The Gigs Ladder Comp Round 8 – Theo beats Freo

Geelong may have been knocked off the top of the ladder but young THEO HARMS remains at the pinnacle of the ladder ladder. And he’s not even level with anyone else like Fremantle were on Saturday night. That’s the difference between Theo and Freo. Mind you, the gap between he and second-placed Geordie C has narrowed to just two points. As high as Theo is on the ladder ladder, he’s still well short of the height of his Dad, and this is reflected by that fact that he’s an anagram of “AM SHORT, EH?”

Moving into equal third place are DAMIAN B, who despite being an anagram of “I, BAD MAN” is a lovely guy, and MICHAEL BA (who gets a second letter added to his name because there’s also a Michael Bo), who I’m sure is not getting too excited about reaching such lofty ladder heights, given that he’s an anagram of “AH, I BE CALM“.

There’s a veritable logjam of folk in equal fifth position, who are in line for the massive sum $8.89 each if the ladder looks as it does now after the Grand Final.

Meanwhile at the other end of the ladder ladder, Lou F has claimed outright “losership” over fellow Saint Yvette W. Not even Blagoveshchensk’s local butcher Yrag Legov has a ladder a bad as those two do. Not far from the bottom in 164th spot is MAD DOG. Given his position, he’s probably very tempted to shout out his name backwards.

Gigs’s crystal ball

Here’s something I’ve noticed about the ladder in the last three weeks:

Round	Essendon ladder position
6	1st
7	2nd
8	3rd

You don’t have to be an expert in linear extrapolation to see that the Bombers are heading down and will end up on the bottom of the ladder by round 23. And it got me thinking, if they do keep heading south, which of our ladderists would benefit most? So I plugged in a ladder that has the Dons diving to the depth of 18th, with each side currently below them moving up one place.

And in that scenario our leading ladderist would be a man they call Pants!!!! His score of 40 would be two ahead of last year’s winner, Matthew W, who in turn would be two clear of Garry N, Cookie and Kick It Long To Royce.

And bringing up the rear would be Yvette W. I guess some things never change.

The latest spreadsheet will arrive at your favourite email in-box some time tonight.

Until next week, happy laddering!

Gigs

Rank	ENTRANT	SCORE
1	Theo Harms	46
2	Geordie C	48
=3	Damian B	50
=3	Michael Ba	50
=5	Garry N	52
=5	John B	52
=5	Lou H	52
=5	The Gentle Giant	52
=5	Jesse H	52
=5	Leon C	52
=5	Tim A	52
=5	Tim I	52
=5	Darren C	52
=14	Matthew W	54
=14	FootyMaths Institute	54
=14	Ted A	54
=14	Geoff Slattery (S)	54
=14	Peter M	54
=14	Paul L	54
=14	Pete Ca	54
=14	Daniel H	54
=14	The Holy Boot	54
=14	Paul Ro 54
=14	Dave Mi	54
=14	Peter C 54
=14	Gavin T	54
=27	Al W	56
=27	Leslie H	56
=27	James W	56
=27	Patrick K	56
=27	Haiku Bob	56
=27	John Harms	56
=27	Laurie B	56
=27	Luke R	56
=27	Pocka	56
=27	Mick C	56
=27	Peter S	56
=27	Kerry P	56
=39	Pants!!!!	58
=39	Victoria E-B	58
=39	Entrant Average (S)	58
=39	Eamon L	58
=39	Brad B	58
=39	Swinburne Computer (S)	58
=39	Matthew Lloyd (S)	58
=39	Rohan Connolly (S)	58
=39	Scott H	58
=39	Keith B	58
=39	Matthew B	58
=39	Geoff C	58
=39	Jamie G	58
=39	Pre-Season Betting (S)	58
=39	Janno T	58
=39	Mark Hunter	58
=39	Anthony M	58
=39	Susie G	58
=57	The Wrap	60
=57	Adam C	60
=57	Mathew S	60
=57	Paula from Twitter (S)	60
=57	David V	60
=57	Paul Daffey	60
=57	John Ma	60
=57	Rob N	60
=57	Frank L	60
=57	Oliver C	60
=57	Anwar N	60
=57	Andrew P	60
=57	Melissa L	60
=57	Spencer Gigacz	60
=71	Peter Hanlon	62
=71	Andrew F	62
=71	Rowdy	62
=71	Dave B	62
=71	Lord MOC	62
=71	Anthony O	62
=71	Sherryn B	62
=71	David W	62
=71	Katwoman	62
=71	Shaun C (S)	62
=71	Secret Agent Hamilton Syme	62
=71	Mick W	62
=71	Danny Power	62
=71	Eggsy	62
=71	Benjamin Button (S)	62
=71	Rusty Berther	62
=71	David D	62
=88	Cookie	64
=88	Kick It Long To Royce	64
=88	Garry Lyon (S)	64
=88	Ravenous Bird	64
=88	Thomas Sodor	64
=88	Paul C	64
=88	Robert Walls (S)	64
=88	Kyle B	64
=88	Michael Bo	64
=88	Gary V	64
=88	Jim N	64
=88	Andrew Ga	64
=88	Paul H	64
=88	Christopher D’A	64
=88	Greg W	64
=88	NFI	64
=104	Helen F	66
=104	Rob O’N	66
=104	Eddie C	66
=104	Damien L	66
=104	Alison C	66
=104	Mark Sc	66
=104	Anthony L	66
=104	Ben Mo	66″
=104	2012 Ladder	66
=104	Avenging Eagle	66
=104	Burkey’s Jive Turkeys	66
=104	Tony Ro	66
=104	Josh Ba	66
=104	Marty N	66
=104	Chance Fateman (S)	66
=119	Alovesupreme	68
=119	Angela N	68
=119	Ben Re	68
=119	Howard K	68
=119	Lucas G	68
=119	Paul Br	68
=119	Rob L	68
=119	Andy Maher (S)	68
=119	Jason L	68
=119	Andrew L	68
=119	Richard A	68
=119	Jackie T	68
=119	Sally B	68
=132	Sasha L	70
=132	Joan C	70
=132	Ben Cap	70
=132	Dinahcat	70
=132	Scott Cummings (S)	70
=132	Dave N	70
=132	Rob Ch	70
=132	Andy R	70
=132	Gary K	70
=141	Bron R	72
=141	Glenn B	72
=141	Lord Bogan	72
=141	David L	72
=141	Peter K	72
=146	John Ki	74
=146	Oliver Gigacz	74
=146	Ben P	74
=146	Darren “Smokie” Dawson	74
=146	Rehana	74
=151	Rick K	76
=151	Chris W	76
=151	Helen E-B	76
=154	Son of Ravenous Bird	78
=154	Bill F	78
=154	Andrew Mc	78
157	Robbie “The Brain” Tohill	80
=158	Joel L	82
=158	Andrew Gigacz	82
=158	Yvette #2	82
=158	Gojko S	82
=158	Remy Niscence (S)	82
163	Krystal C	84
=164	T Bone	86
=164	Mad Dog	86
=164	Anne Fed	86
167	Matt C	90
=168	Gigs’s Mum	94
=168	Deb B	94
=168	Elsie F	94
=171	Stefan G	96
=171	NAB Cup	96
=171	Tess “Complete Guess” Bambridge (S)	96
174	Ian S	104
175	Jackie “RipTorn” Bambridge (S)	112
176	Alpha Presnell (S)	114
177	Yrag Legov (S)	136
178	Yvette W	150
179	Lou F	152