Finding a winner has been hard enough in this chaotic AFL season, so how about if we charged you with the task of successfully backing the line in all nine games.
Impossible for most, but not for an incredibly savvy AFL punter who managed to turn $30 into $13,501.30 with an incredible multi this weekend.
He started on Friday night when he backed the Sydney Swans to beat the line of 2.5 points against Melbourne and four Buddy Franklin got his multi underway with a winner.
The West Coast Eagles were comfortably able to beat the line with a start of 19.5 points on Saturday afternoon, but it was far from clear sailing during the clash between Carlton and Adelaide.
Carlton looked no chance of covering the line of 24.5 points when Adelaide kicked away to an early lead of 24 points, but Carlton showed plenty of fight to lose by only 12 points and take our punter to 3/3.
The Gold Coast Suns gave both Gary Ablett and our punter a big win to take him to 4/4 and Geelong’s draw against the Greater Western Sydney Giants was enough to see them cover the line with a start of 19.5 points.
There were a few nervous moments in the early stages of the Saturday night game between Port Adelaide and Richmond as the Power threatened to run away with it in the second quarter, but a strong second-half from the Tigers took out punter into Sunday needing just three more legs for a massive win.
The Brisbane Lions didn’t need the big start of 43.5 points against Essendon, but it would have made that game much easier viewing for our punter and he got his penultimate leg-up when Hawthorn beat Collingwood.
It all came down to the final game of the weekend and our punter backed St Kilda to beat Fremantle with a start of 1.5 points.
It is fair to say that it was a tense four quarters.
Fremantle were in front for the majority of this clash and the lead changed hands on a number of occasions during the final quarter, but a couple of late goals from Josh Bruce not only delivered St Kilda a crucial win but our punter a perfect weekend on the punt!
