After another week full of upsets, the debate about Brent Harvey’s form has well & truly shut after the “chicken wing” applied to him Saturday night. In fact, if you had both Harvey AND David Hille, you’d have a right to be browned off.

As far as the great “Kick2Kick” writers challenge goes..

• Deano’s “Nambucca Axemen” are on top of the ladder with 2-0. But, he may feel the pressure as Brent Harvey is done for 12 weeks & Troy Simmonds is no certainty to come back for the Tigers. How Scott Lucas went up in value this week is beyond me, but I don’t think Deano would mind that at all.
• Next is “The Royal Knights”, our esteemed “expert” is being done by the wife. By the looks of things, I’d say she ran out of cash before the forward line was complete. Played with a 6 man defence/ forward line & still is 2-0.
• Jermayn’s “Germinators” must still be disappointed with the likes of Hodge, Brown & Pavlich, but is also a 2-0 team.
• Michael’s “Dorkers” are 0-2 & is taking the risk with Tiger Mark Coughlan whilst holding onto Blue Robbie Warnock. Cheap ruckman are very hard to come by this season.
• Holding us all up is Johnnytruent’s “Diamond12″. Played with one short in the midfield this week & plays in the early battle for the league spoon next week.

And, speaking of spoons, my “Great Izzacs” are looking to apply for some sort of stimulus package. Ended up 3 players short this week & now really need to pick things up.

Here’s the OFFICIAL best 10 list after round 5 of the 2009 season

Best of round 5

This week, I’m providing a question. I’m giving a team of players (in budget) based on “scoreboard pressure” per possession. In other words, how many touches does each player need before they damage the opposition in the worst way possible…on the scoreboard?
We can put in any old willy nilly player, such as a 1 gamer getting 1 kick for 1 goal, so I made a rule of a minimum of 2/3 of the season.
I’ve listed starting price & price up to round 5.

Backs

1. Adam Hunter (WCE) $284,800 $248,500 213
2. Ricky Petterd (Melb) $201,900 $223,500 319
3. Adam McPhee (Ess) $332,100 $345,600 373
4. Patrick Ryder (Ess) $214,000 $237,800 346
5. Leigh Brown (Coll) $240,100 $224,500 199
6. Luke McPharlin (Fre) $314,800 $264,900 302
7. Patrick Dempsey (Ess) $201,900 $237,400 289
8. Stephen Hill (Fre) $142,600 $183,000 236
9. Jaryd Petrenko (Adel) $86.600 $147,300 232

Midfield

1. Max Rooke (Gee) $263,100 $252,600 329
2. Matthew Richardson (Rich) $434,600 $421,300 495
3. Brett Peake (Fre) $241,800 $266,000 344
4. Stuart Dew (Haw) $295,100 $296,600 348
5. Adam Goodes (Syd) $359,200 $328,000 418
6. Justin Sherman (Bris) $273,400 $288,400 373
7. Shaun Higgins (WB) $211,900 $316,000 487
8. Brett Meredith (Syd) $86,600 $110,900 149

Rucks

1. Justin Koschitzke (StK) $319,700 $302,800 269
2. Darren Jolly (Syd) $329,400 $383,000 482
3. Kurt Tippett (Adel) $191,300 $251,000 350
4. Michael Gardiner (StK) $224,800 $226,000 296

Forwards

1. Mark LaCras (WCE) $254,100 $220,900 283
2. Brendan Fevola (Carl) $366,700 $359,100 419
3. Jarryd Roughead (Haw) $352,500 $308,800 340
4. Eddie Betts (Carl) $263,500 $269,900 371
5. Lance Franklin (Haw) $428,000 $365,800 421
6. Daniel Bradshaw (Bris) $337,900 $291,800 331
7. John Anthony (Coll) $221,400 $242,400 336
8. Taylor Walker (Adel) $86,600 $175,100 252
9. Jack Ziebell (Nth Melb) $118,600 $228,300 357

This team has made $339,400 over 5 rounds this season. I might even put some into my team this week. Would you consider putting any of these players into your sides??

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