Event The S34 SFA Players Association MVP - The Beez - Trophy - 5PM AEDT start

[Ligma]

1. I'm awesome
2. Easily my highlight of the season was the incredible support the wider SFA community gave me for me fencing endeavours, has actually inspired me to go on for one more season

Will never stop being thankful to everyone here

WE LOVE YOU

 

[Sky]

1. I'm awesome
2. Easily my highlight of the season was the incredible support the wider SFA community gave me for me fencing endeavours, has actually inspired me to go on for one more season

Will never stop being thankful to everyone here

3. hopefully bought the pink shoes mate

 

[GWS Goose]

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Season Highlights:

• Boycott the All-SFA to distract from his poor statistical performances
• Achieved an impressive 6th consecutive All-SFA non-selection
• Waved his arms up in the air a lot

Content:

Competition - Goose's Rate the Opposition MVP

Its back! After Callums_Guns did his best to ruin this fine competition it became clear I needed to bring it back! The concept is simple. All players are entitled to vote and rate the opposition's contribution to the thread in the classic 3, 2, 1 format. At the end of the round the votes will...

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Media - Goose is up in Arms!

TheInjuryFactory gets me, he really gets me. Once he pitched the concept and more importantly created the graphic, the idea of venting my spleen to the world of sweet was too hard to pass up. I know many of you have probably come here to gain my thoughts on the competence of the selectors of...

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Media - Official Protest- The Goose is boycotting in the All SFA process this season.

In the words of Edmund Burke that were made famous by JFK incorrectly quoting him “The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing” It is time for the good people of Sweet to stand up and be heard. It has long been known that the selection process for all Sweet is...

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Written By Grand Uncle Horace


AN IN-CROWD STORY - GWS Goose

Most folks love a hard luck story. Don't tell me all of you had not shed tears for serial_thrilla or DemonJim and their uncanny abilities to finish second over and over.

Then is the odd story of such unfortunate miserable luck that most of us still fall about laughing. (I did a hip).

Well count me in this IN crowd when it comes to the INconsolable yet INdefatigable GWS Goose

I simply cannot get enough of his tales of woe and injustice. It is evident that heaps of us agree. FFS give the kid an All SFA, maybe in S.47. I am pretty sure all those that gave beez votes this year to the Goose share this thought..

Oh yep, (stop kicking me) the Goose again steadfastly produced one of the most valued pieces of media work in S.34. The weekly votes on match thread participants by Club has served a unique role in our vibrant Sweet FA.

Match thread shenanigans are the life blood of our joint.. The Goose understands this and their now regular season thread captures how we are all trundling along. The thread promotes participation in our match threads and is even handed in counting even to the infamous half vote. (I'm sure even the near monosyllabic JustaBattler will collect one eventually - porca miseria, I'm sure the NDIS will approve).

Whoops! I am digressing. The unique Goose continues to absorb beez votes like (best not go there). Last Season the Goose finished in 22nd spot and this year has finished 12th. Congrats!!!!!!!

I'm happy with 12th.
To finish much higher requires far more effort than I'd like to put in.
Thanks for all those smart enough to vote for me

 

[Tonga Bob]

Evening friends, and welcome to the sixth iteration of the Le Grille-gym4life Award. Never mind the wacky extra round that the AFL are putting on in SA* next season, this is the gear you need to gather round for.

An award that NaturalDisaster began but was too lazy to maintain, the Le Grille-gym4life Award recognises the Sweet's desperate and dateless cohort. Think of it as the end of the night at the nightclub as the lights go on, exposing those people with an almost empty pint in their hands swaying solemnly to the last song of the evening on their Pat Malone. As the eligibility criteria more accurately states, it's the award for people to both have a match thread posting average at least 25 per week and have received nil points from the beez voting community. It's named after two SFA posters of yore who were experts at talking into the void – Le Grille who went voteless in season 23 despite averaging more than 100 posts a week and gym4life who had zero votes in season 26 despite having an active season.

The inaugural winner was cooney in season 27, nobody was eligible in season 28, nobody gave a crap about it in season 29, Matt_352 won in season 30, Cap saluted in season 31, season 32 was all about Rioli8217 and Gumby time travelling feline CatToTheFuture took home the chocolates last season.

This is all well and good, but surely there's something in it for the winners apart from niche online infamy? Well sure there is, it wouldn't be a shonky online award without a shonky online trophy. And the winner of the Le-Grille-gym4life Award picks up an absolute doozy - The Golden Shittruck!

Now to the results for this season, which I'm sure you're grateful for.

Season 32 saw a record nine eligible posters, while season 33 saw that number drop to five. The trend continued in season 34, with three posters making the grade although West Coast's HARPSichord almost made it four, coming home with a wet sail after posting once in the first five rounds to end up on 22.8 PPW. Wasn't enough to trouble the scorers however. Here's who did...

In third place on 30.6 PPW is the cricket loving wandering minstrel from the East Side, akkaps!

