Fighting Furies

The Fighting Furies are a fantasy football club competing in the Sweet FA. They are the league's most successful club, having played in five grand finals in a seven-season stretch from season 05 to season 11 that yielded four premierships. Following that golden era, the Furies had an absence from finals before returning to be a powerhouse of the league in Season 15 where they lost to the West Coast Wonders in the Grand Final the 16 Grand final against the Geelong Gumbies and the 18 Grand Final to the Mt Buller Demons. Then the Furies won the 16 Grand Final against the Mt Buller Demons to be the first SFA side to win 5 Grand Finals.

When the Furies entered the Sweet FA back in 3 they played at the Original Punt Road Oval facility, which was located where fumbler's Funhouse is now located and did so until the end of season six. From the start of season seven they played at the now unused Tiger Dungeon which was renamed captain blood 17 Dungeon and also used it for season eight except for the pre-season and finals. 8 pre-season games were played on the newer Punt Road Oval which was not up to scratch for the regular season, and the finals games were played at Tiger Island. Tiger island was chosen as it had a greater capacity than the other two. The Furies now play at the newly renovated Punt Road Oval which was renamed rfctigerarmy Hippodrome before 25.

History
Fighting Furies SFA Club was established by rfctigerarmy in April 25, 2003. RFCTA was captain/coach and the vice captain was CJH. The first season was very poor and the Furies finished last on the ladder due to a points penalties accrued throughout the season.

rfctigerarmy thoughts on the History of the Fighting Furies: "I hadn't played in the league or Fantasy Footy before but I did have a look and thought it would be fantastic if the Richmond board could have their own side. As you can see in the first season we played, not many teams were purely based from a supporter base - most were a combination of players.

The name came to be "Fighting Furies" after public decision through the use of a poll but just on the Richmond board. We came up with about 5 or 6 options with Fighting Furies chosen as the eventual winner. The first year was pretty hard because I (we) had to convince people to post. And, I think 7-11 wasn't a bad ratio under the circumstances. I'm not sure how long I was captain/coach for (maybe 2006?) but I remember being captain/coach in 2005 (thus my info under my username).... still very proud. But, in addition to that, The Furies have made significant progress over the last year or two which is fantastic and what I've always wanted. Users of BigFooty are really passionate to see the Furies win and love to have a bit of a banter. Back in the old days, the number of posters were obviously less than what we have now but we've always had that cheek about us.

In a lot of ways we are what we want the Richmond Footy Club to be - a finals regular and never without a chance."

In it's original format the Fighting Furies was somewhat unique to other clubs as it only allowed supporters of the AFL team Richmond Tigers to join their playing ranks between the foundation yeaqr Season 3 and Season 16, Claypigeon a Carlton Blues supporter changed all this by becoming the first Non Tiger on the Fighting Furies list in S17.

Tigland and footy_fumbler took it a step further by allowing any supporter from any AFL club to join the newly transformed Furies, Uncle_Leo North Melbourne supporter was the first to come across and also joined the Leadership Group, he was quickly followed by Shadow Man Fremantle and raskolnikov Essendon and in seson 19 Tarkyn_24 joined the Furies as their Full Forward.

Since its inception, the Fighting Furies have been the most successful club in the league, having won a total of five Sweet FA premierships from ten, and two Pre-season premierships from three.

The Fighting Furies played and were situated on Tiger Island from Season 03 to Season 06 before being approached by a multi billionaire to transfer their headquarters and home games to the Punt Road Oval which is situated a stones throw away from the punt that traveled to Tiger Island, upon doing so the billionaire became penniless and was never seen of again.

Every Fighting Furies player to play in the SFA (i think).

Founding Members
CJH, Coughlan24, Diggler, doug thomas, Fwoy, GhostofJimJess, hutstar, kretchy, mellowyellow, mighty tiges, Mooster7, nut, peejay, Piping Shrike, rfctigerarmy, Rodan, rosy3, Showbag, TheFoxhat, The Boy Beav, TigerEmma, Tigers_Goddess, tigerT, Weaver, wagstaff, Fighting Fury

Inaugural Fighting Furies Team
Fighting Furies Inaugural Team Sheet

Colours
The FUR have had several guernsey designs over the seasons, however the team colours have always consisted of yellow and black but for Season 21 the club decided to add Pink to the Home guernsey instead of the clash.

=Club honours=

Most matches (for FUR)

 * Premierships:

05

Drawn Grand Final Fighting Furies 13.7.85 drew with Alberton Swamprats 12.13.85

Grand Final Replay Fighting Furies 18.13.121 def Alberton Swamprats 17.8.110

08 Fighting Furies 16.7.103 def. East Side Hawks 12.10.82

10 Fighting Furies 19.19.133 def. West Coast Wonders 9.17.71

11 Fighting Furies 17.13.115 def Geelong Gumbies 14.11.95

20 Fighting Furies 19.11.125 def Mt Buller Demons 15.16.106

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 * Minor premierships: 


 * Pre-season premierships: 



=Furies Honour Roll=


 * Season 16 recipient of the Nuffers award Heisenberg_ previously played under a different name in season 15 The Cole Train and therefore was disqualified from receiving the award.


