A new year and a chance for a new coach to win the ultimate
prize (please for the love of god!). So
after careful calculation, hours of statistical deliberations and a whole lot
of guess work, here is my take on the season ahead.
Never Nevers: Wendy did very well in the draft, perhaps
being away for the draft is a key to her success. Big Cox was a great pick up and she had
Dependles as well! A very good chance
for ultimate success. 5 to 1
WAS: We heard the
term “dual premiership player” far too often, so god help us all if we have to
listen to “triple premierships” WAS
heart doesn’t seem in it this year, with his anti AFL speeches. WAS may be against supplements, but we in the
FFL are against tall poppies. Time to
cut him down and stick him in the weed whacker.
10 -1
Principled Magpies: As was said in the draft, Tom was choosing
very well, until he turned up. Mystery
surrounds why he was so late. I think he
was hunting down all those who haven’t done the ILPs. It certainly wasn’t collecting statistics, he
come more unprepared than Gold Coast Suns.
Too many strange choices, Didak? Shows Tom certainly was not on
performance enhancing drugs of any sort.
15-1
Rugby Recruits:
The new boy in town didn’t do as miserably as I initially predicted. Some decent
picks, including Garlett and Enright very late in the rounds. A huge disappointment
that he didn’t choose the only rugby player Karmichael Hunt, just for the
giggles. However his chance of winning
the whole thing would result in more than just giggles. 50-1
Bulawayo Rhinos:
The thought of Grant winning the FFL is just mind numbing to all. “Really you won the footy tippng last year? I
haven’t heard that before” will never be said by anyone who knows Grant. There are too many rule changes this year and
you can see the three week final series is already making this fuddy duddy
anxious. 7-1
The Colemen: The Colemen coach kindly offered his
statistics to share at the FFL table. It
may have been a ploy though, he had never done well using his stats, so maybe
he was trying to bring other coaches down with him. The list is ok, but I will rank him badly
because it really bugs him 40-1
Black Panthers:
The husband and wife team are back and so are the Panther’s premiership
chances. Despite a little bit of
controversy during the selection process, one thing that isn’t controversial –
finalist for sure! 6-1
Gurren: Another new coach, with the added luck of
having number 1 pick, this is a coach to watch. From the look of his team, he
has ignored all the advice Phil Lowry gave him, and that’s a good thing because
Phil never did well. 10-1
The Boners: The
Boners have done a very noble thing. Giving the aging population he has decided
to draft every single aging player, has been or never was (I am looking at you
Cloke). It may be noble but injury and brill cream will stand in his way of
winning. Horlicks is not performance enhancing. 40-1
Aardvarks: Daniel
goes to a lot of effort in FFL. He had a colour coded excel sheet. He said he was worried about sharing his
information with me. He needn’t worry, I
am mathematically challenged and his methods are too hard to follow, and
anything that spits out Danyle Pearce as being a player to pick, is not the
system I am prepared to use. Still he
has a good chance for FFL glory 3-1
