DHF Dream Team Review – Round 11

I know what you are thinking, FINALLY…the weekly Dream Team review has come back to DHF! And what a long weekend round it was. With a number of players popular with DT coaches posting miserable miserable scores, while a select few popular players decided to blow up like the World Trade (yep GABLETT once again made everyone who doesn’t have him ask WHY??? Myself included).

Let’s checkout the major sticking points on round 11.

The week good teams went bad, and bad teams went good. Well that is what I am clinging too anyway, after only managing a measly 1,868, losing my first league match to a scrub averaging a measly 1836 on the year and just scraping through in my eliminator I need some sort of excuse. On the whole I’d say the higher ranked teams scores were down (only 2 top ten teams managed to score over 2,100) and some of the lower ranked teams did better than normal, probably cracking the 2k mark for the first time. If you had a rare combination of Ablett (155) as captain, Swan (133), Edwards (166), Fev (136), and Cox (131) then you were laughing!

Gary Ablett plays Dream Team footy! That is right, I SAID IT.  For all the bad rap Coxy has faced lately regarding his DT style of football, it is time the GABLETT got the same.  His possession count this year is simply staggering, but if you watch the Cats games you will notice there is simply not time where his little bald nut isn’t buzzing around the ball looking for cheap hand ball receives.  Those cheap possessions he racked up in the backline as the Cats ran out the clock were Bowdenesque, not to mention vomit inducing.

Meanwhile Bartel can’t seem to get any real time on the ball, always playing just forward or behind the play.  It seems to me the Cats are are making a concerted effort this year to get the GABLETT his first Brownlow, and it is working.  On the other hand it could just be that I am just more bitter than Anniston watching a screening of Mr and Mrs Smith, because I traded the little bloke out after he went down with an injury.

Muston’s dream run comes to a bone jarring end! His first two scores for a rookie at this time of the season were the equivalent of a pillow fight in the playboy mansion, his round 11 performance (42) was more like a donkey show in Tijuana.  DHF favourite Warnie, at DTT, called his third game the worst three-quel since Back to Future III, I say how dare you disparage the great Michael J Fox, Doc Brown and everything that was the magical B2F trilogy.  Especially with likes of Terminator 3, Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift and The Young Black Stallion all there for the taking.  Anyway, as Doc Brown would say, everyone is at the point of no return with Muston, either you have him or you don’t.

The big cleveland steamer that was laid onto me by… Geary (37), Goddard (46), Mackie (69), Muston (42), Kruezer (66), Stevie J (62) and Lids (56).  You know what I’m not even mad, just disappointed, you are all just lucky I made it through the Eliminator or you would have had to watch your backs closer than Travis Cloke (just kidding…but not really!).