With no AFL on tonight our Club 20 accountant was able to sit down in his favourite floaty ring and bring our season up to date. We also have some First Round Leader bets for tonight’s opening round (Best Ball) and the Euro.

If you have not been following along each week from home, the SI Model is currently sitting at 75% with the NRL tipping this season (36/48) after 5/8 last week, while in the green smiley count, it has nailed 12/17 after bagging 3/5 last week.

It's easy to get excited about a side sitting at third on the NRL ladder, but we've seen this group stumble towards the final hurdle too often. Are we set for a similar fate for the Eels, or does Parramatta have something different up its sleeve?

It actually wasn’t all that long ago when the Pies were one of the league’s most fearsome outfits. Where's it all gone wrong, and can their season be salvaged?

The Tigers are the AFL’s indisputable great contemporary artist. They’re also its most confounding.

The 2021 NRL season seems more predictable than ever. Still, the Stats Insider Futures Model has crunched the numbers for all 16 teams and produced some interesting results.

There is just something about the build-up to a weekend - the expectation, the enthusiasm and bubbling social excitement combine every year to ensure the Club 20 front bar is absolutely humming with giddy optimism come Thursday arvo happy hour.

Is it a bird, is it plane? No, it’s Melbourne’s extreme durability which has electrified the club's best start to a season in 27 years.

With five (5) green smileys on the board heading into Round 6, it is not too late to jump in on the fun and let the power of the data help your tipping/betting this season.

Anthony Griffin's signing to replace the much-maligned Paul McGregor was met with varying degrees of optimism and outrage. In hindsight, Griffin's the sort of coach the Dragons need right now.

We’re four rounds into a new AFL season, and perhaps the most important conclusion to be drawn so far is this...... that you can’t draw any conclusions.

The pain of the Easter weekend was very real on Tuesday at Club 20 but as we approach a Masters Thursday evening, enthusiasm levels have skyrocketed in the lead up to one of the best weekends on the sporting calendar.