This week, it was a brutal week in the Tipping Contest. No more all correct picks! Luckily, everyone was on the same boat as there were lots of upsets. Let’s get to it!
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The AFL Ladder
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The AFL Round 18 Results
The AFL Round 18 Highlights
AFL Round 19 Schedule
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AFL Footy Tipping Contest Results
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Notes and Comments
It is still looking like we are going to have 9 teams trying to fit into 8 spots. This week, Western is the odd team out, but there’s a lot of footy to be played.
Sydney is the next team up and they are now only 2 games behind thanks to this week’s clutch road win over St. Kilda. Port Adelaide is also only two games behind after beating West Coast.
There are six games left, so a two game deficit can certainly be overcome, but someone in the to nine will need to falter. Who will it be? The 8th place Docker’s take in #1 Collingwood while #9 Western goes against #2 Brisbane. The door is open for Sydney and Port…
The rest of the ladder is just playing the schedule out trying to plan for next year. A lot of young guys will be getting playing time and a lot of players will effectively be auditioning for new jobs.
Next week, your Game of the Week is Adelaide hosting Gold Coast. I don’t think Gold Coast has been this high in the ladder this late in the season in their entire existence!
As mentioned above, it was a tough week for the tipping. There is now a three-way tie for third place. The best part is two of those three are related by marriage. THAT’S GOOD FAMILY RIVALRYING!
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See you next week!
The bottom 7 teams have a total of 4 wins over the last 5 weeks. That’s 4/35. Just wretched, especially considering those teams play each other occasionally
Fuckballs.
Yeah, that was a real kick in the lady-nuts
What a fucking pass that was!
Broom-ian, even.
Hippo, what’s your take-the Eye-tals dominated the 1st half and Norway is all pressure in the 2nd. Coaching/strategy assessment? Norway fitter? Finding cracks in the D? (heh)
It’s like a bell rang for Valkyries when they went down. Sometimes, seems that just happens? If was tactical, I no recognizze.
Damn, there’s no quit in those pale bitches.
Jesus Christ, Norway. Never send a blonde to do a brunette’s job!
The Swarthies have taken the lead. This is NOT a drill.
As I noted previously, it’s always sad to watch the lovely, exciting Nordic sides die off one by one. But such is knockout futbol.
Those in Maths Is Hard – commish just e-mailed ya. Hippo will return for like his 27th season or so, everyone needs Dead Money guy.
Any potential recruits (IF YOU DARE) let me know.
Looking forward to it!
My money is on those lilly-white gals from Norway rather than those swarthy Italians.
#7. I want to stand behind her and massage her shoulders, smell her lucious, dark Valkyrie hair. NOT CREEPY AT ALL I AM SURE
Geelong’s schedule the rest of the way out is a joke, so they don’t have to worry about anything except not being ready for finals.
Yup. It’s pretty hilarious!
/watching The Cut-Throats (1971)
Movie: [opens with a guy roping a tree stump]
Me: “Ok, it’s a Western.”
Movie: [A guy in an Union Army uni assaults a woman]
Me: “Ok, it’s a Civil War western.”
Movie: [soldiers in American WW2 uniforms happen upon the assault and a gun battle ensues]
Me: “Wait. What?”
Movie: [segues to a building with a large swastika on it]
Me: “Ok, it’s a WW2 movie but that first part…?”
Movie: [a Nazi guard on patrol at night is shot in the back…with an arrow]
Me: “Oh, c’mon-you’re just fucking with me now!”
OK, I’m looking this one up.
It’s on Fawesome.
edit-I watched the beginning again-I missed a few things
Found a good plot synopsis/review
https://www.mondo-digital.com/cutthroats.html
Incredible write up. Get that person a job as DFO film critic, stat. I’m willing to pay $1 per week.
TRUE DFO FACT! Ballsy’s Aussie coverage is BY FAR the site’s longest running series (as OG as it gets, way back to 2015). Take a counterclockwise bow!
/also since Alex is all svelte and healthy now, we should challenge him to read every Balls AFL update post ever written, and present his findings
//at GREAT length
Although I am not into it I really respect the effort and love the fun it creates for the Clubhouse.
My Balls relevant contribution here today…
Essendon’s performance this week (artist’s conception):
judges also would have accepted this
Oh, Essendon has gone well beyond embarrassment this season.
nods in Carlton Dance