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OK, I’ve been a slack tipper, but I’ve still been following the game and, this week, trying to come to terms with a life without Sheedy as coach. He was appointed in the year that I began barracking for Essendon, so I’ve never known the team without him. There’s so much being written and said [...]

I would like to point out that I am on holidays in Tasmania, which made it very hard for me to post. That geospatial fact was the reason I didn’t post last week. Honestly, it had nothing to do with the fact that I tipped abysmally, nor with the fact that Essendon went down in [...]

I would like to point out that I am on holidays in Tasmania, which made it very hard for me to post. That geospatial fact was the reason I didn’t post last week. Honestly, it had nothing to do with the fact that I tipped abysmally, nor with the fact that Essendon went down in [...]

OK, here are the percentage tips;
(77%) Bombers (19.11 125) Demons (18.15 123) (23%)
(87%) Cats Swans (12%)
(89%) Dockers Blues (11%)
(43%) Lions Power (56%)
(80%) Saints Tigers (20%)
(60%) Crows Eagles (39%)
(49%) Kangaroos Bulldogs (51%)
(37%) Magpies [...]

I’ve had no internet and am only blogging now because I’ve got dialup so was unable to act on my hunch that the Swans would go down to the Collywobbles. Which is a bugger, because I was right. However I did pick the Tigers. Here are the tips, with only the Weagles to play the [...]

It’s completely pissing with rain and Five is moving house. The only plus there is that the soccer was cancelled this morning, but you can imagine that I’m bummed out. Not as bummed out as Central Coast and Newcastle people, but a bit bummed out. And my tips are late. However, I correctly tipped the [...]

Here are the tips - note to readers that both the punters and I are on 50 points each.
(Tip ratio / Price) Home Draw Away (Price / Tip ratio)
(23% / $2.35) Bombers Eagles ($1.55 / 77%)
(65% / $1.77) Hawks Swans ($1.97 / 34%)
(45% / $1.87) Blues Power ($1.87 / 55%)
(60% / $2.00) Lions Bulldogs ($1.75 / 40%)
(44% [...]

I’m currently preparing to go to the SCG on Saturday night, to see Essendon play Sydney. I expect that we Bombers fans are going to have a sad night, but for undying fans like myself hope always springs eternal. At least until the final change.
This week the tipping and punting looks like this:
(Tip ratio / [...]

According to a poll of 57 Sideliners, taken over some weeks, and left to run for ages because nobody thought of a better poll!
The question was, ‘the true national winter sport of Australia is …’ The answer ‘Australian Rules, because it’s truly national’, scored 13 votes. Only three Sideliners answered ‘Australian Rules, because the boys [...]

When I started doing this, it was partly to keep a record of the reliability of bookies’ odds. I wanted to do this to (a) test the strength of such predictions and (b) see if the bookies’ odds could be believed in other fields, such as tipping Federal elections. Keen readers of other blogs, the [...]