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"BALL UP!" - Val's 2024 Aussie Rules Footy Tipping *Open to Everyone*
Exciting game this afternoon with a draw neither side would have welcomed. Both Crows and Lions will struggle from here to make finals.Dawson for the Crows again showing Swans fans what they are missing as he is the heart of their team.
Today's results:Collingwood Magpies (on hiatus) v West Coast Eagles (Sussex)
4.4.28 (Q1) 1.1.7
11.6.74 (Q2) 3.1.19
14.11.95 (Q3) 3.5.23
15.13.103 (Q4) 5.7.37
Adelaide Crows (on hiatus) v Brisbane Lions (on hiatus)
3.5.23 (Q1) 4.2.26
6.9.45 (Q2) 6.7.43
9.11.65 (Q3) 9.10.64
13.12.90 (Q4) 13.12.90
Two draws in a season! Can't remember when that last happened. As Tim said, today's result has likely scuppered finals chances for both teams.
Our tipsters' ladder is as follows:Round 9 (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)
Philip on 6 (6)
Tim on 6 (10)
Sj Brooke (Steve) on 5 (0)
Duke on 5 (2)
SussexWelsh on 5 (9)
Val on 5 (11)
Suzy on 4 (6)
Anita on 3 (14)
Charity donations are:
To be redistributed at the end of the season - A$7.00 - Highest score (Bulldogs 133)
Steve (Backpack Bed For Homeless) - A$7.00 (closest margin)
Philip (Canteen) - A$12.00 (weekly winner)
CUMULATIVE LADDER:
Val on 53 (284)
SussexWelsh on 53 (292)
Tim on 52 (248)
Philip on 50 (334)
Sj Brooke (Steve) on 49 (257)
Duke on 45 (246)
Anita on 36 (354)
Suzy on 33 (231)
We all benefited from today's draw and you can see how tight we are bunched up. Please check your scores!!!
N.B. PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR TIPS EARLY!!! THERE'S A THURSDAY NIGHT GAME!!!If anyone would like to view the AFL Ladder before submitting next week's tips, it's at http://www.afl.com.au/ladder
or https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/ladder
ROUND 10
Thursday May 16
Gold Coast Suns v Geelong Cats (in Darwin)
Friday May 17
Sydney Swans v Carlton Blues (in Sydney)
Saturday May 18
Collingwood Magpies v Adelaide Crows (in Melbourne)
GWS Giants v Western Bulldogs (in Sydney)
St Kilda Saints v Fremantle Dockers (in Melbourne)
Brisbane Lions v Richmond Tigers (in Brisbane)
Sunday May 19
Essendon Bombers v North Melbourne Kangaroos (in Melbourne)
Port Adelaide Power v Hawthorn Hawks (in Adelaide)
West Coast Eagles v Melbourne Demons (in Perth)
If punters could lodge their tips by midnight WEDNESDAY May 15 (your time) it would be a great help, although I can accept them up until 10.15am THURSDAY (your time) if absolutely necessary.
Every team analysed after Round 9 in just three words.ADELAIDE CROWS: Result they deserved.
BRISBANE LIONS: Result they deserved.
CARLTON: Big wins impossible.
COLLINGWOOD: Back in eight.
ESSENDON: Finally legit... probably.
FREMANTLE: Understandable. Vale Cam. (Cameron McCarthy, former Fremantle and Giants player, died aged 29. Possible suicide)
GEELONG: Truly sleepy hollow.
GOLD COAST SUNS: Second home supremacy.
GWS GIANTS: Suddenly some wobbles.
HAWTHORN: Tassie fortress resumes!
MELBOURNE: Left it late.
NORTH MELBOURNE: Not getting better.
PORT ADELAIDE: Needed for resume.
RICHMOND: An ugly night.
ST KILDA: Nothing going right.
SYDNEY SWANS: The flag favourites.
WEST COAST EAGLES: Bad week. Happens.
WESTERN BULLDOGS: Panic stations averted.
Congratulations Philip and Steve! ... x x
Val, could you check the scores again please...All bar Suzy and Anita, are out by a point. Scores should be 7s and 6s respectively. And the accumulated scores will need correcting too.
