janeiro Jaguars (818) from 9 vs Cape Town Cobras (418) from 6#
Cairo Sands (792) from 9* vs Dublin Destroyers (607) from 7*
Tokyo Samurai (994) from 12# vs New Delhi Tigers (399) from 5
Christchurch Saints (924) from 11# vs Rome Gladiators (1046) from 9#

# = Captain Played
* = one Co-Captain Played
** = two Co-Captain's Played

	Mexico City Suns					PNL Reindeers
POS	Traditional	SCO	PEN	ADJ	POS	Traditional	SCO	PEN	ADJ
D1	Aaron Hall	0		0	D1	Luke Ryan	0		0
D2	James Sicily	0		0	D2	Darcy Moore	86		86
D3	Jacob Weitering	62		62	D3	Dougal Howard	48		48
D4	Nic Newman	55		55	D4	Marcus Adams	0		0
M1	Christian Petracca	163		163	M1	Zach Merrett	113		113
M2	Luke Davies-Uniacke	0		0	M2	Matt Crouch	0		0
M3	Shai Bolton	101		101	M3	Ben Keays	0		0
M4	David Mundy	0		0	M4	Scott Pendlebury	87		87
R1	Nic Naitanui	0		0	R1	Todd Goldstein	0		0
F1	Mitch Georgiades	0		0	F1	Steele Sidebottom	89		89
F2	Archie Perkins	77		77	F2	Robbie Gray	0		0
F3	Harry McKay	78		78	F3	Lance Franklin	55		55
F4	Ben Ainsworth	0		0	F4	Will Brodie	0		0
U1 (DEF)	Hayden Young	0		0	U1 (RUC)	Ned Reeves	0		0
U2 (DEF)	Bradley Hill	97		97	U2 (RUC)	Scott Lycett	0		0
E1 (MID FWD)	Hugo Ralphsmith	36	DNP	0	E1 (DEF FWD)	Sam De Koning	38	0	0
E2 (FWD)	Nick Larkey	0	0	0	E2 (RUC)	Max Lynch	0	0	0
E3 (FWD)	Oliver Henry	46	0	0	E3 (DEF)	Charlie Ballard	0	0	0
E4 (DEF)	Ben Paton	81	0	0	E4 (DEF)	Jayden Laverde	36	0	0
E5 (RUC FWD)	Bailey J Williams	0	0	0	E5 (DEF FWD)	Josh Schache	20	0	0
E6 (DEF)	James Aish	0	0	0	E6 (FWD)	Darcy Cameron	0	DNP	0
E7 (MID)	Jarrod Brander	44	0	0	E7 (FWD)	Lachlan Murphy	0	0	0
E8 ()		0	0	0	E8 ()		0	0	0
C	Christian Petracca	163		163	C	Zach Merrett	113		113
VC	Nic Naitanui	0		0	VC	Luke Ryan	0		0
RP		0		0	RP		0		0
NR		0			NR		0
HA		0		0
		Total:	796	7			Total:	591	6