In second place - some would say the first loser but there's no actual winners here let's be honest - is someone who thought a mid-season change of scenery would shield them from the end-of-night spotlight that is the Le Grille-gym4life award. But alas, it's like the Eye of Sauron. Always watching. So with 32.9 PPW Dominic03 makes it onto the podium for season 34.

But there was one poster who was head, shoulders, and torso above the pack. Jezalenko'd the sh*t out of it. With a massive 46.3 low key posts per week that didn't find favour in the eyes of the voters, I give you the season 34 Le Grille-gym4life Award winner - Soggy2112 from the West Coast Wonders! Mazel tov mate, here's your miniature novelty Golden Shittruck trophy!




Now back to you Kennedy Parker.





















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*Heaps Good

 

[TheInjuryFactory]

Inb4 Grand Uncle Horace arrives and calls me a scamp or a rapscallion or something.

 

[Barrybran]

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Evening friends, and welcome to the sixth iteration of the Le Grille-gym4life Award. Never mind the wacky extra round that the AFL are putting on in SA* next season, this is the gear you need to gather round for.

An award that NaturalDisaster began but was too lazy to maintain, the Le Grille-gym4life Award recognises the Sweet's desperate and dateless cohort. Think of it as the end of the night at the nightclub as the lights go on, exposing those people with an almost empty pint in their hands swaying solemnly to the last song of the evening on their Pat Malone. As the eligibility criteria more accurately states, it's the award for people to both have a match thread posting average at least 25 per week and have received nil points from the beez voting community. It's named after two SFA posters of yore who were experts at talking into the void – Le Grille who went voteless in season 23 despite averaging more than 100 posts a week and gym4life who had zero votes in season 26 despite having an active season.

The inaugural winner was cooney in season 27, nobody was eligible in season 28, nobody gave a crap about it in season 29, Matt_352 won in season 30, Cap saluted in season 31, season 32 was all about Rioli8217 and Gumby time travelling feline CatToTheFuture took home the chocolates last season.

This is all well and good, but surely there's something in it for the winners apart from niche online infamy? Well sure there is, it wouldn't be a shonky online award without a shonky online trophy. And the winner of the Le-Grille-gym4life Award picks up an absolute doozy - The Golden Shittruck!

Now to the results for this season, which I'm sure you're grateful for.

Season 32 saw a record nine eligible posters, while season 33 saw that number drop to five. The trend continued in season 34, with three posters making the grade although West Coast's HARPSichord almost made it four, coming home with a wet sail after posting once in the first five rounds to end up on 22.8 PPW. Wasn't enough to trouble the scorers however. Here's who did...

In third place on 30.6 PPW is the cricket loving wandering minstrel from the East Side, akkaps!

In second place - some would say the first loser but there's no actual winners here let's be honest - is someone who thought a mid-season change of scenery would shield them from the end-of-night spotlight that is the Le Grille-gym4life award. But alas, it's like the Eye of Sauron. Always watching. So with 32.9 PPW Dominic03 makes it onto the podium for season 34.

But there was one poster who was head, shoulders, and torso above the pack. Jezalenko'd the sh*t out of it. With a massive 46.3 low key posts per week that didn't find favour in the eyes of the voters, I give you the season 34 Le Grille-gym4life Award winner - Soggy2112 from the West Coast Wonders! Mazel tov mate, here's your miniature novelty Golden Shittruck trophy!

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*Heaps Good

Wow. Aren't you going to feel like a knob when Soggy2112 cracks the top ten in the beez. Talk about counting your chickens before they hatch.

 

[Kennedy Parker]

Thanks Tonga Bob, this seems like good segue now that you're already on stage.

As promised, the best match thread OP of Season 34 will be awarded with the Quill Badge for creative writing. This was voted on the SFA public and the winner by a long way is Tonga Bob in the grand final polling 20 out of 44 votes.

In his thread, he artfully involves a massive number of posters in a series of 17 short stories in the mould of an entire Simpsons episode garnering 57 reacts.

I won't say too much more, if you haven't already read this majestic work below.

Official Match Thread - Season 34 Grand Final - Roys FFC vs Baghdad Bombers at SFA Park

Prologue The opening post for this final match thread of season thirty four (34) begins with BLUEALLTHRU and TedDougChris, captains of the two teams facing off in this season’s Grand Final, spitting off of a bridge leading to SFA Park and wondering about the lives of the other people in Sweet...

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Wosh please award Tonga Bob with the quill for his amazing dedication to quality match thread OPs.

 

[por_please_ya]

But alas, it's like the Eye of Sauron. Always watching.

 

[BLUEALLTHRU]

Inb4 Grand Uncle Horace arrives and calls me a scamp or a rapscallion or something.

I heard some shouting, he's close!

 

[okeydoke7]

Top 10! Sweet.