Thank you for your vigilance. I managed to completely ignore the Suns' game. In my defence it was Mothers' Day here yesterday and the family took me out for dinner so it was a late night. The order doesn't change but as Duke says, all but Suzy and Anita got an extra point.Hopefully this is correct now.
Our tipsters' ladder is as follows:
Round 9 (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)
Philip on 7 (6)
Tim on 7 (10)
Sj Brooke (Steve) on 6 (0)
Duke on 6 (2)
SussexWelsh on 6 (9)
Val on 6 (11)
Suzy on 4 (6)
Anita on 3 (14)
Charity donations are:
To be redistributed at the end of the season - A$7.00 - Highest score (Bulldogs 133)
Steve (Backpack Bed For Homeless) - A$7.00 (closest margin)
Philip (Canteen) - A$12.00 (weekly winner)
CUMULATIVE LADDER:
Val on 54 (284)
SussexWelsh on 54 (292)
Tim on 53 (248)
Philip on 51 (334)
Sj Brooke (Steve) on 50 (257)
Duke on 46 (246)
Anita on 36 (354)
Suzy on 33 (231)
Please check your scores!!!
All very tight on hte leaderboard. Here goes for next weekCats by 24
Swans
Pies
Giants
Lions
Dockers
Bombers
Port
Demons
Geelong Cats +5Sydney Swans
Collingwood Magpies
GWS Giants
Fremantle Dockers
Brisbane Lions
Essendon Bombers
Port Adelaide Power
Melbourne Demons
..
Cats by 19
Swans
Magpies
Giants
Dockers
Lions
Bombers
Power
Demons
Round 10:Suns - 4 pts (No Hawkins, no Cameron & no Dangerfield and at the TIO, it'll be tight, but i think the Suns will uphold their unbeaten record here)
Swans
Magpies
GWS
Freemantle
Lions
Bombers
Port
Demons
Suzy's tips:Suns x 7
Blues
Crows
Dogs
Saints
Tigers
Roos
Hawks
Eagles
My tips:Cats x 11 (my thinking is the opposite of Duke's - stars out injured or rested means younger player get a chance to show their chops)
Swans (Blues have too many injuries but should still put up a good show)
Pies
Giants
Freo
Lions
Bombers
Port
Dees
Gold Coast x 10Sydney
Collingwood
GWS
Fremantle
Brisbane
Essendon
Port Adelaide
Melbourne
Val wrote: "Suzy's tips:Suns x 7
Blues
Crows
Dogs
Saints
Tigers
Roos
Hawks
Eagles"
Thanks Val! ... I'm afraid I forgot to double-check when the next round started and instead I had it in my Mind that it was due in by tonight for tomorrow ... x
This is Round 10 and Thursday night games will continue until Round 14 (June 14) before we go back to Friday night starts to the round.
Good lord, what has Damien Hardwick put in his players drink? Suzy will be sitting pretty confident with the highest score for this round! Highest score the club has ever had.....strewth!
Val wrote: "This is Round 10 and Thursday night games will continue until Round 14 (June 14) before we go back to Friday night starts to the round."Thanks Val! ... I have just written it on my calendar.
All I have to do now is try to remember to check my calendar! ;o>
Tonight's result:Gold Coast Suns (Suzy) v Geelong Cats (available)
4.3.27 (Q1) 5.0.30
11.5.71 (Q2) 6.2.38
19.7.121 (Q3) 8.7.55
26.8.164 (Q4) 15.10.100
The wonder is that the Cats managed to score 100! After quarter-time the Suns were on fire. I switched off at three-quarter time because there was no way the Cats were coming back from an 11 goal deficit. Both teams were feeling the heat - I think it was about 27 degrees at the first bounce after a top of 35 - and it was probably humid as well. The Cats had no answers tonight. Philip wins $7.00 for Canteen for the closest margin and I'm ready to give Suzy the $7.00 for highest score because the odds of any team beating 164 are very scant indeed.
