ROUND 21 gave us some surprising results that have made significant differences in the AFL Ladder heading into the last three rounds - Brisbane being defeated by Carlton have now dropped out of the top 4, being replaced by Adelaide. With Geelong defeating Collingwood, Collingwood have dropped to 9th and both of them are in the 7-10 position for the extra game to qualify (if they stay where they are currently.)
Lets try and make some sense of how all our tipping went this year based on last year's final ladder.
2025 LADDER CURRENT POSITION after Home/away
1 Adelaide 4
2 Geelong 7
3 Brisbane 5
4 Collingwood 9
5 GWS 12
6 Fremantle 1
7 Hawthorn 3
8 Western Bulldogs 8
Sydney Swans (currently 2nd) finished last season in 12th position, and Melbourne (currently 6th) finished 14th.
NOW looking at our tipping ladder..... With Carlton defeating Brisbane this put the cat among the pigeons for most of us. No one selected 9/9 but three did score 7/9. These great tipsters this week are Gail Harper, Roger Hooper and Faye Scorer. Congrats to you all.
We have joint leaders on our ladder but even that has changed. Our leaders on 127 are now Roger Hooper and Margaret Kitto. On 126 are Shirley Christie, Helen Doig, Steve Doig and Greg Harper. One further back on 125 we have Mike Concannon, Andrew Mitchell and Nola Wilson and breathing down their backs, all on 124, are Colin Matthews, Lois Reid and Natasha Wilson. This means we have twelve people separated by just 3 points, and with 27 more games before the end of the Home and Away season, ANYTHING can happen, even the group we have on 123 or 122, so good luck and keep it going.
With no winner this week, next week the jackpot will be $160-00 with another $80-00 to give away the following two weeks. As we always do, IF the jackpot is not won the last week, whatever money it is worth is paid out - half to the person at the "other" end of the ladder and half paid to the tennis club. We have a close competition for this also as at the moment Kevin Farrell is on 89 and Pam Zscharnagk is on 97.
This is our last report until after Round 24 when all our winners will be advertised. Over the season we give away $1,610-00 overall.
Good Luck to you all.
Cheers
CHRIS AND NOLA WILSON