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And finally...

Collingwood
Kangaroos
Geelong
Adelaide
Hawthorn
Sydney
Richmond
St. Kilda

Would like to add my thanks to Norm for making the comp possible.

Peter

Round 22

Collingwood
Kangaroos
Geelong
Western Bulldogs
Hawthorn
Sydney
Richmond
St. Kilda

And another round of thanks to Norm .. if my methodical systems were runnig this, we'd still be awaiting the results of round ONE!

Glen

Round 22

Collingwood
Kangaroos
Geelong
Adelaide
Hawthorn
Sydney
Melbourne
St. Kilda

And the shop is now closed for the summer.

Just thought I should mention, in case I forget later, that I am going to the match early tomorrow to see Geelong demolish West Coast. A few shekels on the Pokies, a libation or 30, lunching in the members lounge, another drink or two during and after the game, and what is left of me will not be home until fairly late.

So I will not be posting any of tomorrows results until rather late. If somebody else wishes to record the results here, go right ahead.

Norm

Just checked Game Day Live, and kick off is in 15 minutes for Fremantle v Collingwood.

That's 6:40pm your time, which is 11:40am here. Can't believe there's only 7 hours difference between UK and Oz

btw, Norm's second para above gets my vote for "Post of the Month"

You are checking out Aussie Rules and I am watching England play South Africa at cricket.

Norm

Fremantle 80 d Collingwood 56

...managing to wreck the hopes of those who did want to pick winners, and those did want to pick losers. Could be a fun weekend yet.

Norm

fromdownunder wrote:Fremantle 80 d Collingwood 56

...managing to wreck the hopes of those who did want to pick winners, and those did want to pick losers. Could be a fun weekend yet.

Norm

Perhaps all those losers that some of us have tried to pick will win and we will shoot up to the TOP!!

Typical Collingwood. Laying down when needed

Off to my usual start - not sure why I picked Collingwood - they almost never win away from the MCG.

AND they said that the Colliwobbles were DEAD and BURIED
Reincanation?? Oh, I love it when Collingwood have LOST

petercollects0 wrote:Off to my usual start - not sure why I picked Collingwood - they almost never win away from the MCG.

Oh, now he tells us

fromdownunder wrote:You are checking out Aussie Rules and I am watching England play South Africa at cricket.

Norm

Small World, Norm. That's what it is

Last round and I forgot to put my tips in sorry Norm. Not that my selections have been too hot this year. Better luck next year

Back home from seeing Geelong demolish West Coast, and I am not under the affuence of incohol as some thinkle peep I am. Today's results:

Port Adelaide 148 d Kangaroos 72
Geelong 164 d West Coast 65
Adelaide 76 d Western Bulldogs 67

Norm

What the hell's going on??? BOTH the Adelaide's get up??

Sydney 114 d Brisbane 53
Hawthorn 159 d Carlton 81

Norm

Philanthropist wrote:AND they said that the Colliwobbles were DEAD and BURIED
Reincanation?? Oh, I love it when Collingwood have LOST

Consider yourself Barred,
oh unless your spending money

Richmond 121 d Melbourne 41

(one to go)

Norm

St Kilda 147 d Essendon 39

...and gained enough percentage from this humungous victory to take fourth spot, win the double chance, and now they get to lose to Geelong next week.

Norm

All the results:

Fremantle 80 d Collingwood 56
Port Adelaide 148 d Kangaroos 72
Geelong 164 d West Coast 65
Adelaide 76 d Western Bulldogs 67
Sydney 114 d Brisbane 53
Hawthorn 159 d Carlton 81
Richmond 121 d Melbourne 41
St Kilda 147 d Essendon 39

Norm

Here is the complete list of Prize Winners in the 2008 Tipping Contest:

Prizes won during the season and already sent:

Round 5 Suprize Prize (Most Winners) - MargoZ
Round 5 Surprize Prize (Least Winners) - Slayer
First to 50 (Dontated by Glen)- Clino
Leader at halfway (Donated by Glen) - Clino
First to select 8 winners in a designated Round - Glen Stephens BOO!!!
First to 100 - (Donated by Glen) - Clino
Closest Winning Margin Surprize Prize- Collingwood by 1 point Mr Boggler

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And now on to the important things:

Minor Prizes

Funniest Post (Donated by Glen, CTO Hawthorn 1996 AFL Booklet.) -

jayemcee

who, following my post as to how Geelong won a very close match wrote...

jayemcee wrote:Yep - Cats by a whisker

My love of puns tipped this post over the line.

