FFS UEFA Hockey World Cup – The Friendlies

This international break marked the launch of FFS UEFA’s latest team game, the FFS Hockey World Cup 2014. All the 12 teams have completed their recruitment and they are now ready to rumble. You can check out the player composition on the Squads Page.

What Next?

GW4 beckons. And with that – friendlies are here. Each team has challenged/been challenged to a friendly, which will allow teams to warm up their players and the management to test out their selection policy. The six fixtures are as below:

Belgium vs New Zealand

Netherlands vs Australia

England vs South Africa

Malaysia vs South Korea

Germany vs Spain

India vs Argentina

Lineup Submission

All managers are requested to email me their four substitutes and their FPL IDs before the deadline of Friday, 12 Sep, 2359 BST. In case he or she fails to do so, the autosubs will be the last four players on the Squads Page.

Managers may also be likely to post any pressers on this article here. So be on the watch for latest team news, especially from your enemies.

As previously, please keep all the match day banter on this thread. And if you haven’t checked out The Fantasy Freak’s new quiz initiative to further fuel the team spirit in this arena, do so now – TFF’s Quizzes are back with a twist.

Let the pre-matchday drama begin!

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Zep
9 years, 8 months ago
Look, I know we're huge favorites but do we really need to be giving Belgium a 50pt head start in a friendly?
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1. Zep
  9 years, 8 months ago
  On a serious note, cheers Pratik... the live scoreboard is once again a welcome addition to the game...
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  1. 4vets
    9 years, 8 months ago
    What the url for the live scores? I get a 404 error from the link on the spreadsheet 🙁
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    1. Zep
      9 years, 8 months ago
      http://preciselyme.com/fpl/hwc
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      1. 4vets
        9 years, 8 months ago
        Cheers... we are going well, aren't we 🙂
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        Zep
        9 years, 8 months ago
        Ah it's been fixed now I think...
        
        Good luck this week mate...
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        4vets
        9 years, 8 months ago
        Same to you and your team.
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  2. Pratik
    9 years, 8 months ago
    Cheers Zep 🙂
    
    I'm sure a few things are amiss, just ping me if anything is wrong.
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    1. Zep
      9 years, 8 months ago
      Everything is working perfectly now mate...
      
      Although if we do ever have a number lower than the team next to us, I'll be sure to ping you and have you change it Thomass style... 😉
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      1. Pratik
        9 years, 8 months ago
        hahahah 😀
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SW6
9 years, 8 months ago
http://preciselyme.com/fpl/hwc
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1. 4vets
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Thanx
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4vets
9 years, 8 months ago
You have Prime and Somalion mixed up on the live scores.
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SW6
9 years, 8 months ago
ENR, the 11 you have playing is different to the team I sent you?
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1. Pratik
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Tell me which ones should be playing and which one shouldn't be?
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  1. SW6
    9 years, 8 months ago
    Liastro, Tony Warner, Werkself out
    Capt Shirokov, Potatoace, Ginkapo in
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  2. SW6
    9 years, 8 months ago
    Cheers Pratik 🙂
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BeachBadger
9 years, 8 months ago
NZ hitting the ground early.
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1. Billy Gilmore
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Not favourites for nothing 😎
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  1. Pratik
    9 years, 8 months ago
    Aguero(c) - 😎
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  2. BeachBadger
    9 years, 8 months ago
    Favourites based on that one gravless posters opinion. Probably Innsie's second account 😆
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2. Amateur Pundit Zan
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Peaking early is a common issue for most of that nz team. I have some spam emails that may be able to help
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3. The Shadow
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Peaking too soon.
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  1. BeachBadger
    9 years, 8 months ago
    See my previous comment. Called this.
    
    http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2014/09/12/ffs-uefa-hockey-world-cup-the-friendlies/?hc_page=2#hc_comment_8265673
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  2. Amateur Pundit Zan
    9 years, 8 months ago
    Always good to be on the same wavelength with the coach 😉
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vodkapad
9 years, 8 months ago
Ozil is so bad
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Konig Luther
9 years, 8 months ago
England with minus score 😆

Btw Pratik, i'm not playing vs England, its Seamy, but wait for The Missing Link to confim
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1. Telpuialion
  9 years, 8 months ago
  But one player has a score of -7 when the only player he has playing today is Ramsey. Just hasn't updated yet. Once it does, they will probably have a +ve score!
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  1. Amateur Pundit Zan
    9 years, 8 months ago
    Due to hits
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Sunny 😎
9 years, 8 months ago
ENR, Yes the Sess should be in the line-up instead of Henry Hill for Argentina

Thanks for all the hard work you put in guys 🙂
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Venom Snake
9 years, 8 months ago
The scorecast says I'm on -3 😕
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1. Venom Snake
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Oh just read above because of my hit. Very clever system!
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  1. Ginkapo FPL
    9 years, 8 months ago
    Haha, cant believe you didnt know this. It was the main reason why we kept benching you in the beach footy.
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Zep
9 years, 8 months ago
Lol @ everyone who is more focused on our team than their own affairs...