	Pacific Islanders					Buenos Aires Armadillos
POS	Traditional	SCO	PEN	ADJ	POS	Traditional	SCO	PEN	ADJ
D1	Harry Perryman	109		109	D1	Jayden Short	109		109
D2	Aliir Aliir	0		0	D2	Shannon Hurn	0		0
D3	Bailey Williams (WB)	24		24	D3	Tom Doedee	0		0
D4	Connor Idun	63		63	D4	Jack Scrimshaw	0		0
M1	Marcus Bontempelli	105		105	M1	Darcy Parish	99		99
M2	Tom Mitchell	0		0	M2	Ollie Wines	0		0
M3	Jarryd Lyons	0		0	M3	Adam Cerra	120		120
M4	Andrew Gaff	0		0	M4	Caleb Serong	0		0
R1	Jarrod Witts	0		0	R1	Reilly O'Brien	0		0
F1	Zac Bailey	0		0	F1	Dustin Martin	108		108
F2	Devon Smith	67		67	F2	Chad Wingard	0		0
F3	Harrison Himmelberg	91		91	F3	Jordan De Goey	111		111
F4	Mitch McGovern	70		70	F4	Cameron Rayner	0		0
U1 (RUC FWD)	Peter Wright	61		61	U1 (MID)	Jarrod Berry	0		0
U2 (MID)	Jack Ross	88		88	U2 (MID)	Tom Green	164		164
E1 (RUC)	Lloyd Meek	0	0	0	E1 (DEF MID)	Lachlan Ash	31	0	0
E2 (DEF)	Aidan Corr	0	0	0	E2 (MID)	Jeremy Sharp	0	0	0
E3 (MID)	Jake Soligo	0	0	0	E3 (RUC)	Kieran Strachan	0	0	0
E4 (DEF)	Andrew McPherson	0	0	0	E4 (DEF MID)	Riley Bonner	0	0	0
E5 (DEF)	Jake Kolodjashnij	45	0	0	E5 (FWD)	Will Hayward	72	0	0
E6 (MID FWD)	Charlie Lazzaro	0	0	0	E6 (MID)	Finlay Macrae	0	DNP	0
E7 (FWD)	Trent Bianco	16	0	0	E7 (DEF)	Braeden Campbell	62	0	0
E8 (DEF)	Harry Edwards	0	0	0	E8 (FWD)	Corey Durdin	71	0	0
CC	Marcus Bontempelli	105		53	C	Darcy Parish	99		99
CC	Tom Mitchell	0		0	VC	Adam Cerra	120		0
RP		0		0	RP		0		0
NR	Tom McCartin	96			NR		0
HA		0		0
		Total:	731	9			Total:	810	6

	Seoul Magpies					Beijing Pandas
POS	Traditional	SCO	PEN	ADJ	POS	Traditional	SCO	PEN	ADJ
D1	Jack Crisp	69		69	D1	Dyson Heppell	42		42
D2	Nathan Wilson	0		0	D2	Wil Powell	0		0
D3	Zach Tuohy	66		66	D3	Jeremy Howe	86		86
D4	Josh Rotham	0		0	D4	Dane Rampe	52		52
M1	Clayton Oliver	112		112	M1	Lachie Neale	0		0
M2	Jack Steele	87		87	M2	Dayne Zorko	0		0
M3	Patrick Dangerfield	155		155	M3	Brandon Ellis	0		0
M4	Matt Rowell	0		0	M4	David Swallow	0		0
R1	Ned Moyle	0		0	R1	Brodie Grundy	124		124
F1	Lachie Weller	0		0	F1	Brody Mihocek	87		87
F2	Jack Gunston	0		0	F2	Stephen Coniglio	80		80
F3	Zac Fisher	78		78	F3	Tom Hawkins	148		148
F4	Curtis Taylor	0		0	F4	Conor Nash	0		0
U1 (MID)	Patrick Cripps	132		132	U1 (MID)	Dylan Shiel	101		101
U2 (FWD)	Bailey Scott	0		0	U2 (MID)	Blake Acres	0		0
E1 (FWD)	Liam Henry	0	0	0	E1 (DEF)	Robbie Tarrant	43	0	0
E2 (DEF)	Samuel Collins	0	0	0	E2 (MID)	Marlion Pickett	89	0	0
E3 (DEF)	Jordon Butts	0	0	0	E3 (FWD)	Minairo Frederick	0	0	0
E4 (MID)	Will Setterfield	74	0	0	E4 (FWD)	Tyson Stengle	120	0	0
E5 ()		0	0	0	E5 (DEF)	Kyle Hartigan	0	0	0
E6 ()		0	0	0	E6 (DEF)	Kyron Hayden	0	0	0
E7 ()		0	0	0	E7 (MID FWD)	Brayden Ham	33	0	0
E8 ()		0	0	0	E8 ()		0	0	0
CC	Clayton Oliver	112		56	C	Brodie Grundy	124		124
CC	Jack Steele	87		44	VC	Lachie Neale	0		0
RP		0		0	RP		0		0
NR	Wayne Milera	0			NR	Taylor Duryea	0	DNP
HA		0		0
		Total:	799	7			Total:	844	8

