R11

This time last week the Tigers were finals bound, the 'Pies were still in bounce-back mode and our very own Leah Champs was sitting at 6th having won the round with 8 wins and margin-variance of a solitary point.

This time this week? Well, the Tiges are shot, dead, extinct (again), the Pies are cooked and Leah, having scored possibly the first zero in PunchDrunk history*, is sitting at 34th.  28 spots, not the greatest single-week fall in 'Drunk history as I recently explored with Harv, but a damn good effort nonetheless.

Bernie (who I used to like a lot) clearly missed my email on how to keep the comp interesting and pulled out 9 wins at a margin fail of just 4 points (possibly the best single week result in 'Drunk history*) to stride further out in front. As if he knows where the hell he's going.

If you're interested the most significant single week falls in the past 5 years have been:

R2 2012: Harv drops 17
R6 2012: Rob drops 19
R2 2013: Harv drops 30
R2 2014: Trobby drops 34
R4 2014:  Leah drops 23
R4 2015: Schena drops 20
R7 2016: Harv drops 21


* No idea really.

R10

If there's one thing that drives the decent, honest footy-goer crazy, it's the current craze of drawing a high tackle free from ducking, draping, head-butting etc. A couple of weeks back I endured watching Rhys Mathieson's dubious debut, wherein he cheated his way to no less than 6 free kicks through perfectly timed collapsing of his undercarriage as he was being tackled. Sucked the maggots in every single time but one, where he was rightly pinged for holding

And while Lindsay Thomas was in the news last week for the same misdemeanour, apparently his numbers aren't as incriminating, with something like 4 high-tackle frees for to date for the whole season.

I took it upon myself to do some research to try to ascertain whether this is a new problem.
As you can see by the images below, it seems this has been going on for a while now.

 Meanwhile here's where we're at: