When we all look back on the 2008 season there is only thing that will stand out – the Diggers took control of the competition and everyone that they played knew that they’d loose. Everyone that is, except the Coat Hangers. It would be safe to say that the Hangers have been a bogie teams for Andrew: “Is this a dream? I’m sure this has happened before …” If we cast our minds back to the 2005 Season. The Diggers and the Coat Hangers finished 1 & 2 and that’s how the Grand Final played out … and like this week, back then Nick Riewoldt stood up to throw a dagger right into the heart of the Diggers coaching staff. “Yeah we’re disappointed, but we have another chance this week to make the Grand Final but the Sons wont make it easy for us”.

“We’re over the moon … the boys will enjoy the week off and we’ll get together later in the week to watch the game and see who’s going to met us in 2 weeks time.” Most things seem to go right for Tony this week with Fevola and Riewoldt both having good games, but there’s still room for improvement. Newman who has been starting was rested this week and picked up 23 kicks and Power can only improve on his 11 kicks. This team must be taken seriously and this week they proved that they aren’t there just to make up numbers.

The Sons of God will now meet the Diggers in this weeks Prelim Final, the last time these two teams meet in a Prelim Final was last season – where the Sons got up. “We’ve got some work this week on the track, we had some players down this week, but it was good to get up against some tough competition.” Bartel said after the game.  The Sons aren’t flying right now but you can never count this team out, and with Ben McAllister at the helm we know that something will be done to correct this over the next 5 days.

Once again it was the Nexus backline that failed to fire … with Johncock playing forward again and the (some what controversial) key back of the year Fletcher getting injured early it was always going to be a tough game. “One thing that came out of this game was that we need another string of players in some positions. We finished second on the ladder … but that means nothing when you’ve just lost 6 games in a row and you go out of the finals in straight sets.” With Ablett back into some form and Adcock finding his feet at tagger the spine of this team looks good for many years to come.

The Marvels managed to make the Scorpions weekend even worse as they got up in the AFR Cup. The 2008 season for the Marvels has been anything but one to remember - last week they were fighting out the toilet bowl (in which they lost). However, the AFR Cup has been a happy hunting ground for them over the past seasons … this is their second time they’ve held the cup up. CONGRATS TO THE 2008 AFR CUP WINNERS: MCAVANEAN MARVELS.