Tips for Tikay

[MahoganyVic]

Scores tied with 4:08 left uh oh

[MahoganyVic]

The blues dont seem to have missed a shot for 5 mins!   Gonzaga just nailed a nice 3 though

[TightEnd]

Bad toss to win in the cricket. Looked quick and grassy, playing flatter than a pancake

Brownlie and McCullum might not bat for a while....

Anderson can't swing it in this weather, and the pitch won't break up (drop in pitches don't)

The draw has gone 7/4, and that is a very fair price

[TightEnd]

Poyet turns down Reading

Adkins the suggestion now

[MahoganyVic]

gonzaga scrape through

[Teacake]

Zags get there by 6

[moonandback]

64 - 58 zags a bit too close for comfort, southern played awfully well though.

[Tal]

Go Zags!

Those names will never stop amusing me, so I do apologise for giving you all eye-rolling-related RSIs.

I was reminded of a feature Mark and Lard used to do on Radio 1 as two American Sports summarizers:

http://ohluckyyou.namwollem.co.uk/asn.htm

The one from 2002 is a particular fave. Essentially, they come up with ridiculous names for teams and get away with murder in making names somewhat risqué.

That's Butch Schlong and Snatch Friggett, broadcasting from W.A.N.K. Cincinnati.

You get the picture.

[ripple11]

N1 bazza

 

[Longy]

Bad toss to win in the cricket. Looked quick and grassy, playing flatter than a pancake

Brownlie and McCullum might not bat for a while....

Anderson can't swing it in this weather, and the pitch won't break up (drop in pitches don't)

The draw has gone 7/4, and that is a very fair price

Yeah the ball did next to nothing all day, would be very surprised if isn't a draw. Which is annoying as I am in nz for the whole tour and the cricket itself has been very insipid when it hasn't rained.

[TightEnd]

Bad toss to win in the cricket. Looked quick and grassy, playing flatter than a pancake

Brownlie and McCullum might not bat for a while....

Anderson can't swing it in this weather, and the pitch won't break up (drop in pitches don't)

The draw has gone 7/4, and that is a very fair price

Yeah the ball did next to nothing all day, would be very surprised if isn't a draw. Which is annoying as I am in nz for the whole tour and the cricket itself has been very insipid when it hasn't rained.

At 250-1 at close it worked out as written above. Partially with the benefit of hindsight, inserting the opposition was a poor decision, but the pitch fooled both captains and pundits

Pretty terrible day for the thread's bets. When Block-it Fulton scores a hundred, you know your bets on numbers 5 and 6 to top score are in trouble!

the draw is now 4/11 best. 

[horseplayer]

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/croatia-vs-serbia-the-rematch-memories-of-riots-battles-and-war-crimes-8544821.html

shame there is no bookings market for this

an extract from the above

"In 1991, as war was breaking out, the pair were involved in an altercation during a game between Mihajlovic’s Red Star Belgrade and Stimac’s Hajduk Split, during which the Croatian allegedly told the Serb he hoped all his family would be killed in the conflict.

After a number of subsequent vicious challenges, both players were sent off. Stimac denies making the comments, but the pair continued public sniping for years afterwards, with Mihajlovic saying that Stimac was “the only person I could strangle with my bare hands”.

Mihajlovic also played in Zagreb in 1999 for a Yugoslavia team that met Croatia for a place in the European Championships, and nearly caused a riot after crossing himself in front of a banner that read “Vukovar 1991”.

The game finished in a draw, and he says the opportunity to relive that atmosphere was one of the main reasons he agreed to do his current job. “I’d willingly give up three years of my life to be able to play in it,” he says

While both coaches have been under pressure from Uefa and Fifa to calm tensions, neither has been particularly helpful. Stimac travelled to the home town of Croatian general Ante Gotovina in November to celebrate the soldier’s release from prison in The Hague, after the appeals court of the tribunal into the Yugoslav wars found him not guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Stimac announced that he wanted Gotovina to come on to the pitch and kick the ball before the game with Serbia, a proposal that was unsurprisingly abandoned."

fair to say could be a bit lively

the referee is C. ÇAKΙR (yes the nani ref)

here is his profile

http://uk.soccerway.com/referees/cuneyt-cakir/92755/matches/

seems an interesting choice of referee for such a hostile game he is hardly card shy

the only fixed odds market i can find is on betfair will there be a sending off?

not much liquidity about but 6-4 could be there later this is obviously a fair bit shorter than usual but is still tempting

can anybody find any bookings markets at all for the game? even the spreads boys have ducked it

[tikay]

Wow, grand Post horsey, but guess we will struggle to get on.

[horseplayer]

i think i have found an angle of sorts but need to do a bit more research on the market involved as its not one i have backed in before

[tikay]

Bad toss to win in the cricket. Looked quick and grassy, playing flatter than a pancake

Brownlie and McCullum might not bat for a while....

Anderson can't swing it in this weather, and the pitch won't break up (drop in pitches don't)

The draw has gone 7/4, and that is a very fair price

Yeah the ball did next to nothing all day, would be very surprised if isn't a draw. Which is annoying as I am in nz for the whole tour and the cricket itself has been very insipid when it hasn't rained.

At 250-1 at close it worked out as written above. Partially with the benefit of hindsight, inserting the opposition was a poor decision, but the pitch fooled both captains and pundits

Pretty terrible day for the thread's bets. When Block-it Fulton scores a hundred, you know your bets on numbers 5 and 6 to top score are in trouble!

the draw is now 4/11 best. 

Yesterday was the nut worst day for me, & that puts the lid on it, missing 7/4, but nowt I could do, I was working.

Got home from work at around 1am & watched it until "Tea", realised then that it killed a lot of our bets. Guess McCullum could still knock a quick 50, assuming he ever gets to the crease.

The Test look likes being a Fred disaster, but these things happen, & we have been sensible with the stakes.

The Mistress of Variance was due to pay us a visit.