(*tries to play it cool but gives up and runs around the room screaming*)! ! ! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY ! ! ! ;o>
Hi Val my thoughts were exactly the same. How did the Cats manage to score 100 when they were completely outplayed? The Suns were all over them in every area. Watching it in disbelief in Bulahdelah on my way taking our car to our new home in Brisbane which I will see for the first time later today. The Suns love Darwin and I have to admit I didn't notice the game was set to be played there. Had I done I may have tipped them
I am happy to take my win but I am not sure "closest" is really the perfect word! Maybe "least furthest away" would be better.As for the prize being given to Suzy at this early stage, I think not. I have every confidence that my Tigers will get to 170.....
.... over the next five matches if I am lucky.
Well done Suzy and so good to hear from you again.
Damn! ... I knew getting all excited would jinx it happening! ... (laughs)Hiyah Philip! ... x ... it's good to be back! ;o>
Tim wrote: "Hi Val my thoughts were exactly the same. How did the Cats manage to score 100 when they were completely outplayed? The Suns were all over them in every area. Watching it in disbelief in Bulahdelah..."I think from what i was hearing via the radio commentators, some of the Suns players were clearly suffering from heat fatigue in the humid conditions (despite the club playing their 2nd game in row in Darwin - one would've assumed they had acclimatised by now?) during that last quarter. The Cats were also struggling with the sticky temps too, but the Suns defence was flagging somewhat by then. Geelong actually outscored the Suns in that last quarter, but a few points. Just those last few minutes, the Cats got a couple more goals. They were in danger of suffering their biggest margin defeat against the Suns in that game, which was 83 points i think in 2017. Maybe that spurred them on...and the Suns just let them, but i dunno. Extraordinary game though. I thought that the Suns would get up here, but in a close game...not by a 64 point blowout!!!
Hope that the new house move is going well for you.
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Damn! ... I knew getting all excited would jinx it happening! ... (laughs)Hiyah Philiip! ... x ... it's good to be back! ;o>"
Heya Suzy darling....welcome back again.....do what i do, and write all your passwords in a little black book and keep it somewhere safe, so long as ...er....can remember where it is, that's what i do. No way can i remember every single password to all the websites i use...it's just not humanly possible! lol!
If you get a few minutes, pop in to the other group and say hi....i'm sure the folks in there would be delighted to hear from you again sweetie. :)
Val have you read Nicola Upson's novels? Beautifully written and so evocative of the time using the real life novelist Jacqueline Tey as the centre of the stories. They weave in real events and people such as Alfred Hitchcock into detective novels. Currently reading The Dead of Winter set on St Michael's Mount at Christmas 1938 in a snowstorm. I thought the details of do much snow even in London was over the top for Christmas but 1938 did have a huge snowfall and is recognised as the last major white Christmas covering even London and Cornwall.
so sorry,missed the first oneSWANS
magpies
giants
dockers
lions
bombers
power
eagles
Tim wrote: "Val have you read Nicola Upson's novels? Beautifully written and so evocative of the time using the real life novelist Jacqueline Tey as the centre of the stories. They weave in real events and pe..."
I have not Tim. Don't know her at all. I haven't read Joesphine Tey either. However Glen Eira library has 1 book by Tey and 12 by Upson so I will get round to reserving/borrowing at least some of them soon. I am currently marking time reading short stories because I have four books reserved at the library and I'm just hoping they don't come all at once because there's long queues waiting for them:
- James McBride' s The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (385 pages) - it's taken 5 months for me to get to No.1 and there's 24 people behind (they do have 4 copies).
- Richard Flanagan's Question 7 (280 pages) - I'm third in line with 3 after me (again 4 copies)
- Steven Carroll's Death of a Foreign Gentleman (267 pages) - I'm 4th of 15 reservations (2 copies)
- Andrew O'Hagan's Caledonian Road (641 pages) - I'm 6th in line of 21 reservations (2 copies)
Meanwhile I've got books I've bought - like the latest from Garry Disher and Joanne Harris - just begging for me to make a start. Of course, the library has 2 copies of the latters's sitting on the shelves (Broken Light). If you haven't read her Malbry series (Gentlemen and Players; Different Class; A Narrow Door), I heartily recommend them (must be read in order) - murder in a second-tier boys' public school, and even worse carnage in the staff room - satirical humour.
