As we enter the knockout stages of both the Shield and Gumby finals, husbands all around the country are suffering severe marital wrath as they forgo all non-footy related activities in an attempt to keep abreast of late changes and substitution announcements. Whilst this did little for the four teams that exited on the weekend, it confirms the high es-teem that Supercoach and this competition is held in by the family members that matter.

We now shift our gaze to this weekend’s semis and whilst we didn’t really have the nail-biters we are accustomed to at this time of the year, it again promises to be another bru-tal round of winner takes all football. Ax and Mudcrabs are in line to join the long list of top 4 teams to suffer the indignity of a straight sets exit and must be feeling the pressure. Speaking of which, FOF have proven that they love it by claiming another do or die final, which is now proving their specialty. On a personal note, the D-Man Destroyers are one step closer to the Gumby title after they comprehensively dismantled Franga and his Fools. Dazzlers—I’m going at ya!!

Of course, it would be remiss of me not to mention the sad departure of one of the world’s finest artists in Robin Williams. Robin’s early work in Mork and Mindy provided Dunwich with hours of amusement in his younger years and it is with eerie expectation that I slowly watch Amity transform into Mrs Doubtfire as the years advance rather too quickly.

Nanu nanu

D���

Dr Dunwich Demitriou CEO, Stradbroke Shield

Results

As we say goodbye to the Pies and the Peptides, we salute the efforts of the Baggers and Wolfpak on being the first sides through to the Preliminary finals..

SHIELD

Blue Baggers 2381 def Moorooduc Mudcrabs 2219

Wolfpak 2448 def Ax 2326

Funny Old Fellow 2435 def Pulsating Pies 2313

Tomsies 2242 def Danks Peptides 2209

GUMBY FINALS

Vossy's mate 2267 def tricolours 1752

The Hangovers 2380 def Dazzlers 2056

POLLY'S SAINTS 2009 def JAKE'S MATES 1844

D-Man Destroyers 2111 def Franga's Fools 1801

Round 18 Highest Scoring Players

1. Rory Sloane (Adel) - 172

2. Jordan Lewis (Haw) - 165

3. Sam Jacobs (Adel) - 164

4. Mitch Duncan (Port) - 162

5. Toby Greene (GWS) - 161

Season Highest Scoring Players

1. Scott Pendlebury (Coll) - 2,377

2. Joel Selwood (Geel) - 2,284

3. Josh Kennedy (Swans) - 2,239

4. Matt Priddis (WCE) - 2,193

5. Sam Jacobs (Adel) - 2,191

1ST SEMI FINAL

Mudcrabs –v– Tomsies

The Muddies were a little disappointing in their loss to the Baggers, however Dunwich thinks some ducks and drakes may have been played. The Tomsies did enough to see off Dank’s Peptides and would have been thankful for draw handed to them by their nar-row 5th place finish. These two haven’t meet since round 1 where the Mudcrabs saluted, but expect both sides to throw everything at each other to earn a crack at Wolfpak next week.

Dunwich says MUDCRABS by 110.

Last time they met: Mudcrabs 2308 def Tomsies 2181 (Rd 1) Form Guide: MUDCRABS 2-3 TOMSIES 3-2

2ND SEMI FINAL

Ax –v– Funny Old Fellow

A battle of the brown and golds for the right to face the Premiership favourites in the Shield’s penultimate week. Coach FOF pulled some clever moves from the box which killed the Pies season and will be looking to replicate this as he carefully manages his list. After finishing second on the ladder, Ax went in as favourites against the Pak but were comfortably covered for most of the weekend. Encouragingly for them, Ax was the last team to inflict a defeat on FOF and will be desperate to do the same and avoid a straight sets exit, however Dunwich can feel an upset brewing.

Dunwich says FOF by 19.

Last time they met: Ax 2259 def FOF 2095 (rd 15) Form Guide: AX 3-2 FOF 4-1

     

     

1ST SEMI FINAL

Tricolours v Saints Dunwich says SAINTS by 90

2ND SEMI FINAL

Dazzlers V D-Man Destroyers Dunwich says Dazzlers by 50

MUDCRABS

AX

TRICOLOURS

D-MAN

TOMSIES

AX

SAINTS

DAZZLERS

MUDCRABS

FOF

SAINTS

D-MAN

MUDCRABS

FOF

SAINTS

DAZZLERS

MUDCRABS

FOF

SAINTS

DAZZLERS

TOMSIES

AX

TRICOLOURS

D-MAN

MANUEL

THE LEYLAND BROTHERS

BOUNCER CARAMELLO KOALA

MRS DOUBTFIRE

TIM WATSON