THE FINAL ROUND and what a round it proved to be with so many teams vying for different positions in the top eight or the top four and nothing confirmed until after the final siren went. The tipping also proved very exciting right through to the last minutes. No one selected 9/9 but four people did score 8/9 – Mary Carr, Fran Chamberlain, Mark Chamberlain and Mike O’Rafferty. Great finish folks.

With our top tipsters, we had mixed results this round with some going up and others going down.

It finished with Fran Chamberlain topping the ladder this year on a fantastic score of 141 and collecting $250-00. In the second position on 138 is Mike O’Rafferty who collects $175-00. Mike selected 8/9 for both the final two rounds so obviously saved his best till last. Just one game behind Mike on 137 is Natasha Wilson who collects $125-00.  That is some great tipping right through the year and we congratulate all of you. As there was no winner of the $40-00 jackpot, this is shared by Danika Squiers and the Tennis Club who both received $20-00. Danika finished in the 49th position.

A total of $1,450-00 was shared by 17 people over the season so well done to those people.

We raised $580-00 for the tennis club thanks to your participation.

We would like to thank everyone for being part of our footy-tipping competition for the Melville-Palmyra Tennis Club. We hope that you have enjoyed the season and we hope to have you all back again next year, inviting you to bring some friends/family members to join you next year. We wish everyone with teams in the finals all the best.

CHRIS & NOLA WILSON

ROUND 22 and obviously everyone saved their best tipping until nearly at the end with some fantastic results this weekend. We had a Jackpot of $280-00 available and 10 people just missed out  tipping 8/9. BUT…… 11 people had the perfect score and selected 9/9. Great Work. We say well done to… Fran Chamberlain, Mark Chamberlain, Don Doig, Gail Harper, Faye Kitto, Marion Lake, Grayden Lang, Mark Rule, Lena Wilkinson, Donald Wilson and Natasha Wilson. Sharing the $280-00 jackpot, they all take home $25-45 each.

Interesting also at the top of our leaders board 3 of our top 5 selected 9/9 with the other 2 selecting 8/9, so we have just three games difference between our top five with just one round remaining. On 133 is Fran Chamberlain, with Donald Wilson on 132, Natasha Wilson on 131, and Mike O’Rafferty and “Tim & Rodg” both on 130.

Our final jackpot for next week is $40-00 and we look forward to an exciting finale to this year’s footy tipping. Good Luck Everyone.

ROUND 21 proved how much teams have changed since last year. Picking this week’s tip at the start of the year was very difficult compared with the current form. The average this week was only 5/9 and the best tipping was 7/9. This was achieved by only one person – our “London” tipster Rodger Hooper. Well Done Roger!

The five people at the top of our leaders board ALL scored 5/9 so we have no change. Fran Chamberlain is on 124, followed by Donald Wilson on 123, then Mike O’Rafferty, “Tim & Rodg” and Natasha  Wilson all on 122. There is a gap of 5 games to our next best on 117 where we have Steve Doig and Faye Scorer.

With no winner this week, we have $280-00 just waiting for someone to win, so keep those fingers crossed and good luck everyone.

CHRIS & NOLA WILSON

ROUND 20 gave us some great tipping results. Eight home teams won making it a little easier. We had no winner again BUT five people missed by just one game, selecting 8/9 this week. Here, we say well done to Della Chamberlain, Skid, Kylie Squiers, Steve Taylor and “Tim & Rodg”.

Fran Chamberlain remains at the top of our leader’s board and is now on a score of 119. Fran is closely followed by Donald Wilson on 118, Mike O’Rafferty, “Tim & Rodg”, and Natasha Wilson all on 117, then Steve Doig on 113, and on 111 are Mark Chamberlain and Faye Scorer. With just three weeks to go, it would be highly likely that our winners will come from this group. However funnier things have happened before. Our jackpot next week is $240-00 which is there for anyone to grab.

With just three weeks to go we start to look at the “other” end of our leader’s board. If after Round 23 we still have money in the jackpot, half goes to the person at the bottom of the ladder and the other half goes to the Tennis Club. We could have up to $320-00 here if no one selects 9/9.  Currently at the bottom of the ladder is Danika Squiers on 82, followed by Stella Squiers on 90 with two others on 91, so there is a lot of interest here also.

With $240-00 available for next week, we wish everyone good luck and good tipping.

