WhatAboutTheFinish

If anybody actually knows of a more efficient way to calculate the probability of a sporting result than the betting markets….please let me know. I’d be a millionaire in week! 

Of course the true Villa way will be not win the Europa Conference, finish 4th, then knocked out of Champions League qualifiers by Qarabag in mid August. 

When I heard ‘long range’ the first goal I thought of was this effort from Deano…

He also had a couple of other great goals that stick in my memory. This one against Wimbledon…

And my personal favourite was a goal he scored against Norwich away on a Wednesday night. It might have been a little closer but it was off the back of some lovely team play. Unfortunately I can’t find a video of it…so I’ll just have to trust my memory that it was superb! 

9 hours ago, Rugeley Villa said:

There’s a few tickets now on sale 

I managed to pick up 4 for the whole family yesterday so result! 

Does anyone know when they usually release the unsold Terrace View/Lower Grounds seats? 

3 hours ago, Seat68 said:

Daily Mail alone made over 170m in digital advertising last year, the number of stories regarding Harry and Meghan is a key driver to people to their site. The mail online pretends they have had enough of them, but I suspect today alone there will be at least 5 stories on them, not that I want to check this.

For transparency, they raised 170m in revenue, that's not what they 'made'. Turnover for show, profits for dough!

1 hour ago, DCJonah said:

So what? How much does the daily mail make from their hateful reporting each year? 

About a quarter of what Harry made?! 

10 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

  Reveal hidden contents

A small stream = Beck 

Wolves in Madrid = Los Lobos 
Tempest-like = Stormzy 
Liberated = Free 
Fender has some gig requirements = Sam Ryder 
Medic is nice to touch = Dr Feelgood

 

It says something about my musical knowledge when the only one that came to me instantly was...

1 minute ago, stewiek2 said:

At this rate and form Southgate is likely to call Ashley Young up.

And then play him on the right ahead of Alexander-Arnold! 

Hang on…did I just hear “Bank holiday”?! 

31 minutes ago, tomav84 said:

Is that a florist in the last pic?? That's a new one on me at a football ground...

It's so we can buy wreaths to lay in memory of the last time we saw some decent football.

1 minute ago, rjw63 said:

Went to hang washing out and we are losing.

has the meltdown started yet?

Any streams available of your washing drying? Probably more entertaining than this game!

Been a long time since I've signed up to any new sites so I can't give definitive answers but as far as I think...

1. Most sites should have a button somewhere you can click to convert the odds into the format you prefer. If you can't find it you can compare on a converter site such as this.

2. Maybe...but unlikely. I think most places only award you the free bet after the first bet has been settled. You'll be able to put the bet on whatever you want (some sites have minimum odds requirements) but you'll only be able to put it on after the ENG ISR game has finished.

3. Yes, certainly it is easy to get money back from most of the more well known sites.

4. Lots of other things to consider. Be sure to know that with your free bets you won't get the stake element back. eg. If you back something at 2/1 with a free bet tenner you'll just be returned £20 not £30. Be careful of wagering requirements! Some sites offer a free bet but then insist you gamble it 5, 10 or even 20 times before you can withdraw it. Also..I like to gamble but I think there are plenty of others who could advise on you being able to guarantee money back on your free bets by laying them off on an an exchange...not my bag due to the lack of buzz but I'm sure more prudent VT'ers can help with that.

6 hours ago, Mic09 said:

Poor young tennis fans who are told to walk straight, run in straight lines, hold towels and umbrellas for those multi millionaire players. There is no reason for a 14 year old kid to be holding an umbrella for Nadal or Djokovic. Why not get a stand for an umbrella to just stand there? Do we really have to get a kid to do it? If you really want for someone to hold an umbrella for a multimillionaire sports star, maybe get their coach to do it if it's REALLY necessary. 

Think you may be overthinking this a little, I'm fairly sure most kids who get to "ball boy" would be thrilled to be stood next to a megastar. Hell, when I was a 15 year old boy I'd have volunteered to lick the sweat off Steffi Graf's armpits myself, never mind hand her a towel! 

Don’t get my hopes up, don’t get my hopes up, don’t get my hopes up…

Too late, I think we’re going to win this! 

Definitely just 2 episodes remaining. The last of which has a running time of over two and half hours! Hard to see how it can top Ep7 though!! 

47 minutes ago, El Zen said:

Not running, I know, but certainly endurance training: I just did 31km cross country skiing. A personal best, length wise. My triceps were cramping so bad the last five k, I thought my arms would fall off. 

You a classic or skate guy? 

17 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

Yeah, that bloody socialist-controlled media. 

I think you may be missing the point. They want a ‘proper’ low tax, low spend, low regulation Tory at the helm. Same reason the likes of David Davies were so vocal about all this. 

9 hours ago, Phil Silvers said:

Dumbass Italian bonehead numpty losing idiot knobs ffs, how is this even possible.

 

When did you put this bet on, half time? Never really thought about multiples mid game…but it looks like you might be on to something!

3 minutes ago, magnkarl said:

Again, Russia is the bad guy.

Interesting that you’ve brought Grozny into the debate over the last page or two. Were the Russians there violent suppressors of a group seeking self determination or a sovereign nation defending it’s territory against terrorists.

Does Chechnya have any greater right to independence than Crimea, Donetsk or Luhansk?

Just to play devil’s advocate for a second, I am sure that Russians will claim that the Ukrainian army were storing weapons/personnel at the location in question and thus it was a legitimate target. 

1 minute ago, hippo said:

Wow that's late. Wot time is new KO then ?

I’d have thought that 25 minutes is plenty of time to lace wor boots up!