And if you’re seeing this… you haven’t made it there!

Time to update you bookmarks. www.xalia.com.au is no longer being updated!

The place to be is http://www.tooserious.com.au

or, if the new DNS hasn’t quite propagated through the great wide web yet, you can try your luck at http://tooserious.net

Catch you all over there!

So until further warning- any changes to your data won’t be saved!

This will take a couple of hours, and while the site will be up during it- nothing you do will be kept.

Sorry about that!

Once the new site is up, the www.xalia.com.au address

Okay, it’s a simple concept, you pick one player every week and your weekly score is what they score. Although, once you’ve used a player you can’t not use them again, and throughout the season you must pick atleast four backs, four midfielders, two rucks and four forwards.

And, to keep sign-ups going through the roof and it becoming impossible for me to manage. I think we will go with a small fee to join and prizes to the winners.

It is only developing, and I’m not sure how I’m going to run it. So throw any ideas at me, how much your willing to pay and if you are interested.

We all have a favourite in everything in life, including SuperCoach stars. Mine is the great Daniel Cross who has the ability to fetch the ball if its atop Mount Everest. and the man is as tough as $5 steak. Shame he can’t kick. But I can’t find room for the great man in my SuperCoach side in 2009 with Juddy unavoidable, and then going for four mid-pricers. I’ve actually lost a little sleep over this.

Who is your favourite? And are they getting a game in 2009?

I don’t know how any serious SuperCoacher, or DreamTeamer plays without their copy of AFL Prospectus. But, I just thought it would be interesting to list my team in what Fantasy Freako says about my players and the find out who of you guys can guess what quote matches which player. Also, at the end I ask my readers for a hand in selecting my side.

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Just to word up the average punter at home (And the writers! :D), I’ll be moving TS over to some new hosting in the next day or two.

So, what does this mean to you? There will be a period- and I’ll warn you before we enter it- where any changes that you make here, won’t be reflected across to the new location.

I’m hoping this period will only run for a couple of hours.

I’ll see what I can do about moving things across today (Wednesday)… most probably during the lunching hour.

Hi all,

Just wanted to have something more substantial in my first post than celebrating Nick Maxwell getting one over the AFL tribunal.  Well done son.

Each team is going to have a different strategy in 2009 SuperCoach. 

Many already have thoughts of loading up one position with blue chip players (defence mainly).  I have a word of caution about this strategy.   Generally the best teams in SC have a balance, just like in AFL teams you need a strong defence, midfield, forward and ruck division.

The aim of the game is to be over 2000 points EVERY WEEK, and to get close to averaging 2300 late in the season, which means every member of your team needs to get to average 100 points-per-game.

The strategy I used in 2008 was simple. 

10 blue chips who will get 100 points per game lock away (set and forget), 10 midrangers who might have averaged 50-85 points last year who will go close to getting to 100, and 10 rookies (under 150000) who will appreciate in value.   Trades: 5 for injuries, 10 for rookie-cash cow-upgrade, 5 for elevator side swaps.

Blue Chips - look at past performance.  Choose consistency and value.  Get a captain you can trust - one of Hodge, Ablett, Judd and Bartel.   Wait for the other 3 to have some form slump and trade in later.

Mid-rangers - look for guys either injured last season (Nick Stevens of 08 could be Paul Hasleby of 09), or those who will “come of age” during the season - players like M Murphy, Gibbs, Thomas and Ellis appear to be in this boat.  These are critical selections and you will need to select players who will get averages more than their price.

Rookies - look at players who will get game time, particularly in the first 3 rounds.  Watch the NAB Cup very closely for team selections.   Set your team up ready to go, but then in that fateful 90 minutes after team selections are posted on the first Thursday of the comp, ensure you have most of your team playing week 1.

After that, it’s all luck and skill.

To highlight how many value options there are this year, here’s a team you can pick with $1.1 million still in the bank:

DEF - Luke Hodge, Sam Fisher, Xavier Ellis, Mark Nicoski, Shannon Hurn, Andrew Raines, Stephen Hill, Matt Maguire, Michael Hurley

MID - Joel Selwood, Bryce Gibbs, Daniel Kerr, Jordan Lewis, Steven Baker, Ricky Petterd, Daniel Rich, Dayne Beams

FWD - Matthew Pavlich, Leon Davis, Scott Lucas, Sean Rusling, Shaun Higgins, Chris Yarran, Ben Reid, Scott Gumbleton

RUC - Brad Ottens, Matthew Kreuzer, Jessie White, Daniel Currie

That team - plus a million $ to add your own flavour - will go close to the 2000 points needed in Rd 1

Well a review of the first 3 weeks, but the first round. You know what I mean.

Fevola and Lockyer tempted us, Jesus continued working mirales, Richo and BJ stood up and said age don’t matter and Walker and Yarran pulled up sore. But does it really matter?

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Finally fixed this sucker. However, while I was there, I reset the Donor list.

Which means just about everybody has been set to 20 rows per page. *bad Walesy!*

That can be remedied however…

*wink wink*.

Anyways, people who donated $25 or more last year, I’ve kept on the list (Though feel free to donate again if you want. :D).

Anyways- let me know if you *should* be on the Donor list and I’ll look into it alright.

Good day viewers, today at TS we will be reviewing the Super Jolly White Currie.

This happy little Red and White Curry smells delicious, In particular when given a sprinkle of Cox.

This particular meal was brought to my attention by one PAFCsince1870, so I hope he he doesn’t mind me devulging it.

Cox is well known to be an everyspice- Making any recipe tastier. Though I suppose if you must cheap out, then a little Petrie, Sand or even some Hille might suffice.

Essentially, the guts of this meal revolve around the Jolly. Starting the year as the 5th best rucking option and an average of 91 up to round 17 last year. Bringing both a robustness to the meal, but also a hint of cinnamon.

The beautiful subtlety of this dish revolves around the fact that both White and Currie are very cheap bench options (only 40k more than a rookie-rookie option.) And whilst being cheap, between them they are the #2 and #3 ruck selections at the swans.

Basically meaning, Two of these three will play most games this year. Saving you from needing to spend any trades in this area, and also preventing you from getting a nasty case of Zero.

There is a question about this dish though. Whilst it smells delicious now, will it still taste great? And more importantly (and here’s where the analogy takes it *waaaaay* too far), will it sting the next morning?

Well, the jury is still out on that one. Whilst jolly is one of the most durable rucks out there (last missed 2 games in 2005)- He finished last year (Rounds 18-22), with a shattering average of 45.

Did that sting? Yes. Yes it certainly did. But why did it happen?

Why did Jolly average half the touches he’d had all season? Perhaps there is a learned Swans fan out there that can solve the riddle of this meal.

Anyways, while it’s been a pleasure to review this meal, it’s cousin, the DT Jolly White Currie is a foul and bitter broth that should be avoided at all costs…