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Cut-off Times for this week…

Thursday 27th May 2021 – Broncos vs Storm 7:50pm AEST

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Apologies to those who enjoy my weekly, highly insightful and cutting edge match summaries each week, but I will not that doing today. Not because I don’t care, but more-so the fact that I didn’t get to see 1 game. I also got tired of reading about the charges laid to 23 players (so far) for so-called foul play. So rather than plagiarise NRL.com articles, I thought I would just play to my strengths – stats !

BUT before I do that though, it would be remiss of me not to share my memories of the late Bob (Bozo) Fulton. In short, he scared me – he was so dangerous !! In the early 70s, me and my father would spend every 2nd weekend sitting on the hill at Kogarah Jubilee oval, and my most vivid recollections were fearing the matches against Manly.
They were a team stacked with overseas imports. Their forward pack was big, tough and super aggressive – (if they were playing today, I reckon the match would end up being 8 on 8 ‘cos the rest would have been sent off or sent to the bin). But running off the momentum of the big forward pack was a little “ferret” called Bob Fulton… He was playing in the centres (according to the Big League at least) but he would spend more time in the halves. If he didn’t score himself, he would set up tries for the likes of Ray Brannigan, Graham Eadie or Ken Irvine in the backline.
Australian rep, captain, coach, selector, commentator and rightly acknowledged as a Rugby League Immortal.
Of course Bob was immortalised, not only as a RL legend, but will also be remembered in one of my favourite schoolyard songs (sung to the Waltzing Matilda theme)…… “Manly Warringah, Fultons a stinker, Brannigans a poser and so are the rest …..”. That could explain my unresolved childhood issues and abhorrence of Stinky Manly (LOL).

Now for the bits I really enjoy……

The Standout

• A mere 26 – got it right.
• 40 – that’s right 40 got it wrong.  
• The average score – a paltry 4.88 – so if you scored 5 you should be pleased.
• Our round high was 9. Well done to Big Moose and SMOG for achieving that feat.
• Our round low was – 0

Did you know ….. ?

We have only 6 active and regular punters who HAVE NOT got their standout wrong yet. We also have 4 punters who HAVE got their standout wrong on 3 occasions !! (I know who are, but wont name and shame)

Main Competition – Ladder Leaders

We have a new leader – the first change since round 4 – 786Om surges to a 2 match lead. Unlike 7 of the top 10 he DIDN’T take the Roosters as his standout.

Kane G (despite a score of 4) hangs on to 2^nd place, while Big Baba jumps 9 places and into 3^rd after point differential.

Special mention to Big Moose who worked his way into the money with that round high score of 9 (jumping 17 places).

Previous Leaders

• Round 1 – MJP181 and MR TAYLOR
• Round 4 – StuartS
• Round 10 – Carlos

Footy Tipper Weekly Jackpot

Just gets better and better every week. Our prize pool now sits at $120 for Round 12

Good luck with your tipping this week.

Pablo