Official Team Thread Gumbies FFC Season 35 Team Thread: Oh to be seen, in plasticine!

[Falconista]

With our midfield division starting to rack up the SIM votes, DenieD and GWS Goose are making a big move upwards on the leader board. Five mids, a ruck and a full forward in the top-seven. The amended voting method is on shaky ground..

 

[DenieD]

Hello. I am here fashionably late as always.

 

[Barrybran]

Hello. I am here fashionably late as always.

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Hello and wel-ken!

 

[Falconista]

In round eight, we had the bye. In Latin bi means two, so in that vain, let's announce two awards. #badsegue #longbow



Five Gumbies averaged a goal a game or better in season 35- Rodney Dangerfield (17 goals @1.00 ave), StFly (19 @1.12), rye (21 @1.24), Mop (13 @1.3) and Dory_77 (67 @3.94). Clearly Dory_77 had a superb season emerging from Baz's shadow and was very stiff to be omitted from the all-SFA despite coming second in the Fred Medal.

Dory_77 you are the Ninty2Winty winner as season 35's best Gumbies forward.



The peterss trophy acknowledges the work of the players in the most important part of the field- defence. This was not an easy award to adjudicate upon this season due to my shuffling team sheet tendancies. However, as the season progressed, one name shone brighter and brighter. Playing full back for the Gumbies... competently!! Unlike yours truly who is suspended from the position for a while due to ineptness, fellow season 33 alumni CatToTheFuture nailed the brief and was a star defender.

Congratulations CatToTheFuture, peterss Trophy winner.

 

[Dory_77]

Amazing what one can do without Barrybran clogging up the forward line.

 

[Falconista]

This award ceremony is making the Logies look rapid. Apoli0ogies, I'll rip through some votes.


Seven goals down at half time, no worries bruz! Full votes to Mop on debut for the club.

	SIM		POSTING
5​	Mop	3​	GWS Goose, Falconista, beez, Barrybran, Dory_77, Mop
4​	Barrybran	2​	DenieD, CatToTheFuture
3​	StFly	1​	Brick Loosener, Rodney Dangerfield, Supercheapgiants, rye
2​	beez
1​	BlueE

We managed to win three quarters and lose. Seems the Warriors passed 'Freo-germs' onto us (says Falconista, the Freo supporter).

	SIM		POSTING
5​	Barrybran	3​	GWS Goose, Falconista, beez, Barrybran, Mop
4​	NSWCROW	2​	DenieD
3​	Mop	1​	Dory_77, Brick Loosener, Rodney Dangerfield, Supercheapgiants, ossie_21
2​	Falconista
1​	Supercheapgiants

Okeydoke refused to post, we refused to lose to keep ourselves in the eight.

	SIM		POSTING
5​	DenieD	3​	GWS Goose, Falconista, beez
4​	beez	2​	Mop, DenieD, Dory_77
3​	Barrybran	1​	Barrybran, Brick Loosener, Rodney Dangerfield, NSWCROW, Jeremias
2​	Brick Loosener
1​	rye

Dory_77 must have had their boots on back to front, kicking 3.6. Luckily though, we all contributed well to kick Phoenix butt tail.

	SIM		POSTING
5​	beez	3​	GWS Goose, Falconista, beez, Barrybran, DenieD
4​	Brick Loosener	2​	Mop, Dory_77
3​	bone2468	1​	Brick Loosener, Rodney Dangerfield, Jeremias
2​	Falconista
1​	StFly

Never involve yourself in a shootout in Baghdad!

	SIM		POSTING
5​	ossie_21	3​	GWS Goose, Falconista, beez
4​	Dory_77	2​	DenieD, Barrybran, Mop, Dory_77, ossie_21, CatToTheFuture
3​	GWS Goose	1​	Brick Loosener, Rodney Dangerfield, Jeremias, bone2468
2​	Barrybran
1​	Falconista

 

[Barrybran]

Amazing what one can do without Barrybran clogging up the forward line.

If I wasn't kicking the qooty to you all day it might have been a tight race

 

[Falconista]

Another ten goal loss to the Wonders. Did somebody say Menulog?

	SIM		POSTING
5​	Barrybran	3​	GWS Goose, Falconista, beez, DenieD
4​	bone2468	2​	Barrybran, Dory_77, CatToTheFuture
3​	beez	1​	Mop, Brick Loosener, NSW CROW
2​	DenieD
1​	Rodney Dangerfield

Back-to-back BOG Barrybran. Is there nothing onfield this qootballer cannot do?

	SIM		POSTING
5​	Barrybran	3​	GWS Goose, Falconista, beez, Barrybran, DenieD
4​	Brick Loosener	2​	BlueE, Dory_77, Mop
3​	Falconista	1​	ossie_21, Brick Loosener, Rodney Dangerfield, Jeremias
2​	Rodney Dangerfield
1​	GWS Goose

Heritage round was fun. We caught up with some former Furies and Gumbies greats. Sadly though, we lost both the legends exhibition match and the real deal. Form was deserting us at the wrong time.

