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Tony McCoy - 1.96
Graham McDowell - 6.2
Lee Westwood - 10
Phil Taylor - 12
Jessica Ennis - 18
Amy Williams, Tom Daley - 21
Mark Cavendish, Graeme Swann, David Haye - 50

Phil Taylor finally gets included on the shortlist.

Given what happened with Giggs last year, McCoy looks awfully skinny at odds-on.

lol @ David Haye

McCoy gets my vote, in winning the national he completed his career dream and champion jockey for 15 seasons tells its own story

Although it could definetly be argued that he is more deserving of some sort of a life achievement award (same with Taylor)

This year solely i think McDowell wins hands down but because i want McCoy to win because i love racing i will vote for him.

McDowell will get my vote, basically because I have very little interest in horse racing.

taylor doesn't even play a sport and I'm not convinced that the 3 above him are big enough houshold names, despite what they've done this year I'm not convinced the average bbc viewer who phones these things would know

in a public vote I make ennis massive @ 18

Really hope McCoy wins,really deserves to be recognised for the genius he is.

 Hopefully the Grand National win will trigger enough votes,...... but can't have odds on!

Weakest line up ever?

Very open year. Swann an enormous price? Ashes happening now and popular sport. Darts and racing less mass appeal sports and gmac low profile for his odds

G-Mac for me but Westwood could be a decent sweat.
Better known to the general public. Not won a major but is World Number 1.
Won't be touching it though as it isn't an amazing line up. Nice to see no footballers there.

Tempted to back Ennis to lay later, same w/ Swann especially if he does something in the current Ashes.

McCoy WTF? They should put the horses up for it not him :-X

2001, 06, 07, last year? 

Winner won't be the strongest, but entire lineup of 10 looks ok to me.

Wish Taylor would finally get it.  He is so dominant in his sport and the best ever in his sport.  If any other sportsman had his acheivements they would have won this 4 or 5 times already.  McCoy best jockey ever but very short here.  Agree Ennis is probably value but the trick to this is to lay all the runners when they are on screen during show and back back for a profit 10-15 minutes later.

please feel free to post any achievement the others have done in their sport this year which supercedes this


YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvnP2VwQb6E

how the fuck is Jake Cody not in this?

Cant see McCoy getting enough general public backing for this, the two golfers will probably cancel each other out otherwise I would have said one of them, I'd love to lay Jessica Ennis.

I would actually kinda like to see Phil Taylor win, even though its totally lol considering him an athlete, because imo he is the biggest personality of the bunch and dominates his field more than any other. Also he probably was a lot more physical than David Haye had to be in his career this year (as am I, typing this).

Mcoy obv and its not even close.. GMac had a great year admitedly however its still nowhere near Mcoys dedication/achievement over the last 15year+

Lol @ Westy, he hasn't actually won anything... He's number 1 due to coming 2nd lots!

It is a shame that Taylor has finally got nominated in the year McCoy is favourite as they are probably the two people hardest done by in SPOTY recogition:sporting achievement ratio and I've love to see either win.

McCoy will probably pick up votes from everyone who bet on his horse in the National.

Also, there aren't actually many votes cast in this - last year Giggs won with 150k and no one else got more than 100k. They're not Xfactor/Strictly numbers.

If just 150,000 is enough to win it then no one needs to worry about McCoy not getting enough backing from the gen. public

Please god do not let a fooking jockey win it.......

I don't mind, if its the right choice. Bob Champion clearly was in the Aldaniti year. Nothing wrong with a jockey

I really hope McCoy wins it but have had a punt on Lee Westwood as odds look a bit too big to me after becoming the world number 1,

think Westwood could win too

The Power has been backed from 16s down to 5/1 in places

The Guy Johnson Effect?

easy, get 200 people all have £1k on a 50/1 shot and ring up 3,000 times each

All the courses have been campaigning for mccoy for the last 6 months to get him votes, he is the right price for it in a weak year, i cant be having any of the golfers, think they should be about 7s and 20s respectively.

fyp

So by your logic:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In11qtMRy6k

Is that the match where ronnie done 2 147s in it?

played a sport

in fact I've done more in sport this year than he has

Is that true though ?

yep. did air hockey and dodgems in the same night a couple of weeks ago. both more sporty than darts

Same night is pretty good going.

