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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Round 8 Preview

  Last Week           8/9           Season Total      41/63 As far as results go, it was a ho-hum week with almost all tippers getting at least 8 correct.   If only Geelong had’ve been any good.   While we had 5 matches decided by less than 10 points the other week, last week we had 6 matches decided by 8 goals or more. There were Anzac ceremonies galore as I personally watched one before a footy match, went to the school one and went to a community one.   I can imagine that if you settled in to watch all the matches, you’d feel a bit Anzac’d out.   Luckily there would be few of us that put ourselves through that.   I had a busy weekend of wallpaper stripping which did not help my tennis elbow at all.   Not that I play tennis, it’s just a symptom of how bad my golf swing really is!   But I still managed to see the tradit...
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Round 7 Preview

  Last Week           7/9           Season Total      33/54 I know I’m pretty cynical about the footy at times.  Mostly because I think the competition is so ridiculously unbalanced that any joy is sucked out of it but often because sports journalism is waaaaay too sensationalised and they make up all these ludicrous stories about nothing.  But then there are the weeks when so much happens I just can’t write enough.  Mind you, when referring to these missives the term ‘journalism’ is not a term I would use… so who cares? As I said, lots of stuff happened last week starting with the number of games that were very close.  Five of the nine games were under 10 points and although they all went the way we all tipped (except perhaps Melbourne – but then, who tipped them anyway?) this may have made for a very exciting round.  Jezza kicke...
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Round 6 Preview

  Last Week           6/9           Season Total      26/45 I didn’t see any of the footy on the weekend and I’m at pains about watching any of the replays because I’m just not feeling it.  I did watch The Masters and Rory got the job done in unconvincing fashion showing that his not-quite-best is better than the rest at Augusta.  Can he do a 3-peat?  I’m tired from the late nights and early mornings though. Luckily, I don’t need to watch any of the footy, I just have to refer to my plethora of text messages as people either give me crap about my team or groan about their own teams’ misfortunes.  From various groups of friends, I actually have a pretty good coverage of the league.  Based on that info, I was able to fill out the rest of the season’s ladder predictor and have determined it’s not worth watching. The good news for t...
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