Round 10: Anyone Upset...?

Ahhh yes it all started on Friday night with the Sinners n Tiggers duking it out in a tackle free game. Sadly I was out watching The Hard Ons at the Royal Annandale Hotel but by all accounts it was a ripper of a game if you like Gaelic football.  OK OK... that was really Paul Roos who still has a stick up his butt after Demetriou's 2005 comments.  Move on Roosy... Move on.  Lil Jack Riewoldt kicked 8 of the best and the Tiggers snuck home despite Daaaaave putting money on them. That is one hullova battle against the odds.

Speaking of money, one thing I learnt over the weekend should not surprise anyone. Over the last 30 years the Bluebaggers have stolen more players off other clubs than any other team in the comp.  Gibbs n Judd are from the current crop, but of course their infamous salary cap RORTING wasn't that far in the past and Kernas, Braddles, Motley, Diesel Williams, Naley, Rhys-Jones... Jezza... Barassi... and all the way back to Brighton Diggins in 1938.  Yep those dirty dirty BlueBaggers have always been about the money. So no one should be surprised that our resident Blues supporters both put money on the Power on the weekend and seemed quite content to see their team of PRETENDERS slide down that slippery slope. Yep The Falcon and Chris Judds Blue Balls both backed a crappy team of no hopers performing in front of 48 people and 8000 metres of tarpaulin rather than put a lazy 20 on their own team. Unbelievable. No wonder the team doesn't care.  As long as they are making their supporters money, that's good enough.  IPL anyone?  I am just waiting to hear that they have put some hard earned on the Blues to miss the 8. Ding Ding. Get on board. The spirit of J Elliot lives on.

No surprises that the Pies smashed the Suns. Ablett had 53 posessions and Fox Footy's brain trust Kingy pondered if the Suns would be better without him because they are just too reliant. Kingy, you are a clown. STFU.

Franklin kicked 13 against the incredibly inadequate Roos. With every passing week whichever Scott brother it is that coaches them is looking more like an aberration himself.  Meanwhile the other Scott spent the first half of the game against the GWS wondering if he was about to have an aberration of his own.   I don't think it is a coincidence that the 2 NKOTB are staying in the contests until half time and then flagging.  Maybe they both have the same orange supplier?  Anyway The Other Scott didn't need to get the knife out just yet as the Cats made it home comfortably after a tight first half.

And of course the Mighty Mighties tried to make a game of it against the haze before running away with it in the last quarter. I was never nervous. Ryan Crowley is a TOOL of the highest degree - lets hope he gets 12 weeks for being a dick.  And that should be the charge.  None of this 'staging' rubbish being on the charge sheet.  "Ryan Crowley is charged with being 3.5 inches of flaccid penis.  How do you plead?  Who cares. Guilty.  12 weeks and removal of your left testicle." 

Speaking of staging, the Bombers showed the heart of a pea against the Dees. How long is it since the Bombers won a game in June?  Leroy Jetta needs to be facing similar charges to Crowley.  The Dees got off the bottom of the table but I am not thinking they are getting any other wins too soon.

Oh, the Lions beat the Eagles in a pretty damn fine last minute of a game. What a torp! Unbelievable! Still, the beagles won't be too worried and vossy shouldn't be buying a new house too soon.

Tippers
Safe to say if you scored well this week you are probably not doing so well overall... a pair 7's was all it took to be the best peformer this week and Judge Dredd & PavPaaaa were the people in question.  Crow v Paaaaaa Showdown in the heart of Radelaide.  BOOM.

Overall, much like the AFL ladder it is getting tight at the top, with ruby2shoes now equal top with ze Horseboy and 4 others on their tail.  Top 10 will get the cash so stay with it.

In the side comp we had some OUTS with the Dees win.  The top 7 all missed out and go back to the start.  Please remember... your score DOES start again so keep going.  In this comp the Top Three Streaks will get some cash so the scores to beat are now:

1. Owen Bailey 25

2. Tom Rosewall 23

3. The Falcon 22

The highest running streak at the mo belongs to McGyver with 19... steady as she goes.

Round 11
And the first of three split rounds starts.  First up is the game that decides which of Carlton and the Cats will NOT make the finals.  Yep... that would be Carlton v the Cats.  I know... hmmm.  The Cats will be too good and the Blues will go from 2nd to out of the 8 in just 5 weeks.  Shame.

Richmond play Freo and are $1.22 favorites.  How long is it since they were such short price favorites against a decent team?  Big game in that much like the blues/cats, the loser will drop back in the race for the 8.  Home ground advantage to the Tiggs and hard not to back em.

The Bombers are up against the Swanneees... Mumford is back up and running for the Swans, and the last two games between these teams have been under a goal.  The Bombers should recover from their dodgy Dees games to get over the line here, while the Paps host the Hawkers.  Four in a row for the Paps?  They are paying $4 despite winning 3 in a row.  Or maybe it is because the last time they played, the Hawks won by 165 points!  That's almost as many supercoach points as Ablett averages!  Hmmm.  yeah ok... Hawks to win and snuff out the Paps slim finals aspirations.

The Sinners will stay in the 8 courtesy of the Suns, and the Pies will spank the Dees into yesterday.