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Nice one ! I was a tad ambitious with this 70/1 betbuilder today. Near but yet so far.

After a few weeks being shown up by one of my sons having some very significant wins I tried to follow his example on the shots on target market and came close in midweek then had this win yesterday. Hoping for something similar today.

I thought Arsenal would destroy them last night - unfortunately United didn’t try to boot them off the park.

They should have but that would have meant that the ‘most goals in the 2nd half’ leg would have been gubbed anyway.

Well done to the two posters above. I would probably have had a winner too if Arsenal hadn’t missed a barrowload of chances 😒

Hopefully this wee run can last….cashed out the tenfold about 2 mins before Airdrie scored their second which could have resulted in a bigger payout.

Things can only get better.

Couple of nice cash outs yesterday to make it a nice start to the year. Tried also to get cash out on a bet on the Liverpool game but since my £3 stake included a 50p free bet it wasn’t an option - must remember in future to split my bet.

Know how you feel, I decided to go for over 2 goals in a number of the games today in the three lower Scottish leagues but unfortunately teams beginning with M let me down. Morton and Montrose were the culprits, especially Montrose since they missed a pen. Had 5 out of 6 twice, 6 out of eight and 8 out of 10 - would have been a nice end to the year if they had all come up.

Bit of a let down with the Scottish games but not in the EPL.

Decided not to risk it and cashed out at half time in the Leicester game after Hladky had made a couple of decent saves. Used the odds in the payout to go for all 5 games in Scotland tonight to have more than 2 goals.

Cashed this out with 3 matches already up by being 2 ahead. I thought Leicester were missing too many opportunities and I was right since Ipswich got a 93rd minute equaliser. Never thought for a minute that Villa would let a 2 goal lead slip too.

Good to get a couple of returns isn’t it. Only had a few cash outs in recent weeks that have barely returned my stake until yesterday. With 4 of the five already up early I decided to cash out since I didn’t trust Dundee to go 2 up.

Didn’t word why comment very well 😀 - what I couldn’t understand was why were they going via the Tay bridge since it isn’t the most direct route from Glasgow to Dundee.

I wondered that too and also couldn’t understand why were they held up on the Tay Bridge but it appears that they were travelling up from St Andrews presumably after staying the night there.

I got a message from Bet365 today to inform me that I had won a share of the £5000 prize pool for predicting 3 scores in their 6 Scores Challenge game at the weekend. My excitement didn’t last long since my share was the princely sum of £2 !

