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Arafura Times WITH the NRL season due to start on Thursday night, footy fans have been quick to get off the mark to enter the Arafura Times’ popular footy tipping competition for 2013. While the NRL kicks off this week, the AFL is still a couple of weeks away. But this year we’ve challenged our readers by conducting two tipping comps - one on each code. That will separate the players from the pretenders. That’s right - we will conduct footy
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Rush to enter footy tipping Separate << comps >> and prizes tipping competitions on both the NRL and AFL. They will run indepently of each other with separate prizes for both - a winner and runner-up in each competition. Arnhem Club’s General Manager Nigel Baker and Arafura Times group editor Mark Bousen both expressed their enthusiasm for taking part in the newlook competition and their willingness to sponsor and promote it. “I am also delighted to welcome the return of the Arnhem Club in conjunction
with the Arafura Times as our major sponsor,” Mark Bousen said. To further extend the merits of the competition, two major changes have been introduced this year. 1. Anyone who fails to enter their selections for a week will receive no points. This ensures fairness to those who do enter their tips. 2. Anyone entering the competition after the start of the season, also will start from zero with no points awarded for missed games.
The Arafura Times/Arnhem Club NRL and AFL footy tipping competitions are free - there is no joining fee and no charges whatsoever are associated with it. The competitions are computer generated, with all selections being lodged to an independent, national footy tipping website. Neither the Arafura Times nor the sponsors can access the website, and all results are generated by the website operators. The results will be provided in the
Arafura Times, the Arafura Times facebook page and the competition operator’s website after each round. Staff from the Arafura Times and sponsors are ineligible to enter. In the event of a tie, the prize value will be divided among the joint winners winners. Only residents with local postcodes and subscribers to the Arafura Times are eligible to enter.. Entry details, Page 18 and below.
Not em-barra-ssing for Carl Tennis on for young and old THE NEW year looks to be off to a cracking start for the Gove Peninsula Tennis Club, with the Gove Closed Tournament already on our doorstep. The senior competition will run from March 15 -17, followed by the Medibank JDS Closed Junior event on March 22-24. Club Manager Nicky Mayer said for the duration of the tournaments, the courts will be closed to the public. A reminder that the adult social competition has recommenced on Tuesdays at 7:30pm, as well as the junior social competition on Fridays at 3:30pm. Monday night Cardio Tennis has also started up again for the year, every Monday at 7pm for a 7:30pm start. Nicky said the club was always looking for new members to get involved, so tennis enthusiasts should come down and check it out. “We love to see new faces playing the game. “We cater for players of all skill levels, and it’s a great way to have fun while exercising.” If you are interested in whacking a few balls give Nicky Mayer a call (0407 460 487).
ALTHOUGH to some locals his catch may not look like much more than bait, excited Sydneysider Carl Merchant’s first shot at chucking a line in on Ski Beach was cause for celebration when he landed his first barramundi. It was heard that Mr Merchant, who has been working with Gumatj Corporation in the Jawun secondment program from the Commonwealth Bank, dined on his fresh fish in delight later that evening. Anyone out there with a worthy fishing photo, send it through to editor@arafuratimes.com.au, and have it immortalised in our fishing section.
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Prize pool still being finalised – details announced in next week’s issue!
Tennis Club member Emma Gianelli practising her serve at the Gove Tennis Courts last week.
Tipping Competition Register to join our tipping competition NOW! First round starts on Friday, March 22 – Adelaide Crows v Essendon (night game). You must be registered before the first game of the first round. Sign up and enter at…
www.footytips.com.au/comps/Arafura_Times_AFLTipping
DRAW ROUND 1 (Split Round) (Mar 22 – Apr 1, home team first) Friday, March 22 Saturday, March 23 Thursday, March 28 Saturday, March 30
Sunday, March 31
Competition password is: NewsNorthAT
Great fun… Join now!
TERMS & CONDITIONS: The Arafura Times AFL footy tipping competition is free – there is no joining fee and no charges whatsoever are associated with it. The Arafura Times footy tipping competition is computer generated,
with all selections being lodged to an independent, national footy tipping website. Neither the Arafura Times or sponsors can access the website, and all results are generated by the website operators. The results will be provided in the Arafura Times, the Arafura Times website and the competition
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operator’s website after each round. Staff from the Arafura Times and sponsors are ineligible to enter. In the event of a tie, the prize value will be divided among the joint winners. No substitution of prizes for cash. Residents with local postcode and subscribers only eligible to enter and win prizes.
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