 

[Kennedy Parker]

Season Highlights:

• Fulfilled his own prophecy of winning the Fred.
• Received perhaps the biggest bitch slap from the sim anyone has ever seen about halfway through the final quarter of the preliminary final against the Roys
• Selected in the S34 All-SFA team by the most esteemed and well-run organisation in the SFA - The Committee

Content:

Competition - Superqoach S34 - Win a Badge and 12 Month Premium Platinum Account.

Graphic provided by TheInjuryFactory shamelessly stolen from the S33 Superqoach thread SUPERQOACH is a FANTASY DRAFT game, where all COACHES will have a team of eight (8) Sweet FA players, whose DT points throughout season 34 will accumulate to give each player a total round score. There will...

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Official Match Thread - Season 34, Round 2 - Dragons FFC vs Sin City Swamprats at Ljp86's Lair

Dragons FFC vs Sin City Swamprats at Ljp86's Lair The Sin City Swamprats travel to Dragon Island to take on Dragons FFC, looking to climb their way out of negative territory after a horror start to the season. The Dragons are in the eight but are looking for their first win of season 34 to...

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Official Match Thread - Season 34, Round 2 - Gumbies FFC vs Coney Island Warriors at House of Gumby

Gumbies FFC vs Coney Island Warriors at House of Gumby The Gumbies will be looking to show up to this one early as they host the Coney Island Warriors at the House of Gumby. Both teams are outside the eight looking for their first wins and with three fewer games to play in season 34, two...

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Official Match Thread - Season 34, Round 2 - Gold City Royals vs Ophidian Old Boys FFC at The Golden Throne (MOTR)

Gold City Royals vs Ophidian Old Boys FFC at The Golden Throne The Old Boys announced their Sweet FA arrival in style last week, sitting on top of the ladder after one round. Will it be a dream start for Ophidian or will the miserly defence of the Gold City Royals stop them in their tracks...

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Official Match Thread - Season 34, Round 2 - Fighting Furies vs Las Vegas Bears at rfctigerarmy's hippodrome

Fighting Furies vs Las Vegas Bears at rfctigerarmy's hippodrome The Fighting Furies kick off their campaign at home against the Las Vegas Bears, who enter this game just inside the eight but looking for their first win. The Bears will be looking for more offensive firepower this week after...

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Official Match Thread - Season 34, Round 2 - West Coast Wonders vs Baghdad Bombers at The Colosseum

West Coast Wonders vs Baghdad Bombers at The Colosseum The Bombers were impressive against the Coney Island Warriors this week but they’ll face a formidable foe in the West Coast Wonders, who enter this match with a win under their belt as well. A 2-0 start looms for the victor which would set...

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Official Match Thread - Season 34, Round 2 - Mount Buller Demons vs East Side Phoenix at Snow Dome

Mount Buller Demons vs East Side Phoenix at Snow Dome It could be raining goals this week at the Snow Dome as the Mount Buller Demons host the East Side Phoenix. Both teams scored a healthy number of points last week but both gave up plenty as well, conceding over 100 points each. The Demons...

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Media - Honk For A Hunj

When DenieD approached me to say a few words about GWS Goose playing his 100th Sweet FA match I thought what better way to celebrate the great man than to steal the idea for myself and take the credit. After all, that’s what Goose would have done. As you all should know by now, GWS Goose likes...

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Official Match Thread - Season 34, Round 11 - Coney Island Warriors vs East Side Phoenix at Van Cordlandt Park

Header courtesy of TheInjuryFactory Discussion around expansion lingers with the introduction of the Ophidian Old Boys this season but there is another option to return the league to an even number of teams – contraction! Let’s take a look at some of the options we could see if the league were...

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Official Match Thread - Season 34, Round 11 - Gold City Royals vs Baghdad Bombers at The Golden Throne (MOTR)

Header courtesy of TheInjuryFactory Discussion around expansion lingers with the introduction of the Ophidian Old Boys this season but there is another option to return the league to an even number of teams – contraction! Let’s take a look at some of the options we could see if the league were...

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Official Match Thread - Season 34, Round 11 - Sin City Swamprats vs West Coast Wonders at Underground Stadium

Header courtesy of TheInjuryFactory Discussion around expansion lingers with the introduction of the Ophidian Old Boys this season but there is another option to return the league to an even number of teams – contraction! Let’s take a look at some of the options we could see if the league were...

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Media - The Fred Diaries - The Victory Lap

When I began this thread at the beginning of season 33, I expected to give the fine citizens of Sweet an insight into what goes on behind the scenes in my pursuit of the Fred Medal. I had some nice ideas and graphics lined up but, alas, it was not to be as real life and some genuinely pathetic...

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Another season, another Barrybran top 10 finish in the Beez. An insane fact about Baz is that he has been in the league since Season 26 and his worst Beez finish was 11th in his debut season.

