AFLW 2025 - AFLW Trade and Draft - All the player moves
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The Chipmunk Museum will be a place of beauty afterwards though...
How soThe Royals are boring. There I said it.
Except for you of course
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Stellar effort mate.
ROOKIES
Two rookies joined the Bombers this season: JustaBattler (6.6 ppw), who popped into match threads on most weeks - and Bearded Carpenter (0.0 ppw), who is still yet to post on the Sweet forum.
GAINS
The Bombers did not look towards other Sweet clubs last off-season, instead preferring to entice some of their own former players back to the club - a tactic they redeployed during the player suspension crisis over the last few rounds. Most seemed to prefer to stay within the confines of the Bomber PM however, with the likes of Bamboo Harvester (0.0 ppw), Dadda Dave (0.0 ppw), Osc1 (1.4 ppw), La Dispute (0.5 ppw), HereComesJuddy (0.0 ppw) and Citroin (1.0 ppw) barely sighted. They did nail one recruitment though, with Noidenous (86.1 ppw) becoming a huge presence across match threads and the league in general.
LOSSES
Losing league-favourite and former captain VeinGlorious (30.9 ppw in S32) to retirement would have hurt, but otherwise the Bombers LG were able to do a bit of a clean out during the off-season. The in-season site bans to Metalcrusher (56.1 ppw) and Tony Lynn 15 (42.6 ppw) were losses that felt irreplaceable though.
TEAM TRENDS
14,410, 1st (
16%)
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THE CORE
Skipper BLUEALLTHRU (from 186 to 150 ppw) remains the lynchpin of Bomber match threads, but he was the only Bomber to average more than 100 match thread posts per week this season. RobR (from 145 to 88.5 ppw), Kilroy (from 97.7 to 73.1 ppw), Jabba73 (from 71.6 to 51.9 ppw), CursingFijian (from 49.3 to 45.9 ppw) and kickthething (from 19.0 to 14.8 ppw) all reduced their activity to varying degrees this season, and it was up to The Greatest Ava (from 43.2 to 59.9 ppw), Bovo (from 39.5 to 44.6 ppw) and Here2tellyouwhy (from 6.3 to 10.2 ppw) to fill the gap.
You can fault the Bombers about many things, but they have had and continue to have a prolific and deep list. The combination of a league activity downturn with the plethora of late-season suspensions certainly handbraked their activity a little this time, but they are by far and away the most active list in the league. There are cracks forming though that will need addressing: the aforementioned bans to Metalcrusher and Tony Lynn 15 combined with the loss of The Jesus (8.4 ppw) and TheCoach16 (16.2 ppw) to the Old Boys sees a heap of experience go out the door, and they will be wanting a much better strike rate with their recruits next season. There are a lot of zeros at the lower portion of their posting chart, much more than there have been previously - and 251 match thread posts from only ten Bombers in Round 16 would be their lowest weekly output in many seasons.
GRADE: A-
Exactly.
Hope you didn't lose any sleep mate
I don't like what you're insinuating here, Mr Thrilla.
The Royals are boring. There I said it.
Except for you of course
Oh man. I hope the denizens of the Sweet FA enjoy spreadsheets.
Ah yes. All SFA noms must be due!
IN: Sterge (Furies), zackah (Warriors), tigs2010 (Rookie), MoscowHawk (Rookie), Elmer_Judd (Wonders), 3KZ is Football (returning). |
OUT: Supersuns (Bears), Aristotle Pickett (Gumbies), Barrels (retired), FitzroyRamone (delisted), A Bit High (delisted). |
11,070, 3rd (12%) 576, 2nd (16%) 19.12, 1st (9%) 24, 2nd (-) 60.31%, 1st () 62.47%, 7th () 7, 6th () 17, 1st () 6, 3rd () 17, 1st ()
ROOKIES
There were two new rookies joining the Roys this season, and whilst MoscowHawk (0.0 ppw) failed to post in a match thread, their other rookie tigs2010 (18.7 ppw) settled in nicely - he even cracked the 100 post barrier at one point.
GAINS
The Roys were delighted to see the return of 3KZ is Football (10.3 ppw) part-way through the season, whilst their off-season recruits Sterge (13.3 ppw), zackah (11.8 ppw) and Elmer_Judd (14.7 ppw) were all solid contributors.
LOSSES
Beyond the retirement of club icon Barrels (1.6 ppw in S32) and the exit of Aristotle Pickett (22.6 ppw in S32) to the Gumbies, the Roys were also able to clear out a few inactives and reprobates - including Suns Supreme (122 ppw in S32).
TEAM TRENDS
THE CORE
Mobbs (from 150 to 142 ppw) seems to never tire of regaling the league about Sweet lore, and his continued prolific output is incredible. Wosh (from 104 to 91.9 ppw), Dingster (from 63.9 to 66.4 ppw), Zevon (from 50.7 to 53.2 ppw), Cats_R_Cool_4_Ever (from 29.3 to 45.9 ppw), and Mooch (from 19.3 to 19.3 ppw) were constant figures in Roys match threads this season - whilst the reduced output from captain TedDougChris (from 74.0 to 52.8 ppw), _Mike_ (from 50.4 to 32.6 ppw), hotchilli (from 45.0 to 31.9 ppw) was barely noticed due to the engagement from the rest of the team. Seeing a resurgence from Roy veterans Allikat (from 8.3 to 12.4 ppw), fitzroybowiedog (from 2.9 to 10.7 ppw) and JackNah_8 (from 7.5 to 12.8 ppw) was telling of the strength of their list.
Although they were not able to make up for the loss of Suns Supreme's 1956 posts last season, the Roys were able to drum up an incredible amount of engagement from their playing list - and their average of 19.12 match thread participants per week was substantially higher than any other team in Sweet. They were the only team to post more than 300 times every week, and their league-high 17 players with over 10 match thread posts a week is a telling figure of their squad depth. The Roys were a consistent presence all season.
GRADE: A+
