Bash for The Border - Round 9 - The curse of coaching

 

Like plans for my pay packet each and every week, something unexpected always pops up and ruins things last minute. It's no different in this god-awful coaching experience either as I walked in with a full team and just before game time the captain fell over..

Seriously, can I jump out of this idiot plane now?

ACROSS THE WEEK

-Tim offered up Nankervis as a swap for Dangerfield. But since Danger is one of my better players, I passed. I did offer up Sidebottom but no dice.

-Tyson (who we play this week) was looking to plug some holes in his own team and offered up some decent options. In response I offered up Sidebottom...but no dice.

-Tyson also helpfully posted up the team selections for round 9 which I combed through and found out I only had to make one change. Sidebottom was an option to play...but no dice. He's on the bench.

-Dunstan has gone mysteriously missing. I couldn't find his name anywhere on the selection list so I can only guess he's been abducted by aliens and the AFL are pretending it never happened. So he's out and Jai Newcombe from Hawthorne takes his place. I'll assign a 40k pic to him if he lasts more than a couple of weeks..

GAME TIME!

I thought I was going to be okay with my setup this week..

Only to wake up today (Saturday) to this awful setback news (thanks Tyson).

So the normal 100+ haul from dependable Penders won't happen and worse, because he's still captain for this team...it won't be doubled. That's a 200+ lack of points already and we've only got through one game so far.

Holy hell...I can smell the crushing loss from here.

TO BE CONTINUED