A hallmark of consistency, Barrybran delivers a high quantity of quality content every time while contributing in other areas of the SFA board as well in his role as a simmer helping the league run. He's always willing to put his hand up to serve the league, extending a helping hand to Pickitt to make sure Round 11 match threads went up in time before the native got restless.

One of the reasons why Baz is so highly rate for so long is that he is always able to find different ways to contribute, this season running the much beloved SuperQoach game for 6 weeks and doing his best okeydoke7 impression in his Fred Medal victory lap.

But stepping aside from purely posting for a second, Baz's win in the Fred means that he has now won the:
EKA Medal - S26 (edging out Cadaver by a single vote, boy did that age well)
Mobbenfuhrer Medal - S29
Beez Trophy - S31
Frankston Rover Award - S31
Fred Medal - S34

This is like gathering all the stones of the infinity gauntlet, Barrybran is the perfect mix of humour and professionalism, quantity and quality, match thread and media, entertaining content and helping behind the scenes. This future Hall of Famer may very well have the case of being the ultimate SFA player.

Well done on another brilliant season Baz!

 

[NaturalDisaster]

Thanks Tonga Bob, this seems like good segue now that you're already on stage.

As promised, the best match thread OP of Season 34 will be awarded with the Quill Badge for creative writing. This was voted on the SFA public and the winner by a long way is Tonga Bob in the grand final polling 20 out of 44 votes.

In his thread, he artfully involves a massive number of posters in a series of 17 short stories in the mould of an entire Simpsons episode garnering 57 reacts.

I won't say too much more, if you haven't already read this majestic work below.

Official Match Thread - Season 34 Grand Final - Roys FFC vs Baghdad Bombers at SFA Park

Prologue The opening post for this final match thread of season thirty four (34) begins with BLUEALLTHRU and TedDougChris, captains of the two teams facing off in this season’s Grand Final, spitting off of a bridge leading to SFA Park and wondering about the lives of the other people in Sweet...

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Wosh please award Tonga Bob with the quill for his amazing dedication to quality match thread OPs.

Lets not stroke his ego too much, he doesn’t need it

 

[damicky]

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Evening friends, and welcome to the sixth iteration of the Le Grille-gym4life Award. Never mind the wacky extra round that the AFL are putting on in SA* next season, this is the gear you need to gather round for.

An award that NaturalDisaster began but was too lazy to maintain, the Le Grille-gym4life Award recognises the Sweet's desperate and dateless cohort. Think of it as the end of the night at the nightclub as the lights go on, exposing those people with an almost empty pint in their hands swaying solemnly to the last song of the evening on their Pat Malone. As the eligibility criteria more accurately states, it's the award for people to both have a match thread posting average at least 25 per week and have received nil points from the beez voting community. It's named after two SFA posters of yore who were experts at talking into the void – Le Grille who went voteless in season 23 despite averaging more than 100 posts a week and gym4life who had zero votes in season 26 despite having an active season.

The inaugural winner was cooney in season 27, nobody was eligible in season 28, nobody gave a crap about it in season 29, Matt_352 won in season 30, Cap saluted in season 31, season 32 was all about Rioli8217 and Gumby time travelling feline CatToTheFuture took home the chocolates last season.

This is all well and good, but surely there's something in it for the winners apart from niche online infamy? Well sure there is, it wouldn't be a shonky online award without a shonky online trophy. And the winner of the Le-Grille-gym4life Award picks up an absolute doozy - The Golden Shittruck!

Now to the results for this season, which I'm sure you're grateful for.

Season 32 saw a record nine eligible posters, while season 33 saw that number drop to five. The trend continued in season 34, with three posters making the grade although West Coast's HARPSichord almost made it four, coming home with a wet sail after posting once in the first five rounds to end up on 22.8 PPW. Wasn't enough to trouble the scorers however. Here's who did...

In third place on 30.6 PPW is the cricket loving wandering minstrel from the East Side, akkaps!

In second place - some would say the first loser but there's no actual winners here let's be honest - is someone who thought a mid-season change of scenery would shield them from the end-of-night spotlight that is the Le Grille-gym4life award. But alas, it's like the Eye of Sauron. Always watching. So with 32.9 PPW Dominic03 makes it onto the podium for season 34.

But there was one poster who was head, shoulders, and torso above the pack. Jezalenko'd the sh*t out of it. With a massive 46.3 low key posts per week that didn't find favour in the eyes of the voters, I give you the season 34 Le Grille-gym4life Award winner - Soggy2112 from the West Coast Wonders! Mazel tov mate, here's your miniature novelty Golden Shittruck trophy!

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Now back to you Kennedy Parker.





















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*Heaps Good

Congrats Soggy2112

The West Coast Wonders are proud of you

 

[Kennedy Parker]

Season Highlights:

• Achieved no finals wins for the last 5,859 days (and counting)
• Selected in the S34 All-SFA team by the most esteemed and well-run organisation in the SFA - The Committee

Content:

BROKRAHS BEEZ SWEEPSTAKES s34

Oprah and I have found the last few beez seasons to be lacking something. So, Oprah felt it was time to reveal more... That's right. We're announcing our second go round of our beez votes sweepstakes. What's involved? Throughout the course of the season we'll be providing 20 opportunities to...

