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Results for ISTS Footy Pools Round - 24

ISTS AFL Pools 2025 - Round 24 Results

ISTS Footy Pools Final Round and End of Year 2024 Results

On a sombre note, I would like to make a big shout out to Robert Smith in our competition who had a reasonably serious stroke on August 4th. I ended up calling an ambulance for him (remotely) and my partner and I went to RAH. He had a procedure with the wire up the groin to the brain to break up the clot. First 48 hours were kind of Ok but he got an infection and was *really* crook for a week. He is a fighter. He moved to the QEH Rehab facility in the new building there. He has shaken off the infection and has made amazing progress in the last week. I helped Robert make sure his tips were in. He stills knows more about footy teams and players than I ever will. He has turned a big corner and is making the most of his opportunities. I am glad I have been able to visit him for 3 to 4 hours nearly every day to encourage him. Our Doctors, Nurses, Allied Health staff and everyone at the QEH are really amazing dealing with 24 rehabilitating patients on that floor. We are truly in a lucky country. Go Robert!

It was an interesting final round as Collingwood finding a way to get that narrow win over the Demons got them the double chance in the final four. The Suns lost their chance at a final four position when the Power upset them greatly with a nail biting 4 point win for a fairy tale, and probably unexpected finish to Travis Boak and Ken Hinkley's careers at the club. The Crows struggled to shake off the Kangaroos which kept bouncing back and Adelaide just got home by 13 points to sew up the minor premiership. Once the Catters had stitched up the Tigers, Geelong owned 2nd spot on the ladder.

The Giants gave themselves a shot at a top four position by getting over the Saints by just 11 points but it would depending on subsequent results which saw them drop to 5th. The Bulldogs played the Dockers at Marvel with the winner guaranteed to play final. Freo were fired up and got home by 15 points to stitch up a finals berth. When the Lions played the Hawks at home, Brisbane led from half way through the second term but the Hawks wouldn't go away and challenged 4 more times to get within a kick but couldn't manage to take the lead. Lions by 10 pints and locking in 3rd spot pusjhing the Pies down to 3rd and setting up an Adelaide Crows vs Collingwood Mapgies rematch at Adelaide Oval for the first qualifying final.

This left just 1 more game in the record 10 game round and it would decide the bottom 2 contenders for the eight. We had to wait for Wednesday to give the Suns and Bombers the rest they needed to finish that Round 0 match that was postponed (nearly forever) due to the cyclone off the Gold Coast early in the season. The Suns won it by enough to overcome Hawthorn's percentage and finish 7th. This pushed the Dogs out of the finals running and they will have mad Thursday. They probably started at half time!

Patrick Cripps stormed to his second Brownlow Medal in 2025 with a record-breaking 45 votes, becoming the first Carlton player to win two. The Blues’ skipper was dominant from early in the count, moving into the lead by round six and never relinquishing it. Collingwood star Nick Daicos finished runner-up on 38, also surpassing the previous record of 36 votes, while Zak Butters (29), Caleb Serong (28), Isaac Heeney (28, ineligible) and Tom Green (27) rounded out the top five. Cripps’ incredible consistency saw him poll three votes in nine matches, cementing his status among the game’s elite. The win capped off a stellar season where he averaged nearly 29 disposals and led Carlton into premiership contention.

Top 10: Cripps 45, Daicos 38, Butters 29, Serong 28, Heeney* 28, Green 27, Treloar 26, Gulden 25, Rowell 25, Newcombe 24.

If you have an appertite for the All Australian Team then that will be shown on Thursday night. But a Squad of 44 have been named and that will be halfed tomorrow night.

But now for the last time in 2025, how did you do in the longest round in history? 10 matches spread over a week. Let's just all look together!

ISTS Footy Pools 2025 - Round 24 Results for tipsters

This week, you needed to get an UNBELIEVABLE 10 correct for the round. And there were 4 winners this week each earning $17.68.

Congratulations to Joanna Sundstrom, Steven Burnett, Robert Smith and Jason Allsopp.

This week's big movers and shakers begins with Robert Smith up 16, Steven Burnett up 13, Jason Allsopp up 10, Michelle Ah Matt, Joanna Sundstrom and David Jones up 9, Sam Cooper and Kirsty Rogerson up 8, Nick Leidig up 7, Lisa Morgan up 6, Christopher Blake, Jenny Butler, Scott Ainsworth, Trudi Bishop, Emerson Stevens, Justin Faggotter and Selene Stone Ainsworth up 4, Si Michie, Neville Rankine, Brett Heritage, Kate Adriaans, Patricia Coulthard, James Lipsham and Anthony Beck,

This week there were 32 distinct tips, 3 fewer than last week.

