anthony knott...who was the expert pundit he was...

best thing i've heard from someone all year watchit...

about time a NOBODY told them what they think of their opinionating.

never liked matt williams watchit.

very c0cky imv...

on the back of this i'm sure matt williams will be invited to at least a dozen cheltenham preview nights in 2013 watchit...

just shows you what a complete and utter FARCE these events really are...

KNOTT stuck it right up WILLIAMS there watchit...

glad to see that tbh...

i always like seeing a NOBODY doing well like that.

it also sends a message to the people out there who in my opinion are misguided when they say there is no place in racing for low-grade horses....

if THEY had their way HUNT BALL wouldn't be allowed to have ran at folkestone as he was too lowly rated.

great stuff to see a low-grade horse go all the way and take on the big boys and come out on top...

I think its fair to say Knott eclpised Williams
Fantastic TV.

i'm glad we said BEFORE cheltenham that these preview nights were a FARCE watchit.

once again we've been PROVED spot on...

best tv i've seen this year geoff...

what did matt williams say EXACTLY anyway lads...?

if you could understand it of course.

the blokes voice does my head in tbh...

and the c0cky way he says things is a real turn-off...

I've put the picks up on another thread.

so not only did MATT think HUNT BALL wouldn't WIN...he didn't think it would be PLACED either...?

and people pay to go to cheltenham previews to listen to that GARBAGE...???

nowt dafter than folk imv...

i'd bet good money next time we hear from MATT he will somehow have come out on top even after these PATHETIC predictions beforehand...

i think he drinks at AFTERTIME ARMS tbh...

who does matt williams support watchit...?

liverpool or everton...?

oh i gave up on TWITTER a long time ago watchit.

i said all along it's not a place for NOBODY's like me tbh...

i have layed LIVERPOOL so hopefully MATT has backed them at odds-on...

Opinions are like ar$eholes as they say, and fair enough, everyone likes to think they know they are onto the winner.  It's the so and so "CAN'T WIN", or so and so "WILL WIN" bllx I can't stand.  No shades of grey, they know it all and yet little is heard after the event, unless they've actually managed to get a winner.  Then you hear plenty...

It's a bit harsh this lads. Matty isn't on a gravy train. He isn't trying to be pals with everyone. He's a lad having a bet who got on the telly for a bit. I'd have gone on if they asked me.

what you say is correct watchit but it is also about PRICE...

and at 1.79 i think LIVERPOOL are a lay...

personally i'd have them at 2.2 so i've got to lay them at 1.79...

that's a fair point tbh kingmambo...

Matty isn't on a gravy train.

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ever thought of a saturday night slot on itv brother...?

Good evening, HappyHibby.

Have you had an enjoyable first day at the big meeting?

having an opinion is fine brother but 'MATTY's' c0cky delivery does NOT endear him to people like me tbh...

I'm only joking bruv, I was poking Barry Grant who is poss Matt or one off his bessies.

good evening TRS...

i do NOT bet on horse racing these days...i have lost faith in it tbh....

no probs brother...

calm down calm down...!!!!

I'm not anyone pal. I wish I had Mattys cash.

I must admit to being a touch emotional this evening, HappyHibby.  The big meetings often remind me of the better times and in particular, our mutual good friend, Aceform.

Barry, are you a true scouser, (ie) an Evertonian.

For what it is worth i think that Everton wont lose tonight.

I lost a lot of money and I have been lying low. I hope you are well mate.

I am a scouser. I live in Everton but Im a red mate. I think it will be 0-0 tonight.

you know me watchit...i ALWAYS believe in my OWN view...no disrespect to ANYONE...

you're view is well-founded but for me 1.79 is the wrong price therefore win lose or draw i'm happy to lay LIVERPOOL tonight...

i was chatting to ACEFORM last night TRS...

Im going to have a bet on something tomorrow but I haven't decided what yet. I'll get the money back but probably not from betting on horses.

How is the big man, HappyHibby?

I may have a tip for him tomorrow, if he would like it?

this won't finish 0-0 imv...

not with jamie carragher playing....

Make sure Matt hasn't tipped your selection before you back it Barry.

GL

fire away TRS...i will pass it on.

he is fine...

playing on the purple website these days...

I will do Mozoune. GL to you too mate.

there's no other way for me watchit....

what's the point in betting something just because a man on the telly told me to...?

that's just utter madness imv...

and i'm sure you agree with that.

I would have said 3-3 if we had Coates in the side and Carroll wasn't playing.

I wasn't chasing watchit I just had lots of bets that lost.

you never stop learning watchit....

and when you make a boo boo it's important to learn from it tbh...

