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Nice one woodie

Just watching the highlights of the aussies vs windies from last night - just love watching the genius that is Brian Lara flaying the Aussies all over the park

fundy what do you make of the cricket?

Do you mean Aus v WI - if so ill let you know after the highlights as i dont know the final score yet

fundy yes sorry

Awesome innings from Lara - all hail the master!!! hes now within touching distance of being the highest run scorer ever in test cricket (been waiting for someone to go past Border for a long while!!!)

At 350-7 theyve done well but unless one of the tail manage to hang around in the morning (unlikely) then theyll struggle to bat 4 sessions on what is a very good batting track. Would be surprised to see Australia struggle to reach 450 so would expect them to have a small lead by close of play on the second day. Based on that Windies are going to have to bat at least 4 sessions in their second innings to give themselves or the draw a chance

that said the Aussies look too short and the draw a bit too long to me

thanks for insight fundy the play might be to lay the aussies then green up

Steve, I see Langbar has officially gone pop today. Terrible stuff, when will people learn!

scrip does not help when shares had a buy a couple of months ago!

I think the rampers should hold their head in shame, its disgusting that people post false information and suck more people into these situations, some of the investors just can't afford to lose money.

scrip agree lets hope some of the rampers are still locked in.

Scrip

have to be honest i looked very closely at them with a view to buying in but when they issued the rights issue and the proposed to buy RAF with paper when the two came to less than 10m when they supposedly had 350m in the bank it just stank - another one that fell into the category of "if it seems too good to be true then it is!" As soon as it was suspended anyone with half a brain knew the shares were worth zero yet many people still expected them to re-list at 150p per share.

Some very sad tales being posted across the way from naive investors who got sucked in

"it just stank"

When I read some of the early posts I thought they were a wind up. So bizarre and complicated. I phoned Langbar / Crown / whatever and was not at all convinced. None of it made sense, so I'd rather pass a peice of upside than get lumped with some almightly downside. It's the stuff of fairy tales.

I'll keep an eye on the story but I think I know the basics already, it doesn't take KROLL to work that one out!

Very sad for the niave.

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Woodie

dont know if you laid the aussies as discussed, if did already 13 ticks in profit and not a ball bowled :-)

Brian Charles Lara - the highest ever run scorer in test cricket

and more importantly hes crucifying the draw price :-)

fundy sorry for late reply i have had trouble with my laptop,no i did not lay the aussies.

Anybody know the story about Royal Katidoki Newbury 1.05?
Opened 11/4f drifted out steadily to 6/1 at the off.
During this time you could get 8.2 on Beftair when it was 9/2 on Ceefax
and 10 close to the off!
I was due to back it but didn't in view of all this - I think it must have fallen/PU or
UR. So I've saved a bit for later on.

schiff cant give an answer as i was watching football just a reminder if you bet in running on the exchanges watch what you are doing as they is always someone out there that will have an advantage over the punters that are at home.

Inglis Drever awesome in the staying hurdle - cant believe I got even money in running 4 from home :-)