Micro Noises 92: Two good, two bad
Good news, bad news
We've been pumping out good omens for Tiger fans since our post-round one edition, and the good news is that they keep coming. Geelong provided the positive sign for Richmond last Friday night, by beating Port Adelaide 92 to 69. The only other time the Cats won 92-69 was against St Kilda at Moorabbin in 1969. And of course the premiership team in 1969 was Richmond!
On the other side of the ledger, there's bad news for Freo fans. The Dockers might have returned to the winners list against the Suns on Saturday but their score of 6.17 spells trouble. 6.17 has been a final score 37 times in VFL/AFL history but no side that has recorded it has gone on to win a premiership in that season. Based on history, the best Freo coach Ross Lyon can hope for is another Grand Final loss. Carlton scored 6.17 in the 1910 VFL Semi Final and then went on to lose the Grand Final to Collingwood, while in 1917, Fitzroy also registered 6.17 in a Semi Final and then went down in that year's premiership decider.
Good cop, bad cop
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At Micro Noises, our tipping in 2015 hasn't been too bad, and we find ourselves at the upper echelons of the table in the various competitions we are in. In round 11, we correctly tipped four out of six matches correct. We thought that was a middle of the road effort, but the competitions of which we are a part, disagreed. Interestingly, the two competitions not only disagreed with us about our efforts, they also disagreed with each other, as can be seen by the two screen grabs at right. Having received those two critiques of our performance, we feel we have no other choice but to be sad about such great tipping.
Two point, two teams, two venues
The Saints' heart-stopping win over Melbourne on Sunday gave us the third two-point match of 2015. Two of those games have involved St Kilda, two have involved Essendon and two have been played at Docklands (with the other at the MCG). For the Bombers it was good news twice, the two-point games being wins over Hawthorn and St Kilda, while the Saints have experienced both despair and unfettered joy, with a loss to Essendon and a win over the Demons.
First among unequals
No first-time score combinations came up in round 11 but we did have two that came up for the first time in more than a century, both involving the teams from Western Australia. Fremantle's seven-point win over Gold Coast saw 53-46 come up for the first time since Richmond defeated St Kilda in 1912, while the Eagles 96-46 victory over Essendon featured a pairing not seen since Collingwood beat the Saints in 1904.
Score Wars
The two games above both gave us losing scores of 46. Until the weekend, no team had finished on 46 since Brisbane were thrashed by Port Adelaide in round four last year. For the second week running, there was no movement at the top of the Score Wars leaderboard. 78 remains the most common score of the year, having come up seven times, twice more than 105 and 68.
ZIP Code of the week
With Collingwood sitting fourth on the ladder with an 8-3 record, even the long-time doubters are now starting to believe that Nathan Buckley isn't a bad coach. As time goes on, Buckley is accumulating evidence of being a fine tactician and commander of his troops, not unlike Hannibal Barca back in the third century BC. Appropriately, the Magpies percentage at the moment is 130.74, and 13074 is the ZIP code of Hannibal in New York.
Postcode of the week
North Melbourne's 16-point loss to Sydney on Saturday night came about despite the Kangaroos having 25 scoring shots to the Swans 21. Sydney were far more accurate, with their shots returning 14.7 but North could only manage 10.15 from its 25. You could perhaps say that the Roos were playing like millionaires such was their wastefulness. And lending support to this viewpoint is that fact that they scored 3, 1, 4 and 2 goals in each of their quarters, and 3142 is the postcode of Toorak.
Ridiculous footy anagram of the week
The AFL's official Twitter hashtag for last Sunday's St Kilda v Melbourne match was #AFLSaintsDees. We imagine that would have been the stuff of dreams for the Saints' major sponsor, LED, because AFL SAINTS DEES is an anagram of LED FANTASISES.
Micro Noises is Andrew Gigacz's regular, quirky look at all things footy. The name Micro Noises is an anagram of Enrico Misso, who played one game for St Kilda in 1985. He remains the only Enrico and the only Misso to have played footy at the highest level.
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