Can't believe Liverpool are so short..Liverpool is a lay for me too..draw at best for them I feel..good luck gents..

win lose or draw they are an awful price colonel...

very very tough game watchit....

Liverpool are closer(points wise)to the bottom team than they are manure..

carragher has been finished for 2 years imv watchit...

when you lose your pace you're in trouble...

just look at rio ferdinand...

I've had enough of Suarez. He may well go and score a hattrick tonight on my form but he's let me down. I stuck up for him then he did that handshake thing. I've shaken hands with fellas I'd like to drown. You just do it to be polite. I hope he goes to Paris or Milan or whoever wants him.

Matt is bullish with his opinions. I don't think anyone should be criticised for giving opinions. It's not like anyone was saying Matt was way off the mark before the races. I prefer opinionated to fence sitting, myself.

he is way too c0cky cider.

that's fine if you are spot on.

but when you get it badly wrong it makes you look a little foolish.

a little HUMILITY wouldn't go amiss tbh...

Knott made himself a laughing stock criticising the handicapper for raising the horse beyond 140 when he had just admitted telling Geraghty not to worry last time because he had 2 stone in hand (horse later put up 15lb). Doesn't come across as full of integrity but should fit in within racing circles.

just watched owner on sporting life after race


fookin brilliant! delighted for him!

sounds like he wants to skin the bookies

and what a performance, couldnt have hunt ball with the weight but absolutely delighted he won, top stuff!

He was quite self depricating on the atr preview show at times. I'm not a big fan of Matt or anything like that, but it's easy after the event.
It's all too easy for connections to crow after things go their way.

knott is the one laughing not tho treetop and i for one am delighted for him.

why not give matt some stick, he owns the horse and was obv hurt when matt said his horse couldnt win so no harm in putting matt back in his place once in a while!

well if i had a horse i obv loved and a tipster was on saying it had no chance i would jump at the chance to put them in their place once the beast has gone on and won and it didnt just win , it absolutely hacked up. prob the easiest winner of the day!

He may laugh but he has shot himself in the foot big time for being a loudmouth bussy. Couldnt give a monkey's myself as I rarely bet on jumps but he will end up eating humble pie,its just the way of the world.

Is this the same Matt Williams who worked for the Racing Post, where he was asked to do an article on Exchange shops, liked what he saw and soon after resigned to become a fast picture thief and now calls himself a Professional Gambler?

of course he has but he was obv just so excited. its nice to actually see some emotion from someone. he too put his neck on the chopping block and he was 100% spot on both times. he was actually honest with punters and told the public the horse was better than his mark and anyone that listened got paid out.

i dont listen to trainers but this guy obv knows what hes looking at.

quite refreshing to see it actually. the exact opposite happening in the 3rd with jonjos horse, quiet run after quite run, horses not being put in races, drifting and nout said about it.

im delighted for the man, one of the last few honest men in this godforsaken game who actually gave the public information and more importantly was spot.

yes that  is him!

If Knott and Matt met they would have a laugh about it, it's all good fun and a great part of the sport. I tried to take on Frankel in the guineas ffs, if Prince Khaleed had come in my local and said "have some of that brother you silly fecker" it would have been brilliant.

I'm more aiming at the people who sit in judgement without offering an opinion of their own. Fair play if some can quote their posts writing that Matt was way off the mark for taking on Hunt Ball for the place. He did say he was laying the place because he would either handle the track or he wouldn't.

Agreed ILWAB, it was great stuff today.

well yes thats fair enough cider. i dont really critisise matt, u will see many posts on here from me recently saying i would be laying sprinter sac as i had doubts the hill and i stuck by that and i thought i had a fair argument. i was wrong, what can ya do. as far as im concerned, his odds on backers were guessing and on this occasion they happened to be right!

i hate fence sitters but i also hate people who get visably annoyed when u dont agree with them even when u have a fair argument. i found this the case with many SS backers on here tbh. then when he won , they came on bragging like they have somehow spotted this great talent before anyone and re posting old comments with 'dont say u were warned, he is a MONSTER' etc, an 8/11 shot on the day lets not forget

they all think they are the messiahs now god love them!

Liverpoo are all over Everton like a cheap suit ...

What with it being a derby and all...

He may laugh but he has shot himself in the foot big time for being a loudmouth bussy. Couldnt give a monkey's myself as I rarely bet on jumps but he will end up eating humble pie,its just the way of the world.

