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***SPOTY 2015 starts & ends here***
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women watch tennis because the guys have six packs and um bcheeks that could crush walnuts.....Murray is an ugly geek but still gets the benefit of lust by association
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George bailey - here you go:
Murray: - won the Davis Cup - Failed to win anything else he was equally prepared to, key member of team (didn't have to carry a baby or mother a child afterwards as part of prep) Ennis-Hill - Won World gold in a contest of 7 different events. Only one year earlier gave birth. Sport riddled with drugs doesn't mean everyone involved is. |
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Told you too many words to make your case....voting is about gut not brains
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Muzza won 4 tour titles and rose to his highest end of year ranking ever, in a golden age of tennis
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Muzza won 4 titles - none recognisable for this argument, that's like me saying Ennis-Hill won her warm-up races
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If she had carried the sprog on her back in every event even I would vote for her...anyway I'm sick of her and that sausage dog
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You started it, lol
Nothing matters other than 5 million women watching Muzza triumph for GB . Less than 2m watched Jess beat a very weak field |
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did jess have any warm up races ?
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Plus he did it recently and viewers have short memories...that's why GB drives round in a rolls royce...laying the new fav after each new event pre November. Keep meaning to do it each year but forget.
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Aside from sporting achievement I think Murrays major advantage over the others is that he is simply the most famous and well known British Sportsman since Beckham...
None of the other contenders even come close to Murrays public profile im a big Rugby Union fan but i dont follow league at all and I had never even heard of Kevin Sinfield until recently.. |
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The viewing figures is an interesting point, but that doesn't necessarily mean the ratio of votes would be the same. I'm not saying she will win, nor am I knocking Murray's achievement but he was more likely to be successful in the Davis Cup than Ennis-Hill was to win Gold at the World Championships. 2012 Was more impressive for Muzza, Olympic Gold and Wimbledon, with all the pressure of the nation. This year is no comparison for him, as opposed to Ennis Hill who, yet again won Gold but with the odds against her.
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Murray 1.5
Ennis 1.58 Sinfield 6 Fury 5.7 Hamilton 3 Lowest price matched. Why bother with anything else? |
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She wasn't the favourite, I know that much. hard to know now, although I know that Great Britain were 6/4 favs going into the Semis....
to put things into perspective, it was only last November when it was reported that she couldn't lift a 20 kilo bar above her head as her body had still to recover from the rigours of childbirth. |
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20 kilo bar
ffs the kid wouldnt be any where near 20kilo, so whats she doing in a bar? |
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We need to work out who has had the most kids and give the award to them
 she slaps up well, but as a cheat we need to kick Jess off the list  The Russians involved in the latest scandal operated on such a large scale that they can only have been acting in what they thought was the national interest. At least it was not as bad as the worst excesses of the Soviet era. The low point came in 1968. The Soviet Union had to deal with an uprising in Czechoslovakia, which would lead to a military invasion of Prague in August. The Olympic Games in Mexico City took place in October and the last thing Moscow wanted was for the mighty Soviet team to be beaten by the Czechs in any contest. The best female gymnast at the time was a Czech, Vera Caslavska. To counter Caslavska and her team-mates, the Soviets took extreme measures. “In any other country it would have been called rape,” one of the Soviet coaches said a quarter of a century later, after one of the gymnasts had told a German television interviewer what happened. Doctors had discovered that pregnant women could gain an advantage in muscle power, suppleness and lung capacity, because they produced more red blood cells. So all the gymnasts, two of whom were 15 at the time, were forced to become pregnant before the Olympics: if they did not have a husband or boyfriend, they were made to have sex with a male coach. Anyone who refused was thrown off the team. After 10 weeks of pregnancy every gymnast had an abortion. They won the team gold medal by a fraction of a point, with Czechoslovakia second. |
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GB were best price 33/1 rags in the high street before the 1st round
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great post whizz kids but is there anything you got right ?
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polls were spot on last year whizz
they just attract anyone that happens to read the page |
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most of them have fury ahead of jess
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muzza 552
fury. 454 jess 380 hammy 303 froome 297 telegraph |
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ap getting the lifetime award
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it would be so funny for bbc if fury won...
they would be furyous  |
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need to ensure muzza has pimp ;)
give the team award to them during the voting window, but then all say it was all muzza really ;) |
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flash up tyson hates jocks on the screen in gaelic
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vote jess get fury
vote sin get fury vote ham get fury |
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If jess ennis could not win in 2012 the year she won the London Olympic gold then id say its surely less likely she would win this time
Jess is always there or thereabouts in SPOTY but unlike her exploits on the track never manages to come first Murray wont be in Singapore either...he will be in Belfast picking up the award |
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good spot bardo lol
muzza in the studio could add 10% to his vote fury's phoneline may not be the most reliable imo |
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George B..The only thing that worries me about Jess is that she might get the women and sympathy vote for being a new mum and all that.
In 2012 can you lot remember just how much publicity Ennis got that summer she was always in the papers and on the telly.. before , during and even after the Olympic games so if she could not win when her public profile was at its very highest and her sporting achievement was far greater than this year..then that really suggests less chance this time it will be interesting to see if Jess meets Fury after his sexist comments about her I think Furys interview will be comedy gold...Imagine Claire Balding has to interview him !!!!.. Fury will come out with a line like... " hello, your a big lass....I heard you have a wife !! " |
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Actual numbers from 2012 were....
Wiggins. 492k Ennis. 372k Murray. 230k Ennis on the back of her Olymoic gold,Murray being the first UK male to win a Grand Slam tournament in 76 years. This year we have Ennis winning World Championship Gold,Burnham with the added vote booster of returning from having a child,and Murrsy virtually single-handedly winning the DC for the first time for GB.Only other viable alternatives seem to be a Sinfield campaign vote,or a Fury popularity + anti-establishment / anti-PC vote. I think it's reasonable to make a case for any of the 4 winning. |
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I really should check my posts for the predictive texts changes
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#dontblameyourphone
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Who cares about SPOTY it's all about FOTY
Do you think someone can ask Betfair for a market? |
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Joe Root worlds best batsman not in the line up
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help m boab general!..us Jockanese dinna dae cricket!
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any queues outside phone boxes for muzza yet kenny?
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muzza must have a great chance..family man kid on the way middle english sport etc.
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