Macca

Leaderboard (Live Ladder) - Tipping Comp 11 - Clintosaurus*, titan_uranus 9 - Go the Biff, Macca 8 - JV7 7 - Gorgoroth* 6 - DemonDave, DeeSpencer, Dee Zephyr, layzie 1 - Others *Clintosaurus & Gorgoroth awaiting a positive Bills result @ 49ers = 2 points each if successful Go the Bills?

Saints, Raiders, Rams

My betting strategy nearly always includes the races from S.A and in particular, James Jordan's tips. And when he and Gator both tip well I do well The challenge is matching up 2 of the tips in a small multi as the tips can often be the short priced favourites. Worked out well today as Gator had a reasonable day as well (although I went looking for value (against a few) to my detriment!) Would have cleaned right up if Inspirational Girl had have got up. Truly Great a deserved winner though. Too good Good luck with the NFL ... I'll be doing a 4 or 5 pick H/F multi. All home teams as I don't trust my judgement on road teams! ? Sha Tin tomorrow though playing with house money

When in doubt defer to the experts (so they say) James Jordan (JJ) has snagged 6 winners from 8 races at Morphettville today Edit: Make that 7 from 9

Thanks for that Gorg I quite like 'Watch Me Dance' (No.16) in the Kingston Town Classic (Ascot Race 8) 3 of the big bookies have picked it outright noting that it's carrying only 50kgs and has drawn well At 11-1 it represents good value Inspirational Girl is the one to beat but it has drawn gate 18 ... I've got it going in a couple of multi's as the saver bet (including your pick 'Isotope')

Some good racing coming up on the weekend with the Kingston Town Classic being the standout race. Small field in the Pakenham Cup but it's a very good betting race. Click on any of the listed races below for the fields, form & odds Ascot - Kingston Town Classic Ascot - A.J. Scahill Stakes Pakenham - Cup Pakenham - VOBIS Gold Bullion Doomben - George Moore Stakes

@layzie @Gorgoroth @DemonDave @Dr. Gonzo @JV7 @Dappa Dan @titan_uranus @DeeSpencer @Clintosaurus @Dee Zephyr @Go the Biff Leaderboard - Tipping Comp 11 - Clintosaurus, 9 - titan_uranus 7 - Go the Biff, Gorgoroth, Macca 6 - JV7, DemonDave, DeeSpencer 4 - Dee Zephyr, layzie 1 - Dr. Gonzo 2 big points on offer this week - all to play for with the regular season rapidly coming to an end n.b. The still to be played week 12 match (Ravens @ Steelers) cannot be included in this weeks tips Tough week though and the 2 points will be hard earned! Can the Raiders be trusted?!

Jericho Cup & Japan Cup both run today

Glory Vase loomed large with a furlong to go but got run over (after kicking again) Well deserved win to Almond Eye though (what a mighty mare) Will be retired now after a stellar career Contrail ran on well to help secure the 'obvious' quinella for punters (which I didn't have of course!)

Yeah, Count Zero won at big odds ... its form back in the Autumn was very sound but it has been running over 2000m (or shorter) in the lead up to this race They obviously knew what they were doing and on a 7 day back-up as well Da Deputy was beaten a long way from home but that's racing Japan Cup on in 30 minutes and it looks a race between Almond Eye & Contrail but I'm on Glory Vase (each-way)

Saints, Seahawks, Miami

And here's the replay of the Winterbottom Stakes followed by last weekend's Railway Stakes

I'll go with that Gorg ... excellent each-way value. A little disappointed with the support card for such a terrific event (The Jericho) but hopefully over time that will be addressed Anyway, a full field of 14 (with the 4 emergencies scratched) augers well for the concept

Did the same and 'Elite Street' has definitely got a future too. Scooted around them with a real turn of foot Another W.A. horse that could end up over in the Eastern States. Lightly raced but has real speed against the clock. It wasn't a great field but it still beat a very good horse in Trekking home Dare I say it ... an ADATR Blackbooker Winners are grinners!! haha

Fantastic! Bonus bucks in the off season! Hope you got a nice collect (as I did) It drifted right out in the betting but I'm not complaining. Thought 20-1 was overs

Games to look out for this weekend Sat 11.30pm Brighton vs Liverpool Sun 1.30am Stuttgart vs Bayern Munich (Bundesliga) Sun 4.30am Everton vs Leeds Mon 1.00am Southampton vs Man Utd Mon 3.30am Chelsea vs Tottenham Mon 6.45am Napoli vs Roma (Serie A)

Good work Gorg Money back today but I'm playing with some bonus bets overnight (Del Mar) & tomorrow (Sha Tin) Go 'Elite Street'!

More so perpetually on the move In a red phone box

Ha ha! I live for Saturday racing ... can't get enough of it. Used to be the footy but we don't play all that much on a Saturday arvo these days And I no longer play cricket so it's all about the horses on a Saturday now

Our forward line is often too crowded anyway ... mostly due to the other clubs flooding back knowing that our forwards often not adhering to the basics (not playing in front, not leading to the right spots, not enough defensive pressure, 2nd & 3rds efforts poor, not playing as a team within a team etc etc) Plus, our forwards give the ball back to the opposition by missing easy shots for goal (yips, choking) Weideman is part of that forward line group so the blame needs to be shared equally As a collective, our forwards need to play a lot better and also, we need to move the ball quickly into the forward line (as we did in 2018) to give our forwards more of a chance before the forward line becomes too crowded. So it's more of a structure/system issue rather than any 1 particular player (Ben Brown should help as should Kozzie & LJ with a years experience under their belts)

Have you blokes had a look at Winterbottom at Ascot today? (Race 9) I don't mind 'Elite Street' (#13) at the value (20-1) Trekking the obvious standout but a bit short for my liking

And we did get Brayshaw in return ... feeding off Oliver delivering to a functioning forward line (as it was in 2018) he's an absolute beauty Played on a wing, a real waste. He doesn't have the legs for that position Gus could play for another 7-10 years but we need to use him properly to get the best out of him So Frawley leaving as he did was not a bad result (imv)

As for coming out of retirement Frawley might have got the tap on the shoulder at Hawthorn (they do that at the Hawks) So the Saints offer him a 1 year deal when he is still fighting fit ... what's the big deal? You're a long time retired

Roos played Frawley in the forward line in the 2014 season and then didn't seem all that perturbed when Frawley explored free agency And there's a good chance that we'd got word that we were going to be compensated well with his loss (turned out to be pick 3 which we used to claim Brayshaw) I saw it all as win/win And just because we draft a player doesn't necessarily mean we own that player. These days, a player gets to make choices as well

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