Wonder if they were footy shorts?

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Tipping Comp is Set Up

Aye, Standard.

• As per last year I will be 'hosting' the comp at http://www.oztips.com/
• The blog is king - no (few) emails to be sent.  It is easiest if you sign up to the blog... go on.
• Bonus points this year for
• Picking the round in which B Hall gets his first suspension (2 points)
• Standard 2 x Grand Final and 1 x Spooner selections (3 points per correct tip, -2 for a pick that finishes in the opposite half of the table)
• Knockout Side Comp as per last year with some restrictions on games to be picked in the event I decide it is dragging out a little... 
• 1 point per correct tip (8 points for a draw)
• $30 entry - payable before start of Round 4 (no exceptions)
• Prizes to be confirmed depending on numbers
• Tipping includes all finals (1 point per tip)
• Tipping available until 5 minutes before each individual game - therefore no excuses for 'forgetting' tips

Join Up sooner than later I say...

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Comp Name: Horseboy's 2010 AFL Tipping Competition - The Best in the World (c) 
Comp #: 194630 
Comp Password: Best 
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2010 Is Coming

Much like the Blues of 2009, 2010 is Coming.  Well actually it is here.  Unlike the Blues who are spending most of their time sucking back the Nurofen after a few post-season, pre-season, post-training session, pre-training session bevvy runs. 

With the Escort Cup starting in just a few weeks, it's time to start thinking about your Grand Finalists and Spooner.  Oh, and if you want to be in the finest tipping comp in the land.  But then if yer reading this yer probably already there.

At this stage there will be no real changes to the comp - much like the Crows circa 2010, if it is just finishing puberty (or is approaching 35), don't change it.  Entry will be the same as last year - $30 - but I will be stricter about paying this year and I will have a little list of people who still owe me on the right hand side of the blog, so there are no excuses.  The beginning of Round 4 will be the cut-off.  BANG!  Which is precisely the round that I predict B Hall to play his last game of AFL Football.  Speaking of which... there is a bonus point for predicting which round he goes out in - yep, one bonus point if you can name the round in which B Hall gets suspended for one week or more in.

Get thinking...

Happy New Year!

Aye! So it's time to start working out who is gonna play the Crows in the Grand Final....

Tribute to Matthew Richardson

Gold!

Only too true!

Things Bogans Like

Fev's BOG

So the story goes...

This is the summary of Fev's night from a player and a journo.

1. Punched out Marc Murphy
2. Pushed Rebecca Twigley to the ground when she tried to restrain him from attacking a security guard.
3. Sexually assaulted a female journalist.
4. Was involved in an incident with Gibbsy's girlfriend which left her in tears.
5. Had the 2IC of the AFL Adrian Anderson in a headlock (along with James Brayshaw)
6. Abused Warren Tredrea, along with other high standing opposition players/officials
7. Swore/abused Chris Judd repeatedly when he attempted to have words to him.
8. Exposed himself to Rebecca Twigley asking her to accept it orally
9. Punched a Channel 9 producer (don't know who)
10. Felt up Demetriou's wife (might explain why he came out saying Fev had to clean up his act)

DAMNIT!

Centrals have won 8 Grand Finals over the last decade... RUBBISH!!!!!

http://www.sanfl.com.au/news/sanfl_news/1010/

Winners...

By the way... if you would like your $$$ you need to contact me!

Cheers

Tippett!

You little beauty! ;)

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/85655/default.aspx

The Mighty Double Blues

GO YOU GOOD THING!

Yes, while the Fev shops himself around for a new home, while Lovett agrees with Daaaaaaaave that Knights is the 2nd worst Coach in the AFL, and while every player at the Paaaaaaah tries to find a reason to live, the Mighty Double Blues will take on Centrals this Sunday!

Apparently... "To tune into the SANFL Grand Final this Sunday, those with the suitable technology can tune into Channel 22 on a D1 satellite."

Carn the Blues!!!!
http://www.sturtfc.com.au/
http://www.sanfl.com.au/

It's All Over Now.

What a huge game eh? Of course it has all been written about ad infinitum and you are all over it. Indeed, all you are really interested now is WHERE IS MY MONEY?! To see where you finished on the ladder, scroll down a little. Congrats to Line in the Sand.

But I like to give my $1.50 worth, and so to the footy.

Many amongst you seemed lured by the fairytale that was the Sinners winning their first Premiership since 1966 - beating the Pies by 1 point. Surely after a year in which the Sinners were clearly the best (or second best - behind the Crows), they deserved to win. An unbiased person would think this only fair. Well, no. I quite enjoyed the thought that they would continue LOSING. Over the last 5 weeks The Sinners have become a team of players that continuously fell over at the slightest touch, and no one has called them on it. They literally stumbled into the Grand Final on the back of a free kick that would have made Lloydy blush, and they continued it on in the Grand Final assuming we wouldn't notice. Well my friends I will call them on it. They were soft. When they weren't missing sitters, they were looking for free kicks, falling over faster than a 90 year old in a taser attack. Nicky Riewoldt continued to be the prime example - and the final hurdle they fell before completion was the Grand Final. Sucked in.