	Toronto Wolves					New York Revolution
POS	Traditional	SCO	PEN	ADJ	POS	Traditional	SCO	PEN	ADJ
D1	Ryan Burton	0		0	D1	Bailey Dale	116		116
D2	Tom Atkins	87		87	D2	Caleb Daniel	103		103
D3	Jake Bowey	58		58	D3	Sam Taylor	54		54
D4	Nathan Broad	79		79	D4	Blake Hardwick	0		0
M1	Jack Macrae	133		133	M1	Cameron Guthrie	92		92
M2	Travis Boak	0		0	M2	Rory Sloane	0		0
M3	Dion Prestia	42	DNP	0	M3	Jy Simpkin	0		0
M4	Justin McInerney	54		54	M4	Patrick Lipinski	133		133
R1	Rowan Marshall	124		124	R1	Rhys Stanley	103		103
F1	Isaac Heeney	141		141	F1	Max Holmes	71		71
F2	Joe Daniher	0		0	F2	Bradley Close	70		70
F3	Max King	81		81	F3	Jake Riccardi	55		55
F4	Josh Rachele	0		0	F4	Willie Rioli	0		0
U1 (MID)	Connor MacDonald	0		0	U1 (RUC)	Darcy Fort	0		0
U2 (MID)	Jackson Mead	0		0	U2 (FWD)	Josh J Kennedy	0		0
E1 (MID)	Jai Newcombe	0	0	0	E1 (DEF)	Jake Kelly	42	0	0
E2 (MID)	Lachlan Sholl	0	0	0	E2 (RUC FWD)	Esava Ratugolea	43	0	0
E3 (DEF)	Michael Hibberd	0	DNP	0	E3 (FWD)	Cooper Sharman	0	DNP	0
E4 (DEF)	Denver Grainger-Barras	0	0	0	E4 (MID)	Brady Hough	0	0	0
E5 (MID)	Josh Goater	0	0	0	E5 (FWD)	Elliott Himmelberg	0	0	0
E6 (DEF FWD)	Sam Skinner	0	0	0	E6 (FWD)	Beau McCreery	76	0	0
E7 (FWD)	Sam Weideman	0	DNP	0	E7 ()		0	0	0
E8 (DEF)	Jake Stein	0	DNP	0	E8 ()		0	0	0
C	Jack Macrae	133		133	C	Cameron Guthrie	92		92
VC	Rowan Marshall	124		0	VC	Nat Fyfe	0		0
RP		0		0	RP		0		0
NR	Dan Butler	60			NR	Mark Blicavs	53
HA		0		0
		Total:	890	8			Total:	889	9

[Purple 77]