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Media - And now for something Bearly Newsworthy

Citizens of Sweet the Las Vegas Bears are proud to launch a new service dedicated to Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Bears. Rather than many news stories from various members of the Bears littering the place, the players of the Las Vegas Bears will be consolidating them all in this one place for...

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EXCLUSIVE : Secret Sweet F.A. Plans

I'm Mr. Brown, exclusive reporter to the Sweet FA, reporting exclusively on the Sweet FA. A source at league headquarters has told me, exclusively, that the league bosses were pleased at the frantic start to the season and the frenzied media wave from DenieD as it's diverted any focus from the...

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By the bye, how many losses can a Bear bear?

LAS VEGAS, August 2022 - The season of woe continued this week as the Las Vegas Bears encountered their first ever Sweet F.A. bye. Despite the myriad of dodgy financial stories surrounding this team, the fans of the Bears went in to the week with a lightened soul knowing that their team would...

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Discussion - 12 rounds. Now vs Then.

Season 34, with 12 home and away games played per team, sees the Sweet FA have it's shortest season since season 1, which also saw 12 home and away games played for each team. What is the effect of a 12 game season? While there are pros and cons, I'm going to take a look at the past 10...

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Round 1. Another fail.

The Admin-go-round has loaded up again with a new warm body and the promise of making the Sweet FA better place. But, as in every other go-round the chance to start the season off right has been missed. Going back to the introduction of the 12 teams in Season 18, the scheduling of Round 1 has...

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Written by MWPP

Classy Hall of Fame Immortal Broken wound back the clock to produce an exceptional season that has seen him back up his breakthrough all-SFA comeback with a very well deserved return to the top 20 in the beez. Broken an averaged 44 engaging posts a week in his own match threads, doing everything he could to support his new captain in leading their rebuilding team from the front. With his trademark old-school, highbrow humor mixed in with rare wit and humility, his posting style takes us back to a happier and simpler bygone era which had more of a focus on fantasy and fun.

In addition to the consistent, classy match posting, Broken also made a welcome foray back into media this year, putting up quality yet diverse threads that were breaths of fresh air amongst the spammy, lower-brow SFA landscape of recent seasons . He successfully resurrected an epic previous media thread of his, Brokrah, and somehow made the sequel just as good as the original. Broken also had thoughtful stats and news pieces , using alliteration and puns to great effect. In truth, Broken could easily have had the best media thread of the year and if he had chosen to create a Roulette media thread , but instead did the team thing as always and continued the tradition of keeping it in the Bears team thread. This generated some much-needed team thread discussion and drew many participants from other teams and gave his side some handy recognition and presence. A reinvigorated Broken is not only an asset to his team and the league, but the wider community of Sweet. In truth, even this impressive Nth finish still doesn't quite do his incredible season justice, but it's an achievement worthy of celebration even for someone who generally avoids fanfare and famously embraces the narrative of being unsuccessful in the modern era. Congratulations Broken

 

[Kennedy Parker]

Season Highlights:

• Recruited the EXTREMELY legitimate poster The Foolback
• Runner up in the McInnes Prize for his piece "The Dogma of Expansion"

Content:

Event - Rising Star- Season 34 - Raise your glass for the rooks

IT’S EXISTENCE GOES ON… Graphic with thanks to Braklet Rookies of the Sweet FA, there are two awards you can win for your rookieness- the EKA (voted for by the club captains) and the Rising Star (judged by the previous season’s rookie class). Who better to judge your first season than those...

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Media - The Falcon Files presents: Room Lovely

Room Lovely: the treasure trove where you store the great things of the Sweet FA. It’s a very simple idea- nominate your one Sweet F.A. related love of the week. The only rules are: No nominating users- just an attribute you find delightful. General Bigfooty/Sweet F.A. rules apply. Each...

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Media - The Falcon Files presents: Room 101

Room 101: the place where you consign your pet hates and the worst things in the Sweet F.A. world. It’s a very simple idea- nominate your one Sweet F.A. related hate/whinge of the week. The only rules are: No nominating users or teams- just an attribute you find loathsome. General...

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Media - Falcon Files: The Defender's Club- Season 34

IT’S STANALYSIS TIME: Thanks to Wosh, I discovered the magnificent Derf postings of Loonerty earlier today (no ulterior motives hey BAD medallist Wosh!). It is time to bring it back to give fullbacks the bloody attention they desperately crave deserve. Welcome to the Season 34 Defenders Club...

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Media - Falcon Files: The Run Home- Head to Head for the Fred s34

The journey to crowning season 34’s best goalkicker. With just five rounds left in season 34, there is quite the battle for the Fred medal for the leagues best goalkicker. However with a shorter season, the bye and the opponents to come the leader board has never been more deceptive. As a...

