Preliminary Final and Plate Semiufinals Lodgement thread

[Ringo]

One week to go in both competitions:

Preliminary Finals
Winchester Werewolves (1) v Birmingham Bombers (6) @ The Rose Bowl
Swansea Breakers (3) v Hebden Bridge Hedgehogs 8 @ Swalec Stadium

Can the 2 teams from the lower end of the table upset the 2 higher placed teams will be difficult to do away from home but any thing is possible. I give the Hedgehogs a chance of defeating the Breakers to make the final from 8th position but the Bombers face the difficult task of upsetting the in form Werewolves.

KO Plate Semifinals
Crosby Cruisers (10) v Grope Lane Giants (15) @ Ewood Park
Oxford Owls  (12) v Bilston Bunnies (11) @ Kassam Stadium
Which 2 teams will fight it out - The Cruisers really put on a dominating performance last week easily posting their highest score of the season and will be favoured to defeat the Giants who have shown some late season from.
The second match will be a toss of the coin affair with both teams evenly matched so will come dow to performances on the day.

World Cup
The Badgers will also be lodging a team as they are into the final of the World cup,  Let's all get behind them in this competition as they endeavour to become the inaugural winner of the World Cup.

[kilbluff1985]

Hartlett getting suspended is a huge blow to whatever chances the Bombers had we have decent depth but still

[kilbluff1985]

Final Scores:
1. Bradford Badgers 2866
2. Swansea Breakers 2794
3. Birmingham Bombers 2789
4. Winchester Werewolves 2783
5. Nottingham Hoods 2762


i think Bombers vs Werewolves will be much closer then people think going off the final scores for the season

Captains score will play a huge part think i'll be going Crouch vs Melbourne

there team list isnt as good as you would think for someone sitting 1st imo

hope to give them a run for there money anyway

[kilbluff1985]

Birmingham Bombers

Def - B. Reid, Mackie, Atley, Lester
Mids - Murphy, Crouch(C), Vince, Wells
Rucks - Clarke
Fwds - Lewis(VC), Cox, Rioli, Hansen
Utilities - Westhoff, Ziebell

Emerg J. Caddy(M), D. Glass(D), Brogan(R)

[Colliwobblers]

TEAM: WINCHESTER WEREWOLVES

DEF: Bryce Gibbs , Michael Hibberd , Kyle Hardhingham , Nick Vlastuin

MID: Matt Priddis , Nathan Fyfe (C), Luke Ball (VC), Jake Melksham

RUCK: Jarry Roughead

FWD: Jack Gunston , Dayne Zorko , Robbie Gray , Tom T Lynch

UTI: Ben Cunnington , Sam Gibson

EMERGENCY: Adam Tomlinson (F) , David Myers (D) , Nicholas Haynes (M/F)

Captain: Nathan Fyfe

Vice Captain: Luke Ball

Emergency Captain: Matt Priddis

Might update tomorrow, Want to start Myers but he has burnt me before being sub.....

[nrich102]

In: Golby, Maguire
Out: Garlett, Moloney

Def: Chaplin, Docherty, Garland, Golby
Mid: Montagna, Swan (C), Sidebottom (VC), Rich (DVC)
Ruc: Maguire(OOP)
Fwd: de Boer,  JJ Kennedy ,Henderson, C Brown
Util: Cooney, Picken

Emergencies: R Thompson, Goldsack, Betts,

This team will change as Brown is under suspension to be updated

[ossie85]

Crosby Cruisers......

No changes from last week's team! (except for some emergency changes)

D: H Scotland, S Gilbert, J Adcock, C Hooker
M: M Boyd, J McVeigh, D Jackson, T Boak
R: R Warnock
F: S Johnson, M Pavlich, D Hale, S Kerridge
I: Jack Redden, J MacMillan
E: M Grigg, T Bell, R Harwood
C: S Johnson
VC: M Boyd
DVC: T Boak

[specky92]

BRADFORD CITY BADGERS - WORLD CUP FINAL

DEF: Pearce Hanley, Trent McKenzie, Brodie Smith, Nick Maxwell

MID: Ryan Griffen (c), Trent Cotchin, Michael Barlow (vc), Dion Prestia

RUC: Will Minson

FWD: Ben McGlynn, Sam Mayes, Dennis Armfield, Jesse White

UTI: Tendai Mzungu, Jared Brennan

Emg: Jared Petrenko [FWD], Brad McKenzie [MID], Steven May [DEF/FWD]



IN: Ben McGlynn, Jared Brennan

OUT: Paul Puopolo, Jared Petrenko

[SydneyRox]

Mighty Bilston Bunnies

DEF - J.Carlisle, B.Stratton, Z.Tuohy, T.Bugg
MID- D.Beams (C), R.Douglas (VC), J.Corey, B.Howlett
RUCK - Ryder
FWD - Mayne (EVC), L.Adams, Crameri, L.Dahlhaus
UTL - E.Curnow, B.Kennedy
Emerg Carlile(B), Dalgleish(M), Lee(F)

[kilbluff1985]

Birmingham Bombers

Def - B. Reid, Mackie, Atley, Lester
Mids - Murphy, Crouch, Vince, Wells
Rucks - Clarke
Fwds - Lewis(VC), Cox, Rioli, Hansen
Utilities - Westhoff, Ziebell (C)

Emerg J. Caddy(M), D. Glass(D), Brogan(R)

change in Captains lol

[nrich102]

In: Golby, Patful, Betts
Out: Garlett, Moloney, C Brown

Def: Chaplin, Docherty, Garland, Golby
Mid: Montagna, Swan (C), Sidebottom (VC), Rich (DVC)
Ruc: Patful (OOP)
Fwd: de Boer,  JJ Kennedy ,Henderson, Betts
Util: Cooney, Picken

Emergencies: R Thompson, Goldsack, Maguire

[elephants]

Hebden Bridge Hedgehogs

B: Pearce, Duff, Shaw, Watts
M: Stants (VC), Scoot (C), Jones, Parker
U: Greene, Neale
R: Lobbe
F: Martin, Jroo, Bird, Balla

EMG: Thomas, Hampton, Yarran



Huuuuge selection news coming out of the Hedgehogs camp. Youngster Aaron Mullett has been a revalation for the Hedgehogs this year but has been extraordinarily dumped from their preliminary finals team.

A Hedgehogs spokesman said this in relation to the axing:

"Aaron has been outstanding for us this year, pumping some lovely scores and performing well as a utility. We felt though, that he needed to find some form in the reserves before staking a claim for a position in the Grand Final lineup.

In his place we have selected Lachie Neale who's form has been electric over recent weeks."

Massive game brewing here!

[Justin Bieber]

Get around the Badgers!!

[Colliwobblers]

Get around the Badgers!!

Werewolves !!

[elephants]

Get around the Badgers!!

Werewolves !!

Hedgehogs!!