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Round 15 Preview

  Last Week           6/7           Season Total      81/121 It was a pretty uneventful week of footy last week.  Ok, there were a couple of close ones, but they still fell the way expected and the other matches were walkovers.  More to the point, I forgot the World Cup was on.  Yes, that other sport they call Football.  To be honest, I had no idea about it at all and if not for someone asking about a tipping competition, I probably wouldn’t have realized.  Of course, I love to throw money at frivolous causes so I’m now in three competitions.  I’ll admit, I did watch some of the Australia vs Türkiye match (it was either that or help the missus with housework) and I even caught myself yelling GOAAAALLLL, when we scored our first.  My wife retorted, “What the hell?  You don’t even like Soccer?”  She was right, but ...

Round 14 Preview

  Last Week           4/8           Season Total      75/114 These Byes just seem to be going on and on.  And I just noticed that there are three more weeks of them.  I know we have to get used to them when Tasmania enters the competition, but dragging these ones out just seems like some kind of cruel punishment.  Especially when the games are so tight.  With 6 of the 8 matches last week decided by less than 9 points for some, depending on which side if the ledger your tips were on, was the difference between getting 3 or 8!?  Obviously, the AFL sent out a memo to make the games closer, but I guess they spelled Fremantle incorrectly in the email addresses.  Wharfie Time not required there. Anyway, I can bang on about footy some more or I could talk about Negative gearing and CGT?  It’s certainly a hot-button topic. ...

Round 13 Preview

  Last Week           4/7           Season Total      71/106 It was a difficult week last for tipping.  There seemed to be lots of upsets.  I didn’t have a tip right until late into Saturday.  Of course, there is always someone in the tipping competition that picks every upset. Anyway, no special messages this week so let’s launch into it. Adelaide vs Geelong     Adelaide Oval   Thursday Night The Cats come off another defeat at the hands of Carlton.  One of those teams that seem to have the better of them recently.  Adelaide needs to wake up if they want a chance at this season.  This is the time to stand up.  Against a tough opponent on their home ground.  Unfortunately for Adelaide, like Carlton is Geelong’s bogey side, Geelong is Adelaide bogey side, and it doesn’t matter where the g...

Round 12 Preview

  Last Week           3/9           Season Total      67/99 And here I was, worried that after the Scott Pendlebury milestone there’d be nothing for football journalists to talk about.  An eventful week on a number of points, but I will start with Scott (Pendlebury, not Brad). I get a little confused sometimes about the tribalism of our great game.  You want to beat the other guys, I get it, but I listened to talkback radio last Saturday as the hosts encouraged people to ring in who had nothing better to say than they hoped Pendlebury injured himself in the warm up or they hoped he got concussion and was unable to remember the game.  A newspaper journalist in my local rag, in a very poorly researched and ill conceived article, actually demanded that West Coast players ‘risk suspension to cause physical damage to Pendlebury.’  People ne...

Round 11 Preview

  Last Week           6/9           Season Total      64/90 Last week, in one of my tipping competition (as I have many), I got 8/9.  The one I missed was West Coast.  I don’t blame West Coast.  I don’t blame GWS and I sure as hell don’t blame me.  I do, however, blame Michael Voss.  So welcome to the “It’s all Vossie’s fault” preview. Hawthorn vs Adelaide (Kuwarna)            York Park             Thursday Night The Hawks looked a bit directionless against a vibrant Melbourne team last week.  After Voss caused Barrass’s hamstring injury, they look like they can be exposed down back and fighting off the three terrors in Walker, Thilthorp and Fogarty might stretch them.  Adelaide were rampant against North Melbo...

Round 10 Preview

  Last Week           8/9           Season Total      58/81 I’m a busy man so this week will be brief.  This is Sir Doug Nicholls Round Part 1 so if you’re not up to speed you’ll need to get used to the indigenous names being used quick smart otherwise you won’t know who’s playing who. Let’s pick at the seams and see what unravels. Brisbane vs Geelong      Gabba   Thursday Night One of the matches of the round and hence the Marquee spot of Thursday night when, like most people, we have stuff on like getting kids to sport, coaching their basketball side, feeding them, showering them and getting them, and your tired self off to bed because you have work in the morning where you can find out just how awesome the game was from the young guys in the office who haven’t settled down yet.  Geez I’m an awesome malcontent...

Round 9 Preview

  Last Week           8/9           Season Total      49/72 It was all happening this week.  With relatively easy tipping we can focus on the real stories to come out of the week.  The most alarming news of course is that scientists have drastically re-assessed how long until the universe decays.  They have revised the value in from 10 1100 years down to 10 78 years.  This is cause for urgency as some clubs may wonder if they’ll win any more premierships now that we’ve trimmed the due date down by that far! This week we had Whiteboard-gate, Pendlebury’s golden number and ever-consistent Carlton as the big stories.  I don’t think anyone had a problem with Brisbane’s critical analysis of the opposition, but they blamed the Auskick Dad who leaked the photo, but many would argue that you shouldn’t leave that kind of information arou...