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Round 7 Preview

Last Week           6/9           Season Total      37/53 A number of upsets on the weekend made it a tough round to pick and I think getting 6 was pretty serviceable.   Sure, someone somewhere probably got 9, but it was probably a Canadian who was bullied into joining the office tipping and before tipping asks questions like “Why do they get 6 points when the puck goes in the net?” I managed to enjoy the weekends footy a bit and also watched a bit of swimming and watched Kennedy and Gout Gout miss the final of the Stawell Gift.   All the while I became a chemistry expert trying to balance the chemical levels in my pool which had gotten a bit out of whack!   I certainly learned a lot.   I mean, I’m not ready to start cooking Meth for the masses yet, but if you get a high from floating in a body of essentially drinkable spring water then I’m...
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Round 6 Preview

Last Week           7/9           Season Total      31/44   Firstly, let’s talk about Rory McIlroy.  I got up at 2:30 AM Perth time to watch the final round live because I can’t trust Kayo to remember where I was if things went wrong.  I had planned to lightly doze while it was on in the background, but it was compelling viewing…even for golf.  Just when you thought he blew it, he would rally, then blow it again then rally again, only to blow it and rally again in the playoff.  It was great that Kayo did all that coverage.  But…I do still want to blast Kayo for the previous night.   I was watching Round 3 as a replay, and it was 10 hours in and McIlroy was just about to give an interview.   I sat down to watch intently but sat on the remote so it closed Kayo on me.   I was then faced with fast forwarding 10 hours b...
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Round 5 Preview

Last Week           5/8           Season Total      24/35 It felt like one of those weekends when there just wasn’t enough time to watch much footy.   Not that much of it was exciting, although the Gold Cost/Adelaide match was a ripper.   But more on that later.   This week is Gather Round so the spotlight will be on Adelaide and the Barossa Valley with the idea that people will travel from all over the country to witness a capitulating succession plan firsthand.   Let’s have a closer look the matches…the first time all 9 games will happen since Round 1 (the second round). Adelaide vs Geelong      Adelaide Oval    Thursday Night The best thing about the AFL coming out and saying they got it wrong, and that Adelaide lost because of it, is it’s the second time it’s happened, and history shows us that it tak...
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Round 4 Preview

Last Week           6/8           Season Total      19/27 I’ll start this intro off by taking a swipe at Kayo.  If you want to watch all the games live, then this is your only option.  Also, if you enjoy other sports, like golf, formula 1, car jitsu (that’s wrestling in car) then Kayo is also your go to.  Kayo knows a lot about me.  They keep all sorts of information on me.  Who I am, what my email address is, how to periodically take money from me without me having to know about it, and what I enjoy watching.  They keep all of this information and use it so that they can message me, email, harangue me, cajole me and make sure that I’m always thinking about them and thinking of ways I should be giving them more money.  But the one thing they don’t do, is remember where I got up to when watching 9 and half hours of golf.  A...
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Round 3 Preview

Last Week           6/8           Season Total      13/19 I took my own advice and took a trip to the West Coast on the weekend with Family in tow.   It was a lovely getaway.   Of course, it means I didn’t see and barely heard any of the weekends footy action.   I did visit an aquarium sunken into the bottom of a jetty though.   There wasn’t much wildlife that day, but I did note a door at the bottom that said, “in case of fire, open door.”   I couldn’t see anything on the other side of the door other than the entire Indian Ocean , which I suppose after opening would resolve the fire issue.   Then you have a raft of other issues like breathing and being in an environment that news outlets would have you believe is teeming with Great Whites with about a 1 mile swim ahead of you.   Luckily there was no fire, and I solved my anxio...
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Round 2 Preview

Last Week   5/9     Season Total   7/11 I gleefully came to write this preview knowing that I got at least 8 correct, but thought I’d check to be sure.   I was shocked.   What was I thinking!?   I missed Richmond by a mere 78 points.   Sydney wasn’t that far off, but then I got Port Adelaide wrong by 106 points!   I gave North a chance, and they were in it right up until Archer tried to remove a head (writing that sentence gives me a sense of de ja vu). In light of the many ridiculous decisions that were made, I have launched a full and independent investigation which will take a full year and cost you, the reader, an absolute fortune, but thought this was the kind of level of detail mandated and you’ll all be much happier with the result.   The reason for the high cost primarily is the background research and soul searching that has to be undertaken.   A private Caribbean Island has been booked for the investigator and me t...
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