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"BALL UP!" - Val's 2018 Aussie Rules Footy Tipping *Open to Everyone*
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May 04, 2018 07:02AM
WOO-HOO!!! - Congratulations and very well punted, David! ... x
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Well done David....gee..didn't the Giants get a pummelling!no Nick this week?
Ohhh no? - I never noticed Nick was missing?I thought that we had all made it this time ;o<
Double damn, missed the friday football punt too.If this is ok Val, if not don't worry.Bulldogs
Hawks
Eagles
Swans
Blues
Tigers
Demons
Magpies
Thanks Val.
Today/night's results:Western Bulldogs (Blastro) v Gold Coast Suns (Suzy)
1.2.8 (Q1) 2.6.18
5.5.35 (Q2) 5.9.39
8.7.55 (Q3) 8.10.58
11.15.81 (Q4) 10.12.72
Essendon Bombers (Val) v Hawthorn Hawks (unwanted)
4.2.26 (Q1) 2.4.16
5.5.35 (Q2) 4.4.28
5.6.36 (Q3) 10.7.67
10.7.67 (Q4) 13.12.90
West Coast Eagles (Sussex) v Port Adelaide Power (Grizzly)
4.1.25 (Q1) 2.1.13
9.3.57 (Q2) 3.2.20
13.4.82 (Q3) 8.2.50
16.6.102 (Q4) 9.6.60
Sydney Swans (Anita) v North Melbourne Kangaroos (Steve)
2.1.13 (Q1) 3.3.21
4.4.28 (Q2) 5.5.35
6.8.44 (Q3) 7.10.52
9.12.66 (Q4) 9.14.68
Adelaide Crows (Deano) v Carlton Blues (RedJohn)
7.2.44 (Q1) 2.1.13
9.3.57 (Q2) 6.4.40
15.8.98 (Q3) 7.8.50
19.11.125 (Q4) 10.10.70
I think I picked the wrong upsets. The Dogs were lucky to get away with a win up in Ballarat. The Dons at least did a bit better in the fourth quarter - 23 points isn't disgraced - but they went missing completely in the third quarter. North were gallant all night and deserved their nail-biting win. The Eagles and the Crows looked the goods.
Today's results:Richmond Tigers (Philip) V Fremantle Dockers (unwanted)
4.5.29 (Q1) 1.1.7
7.11.53 (Q2) 1.3.9
7.16.58 (Q3) 4.8.32
15.20.110 (Q4) 4.9.33
St Kilda Saints (Lez) v Melbourne Demons (TheFoe)
2.5.17 (Q1) 5.1.31
3.8.26 (Q2) 8.6.54
7.10.52 (Q3) 13.10.88
9.13.67 (Q4) 6.10.106
Brisbane Lions (David) v Collingwood Magpies (Tech)
3.0.18 (Q1) 4.2.26
10.0.60 (Q2) 10.3.63
14.2.86 (Q3) 15.4.94
18.6.114 (Q4) 19.7.121
Results went as expected today although the win-less Lions gave Collingwood a fright - scores were locked at 114 all with 2 minutes to go.
Our tipsters' ladder is as follows:Round 7 (first number is correct number of wins - you want this to be high; number in brackets is the cumulative margin which is used to separate punters on the same amount of points - you want this to be low)
Sj Brooke (Steve) on 8 (41)
Tech on 8 (44)
SussexWelsh on 8 (46)
RedJohn on 8 (47)
Blastro on 8 (80)
David on 7 (37)
Duke on 7 (56)
Deano on 7 (83)
Lez on 7 (104)
Philip on 6 (41)
Anita on 6 (80)
Foe on 6 (114)
Val on 5 (49)
Grizzly on 3 (85)
Suzy on 1 (68)
Charity donations are:
Deano (Sacred Heart Mission) - $6.00 (highest score - Crows 125)
David (The Song Room) - A$6.00 (closest margin)
Steve (Swags For Homeless) - A$11.00 (weekly winner)
CUMULATIVE LADDER:
Tech on 44 (185)
SussexWelsh on 44 (243)
Sj Brooke (Steve) on 43 (238)
Duke on 43 (243)
Lez on 42 (313)
Blastro on 40 (216)
Val on 39 (252)
Anita on 38 (265)
David on 37 (204)
RedJohn on 37 (335)
Deano on 37 (336)
Philip on 37 (346)
Foe on 35 (314)
Grizzly on 27 (288)
Suzy on 22 (271)
Please check your scores!!! I do make mistakes you know!!
Congrats to our three winners this week. Especially Steve who has broken his drought
If anyone would like to view the AFL Ladder before submitting next week's tips, it's at http://www.afl.com.au/ladderNext week's fixtures are:
Friday, May 11
Hawthorn Hawks v Sydney Swans (in Melbourne)
Saturday, May 12
GWS Giants v West Coast Eagles (in Sydney)
Carlton Blues v Essendon Bombers (in Melbourne)
Gold Coast Suns v Melbourne Demons (in Brisbane)
Port Power v Adelaide Crows (in Adelaide)
Western Bulldogs v Brisbane Lions (in Melbourne)
Fremantle Dockers v St Kilda Saints (in Perth)
Sunday, May 13
North Melbourne Kangaroos v Richmond Tigers (in Melbourne)
Collingwood Magpies v Geelong Cats (in Melbourne)
If punters could lodge their tips by midnight THURSDAY May 10 (your time) it would be a great help, although I can accept them up until 10.45am FRIDAY May 11 (your time) if absolutely necessary.
YAYYY!!! - Congratulations Sj! ... xAnd very well punted Dean and David ... x x
Val wrote: "Our tipsters' ladder is as follows:Round 7 (first number is correct number of wins - you want this to be high; number in brackets is the cumulative margin which is used to separate punters on the..."
Bless ya Val. Big thanks on behalf of 'Swags'! xx
Congrats to the winners, looks like I backed the wrong upset too!Val, something is not quite right with SJBs score..he should be 2 points higher...I think it's on round 6 you gave him 5 points, when he should've had 7..i've checked his tips for that round..it's definitely 7...so he should now be in 3rd place on 43 points, and I drop to 4th.
theDuke wrote: "Congrats to the winners, looks like I backed to wrong upset too!Val, something is quite not right with SJBs score..he should be 2 points higher...I think it's on round 6 you gave him 5 points, wh..."
Yes, Duke’s right Val.
Thanks Duke and Lez for checking. You are of course right. I didn't credit Steve with the final two games of Round 6. I have edited the table above and all my records so hopefully I'm on the right track now.
I am so bad at Maths that I haven't got a clue how you work these things out - and so I am in complete awe of you all just for knowing ;o>
All good....I thought i'd got it wrong, when totting everyone's scores...and couldn't work out why Steve was down 2 points..clearly I missed it last it week too!
Anybody watching the snooker of late? For the first time in something like 20 years, I've started watching it again...cos a Welshman is in the final! G'wan Williams! :-)Quite an exciting semi final finish between Williams and Hawkins..Williams was behind all the way through, till frame 31, when he began to overtake. Pressure was getting to both players on the final frames..both players missing easy shots..but then would pot incredible hard ones..Williams in particular potted some amazing shots during that match. Funny to see his little lad in watching his dad miss some shots in that last frame...poor lad was almost tearing his curly hair out! lol! Went right down to the wire...with Williams needing the pink and black to finish, Hawkins just needed the pink.....Williams got the incredibly difficult pink in...and almost didn't get the black...but it only just wobbled in the pocket!
Quite an usual championship this year, with lot of older veterans making through..now down to two 40 somethings, Higgins v Williams. And to think that Williams was thinking of putting his cue away for good, only a year ago. 15 years since he made it to a final....so looks like it'll be a gud un between these two veterans!
suzysunshine7 wrote: "I am so bad at Maths that I haven't got a clue how you work these things out - and so I am in complete awe of you all just for knowing ;o>"Just simple adding Suzy! I keep a written record of everybody's score and weekly tips....so I just work from that. And anybody who misses the first game, gets a 10 point penalty added to whomever got the highest margin that week......simples!
Just for record...my maths isn't that great either...but I can add! :)
I’ve always liked maths, I was lucky to have a really good teacher.Didn’t really like the bathtub-filling problems but loved algebra because it’s a sort of code.
theDuke wrote: "suzysunshine7 wrote: "Just simple adding Suzy!"Yes, I get that and I can do that, Duke! - LOL!!! ;o>
What I mean is I don't understand where the Points come from to be added up?
I can do basic Maths - but I don't understand the actual process of working out just how to put a particular kind of sum together to get an answer - if that makes any sense?
Lez wrote: "I’ve always liked maths, I was lucky to have a really good teacher.Didn’t really like the bathtub-filling problems but loved algebra because it’s a sort of code."
I was utterly hopeless at algebra......adding with letters...just not cricket! :)
suzysunshine7 wrote: "theDuke wrote: "suzysunshine7 wrote: "Just simple adding Suzy!"Yes, I get that and I can do that, Duke! - LOL!!! ;o>
What I mean is I don't understand where the Points come from to be added up?
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Er..well..i think so!
Points come from whatever correct tips a player had got...and then one just adds that to their overall tally....same goes for the margins...if a player tipped 45 point advantage for one team and that team has won, but won the match by 25 points, then there's a difference of 20 points to the player's overall margin tally...so say, Player 'A' has 136 points total from all previous rounds, 20 points is then added for that week = 156 points.
If a player tipped a team to win in the first game, and that team lost...say by 15 points to the other team....then that 15 points is added to whatever margin the player put down for the other team...eg. Tigers v Hawks, Hawks to win by 15 points. Tigers wins match by 10 points, 15 points added to 10 points equals 25 points, which is then added to the player's overall margin tally.
Hope that make some sense! :)
theDuke wrote: "Anybody watching the snooker of late? For the first time in something like 20 years, I've started watching it again...cos a Welshman is in the final! G'wan Williams! :-)Quite an exciting semi fin..."
Lost interest in snooker roughly about the same time as Jimmy White stopped playing. Gutted he never beat the sulky Steven Hendry, and he was a 'leftie', up the lefties!
Awww bless you for that full explanation, Poppet! ;o>I will have to keep on reading that to see if any of it sinks in? - as at the moment my Brain just goes ... "ARRRGGGHHH!!! - MATHS!!!" ... and desperately wants to think about something else entirely instead! - LOL!!! But I will keep on trying though!
I don't know why I can't manage to make much sense of such things? - but I have been told that it is linked in to me also being Dyslexic ;o>
Duke ,we stayed up to watch ,hoping Barry from Ditton ,a nearby village ,would win.It was avery good match.
Right, I got in with seconds to spare last week, so let's get this in while it's fresh in my mind.Hawks 33
Eagles
Bombers
Demons
CROOOOOWS
Dogs
Dockers
Tigers
Pies
Cheers Val, and good luck everyone.
TheFoe wrote: "theDuke wrote: "Anybody watching the snooker of late? For the first time in something like 20 years, I've started watching it again...cos a Welshman is in the final! G'wan Williams! :-)Quite an e..."
Ahhh..good old Jimmy..it's a shame he never quite made it to a world champion. He was my old man's favourite player; I for reasons long since forgotten, liked Steve 'ever sooo interesting *yawn!*' Davis! But there were so many great characterful players back then, like John Parrot, Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins...Willy Thorn, Eddie Charlton, Joe Johnson, Tony Knowles, Terry Griffiths (remember him singing his welsh lullabys?!), Bill Werbeniuk (who used to drink 16 pints a day!) & Dennis Talyor's jokes (& not forgetting those specs too!)...and so on.
It was so different back then in the '80's; sponsorship & advertising was nearly all by Tobacco companies....the players could drink & smoke during games (Alex Higgins was famous for chain smoking during matches!).....the players just had so much more character in those days. Then the likes of Steven Hendry and his ilk cam e along in the 1990's, and they were all so boring! I lost interest in the game after that. Hendry has one of those faces I just wanted to slap! :)
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Awww bless you for that full explanation, Poppet! ;o>I will have to keep on reading that to see if any of it sinks in? - as at the moment my Brain just goes ... "ARRRGGGHHH!!! - MATHS!!!" ... and..."
Lol! Sounds like you might also have the mathematical equivalent of the literary condition, called dyscalculia.
I wonder what it's called for those that cannot fathom algebra?!
You know, I once wanted to be an engineer..but had to dump that idea, when I was faced with trying to do sums with letters....it just doesn't make any sense to me at all. How can one work out an equation...when one doesn't know what the values of any of the letters are?
Algeminusabra? ... ! ... (*giggles*) ;o>x NN x ST x SD x
Good as term as any! lol! Night night Suzy.xxxxx
gaun john higgins! even if he is a celtic supporter (if he wins, as in the past, the trophy will be paraded at celtic park)there's never been a snooker player to match the 'hurricane' for outrageous skill and unpredictable nature! can you honestly imagine what would happen to a modern day player if he stookied the tournament organiser, or took a streamie in one of the ornamental plant pots - genius!
anyhoo,swans by 5
giants
bombers
demons
crows
bulldugs
dockers
tigers
cats
cheers val, good luck y'all
Tech wrote: "gaun john higgins! even if he is a celtic supporter (if he wins, as in the past, the trophy will be paraded at celtic park)there's never been a snooker player to match the 'hurricane' for outrage..."
Looks like it's going to the wire Tech! Just 2 frames left and the Welsh potting machine is ahead...just! Crikey he dun 'alf miss some easy shots....and then gets the hard ones....v v exciting! :)
And the Welshman takes the trophy..woohoo! ;-)
acht well, never mind! it'll save those celtic supporters even more smugness! :)
I remember always rooting for whoever played Davis and that final Taylor/Davis frame where the match hung on the black - and both, crumbling under the pressure struggling to pot it - was a bit dramatic. Also remember getting a tad overexcited when Joe Johnson won too; whatever happened to JJ? Have always gone a bit over the top when sporting results go my way. England vs Holland in '96 and Owen's classic goal against Argentina in '98 stand out when it comes to mental celebrations. When Buster Douglas turned over Tyson, I was doing some kinda demented conga around the sofa! Nigel Benn finally overcoming McClellan (who's injuries later put the whole thing a little more into perspective) in that most brutal of battles even resulted in me kissing the screen of the TV... which maybe wun't have been too bad if it'd been my own; I watched the fight at a mate's house, with his mother looking on!!
