2019 Sydney Brewery Beer Winner

Just 6 rounds til finals all youse UGLYBAAAAAAARSTAAAARDS!!!!!

The tension is mounting as it's looking like a race in 4 to get the coveted Uglybustards guernsey!

And in even more spectacular news I visited Sydney Brewery at 28 Albion Street Surry Hills the other week to draw the lucky door carton prize with Sydney Brewery Marketing Manager Richard Feyn.

And the winner is....

2018 Uglybustards Underway with Unfurling of Flag

yes all youse Uglybustards the 2018 season is well and truly underway as we're 5 rounds down and its already a tipsters nightmare!!!  This week we see the presentation of the 2017 Uglybustards Cup to last year's winner Griggsy, who will be doing a lap of honour at the Round 6 Geelong Vs Sydney game at Kardinia Park this Saturday 28th April at 1:45pm.  Be sure to tune in so you don't miss it.

Uglybustards Rides Again in 2016!

Welcome back all you utter utter bustards for the 17th Uglybustards AFL Footy Tipping Comp and a big welcome to the new tipsters who really don't know what they're letting themselves in for.

But first, the unveiling of the cup for the 2015 Champ Sam Griggs who potted his 2nd trophy in 3 years, he is becoming the "Hawthorn" tipster of Uglybustards. Who will knock him off this year?

Sam Griggs wins his 2nd Uglybustards Title

Sizzling Sam Peaks Perfectly to Capture Crown

The 2015 Uglybustards Premiership Cup proudly brought to you by Huru Sports, look good play better.

Presented to Sam Griggs

Sam Snares Second Title - past winners

The Hawks may have got their 3-peat but it was Sam Griggs who got his 2nd Uglybustards Champeenship on the first Saturday in October. He joins an elite group of Uglybustards dual titleholders that consists of Arnold Layne (2000, 2010), Denis Lashmar (2005, 2008) and Sam (2013, 2015).

Minor Premiership to Sam Griggs

2013 Uglybustards Champeen Sam Griggs has edged out the Ox for the 2015 minor premiership. With yet another high number of upsets on the round 23 weekend, the Ox's final Joker didn't pay off and Sam scored well to take a 4 point lead into the finals.

Playing Your Joker

Instructions on how to play your joker.

It's become apparent that not all Uglybustards tipsters realise that we can play a Joker 5 weeks a season.

It got me wondering if everyone realises all the prizes are attached to the "Sam Griggs Joker Ladder".

The Joker Ladder was launched in February 2014 to bring endless excitement to a BIGGER BOLDER BETTER Uglybustards tipping season due to Sam Griggs streeting the field after 6 rounds in 2013.

So just to make it very clear to one and all, I've put together some instructions on how to play your joker when you put your tips in on www.footytips.com.au.

Zenben Jags Jackpot

Where did the first 9 rounds of the season go? Zenben's cleaned up all the jackpot $, we've had one coach sacking (onya Malt) and the Ugly Bustards Footy Tipping Joker Ladder is as topsy turvy as the never-ending Essendon drugs saga. WADA are appealing not only the Dons players result but now Stephen Dank's 21 charges he got off on as well. But more on that at the end of this week's report. Read on for the tipping results...

Time to pull on the boots

Ugly Bustards Footy Tipping returns once more in 2015

Welcome back to AFL tipping all you diehard and new tipsters in what promises to be yet another bumper year in Ugly Bustards Footy Tipping.

Here's whats in store this year:

• The Joker Ladder with full card bonus, five joker rounds and away teams on missed tips is on again with the Prize Pool & Ugly Bustards merchandise spread among the top 3 paid-up tipsters.
• Huru Sports are providing another AFL guernsey this year for the top paid-up Joker Ladder tipster
• The Standard Ladder also receives a prize this year, to the top paid-up tipster outside the top 3 in the Joker Ladder
• Weekly Prize jackpot of $5 continues for paid-up tipsters (depending on prize pool entries).
• Prize Pool entry deadline is delayed a month to 30th May due to the late start to the season. Email uglybustard@uglybustards.com for details on how to enter.
• Entry fee is again just $20, but for an extra $10 you receive an Uglybustards Stubby Holder and you'll be supporting diabetes research via a $5 donation to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
• You're welcome to play for glory only without a Prize Pool entry
• For those who are good or lucky enough, $5k 1st, $3k 2nd, $1k 3rd and a share in $250k cash giveaways on the footytips.com.au site if you get your tips in each week.

