We're halfway through the regular season in the best Ovens and Murray Football League competition in years. The introduction of the points system in 2016 was designed to even the competition and for the first time in a quarter of a century, we have eight of the 10 teams still in finals contention. Andrew Moir hands out his report card and it must be pointed out the team rating is not solely defined by positions as it's unfair to rate the returning Corowa-Rutherglen, for example, on the same scale as premiers Yarrawonga.
or signup to continue reading Sixth (4-5) Started with 135-point and 90-point wins over and Wodonga Raiders respectively. Happy days. Then suffered a shock loss to Lavington in round three and it's headed south since, although any win over Yarrawonga in the past three seasons is outstanding.
Sits a win out of the top five and if it misses finals, will be the greatest underachiever of the modern era. 3 out of 10 It would have been lower, but have to give a bonus point or two for stopping Yarrawonga's 17-match winning streak. When you have the league's best ruckman in Isaac Muller and a top midfield, including Morris medallist Elliott Powell and runner-up in the club best and fairest Jake Gaynor, plus you recruit two former AFL-listed players and ex-SANFL midfielders, anything outside a positive win-loss record is a flop.
Two of last year's three gun defenders were missing (Lucas Conlan moved to Port Melbourne and Jessy Wilson did an ACL in the grand final) and .