I was knackered the next morning

They should have a separate ceremony for pastimes personality of the year to include jockeys, snooker, darts etc and leave SPOTY to the real athletes...........

I agree about snooker and darts but think this is harsh on jockeys.

yeah. mccoy is as much of an athlete as anyone on that list

Bollocks, they should give the award to the horse, that's the real athlete..........

Disagree. Jockeys hugely fit and brave

F1 drivers too, hugely fit and brave. Yes its the car but the drivers are superb. Many will disagree on this though


Snooker and darts I have more sympathy with you

But what about the poor horses that train their nuts off?

Agreed, it's a tough game, especially over fences and McCoy has made a winner of many horses that would not have been up to it otherwise. There's no doubt that there's a lot of physical exertion in being a jockey and what horse wins often depends on who is on it.

well they aren't going to win without the jockey steering, pushing and cajoling are they?

Ah, that's what Jockeys do, my mistake I thought they were supreme athletes......... ;D

I would say "you try pushing a NH horse home up the Cheltenham hill" but it wouldn't have much credibility coming from me

Formula 1 drivers must be ridic fit,I was using me dads steering wheel the other day playing F1 and my arms where killing after 5/6 laps,and that's without the aero dynamics.Obv Jockeys are as well.Darts players can GTFO,snooker should be in.

what? were you just sitting in the front of his car pretending to be a racecar driver? did you do the sound effects?

Anyone who saw the documentary on McCoy when he was coming back from injury wouldnt doubt he was an athlete. Obv dont know the link but was amazing to watch what he put his body through to speed up the recovery time

AP McCoy is clearly a fantastic athlete and sportsman.

How many times during a race has a horse been dead and buried but AP has brought them back ftw. 

AP McCoys career>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Everybody else.

Haha,He has a driving seat and steering wheel in his sitting room for playing racing games lol.It's well good.

Why am I surprised that degen poker players want to stick up for horse racing as a proper sport? :D

Its the sport of Kings mate.

Its a lot better than cricket!!!

lol.

The 'sport' of busto degens more like..... :-)

Why does the winner need to be an athlete?

I'd love to hear the difference between darts and snooker!

Like I've said before, the award has no meaning until Taylor wins it, without doubt our contries greatest achiever over the last 15 years whether you like darts or not!

imo once someone is up for nomination everyone should disregard the what is a sport, what isnt debate, and judge the winner on their performance in their chosen field.

I dont like horse racing at all but lol at anyone who doesnt think a jockey isnt an athlete

+1

If SPOTY put together a montage of McCoy using his skill and strength to get a horse home when it looked dead and buried, the progamme would run for a week.

It's a one year thing. I hate hearing about people's career. Go win a lifetime achievement award. Thats why giggs winning was a joke.

The reason Taylor doesn't win is because people don't see darts as difficult. He's obviously mastered it but if you were to ask bookies for odds on Mark Cavendish ever throwing a 9 dart finish in his life and the odds of Phil Taylor ever winning a Tour de France stage I know which would be bigger.

that is clearly utter bollocks. if betty the lollypop lady was nominated then you wouldn't worry about the fact that lollypop ladying isn't a sport, you'd just look at how good she was at it?

So by your logic, someone like Tiger Woods is not as good a sportsman as a 2nd division footballer, because the footballer competes in a more physical game?

LOLOL

you don't grasp logic do you?

just to clarify why I suggest you don't grasp logic

-my post uses the logical construct if A then B; A therefore B

if someone has been nominated then we can ignore the field for which they were nominated; betty has been nominated therefore we can ignore the field

-yours uses if A then B; C therefore D which is illogical, you are linking unrelated concepts

Fair enough, its only a telly awards

fantastic stuff by GMac here. If he beats Tiger in the play off presumably he shorterns again

Ugh, spooned his tee shot!  His put on 18 was fantastic, superb putt under pressure.

lol nice result!  Members bounce etc etc

One timeeee Gmac.
Fantastic putt.

