We start off a new 16 leg million dollar all up challenge this weekend on Friday night with Souths to beat the Roosters in the opening game of the NRL season. Paying $2.00 we could have a tidy $32.00 if all goes well and spank all that onto another $2.00 score sometime over the weekend.

In other events a couple of long shots are…

‘Valedictum’ in the Blamey Stakes in Melbourne

‘Like It Is’ in the Matron Stakes in Melbourne

‘Lucky Diva’ in the Bob Hoysted Handicap in Melbourne

Couple of old favourites for me, definitely lean towards the place rather than spanking them for the win.

The next person who tells me that they texted someone had better produce evidence of a person covered in texter ink in about 10 seconds or I will slap them to within 4mm of there lives.

You did not texted anyone, you text them. Text and text are singular and plural. You can’t freakin texted anyone!!!!!!

Clear?

A ciao to anyone who can name the above conundrum in grammatical language.

I am sick of people picking on the John Daly’s of this world. What is so bad about drinking copious amounts of piss, smoking cigarettes, gambling all your money away and spending money on hookers?

Butch Harmon is having a crack at him in the US and Kevin Rudd is having a crack at John Daly imitators in Australia. I have one message for you ‘pure’ people, lay off the bingers you pricks.

John Daly is the king and I wont hear a negative thing said about him.

I enjoy both of John Daly’s recollections of the back nine when he won his first major golf tournament…… rum and coke.

I am quite excited. Here we are on the cusp of a new Rugby League season, Formula 1 season and we have just seen Casey Stoner win the first round of this seasons MotoGP.

With the Autumn carnival firing up it is a great time to be a sports fan.

However, I propose this be the last season of set teams in the NRL competition. A big statement maybe but hear me out.

The NRL should adapt the system used in English Premier League soccer where teams drop down divisions or are ‘relegated’ and other teams who win their respective competitions and promoted to a higher grade.

The NRL remains the same throughout the season and all the teams play their relevant round robin games. At the end of the season the bottom four teams play off in the finals just as the winning teams do but on grand final day we have two teams playing off in a desperate attempt to NOT be relegated.

The NRL second division would comprise of a group of teams from Sydney and Brisbane league competitions that are separated out halfway through their local league comps and play off against each other over the second half of the season to qualify for the finals. We then get down to two teams who play off on grand final day as well for the promotion spot.

Dream with me for just a moment, the Browns Plains Bears finally reach their full potential as they lure me out of retirement; barely qualify for the second division, then turn on a successive wins streak that launches the Bears onto the grandest stage of them all, Grand Final Day! a chance to win into the big time, its the stuff that movies are made of.

Think of how good grand final day could, it would be an actual GRAND FINAL day, three top games of football for absolutely ALL of the marbles. It could be the single greatest day in sport for the whole year and one I would take three days off work for, one to prepare and one recover from. Even more days off if I am included in the bears run on side.

Please oh please NRL, hear me!

I don’t want to seem stupid but I am not a smart man.

How is it that Eddy Groves former high flying corporate hero turned lame duck, on Friday the 7th of March 2008, was able to fly back into Australia and sell 12,165,301 ordinary shares for $2.1390488 per ordinary share?

Reviewing the total public share trading results for ABL (ABC’s stock ticker) for the entire trading period on Friday the data indicates that the share price never got past $1.75 per ordinary share. Who in their right mind would have paid 19% higher to purchase Mr Groves shares over those available on the stock market at a lower rate.

Possibly some back door deal done with a company/group interested in a position in ABC? If this is the case, are ordinary, off the street, shareholders allowed to do such deals?

Do any of you chief champs have any idea on the hard and fast rules here?

Instead of keeping all these profits to myself I thought it was time to share the love. I have decided to start the week with small profit and build to something bigger on the weekend. First off, we put a sneaky $10 on Arsenal to beat Wigan in the EPL with that all going onto Moto GP sensation Casey Stoner to win the first round of this years Moto GP Season. By the time you read this the results will more than likely be in on this and we should have $30 in the account to cover our next bet.

Dam those soccer fairies. A nill all draw, what a bunch of good for nothing sooks!!!!!  

My back up is a little more profit searching with a $10 all up bet on Road to Athens in the Adelaide Cup up into Royal Asscher in the Yallambee Classic for a return of $188.50. Now that is a way to kick off a week of great sporting events.

I feel a 16 leg all up million dollar challenge coming on.

Weekend Hussler seems about right. He hustled the crap out of bookies across the country yesterday landing a Newmarket Group 1 at Flemington and leaving a cast of bookies crying into their bags. You ok bookies? You ok guys? You finished licking your wounds yet?

It was a very good win, especially with the weight he carried and holding out a battling Magnus, who fought all the way to the line. But I am a little perplexed by statements made by a so called sports journalists on ABC1’s sports show, Offsiders, claiming that he is now the “best sprinter in the world”. Unfortunately, I do not know the journalists name otherwise I would publish it here with the biggest slur I could come up with. Lucky break there you no named niffer. When he beats Takeover Target, Miss Andretti and Apache Cat I may accept your thoughts, but until then keep your comments about sport limited to your local school’s cross country.

I am happy anyway, my $50 sports bet on Weekend Hussler into Hot Danish returned a tidy $208 and assisted in my turning a reasonable profit in a full day on the punt.

In other news I giggled into my beer at the story of a confused punter who put a $5000.00 bet on Zipping to win the Newmarket yesterday. He must have confused the actual 1200 meters of the race with the 2200 meters in his dreams and it cost him five grand. Please come to me for your next bet Zipping lover, I promise some juicy odds for you.