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ohwhenthesaints! wrote:I don't want Hawthorn to win
I don't want Hawthorn in the finals
This. But winning for the sake of winning doesn't even thrill me anymore. Sure it would be nice to keep this wiining streak going and hopefully continue it a few more weeks but meh.
ohwhenthesaints! wrote:I don't want Hawthorn to win
I don't want Hawthorn in the finals
This. But winning for the sake of winning doesn't even thrill me anymore. Sure it would be nice to keep this wiining streak going and hopefully continue it a few more weeks but meh.
I just want the finals to start.
This isn't about winning for the sake of it, I don't want Hawthorn in the finals, and I certainly don't want them to make the finals having recently beaten us.
ohwhenthesaints! wrote:I don't want Hawthorn to win
I don't want Hawthorn in the finals
This. But winning for the sake of winning doesn't even thrill me anymore. Sure it would be nice to keep this wiining streak going and hopefully continue it a few more weeks but meh.
I just want the finals to start.
This isn't about winning for the sake of it, I don't want Hawthorn in the finals, and I certainly don't want them to make the finals having recently beaten us.
Exactly. We can kill 2 birds with one stone here.
Or have one bird come back and kill 2 stones in the not do distant future!
I find it strange that players are being rested because of slight injuries but people still think Goose may play even though he definitely got injured last week. The Goose is cooked this week.
ohwhenthesaints! wrote:
This isn't about winning for the sake of it, I don't want Hawthorn in the finals, and I certainly don't want them to make the finals having recently beaten us.
If we lose to them this week and they make the GF, we can keep the recent trend going of losing the last time the two teams played in the H&A season and beating them in the big one (Hawthorn - Geelong, Geelong - Port)
Its all speculation. Give Ross a bit of credit. Of course he will field his best available team. There has been no announcement from stkilda re who will and wont play , everyone is speculating. I love it. People want to knock us off because we are the best, God I have been waiting 47 years for that to happen (I was too young to know in 66)
HarveysDeciple wrote:If players aren't 100% don't play them, but none of this who cares about a dead rubber crap...
We are playing the reigning premiers, the last team to beat us and a potential september opponent.
Don't rest players for the sake of resting them ever...it flirts with form.
If Roo and Joey are 100% they play, if they aren't they don't.
That's not resting, that's picking fit players and not picking injured ones.
Pick the best side we can, win the game and squash a challenger.
This.
I'd love it if this was nothing more than a market rumour.
I'll love it even more when the Saints win and their bets go down the gurgler!
"... You want to pose a threat to the opposition in as many ways as you can, both defensively and offensively. We've got a responsibility to explore all those possibilities - and we will."
Just announced on news that they wont re-open betting until we announce our team. Man they must have taken a beating when geelong lost to brisbane to be this protective.
Good on ya ross now you are controlling the bookies
[quote="mullet"]Just announced on news that they wont re-open betting until we announce our team. Man they must have taken a beating when geelong lost to brisbane to be this protective.
Good on ya ross now you are controlling the bookies [/quote]
ohwhenthesaints! wrote:I don't want Hawthorn to win
I don't want Hawthorn in the finals
This. But winning for the sake of winning doesn't even thrill me anymore. Sure it would be nice to keep this wiining streak going and hopefully continue it a few more weeks but meh.
I just want the finals to start.
This isn't about winning for the sake of it, I don't want Hawthorn in the finals, and I certainly don't want them to make the finals having recently beaten us.
Exactly. We can kill 2 birds with one stone here.
Or have one bird come back and kill 2 stones in the not do distant future!
Me to, i do not want the Hawks to make it as they know what to do. they are scary as Carlton arent. I would rather Carlton make it and lose first week than Hawks play and put a scare through
mullet wrote:Just announced on news that they wont re-open betting until we announce our team. Man they must have taken a beating when geelong lost to brisbane to be this protective.
Good on ya ross now you are controlling the bookies [/quote]
really like this one i had a good laugh!
I find the whole thing really funny, but I'm guessing not as funny as rossy is finding it all and the players
betfair were fully operational at every stage.
these small-time bookmakers like centrebet get spooked very easily when they have a greater than usual volume of wagers rather a small amount of large wagers.
sometimes $100 will push a small book and one-hundred individual wagers will cause them to drop the market entirely.
alot of people with forty or fifty bucks forced them to shut-it-down.
promotional for luxbet on SEN aswell.
as far as betting on the hawks/saints game do you think that matt thompson on SEN and ST on Ten went over the top and manufactured a story out of what is not an unusual practice from bookmakers in dropping a market?
Hi Tim,
It happened a couple of weeks ago with Gary Ablett from memory, so perhaps it's not quite the Watergate some more excitable members of the sports media would like to think!
as far as betting on the hawks/saints game do you think that matt thompson on SEN and ST on Ten went over the top and manufactured a story out of what is not an unusual practice from bookmakers in dropping a market?
Hi Tim,
It happened a couple of weeks ago with Gary Ablett from memory, so perhaps it's not quite the Watergate some more excitable members of the sports media would like to think!
- Rohan Connolly
OMG cant believe how over the top all this has become. Didnt realize gambling controlled every aspect of our game.
as far as betting on the hawks/saints game do you think that matt thompson on SEN and ST on Ten went over the top and manufactured a story out of what is not an unusual practice from bookmakers in dropping a market?
Hi Tim,
It happened a couple of weeks ago with Gary Ablett from memory, so perhaps it's not quite the Watergate some more excitable members of the sports media would like to think!
- Rohan Connolly
OMG cant believe how over the top all this has become. Didnt realize gambling controlled every aspect of our game.
Love a bet myself but geez
I agree. It is getting quite scary.
Was posed with an interesting theory on gambling and the potential damage it could do the game. The hypothetical scenario that was put to me was what would happen to the integrity of the game if, for example, a top name player had his wife/child abducted and told to 'throw' the game? Not likely, but not totally out of the question either.
