Me of little faith
Footy tipping has started for the year, with the Super 14 now underway as of last night. So far I’m going 0 out of 3. Great start ….not! I probably deserve it after showing a complete lack of faith in the ACT Brumbies who I tipped to lose to the Western Force (given the Brumbies’s shithouse trial form, and the illness that went through the team during the week). However, the Brumbies ended up winning quite convincingly, 25-10.
I also missed out on the Blues, well beaten by the Hurricanes, and the Cheetahs, beaten by the Bulls in South Africa. Home teams has not served me well so far. (Speaking of the Cheetahs, they are the new South African team in the competition, but why there was a need for another team from South Africa I don’t know? Probably wanted another team to fight for the wooden spoon with?)
We’re very wide ranging in our footy tipping competitions at work here in Canberra. Being in relatively neutral territory, not dominated by any one type of football, we always have tipping competitions that cover AFL, NRL and Super 14. This year we’re having 3 separate ones, in the past we’ve sometimes just had one big combined one, which was interesting for people who knew lots about AFL and nothing about NRL, or vice versa (mind you, lack of knowledge is often a virtue when it comes to picking footy winners … random guesses work as well as anything).
February 11th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
I’ve heard the Brumbies always go badly in trials. I always wind up getting done in tipping comps as well