'Hit a peanut with a sledgehammer': Eddie McGuire thinks punishment for Pies fan was too harsh
The Collingwood member has been suspended for the rest of the season by the AFL after touching West Coast player Harvey Johnston during the…
Three votes: Collingwood president Eddie McGuire, for saying after the Heath Shaw drink-driving incident: “We are angry. We are furious. We’ve had enough.”
50-metre penalty: Collingwood and McGuire, for not suspending Shaw until after it became known he and Alan Didak lied about the incident, when both were outed for the rest of the season and Shaw’s brother Rhyce for two weeks. Apparently the club reckons telling porkies is worse than slamming into parked cars when you’ve had a skinful.
Winners: Cats by 45, Blues by 17, Hawks by 49 at their Tasmanian Fortress (where they should move permanently), Pies by 16, Swans by 3 (if they’re lucky), Doggies by 14, Tigers by 2 (huge game, this), Bombers by 12. I’m still sticking to the six-games-ahead tips I made before round 17, which could look very nasty in the final few games, but worked out OK last week with six right, making 91/144 overall.
If all my remaining tips were to get up, the final points ladder, with games won out of the final six in parentheses, would be:
Geelong (5 wins) 80 points
Western Bulldogs (5) 74
Hawthorn (4) 68
Sydney (3) 54
St Kilda (4) 52
Collingwood (4) 52
North Melbourne (4) 50
Richmond (5) 50
Brisbane (1) 40
Essendon (4) 40
Adelaide (2) 40
Carlton (2) 36
Port Adelaide (1) 24
Fremantle (2) 20
Melbourne (1) 12
West Coast (1) 12
So percentages wouldn’t decide the final eight, but could be vital in determining who finishes where between fourth and eighth.
A draw between Collingwood and St Kilda this week would really set the cat among the pigeons, wouldn’t it?
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