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Bad News For Murray Fans.................

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Ken4155 | 11:05 Thu 28th Jan 2016 | Sport
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.....................the Jokerman awaits. Novak destroys Federer 3-1 (@ 11/4 i might add) to reach Aussie final.
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it could be bad news for raonic fans as well ...
Murray still has to get past Raonic, but even so, at the moment being second best to Djokovic is not exactly shameful.
I can't see Raonic beating Murray, Raonic has a good serve but the rest of his game is a long way behind Murray.
Thought you would all be backing the British player..................oh no, wait, he'll only be British if he wins.
It matters little. One still has to beat all-comers to win.
Quite so, OG. Things have moved on from the "Challenge round" where the rest battled it out to play the defending chamion in the final.

I fear Andy must be at his absolute best and Novak have an off day to see Andy win. Novak doen't have many off days when it comes to finals. He tends to get them out of the way earlier in the tournament.
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maggiebee; Whilst i have nothing whatsoever against Andy Murray - and have actually won quite a bit of money on him - i will always back Novac Djokovic against any player in the world. Patriotism doesn't even come into it and i hope Murray gets to the final as he may be capable of taking a set of the Jokerman and a 3-1 result is usually a better price than a 3-0 result:-)
An old adage my grandad taught me, Ken." Never bet on nuffink that can talk!"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/35416193
NJ, the problem with betting on things that can't talk is that they are invariably controlled by 'things' that CAN, such as jockeys for example!
I assumed that the double negative in your grandad's motto was merely his normal mode of speech rather than an injunction not to bet at all!
A mate of mine had £150-00 on a dog that came in at 6/1. The dog owner could talk!
Yes that was his usual turn of phrase, QM !!

I think his philosophy was to restrict gambling to horses and dogs. But as both you and melv have pointed out it is far from fool proof.

In my earlier days I spent some time working in the “Turf Accountancy” business. Among the establishments I managed in North London was one which was adjacent to a well known tavern. The publican, an Irishman, owned a dozen or so greyhounds. At that time (and probably still now) the prize money for winning an afternoon dog race was about half the weekly cost of keeping a dog in training. Obviously some “arrangements” had to be made to balance the books. Also at that time (and probably still now) to rig the result of a dog race was simplicity itself. No substances are involved. All you needed was the collusion of the other owners/trainers. The tricky bit was keeping the details of the collusion restricted to as few people as possible so as not to spook the bookies.

The guv’nor of the tavern had these arrangements in place regularly. We knew he had and he knew we knew he had. To keep us sweet we would occasionally be given a little bit of “information” from which we might make a bit of bunce. Very rarely did that information fail and a splendid time was had by all on the proceeds.

Happy Days !

Sorry Ken, I seem to have hijacked your thread :-)
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Not at all, NJ, an interesting anecdote.
I think its a bad news for NJ fans also. AM have that kind of skill to beat NJ in final.
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One set all but Raonic is holding his serve with much more ease than Murray, at the moment. This could go all the way - putting a big smile on Novak's face.
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Raonic leads 2-1.
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2-2 and a 5th set:-)
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Murray runs away with the 5th set 6-2 against an injured Raonic. This will be Murray's 5th Aussie Final and his 3rd against The Jokerman.
O yea of little faith. Come on Andy, the whole of Scotland is so proud of you. Some on here need to eat their words yeh!!
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Why should any of those posting on this thread need to eat their words, maggie? None of us have said that Murray wouldn't beat Raonic,

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