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Nope, still no sign of Rinky

Sounds bizarre! For some reason, I had a mental image of a fat bird in a cuckoo clock when I first read your review...

I hate it when adverts describe something as "a return to form", but I think that's a fair description of "Attack of the...", it's good to see him angry about something again, after mellowing out recently (comparatively). I'm rereading Down and Out in London and Paris at the moment

My wife is a big Ben Affleck fan Watched Breaking and Entering last night (Jude Law, Ray Winstone etc), not too bad

I was wondering where he is... Well, at least he can look forward to a "derby" against a team from Greater Manchester next season. Shame it's Stockport County and not Manchester United, but he can dream

Blackwell got them to the Premiership Play Off final, and they sacked him when they lost it. Now they're going to spend at least a second season in the third tier

Wee? Aww, still got delusions that you're a "big" club, Rinky? Manchester United must be quaking in their boots at the thought that you've reached the play off finals for the old Third Division

Leeeds United? Didn't they used to be a big club?

That picture of yours is a bit long in the tooth (tusk?)... And Peter Grant was a prize fud, agreed

Just watched Match of the Day 2, Fulham v Everton, and there's an advert at the side of the pitch that says "Monster - now available at Comet" - as if he's not popular enough at the moment He now does his own brand of Screen Cleaner apparently (insert joke here)... http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet/product/2...-Screen-cleaner

Beyemystic is comedy gold, the way he compared St Mirren's treatment of Aiden McGeady with the way the Nazis treated the Jews he's proof that care in the community has livened up interenet forums (but then I would say that, as I'm probably a *** sympathising traitor )

That's a point, where's Insight? Or Mr Roberts? Or Stuart Dickson? Or...

Damnit, and I thought I was boring enough... Always next season...

A Rose fan? Only been the once, when Jimmy Crease left us to see how he was getting on a few years back...

The more the merrier... Just watch out for the "Clyde vs Dundee" threads, they get a bit silly after a while

Thanks for taking the time to write your long reply (I've only quoted the last line for reasons of space), it makes a lot of sense to a novice like me Sadly, I've been taken in by the "four draws for 100/1" note at the top of the Hills sheet too many times

I know a lot more about this level of football (admittedly not much!) than I do about foreign leagues etc. Whilst some of the posts on this thread have made sense (which foreign teams/ leagues/ referees have certain charecteristics), I know nowt about them. Backing Berwick to lose every week looks the way to make money

Yeah, I'm just guessing, but I'd imagine that they do a lot more research for "big" teams, and any changes (players injured, new signings etc) are better known at a higher level, so something at our level (knowing a keeper has taken a knock, say) could pay off. That's something else I'm interested, what combinations to go for. I had a very brief time of putting together four/five folds from nine matches (all draws), but that was more trail and error to see what gave a decent chance of winning without needing to make hundereds of bets. If I was going for a combination of bets over a few games, what's the best kind of thing to go for? Obviously one single accumulator is pretty risky, whilst covering every single/ double/ treble etc means a lot of bets...

Bit late to this thread, but found it a very interesting/ sobering/ insightful set of posts, wish there were more threads on P&B with this level of serious points, rather than descending into the "you're teh gay!!!11!!! lolz" types Anyhow, I don't bet often, and when I do it's on the football at the bookies. I don't have the restraint to open an account with an online bookies, and I gave up fruit machines years ago. Used to stick a quid on a ridiculous accumulator (that never came up) each week, on the theory that it was the same as a lottery ticket, and that I had more insight into football results than random balls being drawn. Am tempted to get involved in "bigger" bets now, but only having read up a bit more. As has been said by others, I'm a bit "old school" (putting on 3 or 5 fold bets, because they were the rules back in the day). Couple of questions for the "experts" on this thread: Do you bet on lower league Scottish football? (Some days I convince myself that the Bookies don't pay it much attention, so the odds can be better, but others I reckon it's far too random to consider) Are draws ever a good idea? (I had a spell of putting on four draws for around 80/1, because it suggested it at the top of the coupon, and I am a sheep) Thanks in advance...

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