Not only does he now have $1000 worth of local business vouchers to work his way through, his father Greg said he was also making it clear at the family’s dinner table who the best footy tipper is.
Greg said Jaxon had remained cool, calm and collected about the win, and had even benevolently shouted his family lunch at Hungie Fangs in true breadwinner fashion.
“Jaxon is pretty chill and has just taken it in his stride,” Greg said.
Greg said out of the round 10 collective, three were his direct family members including Jaxon, his sister Emerson, 15, and brother Bodey, 11.
And while Greg was quick to point out he was leading the overall race for tipping glory, he also acknowledged the rest of his family were in the top five or six, with Emerson in hot pursuit in second place.
“We’re lucky; because last year my partner did the same thing and won $500 or $600,” he said.
However, Nikki Knight, Greg’s partner, decided to give this season a miss because the limelight was getting a bit hot — something Emerson wishes to avoid too, according to Greg.
“Last round, Emerson was barracking for the opposite team to the one she tipped because she didn’t want to go into the Courier to get her picture taken,” Greg said.
The Courier wishes to draw attention to these shameful antics which are not in the true spirit of the tipping game.
Our Round 11 winner is Cobram’s Bernadette O’Dwyer.
But Bernadette, 86, was reluctant to claim credit for winning the $100 business voucher, instead deferring kudos to her niece and close confidant, Cobram's Sharon Mercer.
“Sharon pushed me to do it, so I think it’s hers,” she said.
“I couldn’t possibly take it, I’d have to give it to Sharon, because without her, I wouldn’t have even known I could do it.”
Bernadette, always one to maximise her chances of success, doesn’t follow any one AFL side.
Instead, she barracks for a “variety of teams” including fierce rivals Geelong and Hawthorn.
“I’m more a footy follower than a one-club person, I barrack for a variety of teams, it all depends on whether I like them or not,” she said.
Bernadette said she came from a big sporting family, with many of her nephews playing footy for Barooga.
She said her brothers Phillip and Gerald both coached Barooga footy sides, and the Murray Football League’s O’Dwyer medal was named after her uncle Des O’Dwyer.
Stay tuned for more tipping action in the next few weeks.
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