	Berlin Brewers					London Royals
POS	Traditional	SCO	PEN	ADJ	POS	Traditional	SCO	PEN	ADJ
D1	Steven May	76		76	D1	Adam Saad	139		139
D2	Brodie Smith	0		0	D2	Nick Hind	84		84
D3	Jeremy McGovern	0		0	D3	Jack Lukosius	0		0
D4	Darcy Byrne-Jones	0		0	D4	Liam Baker	61		61
M1	Joel Selwood	83		83	M1	Touk Miller	0		0
M2	Callan Ward	69		69	M2	Jack Redden	0		0
M3	Josh P Kennedy	35		35	M3	Willem Drew	0		0
M4	Zak Jones	0	DNP	0	M4	Liam Shiels	0		0
R1	Max Gawn	92		92	R1	Timothy English	123		123
F1	Sam Powell-Pepper	0		0	F1	Daniel McStay	0		0
F2	Bayley Fritsch	61		61	F2	Jack Higgins	56		56
F3	Cameron Zurhaar	0		0	F3	Tim Membrey	69		69
F4	Tom Sparrow	45		45	F4	Charlie Spargo	66		66
U1 (MID)	Daniel Howe	0		0	U1 (DEF)	John Noble	78		78
U2 (RUC FWD)	Luke Jackson	88		88	U2 (MID)	Jared Polec	0		0
E1 (DEF)	Luke Foley	0	0	0	E1 (DEF)	Darcy Gardiner	0	0	0
E2 (DEF)	Jarrod Lienert	0	DNP	0	E2 (MID)	Jack Newnes	0	DNP	0
E3 (MID)	Josh Caddy	0	DNP	0	E3 (DEF)	Zach Guthrie	54	0	0
E4 (DEF)	Jack Madgen	71	0	0	E4 (MID FWD)	David Cuningham	0	DNP	0
E5 (MID)	Roarke Smith	59	0	0	E5 (FWD)	Luke Dahlhaus	81	0	0
E6 (MID)	Angus Sheldrick	43	0	0	E6 (MID FWD)	Xavier O'Neill	0	0	0
E7 (DEF)	Lachlan Keeffe	26	0	0	E7 (FWD)	Jack Petruccelle	0	0	0
E8 (FWD)	Francis Evans	22	DNP	0	E8 (FWD)	Jake Waterman	0	0	0
C	Max Gawn	92		92	C	Touk Miller	0		0
VC	Joel Selwood	83		0	VC	Jack Redden	0		0
RP		0		0	RP		0		0
NR	Oleg Markov	0			NR		0
HA		0		0
		Total:	641	8			Total:	676	8

	Rio de Janeiro Jaguars					Cape Town Cobras
POS	Attack	SCO	PEN	ADJ	POS	Traditional	SCO	PEN	ADJ
D1	Daniel Rich	0		0	D1	Harris Andrews	0		0
D2	Isaac Cumming	73		73	D2	Isaac Quaynor	69		69
D3	Changkuoth Jiath	0		0	D3	Sam Petrevski-Seton	0		0
M1	Brad Crouch	112		112	D4	Nick Murray	0		0
M2	Karl Amon	0		0	M1	Callum Mills	84		84
M3	Matthew Kennedy	130		130	M2	Jaeger O'Meara	0		0
M4	Kyle Langford	4	DNP	0	M3	Luke McDonald	0		0
R1	Tom De Koning	54		54	M4	Quinton Narkle	0	DNP	0
F1	Tim Taranto	119		119	R1	Toby Nankervis	58		58
F2	Tarryn Thomas	0		0	F1	Jaidyn Stephenson	0		0
F3	Jeremy Cameron	54	DNP	0	F2	Josh Battle	50		50
F4	Ben Brown	87		87	F3	Shaun Higgins	44		44
F5	Mason Wood	76		76	F4	Callum Coleman-Jones	0		0
U1 (MID)	Jack Viney	93		93	U1 (RUC)	Ivan Soldo	29		29
U2 (MID)	James Jordon	74		74	U2 (RUC)	Mabior Chol	0		0
E1 (RUC)	Sam Hayes	0	0	0	E1 (MID)	Deven Robertson	0	0	0
E2 (FWD)	Jeremy Finlayson	0	0	0	E2 (FWD)	Tanner Bruhn	0	DNP	0
E3 (FWD)	Mason Cox	36	0	0	E3 (DEF)	Griffin Logue	0	0	0
E4 (DEF)	Luke Brown	0	0	0	E4 (FWD)	Dean Kent	31	0	0
E5 (FWD)	Todd Marshall	0	0	0	E5 (FWD)	Mitchell Crowden	0	0	0
E6 (DEF MID)	Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera	0	DNP	0	E6 (MID)	Cooper Whyte	0	DNP	0
E7 (MID)	Harry Sharp	0	0	0	E7 (FWD)	Shane McAdam	0	0	0
E8 (MID)	Ben Hobbs	0	DNP	0	E8 (MID)	Corey Warner	0	DNP	0
C	Daniel Rich	0		0	C	Callum Mills	84		84
VC	Karl Amon	0		0	VC	Jaeger O'Meara	0		0
RP		0		0	RP		0		0
NR		0			NR		0
HA		0		0
		Total:	818	9			Total:	418	6

