Hogg Division IV 2019

[Rik E Boy]

Round 10

UglyDucklings 2210
Go Tigers 1579

Ingle Farm Felons 1992
Choking Tuna 1707

DaHeat 2064
Cam Bros 1607

King Cobwebs 1831
King Kiddy 1649

Modraaaaaaa! 1836
PowerFailure 1760

Red Devils 1769
HereComesTheSuns 1739

Frosteye 1996
Robsquad 1346

Some Cant 2045
SA Rapids 1567

Brodlach Bombers 1716
Wingard's Crewe 1666

Ladder

1 Modraaaaaaa! 9 1 21341 19359 110.24 36
2 Wingard's Crewe 7 3 20725 20216 102.52 28
3 King Kiddy 7 3 20130 20060 100.35 28
4 Some Cant 6 4 20807 19516 106.62 24
5 Ingle Farm Felons 6 4 20687 19890 104.01 24
6 UglyDucklings 6 4 21219 20524 103.39 24
7 King Cobwebs 6 4 20227 20102 100.62 24
8 Frosteye 5 5 20508 19750 103.84 20

9 Choking Tuna 5 5 20502 20193 101.53 20
10 SA Rapids 5 5 20507 20245 101.29 20
11 Brodlach Bombers 5 5 20344 20593 98.79 20
12 Red Devils 5 5 20329 20759 97.93 20
13 Robsquad 5 5 19434 20609 94.30 20
14 HereComesTheSuns 4 6 20509 20509 100.00 16
15 DaHeat 3 7 19854 20616 96.30 12
16 Go Tigers 3 7 19096 20866 91.52 12
17 PowerFailure 2 8 19952 20394 97.83 8
18 Cam Bros 1 9 18898 20868 90.56 4

The Modra show rolled on unimpeded during the first bye round but a strong contender might have emerged in the form of UglyDucklings. The Ducks smashed out an impressive 2210 in the bye round which is massive for this time of year and a score that would have beaten all comers in the Hogg this week. DaHeat and Some Can’t also bounced back to form with the Cants looking good for a top four spot with DaHeat still needing a bit of work to do to avoid the drop.

Ingle Farm Felons are looking a more finals contender by the week as they disposed of an inconsistent Choking Tuna in short order. Frosteye has moved into the top eight while King Kiddy and SA Rapids are rapidly losing their earlier season form. Spud of the week award for Divvy IV this week goes to Robsquad who had a Barry Crocker as they were left out in the cold by Frosty.

regards,

REB

[Rik E Boy]

Round 11

Ingle Farm Felons 1563
Go Tigers 1014

UglyDucklings 1582
Cam Bros 1351

Choking Tuna 1511
King Kiddy 1284

PowerFailure 1807
DaHeat 1348

Red Devils 1442
King Cobwebs 764

Robsquad 1813
Modraaaaaaa! 1443

Some Cant 1697
HereComesTheSuns 1478

Frosteye 1728
Wingard's Crewe 1362

SA Rapids 1512
Brodlach Bombers 1479

Ladder

1 Modraaaaaaa! 9 2 22784 21172 107.61 36
2 Some Cant 7 4 22504 20994 107.19 28
3 Ingle Farm Felons 7 4 22250 20904 106.44 28
4 UglyDucklings 7 4 22801 21875 104.23 28
5 Wingard's Crewe 7 4 22087 21944 100.65 28
6 King Kiddy 7 4 21414 21571 99.27 28
7 Frosteye 6 5 22236 21112 105.32 24
8 Choking Tuna 6 5 22013 21477 102.50 24

9 SA Rapids 6 5 22019 21724 101.36 24
10 Red Devils 6 5 21771 21523 101.15 24
11 King Cobwebs 6 5 20991 21544 97.43 24
12 Robsquad 6 5 21247 22052 96.35 24
13 Brodlach Bombers 5 6 21823 22105 98.72 20
14 HereComesTheSuns 4 7 21987 22206 99.01 16
15 PowerFailure 3 8 21759 21742 100.08 12
16 DaHeat 3 8 21202 22423 94.55 12
17 Go Tigers 3 8 20110 22429 89.66 12
18 Cam Bros 1 10 20249 22450 90.20 4

High flying Modra took a bit of a tumble this week losing their first match in many weeks as the bye round took its toll. While Modra had trouble fielding a side no such problem faced Robsquad who posted an impressive score on his way to rolling the ladder leaders. The big winners of the round were the teams who took advantage of Cravo’s week off. UglyDucklings are scoring very well at the moment and look a real premiership chance. They moved into the top four as did Ingle Farm Felons who are back to winning ways for the first time in many season. Some Cant has also looking steady.

