Footy Tipping

Final scores in the footy tipping comp, according to my records which have been difficult to locate, were as follows-

Robbie         152
Carey           148
Rickyralph   144
Gord            132
Lib               132

Rickyralph congratulated me on my victory over him by email yesterday. He said I won by 2 which differs from my records but I may be wrong as I was away for the last three rounds and submitted my tips before I left and had a devil's job trying to go back over the results and sort it out so I may well have made mistake. In our little private comp the loser buys the winner lunch (and wife) so there's a bit rides on it but it's a good way to keep connected weekly as a fun thing. Rickyralph won the previous four on the trot, now I have 2 on the board and intend to back up again for a threepeat next year.

Hawthorn vs Sydney Grand Final next week is a first in history between those clubs. Hawthorn will be strong favourites but I'll be hoping that Sydney can get up. I'm older enough to remember clearly when Hawthorn had never won a premiership, before September 1961. The only kid in our neighbourhood who barracked for them was Graeme Strachan, later 'Shirley' of 'Skyhooks'. Now every second person follows them and they have won ten premierships. I dislike them they are as bad as Collingwood almost, powerful and arrogant.

Not that I could give a stuff really, the AFL is an insidious money grabbing, contriving monster, and my reluctant interest was ingrained into me from early childhood. I have not been able to purge myself.