But I guess that's to be expected when you have such quality and strength in depth... 😎
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1. Sunny 😎
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Are you in our group?
  
  I don't really care, we'll beat anyone who comes in our way 😎
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  1. Zep
    9 years, 8 months ago
    Well not everyone... cos we are in your group... 😉
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2. Venom Snake
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Cool grav!
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  1. Zep
    9 years, 8 months ago
    Cheers man, for a good cause...
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3. BeachBadger
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Ww have Malaysia so wrapped up we can afford to send out the scouts 😉
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Ellipsis
9 years, 8 months ago
if all of these 3pm kick offs end up as draws I'm set to make 179K GBP I love crazy accumulators!
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1. BeachBadger
  9 years, 8 months ago
  MAybe you should give the Newcastle half time speech
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  1. Ellipsis
    9 years, 8 months ago
    I need them to bloody draw...wish I could have!
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BeachBadger
9 years, 8 months ago
every teams score just doubled there with the Costa goal, fab assist lol
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1. Konig Luther
  9 years, 8 months ago
  score doubled in Hockey once again
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  1. BeachBadger
    9 years, 8 months ago
    😆
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Woy of the Wovers
9 years, 8 months ago
I'm confused. Aren't the team scores supposed to be the sum of each players' score?
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1. Ginkapo FPL
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Sum of the Starting XI
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Djerbil
9 years, 8 months ago
As it stands :

Belgium 405 vs 421 NZL
Netherlands 476 vs 409 Aussies
England 401 vs 444 S.Africa
India 418 vs 405 Argentina
Germany 405 vs 442 Spain
Malaysia 512 vs 418 Korea

Lets see how it ends
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1. The Machine
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Our clash is over.
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2. Declan-
  9 years, 8 months ago
  A nice start for us spaniards
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Colonel Wasabi
9 years, 8 months ago
Incredible score from Malaya....

A few Costa captainers in there ?
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1. The Machine
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Only 3
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  1. Colonel Wasabi
    9 years, 8 months ago
    😯
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    1. The Machine
      9 years, 8 months ago
      the current bench is 32,31,32. i guess thats just good selection 😉
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  2. Lucy.
    9 years, 8 months ago
    I was one of them. Saved me from being a complete liability 😉
    
    Woo Malaysia!
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2. Amateur Pundit Zan
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Respect to malaysia for their opening day performance, caught us a bit cold.
  
  Pre season means nothing of course 😉
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3. Namtab Nomolos
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Also Fabregas gave you a super boost. That Chelsea 1-2 punch.
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  1. Namtab Nomolos
    9 years, 8 months ago
    *them
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MJ6987
9 years, 8 months ago
A good solid start for Netherlands in our "friendly" against Australia.

After Saturday it is 549 - 479 to us!

Still a lot of Hockey left to play though.
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1. MJ6987
  9 years, 8 months ago
  We have the second highest score so far after Malaysia. 🙂
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2. JK - Cønt ⭐
  9 years, 8 months ago
  we didn't have a single Costa captaineer
  
  we had Liastro and he went and switched to Rooney at the last minute
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  1. MJ6987
    9 years, 8 months ago
    We had a few Costa captainers. I think we started to convince each other on the emails!
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3. Djerbil
  9 years, 8 months ago
  well done everyone
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4. BigManBakar
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Great work everyone, thanks for advising me to go the Pelle route!
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5. NABIL - FPL otai
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Good work everyone. Thank God I'm on the bench for this one.
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  1. Reedy
    9 years, 8 months ago
    Ditto haha
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Beavis
9 years, 8 months ago
Malaysia. 😎
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applebonkers
9 years, 8 months ago
calm down malaysia, it's only a friendly
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1. Elniñorules
  9 years, 8 months ago
  They think they've won it 😆
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  1. MJ6987
    9 years, 8 months ago
    Still glad that they are not in our group! Hopefully we meet them, and beat them, in the final!
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Elniñorules
9 years, 8 months ago
So geezers, as you know the Live Scorecast is ready to use.

Here's a beginner's guide:

Link: http://preciselyme.com/fpl/hwc

1) Simply click on refresh to find out your team's score.
2) Use the CHAT WINDOW at the right bottom by clicking on it. All you need is a Chatango account to join in the live chat. Similar to TotalFPL
3) In the past, we've had teams set up twitter accounts for Hockey World Cup. If you do tweet anything, make sure you add a hashtag #FFSHWC and it will pop up in the TWITTER WIDGET on the right

Thanks to Pratik for setting this beast up 🙂
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1. Elniñorules
  9 years, 8 months ago
  By Refresh, I mean the button REFRESH AUS for example under the Australia tab.
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2. BeachBadger
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Amazing stuff. Well done lads
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3. Sunny 😎
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Awesome work guys as always 🙂
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4. Gloria Kanchelskis
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Great work. Very impressed.
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Zep
9 years, 8 months ago
Not hugely important but is it possible for Pratik to show the 4 subs' scores under the first 11, probably greyed out or something...?