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Official Match Thread - Season 34, Round 12: Dragons FFC vs Las Vegas Bears at Ljp86's Lair

And so we reach the penultimate home and away round of Season 34 of the Sweet FA. The weather has warmed, the flowers are blooming, strategic media drops for beez votes is occurring and for some clubs (loser of this match, it might be you), planning for Mad Monday is well and truly underway...

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Official Match Thread - Season 34, Round 12: West Coast Wonders vs East Side Phoenix at The Colosseum

And so we reach the penultimate home and away round of Season 34 of the Sweet FA. The weather has warmed, the flowers are blooming, strategic media drops for beez votes is occurring and for some clubs, planning for Mad Monday is well and truly underway. THE SEASON THUS FAR: Wonders- four wins...

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Official Match Thread - Season 34, Round 12: Coney Island Warriors vs Roys FFC at Van Cordlandt Park

And so we reach the penultimate home and away round of Season 34 of the Sweet FA. The weather has warmed, the flowers are blooming, strategic media drops for beez votes is occurring and for some clubs (Warriors, I might mean you), planning for Mad Monday is well and truly underway. THE SEASON...

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Official Match Thread - Season 34, Round 12: Ophidian Old Boys vs Mount Buller Demons at Spotswood Oval

And so we reach the penultimate home and away round of Season 34 of the Sweet FA. The weather has warmed, the flowers are blooming, strategic media drops for beez votes is occurring and for some, planning for Mad Monday is well and truly underway. As it was not designated in the fixture, ladder...

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Official Match Thread - Season 34, Round 12: Gumbies FFC vs Gold City Royals at The House of Gumby (MOTR)

And so we reach the penultimate home and away round of Season 34 of the Sweet FA. The weather has warmed, the flowers are blooming, strategic media drops for beez votes is occurring and for some clubs, planning for Mad Monday is well and truly underway. THE SEASON THUS FAR: Gumbies- fresh off...

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Official Match Thread - Season 34, Round 12: Baghdad Bombers vs Fighting Furies at Abdu Prison

And so we reach the penultimate home and away round of Season 34 of the Sweet FA. The weather has warmed, the flowers are blooming, strategic media drops for beez votes is occurring and for some clubs, planning for Mad Monday is well and truly underway. THE SEASON THUS FAR: Bombers- won four...

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Media - What’s the buzz? Hopes rising for endangered species.

Gumbania Associated Press Ten seasons ago, the future of the Geelong Gumbie could not have looked more bleak. The last member of this unique species disappeared from the wild, leaving only a few Gumbies in the Gumbanian nature sanctuary. The prospects for Lutum caeruleum were grim to dire. But...

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In 8th place for Season 34 is a relative new-comer to the league, Gumbies sophomore Falconista . Falconista has stepped up this season to be in the Gumbies leadership group and taken up more responsibility across the league, increasing his presence in many facets.

Most notably, taking the lead with the running of the Season 34 Rising Star award to recognise the contribution and performances of rookies across the league. This took a power of work and required consistent commitment which he has demonstrated in spades. Falconista also wrote quality match thread OPs as well as explored various concept in the media through The Falcon Files ranging from topics to stimulate discussion or exploring Qooty-related concepts such as the best defenders and the race for the Fred Medal.

He's also had a fair share of controversy this season, being embroiled in a scandal involving the recruitment of an alleged banned poster with disrepute charges, finals penalties, discord screencaps, accusations being thrown about in the aftermath of the Gumbies' semi-final win over the Old Boys.

All in all, a very eventful season. Congratulations to Falconista for skyrocketing up the ranks to a top 8 poster in Season 34!

 

[Barrybran]

YES! Potentially underrated (pending the next seven posters) but a very well deserved top 10 finish. Another fantastic addition to the board. Well done Falconista.

 

[PhenomenalV1]

I'd just like a moment to point out the biggest injustice in Beez history: I have somehow never made the top 20.

 

[Pugsley]

Not the least just moved on, you've seen me angry mate.

Be better than a no you.

Not the least just moved on, you've seen me angry mate.

shakes paw

 

[BLUEALLTHRU]

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Season Highlights:

• Recruited the EXTREMELY legitimate poster The Foolback
• Runner up in the McInnes Prize for his piece "The Dogma of Expansion"

Content:

Event - Rising Star- Season 34 - Raise your glass for the rooks

IT’S EXISTENCE GOES ON… Graphic with thanks to Braklet Rookies of the Sweet FA, there are two awards you can win for your rookieness- the EKA (voted for by the club captains) and the Rising Star (judged by the previous season’s rookie class). Who better to judge your first season than those...

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Media - The Falcon Files presents: Room Lovely

Room Lovely: the treasure trove where you store the great things of the Sweet FA. It’s a very simple idea- nominate your one Sweet F.A. related love of the week. The only rules are: No nominating users- just an attribute you find delightful. General Bigfooty/Sweet F.A. rules apply. Each...

