Make a Big Call - Weekly Edition

[LaHug]

Every game decided by 20+ points
Pendles 160+ SC against the stingy Cats
Essendon to be leading at 3qt but still lose
Buddy to kick no goals tonight
Heeney to kick 6+

A great night to be drinking early mate     ;D

After a quick review, and the Buddy one already failed, these are not "big" calls so much as stupid calls...

[LaHug]

Every game decided by 20+ points
Pendles 160+ SC against the stingy Cats
Essendon to be leading at 3qt but still lose
Buddy to kick no goals tonight
Heeney to kick 6+

A great night to be drinking early mate     ;D

After a quick review, and the Buddy one already failed, these are not "big" calls so much as stupid calls...

Just realised I wrote "Cats" instead of "Dogs". You all know what I meant. That said, I've got the other 4 calls wrong so far and Pendles isn't on track...

[T Dog]

Pies to beat Adelaide by the exact margin of whatever Big Trav scores. He will be the difference.
Seb Ross to top score in DT points in the Adelaide / St Kilda game

[HappyDEZ]

Crows by 61-70
Wingard gets the X factor in FF
Bontempelli 141+ SC
Kerridge 105+ DT
Zerrett 144+ DT

[SydneyRox]

Round 11

Goldy to play and go 150+ sc
Melb 30+ over hawks
Buddy to kick 13+
Mills to kick 3 goals and get rising star nod
Dogs to be 20points+ behind at 3qtr time and win

[Mat0369]

Everyone regrets the player they traded in to cover Goldy in the rucks

[T Dog]

Rd 12.

No "Home" Teams win this week.
Gold Coast clobber the Tiges by at least 50 points.
If Ryan Griffin plays he will be in top 3 GWS scorers for both SC and DT

[fanTCfool]

Round 10 Wrap

Correct Calls

SilverLion
"Goldy to get injured againsr and miss at least the next two weeks." - Goldy is named to play this week, but watch this space
"Zorko to go below 100 SC for the first time this year." - 9 tons in a row for Zork with 114 against the Hawks
"Brisbane to beat Hawthorn." - A sneaky chance at 3QT, but it was not to be
"Max Gawn to get his SC breakeven." - A massive 167 from Gawny, but wasn't enough to hit his BE
"Ablett to be back to his best, scoring 150+ in SC." - Again, very close! 143 from Gaz, just short!

SydneyRox
"Sydney to win by 10+ goals" - No Friday Night blowout this week
"Sydney to keep North goalless for 2 quarters" - North managed to snag a major in every term
"Heath Shaw to be first person to go back to back SC 200+" - Would have been great! Had my VC on him
"Freo to win by more than double saints score" - 0-10 for the Dockers, need I say more?
"Lions to beat Hawks" - Close, but not close enough

Big Mac
"Buddy 9 goals" - No big haul for Buddy against the Roos
"Hawthorn by 100+" - Brisbane put out a respectable performance to prevent this one
"Ablett to bounce back with 150+ SC" - Close! But just 7 points shy as mentioned earlier.
"Petracca to kick 5" - Petracca had a stinker! Lucky to get 5 kicks!

_wato
"STEF MARTIN TO GO 120+ in SC/AF" - His SC and AF combined didn't even reach 120!
"Jelly to go three weeks under 72 sc" - A tag from Curnow almost held him below 72, but he scraped past 80
"Ben Brown to kick 6" - 1.2 for Big Ben, hasn't had a 6 goal haul in some time
"Giants to flog the ass out of the Crows >45 points" - Would have been nice for the tips...

Holz
"NN to be top 3 scores in SC. " - Nope, not this week
"North win in a game with under 160 points scored" - Less than 160 points scored, but the Swannies got the W
"Port and Freo win away from home" - Port got up, but no win for the Dockers, 0-10  :-[
"Tom Lynch (Crows) kicks more goals against GWS then JJK does against (GC)" - A bag of 5 from JJK had a quiet Tom T covered
"Joel Selwood says stuff you Wato and goes 144 or higher." - Haha nope! Neither yours or Wato's got up.

T Dog
"West Coast to lose at home to Gold Coast." - A big win for the Eagles at home, downhill skiers some would say!
"Saints and Freeo slug out a draw at Etihad" - Would have made a relatively dull game even worse

HappyDEZ
"Port by 21-30" - Port got a big win over the Dees
"Robbie Gray gets the star on FF" - Chad Wingard received the star this week
"GWS by 21-30" - No win for the Giants at the Adelaide Oval
"Dylan Shiel gets the star on FF" - A bag of 5.3 meant the star went to big Tex
"WCE 61-70" - Just a little too Narrow with the Eagles winning by 77

GoLions
"Lions beat Hawks, Zorko 140+ in SC" - No win for your Lions unfortunately
"Dees vs Port a draw" - A high scoring affair, but Port got home comfortably
"Dogs beat Pies by 60+" - A low scoring game,  at one stage it looked like neither team would crack the 60 point mark
"Gawn gets his 3rd straight score under 65 in SC" - 167 from Maxy, probably had that 65 point mark gone by quarter time!
"Trent Cotchin breaks his personal record for most possies in a game for the 2nd week straight" - Only 29 from Cotch this week