	Cairo Sands					Dublin Destroyers
POS	Traditional	SCO	PEN	ADJ	POS	Traditional	SCO	PEN	ADJ
D1	Tom Stewart	103		103	D1	Christian Salem	5	DNP	0
D2	Brennan Cox	0		0	D2	Jake Lever	0	DNP	0
D3	Noah Balta	60		60	D3	Ben McKay	0		0
D4	Ed Richards	75		75	D4	Josh Gibcus	56		56
M1	Taylor Adams	100		100	M1	Andrew Brayshaw	0		0
M2	Hugh McCluggage	0		0	M2	Bailey Smith	139		139
M3	Hugh Greenwood	0		0	M3	Andrew McGrath	94		94
M4	Josh Ward	0		0	M4	James Harmes	88		88
R1	Matthew Flynn	119		119	R1	Marc Pittonet	72		72
F1	Tom J Lynch	38		38	F1	Izak Rankine	0		0
F2	Lincoln McCarthy	0		0	F2	Jack Riewoldt	31		31
F3	Alex Neal-Bullen	94		94	F3	Lachlan Schultz	0		0
F4	Jason Castagna	80		80	F4	Edward McHenry	0		0
U1 (MID)	Jordan Clark	0		0	U1 (MID)	Trent Cotchin	57		57
U2 (MID)	Josh Daicos	73		73	U2 (FWD)	Jack Mahony	0		0
E1 (MID)	Shane Edwards	65	0	0	E1 (FWD)	Tristan Xerri	0	0	0
E2 (DEF)	Alex Keath	59	0	0	E2 (FWD)	Levi Casboult	0	0	0
E3 (FWD)	Daniel Lloyd	60	0	0	E3 (DEF)	Kayne Turner	0	0	0
E4 (RUC)	Kieren Briggs	0	DNP	0	E4 (DEF)	Jackson Nelson	0	0	0
E5 (MID)	Alex Davies	0	0	0	E5 (DEF)	Jed Bews	0	DNP	0
E6 (DEF)	Hayden Crozier	93	0	0	E6 (FWD)	Josh Treacy	0	0	0
E7 (FWD)	Travis Colyer	0	0	0	E7 (DEF)	Bigoa Nyuon	0	DNP	0
E8 (MID)	Mitch Robinson	0	0	0	E8 (DEF)	Jayden Hunt	43	0	0
CC	Taylor Adams	100		50	CC	Andrew Brayshaw	0		0
CC	Hugh McCluggage	0		0	CC	Bailey Smith	139		70
RP		0		0	RP		0		0
NR	Jye Caldwell	91			NR		0
HA
		Total:	792	9			Total:	607	7

[Purple 77]

After Saturday

Score Summary
Mexico City Suns (846) from 8# vs PNL Reindeers (803) from 9#
Pacific Islanders (945) from 12* vs Buenos Aires Armadillos (1028) from 9#
Seoul Magpies (799) from 7** vs Beijing Pandas (1010) from 10#
Toronto Wolves (1268) from 12# vs New York Revolution (982) from 10#
Berlin Brewers (835) from 10# vs London Royals (783) from 10
Rio de Janeiro Jaguars (1131) from 13# vs Cape Town Cobras (486) from 7#
Cairo Sands (991) from 11** vs Dublin Destroyers (607) from 7*
Tokyo Samurai (1036) from 13# vs New Delhi Tigers (635) from 7
Christchurch Saints (997) from 12# vs Rome Gladiators (1215) from 11#

# = Captain Played
* = one Co-Captain Played
** = two Co-Captain's Played



Quite a bit of rust in the games so far!

A massive Petracca game is papering over an otherwise average performance from the reigning premiers, but a few poor performances from PNL makes a Reindeer victory seem unlikely from here.

A sputtering defence from Pacific has opened the door for the Dillos to start what many believe to be a very special season for Buenos Aires! Tom Green, take a bow.

