Haha, interesting perspective... and one that I got on the right side of last year.matrixcutter wrote:hmm
tip against ya side
they win
u drop further down the tips ladder.
u cop s*** for not picking ya team and them winning
pick us
Time to share a little story.
I won two tipping comps last year, one at the local pub for a few hundred, and a customer loyalty one at a retail store that scored me two grand's worth of merch.
Noice.
Anyway... the store manager shared this with me at the end:
This was my little story back to him:You've been killin it this year!
Now...about the Saints...I don't remember saying that, BUT, a comment like that would definitely have been said in front of our very own xxxx, as he and I have an ongoing bet about Saints making the GF. Now I am actually worried about it!
Had some beers with a bunch of tippers on Olympic opening night (was doing a gig, and had a few friends drop in). A couple were in the top 10 at that stage... They were talking of you, like you were uncatchable. They had you worked out as an Essendon supporter, and were even analysing what you may tip the next round...and how they would catch you. Alas one of them fell right down, the other finished reasonably well, but down from the 4th he had at the time.
I had a ball watching it unfold this year, and look forward to seeing you. Gimme some warning so I can make sure I've got the camera loaded
So here we are 11 months later, facing the Crows again at Docklands. That line call I made last year won me two tipping comps. The store comp I won on margin estimates - I was neck and neck on 130 tips.I remember that upon telling you the team I barrack for is the Saints, you replied "God help you"... perhaps both the Saints and myself had a little divine intervention...
After setting up a comfortable two-point lead in round 15 I watched it gradually whittle away until xxxyyy and a number of others were hot on my heels. What had gone wrong? I scoured the individual rounds' tips looking for a pattern.
Adelaide.
I had tipped against the Crows, and lost, two or three times straight. It was round 21, and I had a dilemma - do I tip them to win against the Saints, or hope to hell that my team comes up? It looked like a 50-50 decision from the front side. In agony, I decided to put my tipping fate in the hands of my team. If they bombed, I would share their fate.
Thankfully for me, my faith was rewarded. I resolved not to underestimate the Crows again, so with their final game against the Bulldogs - another apparently 50-50 contest - I backed them, and came through. And in a final double twist of personal irony, my boys the Saints pipped the Crows for 4th by a slim margin, while I held onto my ladder position by a comparably slim margin. Clever tipping, or the workings of some greater design... ?
As for xxxyyy - he whittled that margin down quite radically in the last 2 rounds, especially R22 with upsets on both margin games - he actually tipped Freo but backed the Dogs against Adelaide! It was his tips I was analysing when I realised I was underrating the Crows as he had backed them thru rounds 18-20! That would probably kill him if he knew.
But don't listen to me... I'm doing terribly this year!
In the words of Malcolm Blight...I don't give a rats toss bag about your footy tips !