LaHug
"Every game decided by 20+ points" - Would have been one massive call...
"Pendles 160+ SC against the stingy Cats" - Only 118, perhaps held down by Pies injuries
"Essendon to be leading at 3qt but still lose" - Tiges had 'em well covered all night
"Buddy to kick no goals tonight" - A handy 3.4 for Buddy against the Roos
"Heeney to kick 6+" - 6 goals for Heeney! Well that would have been a show


Correct Calls

Big Mac
"Saints to beat Freo by 30+" - Under the roof the Sainters got it done by 34. Only 1 point as it was in Melbourne. (1)

_wato
"Hall to do his shoulder again, 10 minutes in" - FF says "Left shoulder knock very early in Q1", so I'm going to pay it! As he stayed on, I'll award just the 2 points. (2)

Leaderboard - Round 10
_wato - 2pts
Big Mac - 1pt

Leaderboard - Overall
T Dog - 7pts
HappyDEZ - 4pts
SilverLion - 3pts
LaHug - 3pts
_wato - 2pts
Holz - 2pts
Koop - 2pts
AaronKirk - 2pts
Torpedo10 - 2pts
Big Mac - 1pt
Grufflez - 1pt
Gandalf123 - 1pt
SydneyRox - 1pt

Call of the Week
"Joel Selwood says stuff you Wato and goes 144 or higher." - Holz

Final Word
Two more fresh faces join the leaderboard this week, with Wato earning 2 points for his Aaron Hall call, and Big Mac predicting a 5 goal win for the Sainters. T Dog remains out in front on 7 points, still 3 points in front of HappyDEZ. After making a great start to Big Calling, LaHug has become stuck on 3pts after a Massive Call in our very first week of operation - come on Huggy! Despite making frequent big calls, SydneyRox is still stuck down the bottom with just 1 call correct to date. Let's hope for some big calls to come off in the next few weeks! Perhaps the byes will bring some good luck...

[SydneyRox]

Round 12

Mills gets 30 disposals 2goals and wins RS nomination
Tippett to get more of every stat than Mumford
James Rose kicks 6goals
JPK has 50 disposals (40contested)

[HappyDEZ]

Dees by 31-40.
Wingard gets the X Factor on FF (a tad unlucky last week).
Hawks by 65-70.
Luey (Ess) gets his second SC ton in a row.
Sidey (Coll) has his best DT day for the year 145+

[fanTCfool]

Round 11 Wrap

Incorrect Calls

T Dog
"Pies to beat Adelaide by the exact margin of whatever Big Trav scores." - Poor Trav. Only one behind. Certainly was not the margin
"Seb Ross to top score in DT points in the Adelaide / St Kilda game" - Ross was unusually quiet, though his team was well beaten

HappyDEZ
"Crows by 61-70" - It was a bit more than that, a beautiful sight for Crows fans
"Wingard gets the X factor in FF" - His team mate, Aaron Young, snagged it for his 4 goal display
"Zerrett 144+ DT" - Zerrett was big, getting well past the ton, but fell 23 points shy of your specified 144.

SydneyRox
"Goldy to play and go 150+ sc" - Goldy didn't get up, which made many, myself included angry  >:(
"Melb 30+ over hawks" - Dees were competitive all day, but didn't get the 4 points
"Buddy to kick 13+" - Another Buddy related call! Been plenty of those this year, but again, no luck
"Mills to kick 3 goals and get rising star nod" - A late out meant Mills was no chance of cracking this
"Dogs to be 20points+ behind at 3qtr time and win" - The Doggies did get up, but also led at the 3QT break


Correct Calls

HappyDEZ
"Kerridge 105+ DT" - Kerridge smashed past the 105 mark, with a whopping 139. A Big Call worth the 1 point (1)
"Bontempelli 141+ SC" - A great last quarter from the Bont got him over the line, another Big Call! (1)


Leaderboard - Round 11
HappyDEZ - 2pts

Leaderboard - Overall
T Dog - 7pts
HappyDEZ - 6pts
SilverLion - 3pts
LaHug - 3pts
_wato - 2pts
Holz - 2pts
Koop - 2pts
AaronKirk - 2pts
Torpedo10 - 2pts
Big Mac - 1pt
Grufflez - 1pt
Gandalf123 - 1pt
SydneyRox - 1pt

Call of the Week:
"Pies to beat Adelaide by the exact margin of whatever Big Trav scores." - T Dog

Final Word:
It was a quiet week of Big Calls, HappyDEZ was the only entrant to get a Big Call correct this week, two in fact, and narrows T Dog's lead. Two of SydneyRox's calls were impacted by late outs, and HappyDEZ could count himself unlucky for not having a few more calls come off, with Zerrett and the Crows nearly falling into Big Call territory. Round 12 awaits.

[_wato]

That's sweet, happy with the 2 points there.

Gonna think of some good calls this week.

[Big Mac]

Geelong to beat North by 30+
Petracca BOG on Monday
Rocky to have less than 20 disposals
Gaz to score 180+ in SC

[_wato]

Dons lose to the Hawks by under 16 points tonight after leading at half time.
Pies to smash the Dees, Treloar to have 35+
Heater to go under 75SC points, 40+ points under his average.
Rocky to have over 51 touches.
The HOFF kicks the first goal against the Dogs tomorrow.

[GoLions]

Dons lose to the Hawks by under 16 points tonight after leading at half time.
Pies to smash the Dees, Treloar to have 35+
Heater to go under 75SC points, 40+ points under his average.
Rocky to have over 40 touches.
The HOFF kicks the first goal against the Dogs tomorrow.

I think that was a typo? This is the big call thread