The Coach with the Most! Ep 12: A new challenger appears!

Brandy's trying to bribe me with coffee not to mention the shocking round he's just endured and is thinking of pulling the pin early. Matt's crowing (naturally) while Tim is interstate currently which explains why it's so quiet (and why he hasn't tried to get any players out of me this week.)

While that's going on, I've just been thrown a completely new hurdle. Just when things couldn't be anymore challenging..

Even though there's 8 of us in the comp (well technically 7, Rod checked out a while back) it seems only one of us has actually looked at the rules and the way things go for this season. No not me, Tyson coughed up this pic during team chat recently:

If the numbers seem confusing, my understanding is that when it hits Round 15, the top 5 in the ladder duke it out over the next four rounds to decide the champion.

This week we go into round 11 of the AFL.

And my position on said ladder in this march to the finals?

7th.

Yeah not great at all. We're going to have to cripple Cripaaa and hobble The Marlin Brando's just enough to leapfrog over them and hold onto 5th place just in time for the finals series to shut the gates on positions 6,7 and 8. 

Not impossible but one hell of a mountain to climb to get there..

WICKED WEDNESDAY

Off the back of recent successes, I'm loathe to make any major changes to the lineup this week incase I upset the beer wagon.

Hurn is repaired and replaces Jiath on DEF

Nankervis replaces Hickey in MID

And after Dale's stupidly good performance last week, he stays right where he is. Dale, Dale he's our man, if he can't do it....you other guys better pick up the slack damnit!

STANDBY THURSDAY

It doesn't rain, it pours.

Unlike that ripper song out of the 90's from Living Color, it's not Love Rearing It's Ugly head this time, more Covid-19. There's another outbreak in Melbourne building up and with a possible shutdown imminent this could make games of footy in Victoria and life for Victorian teams interesting..

Could things get any worse?

Boss I've just heard from Freddie Fartmonger's parents and apparently he's cleaned his room and done his homework and so will be right to provide analysis on this weekends games.

I just had to ask didn't I?

Of course just minutes after that rubbish news, another bag of spanners gets thrown into the works!

The Suns and Hawks game looks to be moved and if they can't find a suitable venue, they'll move the game to next week. They were supposed to have a bye round anyway next week but it could be this one instead. What does that mean for Team Migo? Well my only Hawks player Jiath is currently bench side but these three are more than half of my center field this week, so...

 

Greenwood

Swallow

Ellis

And it's not like I've got a tonne of options waiting in the wings to swap them out with...(well I do have Edwards and Sheed so I'm not completely out of options..)

WAIT, FRIDAY

Nope, the game is back on now. The GC Trio stay where they are. Phew!

Weekend wrap up time!

A win, a loss or a stupidly rare draw? Back by zero demand including his parents, it's over to you Freddie Fishfinger!

That's Freddie FARTMONGER you turd! I'd say it's good to be back but that would be like inviting Covid around for a family bbq. Anywhoos, it's been another busy week in football and here to make sense of the stuff that doesn't make sense usually, here I go!

Firstly a big Ho Hey, You're Okay! Goes to Dorko Zorko who managed to stop playing Roblox long enough to score a rip snorting 162 pointeroonis! And to think the idiot coach here was thinking he was too much trouble to have on the team! What a fartbox!

Yeah yeah, we've moved on. Get on with it!

Pendlebury I'm now going to call Pooberry because he had a performance that was poo with only 50 points. Poo, poo!

Hurn came back after a spell and did 105 things.

Dale did good, good Dale, 102.

Apart from Ellis with 137, everyone else was booooooooring. And that's why you lost! I'm Freddie Fartmonger and I'll see you next week!

Well that was as brief and devoid of detail as usual, no thanks there Fartfinger. But yes, an unexciting round of average scores didn't help our cause:

Dawson 96

Aliir 67

Greenwood 69

Nankervis 77

Dusty 95 

McCarthy 79

With nothing happening on the bench worthy of note there really wasn't much I could have done this round. Crippaaa had three players scoring 140+ and even with some average work from other members, still did just fine winning by 62 points. 

Sigh. I was enjoying our little winning streak too..

The clock is ticking and I'm still lagging in seventh place. Things are not looking solid at the moment..

Up next: We take on the first of three bye rounds and a couple of players aren't going to be happy with how I'm throwing band-aid solutions around to hopefully score a win this time..