Anyone else get a bit carried or are yer all a tad 'serene' when it comes to the viewing of sporting deeds?
Punt to follow...
Bloody hell, what's up with me, getting all conversational-like? Must be the sunshine! : )Sydney 19
West Coast
Essendon
Melbourne
Adelaide
BULLDAWGS
Fremantle
Richmond
Collingwood
Cheers Val.
I once tried to 'stand by my man' and to show my support for his beloved Football Team by giving a spontaneous whoop of joy and doing a bit of a happy dance all around the Lounge in front of the TV after a goal.And yep! - you've surely guessed it?! ... it turned out that it wasn't his precious Team that scored! - and so he went nuts and then actually refused to talk to me for whole of the rest of the day!!! - LOL!!! ;o>
SWANS BY 32Eagles
Bombers
Demons
Crows
Bulldogs
Dockers
Roos
Cats
Blastronaut Mk2 wrote: "I remember always rooting for whoever played Davis and that final Taylor/Davis frame where the match hung on the black - and both, crumbling under the pressure struggling to pot it - was a bit dram..."Hi Blastro. I have been known to scream obscenities at the tv screen if I'm watching Spurs, Bournemouth or England, and they're losing because they're playing crap. My father in law, a big Liverpool fan, has been known to throw the tv remote across the living room before.
I remember watching a boxing match here in Blandford and shouting in a druken state, words of 'encouragement' to the local fighter. After a while, a pretty pissed off trainer looked at me and said, "Whose side are you on?", to which I replied "Our one". The trainer shook his head in an exasperated way and I remained silent, whilst feeling pretty stupid, for the remaining match. :-(
"a bit carried away"you forget, blastro, that i'm a killie supporter, and in the not too distant past (not now obvs!) we'd get excited if we won a throw-in! not being able to attend the match, i did go nuts when dieter von tornhout (who?) scored the only goal of the 2012 league cup final against celtic! sweet!
it's funny tho' with steve 'interesting' davis. when he was playing you'd cheer on hitler to beat him, but now i find him a wonderfully engaging and 'interesting' commentator on a number of subjects. practically an expert in dance music too.
Turning to tennis, I love the commentary by Pat Cash and Lleyton Hewitt - very insightful. However, as players, I found them both boors.Other way round, liked Jim Courier as a player - drives me demented as a commentator.
Thanks for all the kind comments, glad to have broken my duck Now if only the Lions could do the same;Hawks 24
Giants
Bombers
Demons
Power
Lions!
Dockers
Tigers
Cats
Hawks x 12Eagles
Bombers
Demons
Crows
Dogs
Dockers
Tigers
Cats
Thanks Val.
Hawthorn Hawks #12GWS Giants
Essendon Bombers
Melbourne Demons
Adelaide Crows
Western Bulldogs
Fremantle Dockers
Richmond Tigers
Geelong Cats
Suze - I shall get me other half to look at your post as an exercise in patience with a loved one's sport. Ok it went a bit South in the end but yer heart was in the right place. : )Foe - I'm with ya on that one dude, I mean if a fighter (or his trainer) can't deal with crowd support for his opponent, he's in the wrong sport really.
FIL a Liverpool fan? Hmm, disown him immediately! : ) Actually credit where's it's due, their European exploits are sometimes fantastic and I'll be rooting for em against Real. Gotta love Klopp's policy - just make sure we score more than they do and sod the rest!
Tech - 'Excited at a throw-in' ha ha, love it! Could be worse believe me - Chesterfield have been dumped out of the Football League full stop. Always been used to town bouncing between the two bottom tiers, y'know, promotion followed by relegation followed by promotion and so forth, but this... a tad hard to swallow.
Hawks x 43Eagles
Bombers
Demons
Crows
Dogs
Freo
Tigers
Pies
Thanks Val
Hawthorn x 7GWS
Essendon
Melbourne
Port Power
Western
Fremantle
Richmond
Collingwood
Swans by 13Giants
Blues
SUNS
Power
Lions
Saints
Roos
Magpies
Game On! - and Good Luck Everyone! ;o>
Some tough choices in this round...still not confident me Giants have got what it takes to beat West Coast, despite having won 10 out of the last 11 games at home & the Hawks v Swans match should be close one too...anyhoo here's mine...Hawks - 6
Eagles
Bombers
Demons
Crows
Lions
Freo
Tigs
Cats
Edited again cos I mucked it up on both posts! 2nd post deleted.
