WXV Round 8: African Cup!

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African Cup Stays in Cape Town

Cape Town win its 3rd African Cup from 3 attempts! With captain Kennedy winning his 2nd Cupido/Saad Medal for best on ground in this match.

Cape Town are now in the best position to also win its 3rd Africonia Premiership which will likely be decided between with a match between Cape Town and Wellington in Round 10 (Cairo are out of it at 1-2, Islanders only a mathematical chance).

Cairo's season is suddenly looking grim, with the once top 4 fancy now behind the 8-ball for a place in the 8.

Cape Town Cobras (20.17.137) defeated Cairo Sands (20.11.131)

Best
Cape Town: JP Kennedy, D Tyson, T Cotchin, C Bird
Cairo: R Douglas, D Beams, D Prestia, B Smith

Substitute
Cape Town: J Pittard subbed in for N Haynes
Cairo: J Laidler subbed in for T Dickson

Late Changes
Cape Town: D Tyson replaced J Cowan

WXV Debut
Cairo: C Cameron

Reserves
Cape Town Cobras (8.4.52) lost to Alexandria Hieroglyphics (19.14.128)

Best
Cape Town: Z Smith
Alexandria: S Rowe, J Clarke, L Dunston

CAPE TOWN wins the AFRICAN CUP
JOSH P KENNEDY wins the CUPIDO/SAAD Medal

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Royals win in a Scrap

London win another match, with its 4th win from the last 5 wins. Particularly impressive as they have been without a Ruck all year, but that looks to change with Bellchambers to return after the break.

Tokyo had a down week, so likely they'll have an up week next round!

London Royals (20.15.135) defeated Tokyo Samural (18.11.119)

Best
London: D Hannebery, J McVeigh, B Matera, H Lumumba, Shane Edwards
Tokyo: S Selwood, K Jack, L Parker

Late Changes
London: T Menzel replaced B Reilly
Tokyo: N Suban replaced A Fasolo

WXV Debut
London: T Menzel

Reserves
Imperial Princes (14.10.94) defeated Yuzawa Typhoon (13.8.86)

Best
Imperial: A Mackie, S Wright
Yuzawa: A Kennedy, S Lloyd

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Wolves Salvaging Season

Toronto have gone from 0-4 to 3-5, and are back in the pack of those just outside the 8. Paddy Ryder made the most of his Captaincy.

New Delhi struggled for the most part, and need to find some of that early season form.

Meanwhile, the battle of the undefeated reserves team came up Mumbai!

Toronto Wolves (22.12.144) defeated New Delhi Tigers (17.14.116)

Best
Toronto: P Ryder, S Pendlebury
New Delhi: M White, M Duncan

Substitute
New Delhi: D Talia subbed in for R Bastinac

Late Changes
Toronto: L Henderson replaced T Hine
New Delhi: M White replaced A Mullett

Reserves
Toronto Wolves (13.8.86) lost to Mumbai Elephants (16.13.109)

Best
Toronto: L Greenwood, M Jamison
Mumbai: G Horlin-Smith, D Buckley

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Dublin take out Pumas Again

Dublin Destroyers showed the kind of fire power it has, and they did against the reigning premiers - for the 2nd time in a row. Watson. Selwood. Dal Santo. Rockliff. They are going to be hard to beat.

Sao Paulo struggled, with a massive Ablett effort hiding some deficiencies.

Not that it matters, but this is an example where the loophole backfired for Dublin, lost about 18 points switching captains from Rockliff to Selwood.

Sao Paulo Pumas (23.20.158) lost to Dublin Destroyers (26.18.174)

Best
Sao Paulo: G Ablett jnr, S Jacobs, W Minson, R Sloane, H Hartlett
Dublin: J Watson, J Selwood, N Dal Santo, T Rockliff, R Gray, D Mundy, A Rance, T Goldstein

Late Changes
Sao Paulo: A Silvagni replaced B Waters
Dublin: J Selwood replaced A Boston

Reserves
Rio de Janeiro Jaguars (14.10.94) lost to Belfast Braves (16.13.109)

Best
Rio de Janeiro: M Paparone, M Daw
Belfast: S Grigg

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Spetsnaz Knock on Top 4 Door

PNL were below its potential, while Moscow is starting to show its own with its highest score of the year.

