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I'll be reviewing the season later, hopefully this week, but before then I'd like to bring up something I said last week about the Croatia game.

At the time I said:

... they played BO and normalled, which has come as a big shock. I don't recall considering them normalling even for a second. I don't feel I made a mistake, as I don't see it being the correct decision for them, but it happened and won them the game.

I did of course think about going normal myself, but, though we had to win this game to stay alive, I felt there was no point in winning by using precious enthusiasm, which might lead to a loss next week, and failing anyway, or limping through qualification and being wasted by the time the next game comes along.

Last night Croatia lost to Italy, and Belarus beat Germany. Belarus's pd was equal to Croatia's but Belarus have qualified. By using normal against us, I believe Croatia sacrificed qualification for the win. It made no sense to me last week, and makes none now.

Unofficial Season 27 stats. (I had to add them up). If someone spots an error I'd love to know about it, though I wouldn't recommend checking them personally. Apologies for not separating them by categories but this was a tad easier.

Games Mins FG 3FG FT Diff OR TR AST TO STL BLK PF PTS

Alan Sharpling 7 231 (55-108) (12-35) (24-26) (+42) 3 14 38 11 7 1 25 146
Connor Marshall 7 181 (35-71) (4-16) (8-9) (+11) 8 30 19 4 7 4 11 82
Michael Andrews 7 146 (34-66) (2-6) (7-10) (+41) 10 48 15 4 3 2 15 77
James Gascoigne 6 154 (32-67) (5-14) (7-7) (+3) 1 9 17 4 5 0 7 76
Dick McDonough 5 102 (28-43) (1-5) (9-12) (+27) 9 36 9 2 0 1 6 66
Gregor Simpson 7 198 (22-55) (0-1) (11-14) (-1) 17 63 8 12 3 7 16 55
Stuart Madelin 6 116 (19-47) (1-9) (11-13) (-35) 2 13 24 1 2 0 6 50
Don Holm 5 93 (15-31) (0-0) (13-18) (+17) 13 32 8 4 0 2 10 43
Chellaperumal Singh 5 98 (16-33) (2-10) (8-11) (+40) 0 7 18 0 2 0 13 42
Rudolph Esposto 6 99 (17-37) (2-9) (2-2) (+16) 1 7 17 2 3 1 11 38
Shatrughan Palit 2 29 (6-11) (2-5) (8-8) (+33) 1 4 5 2 0 0 1 22
Bobby Bucky 2 50 (9-15) (0-1) (2-4) (+39) 4 13 4 2 4 1 2 20
Jerermy MacAusland 5 57 (4-12) (0-0) (4-6) (+1) 3 11 1 3 1 2 8 12
Robbie Harris 2 39 (5-15) (1-6) (0-0) (+18) 0 1 3 0 1 0 2 11
Terrell Hongs 1 16 (4-9) (2-3) (0-0) (+12) 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 10
Ivar Millar 1 21 (4-12) (0-2) (0-0) (-6) 3 4 3 1 0 0 1 8
Connor Anderson 5 24 (2-6) (0-2) (2-2) (+10) 0 5 0 2 3 0 4 6
Luke Innes 2 13 (1-3) (0-0) (0-0) (+2) 1 2 3 1 1 0 1 2

Well, that looks a lot uglier than I intended. I may sort them out later so its more readable.