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Woodie

id backed one of them - he only had to jump to win - lol

the other 2 races just traded badly :-(

Here's another:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/sport/football.html?in_article_id=370963&in_page_id=1779&ct=5

Most consistently poor trading day ive had on the horses in the last 6 months!!!

have packed up for the day and may punt cheltenham rather than trading tomorrow

Phoned up Betfair this morning while I was in the car, asking for more information on the pompey manager market. I wanted to use it as an example in a presentation I had today. They refused permission!

Hi all

was finding this afternoon tricky till Spotthe difference started to drift in the big race (5.1-8.0)

laid again at 6 in running

hi fundy this week has to be one of worst weeks trading i have had in a long time?

Woodie

trading wise i agree totally, though i have had 1 winner today and collected on laying STD in the last so not as bad as it was looking

well done fundy

Pipes horses having a shocker currently, with the trend continued with Nous Voila in the last race at Cheltenham - doesnt bode well for Our Vic, the fav in tomorrows Gold Cup - may well be a drifter on todays evidence

Huge money trying to lay Odiham just before the off in the 3.15

well beaten early :-)

Anyone else getting up for the cricket at 6am in the morning?

My initial thouhts fwiw is that the prices dont look too far off the mark. Personally will not get involved until i see the team lists and the toss (the toss will move the market 15-20 ticks due to the stupidity of the super sub rule).

Pakistan are rightly favourites as the momentum is with them from the test series, they have home advantage and have won their last 7 ODIs and 22 from the last 34. However, they will definitely miss Afridi (banned for the first 2 games) and Malik is also unlikely to play in the first game. As for England, the big concern to me is except for Harmison and Flintoff we look woefully short of bowling and this will heap more pressure onto the middle order batting which hasnt fired so far on the tour - that said if Freddie or KP get going they can turn a game in no time.


Couple of previews:

http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/pakveng/content/story/229069.html

http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/pakveng/content/story/229072.html

agree fundy lets hope this is the saver for the week

Woodie

having had a bad week i had a cracking day today in the end so ended the week ok - but would like to see a nice volatile game in the morning with plenty of twists and turns

i think you will see extreme price movements in this game

Morning all

England won the toss and are batting first

Pakistan: Kamran Akmal, Salman Butt, Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Shoaib Malik, Abdul Razzaq, Naved-ul-Hasan, Shoaib Akhtar, Mohammad Sami, Danish Kaneria, Arshad Khan (sub)
England: M E Trescothick, M J Prior, A J Strauss, K P Pietersen, A Flintoff, P D Collingwood, G O Jones, V S Solanki, I D Blackwell, J M Anderson, S J Harmison, L E Plunkett (sub)

Spread firms 265/275 at the start suggets 270 seen as a par score

spreads already at 280/290