Betting on Sports

[Jerry_Atrick]

4 hours ago, red750 said:

I think the Hawks have lost a couple to injury for the first part of the season.

Yeah.. Will Day, the mercurial centreman has succumbed to a complex collarbone dislocation what will keep him out for the first half of the season. With James Worpel moving to Geelong, it will be up to Jai Newcombe ("the boy from Poowong") as a centreman and half back Josh Weddle, fast becoming a superstar, to plug that gap. With James Sicily not yet training properly from memory due to a hip injury, the centre and half back line will look a little wobbly. 

 

Will Day has spent more time injured than playing, it seems like. I wonder if his bidy is up to the physicality of AFL. 

 

[old man emu]

Talking of betting on sports, online bookies are making it difficult for country jockey clubs to keep operating. With the ability to place bets using an app while at the racetrack, less money is going through the TAB, whose profits are fed back into country racing. That means less mon allocated to country clubs so prize money is less while the costs of operating meetings continues to rise.

[Jerry_Atrick]

This week is the 4th round of the AFL season, but the way they have structired the fixture, which means teams are already having byes since the opening round (hopefully this round is the last), that it is impossible to form any realistic view, with the exception of the obvious stragglers, what the relative form is of teams. So, I will have to sit it out a bit longer before depositing my £50 for the season. 

 

However, these would be my picks this early in the week, without studying the team lists:

• Brisbane  to beat Collingwood, though Collingwood can suprise us. £10 and 1.42
• North Melbourne to beat Carlton, who seem to clutch defeat from the jaws of victory. Speculative bet as the North Ruck was given 3 weeks for smearing his blood on a Carlton player's face after what was a hit that should have sdeen the Carlton player with at least a one match suspension. £5 @ 2.30
• Toss up between Adelaide and the Dockers. Probably Adelaide purely based on home turf. Though, the Dockers have looked very good in the couple of games I have seen. But probably sit this one out.
• Port Adelaide to account for Richmond. Odds are good enough for a £10 on it. 
• Sydney to beat the Eagles at home. Maybe £5 on it. Eagles have not been bad so far this year and I think have 2 wins. 
• Melbourne at home to beat the red-hot Gold Coast. Very speculative, but I was pretty impressed with them on the weekend with their comeback against Carlton (although, to be honest, Carlton stopped playing). £5 @ 3.4
• Bulldogs to beat Essendon, but at $1.00, it's not worth the effort. 
• Geelong to beat the Hawks. The Hawks are running mildly hot at the moment, but they haven't been really tested, and in their opener they were thrashed by a Greater Western Sydney team missing 10 of its normally starting senior list. GWS have had some bad losses since. Geelong aren't terribly good this year, but they always lift against Hawthorn. I would put £10 on it @ $2.45. 

 

I don't normally think about it this much before a round, but as I said, there have been byes alreaady so it really doesn't matter at this stage.

 

GWS and St. Kilda have a bye. 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by Jerry_Atrick