Bash for the Border - Round 10 - Just an average coach, doing average thangs..

Desperate times call for desperate measures. And with a hilariously awful 11% winning rate so far this season, these here be desperate times... 

Now usually when a club gets to this level of dire circumstance, the coach is bid a farewell first and foremost. But of course this is Supercoach and without a coach...well nothing would happen really. I mean I could leave it on autopilot and hope for the best but I set myself a challenge of doing better than last year (where I just missed out on the finals) and at this stage I've got a staggering lot of work to do to even get to that point.

And so I've decided that this average team of misfits needs to increase their averages and to do that, the ones that are weighing down the place need to cool their heels on the free market list and some fresh and eager young blood needs to flow in and fill the ranks. 

First things first, we need a base average to improve on. And thanks to some nifty work with Google Sheets, currently we are at: 88.58 across the board. Which on paper (or here) looks okay. But we keep getting killed by Did Not Plays and rubbish performances on occasion. And so in the spirit of drastic measures, I've traded out Close, Ziebell and Sidebottom - The three players with averages 72 or under.

And so in their place we welcome:

CHARLIE CURNOW (FWD)

I'd like to tell you amazing things about these new guys, like how they saved 24 burning cats from 3 hungry buildings (I may have that around the wrong way, possibly) but the truth of the matter is, I don't know. 
However when I don't know something, I make it up anyway. And on that note:

Likes: Dragons
Dislikes: Land Tax

Fun fact: Has never actually saved a cat, anywhere.

SAM POWEL-PEPPER (FWD)

Likes: Exotic Teas
Dislikes: Tax on exotic teas

Fun fact: Doesn't have a Mike Oldfield cd stuck in his car's stereo system

WILLIAM DREW (MID)

Likes: Standing outside broken phone booths with the correct change in his hands

Dislikes: Wanky cafe's with deconstructed anything on the menu

Fun fact: Can be brown, can be blue, can be violet sky too depending on the day.

And taking out the exits and adding into the mix this new block of stats, our group average is now...

90.76

We're climbing! It's not revolutionary but hey, it's a start and I need as much help here as I can get!

IN OTHER NEWS THIS WEEK

With Penders out last week and The Bont the week before, the rankings have changed slightly and now top of the Flav's heap, king of the hill - it's the Luggage!

Yes McCluggage has proved himself worthy of the Captain's crown this weekend and long may he reign!

HAS PENDERS GOT OVER HIS BLACK LUNG?

Er...not sure. To be confirmed.

FRIDAY MORNING

It's 5:34am and I've been busy, coffee in hand, perusing the team selections this round. Thankfully not too much damage for the luckless Flavorless Flav's in this one:

-Hurn's not even listed for whatever reason, so it's bench time!

-Flynn's listed but on the interchange. So it's bench time!

This is how we're looking:

All systems go! Hopefully...

POST WEEKEND UPDATE!

Okay no special guests on this one, I'm presenting the good, the bad (mostly bad) and the ugly news when we took on team Guy My myself. Sigh. Here we go. 

THE GOOD

The Bont with 130 points

Old McDonald 127 points

New recruit Curnow 122 points! (This never happens with new recruits on this team!) 

THE BAD

-I misread McCluggage's score info, thinking he'd made 156 and since he was captain this week, that would be a stonking 312 points right there! No, he made 76 for a double of 156. Had The Bont been wearing the crown...well I may have just won this bastard of a round.

-On the Luggage too, he may be out due to a hamstring injury..

-Benched Drew did better than 2/5ths of the midfield while on the sidelines

-Newcombe had a blinder, from the sidelines.

-The usually reliable Penders had a slow day, so did Dusty, Dangerfield and McGovern.

THE UGLY

-What in the flying Fugazi happened to Stanley?? He was named in the team lists, he had a higher average than Flynn, so I chose him and then he mysteriously disappeared! Not only that, Flynn had his best round ever from the sidelines! Sadly this isn't the first time for a Stanley no show right when I needed him so I think it's time to go..

-Franklin 40 points. He might be lauded with the amount of goals he's kicked career wise but he certainly doesn't do much for me here..

Sigh. I'd down my sorrows over this if it didn't kick my asthma right in the short and curlies...

Onto next week then..