Tour Blog: Stage 2

One for the sprinters tonight. No major hurdles for the quicks tonight as the tour bangs along from Visé to Tournai. Look for a race of tactics, with enough time after the sprint section for the sprinters to recover prior to the finish.

Sky, with the powerhouse Cavendish alongside Wiggins, Hagen and Michael Rogers will send out the boys right and the end, and it looks likely that this setting could be ideal for Cav to pick up his first win. Orica-GreenEDGE will have Matt Goss as their big dangerman. And look for Sagan to aim for a back-to-back stage victory.

OUR PICK: Cavendish (massive team back-up helping him to pounce for the first time!)
AUSSIE ROUGHIE: Goss

WHAT TO DRINK: Tournay Blonde
AUSSIE MATCH: Red Hill Belgian Blonde

Tour Blog: Stage 1

Fabian Cancellara (as tipped by us yesterday!) gets the Yellow Jersey on tonight for the 198km run from Liege to Seraing. He's a master of the time trial, but tonight's leg is 198km of rolling up and down through Belgium, and should open the race up to a number of the other big names. Weather should be pretty mild and cloudy, top of 19ºC. Don't write Cancellara off for this one though, he'll still be a fairly good chance.

We reckon Wiggins and Evans will play it safe and stick pretty close to each other.

The last few k's should be a great watch, with a fairly steep 5% climb to the finish to sort out the sprinters and climbers...

Local boy Phillippe Gilbert would be an obvious favourite, and we Aussies should look out for a potential win for the Orica-GreenEDGE team with Mansfield lad Simon Gerrans.

So our tip: Gerrans.

And for a drink: Something dark: A Leffe Brune.
Or a closer-to-home: A White Rabbit Dark Ale from Healesville

Enjoy the ride!

Rd 3 MH Mates Footy Tipping - it's a Miracle!

Welcome to Round 3 tipsters and here's hoping you all had a top little Easter with as many chocolate eggs, church services and jam packed highways you could find...

Round 2 proved to be a walkover for nineteen of the MH Mates who very astutely picked 9...in fact this is the first time anyone at all has picked 9 in the MH comp and 19 of you go out and do it! Top work...

Mighty Mike Stern led the way this week but special mention must be made of The Wiz who is sitting atop the leaderboard. Yes that's it, Warrick Capper, the man who famously said during his porn movie debut:

"I've had a lot of practice being a sex symbol, so if you've got it, flaunt it,"

So, tipsters, get it out and flaunt it for Rd 3...

Collingwood V Carlton
An absolute rip snorter of a game this one. The Pies should have their skipper back on board but the Blues Train is full steam ahead at the moment. Juddy and his boys have hit their straps and are looking mighty fine.

Melbourne V Richmond
And from the rip snorter of a game to just a bit of a snorter of a game...What can you say..ho hum? The loser of this game goes down 0-3 and will have a long 2012 ahead of them.

Port Adelaide V Sydney
A close one between these two interstate teams over in the city of churches. The Bloods have won both of their encounters thus far with Port 1 win 1 loss,  but the power of the Power supporters at home might just get them over the line

Fremantle V Brisbane
You would expect the Dockers to take home the chocolates for this game with Ross Lyon improving his troops every week, but the Lions have got the Big Bad Browny factor back so this could turn the tables

Essendon V Gold Coast
85 of current listed players were not even born and Freo wasn't even a team when Dustin Fletcher first pulled on his Bombers footy shorts. He runs out for his 350 games this week. A stirling effort.. Gazza Ablett is the only shining light from the Gold Coast and unless a couple of other players step up they are looking at quite the trouncing.

Western Bulldogs V St Kilda
The Doggies have got a solid defensive line with Lakey hitting his straps but they are lacking any drive up on the forward line.  The Saints should come home in this one if big Nick can bag a couple of beauties.

GWS V West Coast
Oooh dear...this could be ugly. Top V Bottom. It's not a case of who but by how many. Highest goal score records could be in danger here and Sheeds has got his work cut out for him.

Adelaide V Hawthorn
Sando's boys have had a flying start to 2012 and the Hawks will need to put Monday's loss behind them to knock off the Crows at the G on Sunday.

Kangaroos V Geelong
Fresh off a massive win over GWS, the Roo boys come up against a Cat's outfit that just clawed their way to victory on Monday. The Cats know how to win and will most likely do this on Sunday arvo in the Scott twins clash.

