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Wembley 8.4 11.7 13.9 17.13 (115)
Willetton 1.2 1.4 4.8 5.10 (40)

Scarborough 0.2 0.5 2.7 3.10 (28)
Bullcreek Leeming 3.5 3.9 7.9 10.9 (69)

Maddington 0.0 0.0 0.0 12.11 (83)
North Fremantle 0.0 0.0 0.0 12.5 (77)

Kelmscott 0.0 0.0 0.0 13.9 (87)
Hamersley Carine 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.4 (94)

Wanneroo 0.0 0.0 0.0 13.11 (89)
Collegians. 0.0 0.0 0.0 12.11 (83)

Well what a good week in football. The race for 4th and 5th spot on the ladder is wide open, and the relegation battle heats up. Wembley disposed of Willetton, Bullcreek (as MrM predicted) got over Scarborough, Maddo surprised North Freo, Hamersley got the job done against Kelmscott away from home and Wanneroo...well I'll tell you in a moment.

First of all I'd like to take a moment and give a mention and thank all those who commented on this weeks preview...that's right it was zero. You know it must have been a slow week on OzFooty when MrM got more hits on Tinder.

MrM again had an early start on Saturday attending the local markets to get some fresh produce. If you've never experienced the pleasure of attending your local markets I suggest going down and having a look.

I arrived just in time to watch some colts action. With Claremont having a bye it meant the young colts players were up against some bigger gents in the Collegians lineup. Well they were up against it from the start and they ended up losing by 90 points. Two positive notes for Wanneroo, nearly all the side can play again next season and they were accurate when kicking on goal kicking 6 straight.

The reserves were quite depleted thanks to the league side also being depleted. Yet they managed to find 22 guys ( thanks to thirds and fourths having a bye) to play the game. They managed to string together a four quarter effort and get the win. Sadly despite some optimism amongst the group finals appear to be out of the question. They can however finish the season off strong and please the ever supportive MrM.

It was time for the league game with some youngsters getting a run due to several injuries to regular league players, ranging from appendix's being removed to merely a bruised hip.
It was quite close throughout the first quarter with both sides kicking 3 goals each. Big James Clement proved to be a more than useful target for Collegians when they were going forward and he managed to snare a few goals. Wanneroo dropped off in the early part of the second quarter. However they managed to get a few goals before half time and had hit the lead by the main break.
Wanneroo did come out after half time and kick the first 3 goals to open up a buffer between them and Collegians. Both sides tackling and pressure around the ground was quite rough and tough and with the ground conditions being particularly tough (given that Wanneroo Showgrounds resembles a mud pit) it resulted in a few injuries to both sides and a few ill disciplined acts costs teams.

Wanneroo led by a few goals as we started the last quarter and were going along nicely till 10 minutes to go as Wanneroo were up by 16 points, that quickly became 4 points and the game was on. Collegians hit the post a few times and were quite wasteful going forward. (Both sides were actually) however Wanneroo managed to hold on and win by 1 goal which keeps there hopes of playing finals alive.

Collegians have a very important game up against Bullcreek next weekend which will determine relegation.

Keep the previews coming Mr M. The best pre/reviews across the leagues.
Very happy to see that you predicted BCL to knock off Scabs and we did just that.
Kept them goaless in the first half through some great defensive efforts and if it wasn't for poor kicking then we should have been up by more than 4 goals at half time. the 3rd qtr was pretty even with a BCL kicing a couple late to take a 5 goal lead into the last and then won the last qtr as well to run out 7 goal winners. Nice to have some quality players back on the park. It is what we have missed all yr
Very surprised to see Maddo knock off North Freo which means that it leaves the relegation battle to this weekend as we take on Collegians.
Mr M-how depleted were your boys?

Very interesting finish to the season just last week maddingtons season looked over losing to bottom side willeton then they come out and knock off north freo and there finals chances are alive kelmscott looked like they had 4th spot sewn up after there lose to hammersley yesterday they could be in danger of missing the top 5 they and with maddo kelmy wanneroo and hammersley all playing each other in the final two games its simple who ever can win there last two games play finals footy also maddo did scarborough a favour with a chance to steal top from nth freo that was until bcl knocked off scarborough but nth freo play wembley and scarbs in the lazt two games so top spot is still up for grabs

Watch a very competitive game of League footy at John Dunn on the weekend. Kelmscott came out firing and had the first 4 goals on the board but Hamersley came back to kick 3 goals. Kelmscott lead by 15 points at quarter time. Hamersley turned the game around with some disciplined footy , hard running and great spread to lead by 6 points at half time. Kelmscott came out kicked the first 3 goals had plenty of the play but wasted it. Hamersley looked like they where gone but kick a couple of late ones to trail by 2 points. Kelmscott started well again to lead by 16 points with 10 minutes gone and it looked like Kelmscott had Fourth spot sewn up but Hamersley turned it around again to kick the last 4 goals of the game to win .Good luck to both teams in there last two games.

Thanks FwdPocket. I won't talk myself up to much however I do like to think I'm quite good. I'm sure the boys from Bullcreek will be ready to go this weekend with the season on the line. We had 5 changes from last weeks game v Hamersley all through injury, maybe about 7 out from the best 22 with injury, we should get 1 maybe 2 back this weekend.

Cracker game down at Harmony , both teams hitting the ball hard and the umps letting everything go.

Close game all day but Norf Freo kicked away in the 3rd to be 4 goals up leading into the last and with the scoring end.

Bulls found something and nailed multiple goals to run out winners.

Slowly getting our full team on the park with a few more back this week , massive game Saturday.

Definitely shaping up to be a very interesting final 2 rounds of the year after the weekends results.
Had a lot of young players through forced changes on the weekend but they certainly held their own and were valuable contributors to the team to help get the win.