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he's won a race at cheltenham with a horse rated 69 when it started winning.

no need for any humble pie being eaten tbh...

sounds like liverpool are winning comfortably watchit...?

just got in from shopping...

i'm watching inter milan tbh watchit...

i can see the liverpool game being a bit dull tbh...

night night...

Well played watchit....

did you trade out at 1-0 watchit...?

I can't get on with it,I asked how to get rid and I don't think you can watchit..goodnight and good luck for tommorow..

ilwab,was looking for that anthony knott interview on sporting life,cant find it,any chance of the link?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xbI3xXsroE&feature=plcp&context=C4da36e9VDvj...

just watch the race mate and it will come up at the end!

Cheers lads,Watchit thats whats made me want to listen to the interview,

ive no doubt Matt will have came out on top today,he'll tell us how he layed Hurricane Fly in running,and how he backed Hunt Ball at made up odds in running

well played watchit.

"Some Liverpudlian bloke,aint got a clue what he's talking about"

Summed him up beautifully there tbf,had to laugh when he said they picked the wrong race,"he should be in the gold cup"

as thommo would say,Whao,Steady on big fella

"Some Liverpudlian bloke,aint got a clue what he's talking about"

That might not be Matty he was talking about. Well done to anyone who won on the football. It was nice for Stevie tonight.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/03/13/article-2114579-1226DC2D000005DC-5...

Hard to believe lots of people commenting on this thread watched the same Cheltenham preview as me.

Matt Williams said it was entirely conceivable Hunt Ball could win but he'd be prepared to lay it for a place on the basis the one time it had gone left-handed this season it had been beaten.

Clearly, that defeat at Plumpton - when, incidentally, Hunt Ball was running off a mark almost 3st lower than the one he won off yesterday - was attributable to something and, at the odds, Matt was prepared to take a chance it may have been the way around they were going.

With the benefit of hindsight, it now looks more likely it was the heavy going. However, unlike all the after-timers on this thread, Matt didn't have the benefit of being able to watch yesterday's race before proffering his opinion.

i didn't watch ANY cheltenham preview and quite honestly i don't understand why ANYONE would tbh...

i was only asking who anthony knott was talking about as he didn't name the expert pundit himself...

watchit, I have just come across this thread and am a bit surprised

re. your comments about Aldi, I shop there once a week and I can

honestly say that for Orange Juice, free range Chicken, various Cheeses

amongst many other things the quality in my view is 1st class and the

savings are considerable.   By the way when I have bought my few things

at Aldi my next stop is Marksies where I admit the quality is good but

the prices are sky high.   Good luck with your punting I for one will

not be investing a copper coin at Cheltenham cant stand the place these

days all the hype does my head in.

watchit, you should try Aldi and whilst you are at it, if there is one close to you

pop into Farm Foods, some of there prices are very competitive especially Milk.

Glad you like Cheltenham used to love it myself and for thirty years never missed

going to the Festival, but for the last ten years or so the place has been taken

over by cant and hype and I just cant be arsed with it. Good luck once again.

i was in farmfoods the other day and bought a chocolate pudding and a sticky toffee pudding for a dinner party i am having on good friday...

Good morning Hibby, would you agree that some of their prices are terrific

four tins of Heinz tomato soup £2 same soup four tins in Morrisons £3.40.

TESCO get plenty off me tbh watchit...

i got a polo neck top in there the other night for £2.

just what you need for a cold winter's night...

watchit Farm Foods 6 pints of Milk 90 pence 6 pints in Asda £1.60 that is some

saving for a family with kids who go through gallons of Milk each week.

good morning wee eck...

i'd say they are well-priced on the whole.

i think you can get 2 big cartons of milk for £1.80 atm...

TOFFEEPOPS are 2 packs for £1.50...

generally speaking i agree with you wee eck...well worth a visit for watchit...

Hibby, before my youngest daughters (twins) left home to go to Uni

we were shopping in Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Tesco and Marksie and

spending around £160 per week on the average shop, since the Girls

have been living away we have discovered shops like Aldi and Farm

Foods and we are eating like Lords for not much more than £70 per week.

it's always the neck area that lets the cold in watchit...

a long-sleeved polo neck is VITAL during the winter imv...

i think i've got 4 now.

3 black and 1 brown...

every penny counts wee eck...

nowt wrong with the shops you mention at all...

at the same time nowt wrong in treating yourself at M&S occasionally too...

anyway best go lads...got a fence to paint...

Anthony Knott back in the sport today, owns Golden Keeper which runs in the 6-00 at Wolverhampton.

he appears on Luck On Sunday this morning.

who was this"watchit"HappyHibby seems to be talking to..?