The arrogance here is astonishing.  FWIW, it might be a "specials" market but that doesn't make it any different from anything else.  Anyway, my record is on here.  I don't wish to enter into aimless squabbling.

SPOTY is generally a massive end of year sporting showpiece which mainly attracts sporting types who watch. brownlee breaks the mould with what he did and he will attract far more casuals and non-sporting types into watching and voting for him. blinded by a tartan wearing haggis won't wash down south mate

yeah, no doubt he'll get 400,000 but if sinfield can get 270,000 from a fairly low profile point of view regarding his target audience. brownlee's campaign will see him doubling or tripling sindfields tally imo. sinfield hit home with rugby loving parts of the UK. brownlee's appeal will be nationwide. skelton is not out of it, as he will get every horse lover in the land and will dominate rural voting area's. you can blow your andy foghorn loud as u like, i'll use a bit of common sense. just coz scots are very passionate, it does not mean the rest of the UK is not..they just need more motivating, which AB and NK provide in vast quantities

murray got 360,000 and 400,000 in previous winning years. no way he tops that this year, as its an olympic and very competitive year but only a campaign can beat him..that's a certainty surely. i fully expect him to get around 300,000 to 350,000. all the value remains with AB and NS

he'll get well over 500k this year.

not a chance, he only got 400,000 for winning wimbldon in a p1ss weak year

let's wait and see.  Judging by the twitter reaction I wouldn't be surprised with 70% of the vote share and c.750k.  World #1 is huge.  Every newspaper has a story on it already and most note he's already won SPOTY.

straw clutching.  Would take something incredibly huge campaign wise for Brownlee to get anywhere near Murray let alone beat him.

If you had any conviction in what you were saying I'd expect to see you hammer that 5.x avaialble on Brownlee until it disappeared

no comment about yorkshire's population being the same as scotland then ?

Because 5.x is huge value still if you believe in what you are saying.

my bets are of no concern too you, worry about your own book is my advice. you scots sure do love andy lol

I think it's quite telling that you say one thing on here but don't back it up - that indicates to me you don't really believe what you are saying.

To be fair if Murray hadn't had such as stellar end to 2016 you'd have probably have made a fortune - if you backed in the 500's - my advise would be to lay the hell out if it now or back Murray - I suspect you are doing though.

there's some really weak minded individuals who play this market, i suggest they try sitting through a series of big brother..then they might grow a set of balls. murray wins f all, no-one in england wants too see the boring arrogant jock win a 3rd time in 4 years. no matter what he's done this year

of course they will, trying too play it safe following favs. its being able too identify weak favs that's the key too winning consistently. this award was never designed for one person to win it 3 times in 4 years. in a perfect world the public would get a different winner every year. i cannot see for one minute all of his voters last year, re-voting or wanting him too win again. whether that's 1%, 5%, 20% of them or whatever. he'll have his decent core vote, but im willing too say he won't beat last years tally of 361,000

PS I'm not Scottish.

the first reality tv show i remember was opportunity knocks

folks voted by post, you expected a different winner but last weeks winner
got to perform last

popular champions could win for several weeks by having best spot
and an established vote

murray has both of those already !

Murray wins another tournament - getting boring this innit.