No-one tipped all eight winners over the weekend so the prize pool jackpots to $520 next week.
According to the tipping ratio statistics there were four major upsets: Collingwood (26.2%) set the tone for the weekend when they defeated the Western Bulldogs in a very high standard game that went down to the wire with the Bullies just failing to storm home, losing by a point. Then Essendon (37.9%) defeated Hall-less Sydney (in Sydney). The third upset was Brisbane (31.8%) inflicting another defeat on Geelong after Geelong lost to St Kilda last week, the weight of injuries finally catching up with Geelong. Finally, Melbourne (19.2%) defeated Port Adelaide in consecutive wins, the first time since Adam was a boy.
Fev kicked 9, his personal best, as part of the "Fev Show" including none in the first quarter. Adelaide slaughtered the Dockers, only allowing them one goal. West Coast ran St Kilda close, Hawthorn scraped in against North care of the Buddy Show - 4 goals in the last quarter in the pouring rain!
Meanwhile at the top of the Tipsters' Table Peter Hawting retains a slender one point lead over the pack with an aggregate score of 91. Now equal second/third are
Dropping to outright fourth is
Equal fifth/nineth and a point behind on 88 is a group of five:
The average score for the round was a low 4.49, down 0.07 from last week. The RAT (Random Tipper) tipped 3 and twenty one people (8%) didn't tip.
Tips close at 7 pm Friday.
Tip now to avoid disappointment. You can tip
for the whole season - and then change your tips weekly - to be sure.
Good luck,
Ben Warden
Created: 26th April, 1998
Last Modified: 12 July, 2009