I recorded a program on the ABC last night "Britain By The Book" - "Mel Giedroyc hooks up with her friend and Dorset local, Martin Clunes, to explore the spectacular scenery and iconic locations made famous by some of Britain's favourite books and films". A one-off I think - it's available on i-view and is repeated sometime in the next few days.
Good luck with the move. I hope the new house fits the bill and that you get settled back into Brisbane life with few complications. I'm off to Hamer Hall tonight to see Audra McDonald and on Tuesday going to see/hear author Bonnie Garmus (Lessons in Chemistry]) at Melbourne Town Hall.
I read Deacon King Kong (James McBride) and The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Richard Flanagan) last year, never having read anything by them before. Very impressed by both and will be reading more.Bonnie Garmus should be good as Lessons In Chemistry was one of the best novels I have read for a long time. Currently reading The Romantic by William Boyd, an author I would thoroughly recommend. I have all of his somewhere in the house.
I should read the Malbry series as I spent 5 years in a second tier boy's public school run by monks which could be a combination of Joanne Harris and Umberto Eco (The Name of the Rose).
I haven't read any James McBride or Richard Flanagan (hanging my head in shame) and I don't know William Boyd either. So many books, so little time..... On the train tonight I started reading Jane Gardam's A Long Way from Verona. I haven't read enough to give an opinion but I've enjoyed her writing style in other titles I've read, especially the Old Filth trilogy. I enjoyed Lessons In Chemistry and was looking forward to the TV series, thinking it was on Netflix, but it's on some other platform I don't have.
Tim wrote: "Val have you read Nicola Upson's novels? Beautifully written and so evocative of the time using the real life novelist Jacqueline Tey as the centre of the stories. They weave in real events and pe..."
I loved the Radio play adaptations of the Inspector Alan Grant books by Josephine Tey ... 'The Daughter of Time' and 'The Singing Sands'
One of Tey's novels is often regarded as the best detective novel of all time . It maybe The Singing Sands but I must get around to reading them. I will try and track down the radio adaptations.
Val if reading Upson try to read in order as stories do develop with threads running through.
What about the game last night? I thought the Swans were out of it at 27 1 down after 10 minutes. Turning point was Carlton missing from about 15m out in front of posts when it should have been a 50m penalty which would have been right in front and no chance of missing. Swans picked up from that and were only down by 9 at the end of the first quarter and never looked back.
I think there could be other episodes of Britain by the Book but like you we recorded it and will watch in Melbourne tomorrow before driving back again with cats to Brisbane on Monday. That will be fun I think not. Whilst we have many friends in Brisbane we have never lived there but we know about the heat. One couple in particular are members at QPAC and are looking forward to going to productions with us. We will miss the Arts Centre in Melbourne
Tim wrote: "One of Tey's novels is often regarded as the best detective novel of all time . It maybe The Singing Sands but I must get around to reading them. I will try and track down the radio adaptations.
..."
I am never sure if shared links will work in other countries. I know Val has told me a few times that UK website links will not work for her and so sharing one of those will probably be useless for you in Melbourne and Brisbane. However I was just looking online and found this and was wondering if this link for the BBC Radio adaptations might work instead? ...
https://archive.org/details/JTeyBBCr4...
Thank you very much. Certainly works. Victoria and I need something to listen to on our drive north from Monday and this will certainly fill the bill.