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Media - The Falcon Files presents: Room 101

Room 101: the place where you consign your pet hates and the worst things in the Sweet F.A. world. It’s a very simple idea- nominate your one Sweet F.A. related hate/whinge of the week. The only rules are: No nominating users or teams- just an attribute you find loathsome. General...

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Media - Falcon Files: The Defender's Club- Season 34

IT’S STANALYSIS TIME: Thanks to Wosh, I discovered the magnificent Derf postings of Loonerty earlier today (no ulterior motives hey BAD medallist Wosh!). It is time to bring it back to give fullbacks the bloody attention they desperately crave deserve. Welcome to the Season 34 Defenders Club...

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Media - Falcon Files: The Run Home- Head to Head for the Fred s34

The journey to crowning season 34’s best goalkicker. With just five rounds left in season 34, there is quite the battle for the Fred medal for the leagues best goalkicker. However with a shorter season, the bye and the opponents to come the leader board has never been more deceptive. As a...

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Official Match Thread - Season 34, Round 12: Dragons FFC vs Las Vegas Bears at Ljp86's Lair

And so we reach the penultimate home and away round of Season 34 of the Sweet FA. The weather has warmed, the flowers are blooming, strategic media drops for beez votes is occurring and for some clubs (loser of this match, it might be you), planning for Mad Monday is well and truly underway...

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Official Match Thread - Season 34, Round 12: West Coast Wonders vs East Side Phoenix at The Colosseum

And so we reach the penultimate home and away round of Season 34 of the Sweet FA. The weather has warmed, the flowers are blooming, strategic media drops for beez votes is occurring and for some clubs, planning for Mad Monday is well and truly underway. THE SEASON THUS FAR: Wonders- four wins...

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Official Match Thread - Season 34, Round 12: Coney Island Warriors vs Roys FFC at Van Cordlandt Park

And so we reach the penultimate home and away round of Season 34 of the Sweet FA. The weather has warmed, the flowers are blooming, strategic media drops for beez votes is occurring and for some clubs (Warriors, I might mean you), planning for Mad Monday is well and truly underway. THE SEASON...

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Official Match Thread - Season 34, Round 12: Ophidian Old Boys vs Mount Buller Demons at Spotswood Oval

And so we reach the penultimate home and away round of Season 34 of the Sweet FA. The weather has warmed, the flowers are blooming, strategic media drops for beez votes is occurring and for some, planning for Mad Monday is well and truly underway. As it was not designated in the fixture, ladder...

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Official Match Thread - Season 34, Round 12: Gumbies FFC vs Gold City Royals at The House of Gumby (MOTR)

And so we reach the penultimate home and away round of Season 34 of the Sweet FA. The weather has warmed, the flowers are blooming, strategic media drops for beez votes is occurring and for some clubs, planning for Mad Monday is well and truly underway. THE SEASON THUS FAR: Gumbies- fresh off...

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Official Match Thread - Season 34, Round 12: Baghdad Bombers vs Fighting Furies at Abdu Prison

And so we reach the penultimate home and away round of Season 34 of the Sweet FA. The weather has warmed, the flowers are blooming, strategic media drops for beez votes is occurring and for some clubs, planning for Mad Monday is well and truly underway. THE SEASON THUS FAR: Bombers- won four...

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Media - What’s the buzz? Hopes rising for endangered species.

Gumbania Associated Press Ten seasons ago, the future of the Geelong Gumbie could not have looked more bleak. The last member of this unique species disappeared from the wild, leaving only a few Gumbies in the Gumbanian nature sanctuary. The prospects for Lutum caeruleum were grim to dire. But...

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In 8th place for Season 34 is a relative new-comer to the league, Gumbies sophomore Falconista . Falconista has stepped up this season to be in the Gumbies leadership group and taken up more responsibility across the league, increasing his presence in many facets.

Most notably, taking the lead with the running of the Season 34 Rising Star award to recognise the contribution and performances of rookies across the league. This took a power of work and required consistent commitment which he has demonstrated in spades. Falconista also wrote quality match thread OPs as well as explored various concept in the media through The Falcon Files ranging from topics to stimulate discussion or exploring Qooty-related concepts such as the best defenders and the race for the Fred Medal.

He's also had a fair share of controversy this season, being embroiled in a scandal involving the recruitment of an alleged banned poster with disrepute charges, finals penalties, discord screencaps, accusations being thrown about in the aftermath of the Gumbies' semi-final win over the Old Boys.

All in all, a very eventful season. Congratulations to Falconista for skyrocketing up the ranks to a top 8 poster in Season 34!

A really solid poster is Falconista, well done!

 

[Barrybran]

I'd just like a moment to point out the biggest injustice in Beez history: I have somehow never made the top 20.

If you want to feature on beez night perhaps you'd like to do a write up or two like Grand Uncle Horace?

