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ROUND 11 UPDATE

G’day Network Ops tipping Legends,

Let’s be honest and admit that you could have spent as much time thinking about your tips this weekend as Gary Ablett Jnr. does combing his hair each morning. And still tipped 7!

This weekend all the obvious favourites got home. With one exception that is!

Bloody Port Adelaide cost me and just about everyone else this week, and I reckon they’re everyone’s least favourite footy club at the moment.

It’s a bit like when a Cadburys Snack block gets devoured at my place, and all my favourites get a jumper except the Turkish Delight squares. I mean they still get eaten, but just after all the others!

Port Power is the Turkish delight square in everyone’s Snack family sized block!

As I was so upset that Port capitulated and in hindsight cost me (and nearly all of you) a perfect 8, I thought I’d run a little survey amongst a few people I know.

In the interests of transparency, and to satisfy IATA requirements, I’ve published the survey question and some of the responses, below.

My survey question surrounded the topic we’re all discussing.

Just exactly how weak are Port Power?

Coolio’s post Round 11 Survey:

Question:

Are Port Power,

a) Useless?

b) Useless chokers?

c) Useless weak chokers?

d) All of the above?

And while we’re talking about Port, here’s something else that smells.......!!!!

‘Balls’ of the week

Round 11 winner – Fevolution

This photographic evidence categorically proves that Network Ops tipper Fev is a worthy winner of the Round 11 ‘Balls’ of the week trophy.

Fev is seen below riding the bull nicknamed ‘Tredrea’ while wearing his Blues no. 25 jumper, at The Newmarket Hotel in Port Adelaide on Sunday night! A mere 6 hours after his Blues humiliated Port.

On a serious note, Fev has been neither seen nor heard from since late on Sunday night. Anyone with any information on his whereabouts should call the Port Adelaide police station. I called them yesterday to see if they’d found Fev yet but the phone kept cutting out when I mentioned Fev’s name.

WEEKLY TIPPER LEADERBOARD POSITIONS

Weekly Tipper Leaderboard Position

WEEKLY WINNERS ARE GRINNERS:

2008 Weekly Winners

Round 11

1^st - Gyanu

When a tipper wins a round, often some secrets are revealed! This week, Gyanu owned up to the fact that her 9 year old son does her tips for her, and is in fact, the tipper Gyanu! It’s getting a little hard to follow the plot here now. Like when I watched Back To The Future!

Apparently the little bloke is a mad keen Carlton supporter too. It’s a shame I couldn’t have gotten to him earlier to convert him to the Magpies, but at least he’s sticking to his guns with the Blues. Let’s just see how he tips this week when the former cellar dweller Blues come up against an Anthony Rocca-less Pies. It promises to be a good contest, and if Dale Thomas decides to pull the boots on for another week, I can guarantee Eddie Betts will have some competition for Goal of the Round!

The Network Ops Nippers ladder gains another tipper in Gyanu from this week, and he’s slotted right into 2^nd spot!

2^nd - JimmyC

JimmyC makes another appearance on the podium. That’s 3 times this season he’s made it in the top 3.

Obviously things aren’t that busy down at CASA, which is probably a good thing for us I guess!

JimmyC is a bit like Mark Webber. Promises a lot and shows potential, but is yet to stand in the winners spot!

3^rd – Virginia Wilson

Ginny popped round last night to watch some girly DVD with the Boss, so I retired to the study (the sleepout room with all the boxes in it) to start this update. While I was in the doghouse, sorry, I mean the study, I overhead Ginny and The Boss talking up their chances in this year’s comp. Ginny for a start, thought she’d won this round after tipping 8. She got close I guess, but 3^rd is not 1^st. They were also salivating over their favourite Brisbane Lions players.

You know, I had no idea that Little Lukey Power was so popular with the ladies! He doesn’t have any earlobes girls! What’s the big deal?

I think I might try and dress up in that silly Panda Bear outfit he wears in that BOQ ad on the tele, and see if it gets me as much attention as he was getting from these two lovestruck Lionesses last night!

THE NETWORK OPS AFL LEADERBOARD

2008 Tipping ladder

Bondy leads the way with an accurate forecast of fine weather ahead. Bondy reckons that as long as El Choco and El Guido stay away, there’s little chance of the Southern Oscillation index returning to higher than average levels of aqueous over the next few months!