Utterly superb at the first play off hole too

Balls of steel

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

In you eye Tiger

Amazing stuff by Gmac

Amazing!

Why don't betfair suspend the market as soon as the event is over?  Clearly Tiger missed his putt by the fact that Tiger went to over 100/1 and Graeme dropped to 1.01 to lay, yet the market is still open until the putt happens on the tele.  

For your consideration.

Where did Tommy'Mfckin'C win those?

Eh?

Lol

Those 2 puts last night were incredible

So wide open this year.

Can't help thinking swann at 25s might be a touch big, after this mornings win i could see him being 16s max soon.

25s is only with stan james.

^^^ That would be awesome......... :)

get voting for taylor

Sticking with Gmac.

AP now in to 1-3 on...massive amounts of money must be riding on him now

and how ironic it would be if he didnt win!

Fav has never won it, so wouldn't be a massive shock. Taylor backed into 5's from 20s...

one of them should have it but Taylor got a more hyped up little story and entrance so he might well have it

Amazing! Same again, EVERYONE seems to know how phone votes are going when it's on the BBC.

Doesn't happen with ITV and CH4 anything like as much now. Love to know what's really going on. Someone must be cleaning up.

Betting suggests it's gonna be...

1. McCoy
2. Taylor
3. Ennis

^^^^^ no edit here

McDowell on the drift.

Would be suprised if McCoy and Taylor werent 1 and 2 (in any order as both have tonnes of money, relative to the market obv, on them now)

what an astonishing reception for becks' award. didn't think the audience were ever going to stop

The market speaks volumes on this one, phone votes appears to be closed.

McCoy now 1-4
Taylor 4-1 (in a place..6-1 available)

McDowell out to 7-1 (from 7-2)

Ennis 4th favourite @ 40-1

Looks like someone in the BBC has been talking to some people, if the market proves to be right.

GTFO Beckham you boring *****

Very much this.

"Thanks to my wife who inspires me every day"...

Feck off

Thanking Simon Fuller really says it all - he's the one who has made the Beckham brand what it is and ensured Beckham's fame and profile is out of proportion to his talents.

"she inspires me to get out of the house and away from her every day"

BBC chappie made some cash at Betfair I think

Same as last year, when Giggsy was backed off the boards?

yeah, very much so.

Nice to see AP win it though, he's a truly amazing athlete

sooooo glad taylor didn't win it the smug prick!

Very much this.

I might have smashed up my tv with 20 mins of Beckham and Taylor.

the only bad thing is we'll have to put up with another thread on here next year with people going on about how he deserves to win and it's a travesty that he hasn't

my attitude was best summed up on a football forum today. 'it's not a sport if you don't have to change your shoes to play'

1. Tony McCoy 293,152 (41.98%)
2. Phil Taylor 72,095 (10.33)
3. Jessica Ennis 62,953 (9.02)
4. Lee Westwood 58,640 (8.4)
5. Graeme McDowell 52,108 (7.46)
6. Tom Daley 50,763 (7.27%)
7. Mark Cavendish 44,170 (6.33)
8. Amy Williams 43,056 (6.17)
9. Graeme Swann 13,767 (1.97)
10. David Haye 7,538 (1.08)


Expected him to win, but not by this much.

lol Amy Wiliams more than Haye, didn't expect that.

oi oiii easy

Twice as many as Giggs last year too

Maybe Raymond Norton will win spoty 2011

Lol gtfo McCoy......

Cricket didn't do too well up against the Sport of Kings mate:

1. Tony McCoy 293,152 (41.98%)
9. Graeme Swann 13,767 (1.97)

'The Sport of Kings' Is flat racing

Jumps is ' The Sport of Farmers'

just saying

I see your point mate but flat racing is pretty boring compared to the jumps!