Round 23 Teams - Grand Final - Gold Coast vs Geelong

[fightingfury_88]

Grand Final
Gold Coast vs Geelong

18+7 due 7:50pm AEST Friday 25th August

 

[sausageroll]

Gold Coast Devils

B: Jarrod McVeigh, Michael Hurley, Elliot Yeo (c)
HB: Nick Newman, Tom McDonald, Zach Tuohy
C: Jack Ziebell, Shaun Higgins, Brad Ebert
HF: Allen Christensen, Josh Jenkins, Dale Thomas
F: Bailey Fritsch, Majak Daw, Tom Lynch
R: Ryan Abbott, Dayne Zorko (vc), Bryce Gibbs

EMG: Paul Ahern, Mason Cox, Ciaran Byrne, Brad Lynch, Aaron Francis, Michael Johnson, Levi Greenwood

Out: Nil
In: Nil


Unavailable: Jack Viney (2), Jeremy Howe (1), Luke Dahlhaus (Seaspn), Jonathon Patton (Season), Brett Deledio (1), Shane Savage (Season),
Matt de Boer (1), Ryan Griffen (1), Liam Jones (Season), Mabior Chol* (3)

Available: Jack Silvagni, Brody Mihocek, Alex Keath, Lachlan Keefe
AFL EMG: Zac Smith

Reserves: Tim O'Brien, Mitch Crowden, Kieran Lovell, Brayden Ainsworth, Josh Rotham, Declan Keilty, Timm House, Colin O'Riordan*​

 

[GeeCat]

Geelong Football Club

B: Cameron Guthrie - Jeremy McGovern - Bailey Williams
HB: Tom Cutler - Lachie Henderson - Mitch Duncan
C: Luke Parker - Joel Selwood - Jack Sinclair
HF: Brandan Parfitt - Lance Franklin - Marcus Bontempelli
F: Mason Wood - Tom Hawkins - Jade Gresham

R: Brodie Grundy (C) - Patrick Dangerfield (VC) - Nat Fyfe

Inter: Ryan Burton - Jordan Dawson - Jack Henry - Jacob Weitering - Jackson Thurlow - Aiden Bonar - Tom McCartin

 

[GeeCat]

I believe congratulations are in order to sausageroll!

Would have loved to have three-peated but your team's consistency across every position was too much. Very deserving.

Definitely gotten the itch now to re-tool and re-load for next season! See you all in the trade period.

 

[sausageroll]

I believe congratulations are in order to sausageroll!

Would have loved to have three-peated but your team's consistency across every position was too much. Very deserving.

Definitely gotten the itch now to re-tool and re-load for next season! See you all in the trade period.

Have you done the scores? I took a quick look at them as the games were being played and it looked to me like you were winning comfortably.

 

[fightingfury_88]

Scores will be up tonight. Heading into Sunday's games GeeCat had a slight but comfortable lead. Keen to see what the final result is after Sunday's games.

 

[GeeCat]

Have you done the scores? I took a quick look at them as the games were being played and it looked to me like you were winning comfortably.

Yep, by my calculation you pipped me by 26 points.

I made some assumptions for my bench replacements given that Franklin and Parker were late withdrawals and needed to be replaced in my starting team, but either way you got good even scores across the board from the Sunday games and my bench mob wouldn't have changed things one way or another.

Mason Wood only playing a bit over a quarter before getting injured probably didn't help me either, but that's all part of the game!

 

[fightingfury_88]

Round 23 Results
Grand Final: Gold Coast Devils ( 1557 ) defeated Geelong ( 1531 )
Gold Coast Devils ( 1557 )
Josh Jenkins - 130
Bryce Gibbs - 111
Elliot Yeo - 107
Shaun Higgins - 103
Allen Christensen - 94
Jack Ziebell - 89
Nic Newman - 87
Tom McDonald - 85
Zach Tuohy - 84
Brad Ebert - 84
Dale Thomas - 80
Michael Hurley - 76
Ryan Abbott - 76
Jarrad McVeigh - 74
Majak Daw - 74
Tom T Lynch - 74
Dayne Zorko - 74
Bayley Fritsch - 55
Interchange
Aaron Francis - 94
Ciaran Byrne - 82
Bradley Lynch - 76
Paul Ahern - 72
Mason Cox - 71
Michael Johnson - 65
Levi Greenwood - 57

Geelong ( 1531 )
Patrick Dangerfield - 158
Mitchell Duncan - 136
Marcus Bontempelli - 130
Brodie Grundy - 126
Tom Hawkins - 112
Tom Cutler - 101
Lachlan Henderson - 92
Brandan Parfitt - 80
Cameron Guthrie - 79
Joel Selwood - 75
Bailey Williams - 74
Jade Gresham - 72
Ryan Burton (for Luke Parker) - 65
Jeremy McGovern - 63
Nathan Fyfe - 57
Jack Sinclair - 47
Jack Henry (for Lance Franklin) - 40
Mason Wood - 24
Interchange
Jacob Weitering - 64
Aiden Bonar - 48
Jordan Dawson - 47
Tom McCartin - 45
Luke Parker - 0
Lance Franklin - 0
Jackson Thurlow - 0

Grand Final BOG is Patrick Dangerfield (Geel) with 158 points.

 

[fightingfury_88]

Congratulations sausageroll for winning the 2018 AFLTM premiership, avenging your loss to Geelong last year. A great rivalry between these two teams these past few seasons. Commiserations to GeeCat but another fantastic year nonetheless.

Also, thank you to all coaches for a fantastic season. It was great to see high levels of activity and engagement from you all including the timely selection of teams on a weekly basis, it was much appreciated.

Looking forward to kicking off the off-season shortly, surely the best part about this game!

 

[sausageroll]

Wow. I really didn't expect that. I'm a little bit shocked, to be honest.

I saw the scores from some of the Geelong's better players and just assumed I was screwed. I was consoling myself with the knowledge my players had at least been more competitive than they had been in last years' grand final. Unlucky to have Franklin and Parker withdraw late GeeCat

Thanks to fightingfury_88 for stepping up and doing an incredible job running the game this season and well done to all. This was the most competitive season I can remember and a season where I believe that the top half a dozen teams were a chance of winning if things came together at the right time of the year.
I think whoever was going to win this one was going to need some luck going their way with the quality of the position so I can honestly was I feel very lucky to have won this one and look forward to another close season in 2019