 Join now for the 2015 Ugly Bustards AFL Footy Tipping season

But of course this is what we're all really playing for...

Flopalot 2014 Uglybustards Premiership Titleholder.
Past winners

Go youuuuuuuuse Ugly Bustaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Support Juvenile Diabetes Research

2014 Grand Final - Flopalot Delivers Daily Double

On behalf of Ugly Bustards Footy Tipping and its esteemed Board of Directors, it's my honour & privilege as Uglybustard, your humble footy tipping administrator, to announce Flopalot as the well-deserved fifteenth Uglybustards Premiership Titleholder in 2014!!!

Flopalot takes home $265 cold hard cash, the inaugural Uglybustards footy guernsey, and two first choice picks of official Uglybustards merchandise; a cap, t-shirt, executive pen or coffee mug. He'll almost have a full Uglybustards kit to strut around town in!

Read on for final 2014 standings and an assessment of the Top 11 GFs since 1966 by Brutas the Barber Mudcake...

2014 R21-23 Flopalot's Minor Premiership

And there you have it. Round 23 over in the blink of an eye and the minor Premiership to Flopalot by the barest of margins over zenben.  But it counts for nothing as we enter the cut-throat finals series to find out who will be the Uglybustards Champeeen for 2014!!!

Depending on how I've set up this crazy joker tipping comp, I'm pretty sure the full card 5 pt bonus continues in finals, making it still wide open until the GF, as the teams are so damn close in a horror year for most tipsters.  The only thing I got right this year was a Magpie-free-finals, as the Nathan Buckley engineered geometric progression to 18th continues. #SlideBySlide Magpies fans.

Read on for the latest standings in the Standard ladder, the Sam Griggs Joker Ladder and Margin Ladder, and even that muddafkn Trivia comp gets a mention...

2014 R12-15 Flopalot Finds Fiercesome Form

Rounds 12 to 15 sees Flopalot come to the fore with some fiercesome form especially in R14 picking the Giants and the Suns for upsets in the same round, getting the full card, pocketing the dosh and the whopper to boot.  Rod Carter also won some jackpot money which may go towards a long awaited and much needed operation to fix his neck. All this and more in your Round 15 Uglybustards Update.

2014 R4,5 - Ben's Buffer keeps Bill at Bay

5 rounds down in 2014 and the ladder is starting to take shape with ZenBen's astute use of 3 jokers placing him at the top of the table. Bill Griggs is well positioned in 2nd with four jokers up his sleeve while completing the podium is stanleymarsh who's used up 2 jokers.

Billy Griggs leads the standard ladder by one point over ZenBen and Mik Barley, the latter keeping his powder dry with the full arsenal of five jokers available.  Other dark horses are Flopalot, Arnold Layne, Amy Jones and reigning champ Sam Griggs with plenty of scoring power left in the joker department.

Only 7 days til the April 30 prize pool deadline, contact uglybustard@uglybustards.com asap for details - $30 gets you entry  into the prize pool and eligibility for all prizes & the collectors item Uglybustards stubby holder, while $20 gets you just the entry into the prize pool.

BIGGER, BETTER, BOLDER Ugly Bustards Footy Tipping 2014

Ugly Bustards Footy Tipping - the best footy tipping comp you've never heard of.
If you want to be a big fish in a small pond this is the one to join.

2014 sees yet another mind-bending spectacular Ugly Bustards Footy Tipping season underway, the 15th Uglybustards AFL tipping competition since our humble beginnings back in 2000.

After a tear away victory last year that literally ended the competition half way through the season, in 2014 we have the "Sam Griggs invoked Joker Ladder" to ensure the season is never over until the fat lady sings.

Yes indeed, in 2014 we've returned after a gut-wrenching pre-season BIGGER, BETTER & BOLDER!!!

BIGGER: 5 Joker rounds set by you where you can double your points!

BETTER: Full card picks of 9 winners give you 5 bonus points for that round!

BOLDER: Away teams for missed tips, meaning you could still get the full card!

It will be anyone's comp to win this year, right up to the Grand Final.

Check out the prizes for 2014 including this year's sponsor Huru Sports who have provided the inaugural Uglybustards footy guernsey for this year's Tipping Champion!

You can play for free, but if you want to make it more interesting, there is a prize pool payment of $20 by April 30, email uglybustard@uglybustards.com for details. This year for $30 you receive a you-beaut Uglybustards stubby holder on top of your entry! (delivery included).

So if you veterans can stomach another year, join up for the challenge of knocking off reigning titleholder Sam.

