King, last rounds: 27, 3, 43, 15…ah, I’ve gotta drop him.
30 in the first quarter…
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Phenomenal performance from Stoops’s boys - worthy of the probable #1 finals seed
Craze 1376 vs. Trotters 1366
Dunlop 1470 vs. Stoops 1574
Allblack 1475 vs. Smoten 1415
Albert 1089 vs. redbull 1297
topdon 1303 vs. saladin 1159
Blummers 1088 vs. wezza 1127
Neela 1074 vs. JBaller 1195
Mad 1246 vs. wimmera 1226
Jefferson 1060 vs. Dill 1281
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Not sure how I win with 6 players scoring 43 and under and Franklin scoring a huge 8 points.
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Oh wow.
I just looked at the score on the Coaches Box.
I lost 1090 to 1093 to Wezza.
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Stellar performance @Stoops, you’ve had a run of bad-luck in our previous encounters, this time you received some good fortune, but dominated on the scoreboard regardless and I would’ve been extremely fortunate to run down that score. Now you’ve got the chance to capitalise next week and put yourself through to the prelims.
Official Final Scores
Crazy Bomber 1312 lost to Trotters 1386
Dunlop 1461 lost to Stoops 1627
Allblack 1549 defeated You Shall Be Smoten 1471
Alber_Goodthur 1092 lost to redbull 1316
topdon 1269 defeated saladin 1173
Blummers 1090 lost to wezza 1093
Neela 1087 lost to JBaller 1158
The_Mad_Bomber 1269 defeated wimmera 1247
Jefferson 1120 lost to Windy Dill 1247
Final Ladder
| Pos | LR | Team | GP | W | L | D | For | Aga | % | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Stoops | 20 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 29910 | 25389 | 117.8 | 68 |
| 2 | 2 | Crazy Bomber | 20 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 29286 | 25916 | 113.0 | 64 |
| 3 | 4 | Allblack | 20 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 27505 | 25899 | 106.2 | 64 |
| 4 | 3 | Dunlop | 20 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 28972 | 25533 | 113.5 | 60 |
| 5 | 5 | Trotters | 20 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 27391 | 25598 | 107.0 | 60 |
| 6 | 6 | YSB Smoten | 20 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 27285 | 26080 | 104.6 | 52 |
| 7 | 9 | redbull | 20 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 25390 | 25180 | 100.8 | 44 |
| 8 | 7 | topdon | 20 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 25826 | 25662 | 100.6 | 44 |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | 8 | Alber Goodthur | 20 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 25363 | 25587 | 99.1 | 40 |
| 10 | 10 | saladin | 20 | 9 | 11 | 0 | 24910 | 25516 | 97.6 | 36 |
| 11 | 11 | Blummers | 20 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 24137 | 25311 | 95.4 | 32 |
| 12 | 12 | wezza | 20 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 24028 | 25509 | 94.2 | 32 |
| 13 | 13 | JBaller | 20 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 24140 | 25786 | 93.6 | 28 |
| 14 | 14 | Mad Bomber | 20 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 24045 | 25918 | 92.8 | 28 |
| 15 | 15 | Jefferson | 20 | 5 | 15 | 0 | 23667 | 25354 | 93.3 | 20 |
| 16 | 16 | Awesome Scotty | 20 | 5 | 15 | 0 | 24094 | 26054 | 92.5 | 20 |
| 17 | 17 | wimmera | 20 | 4 | 16 | 0 | 23436 | 25866 | 90.6 | 16 |
| 18 | 18 | Windy Dill | 20 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 22696 | 25923 | 87.6 | 12 |
Next Week
Elimination Finals
Trotters (5) vs. topdon (8)
You Shall Be Smoten (6) vs. redbull (7)
Qualifying Finals
Stoops (1) vs. Dunlop (4)
Crazy Bomber (2) vs. Allblack (3)
Team Review
Season High: Allblack & Stoops
Season Low: Crazy Bomber, Neela (tied) & Alber Goodthur
- Allblack is in a good form heading into finals, putting up consecutive season highs.
- Stoops meanwhile has put up his highest score since Rd 2, 2022
- CB’s worst score since Rd 4, 2022
- Topdon’s first finals series in his 11th season. He jointly holds the record for most seasons coached without playing finals with Vandrs at 10. Wezza departs after 8 seasons without a final.
Of continuing sides, Alber_Goodthur & Blummers will now hold the record for longest finals drought - both last played finals in 2017, which was also AG’s first season as coach.
Player Review:
PBs
Ryan Lester - 105
Kieran Briggs - 130
Harrison Petty - 117
Braeden Campbell - 110
Bailey Dale - 137
Anthony Scott - 88
Career Lows
Jordan Butts - 6
Lachie Jones - 2
Zak Jones - 5
Buddy Franklin - 8
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Congratulations and good luck to the finalists.
Can’t believe dropping King cost me a fifth win for the season.
Thanks Dunners, incredibly stiff for you to have three players subbed, I think you definitely could have run me down.
Nice to top the points for the second consecutive season, I think only twice below 1400 and an average of almost 1500. Will count for nothing though like last year if I’m knocked out in a prelim or straight sets!
I think the flag race is probably anyone’s to win this year and if I don’t believe I’m the favourite. My team is consistent but lacks the players that can go absolutely mega (outside of probably English and Sinclair), whereas I feel all the other teams in the top 5-6 have more guys that can win it on their own. My money would be on CB or Dunners.
Would love North to bring Ziebell back for the last four weeks of the season, along with Macrae spending more time on ball rather than half forward.
Good luck to all, think it will be a cracking four weeks.
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Does that mean it’s the first time this squad has made the finals? I’m basing this on the fact @Vandrs never made the finals with his team and he was an expansion coach.
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Only took me 11 years!
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Yes, you’re right. I completely missed that.
Final H&A Improvement Ladder
+236 - Alber_Goodthur
+128 - Blummers
+120 - Dunlop
+75 - topdon
+38 - redbull
+35 - Smoten
+18 - wimmera
+10 - saladin
+8.3 - Crazy Bomber
+7.5 - Stoops
+0 - wezza
-26 - Mad Bomber
-33 - Windy Dill
-40 - Neela
-58 - Allblack
-62 - Trotters
-92 - Jefferson
-108 - JBaller
Available Players Updated
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Good luck with the finals lads
FAs have been processed.
Best of luck to all the finalists.
A couple of notes…
@You_Shall_Be_Smoten, Jason Binns is already on a list.
Apologies for the slight delay.
Thursday night’s aren’t my most free nights to do FAs.
Should be fine next week.
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With the outs this week, any chance I had against Fog has been blown to smithereens. Watch old boy Sidebottom tare me apart!
It’ll be a finals performance of Essington proportions! 
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Thanks Blummers, seems I mis-checked the available players thread
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Good luck to all the finalists.
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Yep, good luck to all this weekend.
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Best of luck to all finalists, particularly Stoops.
Traditional finals posts will be up tomorrow.
Finals on Bench
Whilst occasionally the night game results can be delayed, Bench should have the day game results up as soon as they’re finalised (20-25mins post-game), this will also update your predicted score within the coaches box.
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