JackinGoff 151.85, 2nd Bower 86.3. The week 13 statement the premiership race needed: 65.55 points of pure intent from the second seed, who at 12-1 have quietly assembled the league's best record. Still, the total-points ledger reads Kempsey 2,019, daylight, everyone else — and that number doesn't lie. Usually.
It also read: MaHomie 126.9, Kempsey 105.05 — just the second loss of the machine's season, and proof the mortals occasionally win one. And in the game that mattered to the soul of the competition, Kmet the frog was mathematically eliminated, falling to Post Chubb 111.05 to 93.05. Three one-point losses. A 116.8-point hiding. Elimination via the club that started the curse in week 2. The Gazette has retired the file to the archives, where it will be read at funerals.