Newbies - info about joining Uglybustards.

Finally, we thought that we had pretty good pre-seasons at Uglybustards, but with the infamous Cost Of Living Allowance (COLA), the Swans are just too hard to compete with. See below.  And Go Youse Uglybustaaaaaaaaaaaaaaards!!!!!

2013 Ugly Bustards Premiership

Ladies and gentlemen and fellow ugly bustards.

It gives me great pleasure to present this year's winner of the fourteenth Ugly Bustards Footy Tipping Premiership in 2013 with the Ugly Bustards Premiership Cup, the holy grail of footy tipping.

Well done Mr. Sam Griggs.

Sam Griggs wins 2013 Ugly Bustards Footy Tipping Premiership

Sam is the 11th winner of the prized cup in fourteen years of Ugly Bustards Footy Tipping. The only punters to have won the treasured prize twice are inaugural winner Arnold Layne and denlash. Previous cup winners' engravings can be viewed on Facebook.

Sam had an exceptional season winning by a record margin of six tips, and finished higher than any other Ugly Bustards tipster in history on the overall footytips.com.au site, with a 27th placing out of nearly half a million tipsters. This eclipsed teenyweenybustard's placing of 121st in 2001.

Runners-up this year were Powerful, Craig Nettlebeck and Amy Jones, view the Hall of Fame for the archive of Ugly Bustards Footy Tipping winners.

See you at pre-season training, and don't forget you can't get by a hot summer without an Ugly Bustards stubby holder to keep your drink nice and cool.

Thanks all for your participation this year, and Go Youse Ugly Bustaaaaaaaaaaaaaaards!!!

AFL Results R20 - Cooney Crushes Carlton

Lots of 50/50 games this week which were hard to pick. Poor old Norf cant take a trick losing another close one to the Crows, the Magpies surprised everyone with a convincing win over the Swans, the Bombers look like the year is starting to take its toll as they got smashed by the Ducks, and the Bulldogs crushed an unconvincing Carlton.

Judd caught out

Malted Outhouse can smugly say he is happy with the process, the ladder is irrelevant and that Carlton continue to improve under his tutelage.  But as the gulf between the contenders and the Blues widens, our sources here at Uglybustards have uncovered a potential cause for the Blues downward spiral, and that is their nutritional program!  Full of Mars Bars!

In fact it's not much different from the Blues of the 70s as far as one-dimensional diets go, but instead of Mars Bars envisage cans of VB. How soft has this once great team become?

Not many outstanding highlights this week except to say Adam Cooney is back with a vengeance. If he didn't get the 3 Brownlow votes I'll go he. Freo look set for a top 2 spot as the Swans, Cats and Hawks are yet to play each other, while the Dockers face the behemoths of Melbourne and St Kilda, with Port Adelaide at Patersons. Roll the tape Olympiodorus and read on for the latest in Uglybustards tipping results.

AFL Results R13 - Brisbane Burst Brad's Bubble

Joined the injury list meself this week getting me hand caught in the meat shredder. Muriel from the typing pool's done the honours. Never stopped me from playin the 62 GF so wont stop me now!!

Uglybustard v meatshredder

What a classic round of footy considering only 5 games were played. Brad Scott was handed a flag in his 1st year of coaching by a team he admitted coached themselves. On the weekend there came a time when that team needed a cluey coach to stop momentum building into an unspeakable loss. And Brad Scott was exposed. Badly. What moves did he make to stop the rot? What message did he send out via the runner? With his team continuing to play-on with seconds left, a point up and in possession, they lost the 4 points when it was theirs for the taking.  You gotta do more than sit there in "restrained fury". You gotta actually make some moves son. Makes you think what would've happened if Neeld had've had a sliding doors moment with Scott - who would be on the scrap heap and who would have a flag?

More strange was how the Lions' 8 goal last quarter was kick-started, literally, by the ump (yes, the man in green, what do they call them these days, boogie instead of maggot) getting in the way of a Stevie J miskick that rebounded off his shin into a magnificent goal assist as Brisbane took it down the corridor and slotted it from CHF.  37 Supercoach points to the ump for that little effort. Geisch still on holidays?  Too scared to return no doubt.

Kurt Tippett made a dream return that soon turned into a nightmare, booting a major in the 1st minute only for the Swans to capitulate to Port in the other upset of the round.

The Lions and Power victories make the final 8 race more interesting, and while it was a relief to not have to watch my beloved Blues get overrun for yet another "admirable" loss, they now have some new rivals for 8th spot.  Round 23 Port v Blues at Alberton could decide both teams' fate for 2013.