Choking Tuna moved into the top eight after swatting aside King Kiddy while Frosteye also made an appearance after a comprehensive win over the Crewe who slipped out of the top four. At the arse end Cam Bros firmed as a spoon chance after falling two games behind second last after Power Failure proved too strong for struggling DaHeat.

regards,

REB

[Rik E Boy]

Round 12

Go Tigers 1460
Cam Bros 1358

Ingle Farm Felons 1489
King Kiddy 1462

UglyDucklings 1989
PowerFailure 1735

Choking Tuna 1900
Red Devils 1805

Robsquad 1841
DaHeat 1550

King Cobwebs 1997
Some Cant 1858

Modraaaaaaa! 1805
Wingard's Crewe 1527

Brodlach Bombers 1861
HereComesTheSuns 1565

Frosteye 1936
SA Rapids 1678

Ladder

1 Modraaaaaaa! 10 2 24589 22699 108.33 40
2 Ingle Farm Felons 8 4 23739 22366 106.14 32
3 UglyDucklings 8 4 24790 23610 105.00 32
4 Frosteye 7 5 24172 22790 106.06 28
5 Some Cant 7 5 24362 22991 105.96 28
6 Choking Tuna 7 5 23913 23282 102.71 28
7 Wingard's Crewe 7 5 23614 23749 99.43 28
8 King Kiddy 7 5 22876 23060 99.20 28

9 King Cobwebs 7 5 22988 23402 98.23 28
10 Robsquad 7 5 23088 23602 97.82 28
11 Red Devils 6 6 23576 23423 100.65 24
12 SA Rapids 6 6 23697 23660 100.16 24
13 Brodlach Bombers 6 6 23684 23670 100.06 24
14 HereComesTheSuns 4 8 23552 24067 97.86 16
15 Go Tigers 4 8 21570 23787 90.68 16
16 PowerFailure 3 9 23494 23731 99.00 12
17 DaHeat 3 9 22752 24264 93.77 12
18 Cam Bros 1 11 21607 23910 90.37 4

Mods is sitting pretty at the top of the ladder having gotten back on the winners list and Cravo should go on and make the finals from here at the very least. From second on down to 13th though it's your guess as good as mine as to how this league might finish up. UglyDucklings are leading the way with the scoring after 12 matches and they've found some consistency and look good things to challenge strongly for this premiership. The Felons are also enjoying some winning ways in this company as they seek to be readmitted to Division III.

Teams in the middle face a real dog fight. The youngsters Kind Kiddy and SA Rapids appear to be falling from favour while Choking Tuna and this week's top scorer King Cobwebs appear to be on the march. Wingards Crewe appear to have jumped the shark so that could be another top eight spot up for grabs which is good news for Robsquad who refuse to die and have started winning again.

There are five teams currently in the relegation dogfight with HereComesTheSuns the side out of the red zone with five to play. Cam Bros just about booked the wooden spoon when they suffered a low scoring loss to fellow strugglers Go Tigers. PowerFailure look to be the best bet to challenge the Suns with the other bottom sides looking good things for the drop.

regards,

REB

[Rik E Boy]

Round 13

Go Tigers 1977
King Kiddy 1607

PowerFailure 2046
Cam Bros 1902

Ingle Farm Felons 2206
Red Devils 1938

UglyDucklings 2251
Robsquad 2105

Some Cant 2380
Choking Tuna 2311

Wingard's Crewe 2094
DaHeat 2019

Brodlach Bombers 2266
King Cobwebs 2053

SA Rapids 2150
Modraaaaaaa! 1956

Frosteye 2199
HereComesTheSuns 2047

Ladder

1 Modraaaaaaa! 10 3 26545 24849 106.83 40
2 Ingle Farm Felons 9 4 25945 24304 106.75 36
3 UglyDucklings 9 4 27041 25714 105.16 36
4 Frosteye 8 5 26371 24837 106.18 32
5 Some Cant 8 5 26742 25302 105.69 32
6 Wingard's Crewe 8 5 25708 25768 99.77 32
7 Choking Tuna 7 6 26224 25662 102.19 28
8 SA Rapids 7 6 25847 25616 100.90 28

9 Brodlach Bombers 7 6 25950 25723 100.88 28
10 King Kiddy 7 6 24483 25037 97.79 28
11 King Cobwebs 7 6 25041 25668 97.56 28
12 Robsquad 7 6 25193 25853 97.45 28
13 Red Devils 6 7 25514 25629 99.55 24
14 Go Tigers 5 8 23547 25394 92.73 20
15 PowerFailure 4 9 25540 25633 99.64 16
16 HereComesTheSuns 4 9 25599 26266 97.46 16
17 DaHeat 3 10 24771 26358 93.98 12
18 Cam Bros 1 12 23509 25956 90.57 4

Division IV was another Hogg league where the ladder leaders got rolled as Mods was smashed by the formerely struggling SA Rapids. Choking Tuna was the unlucky coach to cop the second highest score of the round and still lose as Some Can't smashed out a truly impressive 2380 for the round. The chasing pack all took advantage of Mods' slip up as the Felons, UglyDucks and Frosteye all joined the Cants on the winners list.