(jayemcee please email me your address so I can send the prize)

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First to select no winners, least number in Round 22 (Donated by Glen CTO Richmond 1996 AFL Booklet. ) -

annwiggy - 2winners, and beat out slayer by posting earlier

(Please email me your address so I can post the prize)

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Last Place Champion (Donated by Glen/mrboggler - TBD)

prof2000

Note: Greg Iounnou who was leading in this failed to provide tips in the minimum number of rounds to qualify.

(Prize to be determined between Glen and Ron - details and contact information will be posted on this thread)

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Let's get onto really important matters:


3rd Place Champion (Donated by Mr Boggler) -

16 Page Stock Book kindly donated by mrboggler

121 winners sherro

(Please contact Ron for collection)

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2nd Place Champion (Donated by Mr Boggler)


Large 48 page Stock Book donated and mailed by mrboggler

123 winners Lakatoi4

(Please contact Ron for collection)

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And the winner is:

$A100.00 credit voucher from Glen Stephens for absolutely whatever you want.
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Eliza? Where the devil are my slippers? (Brownie points to anybody who posts the source)
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WINNER (Donated by Glen) -]

124 winners Clino

...who led from Round 6 and was not seriously challenged for the remainder of the season. A deserving winner, or a bloody smart arse Yank - you be the judge! . Clino, Please contact Glen and claim your prize. And congratulations - well played.


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Thank you all once again for participating in the inaugural Stampboards AFL Tipping Contest. Thanks also to everyone who also posted and were not part of the game, and to all those who just took the trouble to open and read it. Please join in next year.

A special thanks to Glen and Ron (MrBoggler) for donating the prizes for this competition, and especially Ron for suggesting this in the first place. I owe both of you one.

And also thank you very much Glen for the Stampboards cap. It will stay in it's virginal state until the Melbourne Stampshow next year, where I will wear it with pride.

And to save anybody else the trouble of posting here again, I wold like once again to thank me for managing it. That should cover it all.

Whoever gets to Moderate this thing next year - good luck, and have as much fun as I did. Good luck for next year, and may all your tips include Geelong (2007 Premiers, 2008 and 2009 Premiers to be) Goodbye, Farewell and Amen! (second Brownie point for that reference)

Norm

The whole 9 Yards:


124 Clino 5
123 Lakatoi4 6
121 sherro 5
120 DeBrouin 5
118 Graeme Morriss 4
118 MargoZ 5
118 gavin-h 5
118 jayemcee 5
116 tooler101 4
114 annwiggy 2
110 fromdownunder 3
109 baroldsan 5
108 alltorque 5
106 gmoney 6
104 mrboggler 4
104 PeterS 4 *
102 parryone 4 *
101 Kevin Headley 7
101 sandgroper 4 *
100 RolyRJ 3
99 Admin (Glen) 5
99 Peteski76 6
97 petercollects0 5
96 slayer 2
94 Stewart Heckenberg 6
93 GJ50 4 *
92 waroff49 3
82 prof2000 3

*Tips not submitted - away teams awarded.

Norm

I know you said you were getting the last post ... but




from me and them

Can't work out how it took me 22 rounds to get the best score.

Oh well ... Round 1 2009

Geelong
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Thanks to Norm for doing all the collating over all these weeks and thanks to Ron and Glen for donating the prizes 8)

Well done to Clino in coming first, Sherro for third and all the other winners over the course of the competition

There is really only one thing left to say and that's.....

GO THE CATS

That one's for you Norm and I'll buy you a beer or three in Melbourne next year

Bravo, bravissimo to Clino, Lakatoi and Sherro ...and of course to our tireless host, Norm.


BTW I would just like to quash the rumour that this was Norm after the Cats wiped out West Coast on Saturday......

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Thank you, and especially to Norm for running the show.

Congrats to Lakatoi and Sherro.

My sincere apologies to everyone for not being Australian.

My "secret" method, early in the season, was to tablulate the picks and, usually, go with the side with the most picks.

Once I had the lead, I would usually choose the side with the best record, unless the two records were close. Then again I paid attention to all the other choices.

Once in a while I would simply choose a side because it sounded good. I would usually lose those. It seems to have been St. Kilda, mostly, in my hazy memory.

Again, thank you, and I am surprised as anyone that I won.

Cheers,
Clino

MargoZ wrote:Bravo, bravissimo to Clino, Lakatoi and Sherro ...and of course to our tireless host, Norm.


BTW I would just like to quash the rumour that this was Norm after the Cats wiped out West Coast on Saturday......

Of course it was not me. We, in the Members stand are simply far too dignified to do that sort of thing. Instead, I grabbed the wire from a couple of Champaigne bottle corks, unwound it and.....

Norm

fromdownunder wrote:
Of course it was not me. We, in the Members stand are simply far too dignified to do that sort of thing. Instead, I grabbed the wire from a couple of Champaigne bottle corks, unwound it and.....

Norm

Oh THAT old party trick ...............................

Well congrats to Clino on a race well won .. from round 6 he was un-headed! Spend your $100 on whatever you want from my website. 8)

And commiserations to Lakatoi for the closest of 2nds .... like Clino he may never have even attended an AFL game?

And to all the other members for making them work so hard!

I am typing my next "Stamp News" column today, so I'll add this in ... pretty interesting someone who has never seen a game even on TV could out-tip the addicts down here!

And a special thank you to Norm for the COUNTLESS hours of work that clearly has gone into this methodical work.

I've ordered a few Stampboards USA made quality T Shirts I'll pick up when in the USA early November.
So he'll be the first person on earth to get one .. and with his matching cap will look like a Stampboards groupie - or roadie!

Let's hope we can schmooze him into volunteering to co-ordinate it all for 2009.

A great bit of fun, and fantastically organised from start to finish.

Glen
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Congrats to all the prizewinners in this wonderful competition.

Thanks to Glen and Ron for donating the prizes.

Thanks to all who took part and joined in with the fun.

And most of all, thanks to Norm for all the time and effort he has spent in organising it all. 8)

Finally, GO CATS

admin wrote: And commiserations to Lakatoi for the closest of 2nds .... like Clino he may never have even attended an AFL game?
Glen

So exactly what is this AFL of which you speak

Is it something like VFL or Gaelic football

Disqualify him, Norm!!!!!

Clino wrote:.....
My sincere apologies to everyone for not being Australian.....

Well nobody's perfect

Congratulations Clino

I'd like to add my thanks to all those who made this thread so much fun and especially to Norm for all his hard work.

Cheers

To Clino - for teaching Aussies how to win a footy tipping comp, WELL DONE

To Lakatoi4 - heresy, but congrats to a worthy adversary through the season

And, to Norm, thanks for the effort. You made it a much more enjoyable comp than any other I've been in. Please feel free to have your weekends back for more stampy pursuits! Hats off to you 8)

(I'll pop over to Ron's this week for the stockbook. Good to see that a generous donor saves on postage too!)

Thank you for running the comp. Norm.
Next year I think I'll have to pick a new team.

I am sorry this reply and thank- you is so belated but I have had many Senior moments in the last week or so.

Keep up the good work and GO THE DOGGIES..... we're still in it.....
Also another SM...
Congrats to Clino, Sherro and Lakatoi.