Moscow Spetsnaz (24.12.156) defeated PNL Reindeers (20.14.134)

Best
Moscow: D Heppell, C Ward, J O'Meara, D Martin, R Griffen, J Jenkins
PNL: K Simpson, M Priddis

Late Changes
Moscow: J Simpkin replaced C Gault
PNL: M Jaensch replaced M Lobbe

Club Debut
PNL: C Dawes

Reserves
Siberian Wolverines (12.10.82) lost to Marseille Kings (18.17.125)

Best
Siberia: S Docherty, D Ellard
Marseille: H Grundy, M Hallahan, Z Merrett, L Jones, J Billings

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Brewers Back in the 8

An 11 goal haul from forward JJ Kennedy led Berlin to a comprehensive victory over Beijing.

Beijing were ok-ish, and look to be improving!

Berlin Brewers (23.12.150) defeated Beijing Thunder (19.10.124)

Best
Berlin: JJ Kennedy, N Fyfe, D Jackson, M Jamar, Lewis Jetta, J Viney
Beijing: K Mitchell, C Hooker, O Wines

Late Changes
Berlin: C Garland & L Hunter replaced M Wilkins & J King
Beijing: K Mitchell & D Stanley replaced J Battersby & J Petrenko

WXV Debut
Berlin: M McDonough

Reserves
Rhineland Rum-Runners (6.5.41) defeated Shanghai Storm (4.7.31)

Best
Rhineland: J Tutt
Shanghai: Nil

[CrowsFan]

Not that it really matters, but didn't I score 158, not 156? I have my final score as 1,576.

Also Dublin only lost 7 points for the captain switch. Selwood scored 140, Rockliff 133.

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NY Miss Oppurtunity

New York, in its squad of 18, had 6 players not named to play. In a rolling lock-out, this was a particularly poor effort, with a stunning effort from Tom Liberatore saving them from embarrassment.

New York would have pushed Buenos Aires otherwise, who were down in most areas, with Brent Harvey inspirational. Should be fair and say NY decimated by injuries.

Buenos Aires Armadillos (21.14.140) defeated New York Revolution (19.7.121)

Best
Buenos Aires: B Harvey, D Cox, D Cross, K Cornes
New York: T Liberatore, A Black

Late Changes
Buenos Aires: E Wood & D Cross replaced H Scotland & N Bourke
New York: S Atley, W Hoskin-Elliott, B Griffiths & A Young replaced M Stokes, M Pyke, A Treloar & K Kolodjashnij

Club Debut
New York: A Young

Reserves
Buenos Aires Armadillos (7.6.48) defeated Washington Rebellion (0.0.0)

Best
Buenos Aires: J Kelly, R Warnock
Washington: Nil

[Nails]

Thanks for the incompetent coaching enabling us to boost our percentage greater than we should have NYR :-X

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Not that it really matters, but didn't I score 158, not 156? I have my final score as 1,576.

Also Dublin only lost 7 points for the captain switch. Selwood scored 140, Rockliff 133.

Correct about Dublin, these are my scores for you:

Ablett   Gary jnr   368
Jacobs   Sam   125
Minson   Will   114
Sloane   Rory   112
Hartlett   Hamish   101
Masten   Chris   93
Roughead   Jarryd   90
Walker   Andrew   86
Houli   Bachar   83
Wright   Matthew   79
Polec   Jared   66
Smith   Devon   61
Buntine   Matthew   50
White   Simon   49
Gunston   Jack   82

[CrowsFan]

Not that it really matters, but didn't I score 158, not 156? I have my final score as 1,576.

Also Dublin only lost 7 points for the captain switch. Selwood scored 140, Rockliff 133.

Correct about Dublin, these are my scores for you:

Ablett   Gary jnr   368
Jacobs   Sam   125
Minson   Will   114
Sloane   Rory   112
Hartlett   Hamish   101
Masten   Chris   93
Roughead   Jarryd   90
Walker   Andrew   86
Houli   Bachar   83
Wright   Matthew   79
Polec   Jared   66
Smith   Devon   61
Buntine   Matthew   50
White   Simon   49
Gunston   Jack   82

Ah I see the problem. You must have missed my post where I took White out of the squad and replaced him with Waters. Thus that gave me Silvagni's 66 rather than White's 49.

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Corrected :)

[CrowsFan]

Cheers :)

Makes no difference to the match, but that tiny percentage change could be the difference between finishing in the top 4 or not :)

[CrowsFan]

Oh and congrats to Holz and Dublin for the win. Sadly they were the only team I could have played this week and lost to! Hopefully can pick up the pieces during the week off and then come back strong against New Delhi.

[Nails]

Glad we have Beijing coming up, need the free week to recover :-X

Who to rest? Stevie J? Boyd? Barlow? B. Harvey? :-X