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Greetings Fantasy Footy Heads. This is the first draft of how next year's leagues are going to look. Teams listed with 2015 team names and season score.

Hogg Premier League 2016 Seeds

1 Has Been 51181
2 Ben Rolfsburgers 50770
3 Ecky's Fevolas 50601
4 Squeakeroos DTC 50464
5 Delicious 50166
6 Hondo SCC 50157
7 Cotch Lickers 50011
8 Captain Who? 49927
9 Les's Men 49863
10 Longwood Lions 49780
11 Cork in the ocean 49474
12 Pool Swimmers 49396
13 Honey Badgers 49391
14 Q Before You 49222
15 Underdogs 49202
16 REBCats 47723
17 Peptide Army 47708
18 SHARKS 47616

Interchange bench

1 Cossi's Carnts 50066
2 TEAM_FISH 49348
3 eddieslittleindians 48759
4 Harrynutts 48717

The four teams on the Interchange bench are the four highest ranked teams who are eligible for promotion to Hogg Premier. Teams ineligible include any team relegated last season or has not played at least one season of Hogg Division I. Hopefully everyone signs up this time.

regards,

REB

Just had a look back on the stats and I thought it was only 2 consecutive preliminary finals I had made in HOGG div 1 but no it is 3 (2012-2014). I joined HOGG in 2011 and started in div 3 where I earned promotion to div 1 and since 2012 I have been in HOGG div 1 and made 3 consecutive preliminary finals and bombed out in the first week of finals last season despite being the second ranked team in the league.

I need another avenue to get into Premier League so could someone please not play this season

cossi11 wrote:Just had a look back on the stats and I thought it was only 2 consecutive preliminary finals I had made in HOGG div 1 but no it is 3 (2012-2014). I joined HOGG in 2011 and started in div 3 where I earned promotion to div 1 and since 2012 I have been in HOGG div 1 and made 3 consecutive preliminary finals and bombed out in the first week of finals last season despite being the second ranked team in the league.

I need another avenue to get into Premier League so could someone please not play this season

Cossi's Bulldogs.

regards,

REB

Careful what u wish for Cossi it is tough up here!

Alaska wrote:Careful what u wish for Cossi it is tough up here!

Sure is.... Just 2 wins between relegation and finals in 2015!

Ladder

1 Squeakeroos DTC 13 4 36397 34848 104.45 52
2 Has Been 13 4 36893 35513 103.89 52
3 Cotch Lickers 11 6 36392 35211 103.35 44
4 Ben Rolfsburgers 10 7 37021 36403 101.70 40
5 Cork in the Ocean 10 7 35436 35236 100.57 40
6 Les's Men 10 7 36268 36497 99.37 40
7 Q Before You 9 8 35521 35788 99.25 36
8 Hondo SCC 8 9 36368 36124 100.68 32

9 Underdogs 8 9 35878 35919 99.89 32
10 Captain Who? 8 9 35964 36156 99.47 32
11 SHARKS 8 9 35178 36079 97.50 32
12 Honey Badgers 7 10 36006 36366 99.01 28
13 REBCats 7 10 35429 35941 98.58 28
14 Peptide Army 7 10 34999 35828 97.69 28
15 Ecky's Fevolas 6 11 36511 36485 100.07 24
16 Longwood Lions 6 11 36070 36124 99.85 24
17 Buddy Franklin 6 11 35256 35537 99.21 24
18 wycbloods 6 11 34078 35610 95.70 24

Hogg Premier League has been created in SuperCoach. Invites pending but league code is 530512.

Please join the league as soon as you can, don't have to pick your team right now but I need HPL coaches to sign up as quickly as possible. Good luck this season lads. Time for REBCats to return to finals action!

regards,

REB

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Still waiting on Cork in the Ocean, Pool Swimmers, Ben Rolfs and Les's Men. I lost to a few of those teams last year so if they don't show I might actually win some games this season. Hurry up and join ya ****.

regards,

REB

Hi REB I believe that Supercoach have not released their App yet so youngsters that only use the phone to play fantasy are not able to.

Think we're only waiting on Les's Men now, he's always a late starter.

Alaska wrote:Hi REB I believe that Supercoach have not released their App yet so youngsters that only use the phone to play fantasy are not able to.

Don't think there are too many youngsters in the Premier League.....yet.

regards,

REB

I would call the coaches of the Pool Swimmers and Honey Badgers youngsters but then i am just old.
I would also never call Sharksta old.