SM2.... Next year I'll go for the BOOBY prize from the beginning.
Cheers and Thanks,
Bill W.

To Norm I want to thank you so much for running such a wonderful tipping comp and for all your hard work, sorry its so late coming as I have afew problems at the moment but hope things will be ok soon.

Congrats to Clino, Sherro and Lakatoi.

Congrats to all the prize winners and a big thank you to Norm (for all the work and especially for disqualifying me from winning the booby prize!)

Greg I

Could Prof2000, please contact the depature Desk as Your Prize is awaiting Collection,

send e-mail to Mrboggler.re your details,

Thanks Ron.

Well done to all the prize winners...thoroughly deserved.
I nearly got a prize...(one winner in a round)...
But thanks to all involved in running a great contest.
To those donating the prizes thru out ...well done
And to Norm for his leadership...thank you..
and look forward to "next season"..
cheers....

Thanks to Norm for running the competition. I know how much time it takes, having run the work one this year.

Just wish I had remembered to put my tips in more often!

As a Freo fan well used to being disappointed, I have only this to say about the Grand Final
Ewen

I would like to add my hearty congratulations to Clino (well played) Lakatoi4, Sherro and all the prize winners, a big vote of thanks to Norm for making it such and wonderful and enjoyable contest, and to Glen and mrboggler for the prize donations.

Thanks - I look forward to doing it all again next year.

fromdownunder wrote:
Eliza? Where the devil are my slippers? (Brownie points to anybody who posts the source)

Goodbye, Farewell and Amen! (second Brownie point for that reference)
Norm

Eliza? well thats the last line from My Fair Lady, and And Goodbye, Farwell and Amen was the title for the M*A*S*H Television Movie, that served as the 251st and final episode of that long running TV show.

In closing, I hope the stampboards footy tipping contest runs as long as MASH did.
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Hi Norm

The Richmond stamp book arrived this morning, I'm tempted to say that it will be really valuable when Richmond next win the flag - but that might qualify as the next 'funniest comment"!!

Thanks again Norm for all the effort you put into the whole competition, you did a great job, and it will be a hard act to follow.

Congratulations also to all the winners, I was up there the first couple of weeks but then downhill all the way!!

Hi Norm

The Hawthorn booklet arrived today.

Thanks again for all your hard work.

Go Saints!!!!

Well, I must say I was consistent right throughout the season, either last or close to it!!

Thanks Norm for all the organization- you have had to be the judge, collator and statistician all in one and I've never seen results go up so quickly each and every week. Thank you!!

Ron, email on the way. Thanks!!

Clino, after all this I think we'll have to make you an honorary Aussie!! Congrats!!

prof2000 wrote: Clino, after all this I think we'll have to make you an honorary Aussie!! Congrats!!

Clino- this is a compliment though you may not interpret it that way 8) 8)

Thanks, that is an important honor.

I may move there anyway, depending on the outcome of the election in two months!!!!!! (tongue-in-cheek)

Cheers,
Clino/Peter

Just wanted to say thank you so much to Norm for running the competition this year, you have done an excellent job for sure and well appreciated by me and all others involved.

To Clino and the other placegetters well done on your performances throughout the year, you have made some of us born and bred footy fans look rather ordinary in our tipping!

Hope we will all be back again next year to play along again.

prof2000 wrote:Well, I must say I was consistent right throughout the season, either last or close to it!!

Thanks Norm for all the organization- you have had to be the judge, collator and statistician all in one and I've never seen results go up so quickly each and every week. Thank you!!

Ron, email on the way. Thanks!!

Clino, after all this I think we'll have to make you an honorary Aussie!! Congrats!!

Hi Doug got your e-mail thanks.

Only one small problem,,,,The Wooden Spoon seems to be "Wasted" we are trying a soak in turps,to remove at least some of the rubbish that got stuck to it from 6 months of stirring.
But methinks we may have to send you something else,
So if has not recovered by the weekend,we will."Have it Put Down" and send you,"Something Else",

Ron.