WXV Round 8 - Bears unveil new coach, Brewers/Sands in 8 point match

[ossie85]

flowersake if i had HGA i would have beaten the cobras

Scaling might help?

I can't believe Cape Town can win 2 matches on HGA this year!

[Ringo]

London Royals

Defenders:  REILLY, Brent (80) ; MACKIE, Andrew (105) O'BRIEN, Harry (141);  REID, Ben (61)
Mids:  MACKAY, David (136);  BROADBENT, Matthew (58) ;STANTON, Brent (102) ; McVEIGH, Jarrad (94)
Ruck:  BELLCHAMBERS, Tom  (85)
Forwards: HILL, Josh (105);  LYNCH, Quentin (44); MAYNE, Chris (68);  BROWN, Johnathan (76)
Utilities: PEARCE, Danyle (80); HANNEBERY, Daniel (112)
Total 1347 + HGA 44  Total 1391

David Mackay and Harry O'Brien look like getting us home.

[JBs-Hawks]

flowersake if i had HGA i would have beaten the cobras

Scaling might help?

I can't believe Cape Town can win 2 matches on HGA this year!

Before initial scaling i had it at 1402 v 1414+HGA

[CrowsFan]

Pumas Update

Hartlett 77, Roberton 110, Houli 128, Waters 83
Ablett (C) 224, Sloane 129, Zaharakis 75, Masten 98
Minson 127
Walker 93, Roughead 130, Wright 59, Gunston 128
Duncan 53, Jacobs 101

HGA - 53
Total - 1,668

Some great scores from todays games. Houli, Sloane, Roberton all great, also nice to see Jacobs finding some form again :)

Overall very happy with everyone's performances, except for Duncan and Wright. Duncan will be back with the Jaguars next round, whilst I will have a think about what to do with Wright during the week...

[Jukes]

D: Frawley 51, Murphy 87, May 37, Fletcher 71
M: Griffen (vc) 101, Ward 105, Fyfe 111, Adams 25
R: Naitanui 142
F: Martin (c) 118x2, Monfries 77, Darling 70, Walters 37
U: Seedsman 81, Thomas 65

Home Ground Advantage is 25 (Leigh Adams)

Final Score: 1321

Pretty good effort considering we were missing Shaw, Tuck, Treloar, Higgins and Dixon from our best XV and then Clarke, Hardingham and Hoskin-Elliot from the fringe, and had four scores under 52.

By my calculations we've won by like 140.

[MajorLazer]

Cairo Sands Round 8

DEF: P.Hanley (111), B.Goodes (77), N.Malceski (89), C.Newman J.Johannisen (67)
MID: D.Armitage (77), R.Douglas (128x2=256), S.Grigg (88), B.Sewell (76)
RUC: S.Mumford (66)
FWD: D.Hale (108), L.Breust (52), L.Thomas (35), P.Puopolo (37)
UTI: C.Pearce (80), N.Dal Santo (97)

EMG: M.Evans (57), M.Jones (90), J.Johannisen

Captain: R.Douglas
Vice Captain: D.Armitage

Total = 1310

Forward line was horrible this week and we had quite a few average scores.

Need to improve for next week.

[Purple 77]

Great consistent performance guys! Highest was 115, lowest 65 :)

Special shout out to Lachie Henderson, scoring his 3rd century in a row!

I think they were his only centuries in his WXV career too! Don't remember him doing it last year.

Cairo were very unlucky, and really deserved a higher score, but Gee its nice to score 1500 again, was starting to doubt my boys

EDIT: Johannisen comes in for Newman, not Evans ::)

[kilbluff1985]

Tokyo Samurai

Def: N. Suban 61, T. Richards 74, J. Carlisle 94, B. Stratton 64                            =293
Mids: K. Jack 240(C), C. Judd 107(VC), L. Shuey 101, S. Selwood 54                          =502
Rucks: T. West 76                                                                                      =76
Utilities: S. Mitchell 123, L. Parker 108                                                              =231
Forwards: S. Motlop 72, L. Dahlhaus 63, B. McGlynn 80, L. Jetta 62                      =277

Emergencies: S. Hampson DNP, S. Ross 48, A. Kennedy 61

1379/15

[Nails]

D - Brennan 75, Scotland 77, Burgoyne 103, SD Thompson 90
M - Swan (C) 168, Kornes (VC) 87, Barlow 119, Boyd 73
R - Warnock 74
F - Petrie 94, Cox 84, Johnson (replaced by Schulz, in turn replaced by McKenzie) 53, Harvey 126
INT - Cross 93, Schulz 67
EMG - J. McKenzie, Redden, Bradley

1,025/10 capt played.

So mad. I just wrote this up and everything then my KK lost to 82 in a poker match now I'm out in 17th after losing another hand...

Seriously who the flower players 82

Anyway in the rage of losing and trying to copy the poker hand and shower I accidentally un-copy pasted my team write up (I went to check if we were home)

So now extra mad RAGE

Anyway:

Just like my DT and SC my WXV and AXV had terrible flowering days. From a day where we had all premos and McKenzie to play you'd think we would score a lot better than what we did

Scotland - 77
Kornes - 87
Warnock - 74
Schulz - 67
McKenzie - 53

1,383/15 + 53 HGA = 1,436 for the Armadillos

I still think it's enough to get over PNL, but am not certain...

This is now two weeks in a row where not only has a late withdrawal cost us by having a weaker 99% likely lower scoring player on the field it has also meant our HGA has been cut down! We also lose 14 points HGA this week! ::)

[ossie85]

Cobras in another tight victory, another score in the 140s!

Cape Town Cobras (22.13.145) defeated Seoul Magpies (20.21.141)

Best
Cape Town: JP Kennedy, J Watson, T Cotchin, A Cooney
Seoul: B Ellis, B Deledio, P Duffield

Reserves
Cape Town Cobras (15.13.103) defeated Pyongyang Chollimas (8.6.54)

Best
Cape Town: S Dwyer, T Chaplin
Pyongyang: J Newnes, N Maxwell

[ossie85]

Royals back on the winners list, by New Delhi showed some fight!

London Royals (20.19.139) defeated New Delhi Tigers (18.15.123)

Best
London: H O'Brien, D Mackay, D Hannebery, A Mackie, J Hill
New Delhi: N Vlastuin, L Montagna

Late Changes
New Delhi: R Palmer replaced M Mattner

Reserves
Imperial Princes (23.14.152) defeated Mumbai Elephants (7.7.49)

Best
Imperial: A Moore, J Cachia, B Staker, Z Tuohy
Mumbai: D Giansiracusa

[ossie85]

An impressive return to form for Berlin! Stokes on fire this season.

Congrats to Johannisen making his debut, all of last season he didn't have a team!

And the top of the table Reserves clash went to the undefeated Alexandria

Berlin Brewers (23.13.151) defeated Cairo Sands (20.12.132)

Best
Berlin: M Stokes, L Henderson, L Franklin, D Wells, D Jackson, J Steven
Cairo: R Douglas, P Hanley, D Hale

Late Changes
Cairo: J Johannisen replaced C Newman

WXV Debut
Cairo: J Johannisen

Reserves
Rhineland Rum-Runners (14.7.91) lost to Alexandria Hieroglyphics (19.13.127)

Best
Rhineland: J Magner, A Carlile
Alexandria: D Stanley, M Jones

[ossie85]

No seniors win for the new Beijing coach, but they did manage to get there first win in the reserves!

Moscow Spetsnaz (20.12.132) defeated Beijing Bears (17.15.117)

Best
Moscow: N Naitanui, D Martin, N Fyfe, C Ward, R Griffen
Beijing: D Kerr, C Hooker

WXV Debut
Moscow: S May
Beijing: M Spangher, J Thurlow

Reserves
Siberian Wolverines (4.7.31) lost to Beijing Bears (9.10.64)

Best
Siberia: T Vickery
Beijing: B Guerra

[ossie85]

Toronto continue to put the competition on notice!

Toronto Wolves (23.19.157) defeated Tokyo Samurai (20.18.138)

Best
Toronto: M Robinson, D Zorko, S Pendlebury, M Johnson, J Ziebell, D Jolly, P Ryder, B Cunnington
Tokyo: S Mitchell, K Jack, L Parker, C Judd, L Shuey

Late Changes
Toronto: J MacMillan replaced C Jones

Reserves
Toronto Wolves (15.12.102) defeated Yuzawa Typhoon (8.10.58)

Best
Toronto: S Morris, T Bell, M Jamison, A McGrath, A Hall
Yuzawa: J Lonergan

[ossie85]

Subdued effort from Dublin, but good enough

Wellington Warriors (17.13.115) lost to Dublin Destroyers (20.9.129)

Best
Wellington: M Murphy, A Krakouer
Dublin: Jack Redden, A Black, J O'Meara, D Mundy, R Gray

Late Changes
Dublin: Z Clarke replaced B Hill

WXV Debut
Wellington: D Armfield, C Brown
Dublin: J Bootsma

Reserves
Wellington Warriors (11.7.73) defeated Belfast Braves (4.3.27)

Best
Washington: J Patfull
Belfast: L Hansen