Of course nothing prepared me for the Gold that was lil Stevie Milne's performance. If they handed out medals for worst performance in a Grand Final, there is no doubt they would call them "The Leon Davis", and Milney would have gone to bed with a Leon hanging around his neck. Couldn't happen to a nicer bloke eh? Even I was getting tired of calling out 'Kick it to Milney' by the end of the game! Actually that is a lie. I never tired of it, and he never let me down.

Chappers won the Norm Smith. No, he wasn't lucky but were there any standouts? 1.5 quarters of footy on less than that many legs.

All in all it was a great game and the best team of the last 3 years won it.

That of course brings us to the end of the Comp. These bluddy twilight games killed me but I will try and put in a solid pre-season and get things on track for next year.

My favourite moments? Well I am a fairly one-dimensional kind of guy so when my team ain't winning, I look for highlights in other peoples lowlights...

• Ports failure after their cockiness all pre-season. I could never work out why they were cocky given their team was full of old wood and players not prepared to go hard.
• Milney's Grand Final performance. As the Fauves once sang... Celebrate the Failure!
• The Hawks missing out. They were the luckiest Premiers ever and my how I chuckled.
• Dave Cassell'hoff's never ending tirade against Poor Matty Knights... indeed, he was the KnightRider.
• But the real highlight was of course that the two best teams making the Grand Final. If my team can't make it then ya can't ask for more.

I will send out the standard email just before the Pre-Season comp. If you have any suggestions for improving the comp then feel free to send me an email. I will continue using the blog to send out the updates during Season 2010 - emails come and go, but my blog ID shall remain the same...

Cheers and thanks for being a part of it.

Horseboy

The Ladder. The Prizes.

CONGRATULATIONS TO LINE IN THE SAND!!! That is TWO in a row for the big fella. Something his Hawks couldn't manage. Equal second were Grunter and The Nipster. $250 going straight into Grunters Trust Fund as overseen by his wonderful Father of Truth aka Horseboy! ;) Mother of Grunt aka 101 manages a neat 4th, while Shockeroo - courtesy of two selected draws - finished in 5th. Unbelievable.

Maddstarr picked the Sinners and fell out of the Top 10. As the Ponyboy Winner, she gets her money back - Well done Maddy - you can comfort yourself with the knowledge that you absolutely smashed yer dad (Pizerule).

You want yer money? Drop me a line and I will do my best to get you yer very own AFL Sponsored Stimulus Payment.

	Name	Total	$Main	$Side
1	line in the sand	145	$500.00
2	Grunter07	143	$250.00
2	The Nipster_2009	143	$250.00
4	101	141	$150.00
5	Shockeroo	139	$90.00
6	Footy Junkie	138	$65.00	$50.00
6	C.R.B.	138	$65.00
8	bjak	137	$50.00
9	the-falcon	136	$35.00
9	Horseboys a Crowsboy	136	$35.00
11	Maddstarr	135	$30.00	JnrWin
11	Muchacho1	135
11	TreeFiddy	135
14	jchr2041	133
15	Luke (the cute one)	131
15	Chris Judd's Hair	131
17	The Anti-Dave	130
17	DrizaBone	130
17	jklh	130
20	chickie_babe	129
21	gutterguard	128
21	ONCE GREAT	128
23	Home Park Streak	127		$140.00
23	mozza53	127
23	Fava Beans	127
23	pavsthaman	127
27	FlaminGalah	126
27	hooksters	126
29	Asylum Seeker	125
29	Hobomobo	125
31	Avoid Heathrow_0	124
31	kschafer	124
31	WildJohny	124
34	Kermit the Frog	123
34	PavPaaaa	123
36	Go Jana Love Tasmyn	122
36	hschafer	122
38	ruby2shoes	121
39	Judge Dredd	120
39	RedHotChilli	120
41	Pizerule	119
41	D Master	119
43	NQC09	115
44	Lady of the West	114
45	Dolores16	113
46	Nelson Rocks The Party	111
47	crowsfc	109
48	Bampo42	108
49	Chooka	107
50	jojomojo	103
50	Synneee	103
52	MadJacob	101
53	Paulverisor	101
54	Doorknob	96
55	The Mr Miyagis	86
56	beandmor	79
57	Deans & Erin	60

Results and Write Up

Whatta Game! The tipping comp results and the write up will be all yours soon... well. Monday night. You gotta give me a LITTLE time to recover from the game eh?

The Grand Final

Yes Ladies, It Is Here. Better Late than never. or not.

The Second and Third best teams of 2009 get to play off in what should be an absolute ball-tearer of a Grand Final. Could we have wished for anything more? Ace match-ups on every line, and some of the ugliest men in football taking pot-shots at eachother. Just how ugly would it be if Goddard and Ling had a car accident? "Sorry gov, we are pretty sure their heads smashed through the windscreen... it doesn't appear to be broken but NO one is that ugly..."

