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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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2025 Finals Week 2 AFL Preview - Semi Finals

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  Finals Week       0/4          Finals Total         0/4 I got nothing right last week.   Zero out of four tips, really puts my finals tipping in a shambles which I won’t be able to recover from.   Creates a mockery of the 11-years of statistics I’ve been compiling just to get these games right.   How embarrassing.   It makes me wonder why I’ve spent, on average, 6 hours a week, compiling and analysing statistics like this.   Hopefully it is all data contributing to the growth and eventual dominance of our future AI overlords. As mentioned, I didn’t get to watch any of the footy as it was played, well, maybe half a match, but I would like to iterate what I was saying about how boring it is and that a game’s result is essentially decided in a single 8-10 minute burst. The other games are a little more complicated.  They have bursts w...
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