The average total score is 141.5 and the average score this round was 7.4.

It is a different story to last year with Adelaide finishing top of the ladder compared to 15th last year. The whole Rankine Slur thing wasn't handled all that well by the Club or the AFL but he did get sanctioned for it and only has a slim chance of playing again in this year. Still wondering how the AFL justify their half time Snoop Dogg choice for entertainment given the lyrics he chooses (including the word Rankine stupidly used).

The Power struggled with injuries this year which contributed to falling from 2nd last year to finish 13th this year. They did manage to upset the Suns in Trav's and Ken's final appearances for the Power. But the question has to be asked, even with the injuries they had, where were those performances for the majority of 2025 that let them slide to 13th? Having said all that, I was glad it was a good send off for Boak and Hinkley. They both teamed up when Port were struggling at Footy Park and got them nearly to the top of the mountain. It was a big change from where they were.

The first week of AFL finals looks like this:

First Qualifying Final - Adelaide v Collingwood at AO on Thursday 4th September at 6:50pm.

Second Qualifying Final - Geelong v Brisbane at the MCG on Friday 5th September at 7:10pm.

First Elimination Final - Giants v Hawks on Saturday 6th September afternoon.

Second Elimination Final - Dockers v Suns at Optus Stadium in the West on Saturday 6th September evening.

More importantly who has won the Footy Pools for 2025. Let's all look together!

Drum Roll....................................................

Final week - Round 24 of 2025 minor rounds!

Just a reminder that the prize money is as below.

First prize: $303.00
Second prize: $176.75
Third prize: $101.00
33rd Last: $50.50

Congratulations to our sole winner, Garry Wood from Canada of all places who came to Oz in the laste 1990's to work ona STudent Record System and got to love AFL. He got out in front by 9 points to be the clear winner. His top score of 164 (compared to 138 last year) means he gets the entire First Prize of $303.00 added to his $51.14 winnings making a very nice total of $354.14!

Congratulations to Bayden Smith who was a clear solo second place and gets $176.75 added to his total winnings of $14.52 making a total winning haul of $191.27. Bayden got 155 tips correct.

Congratulations to Paul (NS) Sherlock who took out the 3rd place spot on his Pat Malone to win $101.00 and add to his $21.75 winnings during the year for $122.75 for the minor round competition! My former boss got 154 points. Retirement has helped his footy tipping immeasurably!

Just missing out on the ladder for a share of the spoils at the end of the year was Nicole King on 153 points.

The final 33rd last place holder is Michelle Ah Matt. She gets $50.50 for lucky 33rd last added to her $2.53 and gets $55.81.

It has been a huge year on-line! Congratulations to all our Footy Pools winners!

And now some awards (non-monetary).

The Highest Finishing Loser (not winning a brass razoo) Award this year goes to Tracey Goode in 20th place
The Wooden Spoon goes to Ryan Bailey on 98 points but I wasn't much better in 3rd last.
The Most Average Punter was Christopher Blake with the average of the punters with a score of 141 and an accuracy of 68% which is a lot better than coin tossing!
The Median Punter was Bob (Footy Pools Co-founder) Ellis at position 51 in our ladder on 144 points which is better than the average by 2.5 points.

Our competition had a potential total of 20,907 tips for all punters.
The highest grossing punter who didn't win a major end of year prize was Bernie Hoffmann with a tidy $106.06 in winnings during the season!
28 punters got more than their $25 investment back (4 more than last year!). Another 60 punters got some money back but not enough to recover their investment. That leaves 13 punters who did all of their dough!
The average score for our 109 punters was 141.5 points. 58 punters were above average, 8 punters were average and 35 punters below average. But look on the bright side. Tossing a coin should produce 50% success which would mean 104 correct tips. Only 2 of us were worse than coin tossing!
There was an average of 1 voice mail tips left every 4 weeks.

Thanks all for your patronage this year. I hope you have had some fun and you can collect on those side bets now!

A big thanks my Uni mate Pete Kiley who tweaks the web site and guest stars with the Commentary when I am away voluntering at moto races.

In continuing the memory of my wife, Corinne, this year's donation of at least $126.25 will again be made to a combination of Breast Cancer Research and the Australian Lions Childhood Cancer Research Foundation.

Last year, this amount was topped up by the generosity of our punters and myself to make $600 to each charity ($1200 in total).

Hope to see you next year when it is time to turn on the tipping again. We will work out the money distribution after the finals.

For those of you in the finals, hang on for the reminder which will come out when we have reset the web site for Finals tipping.

Rocky, for ISTS AFL Pools - 2025 Edition!