NAB Cup First Round

It's here... smell it?  Oops... no... not that... that is the results of some mighty garlic and rosemary snags I had Saturday night.  Smell THIS!  Its the first round of the NAB Cup starting Feb 17.   Same kinda thing as last year - which I seem to be a minority in liking - in that it is 3 shortened games per night.

Can't say it is starting with the best games of all time but it IS pre-season.

Don't forget to sign up for the tipping comp y'all!  Details in the post below.

2012 NAB Cup match order
February 17, Etihad Stadium from 6.45pm:Richmond v North Melbourne, North Melbourne v Hawthorn, Richmond v Hawthorn

February 18, Blacktown from 7.15pm:
GWS v Western Bulldogs, Western Bulldogs v Collingwood, Collingwood v GWS

February 19, Patersons Stadium from 7.45pm: West Coast v Essendon, Fremantle v Essendon, West Coast v Fremantle

February 24, Etihad Stadium from 6.40pm:St Kilda v Sydney Swans, Geelong v Sydney Swans, St Kilda v Geelong

February 25, Metricon Stadium from 7.10pm:
Gold Coast v Melbourne, Brisbane Lions v Melbourne, Gold Coast v Brisbane Lions

February 26, AAMI Stadium from 3.40pm: Port Adelaide v Carlton, Adelaide v Carlton, Port Adelaide v Adelaide

Horseboys 2012 AFL Tipping Carnivale - Open for Business

Welcome!

Tis the new year, new season, new team (GWS), and new tipping host!  Yes, this year we have dropped oztips like a bunch of hot potatoes and moved on to the footytips platform.  Let's hope Yahoo don't buy them as well.

Must admit to not having explored the options fully, but for now you can just sign up at the following location and enter the password which is of course lovecrows - cos I know you all do.

So bookmark the new URL, and get on board.

http://www.footytips.com.au/comps/HorseboysAFL12

Go for it! 

Port Finally Wins a Fight!

Of course they could only win a fight if they were on both sides of it... Power v Power

OzTips Can Go Get F'd!

So after Oztips did things to us last season (I'm sure they are to blame for the Crows demise) I have switched over to the footytips website. 
They do a couple of different sidecomps so I'll change things up a little for 2012... details forthcoming when I know what the huck I am doing :)

2012 Fixtures

Yep they are out there Jerry!

http://media.foxsports.com.au/images/AFL-Fixtures-2012.pdf

Terror In Adelaide

Best Player of 2011?

Mike Sheahan's just brought out his top 50 list and then they had a 'people's list' - what would you vote for? Tell us on the right...

Mike's Ten

1 Scott Pendlebury Collingwood
2 Gary Ablett Gold Coast
3 Travis Cloke Collingwood
4 Marc Murphy Carlton
5 Dane Swan Collingwood
6 Chris Judd Carlton
7 Lance Franklin Hawthorn
8 Joel Selwood Geelong
9 Sam Mitchell Hawthorn
10 Darren Glass West Coast 

The People's Ten

1 Gary Ablett Gold Coast
2 Jimmy Bartel Geelong
3 Lance Franklin Hawthorn
4 Chris Judd Carlton
5 Dean Cox West Coast
6 Travis Cloke Collingwood
7 Matthew Boyd Western Bulldogs
8 Nick Dal Santo St Kilda
9 Adam Goodes Sydney
10 Scott Pendlebury Collingwood

[Click here to see the players on Mike's top 50 list]

You Know It

Even The Worlds Ugliest Man Can Be A Winner

You all know it was a farkin good game so there's not much to tell now, although Daaaaaaaaaave is still walking around telling us how bad the Pies were, how he could see it all, how they are useless.  But halfway through the second quarter he couldn't see how they could lose.  He picked the Pies and after every game this year the Cats were the luckiest team alive.  Lucky they weren't called Essendon.  Rumour has it that Dave is starring in the next series of The One.

So all that's left to tell you is who won what... and the winner was of course DrizaBone who scored an impressive 159 points - 6 bonus points courtesy of the Pies and Gold Coast.  In second was Once Great who leapfrogged Chris Judd's married hair courtesy of 6 BP's v 3 - ahh it could have been all so different if the Paps finished bottom and not the Goldies...  The astute will notice that bjak & judd finished equal third but bjak has more $$ owing - that is because bjak won money in the last side comp.

So for those owed money, please send me your details and I will zap you the money... well done to all - apologies for friggin OzTips but it was out of my hands obviously - next year I will find a different host for the comp.

#	Tipper	TOTAL POINTS	Prize
1	DrizaBone	159	$ 460.00
2	ONCE GREAT	157	$ 230.00
3	bjak	155	$ 200.00
3	Chris Judd's married hair	155	$ 140.00
5	Fava_Beans	154	$  75.00
6	kshafer	153	$  65.00
7	Wildjohny	152	$  55.00
8	CaseyinCH	151	$  45.00
9	MadJakob	150	$  35.00
10	Nelson Rocks	149	$  30.00
11	jklh	148
11	the-falcon	148
13	101	146	$  60.00
13	BrownDirtCowboy	146
15	Zingaroo	146
16	maddzy	145
16	Up for a Milo	145
18	Hooksters	144
18	Pavsthaman	144
20	Mozza53	143
21	D Master	141
21	Synneee	141
21	HirdyGirdy	141
24	Mr Cricket Jr	140
24	PizeRule	140
24	Chooka	140
27	redhotchilli	138
27	Horseboy	138
29	TheChez	137	$ 135.00
29	shockeroo	137
31	gutterguard	136
31	PavPaaa	136
34	Kermitt The Frog	135
33	The Nipsters	135
36	Home Park Streak	134
35	The Anti-Dave	134
37	Carbonara Tax	132
38	Go Jana Love Tamsyn	132
39	hschafer	130
40	Tasmanian Devils	130
41	Dolores16	129
42	Asylum Seeker	126
43	TheJoe	122
44	Judge Dredd	117
45	ruby2shoes	117
46	FootyJunkie	111
47	line in the sand	102
48	Root Veggies	89
49	jchr2041	84
50	beandmor	73
51	crowsfc	68