Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Freo Way To Go Hit Em Real Hard, Send Them Down Below Oh Freo Give em The Old Heave-Ho We Are The Freo Dockers! A great mate of mine has had $5400 on Fremantle to win the flag. I guess it seemed like a good idea at the time. Knowing that we have Maggie’s old […]
Gold Coast coach Damien Hardwick has deflected criticism of the gambling industry back at the AFL amid concerns about the Suns’ links with bookmakers. Hardwick’s press conference in Darwin reached a flashpoint when the Suns coach was asked about team manager Mark Opie on Thursday. Opie is subject to an AFL integrity unit investigation after […]
The mainstream media, who like the AFL Integrity Unit are now all het up about the issue, are claiming that Crikey broke the story about the bookie Mark Opie working on the staff of the Gold Coast Suns. What a load of absolute bullshit. We first raised the conflict of interest issues between Opie’s role […]
Have you ever seen two better games of footy in your life than the pair we saw today on Easter Monday. 84 712 people packed the MCG to witness an absolute classic between Hawthorn and Geelong. A see-saw affair where the lead swapped a million times, the noise of the crowd could be heard from […]
A couple of weeks ago we went out on a limb and declared that the then favorites to win the flag Adelaide would get beaten by the Pies and then dumped out of the finals by the Hawks. Boom boom. The Crows went down at odds on in both games and now they are gone. […]
Only two teams this century have come from outside the top three on the final table, Brisbane Lions last year from 5th place and the Foota-scray (the Western Bulldogs) in 2016 from 7th. Based on those stats the only teams in with a serious statistical chance of winning the Grand Final are the Crows, the […]
We have received some interesting information from multiple sources since we published our story about southern bookmakers clamoring to field at the Albion Park trots during the Winter Carnival meets. One of the bookmakers we mentioned in the story is Mark Opie, the owner of the corporate bookmaker Okebet. It has come to our attention […]
As we foreshadowed in our Tips and Rumors column yesterday, the General Manager of the Albany Turf Club Mark Bayliss (pictured) has been charged by police with gaining a benefit by fraud and attempting to gain a benefit for another by fraud. The offences are believed to relate to his employment at the race club. […]
There are only four teams that can win the NRL grand final. Panthers, Broncos, Storm and Cowboys. The rest are all just post-Origin pretenders. At this stage a Penrith v Melbourne Grand Final looks a lay down misere. So do the Panthers to defy convention and win a 3rd premiership in a row. Any team […]
Those who know the bloke have long told me that a well known NSW tri-code racing personality named Planes is the luckiest man in the world. A tinny who gets the rub of the green when every other bugger lands in the rough. Tinny? This. https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/tra6m3y I don’t know the fella, so I didn’t really […]