 * Season 21 saw the Nuffers award won for the first by a player who had played at another Sweet FA club but shared the award due to it being their first season at the Furies.

rfctigerarmy Award
Is the award given to the Furies Best and Fairest Player, the award can be shared with multiple players in anyone season and is named after the Furies inaugural Captain and clubs founding member.

Fumbles Goldenboot
Is awarded to the Furies player who ends the regular season with the most goals.

Captain's Trophy
This award is given to any Furies player that has gone beyond the players duties within the club.

Nuffers Medal
The Furies rookie of the season is awarded the Nuffers Medal which is named after the best ever Rookie in his time.

PHX Shield
The most consistent is awarded the PHX Shield, it is to reflect not only the commitment that a player shows to the club but to reflect that the awards are not all based on the randomness of the game, PHX was a former captain of the Furies and played over 150 games at the club.

Claw of Fame
The Claw of Fame (Life Membership) is awarded to those who have had either played 150 games or more, been a captain, coach or administrator of the Furies. Other ways to be awarded the Claw of Fame are to win any other club award three times or more including three different Furies awards.



=Furies Individual SweetFA Awards=

SFA Hall of Fame Members
rfctigerarmy - inducted after S14

Mobbs Medal Winners
Wacky Tiger Season 18

Wacky Tiger Season 19

EKA Medal Winners
Wacky Tiger Season 17

Sterge Season 21

tgrs Season 22

TFLUA-Tiger Award Winners
Wacky Tiger Season 18

Helen Wheels Season 22

AlfAndrews Medal Winners
Kretchy (65)06

Tugga (72) 10

Deestroy Medal Winners
CJH (05)

beaver's army (08)

Bend_It_Like_Cotchin BILC (S11)

Cutty (S15)

Uncle_Leo (S18

Wacky Tiger (S20}

All-SFA Representatives
(Season 03) - Mighty Tiges (FP)

(Season 04) - FWOY (CHB), rfctigerarmy (Wing), Rodan 18 (Int)

(Season 05) - Weaver (FP), CJH (Ruck), itsintheblood (Int)

(Season 06) - No All-SFA team recorded

(Season 07) - No All-SFA team recorded

(Season 08) - No All-SFA team recorded

(Season 09) - PHX (HB)

(Season 10) - PHX (Wing), Equus (Ruck)

(Season 11) - PHX (CHB), BILC (Wing), rfctigerarmy (FF), Equus (Ruck)

(Season 12) - Equus (Centre)

(Season 13) - BILC (BP), Equus (FP)

(Season 14) - fightingfury_88 (FB), Fumbles (HF)

(Season 15) - Filthy_Sanchez {HBF}

(Season 16) - tigland {Ruck}

(Season 17) - tigland {FB} Fumbler {Wing}

(Season 18) - Wacky Tiger {Rover} This is Anfield {Centre}

(Season 19) - Wacky Tiger {Int} This is Anfield {Wing}

(Season 20) - Wacky Tiger {Ruck Rover}

(Season 21) - Sterge {Half Back Flank}

(Season 22) - tgrs {Back Pocket}

(Season 23) - Sterge {Full Back} _Cayz_ {Half Forward Flank}

(Season 24) - Sterge {Rover}

Most times in All SFA Team:

Equus {4}

PHX {3}

Wacky Tiger {3}

Sterge {3}

BILC{2}

rfctigerarmy {2}

tigland {2}

This is Anfield {2}

=Fighting Furies Match Records:=

Biggest winning margin : 90 ROY v FUR Round 16 S11

Biggest losing margin : 109 FUR v HAW Round 10 S10

Furies Highest score : 161 (Rd 17, Season 14)

Furies Highest home score : 161 (Rd 17, Season 14)

Furies Highest away score : 157 (Rd 05, Season 16)

Furies Highest finals score : 160 (Rd 2S, Season 16)

opposing Highest score : 167 (Rd 04, Season 05)

opposing Highest home score : 167 (Rd 04, Season 05)

opposing Highest away score : 167 (Rd 11, Season 10)

opposing Highest finals score : 137 (Rd GF, Season 15)

Longest winning streak : 10 (Rd 5 to Rd 14 Season 23)

Longest losing streak : 13 (Rd 01, 13 to Rd 13, 13)

=Top Ten highest scores versus other SFA Clubs=

S18 R11      Fighting Furies        29.12 (186)   Las Vegas Bears S23 R01      Fighting Furies        26.14 (170)   Coney Island Warriors S14 R17       Fighting Furies        24.17 (161)   Geelong Gumbies S16 2SF       Fighting Furies        24.16 (160)   Geelong Gumbies S23 R07      Fighting Furies        24.15 (159)   Sin City Swamprats S18 R05      Fighting Furies        24.14 (158)   Mount Buller Demons S16 R05      Fighting Furies        25.7  (157)   Geelong Gumbies S06 R07      Fighting Furies        24.12 (156)   Geelong Gumbies S15 R08      Fighting Furies        23.18 (156)   Mount Buller Demons S06 R04      Fighting Furies        24.11 (155)   Dragons FC

The Abyss
In order of depth.

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