The adventures of Almigo

Well it seemed like only yesterday when we cleared out the empty bottles and unconscious players after awards night after the drop down drag out slug fest that was The Coach With the Most Supercoach battle, but suddenly we're all standing on that footy mad doorstop once again ready to go again. I even made a graphic this time! This season, there's most coaches (those 8 handsome buggers above). And a longer competition. We've got draft day coming up in a heartbeat and the coach draft order has been decided by a random horse race in New Zealand for some reason. I'm predicting big things and plenty of heartbreak in either order as once again I try to pick the right players to win this fantasy football (AFL) challenge. Strap yourself in folks, this will be dizzying stuff!

  I'm now one spot away from finals cutoff.  To get there I have to beat the strong team in second place. Oh and to make things really interesting, three quarters of my engine is going missing this round. Nothing like a cliffhanger deciding round hey? 

Here's the rub: Even though I won last week, I need the following to happen this week if I am to stand even within sniffing distance of the finals. I need to win against Griffith Sux in a major way.  I need Crippa to lose, in a major way. I need Brandos to lose too, just because. Oh and I need to find 3 new Forwards this week because the ones I have are on holiday this round. Not even Tom Cruise would be keen to take on this mess. Almigo, I am not keen. - TC And things were looking okay for a while too. Could we be in any more dire circumstances than this?

Matt tries to shame me in losing the last round to Cripaaa until I point out that he was also in the loser circle this week and he should get on his bike (which was conveniently right next to him while we chatted.) Also I need to reshuffle the deck and given how unpredictable my team has been as of late, I'm not sure if this is going to work in my favor or not..

Last week I got invited to play Herald Sun KFC Supercoach with some of the guys at work. Pick your team of AFL (Australian Football League or Aussie Rules for those playing at home) superstars and hope they do enough each week during the game (goals, points and running powers slams?) to rack up the points and make you king of the office space by the end of the season! I haven't played a version of this since they first brought it out in the newspaper (where you had to plug in the details of the players by hand!) and have not having the foggiest who in the AFL is half decent currently (aside from the entire Richmond line up), how could this go possibly wrong? Welcome to draft day baby!