It's just that I always like to see which teams have chosen their well etc, or who has had an unpredicted well-scoring week on the bench...

Just a thought...
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1. BeachBadger
  9 years, 8 months ago
  I like this idea. And the agonising what could have been 😆
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The Finnisher
9 years, 8 months ago
Jeez, I hope we don't do a Manchester United this season...
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1. Solenya
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Malaysia are the preseason's Bojan 😉
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  1. Thomass
    9 years, 8 months ago
    Exactly!
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  2. Costa in Wengerland
    9 years, 8 months ago
    Hahahah
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pundit of punts
9 years, 8 months ago
India 483 - Argentina 470

Gonna go down to the wire this one.
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1. A.T
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Go India.
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2. Elniñorules
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Waiting for Pratik to institute a small swap for Arg.
  
  Yes The Sess comes in for HH.
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BeachBadger
9 years, 8 months ago
Any teams leave a big scorer on the bench?
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1. Konig Luther
  9 years, 8 months ago
  we left Kalamazoo on bench with 62pts
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Shipstontrev
9 years, 8 months ago
Brilliant work again Pratik. Congrats.
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1. MJ6987
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Yeah, this.
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Saniul
9 years, 8 months ago
Great work from the lads so far, with a 70-point lead with two matches left. Could still go down to the wire, but I'm feeling confident already. 😎
Also special cheers to TheFantasyFreak with his good Pelle (c) punt. Well done!

P.S. - Also, looks like becoming a manager is a good luck sign for me. 70 points already this week with two to play, though I'm not in the squad myself.
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1. Siva Mohan
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Keep it up lads!! Good going Gaffer!
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2. BigManBakar
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Thanks a lot mate, well done on the team selection as well 🙂
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3. HVT
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Quality players on this Dutch team for sure!
  🙂
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4. Reedy
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Great start, congrats team 🙂
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Thomass
9 years, 8 months ago
Come on boys, up the tempo!!
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1. Elniñorules
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Aye Aye Captain.
  
  Apaaa Gangnam Styleeeeeeeee.
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2. AarÖn Özilski
  9 years, 8 months ago
  😎
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Hibbo
9 years, 8 months ago
Spectrum about?
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1. Spectrum-FFS Doubles Champ
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Yeah here, was just going to clarify the situation, we had a case of mistaken identity with our last player, (wrong team was linked in profile) so we asked if it was possible to maybe get someone else on board for the final spot. Unfortunately the rules don't allow for us to do so I'm afraid, so we must respect this decision. Sorry mate.
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  1. Hibbo
    9 years, 8 months ago
    Not a problem Spectrum thanks for the reply.
    
    And again good luck in the contest!
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    1. Spectrum-FFS Doubles Champ
      9 years, 8 months ago
      No worries mate
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Namtab Nomolos
9 years, 8 months ago
Congrats to Malaysia for the outstanding performance on day 1. Looking at the differentials left if Rooney/Mata do a Costa/Fabregas it may end up quite close still.

Team Malaysia, 112pts & 7 players: Green, Evans x2, ADM, Falcao x3

Team South Korea, 16 players: De Gea x3, Chester x2, Mata x5, Rooney x4, RVP x2
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1. Elniñorules
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Ohhhhhhh Robiinnnnnnn.......
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2. BeachBadger
  9 years, 8 months ago
  RVP to rip it up
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  1. djenzio
    9 years, 8 months ago
    nope!
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The Shadow
9 years, 8 months ago
Can Pratik fix the live score tracker. I keep refreshing NZ's score but it still shows them under 600 points.
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1. Namtab Nomolos
  9 years, 8 months ago
  😯
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2. 4vets
  9 years, 8 months ago
  I think it would be useful to have both teams refresh at the same time. As is one click of a refresh button updates both teams.
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3. Amateur Pundit Zan
  9 years, 8 months ago
  😆
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RoysCallerAnne
9 years, 8 months ago
Waves sadly from Belgium bench with 84 points. 🙁
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1. 4vets
  9 years, 8 months ago
  FML... sorry RCA, and I have a mare 🙁 Still, we're tweaking for next week 🙂
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  1. 4vets
    9 years, 8 months ago
    Having said that, bloody great score! 🙂
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2. Gnu
  9 years, 8 months ago
  Keeping the big guns for when the real comp starts, hope you've kept my seat warm!
  Great score. 🙂
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