Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Tabcorp’s latest move to scrap terminal hosting fees for pubs and clubs reeks of corporate freeloading—plain and simple. While the company boasts of billion-dollar revenues and “modernisation strategies,” it’s quietly gutting the income of hard-working publicans who’ve been the backbone of its retail wagering presence for decades. Let’s call it what it is: a brazen […]
By guest columnist Bernard from Bowen Early market hunters have been smashed by a sudden and silent shift from TAB, which has now pulled prices on bush and back-end meetings until raceday morning — a move that’s left both punters and rival corporates fuming. This isn’t just a tweak — it’s a hand grenade lobbed […]
If you like a bet then this discussion on Wolfden about when prices go up and when you can get on is well worth a listen. The delay in when the TAB markets are being posted is a focus.
Last week we wrote about the bleak future faced by race callers and fans across the nation, with our prediction being that soon many non-metropolitan race meetings would be called from the studio, and then eventually replaced by non-human calls powered by Artificial Intelligence. Some people laughed at our vision of where Tabcorp CEO Gillon […]
The AI driven race caller of the future, working out of a data studio. He sort of looks like a young D. Fowler too. The move this week by Tabcorp/Sky to slash the number of race callers without putting any new ones on says three things to us. One is that Gillon McLachlan’s public shine […]
The extraordinary decision by Tabcorp/Sky to make Josh Fleming redundant yet retain David Fowler has sparked controversy among viewers from across the nation, with most of the commentators on the issue expressing a preference for one caller or the other, and the majority favoring Josh Fleming. Which one of the pair is the better caller […]
I don’t know what the hell is going on at the TAB, but the markets they put up for Bathurst tonight were ridiculous. Emma Stewart brought three fillies up from Victoria to contest the heats of the Gold Tiara. Being trained by the most successful 2YO stable in Australia, the trio were certain to start […]
You can almost set your watch by the TAB’s triannual carnival time fail. It seems to happen multiple times a year, usually around the peak of the summer and winter carnivals. Yesterday it happened again, this time fortunately not on Melbourne Cup or Golden Slipper Day. Still betting was blacked out for hours, and punters […]
Gday Archie, The way I read the Tab promo for Tim Zoo in the Australian cup is that the $5 on offer is for the place not win only. I know you sink the boots into the tab at every opportunity and I agree they do deserve criticism at times, but in my opinion they […]
What a wonderful promo the TAB is offering on the Australian Cup final at The Meadows tonight. $5.00 about Tim Zoo winning, maximum bet 10 bucks. Sensational Gillon, just crackerjack. You can get $7.50 about the greyhound on almost every corporate, and $10.00 on Betfair. D’oh! A ring a ding ding, Gilly’s the promo unders […]