What is missing is the Fev. Yes, after the BrownlowGate, he has been banned from the MCG motorcade on Saturday by the AFL. A little harsh me thinks, but maybe they're worried he'll rock up half cut, try and get behind the wheel and take out half the Saints n Cats players before getting out his Sing-Star and mauling a version of 'American Pie'. I still think it couldn't be worse than friggin J Barnes singing 'No Second Prize' and Mark Seymour 'The Holy Grail'. *sighs*

Who WILL be at the ground is a certain Mr M Lloyd. Retiring 3 years too late for my liking. When was the last time an opposition team were genuinely concerned about him? Lloydy has been so crap for the last 3 years, that if he played against Essendon, they would play Fletcher on him. And he NEVER plays on a decent forward.

There are rumours that Lloydy will make a move to the media. I know being articulate isn't necessarily a business case for being there, but have you heard him talk? You may as well ask him to take Anthony Robbins spot as an motivational speaker. "ugh." Yeah thanks Matty. You'd have a room of people feigning the fall forward. And no, that isn't a typo.

Maybe Nicky Riewoldt attended one of his seminars, cos his ability to fall over in the third quarter of the Doggies game was the Softest act I have seen in football since Wakelin faked a broken face after Bickley tried to remove a speck of dirt from his jaw. Apart from Lloydy I don't think a player has fallen so quickly and so pathetically on the field of play. Ever. The Velvet Sledgehammer? You are kidding me aren't you? Did the media just make that up? I'd call him Turkish Delight. Promises so much but bite in and you just end up with a mess all over yer pants.

i don't quite know what that means.

Of course I am not surprised. NR is SOFT. He deserves a spot in the Hall of Shame - "Biggest Girls Blouses Edition". Right next to him would be Malthouse and Licca, and James Hird (get off the bench). CLOWNS all of you. You'd never catch a Crows player crying (unless he had Victorian heritage of course). *sighs*

So, the Cats will win. Despite Mooney. To be a chance, Koshitsme has to do something he hasn't done for the last 5 weeks - get a possession. The Big K has actually been a good player in 2009 but like the Leon Davis's and Didak's of the world, on come the finals, and on comes the failure. Expect Del Santo to have a good one but Ablett, Selwood, Corey, and about 50 others to have more than enough. Chappers will have a pearler and you just know that the Big J will only get 8 possessions but kick 4 and pass off 4 rippers.

OOF Manzi (dog) also just let off a ripper. DAMN YOU!!!!

ANYWAY... seriously. that is terrible and I can't stay at this keyboard any longer. FARK!!!!! Cats by 34 points.

*glug*

Ladder. One Round to Go - the Grand Final

So, with just one game left to tip - the Grand Final - I have added in your Grand Final bonus points on here, but not on the oztips website. A lot of Geelong was picked, but just two people picked the two Grand Finalists for 2009 - jchr2041, and chickie_babe. Great effort there, and they both pick up 6 points, while the rest of you (well, most of you) pick up 3 points.

What does this mean?

Well, i will let you work it out but with one tip to go, I think we may have a winner. All other spots in the Top 10 are up for change though, so pick wisely as it could be the difference between a $50 and $250 coming your way... Good luck.

	Name	Grand Final Bonus Points	From TipsLadder	Total
1	line in the sand	3	141	144
2	Grunter07	3	139	142
3	The Nipster_2009	3	139	142
4	101	3	137	140
5	Shockeroo	3	136	139
6	Footy Junkie	3	135	138
7	bjak	3	134	137
8	C.R.B.	3	134	137
9	Maddstarr	3	132	135
10	the-falcon	3	132	135
11	Horseboys a Crowsboy	3	132	135
12	Muchacho1	3	131	134
13	TreeFiddy	3	131	134
14	jchr2041	6	126	132
15	Luke (the cute one)	3	128	131
16	Chris Judd's Hair	3	127	130
17	The Anti-Dave	3	127	130
18	DrizaBone	3	126	129
19	jklh	3	126	129
20	chickie_babe	6	122	128
21	gutterguard	3	125	128
22	ONCE GREAT	3	125	128
23	Home Park Streak	3	124	127
24	mozza53	3	124	127
25	Fava Beans	3	123	126
26	FlaminGalah	3	123	126
27	hooksters	3	123	126
28	pavsthaman	3	123	126
29	Asylum Seeker	3	122	125
30	Hobomobo	3	122	125
31	Avoid Heathrow_0	3	121	124
32	kschafer	3	121	124
33	WildJohny	3	120	123
34	Go Jana Love Tasmyn	3	119	122
35	hschafer	3	119	122
36	Kermit the Frog	3	119	122
37	PavPaaaa	3	119	122
38	ruby2shoes	3	118	121
39	Judge Dredd	3	117	120
40	Pizerule	3	116	119
41	RedHotChilli	0	119	119
42	D Master	0	118	118
43	Lady of the West	0	114	114
44	NQC09	0	114	114
45	Dolores16	0	113	113
46	Nelson Rocks The Party	0	111	111
47	crowsfc	3	106	109
48	Bampo42	3	105	108
49	Chooka	0	107	107
50	jojomojo	3	100	103
51	Synneee	3	100	103
52	MadJacob	3	98	101
53	Paulverisor	3	98	101
54	Doorknob	3	93	96
55	The Mr Miyagis	3	83	86
56	beandmor	3	76	79
57	Deans & Erin	3	57	60