Round 7 –  All games went pretty much as expected this week. Jamie and Parker scored well with MacBride edging out Leigh Matthews in a ripper. Chocko smashed Pepe to take him to the top of the ladder with Luke Darcy who stuffed Jim Campion. These two would meet in Round 8 in what was no doubt the game of the season thus far.  More about that below. Adam Goodes saw off Taff easily enough to stay unbeaten. Mooses Hack gave Big Barry a serious pasting with a solid 1939. Dave Oz continued his patchy form losing to the Roosters of Jonathan Brown. After round 7 the Normals trailed the Celebs 10-8

Round 8 – So, on to the big one. Two unbeaten sides. First versus second. Darcy the favourite averaging over 2000. Alas, Chockos Tops saved their best for the big occasion. In a fantastic contest both teams scored highly with the Chocolate One finally edging Darcy out 2034-2030. A mere four points. Supreme excitement! Parker continued his march with with a whopping score of 2166. The Celebs stretched out their lead to 12-9. Devastating.

Round 9 – The Sons of Sweden sit alone at the top of the ladder, the only team with a 100% winning record intact after Chockos Tops fell at the hands of Big Bird. The feathered ones are up to third in the ladder.  A surprise dip in form saw Nunga Magic fall prey to Lethals Lions, costing him his winning streak and dropping him to fifth. Another form dive saw MacWarriors lose out to the resurgent Taffmeisterflexers. Darcy Delights maintained their form to hold off a much-improved Bustler outfit who may cause a few upsets after looking like easy-beats thus far. Swanbourne Mavs kept themselves in the hunt with a routine victory over Pepe’s toothless Alligators. The Dukes of Royale remain winless following a defeat against the Roosters. A certain Dreamteam updater hopes they remain that way for another week. Luke and his Hacks comfortably saw off Campions boys. Looks like Jim will be struggling to make the 8. This does not bode well for the normals who fill 4 of the bottom 5 spots on the ladder.

The “Norms”  have slumped to a five point deficit. Oh dear! 14-9!

And……. we’re back up to date. Thanks for your patience, dear readers. Au revoir!

This week also witnessed the joint worst score of the season with a, quite frankly, pathetic 2 from McClaer. Obviously, he was soundly beaten by Jimmy. Chocs is bottom of the ladder with just two draws to his name. His season looks over. Jimmy, despite his win, remains three games behind the leader and needs a run of victories to keep his season alive.

The Ginger versus Quasi-Ginger affair ended in a tie. Dave Oz and Adam both lie in the bottom half with Adam looking like he has too much to do.

3rd and 4th on the ladder are Calle and Jamie. They scored victories over Will and the Duke who lie in 15th and 6th respectively. Will looks like a goner but Denis is still in with a shout. To round up, Taff beat Boyd despite not entering his tips correctly. Result! In all fairness, had the skinny one remembered that you must click ‘submit tips’ he would have got 6 so justice was done… maybe.

Round 10 is already upon us… Anyone tip the Bombers? Nah, me neither. Balls!

No-one managed skanky draws with 4′s this week as Boyd, Jimmy, Morten and Parker (finally) all tasted bitter defeat at the hands of  Simmo, Kalle, Oz and Taff respectively. Those wins for captain, coach and, er, Kalle lifted them all in to a large chasing pack on 10 pts.

The only draw of the round saw Wilbur finally break his duck after a 5-5 result against Damo. The two points aren’t enough to lift him from the foot of the table, however. Damo jumps 3 places to 11th.

So, that’s it for this week. Best of luck to all in the next round… except for Dave Verngren, of course.

Hooroo!

In third, also with 3 wins out of 3 are Chockos Tops (1785 pts) after comfortably seeing off the distinctly average Barrys Bustlers (1516 pts). McClaers chocolatey squad square off against perennial whipping boys Pepes Alligators in Round 7 so we may well see a new leader again after this weeks action.

Adam Goodes holds fourth spot, also with a 100% win ratio, after just seeing off a slightly improved Dukes of Royale. The Swanbourne Mavs (2028 pts) spanked Campions  JimboDK (1608 pts) to fill fifth place. Moving into the eight and announcing his arrival as a force to be reckoned with after a most impressive 1995 and a victory over MacWarriors, who with 1841 can’t count themselves somewhat unlucky.

Lukes’ Mooses Hacks, to nobodys surprise, scored a nice percentage booster over the Alligators to give themselves a much needed win after two close defeats.

Finally, in another all-celeb affair, Lethals Lions defeated Jonathan Browns Roosters comfortably leaving the teams 11th and 13th respectively.

A quick update on the Celebs v Normals competition to round off; three games this week with the celebs taking it two to 1 which pushes them out to a slender 7-6 advantage. Get in and see how you are going this round boys and I’ll be back updating in no time at all.

This weeks major movers (in opposite directrions) were Adam and Damo. Adam jumps five spots from last after and impressive 6 correct tips consigned Taff (4) to another defeat. Damo fell six places after receiving a sound beating at the hands of Kalle, who was a joint top-scorer this week with 7. The other 7-getter was Morten who inflicted a defeat on Danny which meant the wily old-timer drops to fifth.

Taking over Adams spot at the bottom of the ladder is the luckless Wilbur. Despite a respectable 5 that would have beaten a lot of other competititors he finds himself pointless after falling to another defeat, this time at the hands of Jamie.

Spidey Parker continues to ride his luck after a third draw in as many weeks. Despite a miserable 3 this time around his blushes were spared by an equally rubbish Denis who is no doubt delighted at holding on to second spot. The two other tied games this week involved Dave Oz and Jimmy, level on a pair of 5′s, and Boyd and McClaer drawing four apiece. Boyd holds on to third place. The other three find themselves languishing outside the 8.

It’s about time someone scored a maximum… this week is the week… I can feel it in my bones. Toodles.

Back to the Round 5… Chris Parker handsomely defeated Jonathan Browns Roosters to hold third spot and Chockos Tops scored another win for the normals against Pavlich’s Swanbourne Mavs and sits fourth. That takes the scores in the Celebs v Normals competition* to 5-5 to our illustrious antipodean counterparts. Taff and Adam Goodes fill fifth and sixth on the ladder.

This week also Dave Oz join the party with a much-improved 1817 enough to supply him with a comfortable win over the Dukes of Royale. The Ozwalds looked like whipping boys early on but have no doubt been whipped in to shape by the ginger maestro. Denis obviously has some tinkering to do before he can compete.

In the rounds final game, Jim Campions boys scored poorly (1365) and were soundly beaten by Barry’s Bustlers despite the big man only gaining a little over 1600 DT points. Big bad Barry can count himself lucky.

*Celebs v Normals Competition only counts games between a celeb coach and a normal coach. Pepe, who has a frozen team, will not be counted unless his frozen status changes. It also, most handily, makes the comp more equal. Go Normals!