Dingster
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S35 First Preliminary Final at The Golden Throne (MOTR)
Way back in R7 PhenomenalV1 did the OPs for the Royals vs the OOBs and the Wazzas vs the Wonders.
Official Match Thread - Season 35, Round 7: Gold City Royals vs Ophidian Old Boys at The Golden Throne
Fast forward to the prelims and these exact teams will play off for a spot in the big dance. Lets get in the Sweet time machine and go....
1 : 24.43 {FF} - He sees a lead by Bonz and kicks in that direction.
1 : 24.47 {FF} - Bonz can't take it.
1 : 24.53 {FF} - Bonz picks it up on the bounce.
1 : 24.57 {FF} - A gimme goal coming up if Bonz keeps his cool.
Count them with all six fingers you genetic freaks - an eternal six seconds later the qooty registered a goal
2 : 25.03 {C} - Great goal by Bonz.
This all became all too much for philreich and he started the second quarter by posting some of the Bombers vs Roys match. Ligma slay!!! LMAO Dr Phil
The second quarter was all about the OOBs as they slammed on 5 goals 5 to 2 goals 2 to lead by 17 points at HT.
The third quarter was where the Royals came roaring back and the OOBs lead was cut back to 3 points setting up a thrilling final quarter.
The final quarter was always going to go down to the wire and Ulahoopski was the matchwinner kicking the winning goal with a minute and a half to go as the Royals won a thriller by 2 points.
Membling was BOG with 28 possies and 100 DT. nahnah and kenneyswarriors both kicked 4.
Fast forward to the finals. How did both teams get here?
Royals - again in the rain against the Wazzas, the Royals kicked the first four goals but only lead by a goal at HT. They got on top in the third to lead by three goals on the back of some accurate kicking in the wet - 11.4.70. However by the 13 mins mark the Wazzas took the lead. Dejavu as it we go back to the future and Ulahoopski put the Royals back in front at the 21 min mark and the Royals would go on to win by 4 points. Cadsky was BOG with 5 goals and 103 DT.
OOBs - again in the rain against the Furies, the OOBs kicked the opener thanks to Wickzki. It was goal for goal with both teams kicking 4 and the Furballs lead by 1 point at quarter time and they extended that to 14 points at the half. Captain Tigerturbulance brought out the top shelf tactics to get the OOBs going.
3 : 25.01 {C} - SplintWhisky had that ruck contest all to themself.
3 : .1 {lW} - U2tigers threads his way through traffic.
The Furies were confused as the OOBs cut the deficit in half to only trail by 7 points at three quarter time. In the final quarter the OOBs defs gave a F. Fleabane and FireKrakouer kicked the winning goals and the OOBs got up to win by 5 points. Mobbs kicked 3 while Robertio and U2tigers controlled the midfield.
Team changes - nahnah is a minimalist and the Royals will go in unchanged. Tigerturbulance is a loose cannon and could make multiple changes just for the fun of it.
Final word to the opposition
Cakey - Facing the OoB in a prelim is interesting.
We match up well against them
Our defense will easily hold them in check- the only thing to be scared of is bonz blinding the team with some of his pictures.
Our midfield is better then theres and to any suggestion their defence can hold our fwd line in check i only have 1 word to say to this nahnah
Nahnah - why da faq did we recruit hotchilli? He keeps banging on about mint. Also we should have off loaded GreyCrow and grumbleguts to the Swampies. They are just philreich bots anyways. Oh well at least we didn't recruit Cadsky
Turbo - The royals have only managed to win 4 of their last 7 games which is typical of a disorganized team with a lack of player depth and no clear game strategy. Whereas the OOB have a professional qooty program which has resulted in 7 wins from our last 7 games. We will destroy the Royals on Sunday and they will be more confused and unsure of what's going on than Cadsky was about the Old Boy and Dragon merger.
EJW - I don't need false bravado when I'm up against a side that has a 7 man LG with co-captains. Screams to me as being a club that gets ribbons for participation, everyone gets a prize. They'll be just happy to be there, dancing around in their pretty purple dresses skipping with each other and holding hands (NTTAWWT).
Then I see that Golumless is in the LG. That bloke was last relevant around the era of the introduction of colour TV. So I'm not too concerned about what I'm facing next up. Make sure you have extra ambulances on stand by.
Captains or someone from the LG get your team sheets in by Thursday 11:59 Vic bias time
Ophidian Old Boys