Wonderful! ... I hope you find them as enjoyable as I did ;o>
I haven't checked the link yet Suzy but I suspect it's the one where I've spent many happy hours listening to episodes of My Word. I think it's the one BBC site that is available to overseas listeners (viewers have no hope). I was brought up on radio plays and serials. I was already a reader but I started on adult books as a result of serialisations of Nevil Shute's The Chequerboard and Frances Parkinson Keyes' Dinner at Antoine's. And I only have to hear The Coronation Scot to recall happy evenings with Mum and Dad listening to Paul Temple.BTW, Audra McDonald was sensational last night. She is a beautiful soprano (must have been a tough decision between opera and Broadway) but also very natural and funny. She joked about playing her "soprano card" when needed and being a resident of "Soprano Island" - where there is a hierarchy: she herself is only on the Education Board, Barbara Cook holds a higher office, but Leontyne Price is the President. Patti LuPone (who I will see for the third time next month) has her own island. The set list varied between show tunes and songs like It Isn't Easy Being Green. Hearing 2500 patrons in the Hamer Hall belting out I Could Have Danced All Night was quite the experience. For anyone who doesn't recognise the name Audra McDonald, she is possibly familiar as playing partner Liz Lawrence in the wonderful TV series The Good Fight.
And if anyone is worried about my musical tastes, I spent half an hour on Ticketek yesterday to secure tickets to Childish Gambino next February.
Last night's result:Sydney Swans (Anita) v Carlton Blues (available)
3.6.24 (Q1) 5.3.33
7.8.50 (Q2) 5.6.36
14.12.96 (Q3) 7.9.1
17.15.117 (Q4) 9.11.65
Philip wrote: "I should read the Malbry series as I spent 5 years in a second tier boy's public school run by monks which could be a combination of Joanne Harris and Umberto Eco (The Name of the Rose)...."I don't think St. Oswald's Grammar School for Boys is quite in the Umberto Eco mould but you might find some similarities in the staff and students. The books are well-written, have quite twisty plots and sly humour. I'd hope you find yourself cheering on Roy Straitley, the old-school Latin teacher who faces Classics being abolished, the honour boards taken down and girls admitted - whatever happened to tradition????
Crickey......the Lions almost got there!Getting worried about my Giants though...something isn't right in that club.
Today's results:Collingwood Magpies (on hiatus) v Adelaide Crows (on hiatus)
4.2.26 (Q1) 3.1.19
8.2.50 (Q2) 6.3.39
11.4.70 (Q3) 8.5.53
12.6.78 (Q4) 11.8.74
GWS Giants (Duke) v Western Bulldogs (on hiatus)
2.1.13 (Q1) 0.5.5
4.4.28 (Q2) 4.9.33
4.7.31 (Q3) 5.15.45
6.7.43 (Q4) 8.22.70
St Kilda Saints (Tim) v Fremantle Dockers (available)
2.0.12 (Q1) 3.2.20
5.3.33 (Q2) 5.6.36
7.5.47 (Q3) 6.11.47
8.7.55 (Q4) 9.18.72
Brisbane Lions (on hiatus) v Richmond Tigers (Philip)
7.4.46 (Q1) 0.5.5
13.5.83 (Q2) 2.6.18
21.6.132 (Q3) 4.6.30
26.7.163 (Q4) 6.8.44
I didn't watch a lot of today's games but I'm struck by the Dogs scoring 22 behinds and Freo 18 (luckily they both won their games). The Lions very nearly overtook Suzy's Suns for highest score. On the results so far this season, you wouldn't have credited two such high scores in one round.
Giants season has really turned. A lot of injuries but they were unbeatable a few weeks back and now only manage 43 at home and as Val pointed out the Dogs had 22 behinds!
Tim wrote: "Giants season has really turned. A lot of injuries but they were unbeatable a few weeks back and now only manage 43 at home and as Val pointed out the Dogs had 22 behinds!"That's a lot of posteriors! :)
Two results so far, the Eagles and Demons are just coming up to quarter time. Bah humbug to the result in Adelaide - the Hawks led all game and I would love to have the Port crowd silenced.Today's results:
Essendon Bombers (Val) v North Melbourne Kangaroos (Steve)
4.2.26 (Q1) 2.2.14
7.5.47 (Q2) 6.4.40
15.7.97 (Q3) 8.4.52
16.10.106 (Q4) 10.6.66
Port Adelaide Power (available) v Hawthorn Hawks (available)
1.1.7 (Q1) 6.2.38
4.4.29 (Q2) 8.3.51
7.6.50 (Q3) 12.6.78
11.14.80 (Q4) 12.7.79
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