That was a very very difficult round for most tipsters. The
Castleford v Hull KR game was always going to catch half the
tipsters out. The other big surprise was at the Galpharm,
where the Giants came back from losing badly to take a two
point lead, the Bulls equalised and it must have been a last
minute drop goal to win by 1.

Tipster of the week was Jonmol with 13 who got two correct
scores today.

At the top of the ladder, we have a new leader Phil L on 165,
second is Lloyd on 163 and third who lost his place then
regained it just in the last 15 minutes was Gordon with 151.
St. Dave and Dee are one point behind on 150. The one to watch
at the moment is Dee who has made a big charge over the last 3
weeks.

Full table shortly.

Wigan 23 - 22 Leeds (Wigan by 1)

Tips received.....37

Tipped Wigan.....10 by an average of +7 spread from +2 to +14
Tipped Leeds.....27 by an average of +11 spread from +4 to +24

"Average" tip.....Leeds by 6 (bookies had a Leeds by 8 )

Tipped Wigan to within 6 points....5
Tipped Wigan to within 7-12 points.4

No correct score, nearest Bill L and Wirral Warrior with +2

----------------------------

Harlequinns 0 - 54 Saints (Saints by 54)


Tips received.......38

Tipped Quinns.....1 by an average of +4
Tipped Saints....37 by an average of +15 spread from +4 to +28

"Average" tip.....Saints by 15 (bookies had a Saints by 16 )

Tipped Saints to within 6 points....0
Tipped Saints to within 7-12 points.0

No correct score, nearest Craig M on +28

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Castleford 18 - 10 Hull KR (Castleford by 8)


Tips received.......38


Tipped Cas ......18 by an average of +8 spread from +1 to +14
Tipped KR........20 by an average of +7 spread from +2 to +14


"Average" tip.....DRAW (bookies have DRAW )

Tipped Cas to within 6 points....17
Tipped Cas to within 7-12 points.1

Correct score by Erasmus, John Charnock, Jonmol, Stefos and
Whoateallthepies

----------------------------

Hull FC 18 - 30 Catalans (Catalan by 12)


Tips received.....38


Tipped FC.....10 by an average of +8 spread from +2 to +18
Tipped Cats...28 by an average of +10 spread from +2 to +22


"Average" tip.....Cats by 5 (bookies have DRAW )

Tipped Cats to within 6 points....23
Tipped Cats to within 7-12 points.5

Correct score by Arthur Pye, Jonmol and Lloyd

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Huddersfield 25 - 24 Bradford (Huddersfield by 1)


Tips received........38


Tipped Giants.........2 by an average of +11 spread from +10 to +11
Tipped Draw.........1
Tipped Bulls.........35 by an average of +12 spread from +6 to +33


"Average" tip.....Bulls by 11 (bookies have Bulls by 8 )

Tipped Giants to within 6 points....0
Tipped Giants to within 7-12 points.2

No correct score, nearest was Danny with +10

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Warrington 60 - 24 Wakefield (Warrington by 36)


Tips received.......38


Tipped Wire......33 by an average of +12 spread from +4 to +24
Tipped Wakey......5 by an average of +7 spread from +2 to +10


"Average" tip.....Wire by 10 (bookies have Wire by 10)

Tipped Wire to within 6 points....0
Tipped Wire to within 7-12 points.1

No correct score, nearest was Peter Foster with +24

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Th Rd Lt Rd Names Lt Tot Rd Pts OvPts
1 1 Phil L 159 6 165
2 1 Lloyd Barkham 159 4 163
3 3 Gordon Murray 149 2 151
4 4 St Dave 148 2 150
4 10 Dee Brookes 141 9 150
6 6 Bill L 143 6 149
7 5 David Kitching 144 2 146
Joe Average 142 4 146
7 7 Stefos 142 4 146
9 11 Ken Smith 139 6 145
10 7 Scully 13 142 2 144
11 14 John Charnock 138 4 142
11 7 Ian Stewart 142 0 142
13 11 Wirral Saint 139 2 141
Bookies 143 -2 141
14 11 Toytown 139 -2 137
15 15 Easygoing Dave 137 -2 135
16 16 Glynnpot 132 2 134
17 18 Vicky Brookes 130 2 132
18 18 Wigan/Leeds Andy 130 1 131
19 16 Dave Heaton 132 -2 130
19 18 Ian L 130 0 130
19 25 Erasmus 119 11 130
22 21 Wirral Warrior 124 5 129
22 22 Mad Tom 123 6 129
24 23 Alf King 122 6 128
25 24 Junior Saint 120 5 125
26 28 Jonmol 110 13 123
27 27 John Turner 111 10 121
28 30 Dave Houghton 109 6 115
29 28 Arthur Pye 110 2 112
30 26 Craig Murray 114 -4 110
31 32 Ken Wood 103 6 109
31 31 Colin Tilley 104 5 109
33 32 Ramses 103 0 103
34 35 Peter Foster 95 5 100
35 34 Rusty Spokes 99 0 99
36 36 The Magician 83 5 88
37 37 Mark Raynor 82 4 86
38 40 Whoateallthepies 70 9 79
39 39 Danny 71 4 75
40 38 MancKevin 72 0 72
41 40 Big Duke 6 70 0 70
42 42 Commander Hughes 65 0 65
43 43 David Maxey 41 0 41
44 44 Joyrider 36 2 38
45 45 Batley92 23 0 23
46 46 XL5 15 0 15

