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2026 Pre-Season Analysis

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I was flat out trying to work out how I can bequeath my meagre wealth to Collingwood (luckily they provided me with a step by step guide) because I’m pretty sure that in the current economic climate it would be of no use to any of my dear family, when I had the sudden realization that the season starts in less than two weeks! I tried to enjoy the T20 World Cup, but it turns out the Australian Team have the skill of a sack of potatoes, and I found the Winter Olympics frustrating to watch.   Given the time of night it is on, I am consigned to watching the highlights.   I find it frustrating that Channel 9 doesn’t recognise that any other countries exist.   I can enjoy watching Australia, but when you get to see them crash out into last place and they don’t show you a world record setting run, I get annoyed. A highlight though was the State of Origin.   It was a well received, well supported contest and we look forward to another installment next year.   A tick...
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2026 State of Origin Preview

Thank goodness for State of Origin Footy.   It rescues us from the sports wasteland of February between the end of Test Cricket and the start of the footy season proper.   There’s only so many Elvis movies one can consume.   Ok, it’s maybe not that bad with cricket tragics getting the T20 World Cup to revel in, but for me at least that’s just glorified backyard cricket.   I see a future where one hand one bounce is added to the rules and 6 and out will be a thing with batters being forced into the shame of retrieving the ball from Mrs. Gattley’s Rose bushes.   Of course, there is also the Winter Olympics which we’re currently in the midst of.   Where you can get your fill of sports like Curling, Skeleton and Ski-jumping which has had some recent controversy with competitors injecting a form of acid into their penises to make them bigger.   Allegedly it gives some kind of aerodynamic advantage…I’m guessing it’s something like Australia II and the secr...
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2025 Finals Week 4 - Grand Final

Finals Week       2/2           Finals Total                         2/8 I’m guessing now that it is “Opposites World”.   I tried to get my tips wrong but got them both right.   I’m also declaring Hokball dead.   It works when you play lesser teams but in the crunch of a footy final against a good side, you might get a small break, but its unsustainable nature means it’s a fruitless exercise.   Hawthorn got their break and then Dangerfield said enough is enough and turned in what I think is one of the greatest finals performances I have ever watched.   The talk out of the match of course is that Tom Stewart will miss the Grand Final due to concussion protocols after a crunching, and subsequently reviewed as illegal, tackle.   It was bound to happen eventually...
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2025 Finals Week 3 - Preliminary Finals

  Finals Week       0/2          Finals Total         0/6 Another disappointing week of football finals and another disappointing result from my tipping.   With only three matches left, the best I can do is get 33% and I think the best option for me now is to see if I can keep this going and go through the whole finals without tipping a winner.   Of course, I only have myself to blame by outing myself when I said that the games are too predictable.   But to be honest, I have been experimenting with this final series by tipping purely on feeling and not considering the stats at all, just to understand if my system really holds up.   Had I followed my system (which was outlined a couple of weeks ago) I would have 4 out of 6.   All of the action is off the field.   And I’m not just talking about the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo ...
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