The middle of the ladder is an absolute logjam at the minute with 13th ranked Devils two games behind 6th ranked Wingard's Crewe. It's going to be a very tight run home into the finals from here for many teams. I reckon the top five all make it and Tuna would be really stiff now Casey's team is starting to take shape.

From Go Tigers down it's alla bout avoiding the drop to the cripple fight division and I think PowerFailure is the side that might avoid the drop. There is plenty of work to do for the other sides but somehow low scoring Go Tigers keeps bobbing up with the odd win.

regards,

REB

[Brodlach]

Happy with 2435 with Hore contributing 3

[Rik E Boy]

Round 14

Go Tigers 2117
PowerFailure 2050

Red Devils 1910
King Kiddy 1432

Cam Bros 2022
Robsquad 2003

Some Cant 2414
Ingle Farm Felons 2252

Wingard's Crewe 2211
UglyDucklings 1953

Brodlach Bombers 2435
Choking Tuna 2254

DaHeat 2135
SA Rapids 2124

Frosteye 2272
King Cobwebs 1923

Modraaaaaaa! 2009
HereComesTheSuns 1990

Ladder

1 Modraaaaaaa! 11 3 28554 26839 106.39 44
2 Frosteye 9 5 28643 26760 107.04 36
3 Some Cant 9 5 29156 27554 105.81 36
4 Ingle Farm Felons 9 5 28197 26718 105.54 36
5 UglyDucklings 9 5 28994 27926 103.82 36
6 Wingard's Crewe 9 5 27919 27721 100.71 36
7 Brodlach Bombers 8 6 28385 27977 101.46 32
8 Choking Tuna 7 7 28478 28097 101.36 28

9 Red Devils 7 7 27424 27061 101.34 28
10 SA Rapids 7 7 27971 27751 100.79 28
11 Robsquad 7 7 27196 27875 97.56 28
12 King Cobwebs 7 7 26964 27940 96.51 28
13 King Kiddy 7 7 25915 26947 96.17 28
14 Go Tigers 6 8 25664 27444 93.51 24
15 PowerFailure 4 10 27590 27750 99.42 16
16 HereComesTheSuns 4 10 27589 28275 97.57 16
17 DaHeat 4 10 26906 28482 94.47 16
18 Cam Bros 2 12 25531 27959 91.32 8


Mods has maintained his two game advantage at the top of the ladder but the challengers are firming behind him as Cravo’s scoring has slowed up appreciably. Some Can’t has been a team to watch at times this season and the Cant’s smashed out a pretty impressive 2414 to end the winning run of the Felons who slipped to fourth. Frosteye has been solid in the winter months and a 250 point victory over the battling Cobwebs saw the tall cool one at its highest chart position since 1988.

The top eight almost looks settled as long as 8th ranked Choking Tuna tightens up his defence. For the season straight week Casey coughed up a big score as Brodlach Bombers topped the league with his 2435. That’s twice in a week now for the Tuna so a bit unlucky there. I don’t see any legitimate challengers outside of the eight as Robsquad dropped a game to last placed Cam, Red Devils aren’t scoring enough and the rest look cooked. It’s not looking all that sharp for the bottom four as Go Tigers has shocked the world and started scoring points, now that is most unlike Stewie so there’s just something so Essendon all about that.

regards,

REB

[Rik E Boy]

Round 15

Red Devils 2114
Go Tigers 2020

Robsquad 2290
PowerFailure 1914

Some Cant 2256
King Kiddy 1947

Wingard's Crewe 2503
Cam Bros 1853

Brodlach Bombers 2374
Ingle Farm Felons 2342

SA Rapids 2339
UglyDucklings 2182

Frosteye 2415
Choking Tuna 2232

HereComesTheSuns 2016
DaHeat 1966

Modraaaaaaa! 2516
King Cobwebs 2285

Ladder

1 Modraaaaaaa! 12 3 31070 29124 106.68 48
2 Frosteye 10 5 31058 28992 107.13 40
3 Some Cant 10 5 31412 29501 106.48 40
4 Wingard's Crewe 10 5 30422 29574 102.87 40
5 Ingle Farm Felons 9 6 30539 29092 104.97 36
6 UglyDucklings 9 6 31176 30265 103.01 36
7 Brodlach Bombers 9 6 30759 30319 101.45 36
8 Red Devils 8 7 29538 29081 101.57 32

