Daily ReportProfit on Month £275.01Outstanding Bets £3004.51https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aia1Hxq-NDNWdFk3UmlTSXMzTjRBTVNfOWRndVFsZHc&usp=drive_web#gid=32Grab yourself a cuppa. If you make it to the end of this you've done well
A profit of £77 yesterday, a profit that looked rather unlikely at 4.30pm when seven of yesterday's bets placed were already in the losers column
The winnersTexas A and M got out-muscled in Baton Rouge, falling to their third defeat of the year against LSU. Not much that Mr Manziel could do about this as both his offensive and defensive linemen got smashed by their counterparts and he spent most of the game, in wet conditions, running as quick as he could away from pursuers. Anyway, as A and M could no longer win 10 games, two bets land for £72.50 profit
Belper's finest tipster Jakally landed a Championship double when Leeds won and Birmingham and Blackpool went under on corners for a combined profit of £70
The losers Long Run and Silvinaco Conti in the Betfair behind Cue Card
Aberdeen, Montrose and Morton in the Scottish Leagues
ZuiderZee at Haydock
Suarez not scoring a brace at Everton
So, onto
longer term positions on another busy Saturday
- England were thrashed at the Gabba. We escaped from what could have been betting carnage (as I am sure we would have backed England, English players etc without too much persuasion) with some hope. Cook scored 65, the only English 50 in the match to at least stay in touch in the batsman series market. Bell got nowhere near a century, but wasn't alone there. As we know Broad's 8 wickets have him well placed in the English bowler market. England are, when I looked, out to 9/4 for Adelaide, underdogs for the series and of course sentiment has turned massively. Adelaide though is a drop in pitch. Should be flat and low and without the pace and bounce that seemed so alien to our top six. 9/4 is worth a close look. Cricket betting, best to be contrarian.
- For the Heisman trophy, well its all very unpredictable. Mariotta lost last night, Manziel lost last night, Winston has sexual allegations hanging over him and it could be one of the outsiders Bray or McCarron who wins this in the end. It feels like we could back more players and still not find the winner
- In the RLWC, We had the right strategy, not sure we have the right player. Australia ran in 11 tries in winning the "easier" semi against Fiji but Brett Morris only scored one. Centre Jarryd Hanne scored three
So headed to the final, an each way return at 14-1, playing 4 places, looks likely. Will need a game and a half from Mr Morris to scoop
9 tries Australia Jarryd Hayne
8 tries England Ryan Hall
7 tries Australia Brett Morris7 tries New Zealand Roger Tuivasa-Sheck
4 tries and below The Rest
- Football
* Suarez scored for Liverpool. Aguero and RVP play today but currently we are slap bang in the hunt at 20/1 each way
9 Sturridge (Liverpool)
9 Suárez (Liverpool) 8 Agüero (Man City)
8 Remy (Newcastle)
7 van Persie (Man Utd)
* In the Championship, Nugent scored two and Vokes one. With Ings, Vokes and Nugent in the books all each way at between 20/1 and 25/1 again were are in the hunt
12 McCormack (Leeds)
10 Ings (Burnley) 10 Rhodes (Blackburn)
10 Vokes (Burnley)
9 Nugent (Leicester)* In League One Wells and Bamford both scored. Prices 25-1 up to 40-1 on these two and Assombolonga who is in a Peterborough side in miserable form. Again we are right in the hunt though
Leon Clarke Coventry City 12
David Mooney Leyton Orient 12
Nahki Wells Bradford City 12Callum Wilson Coventry City 12
Patrick Bamford Milton Keynes Dons 11 - Bale scored for Madrid, disappointingly, but we remain ahead of the game there
- No progress on the flickering pulses on the bets on Santi Cazorla assists, Amat bookings and Jay Rodriguez and Darren Bent goals
* In team betsArsenal's victory was more good news for the finish in top 3 bet
Southampton's loss to Arsenal confirmed what we all suspected all the way along. Clear Relegation candidates. Possibly.
Liverpool won't be finishing bottom half
Hull lost at home to Palace. As we are long Hull and short Palace, not the best of results
Watford are right off the boil, losing yesterday at home to Bolton. The top half bet should be fine, the promotion bet is fading
Reading drew at Blackburn. Like Watford, their form is not consistent enough to challenge for the promotion bet
Barnsley lost at Millwall, biding their time to get to the top half. Sheff Wed lost to Huddersfield. With Doncaster winning on Friday they now lead the other two by five points in the South Yorkshire bet.
Tranmere won 5-1 away at Coventry in one of the results of the day to climb out of the relegation zone
Sheff U won 1-0 at Ashton gate with a corking own goal. The climb up the table begins here (copy and pasted from a fortnight ago)
Kidderminster won again to stay 2nd in the division and 3rd in the BMU Conf Handicap behind Cambridge and Salisbury
- In serie A Napoli lost 1-0 at home to Parma
- In La Liga Athletico Madrid won 7-0. We need them to underperform to give Villareal and Bilbao a shot at catching them
Not the best day for our team bets, really
- Ashley Boring and Natalie Gumball topped the SCD leaderboard last night with 35 and 37 out of 40 respectively
- XFactor I didn't see. Hannah update please novelty correspondents. Also how is Steve Davis doing in the Jungle? Who am I kidding, no one will have read this far.
Today NFL
Oakland v Tennessee
Miami in action and needing to win out to catch the Patriots
Brees and Ryan played on Thursday, a big day for Stafford would be good
The Eagles can continue their good form
The Chiefs need to win to keep pace with the Broncos
The Bengals are on a bye
The goalscoring machine Paulinho faces Manchester City