Like A Roughie

Hi to everyone.
Alas i've not posted since October 12th due to being rushed to hospital with a severe Pancreas condition , i've unfortunately hit my 80th consecutive day at the hospital today.
Also unfortunate to being too ill to even think about using a computer so basically that's the fundamental and only reason for not posting on this great site.
I'm now starting to get back to some normality by actually looking at sports betting which is always a good measure of improvement and feeling a bit nearer normal despite losing 35lb in weight whilst in hospital.
Fully intend to start posting on all competitions again from Jan 1st although my release from hospital is likely to be around the 12th of Jan.
Apologies to MCCLARKE and all the guys running the other comp's for abstaining all this time as i fully appreciate all the hard work that goes with running all these competitions.
See you all again from Saturday , belated Merry Xmas and have a great New Year.

We'll take a one week break
There are a number of postponements in the English leagues, Scottish Prem matches are all off and only French cup and Spanish matches scheduled in the European league.
Things should hopefully be back to a more normal scheduled list of matches weekend of 8th Jan.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU

The English and Scottish League matches are (currently) scheduled for this weekend but there are no European matches.   Additionally there's a second batch of matches scheduled for 28th/29th/30th which includes some Portuguese Liga ones.  
As it seems likely that more games will fall to postponements I'd like to give as much choice as possible so I'm going to give the option of both sets of matches and the Portuguese ones for this game week. 
I will need you to indicate clearly which game you are picking as many teams will appear twice.  Preferably use Team A v Team B format and quote the odds to make it completely clear.  If you only show one team name and no distinguishing odds I will default the bet to the first game that team plays.   You are allowed to pick the same team for both its matches in your combination if you wish.
For this week there will be no penalty for a 'no show'.  If you prefer not to play this week, for instance if you normally pick from the European matches and would rather not risk your bank with unfamiliar matches, you are under no risk of elimination from the competition. 
Deadline is Sunday even if you are picking from the second batch of games.
Hope this is OK for you all.  I'm keen to get a week in whilst it is feasible in case we end up with a firebreak week.  Wish me luck settling the bets!
Happy Christmas to everyone! ? ? ?

Happy Christmas to you too Michael and very many thanks for all your effort this year and in particular for your mammoth catch-up following your unfortunate stay in hospital.  Very well done indeed.

As in previous years the Naps competition will be taking a break in line with that taken by the BHA. There is no UK or Irish racing on Thursday, Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
May I take this opportunity to wish you all a happy Christmas and a prosperous and healthy new year.

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As per last year there will be a Christmas Tipsters competition.
There is racing on terrestrial TV for 3 days from Boxing day onwards so I suggest we use these for the competition. At the moment this gives us 21 races.
Rules:
1 selection per race throughout the competition Bets settled to £1 level stakes - WIN Only Bets settled at SP Highest accumulative total over the competition wins £60 cash (via PayPal) Runner Up wins £25 and the third place wins £15, all prizes via your PayPal account No edits allowed in selection posts Losses incurred for losers Replacement selections for NRs can be posted but must be before the first race deadline All Bets must be posted prior to the first race each day (no exceptions) Leader-board posted each evening A minimum of 14 bets is required to qualify for any prizes Only bets on that day's thread will be included, bets posted eleswhere will not be included All welcome, good luck.

15.05....can't have them running with headlamps now, can we?

I'll stick with the obvious and probably see me and half the field in the consolation next week
Man City

Finally up to date.
Thank you for your patience over the last few weeks.

Well done rolandcooper for winning the November competition with 125/1 winner ? 
Has anyone got two 66 /1 winners up their sleeve ? ?

@MCLARKE , you are do a sterling job. It is interesting to see the tables developing. Appreciate your efforts.

Apologies for delay in getting the tables up for leg 1.  Fortunately it's International Break weekend this week so our next leg isn't due until the following weekend.  Tables will be up soon.
 

Hope you feeling better soon mate?

Great to have you back Michael; I've been very worried about you

Here are the odds for the first week of our new season so that you can start studying.
I'll confirm the new Divisons and put up the selection threads Thursday night.  Entries are now closed so we have 125 players this season which we will do in 8 Divisions.  I was maybe a bit ambitious running a 10 week season to start us off but as far as I can tell there are now 25 playable weeks left so we'll go with 9 this time and then two 8 weeks, subject to change if fixtures move significantly.

Cheers @Like A Roughie that was a close one. I had no idea my bet would get me to 1st place, just hoped to get into top 3
 
well played everyone 

Thanks @avongirl and others for continuing to run such a great comp.
that win must be one of the latest and closest as nice scored in added time for my bet to win and I got ahead of likearoughie by £2.06 in the end 
well played all

Prize winners, please can you Message me on here with your PayPal email address and I will collate and pass on to Kayla who will arrange the payments.  Also top 5 please send me your address so we can post out the PL merchandise (mug and pens) if you'd like it.  To Message, either hover over my name and click the Message envelope which comes up bottom left, or click the envelope at the top of the forum page.  If you're a previous winner feel free to tag it onto our last messages and just confirm if details are still the same.  If I don't hear from you in a couple of days I'll message you in case you're struggling with the technology!
Well done everyone   Please allow a couple of weeks for payments as I'll wait a few days to hopefully send the whole list off together, then Kayla needs to work through it.  Merchandise is shipped from our suppliers so may take longer.   If you aren't in the UK we'll do our best to get them to you, but there are shipping restrictions from our supplier and unfortunately in some cases it might not be possible.
Thank you and well done!
 
DIV 1  @Chris P £75.  @Like A Roughie £45.  @adamross £25.
DIV 2  @NickJones1 £60.  @Kingdom for £40.  @nawoo £20.
DIV 3  @patriciamarc £50.  @luckypants £30.  @Marek76 £20.
DIV 4  @Pempi £40.  @skyblues88 £25.  @MABS £15.
DIV 5  @Soi Bongkot £30.  @Balearic_Beats £20.  @u1905068 £10.
DIV 6  @chillymonster £25.  @Sugardaddyken £15.  @Baracca £10.
DIV 7  @Alastair £20.  @corky £10.
DIV 8  @fischer21 £20.  @MrForce £10.
DIV 9  @andellio £20.  @Redphil57 £10.
Top 5 Overall  @Soi Bongkot  @fischer21  @chillymonster  @Pempi  @patriciamarc  PL Mug & Pens.
 

Here are the final results of all your 10 week efforts!
Not many winning bets for our final week (15) however most of them were 3-figure wins and nearly every winning bet resulted in the player earning a prize money place in the top positions of their league.  Bet of the week goes to @nawoo who went half bank on Palace at 18/1   followed by @Marek76 with a 16/1 treble, @chillymonster 11/1 treble and @Chris P 10/1 treble.
Massive congratulations to our overall winner @Soi Bongkot who has had 7 winning bets over the 10 weeks and held the number one spot for 8 weeks.
Thank you to everyone who played and completed the season.  In total 25 players were eliminated for no shows (from 139 starters) so we will be a more select bunch of hardy players looking to stay the course for next season.    
I'll tag our winners in a separate post.
 

One big winner and a change to the top 3