The Magpies have put in a strong performance, but don't have much firepower left remaining. The Pandas meanwhile have had star performances across the board (bar a few), and taking into account the remaining Magpies, I'll lean towards Beijing winning from here.

Toronto are on track for a very strong performance, and will be too much for a still quite promising performance by New York.

Oof, yuck. I'm in serious trouble here and I'm not sure I have another centurion on the cards. This game is Touk's for the taking.

It's all going wrong for Cape Town! Rio weren't helped by 2 players being subbed out, but it looks like they'll do enough to account for a Cape Town 'mare.

Cairo and Dublin is a delicately poised match, with Cairo on track for a testing 1300 or so for this new look Dublin outfit. The old Dublin would smash it, but I dunno about this one. Cairo for me.

A lot of pressure on Walters and Holman to make a competitive score for Tokyo - you'd suspect a good Fiorini performance will get the Tiges over the line.

[Purple 77]

The Eagles/Suns game is gonna finish up past my bed time, so here are the scores after the Adel/Freo game

HGAs have not been included yet.

Score Summary
Mexico City Suns (1398) from 13# vs PNL Reindeers (1339) from 15#
Pacific Islanders (1065) from 13** vs Buenos Aires Armadillos (1431) from 14#
Seoul Magpies (1042) from 10** vs Beijing Pandas (1167) from 12#
Toronto Wolves (1553) from 15# vs New York Revolution (1244) from 13#
Berlin Brewers (1013) from 13# vs London Royals (936) from 12
Rio de Janeiro Jaguars (1297) from 15# vs Cape Town Cobras (818) from 12#
Cairo Sands (1249) from 15** vs Dublin Destroyers (1039) from 13**
Tokyo Samurai (1066) from 14# vs New Delhi Tigers (1041) from 12
Christchurch Saints (1257) from 15# vs Rome Gladiators (1555) from 15#

# = Captain Played
* = one Co-Captain Played
** = two Co-Captain's Played

[PowerBug]

Good enough :D

[Urbaninfinnity]

Have a bad feeling about this one

[Purple 77]

Apologies - I simply forgot to do this last night, I will tonight.

[Purple 77]

Premiers pick-up where they left off

All hail Mexico City, and the grand supreme Christian Petracca. The Suns are positioning themselves to make history and go for a 4th flag.

PNL have plenty of improvement in this XV, they'll be in the mix again, but it wasn't their week.

Mexico City Suns (25.9.159) def PNL Reindeers (21.8.134)

Best
Mexico City: Aaron Hall, Christian Petracca, David Mundy, James Sicily, Luke Davies-Uniacke, Shai Bolton   
PNL: Ben Keays, Marcus Adams, Matt Crouch, Zach Merrett   

Late Changes
Mexico City: Nil
PNL: Nil

WXV Debut
Mexico City: Nil
PNL: Ned Reeves

Club debut
Mexico City: Ben Ainsworth, Harry McKay
PNL: Lance Franklin, Matt Crouch, Scott Lycett, Scott Pendlebury, Todd Goldstein

Reserves

Guadalajara Wolves (18.7.115) def Marseille Kings (4.10.34)

Best
Guadalajara: Aaron Naughton, Ben Paton, Zac Langdon     
Marseille:       

[Purple 77]

The Year of Dillo

We've been waiting for the Dillos for a while now, and they've given their strongest indication that they are finally ready to challenge. Taking out last years Grand Finalist by 200 points? Scary.

Pacific Islanders (21.6.132) lost to Buenos Aires Armadillos (24.8.152)

Best
Pacific: Andrew Gaff, Harry Perryman, Jarrod Witts, Marcus Bontempelli   
Buenos Aires: Adam Cerra, Dustin Martin, Jayden Short, Jordan De Goey, Ollie Wines, Tom Green   

Late Changes
Pacific: Nil
Buenos Aires: Nil

WXV Debut
Pacific: Nil
Buenos Aires: Nil

Club debut
Pacific: Nil
Buenos Aires: Dustin Martin

Returning Players
Pacific: Nil
Buenos Aires: Shannon Hurn, Tom Doedee

Reserves

Port Morseby Iguanadons (14.6.90) lost to La Plata Armada (17.6.108)

Best
Port Morseby: Lloyd Meek, Tom McCartin     
La Plata: Corey Durdin, Riley Bonner, Will Hayward     

[Purple 77]

Seoul's Rowell Factor

They were dead! Seoul was bloody dead in this match! But Matt Rowell chased down the Pandas single handedly in the last game of the weekend, enough for Seoul's HGA to get them over the line.

