Cut-off Times for this week…Thursday 28th May 2020 – 7:50pm AEST
Broncos v Eels
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It’s back and so are we.
Only 3 more sleeps to the relaunch of the NRL’s abridged 2020 season …. how excitement !!
I hope everyone has been keeping well during the last 10 weeks of isolation and restrictions. Personally I’m really proud of myself …. it has been 64 days since I’ve been into a pub or club !! Quite an achievement. Thankfully it seems that we are now on the right side of the “curve” and life will resume some sort of normalcy – STARTING WITH THE NRL – YES !!
With the 2020 season being shortened by 5 rounds, we now have an extra $50 to give away ! My initial thoughts were to give the money to the winner of our Virtual comp, but since the winner was me, it was deemed wiser to put it back into the overall pool ; $30 going to the winners of the 2nd Chance Comp, and $20 into the weekly jackpot.
The enforced mid-season “break” has seen plenty of controversy, both among the players and the NRL hierarchy.
Be sure to visit FootyTipper.org to keep up with the latest news and opinions ;
- What were Latrell Mitchell and Josh Addo-Carr thinking on their camping trip?
- Lucky Nathan Cleary – not so lucky
- Rooster news – twins reunited. The Morris boys consider becoming conjoined to stop them being apart again
- Paul Gallen’s bid to become a Warrior (or is he just trying to run away from his boxing career now that he knows that Mike Tyson is considering coming out of retirement ?)
- Annastacia Palaszczuk (get that one on a triple word score in Scrabble!) head of the socialist state of Queensland – just how is she helping the Broncos, Cowboys and Titans ? Easy one that one – she’s not.
- One referee only for the remained of 2020. We hated them before they made their threats to disrupt the start of the season – now we just hate them even more. And now that we will have just the one ref, what chance have we got of that one person making an on-field call ?
- Greg Hartley, Graham Annesley and Bill Harrigan all volunteer come out of retirement to referee matches this year. At least they can make a call on field – albeit mostly the wrong call, but the bunker has proved that doesn’t really matter.
- The new “six again” ruck rule – referees will restart the tackle count for ruck infringements rather than awarding penalties. Just how will Cam Smith manipulate these new changes ? We have the inside story.
OK….. so I’m not going to do a full write up on all these issues this week, but I will be in the coming weeks. We would really like everyone to visit the site and join in the banter.
Footy Tipper Weekly Jackpot*
As mentioned earlier, we have added an extra $20 to the Jackpot. So for Round 3 you can now win an impressive $50.
*Note:
– To be eligible to win this prize you must be the sole person to select the full card with a Standout.
Good luck with your tipping this week.
Pablo