CHRIS & NOLA WILSON

ROUND 19 and there were five results that were twenty points or less, obviously making it difficult to pick winners. With Friday Night’s game being drawn, we all started with a win in our tipping. Once more no one selected all the winners but seven people did select 7/9. These extremely clever people are Kevin and Kyra Keosoff, Mark Rule, TATT, Margaret Whittington, Lena Wilkinson, Donald Wilson and Nola Wilson. That was some great tipping, and well done to all.

With just 4 weeks remaining, the top of our ladder is very exciting, with your top five, at this stage, all one point apart from each other. On 113 is Fran Chamberlain, 112 is Donald Wilson, 111 is Natasha Wilson, 110 is Mike O’Rafferty and on 109 is “Tim & Rodg”

Next week the jackpot hits the magic $200-00. If you want it, come and take it (hopefully to everyone)

CHRIS & NOLA WILSON

ROUND 18 gave us some good tipping and some not-so-good tipping but Annette and George Peacock selected 8/9. That was great tipping folks

Fran Chamberlain and Natasha Wilson remain joint leaders at the top of our ladder on 107 but are starting to pull away from the rest of the field, with Mike O’Rafferty,”Tim & Rodg” and Donald Wilson all on 105 and Mark Chamberlain on 103.

With no winner this week we now have $160-00 ready to be won and only another five weeks to go, so good luck everyone to get into the monies

CHRIS & NOLA WILSON

ROUND 17 has proven to be one of the hardest to select winners at the start of the season as the average for this week was only 4.5 out of 9. The best tipster this week was Michael Spadanuad who tipped 7 winners. Well done Michael.

Even our ladder leaders found this round difficult and as such we now have a change at the top of the ladder. Our ladies have taken over. On 101 we have Fran Chamberlain and Natasha Wilson as joint leaders, followed on 100 by Mike O’Rafferety and “Tim & Rodg” while just one game further back on 99 is Donald Wilson, while on 98 is Mark Chamberlain
and Steve Doig is on 97. Great tipping everyone.

Next week our jackpot is $120-00 so good luck and good tipping

CHRIS & NOLA WILSON

ROUND 15 gave us some great tipping results, so well done everyone. We had one person with the perfect result of 9/9 – Trish Emond. Great tipping Trish and Trish takes home $40-00 for her effort. We also say well done to 9 others who scored 8/9 – ANZACS, Helen Doig, Steve Doig, Mike Eames, Margaret Kitto, Skid, Kylie Squiers, TATT, and Donald Wilson.

“Time & Rodg” remain our leaders and are now on a score of 89. They are VERY closely followed by Fran Chamberlain and Mike O’Rafferty, both on 88, and Donald Wilson and Natasha Wilson both on 87. That is good consistent tipping so keep it going!

With Trish winning this week, we have another $40-00 up for the taking for Round 16 next week, so keep your fingers crossed everyone.

CHRIS & NOLA WILSON

ROUND 14 was the last of the “Bye” rounds where you only needed to select 6/6 and what a successful round for the tipping it proved to be. We had 6 people select the magical 6/6, sharing the $40-00 jackpot and winning $6-65 each.  We say congrats and well done to “ANZACS”, Mark Chamberlain, Grayden Lang, Mike O’Rafferty, Donald Wilson and Pam Zscharnagk.

“Tim & Rodg” are still our leaders and now on a score of 83. Great Tipping! Just behind them on 81 are Fran Chamberlain, Mark Chamberlain and Mike O’Rafferty, followed by Natasha Wilson on 80.

We have another forty dollars up for the taking next week for selecting 9/9 winners so good luck everyone.

CHRIS & NOLA WILSON

ROUND 13 and what an exciting end to this round. With just one game to go, we had six people sitting on 5/5 looking at the jackpot of $400-00.

Keeping the fingers crossed were Roger Hooper, David Kitto, Faye Kitto, Margaret Kitto, Peter Whittington and Lena Wilkinson. For the last game, five tipped Melbourne and just one tipped Collingwood, so we say CONGRATULATIONS to Lena Wilkinson who collects $400-00. This means that for Round 14, the last of the “Bye” rounds where you need to select 6/6, we revert to a jackpot of $40-00. Fran Chamberlain and “Tim & Rodg” also selected 5/6, having missed an earlier game in the round.

“Tim & Rodg” remain our leaders and are now on a score of 78. Great tipping guys. They are closely followed by Fran Chamberlain on 76, with Mark Chamberlain, Mike O’Rafferty and Natasha Wilson all on 75, and Steve Doig, Mike Eames, and Donald Wilson on 73.

Good luck to everyone for Round 14.

CHRIS & NOLA WILSON