{"id":4691,"date":"2025-07-17T23:14:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/?p=4691"},"modified":"2025-07-17T23:35:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:35:56","slug":"round-20-experts-tips-and-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/2025\/07\/17\/round-20-experts-tips-and-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Round 20 \u2013 Experts\u2019 Tips and Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The round kicks off with an all-Queensland snooze-fest between the Cows and &#8216;Phins. Which in itself is an interesting conundrum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">But for me the toughest games of the round are the Sharks v Roosters and Wests Tigers v Titans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In the latter match, the winner will take a massive step away from the wooden spoon. Interestingly, they again play each other in the final round which could see the Wests Tigers in back-to-back Spoon Bowls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">What do our high-flying Experts think this week?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Experts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Three Experts had perfect rounds, and Bart Simpson has rocketed to the top of the panel leaderboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Panthers, Raiders, Bulldogs and Warriors have been unanimously selected as sure-fire winners. Unsurprisingly considering where they sit on the ladder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">But what can I say about poor old Bart Simpson? Our Expert&#8217;s leader and forever a Manly fan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Battle of Brookie. The rivalry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It&#8217;s all so last decade. Expect a flogging BS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Good luck Tipsters!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Tipster<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Bart Simpson<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>The Creator<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>9986<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Pablo<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Carlos<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Shagger<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Footy Tippe<\/strong>r<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Points<\/td><td>106 (3575)<\/td><td>103 (3494)<\/td><td>102 (3455)<\/td><td>100 (3537)<\/td><td>93 (3475)<\/td><td>84 (3385)<\/td><td>84 (3343)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Last Week<\/td><td>11<\/td><td>7<\/td><td>11<\/td><td>11<\/td><td>8<\/td><td>8<\/td><td>8<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Selections<\/td><td>Dolphins<\/td><td>Dolphins<\/td><td>Dolphins<\/td><td>Dolphins<\/td><td>Dolphins<\/td><td>Cowboys<\/td><td>Dolphins<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Sharks<\/td><td>Roosters<\/td><td>Roosters<\/td><td>Sharks<\/td><td>Roosters<\/td><td>Roosters<\/td><td>Roosters<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Panthers<\/td><td>Panthers<\/td><td>Panthers<\/td><td>Panthers<\/td><td>Panthers<\/td><td>Panthers<\/td><td>Panthers<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Raiders<\/td><td>Raiders<\/td><td>Raiders<\/td><td>Raiders<\/td><td>Raiders<\/td><td>Raiders<\/td><td>Raiders<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Bulldogs<\/td><td>Bulldogs<\/td><td>Bulldogs<\/td><td>Bulldogs<\/td><td>Bulldogs<\/td><td>Bulldogs<\/td><td>Bulldogs<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Sea Eagles<\/td><td>Storm<\/td><td>Storm<\/td><td>Storm<\/td><td>Storm<\/td><td>Storm<\/td><td>Storm<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Wests Tigers<\/td><td>Wests Tigers<\/td><td>Wests Tigers<\/td><td>Wests Tigers<\/td><td>Wests Tigers<\/td><td>Titans<\/td><td>Wests Tigers<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Warriors<\/td><td>Warriors<\/td><td>Warriors<\/td><td>Warriors<\/td><td>Warriors<\/td><td>Warriors<\/td><td>Warriors<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Standout<\/td><td>Raiders<\/td><td>Raiders<\/td><td>Storm<\/td><td>Raiders<\/td><td>Panthers<\/td><td>Raiders<\/td><td>Raiders<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">-Rob<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Creator<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Round 20 so what&#8217;s The Happs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[220,217,216],"class_list":["post-4691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-expert-tips","tag-experts-tips","tag-footytipper","tag-ft25","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4691"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4704,"href":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691\/revisions\/4704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footytipper.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}