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Oh yeah big time, as i said ages ago its Athletics that would of seen a considerable drop off by the simple logic old people love it and a lot would of died off. The 60/70/80/90 year olds didn't have much choice of what to watch growing up, my generation and this one have had endless sports to navigate too.
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The trouble with the market its stuck in the past, the historical data proves Athletics is major player in winning this award but its 2024 and sport is now mega wide stream and plentiful in choice of what live sport you can watch.
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Committed fans are f1 and darts. Nobody follows letics, so you're relying on a big spoty audience which is a thing of the past.
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Keely's big problem is although the other Olympians looks weak on paper as in there sport compared to the strength of the track historically. There stories are actually really good, none of them are gonna have a weak VT, tight finishes and comebacks.
This has to be one of the weakest specials favs in a very long time, as most have won in recent times. If ever Timmy wanted to go biggest max red ever, this is the one he's been waiting for lol |
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Nobody follows letics
9 million tuning in to watch her win her gold? - and that's also more than tuned in for other Olympic events so she was even preferred over other events there.. |
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Thanks for the thought but I'm feeling quite pleased with myself, having her, Luke and Nando (and Emma!) reasonable greens, max red the field. Not following the events themselves, just playing the market, I know I don't know enough to take a view, so happy enough. For now at least, but plenty of time left to phuck it up!
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Lando looking great here. The consolation for max is mercedes look awful, he should reach 5th
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But that could still be 15+ defecit on the weekend
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Oscar could do a cracking turn as a psycho baddie in a horror film
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stu as ive said, i go in 1000's of pubs yearly and its standard to have the tv on the big event of the time. Every business in the country would of had the games on in the BACKGROUND, pubs, restaurants, hotel lobbies etc the figures are skewed. It was standard for it to be on !! its not real figures like a christmas special where everyone switches to a certain channel to watch only fools and horses at home lol
The quote of 9 million can't be taken at face value, its probably still a decent number from households and people ACTUALLY watching but take the background business's out, where the pub is not busy and no one is watching and its lower. Surely your're intelligent enough to understand its not really 9 million lol Also as ive had to bring this up again, say a business has multiple tv's like pubs often have 5/10 tv's. Would that count as 1 or 10 viewers ??????????? |
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Had a top up on Lando myself, there bloody car looks turbocharged lol. Although Ferrari are hinting they have something up there sleeve for the main race. The track is awfully bumpy and every driver is complaining its not a good drive, for this reason a safety car looks a total certainty. Especially as there is a hint of rain for Sunday !
As it stands right now Lando is looking like making up anything between 12 and 18 points, which will shake the market to the core. |
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Tim
Sounds like you've played this market well from the sidelines, its sad not to see your usual confident self, taking a weak fav on. Keely is the worst fav ive seen in ages. A massive split vote to overcome, someone who couldn't be bothered to attend the closing ceremony with the rest of the team. If Lando pulls of this miracle, she won't stand any chance of beating him either and you have the added back up of the wonder kid Littler. Your're only hear once, its not a dress rehearsal....MAX RED the fav, its a bookie's job. Don't dishonour your bloodline !! |
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Ferrari have been the best on tyre wear of late, so yeah that could be an equaliser for sure
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Yeah, tim has been kidnapped and replaced by a bot imo. Backing the bb fav too
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army - yes, of course I realise it doesn't translate to 100%.
If it did she'd record the highest amount of votes in any TV competition ever I reckon  But the point is it only needs to be a smaller proportion of those that were actually watching in order to register a huge vote in this year's SPOTY. |
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Trying to get poor Tim to risk his max red, really! He knows better on this one
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lol
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When me and Tim join forces were unbeatable, thats why i want him on board
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Fair enough, Tim's a force of specials nature to have onside for sure!
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Forecast changed for GP since i looked this moring, rain looks a certainty for race atm and for todays sprint as well
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Benefits max for sure
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Most interesting is we have the worst starter in Lando starting in the worst place on the grid in position 2.
Can see Charles and Max sprinting for that gap to sneak past Lando, i'd be surprised if one didn't. ofc Mclaren could play a really risky move and let Lando get past Oscar as he holds the inside line stopping the other two making a move. |
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The other big factor to take into consideration is how are the cars gonna hold up to this very bumpy track over a lot of laps
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oh 2nd on grid has the inside line, surely even easier for Oscar to let him through then
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Ferrari race pace is not there, Max could get 3rd tomorrow
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If Oscar has to keep moving over like that, especially in a race where he's gifting 7 points to Lando i can't see these die hard petrol heads voting Oscar for SPOTY. Its very meh and a sh1t way to win a world title, lacks motivation to vote for someone who doesn't really deserve it for winning off his back !!
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Lando for spoty** lol
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ffs Max, gonna probably drop to 4th and give 3 points up now. 44 points the gap its looking like
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Max's new engine looks canny, reducing the gap on last week
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Though it's the hards where he's struggled
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Yeah race pace he looks quickest and if it rains he will be looking for the win lol
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The weakened engine compounded the whole running of the car, including the hard tyre performance is what i read
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I love how army has become a F1 expert in just a month
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Max is a total bellend, 5 second pen drops him to 4th. Thats 5 points he's give away in two races for being angry and impatient.
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lol bear, i'm getting right into it. Not actually sure its normally this exciting to watch though, bit of a weird 2nd half to a season.
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He also received a penalty point on his licence, so upto 7 points.
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P1ssing down in Brazil, delay for qualy
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Gonna be tomorrow innit, be dark soon
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All good news for max, bring on the rain.
And he looks surprisingly good anyway and |
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Leave it to the expert brushy
Gonna happen in 17mins, Ferrari have prepared for wet conditions all along so this will be very interesting |