Roll the tape Stavros.  And check out Tyrone Vickery's mark.

AFL Results R11 - Bombers Blitz Blues from Behind

The rubber-band effect was in full swing over the long weekend where two teams in the Blues and the Saints were reeled in by the Bombers and the Ducks respectively. Some very controversial umpiring decisions especially Garlett's non-goal, but the Blues only had themselves to blame for missing too many easy shots when 5 goals up. As for the Saints, when the umps got going in the last quarter the Ducks were never going to lose. 22 - 14 free kick count for the Ducks. They've lost only 2 counts to round 11 this year and top the "ladder" for free kicks. At this time last year they'd lost just one free kick count. Not much has changed in Ducks games, whereas other matches were deemed to be well umpired in general by both winning and losing coaches.

The Gold Coast Suns are on fire and the Giants put on a bold display against the Cats, and they too will be a force - it is Demetriou's main objective to get these two teams in the finals asap, and win a Premiership. That leaves a team like Melbourne with just about no hope whatsoever.

The other talking point for the round is the ramp up of the Swans. Get your hard-earned on them now for the Flag. Two years ago when the Juddy Blues beat them in the wet at the SCG I could've sworn they were on the downhill slide to mediocre mid-tableness. Now, in two weeks time, I'm sure they'll absolutely slaughter the Blues, who are looking very mid-table indeed. Who would've picked it?

Let's roll the tape for round 11. I can't watch this week.  Too many Bomber highlights. Hit it, Aris, then on to the Uglybustards tipping results.

AFL Results R8 - The 'Bustard is Back!

It's great to be back from the land of the goat kebab and watching the AFL live! And what the hell has been happening??? It was hard to pick up the facts but the snippets I did get were that Hirdy's on anabolic steroids to clear up a nagging pimple condition, his mighty Bombers are about to be relegated to the Magoos, and Demetriou's still refusing to put in a Tassie team to replace them.

The other thing I can't fathom is the amount of rule changes that have been made while my back's been turned, this time with marking contests, that are confusing the bejesus out of everyone, and Kevin Bartlett's been right in amongst it, onya KB, ya gotta clear this one up. All for no hands on the shoulders Warwick Capper style but the marking contest needs some clear delineation of what is allowed and what isn't.

As for the actual performance of teams Port are the big movers, or are they? The Suns have started to rise and could do anything in the next few seasons, and make the Power look more like a souflee. The Hawks are lookin' early faves for the flag - a Cats / Hawks Grand Final with the Kennett Curse in tact would be speeeeeecial and I'm here to tell ya its gonna happen. Get your hard earned on it now. Remember you heard it here first on Uglybustards!

And of course there's the Ducks, with the Selwoods leading the way. The umps cost Norf 4 points giving Adam Selwood high when he bent his knees and cannoned into Leigh Adams with his shoulder. How many times do we say the Giesch has to be sacked before the umps are told to wake up to this tactic of drawing the free. Read on to see the tape and make up your own mind:

Join Uglybustards in 2013

hey all youse Ugly bustards!!!
I know its been a long hard (& wet) preseason, but the real things about to 'ckn-well start in a few wks!!
The Maltshaker has the Blues as raging unbackable flag faves just like they were this time last year, while the Swans are looking good for the spoon. They should have the GF in March Demetriou!

Anyway, time to join Uglybustards for season 2013 if you're keen.

For the first time in Uglybustards, the first 7 rounds are blind (like me most of the time) as I'll be on a high altitude training program along with some goats in the mountains of Northern Greece, and hope to bring back a few recruits with me.

Prizes for 2013 Still trying to get Broo on board for this year, stay tuned.

Usual deal for prize pool payment, email uglybustard@uglybustards.com for details.
Except this year you have an extra month, until May 31st, to pay your $20.

Go youse Uglybustaaaaaaaaaaaaaaards!!!!!

AFL Grand Final Review & Tipping Prizes

What a Grand Final. Gotta be the best one I've seen in 40 years. Pips the Swans own classics Vs the Weagles a few year back, and even both drawn Grannies in 1977 and 2010. It left me with the feeling that any team can win it, you don't need high draft picks, its about working with what you've got. Try to name the Swans star forwards to compare with Roughhead, Buddy and Cyril, and you'll see what I mean.

Read on for more on the GF, the video highlights, then the final results and prize winners for 2012 Uglybustards Tipping.