***SPOTY 2014 - Forum top 3 POLL ***

Hamilton
Pavey
McIlroy

Hamilton
McIlroy
Pavey

McIlroy
Hamilton
Bale

Pavey
Hamilton
McIlroy

Very transparent thread

1.01 It's got nothing to do with predicting the top 3

I'll go

1. Hamilton (motivated petrolhead numpty vote)
2. McIlroy (proper sports fan vote who won't vote, vote and old timers who won't vote, vote.  enough will prolly still vote to make it close especially as there is a golf writer's plea for votes)
3. A country mile back to like no one cares (only wet blankets will vote for Pavey and I'm a hardcore athletics fan) Mebbe thats enough for third but this isn't a reality show.

1st hammy
2nd rory
3rd Dujardin

1 bale
2 pavy
3 dead heat lewis and rory

1. Hamilton
2. McIlroy
3. Pavey I hope

I backed Jo Pavey to win ages ago, at odds a bit lower than she is now..., before Hamilton looked likely to win F1. I have a little on top 3 to get my money back.

The scheduling of XFactor at the same time will sadly go against her I fear, as the SPOTY audience will include less casual voters who would pick up on her story....so no surprise if Bale sneaks 3rd.

TTT - anymore ? Close it at 7pm

Hamilton
Bale
Mcilroy

1 Mcilroy
2 froch
3 hamilton

McIlroy
Hamiltion
Pavey

this is usually spot on and alwazs picks the right winner ever year

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/sports-personality-of-the-year/11291917/Sports-Personality-2014-Who-should-win.html

This year Hamilton wins

***POLL CLOSED****

1st Hamilton (28.5)
2nd rory (20.5)
3hrd pavey (13)
4th bale (7)
5th froch (2)
6th dujardin (1)

Limited but t3 spot on

well mug & well done Horse

Thanks bear...I'm sure I grabbed that prediction early though from some of you.

The Overall poll got it spot on too

Sorry forgot to say , well done to horse,Clyde,Kevin - spot on .
Forum wins again

I think the Hamilton, Pavey, McIlroy 1,2,3 were the moral winners

personally, those laying rory for top three @0.02 were the moral winners, without the double pimp he could have slipped to fourth

I laid him top 2 @ 1.04

True. Would have been Hamilton, Pavey, Dujardin, without the bias

ul bear

that's brutal. UL bear

Still amazed with the vote numbers

Thanks fig, that softens the blow considerably

XfCtor another night , Rory would of struggled ,
Don't get 1.02 backers in a reality show myself , even though they won tonight

np mate always here to offer words of comfort. unlike you with poor old stoney on sofabet

The GB public are awful.

I used to like Stoney, but he got a bit carried away with himself

Some people just get too up themselves

I didn't read it much, but when I did he seemed a decent guy. If a little too enthusiastic at times

Only himself to blame tbf. He had plenty of chances to take a profit on Fleur

can see a Calzaghe like backlash next year

Best man won. The BBC bias was dreadful

when Mr Lumpy came in at 1.47 I laid some of that thinking that was short.  Had to go in again at 1.39 1.31 1.18 and 1.11.  The market kept telling me I was an idiot.

Better than being called an aftertimer i guess

ooo harsh as I made several posts that I was on Hamilton

The money was relentless on Rory , there was obv knowledge that he had pimp and money followed that .
The fact he went so short b4 voting opened was mad .
However up till last 5 mins it was still pouring in ,and at this time I thought it stunk ,
How wrong was that

I'm only joking

I want to go to bed but sky are covering the siege in Sydney and i'm hooked

then again I'm not one of the private members stripey blazer club so I'm used to taking flack

Yep, clearly people backing knowing the pimpage that Rory was going to get, but good that the vote didn't leak

Froch and Gallacher backed for buttons for top 3 at exactly the same time.  More than one person knew.

Big lump on McIlroy was clearly one individual.  Mebbe they laid off or mebbe they did their brains.

Dec 14, 2014 -- 6:24PM, CLYDEBANK29 wrote:

Big lump on McIlroy was clearly one individual.

just seen the result - a massive pile of garbage - how many kids can go out and play in a formula one car - golf isnt universally accessible but jesus christ, being the best at that is far more difficult than the petrol schit

What makes you think it was one person Clyde? Would they not have tried to be more inconspicuous? Looked like a group of people and lemmings falling over themselves to catch some free money, sub 1.2 before the lines opened from 1.6 despite polls saying it was pro Lewis, the order saying pro Rory. I think it was lemmings getting carried away with the show bias.

Hamilton won his thing a couple of weeks ago, McIlroy, ages ago, and long forgotten. Swap the timings, and who knows?

andy the initial plunge was one person.  From then on I doubt it but who knows?

someone stuck £5k up at 1.48 or 1.47 creating a big free money arb as the lay side hit 102%.  From that point on the market just collapsed

felt like it was the same person dropping his offer to me at least initially as when lumps had appeared before the price was rebounding, so it would take deep pockets and a big bank to get it really going

Sub-3.0 pre-show, out to 9+ in-running, based on nothing more than R/O and a bit of pimping. Just another day in the crazy world of Specials.

Dec 14, 2014 -- 6:45PM, FatherMaguire wrote:

just seen the result - a massive pile of garbage - how many kids can go out and play in a formula one car - golf isnt universally accessible but jesus christ, being the best at that is far more difficult than the petrol schit

Father are you suggesting and judging that the golfer had the best achievement of the year and should be given the award directly? If so, perhaps you would consider that only one world record was set by those shortlisted and that was by Adam Peaty in the 50m Breaststroke in the European Swimming Championships in Berlin. If the award must be given by default to the 'best achievement', surely Adam would receive it having achieved something no other human being has ever achieved. Fortunately as we are not in North Korea, this award is run on a democratic basis in that once an invited panel of experts have concluded their deliberations and chosen a final shortlist of 10, the public are then allowed to participate and vote for the person or persons worthy of receiving their vote or votes. It then becomes extremely simple in that the person with the third highest number of votes is announced in third place, the person with the second highest number of votes is announced as the runner-up and the person with the most votes is announced as the winner - it really is a simple concept that most can understand. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't beleive they make any allowances for the participation numbers of children, though I do understand go-karting is exceedingly popular with the young these days thanks to the F1 stars. Were you saying something about hitting a stationary ball?

I use to love these forum polls