4 hours ago, jnrmac said:

But its like Warney giving pitch information. You don't know what is of importance to the Bookies

Or, as in the Warnie/Waugh thing, you're being lured in by providing harmless, everyone-knows-this, wouldn't-hurt-a-fly information. It's all just a laugh until you realise you're on the hook and being directed to give 0 votes to Ace Brilliant and his 45 possie/5 goal game, or to give 1 vote to Alf Flubb who was the sub and played 10 minutes.

 

34 minutes ago, Demonland said:

 

Did Michael at the desk just cut to himself? (come on, Paddy, you're Michael, aren't you! Aren't you?)

1 hour ago, Demonland said:

 

Someone has refused to take the fall for maggots incorporated

On a more serious note the amount of holding money on this particular area of AFL betting would be alongside feature racing events in my opinion and I think this is a big deal.

On 11/17/2022 at 9:19 AM, Mazer Rackham said:

There is an ad for some non-alcoholic drink that you can drink so you'll still be "one of the boys". Hard to dunk on a non-alcoholic drink though. It's hardly a "gateway" drink; more of the opposite.

A lot of ads infer being part of the group ...camping with the boys (and girl) ... as part of the beer drinking experience, but I can't recall any (maybe I am just too inured to the whole ad business) that link "mates" and "alcohol" as explicitly as the gambling companies do "mates" and "betting".

 

It's insidious. "You can't be part of a group of mates if you're not gambling with them" is the barely-disguised subtext. It's borderline social engineering.

I just hate the masses being encouraged to bet on any level. 

8 hours ago, willmoy said:

On a more serious note the amount of holding money on this particular area of AFL betting would be alongside feature racing events in my opinion and I think this is a big deal.

Do you have any data that shows this? I would have thought the opposite.

8 hours ago, willmoy said:

Someone has refused to take the fall for maggots incorporated

Or a mate that Pell gave info to, or Pell himself told other mates etc

A bit early to tarnish the whole umpire fraternity.

13 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Do you have any data that shows this? I would have thought the opposite.

Just an OP and the way the the investigation seems to be trending.

 

3 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

Or a mate that Pell gave info to, or Pell himself told other mates etc

A bit early to tarnish the whole umpire fraternity.

Yes it did sound like that when I put it down  but I wanted to know what others felt.