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Weekend
Wrap
Five from eight faves in the footy, 66% in the NRL and 2/2 in the Super League didn't translate to a whole lot of transaction in a week when the Rugby League was upset by missing players. Some very clever multiples by some astute punters. $100 @ $19.94 Fremantle under 39=/Kangaroos under/Essendon over can give thanks to Jeff Farmer and there were a few other mantras being directed at the punting gods or demons as he lined up for the match winning kick after the bell. $8000 on Fremantle at 1.65 jostling 10K Melbourne at 2.40. Is that where the saying 'no pain, no gain' came from? The next clever multiple was a modest $200 on Freo/Kangas/Bulldogs at $8.83. "What'd you do satdy night?" probably got asked a few times as work rolled around Monday. Hope you weren't asking the client who invested 20 thousand on Port/ Lions/Essendon/Hawthorn at the $2.08. Those last minute kicks just kept rolling the wrong way, but a good win by the Maggies. There wasn't an army backing them, though $5,000 at the $4.00 would have had a roller coaster of a night and finished up with a pulse rate above the median. Bigger blokes hooked into multiples of Hawthorn/Port/Essendon/Richmond for 20K at the $2.96 and another 20k at $1.69 Hawthorn/ Port/Essendon which was bankable after a sporting Friday night joust. As the Warriors firmed from 6= to 5= 10k jumped on for the reverse result from their earlier meeting and unfortunately for one punter The Storm vs Eels result changed from early year as well sinking his ten thousand at 2.00 and taking with it an earlier 5K at 2.15. And finally Penrith after good recent form broke their duck, twenty gorillas and then another five at the $1.95 leading the dance pack. There were 5 replays of earlier season games in the NRL and 60% of them turned the result around. Super League results went the way most people expected but was quiet for us. The Brumbies big 51-10 victory providing easy sailing for an investment of $5,000 at -5= at the $1.90. Racing in Queensland was steady, but as the fillies lined up for the fifth we listened a bit more intently to the start courtesy of a $10,000 investment at the $31.00 on last start winner Magique Sky. Unplaced, but someone was obviously rubbing sticks together. Travis Johnstone was named as best for Melbourne in their narrow defeat by Freo which would have pleased one student of the game who had invested $340 x $340 at the $126.00 the Chas Brownlow. He's had a good season so far, returning from injury and if the umps keep bumping off blokes for mistakes and misdemeanours rather than 'unfair' play like belting the hell out of someone or whacking them in the spuds, their might end up a shortage of eligible candidates. We took comfort from one Melbourne observers comment on Travis' chances. "If Robbie Flower couldn't win one, he won't." Not necessarily true, but succinct. There's three games to go in the cricket. Pressure's mounting. We had planned a players trip to Pakistan if we won a game, but that now looks unlikely. Maybe that was part of the problem. We'll talk about it tonight at training. Well probably talk about a fair bit of other stuff too. Morale's good. Then again never seen a win do too much harm anywhere. It's good for the kick. Good for the head. Makes relationships seem sweeter and puts the dog on his tucker. Even heard a bird sing once after backing a winner. It was good.
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