WXV Round 9: European & Oceania Cups

[ossie85]

And we have another partial lock out :(

Sydney/Geelong players locked out Thursday night, the rest locked out Friday night.

Round 9      AFL Round 11 (partial lock-out)   
         
New York Revolution   v   Mexico City Suns   MetLife Stadium, New Jersey   Americas Premiership Match
Beijing Thunder   v   Buenos Aires Armadillos   Beijing Olympic Park   
PNL Reindeers   v   Berlin Brewers   State de France   European Premiership Match & European Cup
Dublin Destroyers   v   Moscow Spetsnaz   Crooke Park   European Premiership Match
New Delhi Tigers   v   Sao Paulo Pumas   Tata Stadium   
Tokyo Samurai   v   Toronto Wolves   Tokyo Olympic Stadium   
Cairo Sands   v   London Royals   Borg El Arab Stadium   
Seoul Magpies   v   Cape Town Cobras   Seoul World Cup Stadium   
Wellington Warriors   v   Pacific Islanders   The Basin Reserve   Africonia Premiership Match & Oceania Cup
           

Plenty of '8 point' matches this round, but a few lopsided ones also...
         
New York need players to return to be competitive against Mexico City, with the Suns going in as heavy favourites. This is another Americas Cup match, and New York have yet to win a match in this comp for 3 seasons.

Beijing host Buenos Aires in a match that has 'walk over' written all over it, can the Thunder show some spirit in front of a home crowd?

European Cup match with very high stakes! Berlin have won the cup both times, with PNL hoping they can break its duck. But more importantly, this is 7th v 8th! PNL are on a bit of losing streak, and Berlin starting to pull together some form. A defining match!

Probably the match of the round, with the mighty Destroyers - the top scoring team over the last 2 weeks - playing a Moscow team on the cusp of the top 4. The Destroyers will go in as favourites, but Moscow will be hoping some underperforming players (Nic Nat) can rise to the equation!

In the battle of the big Cats and a replay of the preseason Grand Final, New Delhi host Sao Paulo. But hard to see anything else but a Sao Paulo victory.

Tokyo (12th) and Toronto (13th) are both at 3-5, and this game could be viewed as an elimination final! Hard to see either side making the finals with a 3-6 record. I'd say Toronto will be favourites, but Tokyo have surprised often.

In another big battle, Cairo (11th) hosts London (9th) - London will be bouyed by strong recent form (4 wins from its last 5), while Cairo are desperate to show some form. Both will hope to have #1 rucks Mumford and Bellchambers back!

Seoul (6th) and Cape Town (10th) have had interesting seasons both, and this would be the match to start showing some consistency! I can see this game going down to the wire.

Oceania Cup has Wellington up 2-0 against the Pacific (despite Wellington's last placed finish in 2013), the Islanders have been starved off success and would love something in a trophy cabinet. If Wellington lose this, it will be very hard for them to avoid a 2nd wooden spoon. Amazingly, if they win, they will face off against Cape Town next week for the Africonia Premiership!

[Purple 77]

Damn. This is an important match for my Brewers, also the Reindeers!

[CrowsFan]

In the battle of the big Cats and a replay of the preseason Grand Final, New Delhi host Sao Paulo. But hard to see anything else but a New Delhi victory.

Excuse me?  :o

[ossie85]

In the battle of the big Cats and a replay of the preseason Grand Final, New Delhi host Sao Paulo. But hard to see anything else but a New Delhi victory.

Excuse me?  :o

lol, fail

[Nige]

Gonna refrain from commenting about our chances before I actually name the team.

[Justin Bieber]

Damn. This is an important match for my Brewers, also the Reindeers!

Reindeers will be drinking brewer blood come end of next round >:D.

[Purple 77]

Damn. This is an important match for my Brewers, also the Reindeers!

Reindeers will be drinking brewer blood come end of next round >:D.

Oh wait, I shouldn't fear defeat, of course I will be getting the biggest score of the week, I'm playing you guys! >:D

[Justin Bieber]

Damn. This is an important match for my Brewers, also the Reindeers!

Reindeers will be drinking brewer blood come end of next round >:D.