Hogg Premier League for 2016 has been filled. No room for Cossi this year. Play on!

regards,

REB

Rik E Boy wrote:Hogg Premier League for 2016 has been filled. No room for Cossi this year. Play on!

regards,

REB

Hogg Premier Preview 2016

The Hogg Premier League is a much different beast to what it was in earlier seasons. I used to think a league ranking of 5000 meant it was a pretty hard league but this year’s Hogg Premier should expect a top 100 ranking if last seasons effort is anything to go by

Out with the old, in with the new

Relegated from last year’s league are the unlucky Buddy Franklin and wycbloods. Both of these sides won 6 matches last year so both were very unlucky to go down. wycbloods wasn’t helped by a poor percentage in comparison with their rivals and Buddy lost that winning feeling when all the teams around them managed to scramble some late wins.

Promoted to the top flight are two excellent sides. Valleys07 and his team Delicious have been consistent performers in the Hogg for many years and they have been in excellent scoring form over the past couple of seasons. Pool Swimmers haven’t been around as long but their short Hogg record is a proud one. I expect both of these teams to make the eight.

Contenders

I believe the winner of Hogg Premier will come from one of the following six teams. Has Been always looks strong and I expect a strong showing from the Beaners this year. They will be about the place for sure. Ben Rolfsburgers are another top side who I hate playing because the guy flogs me every time. Both of these sides are top four locks. I can see the Pool Swimmers also challenging at this level along with the other promoted side Delicious.

The other two sides who could threaten are Eckys Fevolas and Squeakeroos DTC. Squeaky showed last year that they are the genuine article and they have been getting better and better. Last year Ecky was very slow out of the blocks and left his run too late. If his goal is league success in the Premier League you can expect a more consistent output from the Fevs in the early rounds.

Scramblers

The scramble for top eight spots is going to be massive this year. The scramblers represent the middle six of the league. This group will include teams with decorated Premier histories who may feel they’ve been underrated but this league is just that tough. Les’ Men are one team that should make the eight, but then again it’s hard to ignore the claims of Premier League stalwarts Captain Who? , Q Before You and Hondo SSC. Hondo and Q have mastered the art of winning games while seemingly scoring bugger all but Hondo appeared off the pace a little at times last season.

I think Hondo could miss as will one of Captain Who? or even the unthinkable, Q Before You. The Honey Badgers showed some brilliant late season form and I think they won’t be involved in a relegation dogfight unlike last season. The other team who I believe can challenge will be Longwood Lions but they will need to start much better than the past two seasons.

Pretenders

These are the bottom six teams who I reckon will be in for a tough year. It might surprise to see Cork in the Ocean in this group but this is more about my belief that they will struggle to match teams above rather than being a genuine chance at relegation. Richo Richo Man are also a bit stiff to be placed in this group but while Richo’s best is top four standard his worst is bottom six standard. Richo has a very up and down history and after a strong year last year it could be time for him to lose the extra two or three matches that turns a top four into a bottom six at this level. I don’t think Richo is a genuine relegation chance but it wouldn’t surprise me to see him miss the eight.

The following four teams are going to struggle at this level. Underdogs is probably the best of these but the aura this team once had is fading fast and they can now be viewed as one of the easier teams to play in this league. That is a scary thought as Gibbo (sharksta) has a proud Hogg history. The SHARKS were promoted last year and were one of the few promoted sides to not make much of an impact and I can see them going down. Last year they got off to a flyer but they were easy meat at the back end of the season. This leaves the two sides who have been in this league the longest, Poon Army and the REBCats. Both of these teams have struggled to keep up in recent years with the Army struggling to make inroads and the REBCats falling down the ladder a little more each season. Both of the founding clubs could be the two to go down but we would both have high hopes on the SHARKS.

The Verdict

I think that Squeakeroos DTC could have a breakthrough premiership win, possibly coming from outside the top four in order to get the job done. The other team in the Grand Final will be Has Been. I think it will be Q Before You and Les’s Men to make the top eight with Captain Who? and Hondo to miss. I reckon the SHARKS will get the spoon and the REBCats will escape yet again at the expense of Poon Army so SHARKS and Poon to go down.

Minor Round Ladder prediction
1. Has Been
2. Ben Rolfsburgers
3. Pool Swimmers
4. Delicious
5. Eckys Fevolas
6. Squeakeroos DTC
7. Q Before You
8. Les’s Men
9. Hondo SCC
10. Captain Who?
11. Honey Badgers
12. Longwood Lions
13. Richo Richo Man
14. Cork in the Ocean
15. Underdogs
16. REBCats
17. Poon Army
18. SHARKS

Regards,

REB