Good to see that the bookies got -2, although I don't suppose they
lost much ;-)

Alf King

In message
<ef8ca2ce-1b6a-46c0-93ef-e4a851219371@c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>,
Wirral Saint <jhnhns1saints@aol.com> writes
>
>Hull FC 18 - 30 Catalans (Catalan by 12)
>
>
>Correct score by Arthur Pye, Jonmol and Lloyd

Thank you kindly sir, but according to me, my tip was:
>Hull FC V Catalans
FC by 12


Mind you I was probably closest to the Giants v. Bulls result, but get
no credit at all for it. ;-)
--
Arthur

I have only just picked up on your honesty here Arthur. You are right
your tip was HC by 12 and I had entered Catalans by 12. Usually Gordon
and myself do this independently using the spreadsheet and pick up on
typo errors like this one. However, Gordon has been otherwise disposed
for the last couple of weeks and so I have done this alone.

This makes a difference to your scoring. Your Round score has gone
from +2 now to -4. Which means your overall points score has gone down
from 112 to 106. It drops you also four places in the table.

Also apologies sir for the Huddersfield V Bradford game. As you
rightly say you were the closest. You tipped a draw and in fact but
for Chris Thorman injury-time drop goal (He doesn't bite fingers
honestly!!) you would have got 7 glorious points. So I can see your
frustration at not being mentioned in despatches. Im afraid because
Hudders won I simply looked for lowest tip for them instead of looking
at your draw. Indeed you are correct!!

Arthur Pye I salute you. You are a scholar and a gentleman!! We will
sort the overall ladder out next round!!

In message
<dd47621d-da07-4db3-a332-fe0fbb530529@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,
Wirral Saint <jhnhns1saints@aol.com> writes
>
>Arthur Pye I salute you. You are a scholar and a gentleman!!

But a lousy tipper :-(

Cheers,
--
Arthur

"Wirral Saint" <jhnhns1saints@aol.com> wrote in message
news:dd47621d-da07-4db3-a332-fe0fbb530529@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...

>

>
> Also apologies sir for the Huddersfield V Bradford game. As you
> rightly say you were the closest. You tipped a draw and in fact but
> for Chris Thorman injury-time drop goal (He doesn't bite fingers
> honestly!!) you would have got 7 glorious points. So I can see your
> frustration at not being mentioned in despatches. Im afraid because
> Hudders won I simply looked for lowest tip for them instead of looking
> at your draw. Indeed you are correct!!
>
>

Sorry chaps! We`ve had this argument before.

You can`t POSSIBLY be nearest if you tipped the wrong result

End of

:-)

In message <3APdk.204972$P83.176454@newsfe20.ams2>, Gordon Murray
<gordonmurray@blueyonder.co.uk> writes
>
>"Wirral Saint" <jhnhns1saints@aol.com> wrote in message
>news:dd47621d-da07-4db3-a332-fe0fbb530529@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com..>.
>
>>
>
>>
>> Also apologies sir for the Huddersfield V Bradford game. As you
>> rightly say you were the closest. You tipped a draw and in fact but
>> for Chris Thorman injury-time drop goal (He doesn't bite fingers
>> honestly!!) you would have got 7 glorious points. So I can see your
>> frustration at not being mentioned in despatches. Im afraid because
>> Hudders won I simply looked for lowest tip for them instead of looking
>> at your draw. Indeed you are correct!!
>>
>>
>
>Sorry chaps! We`ve had this argument before.

>
>You can`t POSSIBLY be nearest if you tipped the wrong result
>
>End of
>
>:-)
Yes I know that Gordon. I wasn't arguing, just feeling sorry for myself
(0-54 really hurts!) and so whingeing. :-))
--
Arthur

"Arthur Pye" <octiger38-ngrl@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:f8aERDBpzleIFwa8@f2s.com...
>>
>>:-)
> Yes I know that Gordon. I wasn't arguing, just feeling sorry for myself
> (0-54 really hurts!) and so whingeing. :-))
> --
> Arthur



I can relate to that, Arthur !

:-)