Jovanka and The Hand bring up the rear of the occluded front on 71 points.

Reminds me of the time when I went and broke the clock in my mum’s Datsun 120Y the day before the folks were selling it. The old man’s hand spent a few minutes reddening my rear that morning! Ahh the good old days!

Meteorology lesson of the week:

Occluded Front

When a cold front overtakes a warm front.

A developing cyclone typically has a preceding warm front (the leading edge of a warm moist air mass) and a faster moving cold front (the leading edge of a colder drier air mass wrapping around the storm). North of the warm front is a mass of cooler air that was in place before the storm even entered the region.

As the storm intensifies, the cold front rotates around the storm and catches the warm front. This forms an occluded front, which is the boundary that separates the new cold air mass (to the west) from the older cool air mass already in place north of the warm front. Symbolically, an occluded front is represented by a solid line with alternating triangles and circles pointing the direction the front is moving.

The resources contained in this unit are courtesy of Earth Science Australia http://earthsci.org/

THE 2008 HALL OF SHAME

2008 Network Ops AFL Winners Table

(Weekly winner prizes will be paid at the end of the season with the main prizes)

Hall of Shame ‘Mascot of the Week’

This week’s Hall of Shame ‘Mascot of the Week’ is Jared Brennan of the Brisbane Lions.

I wish this bloke Brennan would use two hands. The first year he came on the scene it was funny. Now it’s just a little silly and a little boring.

I guess his coach can’t really say anything to him. He often only used one hand. Or forearm (just ask Neville Bruns!)

‘Spray’ of the week

I went looking for a comment from Alistair Clarkson regarding the spray he gave the reporter from some little Tassie newspaper last weekend, and I thought the best bloke to ask Alistair what he thought he was doing, was Alistair himself. He didn’t appear that happy to see me, but I thought I’d print his reply to my question anyway.

THE NETWORK OPS NIPPERS LADDER

(Where it’s cool to like ‘Wii’ – for all you oldies, it’s pronounced “wee”).

1. Footy Freak97 (66)
2. Gyanu (66)
3. Hot Dog (65)
4. Lil Plugger (65)
5. Iceman (62)
6. Bones (61)

Coolio, how do adjusted and cumulative margins work?

What you need to know about Tipping

· Tips for each game can be entered or edited at any time prior to the nominated game commencement time as published on the site.

· Under no circumstances will tips be accepted after a game has commenced.

· If tippers do not enter tips for a game, round or join after the season has commenced they will be allocated the default score (see below).

What you need to know about Tipper Rankings

· Tippers will be firstly ranked by their weekly score, where the highest score is the highest rank.

· Weekly winners will be determined by the user's weekly score for the round, then by a tippers 'Round Margin' and then by their 'Total Margin'.

· End of season winners will be determined by total score, and then by their 'Total Margin' (and if drawn the Round Margin for that round).

What you need to know about Margins

· The Margin Tippers are required to enter a winning team plus a margin for one game each round (the number of points team A will beat team B by).

Round (Adjusted Margin)

· If you tip the winning Team and their exact winning margin, your 'Round Margin' will equal 0 points/goals (like golf, lower is better).

· If you pick the winning team, but not the winning margin, your 'Round Margin' will equal the difference between the actual game margin and the margin you tipped.

· If you tip the losing Team, your 'Round Margin' will equal the points/goals difference of the actual game margin PLUS the margin you tipped.

Total (Accumulative Margin)

· The 'Total Margin' is the total to date of the Weekly Margins for all rounds in the tipping competition. As with 'Your Margin' the lower your 'Accumulative Margin' is the better ranking you will have.

Housekeeping

I’ve chased up all the entry money – so here are the final prize ‘divvys’

Now that the money’s been counted, and the bookies have been pacified, I can ‘officially’ declare the prizes for this seasons comp.

It’s big money this year, so pull your collective fingers out and start studying the form guide. If you’re tipping poorly, then start studying a different type of form guide! Bluey already has.

Total prize pool = Number of paid up tippers 73 x $20 = $1460

Weekly prizes = 22 rounds x $20 = $440

Remainder of prize pool for end of season winners = $1020

1^st place = $500

2^nd place = $250

3^rd place = $150

4^th place = $70

5^th place = $50