	SIM		POSTING
5​	AJMLaird aka Tigerlaird	3​	GWS Goose, Falconista, beez, DenieD
4​	Dory_77	2​	Barrybran, dory_77, Brick Loosener
3​	Falconista	1​	Mop, ossie_21, Rodney Dangerfield, NSWCROW, BlueE, StFly
2​	Brick Loosener
1​	bone2468

Two matches left and we have a very close top-four on the leaderboard. Mop has made quite the start to their Gumbies career already in eighth despite playing only half the season.

 

[Barrybran]

Stop the count!

 

[Falconista]

A narrow loss concluded the home and away season. We did however sneak into finals with an eighth-placed finish.

	SIM		POSTING
5​	Mop	3​	GWS Goose, Falconista, beez, Barrybran, Mop
4​	beez	2​
3​	Jeremias	1​	DenieD, Dory_77, Brick Loosener, ossie_21, Rodney Dangerfield, NSWCROW, Supercheapgiants, rye
2​	Dory_77
1​	Brick Loosener

It means that going into our final game, three people can win the Catman. To spice things up a bit, I was suspended so cannot earn any SIM votes..

Will it be Barrybran for a third Gumbies B&F or will beez or I provide the club a new winner?

 

[Barrybran]

It's tighter than the shower handles after Chat Pile is finished

 

[Falconista]

Season 35 Game Milestones:

Tigerlaird and Aucklander Gumbies FFC/Sweet FA debut (round one)
miggs 50 games for Gumbies FFC (round four)
bone2468 100 career matches/Gumbies FFC matches (round six)
Mop Gumbies debut (round nine)
BlueE 100 career matches/Gumbies FFC matches (round fifteen)
Brick Loosener 150 career/Gumbies FFC matches and life membership (round sixteen)
NSWCROW 250 sweet FA matches (round fourteen), 200 matches for Gumbies FFC (round eighteen)
ossie_21, Supercheapgiants, CatToTheFuture 50 career matches/matches for Gumbies FFC (Round Eighteen)
DenieD 50 matchesfor Gumbies FFC (round eighteen)

All-SFA representatives:

beez (interchange)

All-SFA nominees:

Falconista
Dory_77
GWS Goose
Barrybran

beez Trophy

Falconista 5th (1084 votes)
GWS Goose 16th (469)
Barrybran 51st (119)
DenieD 77th (42)
beez 84th (36)
Rodney Dangerfield 100th (15)

Mobbenfuhrer Medal

Falconista 13 votes (17th)
DenieD and GWS Goose 7 votes (33rd)
Dory_77 4 votes (43rd)
beez 1 vote (81st)

 

[Falconista]

	POSTING
3​	GWS Goose, Falconista, beez, DenieD, CatToTheFuture
2​
1​	Mop, Dory_77, Brick Loosener, ossie_21, Rodney Dangerfield, NSWCROW

To the votes:

	SIM
5​	Barrybran

Barrybran joins me in the lead. Does beez get any votes against their former team...?

 

[Falconista]

What a time for my internet to die! This was an unintentionally long pause.

Does @beez get any votes against their former team...?

YES!

	SIM
5​	Barrybran
4​	beez
3​	Mop
2​	ossie_21
1​	GWS Goose

I declare the winner of the Season 35 Catman Medal is beez!!!

 

[Barrybran]

Yay beez!

 

[Barrybran]

Nice to see Dory_77 and Mop high in the standings as well

 

[Barrybran]

And nice work as always Falconista. It's a big effort to pull these together so thank you for all that you do.

 

[Falconista]

Thanks to everyone for their patience tonight- that took wayyyyyyyy longer than was intended. Thank you to you all for your contributions through season 35- we are a club filled with awesome people. We wish those who departed in the offseason well- Supercheapgiants retiring to concentrate on studies, DenieD to theatres near you and then the Wonders, Brick Loosener to the Furies and Rodney Dangerfield to the Swamprats. You will always be Gumbies and hopefully many or all of you will some day return to the club as current Gumbies.

And finally...



The StFly Medal is awarded to the best clubman for the season.

For those unaware, the offseason between season 34 and 35 was not ideal for our club. It led to a scramble to change the leadership structure hence my rapid and unexpected elevation to captain before my time. As such, fair to say I needed plenty of guidance and advice. And for that, Barrybran was always there. Sometimes he would volunteer it before I even had to ask. Barrybran did this while still maintaining a strong match thread, Team PM and LG presence. For the 7356th time, he was the crucial cog that kept the club moving forward.

Thank you Barrybran for your leadership in season 35. You are rightfully the winner of the StFly Medal.

And with that, good night to you all.

 

[Wosh]

Nice work Falconista and congrats beez even if you did make me cry

Good luck for the rest of the season Gummies

 

[beez]

Great job, Falconista

 

[beez]

 

[beez]

I'm pretty sure this is my first real BnF after like a squillion games.

My other one I'm pretty sure I rigged it to win, and even then I had to share it with someone else.

 

[Barrybran]

I'm pretty sure this is my first real BnF after like a squillion games.

My other one I'm pretty sure I rigged it to win, and even then I had to share it with someone else.

And to think you were even a captain once. You could have ticked this box a long time ago.

 

[Chat Pile]

Well done beez. Love that guy.

 

[ossie_21]

Congrats to all the winners

This is me after bagging my first votes in anything & finishing 10th