 

[Tonga Bob]

Thanks Tonga Bob, this seems like good segue now that you're already on stage.

As promised, the best match thread OP of Season 34 will be awarded with the Quill Badge for creative writing. This was voted on the SFA public and the winner by a long way is Tonga Bob in the grand final polling 20 out of 44 votes.

In his thread, he artfully involves a massive number of posters in a series of 17 short stories in the mould of an entire Simpsons episode garnering 57 reacts.

I won't say too much more, if you haven't already read this majestic work below.

Official Match Thread - Season 34 Grand Final - Roys FFC vs Baghdad Bombers at SFA Park

Prologue The opening post for this final match thread of season thirty four (34) begins with BLUEALLTHRU and TedDougChris, captains of the two teams facing off in this season’s Grand Final, spitting off of a bridge leading to SFA Park and wondering about the lives of the other people in Sweet...

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Wosh please award Tonga Bob with the quill for his amazing dedication to quality match thread OPs.

 

[okeydoke7]

Okeydoke7th?

 

[Kennedy Parker]

Season Highlights:

• Dragged out a game so long that the space-time continuum ripped apart and revealed the results in the ladder thread before the game was done
• Managed to get 3 penalties before the first game was played and ended up captaining his team to negative points at the end of Round 1

Content:

Official Match Thread - Season 34, Round 3 - Coney Island Warriors vs Dragons FFC at Van Cordlandt Park

vs Let's start with a little bit of humour: A man is walking along the beach one day, when he looks down and sees a partially buried lamp in the sand. He picks it up and gives it a bit of a rub. Out pops a genie, who is immediately eternally grateful, "Oh mate - you have no idea how good it...

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Official Match Thread - Season 34, Round 3 - Gold City Royals vs Fighting Furies at The Golden Throne

vs Let's start with a little bit of humour: A man is walking along the beach one day, when he looks down and sees a partially buried lamp in the sand. He picks it up and gives it a bit of a rub. Out pops a genie, who is immediately eternally grateful, "Oh mate - you have no idea how good it...

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Official Match Thread - Season 34, Round 3 - West Coast Wonders vs Mount Buller Demons at The Colosseum

vs Let's start with a little bit of humour: A man is walking along the beach one day, when he looks down and sees a partially buried lamp in the sand. He picks it up and gives it a bit of a rub. Out pops a genie, who is immediately eternally grateful, "Oh mate - you have no idea how good it...

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Season 34, Round 3 - East Side Phoenix vs The Bye

Phoenix v bye The Phoenix wouldn’t want to take the bye lightly, after falling to the Demons last week. The bye is unbeaten so far this season, so the Phoenix will need to be on their guard. The bye players are unlikely to feature in any of the awards at the end of the season. For example...

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Discussion - Post bye blues

We now have a large sample size of how teams have fared AFTER having their bye. As you can see below, it was good for those teams that had the bye at the start of the season, but bloody ordinary for teams in the second half of the season. What will this mean for the Swamprats this week, and the...

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Official Match Thread - S34 Second Preliminary Final - Baghdad Bombers v East Side Phoenix at Abdu Prison

S34 Second Preliminary Final Baghdad Bombers v East Side Phoenix at Abdu Prison The story so far The Bombers finished the minor round in second spot, and then came from 5 goals behind in the third quarter to pip the Gumbies by a point in one of THE great qualifying finals. They’ve been a bit...

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Coming in 7th spot is a player you see growing in credibility season after season - long time Swamprats captain philreich. While posters go to the moon and then crash down to zero, phil is like an S&P500 index fund. Growth will be steady and slow, but over time you know what you're going to get and season after season you see reliable returns.

Since breaking into the top 20 in Season 29, he's stayed up there ever since and he's now followed up a top 10 finish last season with his highest placing ever.

Season	Votes	Rank
23	46	57
24	353	22
25	238	29
26	280	24
27	321	26
28	399	22
29	417	20
30	376	17
31	452	16
32	460	18
33	643	10
34	752	7

Yet another season goes by, phil has kept on adding to the league with his efforts in diligently posting the matches on Sunday, writing match thread OPs, and showing up and leading from the front in match threads engaging teammates and opposition alike.

Phil is the quintessential 'good guy' of the league, able to humour any audience with his classic dad jokes, chat about sports and life, able to switch seamlessly between Qooty to casual chat whichever direction the thread goes. He also doesn't mind keeping people in suspense while posting a close game.

While the season began with 3 squad/team sheet errors and his team ended up on negative points, it's all positive for phil in Season 34. Well done on another strong season!

 

[BLUEALLTHRU]

I'd just like a moment to point out the biggest injustice in Beez history: I have somehow never made the top 20.

 

[Kennedy Parker]

I'd just like a moment to point out the biggest injustice in Beez history: I have somehow never made the top 20.

Fun fact: A few people tried to vote for you this season. I informed them they could not because you were not on any squad in S34.