9 SA Rapids 8 7 30310 29933 101.26 32
10 Robsquad 8 7 29486 29789 98.98 32
11 Choking Tuna 7 8 30710 30512 100.65 28
12 King Cobwebs 7 8 29249 30456 96.04 28
13 King Kiddy 7 8 27862 29203 95.41 28
14 Go Tigers 6 9 27684 29558 93.66 24
15 HereComesTheSuns 5 10 29605 30241 97.90 20
16 PowerFailure 4 11 29504 30040 98.22 16
17 DaHeat 4 11 28872 30498 94.67 16
18 Cam Bros 2 13 27384 30462 89.90 8


After hitting the snooze button the last few weeks a full strength Modraaaaa smashed out an impressive 231 point win over the King Cobwebs. Mods partied like it was 1993 with a 2516 that topped the scoring for the league and put the challengers on notice that they will be a force to contend with next month when the finals come. Frosteye and Some Cant look to be the sternest challengers with the Frosty one being the third successive team to post a large score against the luckless Choking Tuna who fell out of the finals. The time for Casey has come now and only wins will do after three pretty unlucky losses, although they were never in the hunt against Frosty.

Tuna's loss was very much Red Devils gain as the demonic ones find themselves in the top eight with two rounds to play. The heat will be on for the devils though as SA Rapids and the puzzling Robsquad are right on their trail so some big matches coming up in the last two rounds as the top seven look pretty much home. The relegation battle is still alive as well. Go Tigers can't change their stripes so quickly so everyone except Cam Bros has a chance to escape the drop next season. Tiges need one more and it's shut the door.

regards,

REB

[Rik E Boy]

Round 16

Robsquad 2175
Go Tigers 2086

Some Cant 2284
Red Devils 1984

Wingard's Crewe 2232
PowerFailure 2159

Brodlach Bombers 2170
King Kiddy 2003

Cam Bros 2214
SA Rapids 2186

Frosteye 2449
Ingle Farm Felons 2419

UglyDucklings 2180
HereComesTheSuns 2019

Choking Tuna 2200
Modraaaaaaa! 2156

King Cobwebs 2229
DaHeat 2049

Ladder

1 Modraaaaaaa! 12 4 33226 31324 106.07 48
2 Some Cant 11 5 33696 31485 107.02 44
3 Frosteye 11 5 33507 31411 106.67 44
4 Wingard's Crewe 11 5 32654 31733 102.90 44
5 UglyDucklings 10 6 33356 32284 103.32 40
6 Brodlach Bombers 10 6 32929 32322 101.88 40
7 Ingle Farm Felons 9 7 32958 31541 104.49 36
8 Robsquad 9 7 31661 31875 99.33 36

9 SA Rapids 8 8 32496 32147 101.09 32
10 Choking Tuna 8 8 32910 32668 100.74 32
11 Red Devils 8 8 31522 31365 100.50 32
12 King Cobwebs 8 8 31478 32505 96.84 32
13 King Kiddy 7 9 29865 31373 95.19 28
14 Go Tigers 6 10 29770 31753 93.75 24
15 HereComesTheSuns 5 11 31624 32421 97.54 20
16 PowerFailure 4 12 31663 32272 98.11 16
17 DaHeat 4 12 30921 32727 94.48 16
18 Cam Bros 3 13 29598 32648 90.66 12


Seven sides have booked their finals spot with only the seemingly indestructible Robsquad yet to book their place. Down the bottom you can say goodbye to the bottom three sides who will all be relegated. Despite having a very poor season the Cam Bros managed to help shape the eight when they put the skids under SA Rapids who couldn't stay ahead of Robquad. Choking Tuna meanwhile kept their season alive by beating the top side as Modra became the first team in a month not to rack up a big score against the Tuna.

The big match this week was between contenders Frosteye and Ingle Farm Felons with both sides turning on the power and Frosty recording a 30 point win in a high quality encounter in which both sides topped 2400. While those two sides were duking it out, Some Can't was busy smashing the Red Devils and that percentage booster saw them move to second ahead of the Frosty one. Meanwhile the Devils fell all the way to eleven as a result of the heavy defeat.

