AFL Beat 2025 – Round 17 Recap!

This week, we had a lot more perfect weeks in the Tipping Contest. For a moment there, everyone had 8 correct picks! Alas, the final game split the group. Let’s get to it!

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The AFL Ladder

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The AFL Round 17 Results

The AFL Round 17 Highlights

AFL Round 18 Schedule

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AFL Footy Tipping Contest Results

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Notes and Comments

It really looks like we are going to have 9 teams trying to fit into 8 spots. Someone is going to get assed out. At this point, Fremantle is the odd team out, but that’s only on percentage and there’s a lot of footy to be played.

Sydney is the next team up, but they are 3 games behind and their form has been inconsistent at best and atrocious at worst. It would be a hell of an achievement if they could sneak into the Eight.

Port Adelaide is in the same position and it could be argued that they probably have a better chance than Sydney to sneak in. However, they’ve had way to many injuries and I don’t think they will get enough people healthy down the stretch to make a difference.

The Blues, Essendon, and Melbourne are having really bad seasons and the teams are just waiting until they can make tee times. St. Kilda will probably win some games to get back to their customary 10th place finish.

Next week, there are two games that involve teams currently in the Eight. Those are your Games of the Week. I think one home team and over road team will win. Which ones remains to be seen.

A hearty well done to the tippers that had a perfect week. No one got the PERFECT PERFECT week but Sharky backed last week’s with another PERFECT week. Will he do it three weeks in a row?

If you are a member of an AFL club or you got a Watch AFL membership, you should be able to watch every AFL and AFLW game, including replays. Game times vary between Australian afternoon and evening, which actually makes it easier for us in North America to watch as the games can be seeing in the evenings on Pacific Time and early mornings on Eastern time.

If you haven’t become a member of a club or signed up for the Watch AFL app, you can still watch the AFL and AFLW games in the USA on either FS1 or FS2 and in Canada on TSN. Showtimes can be found here on the Australian Football Association of North America website. But I do recommend that you join a club. It’s fun and they send you free shit.

See you next week!