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Round 0 Addendum FYI, the Opening Matches Brisbane vs Geelong and Gold Coast vs Essendon have been postponed until later in the season due to Cyclone Alfred bearing down on the Queensland Coast.   From a viewers perspective, this is unfulfilling.  I mean it’s only 700mm of rain and category 2 winds.  I for one would have liked to see a kick-in go for a goal and the tactics the coaches would have employed.  It would be a good opportunity to get a Water Polo coach in to teach the players how to effectively apply a testicle snapping wedgie.   I don’t know what this means for your tipping competition, but Opening Round is now a Dud.  They should have held it in Vegas, like the NRL.   But seriously, if you’re in Queensland, take care.  Cyclones are serious business. Last Week           0/0           Season Total      0/0 The off season ju...

 Here we are, as Queen once sung.  Born to be Kings, the Princes of our Universe.  The AFL season is a lot like the movie Highlander (1986).  I don’t mean it in the way that there is a Scottish guy playing a Spaniard-named Egyptian fellow who is culturally Japanese, while the American-born Frenchman plays the Scottish guy trying to behead the American guy who is Russian…that would be too simple.  I mean that “There Can Be Only One.”  Except when it is a draw.  But ultimately there really can be only one.  Still with me? The off-season is almost at a close and what a ride it has been.  The cricket tests against India were less than convivial but very engaging.  Sinner lived up to his name but then was given a sentence so light that gravity couldn’t even capture it, and Trump was inaugurated heralding in an era of…I don’t know what.  Sadly, we lost a few past champions of the game, all within a day of each other. The “Match Simula...

 The season is done and what an end to the season it was.  By that, I mean it was really disappointing.  After one of the closest seasons in history, it was really disappointing that the Grand Final was such a blowout.  Firstly, lets deal with Sydney.  If you’re a Sydney supporter, you’re not going to like the next bit…I suggest you skip the next paragraph. Luckily, the English language is highly flexible and has words for almost everything.   The word that I feel most fits this situation is ‘Insipid’.   Or maybe I’d choose deplorable.   Sydney was bad…really bad.   They didn’t even turn up.   A lot of their positive attitude responses at the end of the game was that they’d prefer to get to the Grand Final to have a chance to swing a punch than not get there at all.   The problem is that they didn’t throw a punch.   If you’re running the rope-a-dope strategy, the key to it is once your opponent is tired from smashing you, you...

Last Week           2/2           Season Total      131/215 It’s come down to this.   The last installment of the 2024 season and we are raring to go.   But of course, there are some other formalities to get out of the way first. Last week, I managed to get both tips right.   A rare event this finals series.   Sydney steam-rolled Port who, as suspected, probably played their Grand Final the week before.   They were never really in the hunt and Ken copped it from the supporters as suspected, but it’s too late this season to do anything about it.   To the trade negotiations they go.   What will Ken’s benchmark be for next season?   He’s fast running out of reasons not to be in Grand Finals. Geelong were gallant but ultimately succumbed to a surging Brisbane who came back from 25 points down in what is becoming a regular ...

Last Week           0/2          Season Total      129/213 Last week was a disaster.   In more ways than one.   I didn’t get a tip right which was a real bummer, but not only that I now have very little interest in any of the teams going any further and have to summon all my strength to analyse these games and provide insightful reasons to tip a team or not.   That being said, coming off a zero from the semifinals doesn’t really prove to anyone that the things I’m doing here are profound or insightful.   But then getting 1 correct, or even 2 correct wouldn’t have proven that either so we’re back into that realm of making random selections, or at least making sense of randomness by trying to find patterns in the data which is all we can really hope for. GWS lost in dramatic circumstances after coughing up a 44-point lead and this a week after cou...

  Last Week           2/4           Season Total      129/211 It was a first week of finals footy that really illustrated why a pre-finals bye is just not compatible with the competition.   Three really ordinary games which were over mostly before quarter time.   At least there was one cracker in there!   For a season that was so close all year, it was a real let down.   Even if some unexpected teams got up.   Trade chatter continues for the supporters of the other 12 teams highlighted by a Mac Andrew signing which came with a price that allows plenty of Gold Coast Night Club money.   Actually $12M isn’t that much these days.   After buying a couple of rounds at the pub you’d be skint.   Stringer has been strung out.   Petracca said, “nah, actually we all love each other here at Melbourne” and nefarious people at...