Oh wait, I shouldn't fear defeat, of course I will be getting the biggest score of the week, I'm playing you guys! >:D

:'(. Everybody goes big against PNL for some reason....

To win you guys better hope for 150+, cause usually what our opponents score if we get defeated :P.

[My Chumps]

Clutch game this week. Need a solid performance to get the win.

Def: Andrejs Everitt, James Gwilt, Nick Haynes, Cameron Guthrie

Mid: Trent Cotchin (C), Josh P. Kennedy (VC), Adam Cooney, Dom Tyson

Ruc: Zach Smith

Fwd: Craig Bird, Jack Darling, Shaun Higgins, Tom Hawkins

Benchies: Brad Hill, Dale Thomas

E: Jeremy Cameron, Jasper Pittard, Alex Sexton

In: Zach Smith
Out: Matt Crouch

Hopefully Crouch and Ben Reid are back next week but this is the provisional team.

[Memphistopheles]

Clutch game this week. Need a solid performance to get the win.

Def: Andrejs Everitt, James Gwilt, Nick Haynes, Cameron Guthrie

Mid: Trent Cotchin (C), Josh P. Kennedy (VC), Adam Cooney, Dom Tyson

Ruc: Zach Smith

Fwd: Craig Bird, Jack Darling, Shaun Higgins, Tom Hawkins

Benchies: Brad Hill, Dale Thomas

E: Jeremy Cameron, Jasper Pittard, Alex Sexton

In: Zach Smith
Out: Matt Crouch

Hopefully Crouch and Ben Reid are back next week but this is the provisional team.

Hey mate I think Haynes is still out with injury/broken ankle.

[My Chumps]

Clutch game this week. Need a solid performance to get the win.

Def: Andrejs Everitt, James Gwilt, Nick Haynes, Cameron Guthrie

Mid: Trent Cotchin (C), Josh P. Kennedy (VC), Adam Cooney, Dom Tyson

Ruc: Zach Smith

Fwd: Craig Bird, Jack Darling, Shaun Higgins, Tom Hawkins

Benchies: Brad Hill, Dale Thomas

E: Jeremy Cameron, Jasper Pittard, Alex Sexton

In: Zach Smith
Out: Matt Crouch

Hopefully Crouch and Ben Reid are back next week but this is the provisional team.

Hey mate I think Haynes is still out with injury/broken ankle.

Didn't realise it was that bad! Shattered. I'll sort that out when teams come out on Thursday.

[Ringo]

Royals Team subject to team announcements:

Def: Heritier Lumumba ; Andrew Mackie; Dane Rampe; Matthew Broadbent
Mids: Danyle Pearce ; Daniel Hannebery; Brent Stanton; Jarrad McVeigh
Rucks: Tom Bellchambers
Fwds: Johnathan Brown ;Shane Edwards; Brandon Matera; Chris Mayne
Int: Matthew Broadbent; David MacKay

Emergencies:Rory Laird. Troy Menzell, Joe Danniher

Co Captains: Hannebery, McVeigh

Sub rule invoked.

In: Mackie, Bellchambers
Out: Laird, Daniher

[kilbluff1985]

Broadbent named twice Ringo 8)

[Ringo]

Thanks KB

This is the correct Royals team till Thursday anyway.

Def: Heritier Lumumba ; Andrew Mackie; Dane Rampe; Rory Laird
Mids: Danyle Pearce ; Daniel Hannebery; Brent Stanton; Jarrad McVeigh
Rucks: Tom Bellchambers
Fwds: Johnathan Brown ;Shane Edwards; Brandon Matera; Chris Mayne
Int: Matthew Broadbent; David MacKay

Emergencies:Zac Tuohy Troy Menzell, Joe Danniher

Co Captains: Hannebery, McVeigh

Sub rule invoked.

In: Mackie, Bellchambers
Out: Reilly, Daniher

[CrowsFan]

You know os, you may have been right initially when you said you could see nothing but a Tiger win. Hartlett suspended, Masten probably out injured, Ablett underperforming, still struggles with the defense, a hit and miss forward line. The only constant so far has been Jacobs and Minson performing well in the ruck...