Well, round one is over and done and a lot of people have been left cursing, plenty of underperforming players although the round was very high-scoring.
The highest score for the week was 2625, with Fantasy Footy Club leading the leagues, with an average of 2,361 points.
On Thursday night Richmond and Carton kicked off the season at the ‘G. Carlton blew the Tigers away early and continued their good work through the game, posting a 56 point win, but more importantly walking away with the 4 points.
Carrazzo and Betts starred, with Carlton youngster Chris Yarran walking away with a NAB Rising Star Nomination. Carrazzo racked them up all night finishing with 40 possessions, 5 marks and 4 tackles, earning him 135 supercoach points. Betts kicked 3 in a lively performance, earning 19 touches and 136 supercoach points. Despite his team receiving a thrashing, Dustin Martin put up an impressive performance on his debut, coming into the game more in the second half.
Then on Friday a young Essendon outfit went down fighting to a stronger Cats team. Essendon showed good signs until they came out for the last quarter where Geelong took control, kicking 8 Goals in the last quarter and keeping Essendon to 2.
Ablett scored 127 after giving coaches a heart -attack, scoring just 1 point in the first quarter.
In the 4th quarter bombers ruckman David Hille was reported for charging after taking out Cats midfielder Jimmy Bartel in a marking contest. Hille was cleared and is free to play against Fremantle. Stanton starred for Essendon racking up 33 disposals laying 8 tackles, with 7 marks and kicked a goal, while Selwood and Byrnes were top scorers for Geelong with 131 points each.
Then on saturday afternoon when the Hawks ran out to play the Dee’s, the Hawks engaged in a scoring fest against bottom side Melbourne, unleashing in a 56 point win, with 4 players making the ton and 6 others making it to 90.
The Hawks were the better team all day keeping Melbourne to just the 1 goal for the first half. Popular pick Luke Hodge starred in a 121 point performance, while Campell Brown and Jordan Lewis rounded out the top 3 with scores of 110 and 108.
5 players debuted including Carl Peterson, J.Kayler-Thompson, Jack Trengove, Tom Scully and James Strauss, Peterson scored the best with 71 and no game time in the last quarter while Strauss was disappointing with just 14 SC points.
When Brisbane and the Eagles faced off at the G’ it was going to be interesting, and it was. The Eagles and Liond were close at every break until in the last quarter Brown and Fev unleashed, with Brown kicking 5 for the match and Fev putting his hand up for the car with a terrific soccer goal. The Lions ending up running away 32 point-winners, and with this 8 goal performance by Fev and Brown it’s looking like Brisbane Vs. Carlton will be the match of the round next week.
When the Saints an Swans lined up it was bound to be tight, and it was. With Kozi laying a big bump on Nick Malceski early which he will now miss 3 games for.
Big Nick was outstanding for the Saints with 4 goals and 163 SC points. When the Swans were down by 20 points at the last break it looked to be all over, but they fought back hard and got back to within 2 points of the saints before St.Kilda goaled to put the lead out to 8 points.
Malceski surprised many sweeping off half back racking up 139 SC pointn, while Goaddard also made it to 131 SC points.
Port was all over NM early with a 44 point lead at half time although the Kangas fought back to lose by just 14 in an interesting match for fantasy coaches.
Kane Cornes ripped it up with 39 touches and a monstrous 173 SC points, the highest for the round.
Anthony impressed with 114 points while debutant Ryan Bastinac pleased his owners with an 86.
There were 4 debuts with Cameron Hitchcock, Jackson Trengove, Mitchell Banner and Ryan Bastinac all playing their first games. Banner topped the rookies scores with 90 while Trengove bottomed the list with 42. Jack Zeibell scored well, posting 110 points with a teriffic last quarter.
In the match of the round the Pies downed Pre-Season Premiers Western Bulldogs in a stunning performance. The pies leading at every break showed that they are ready to give the premiership a tilt this season.
Swan, O’Brien and Shaw starred for the Colliwobbles leading them to a 36 point victory. Dane Swan scored 145 in a BOG performance racking up 31 touches with 3 goals, 10 marks and 4 tackles, he was back to his scoring of last year.
O’Brien showed value scoring 131 priced at 374k.
In the closing match of the round Fremantle wiped out a disappointing Adelaide, downing them by 56 points.
Barlow starred in debut scoring 151 points and racking up 33 touches, kicking 2 goals in a BOG performance. Suban also impressed setting up the victory for Fremantle in the first half, scoring 110 points.
Only one player racked up he ton for Adelaide, that being Andrew McLeod with a 104.
Sandilands became the first ruckman of the round to top the ton bringing up 124 points in his first match of the season. Tippett disappointed a lot of coaches with only 50 points, kicking 1.4 in an inaccurate display.