A tough loss for Beijing, they looked bloody good. A fit (or even omitted) Zorko would have won them an important match. This victory to Seoul makes it 20 H&A victories in a row.

Seoul Magpies (22.11.143) def Beijing Pandas (22.9.141)

Best
Seoul: Clayton Oliver, Jack Gunston, Matt Rowell, Patrick Cripps, Patrick Dangerfield     
Beijing: Brodie Grundy, Dylan Shiel, Lachie Neale, Tom Hawkins, Wil Powell     

Late Changes
Seoul: Nathan Wilson, Ned Moyle replaced by Liam Henry, Samuel Collins
Beijing: Nil

WXV Debut
Seoul: Liam Henry
Beijing: Nil

Club debut
Seoul: Jack Gunston, Patrick Cripps
Beijing: Conor Nash, Dane Rampe, Dylan Shiel, Dyson Heppell, Jeremy Howe, Stephen Coniglio, Tom Hawkins

Reserves

Pyongyang Chollimas (9.10.64) lost to Shanghai Storm (10.7.67)

Best
Pyongyang: Jordon Butts, Will Setterfield     
Shanghai: Marlion Pickett, Tyson Stengle     

[Purple 77]

Young Wolves show teeth

A very impressive performance from Toronto sees them ring the 160 going in Round 1! That took a while to achieve last year, and indicates the Wolves are here to challenge in 2022. New York put up a decent showing, but there wasn't much you could do against Toronto this week.

5 WXV debutants for Toronto too! Very impressive.

Toronto Wolves (25.10.160) def New York Revolution (21.9.135)

Best
Toronto: Isaac Heeney, Jack Macrae, Jai Newcombe, Joe Daniher, Josh Rachele, Rowan Marshall, Travis Boak   
New York: Bailey Dale, Caleb Daniel, Jy Simpkin, Patrick Lipinski, Rhys Stanley     

Late Changes
Toronto: Dion Prestia replaced by Jai Newcombe
New York: Nil

WXV Debut
Toronto: Connor MacDonald, Jackson Mead, Jai Newcombe, Jake Bowey, Josh Rachele
New York: Max Holmes

Club debut
Toronto: Joe Daniher, Max King
New York: Bailey Dale, Bradley Close, Caleb Daniel, Patrick Lipinski, Rory Sloane

Returning Players
Toronto: Nil
New York: Josh J Kennedy, Willie Rioli

Reserves

Windsor Warriors (7.9.51) lost to Washington Rebellion (11.7.73)

Best
Windsor: Lachlan Sholl       
Washington: Beau McCreery, Tom Powell     

[Purple 77]

Berlin cop Royals Flush

A very average midfield performance was no match for the fierce Touk, ably supported by Saad and English. A concerning sign for Berlin, and a very good one for London!

Berlin Brewers (20.6.126) lost to London Royals (22.6.138)

Best
Berlin: Darcy Byrne-Jones, Jeremy McGovern     
London: Adam Saad, Jack Redden, Timothy English, Touk Miller   

Late Changes
Berlin: Zak Jones, Daniel Howe replaced by Luke Foley, Roarke Smith
London: Jared Polec replaced by Darcy Gardiner

WXV Debut
Berlin: Luke Foley
London: Nil

Club debut
Berlin: Luke Jackson, Tom Sparrow
London: Liam Shiels

Reserves

Rhineland Rum-Runners (9.6.60) lost to Imperial Princes (17.11.113)

Best
Rhineland: Jack Madgen       
Imperial: Jake Waterman, Jamaine Jones, Luke Dahlhaus