Good luck Tipsters!
Shan, Lis, Mitch & Johnno

MITCHELL HARRIS FOOTY TIPPING - BACK FOR 2011!

Yes, tipsters, can you believe it?

IT'S FOOTY TIME AGAIN!!!

The balmy summer is over, Gold Coast has joined the ranks and the St Kilda boys have got their balls out ready for round 1...

Let the season begin!

What other footy tipping comp offers you the chance to win a bottle of wine from one of Victoria's top producers~

 EVERY SINGLE WEEK!!

Plus heaps of side comps and prizes during the year and a ripper but yet to be announced final prize!

So, for all our tipsters from last year, all you have to do is login here with last year's username and password and reactivate your account. Get on there, update any details, add a picture if you want...

 HOW TO JOIN

For all new tipsters simply click here and use the password plugger to join the Mitchell Harris Mates competition. 

Alternatively, you can head to www.footytips.com.au and search for the Mitchell Harris Mates comp to join.

Then enter your details and you are set to tip!

And just e-mail 

info@mitchellharris.com.au 

with any questions or problems logging in.

PS: Want to enter your tips with your mobile phone? 

Download the footytips app here!

Round 3 Mitchell Harris Mates Footy Tipping

Welcome to Round 3 tipsters!

Well, the competition has well and truly kicked off, with Whooper the Whopper just leading the way from Mitchell Harris' very own Miss Lis.
Jan Godfrey took out the Easter chocolates last week, picking 7 in a tough round.

Round 3 kicks off with a cracker of a game on Friday night. A highly fancied Saints outfit takes on the Magpies who don't know if they're Arthur or Martha on the footy field. 
North Melbourne scored themselves an embarrassing lesson on the game last week but should bounce back to give the Weagles a run on Saturday afternoon.

Port Adelaide are at home to Brisbane who have won their first two games thanks to stirling performances from one J.Brown whilst the Blues are looking for their first win for 2010 against the Bombers at the G. Saturday night sees the Swans take on a struggling Richmond, looking at a drubbing of 91 points or more . Did we say 91 points?? Wow that's what the 2007 Mitchell Harris Shiraz scored in a review by the highly respected author Gary Walsh of The Wine Front. What a coincidence...

The Demons missed out on knocking off the Pies by a solitary point last week and could give the struggling Crows a run for their money as well at the G on Sunday. Doggies against the Hawks should be another ripper of a game with both teams looking in fine form. Bulldogs should still be pretty fresh after barely raising a sweat against Richmond in Rd 2.  Freo have never won the first three games of a season and this may still be out of reach in 2010 when they face up to the Cats on Sunday evening.

Speaking of our 2007 Shiraz, we're running out the last few cases at a special price of $30 per bottle (usually $34.95), or a tasty little 6 pack for $150.
Just reply to this e-mail with any orders.
Get on board!!

Have a great weekend!

Shan, Johnno, Mitch and Lis

Easter Footy Tipping with Mitchell Harris

The season got off to a flyer in Round 1 with two of our tipsters locking in 8 picks, Rampaging Royalpark  just pipping out Whopper for the whopper!

Round 2 has come upon us quickly with an Easter Thursday match up north at The Gabba. Fev faces up to his old team mates after slagging them off in the pre-season so look out for a bit of argy bargy in the Brisbane forward line. The Lions should be too good at home.

The team with the longest 21 weeks ahead of them, Melbourne, face up to a fancied Pies outfit at the G on Saturday whilst the Saints should have a decent match up against the Roos later on that night. The Eagles play host to the Power on Saturday night with their running game most likely too strong but Port should be good for a roughie pick.

After the Easter egg hunt on Sunday morning, settle in for another interstate matchup with the Crows at home to a Sydney team that only just missed out on the 4 points last week. Freo played a high pressure match last week and take on Essendon at Etihad Sunday arvo whilst the Doggies should step up a gear and easily account for a "rebuilding' Richmond at the G after that.

The round wraps up on Monday just as all the caravans and cars filled with cranky families are winding their way home on jam packed highways. It's an '08 Grand Final repeat with the Hawks regaining Big Buddy Franklin for the occasion.

Happy Easter to everyone and have we mentioned how well our 07 Mitchell Harris Shiraz matches with chocolate?? Ooh yeah...

For all you Ballarat folk out there, e-mail us with an order today and we'll get you some wine in time for Easter!

Cheers,
Mitch, Lis, Johnno and Shan