General News
14 September, 2022
Pat’s picks are a real sight
DESPITE being 95-years old and legally blind, Terang’s Pat Glennen showed her knowledge was something to be reckoned with after taking out the Middle Pub’s annual footy tipping competition.
DESPITE being 95-years old and legally blind, Terang’s Pat Glennen showed her knowledge was something to be reckoned with after taking out the Middle Pub’s annual footy tipping competition.
Ms Glennen said she was surprised to have snatched victory after trailing the tips for much of the season, but a late streak saw her clinch victory with an impressive score of 148.
“I was very surprised to get up in the last couple of weeks,” she said.
“In the last four weeks I got a four, which was bad, but then I got a nine, eight and another nine to get up and beat Kerrie Crawley.
“I’d been chasing her all season.”
While winning the competition for the first time in more than a decade was a proud moment for Ms Glennen, supporting an ill friend was her proudest achievement.
“I did the tipping for my friend, Margaret Sumner, who has been very ill,” she said.
“She fell ill 12 weeks ago and is still in the hospital, so I took over her tipping and got her up to equal third.
“I was quite proud of getting her up – I was more excited about getting Margaret up than winning myself.”
Ms Glennen took home the $800 prize as the winner of the tipping competition, and has shared the prize evenly with Ms Sumner.
Ms Glennen, who has low vision, said she keeps track of the football thanks to a big television and making out the shapes ofthe jumpers.
“I can watch for the white shorts and the black shorts,” she said.
“It’s a bit difficult but I’m alright as long as I know what Collingwood is wearing.”
She said the footy tipping was a good interest, but she had not always been an avid follower of the game until later in life.
Now an ardent Collingwood supporter, Ms Glennen found her way to the Pies to get under the skin of her husband, Peter.
“He was a mad Geelong supporter,” she said.
“That’s why I started barracking for Collingwood – he hated Collingwood.
“One time we beat the Cats and my gosh he was cross.
“He hardly spoke for a week.”
While Ms Glennen said she did not want to divulge any of her best tipping tips as she hopes to win the tipping competition again next year, she was willing to share her prediction of who will win the 2022 AFL Grand Final.
“My Pies, of course,” she said.
