HeartinHobart

What's worse the refereeing or the commentary?

Speith has to be close to the unluckiest horse in the country. No doubt with even luck he wins both Victoria's premier WFA sprints.

So effectively you've backed the 3yos at $2.40. Not sure I'd be be taking that but good luck to you. If Speith was from a big Sydney stable (Waller, O Shea Waterhouse) I think he'd be a clear favourite. Happy to be on him.

Very proud performance. Would have paid anything to be in the north end giving it to those Roar flogs second half.

Winning Rupert favourite? 😜

Haha, definitely not. In saying that right at the moment after a disappointing spring from Chautauqua we are lacking an out and out champion.

Haha finding this quite enjoyable.

What does the house generally take from it?

I thought there was just to much discrepancy between him and Global Glamour, a filly that won probable Australia's premier 3yo fillies race just last prep. Anyway, i certainly didn't see a horse coming from a 7th in a benchmark 72 winning it.

Bad bad day?

I got banned in May after exploiting Chase the bunny.

Chase the Ace back this year. Certainly not as good this year but still good money to be made for anyone with half a brain.

It's official. Stephan Hawking would be a better goalkeeper!

The thing about Pike is that his horses generally run at under the odds. Purely because of the amount of people that follow him you rarely a fair price on one of his. Simply based on riding ability I think Sir William is in the top 5 in the country.

I'm starting to think we'd be better with @strider in our starting XI than this bloke.

Really don't like the official price on Victorian racing now being totally dicatated by the corporates. This further reduces the roll of the on course bookmaker and gives the increasing power to the corporates. We are continually falling closer into line with U.K. betting ways which I have no doubt was the plan all along for major bookmakers.

KGJ you are a dead set cunt!

So at what point can I say I told you so?

Financially it's the most stable. Not only because of the financial backing from those Victory pricks. I've heard a major sponsor has already been secured if the bid is successful but also of extremely good stadium deals. Only 5000 per game is required to make it financially viable. Sure a Tassie side won't enter the competition and grab the countries attention like The Wanderers did but to increase the size of the competition with a team that is close to impossible to fail is a no brainier.

Tasmania's bid will get up.

Tottenham lmao

Wtf!

This is truly spot on. My biggest annoyance is when someone from the left simply labels an individual as uneducated for having differing views.

I feel I may have a better understanding on this than yourself. Firstly Tasmanians are ridiculously parochial. Hobart Hurricanes regularly sell out Bellerive Oval despite only having mediocre results. The same happen with the Tassie Devils in the NBL in the 90s every week was packed despite never making the playoffs people still backed a local team on a national stage and only because of poor management mostly on the NBLs behalf they folded. For years Tasmania rallied for its own AFL team. Had corporate backing even a major sponsor but the AFL chose these larger population areas. Which are still struggling to generate decent crowds. Now the FFA have the chance to massively leap frog the AFL and commit to the whole state which could have huge benefits. For many years now there has been more registered Soccer players than any other sport in Tasmania. But there has been no reason to support Australian soccer. I have no doubt Soccer could become the number 1 sport in Tasmania simply with the support of the FFA. Remember, it's one thing that David Gallop has long aspired too, for the whole country. Even targeting these larger population areas are anything then guaranteed to prove successful. Look at this very club. The second club into a sporting city of more than 4.5 million and we consistently attract just 7000 fans. Whether this happens on not it's great to see that the FFA are clearly getting numerous bids in expanding the A League which I'm sure everyone would agree is promising for the future.

On what bases?