There were two big winners out of a weird and wonderful Round 12 of AFL action: Fremantle, and The Roar’s own Dem Panopoulos . While the rest of us expert tippers were scrambling about trying – and failing – to so much as get half our tips right on a weekend full of upsets, Dem’s bold selections paid the ultimate dividends, earning him a rare perfect 7 – and in a tough week, no less. That has seen him hurtle into the lead in our Expert Tips competition, ahead of season-long frontrunner The Crowd – and left us real people in the dust well behind.
Speaking of being left in the dust, there’s no team with more to prove in Round 13 than Melbourne – fresh off being pumped by the Dockers in the red centre, the Dees will take on Collingwood in a King’s Birthday blockbuster which now looms as being as crucial a contest as the game has seen in many a year. Sitting ninth and tenth, the loser out of the two recent powerhouses will find themselves well adrift of the top eight – the stakes literally couldn’t be higher. So who gets the cream? More AFL Last week: 3 Adelaide, Western Bulldogs, Hawthorn, West Coast, St Kilda, Sydney, Carlton, Melbourne This is another one of those tricky weekends where every game carries an element of doubt to it – such is the evenness of this competition, few games are ever easy to lock in as tipsters.
The only simple choice is Adelaide on Thursday night against Richmond, in a game so rancid to consider that hopefully all those people .