Round 17 matches

Go Tigers v Some Cant
Wingard's Crewe v Robsquad
Brodlach Bombers v Red Devils
SA Rapids v PowerFailure
Frosteye v KingKiddy
HereComesTheSuns v Cam Bros
Modraaaaaa! v Ingle Farm Felons
King Cobwebs v UglyDucklings
DaHeat v Choking Tuna

The Verdict

After threatening to throw away the minor premiership for several weeks, Mods will finally succeed in his quest after they lose this week to the Ingle Farm felons. Some Can't will grab top spot over Frosteye after both get big wins with Mods down to third. Wingard will round out the top four which means Robsquad get knocked out of the top eight as Choking Tuna get the job done against DaHeat. SA Rapids still a big chance but I reckon it is Tuna who will get the chocolates and make the eight. Relegation time for HereComesTheSuns I think as I'm backing Cam Bros to finish the season with another win.

Frosteye and Some Can't look the premiership fancies but Mods needs to beat an impressive Ingle Farm Felons to force them to play off in week one. Instead I reckon that they will end up playing in the Grand Final. Remember lads that Wingard is already in Divvy II so he can't go up.

regards,

REB

[Rik E Boy]

Hogg Division IV Review

Ladder

1 Modraaaaaaa! 13 4 35611 33656 105.81 52
2 Some Cant 12 5 35966 33550 107.20 48
3 Frosteye 12 5 35795 33628 106.44 48
4 Wingard's Crewe 12 5 34922 33934 102.91 48
5 Brodlach Bombers 11 6 35222 34374 102.47 44
6 UglyDucklings 10 7 35597 34785 102.33 40
7 Ingle Farm Felons 10 7 35290 33926 104.02 40
8 SA Rapids 9 8 34720 34299 101.23 36

9 Choking Tuna 9 8 35334 35042 100.83 36
10 Robsquad 9 8 33862 34143 99.18 36
11 King Cobwebs 9 8 33979 34746 97.79 36
12 Red Devils 8 9 33574 33658 99.75 32
13 King Kiddy 7 10 32082 33661 95.31 28
14 HereComesTheSuns 6 11 33774 34543 97.77 24
15 Go Tigers 6 11 31835 34003 93.62 24
16 PowerFailure 4 13 33815 34496 98.03 16
17 DaHeat 4 13 33295 35151 94.72 16
18 Cam Bros 3 14 31720 34798 91.15 12


Finals

1st Elimination Final - SA Rapids 2437 d. Brodlach Bombers 2305
2nd Elimination Final - Ingle Farm Felons 2562 d. UglyDucklings 2371
1st Qualifying Final - Wingard's Crewe 2343 d. Modraaaaaaa! 2291
2nd Qualifying Final - Some Can't 2562 d. Frosteye 2454

1st Semi Final - SA Rapids 2241 d. Modraaaaaaa! 2161
2nd Semi Final - Frosteye 2219 d. Ingle Farm Felons 2217

1st Preliminary Final - Wingard's Crewe 2460 d. Frosteye 2296
2nd Preliminary Final - SA Rapids 2334 d. Some Can't 2265

Grand Final

SA Rapids 2640
Wingard's Crewe 2456

Review

SA Rapids has pulled off a mighty boilover by storming to the Division IV title after coming from as far back as 10th after 14 rounds. The Rapids looked like they had hit the rocks at one stage and only just pinched a finals berth against an unlucky Choking Tuna in the last round. Modra was another top side that failed to fire a shot in the finals as they went out in straight sets and Frosteye didn't fare all that much better even though they managed to earn a promotion to Division III by two points over the luckless Ingle Farm Felons.

In the last of the minor rounds, HereComesTheSuns pulled off the great escape to send Go Tigers down with the bottom three sides long earmarked or disposal. Meanwhile, in promotionland It was Frosteye, Some Can't and Minor Premier Modra who will go up to Division III along with the champions SA Rapids. Losing Grand Finalist Wingard's Crewe was not eligible for promotion as they participated in Hogg Division II this year but it's been Mattee G's best season of Hogg by some distance this year.

Congratulations SA Rapids, the 2019 Hogg Division IV Premiers!

regards,

REB

[MatteeG]

Well done Rapids! I've never seen such high scores at the business end of the year. Usually folks are out of trades and fighting donuts, not reaching above 2600!!

[Brodlach]

Well done Rapids! I've never seen such high scores at the business end of the year. Usually folks are out of trades and fighting donuts, not reaching above 2600!!

He still had 3 trades left

[MatteeG]

Well done Rapids! I've never seen such high scores at the business end of the year. Usually folks are out of trades and fighting donuts, not reaching above 2600!!

He still had 3 trades left

Christ. I retire.