Here's the article - apologies for the formatting but the photos and adverts screw it up Mark O’Hara: People move on for money – but success is better St Mirren’s Mark O’Hara says squad don’t want to settle for merely breaking into Scotland’s top six Graeme Macpherson Sunday September 24 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times O’Hara is committed to St Mirren until 2026 VAGELIS GEORGARIOU/ACTION PLUS/SHUTTERSTOCK Football has always offered up this absurd idea that players and managers exist in an idyllic, insulated bubble, completely unaware of what is happening outside of their own training ground or stadium, like some kind of sporting equivalent of North Korea. Mark O’Hara, mercifully, is happy to debunk such a notion. When rumours, then, began to circle recently that Hibernian were training their sights on making Stephen Robinson their next manager following the sacking of Lee Johnson, the chatter didn’t go unnoticed inside the St Mirren dressing room. It would be no exaggeration to say that Robinson has transformed the Paisley club’s fortunes over the past 18 months, leading them to a first top-six finish for almost 40 years last season and then up to second in the table last weekend. Given the Northern Irishman has achieved all of this on a budget that is a fraction of many clubs in the division, it is little surprise that Hibs — and others — have been wondering whether he might just be able to replicate that formula for success with them. On this occasion, the Easter Road club chose to go down a different route, appointing Nick Montgomery instead, much to the St Mirren players’ relief. There will be other suitors soon enough, however, and O’Hara now sees it as a race against time. If St Mirren can continue on this trajectory towards regular finishes at the top end of the table, competing for trophies and European football, perhaps Robinson will not feel the need to move to quench his thirst for success. “When the manager was quoted for the last job, everyone was a bit nervous,” the St Mirren captain admits. “There was some talk about it in the changing room. People had said there hadn’t been any approach but the boys did fear a little bit. “With the success we’ve had there’s going to come interest from clubs with bigger budgets but why can’t we achieve our goals here? If we can win trophies and break records then success comes with that. People often move on for financial reasons but being successful is better than any of that. It’s a chance to create and do something special.” ‘real belief about the squad that we can achieve big things here,’ says O’Hara, right VAGELIS GEORGARIOU/ACTION PLUS/SHUTTERSTOCK It was a similar story for O’Hara in March this year. The former Kilmarnock, Dundee and Motherwell midfielder was only nine months into his first season with St Mirren but already felt so comfortable within his surrounds that he chose to extend his contract by an additional two years. Tied up now until 2026, the 27-year-old’s performances last season — that delivered a dozen goals, five of which came against Celtic or Rangers — earned him a clutch of Player of the Year awards and covetous glances from a number of interested parties. O’Hara was already favourable predisposed to St Mirren, coming from the neighbouring town of Barrhead, but it was the prospect of being able to fulfil his personal ambitions without having to switch clubs that persuaded him to prolong his stay. He makes no secret of the fact that he wants to conclude his career with more than just an English League Two winner’s medal with Lincoln City to his name. It makes Wednesday night’s Viaplay Cup quarter-final away to Hibs a potentially pivotal evening. “With the recruitment over the summer and the way we’ve started this season, it was a sign of intent that we’re not just settling for one season in the top six and that’s it,” he added. “There’s a real belief about the squad that we can achieve big things here. When I signed my new deal it was because I feel we can achieve something memorable here. “The fans, of course, can dream [about winning trophies and qualifying for Europe] because we as players are dreaming about that as well. You’d be lying if you said you weren’t. My dream this year would be to win a trophy. “It doesn’t seem unrealistic at the moment. We’ve got a massive game now on Wednesday. I’ve never been to Hampden as a player, having never got further than the quarter-finals. But you’ve got to dream that this will be the year, and we won’t fear anyone if we get there. “We’ve achieved good results over the last year against all of the teams still left in the competition. My goal has always been to win something in Scottish football and hopefully it’s here. I feel I’m just reaching my peak as a player and still have a lot to offer.” O’Hara is not one to shy away from articulating his ambitions. A former Scotland Under-19 and Under-21 international, the midfielder has been spoken about as someone who could yet force his way into the senior squad and it is not something he dismisses. “I’d be lying again if I said I didn’t dream of that,” he confirms. “I don’t know how close I’ve ever been but if I keep my head down and work hard then I’d hope I’d get noticed. Hopefully I’ve got a few years left to try to achieve that.” O’Hara is in the process of moving out of Barrhead, the East Renfrewshire town which made the news this week as the surprising choice of location for the first Scottish branch of the US takeaway chicken franchise Popeyes, causing traffic chaos for miles. It is another recent development, however, that has caught O’Hara’s eye, with St Mirren shirts popping up increasingly throughout the area off the back of the team’s success and the club’s willingness to promote their own fanbase ahead of serving others. “In my mum and dad’s street there are a few of the kids now out playing football and cutting about in St Mirren strips,” he reveals. “That’s a fairly new thing that has come with success but also with the club doing their bit, too. “You look at the decision to only give the Old Firm one stand when we play them. What a difference that makes as you saw last year. We’ve now got three stands of our own supporters really getting behind us in every game and you definitely notice it. “We’re hopefully inspiring a new generation of supporters. We’re seeing more younger fans at the matches because the team has been successful and that’s only going to help grow the club for years to come.”

Cashed out last night with 10 mins to go in the Shrewsbury game when it was 2-0 - Burton then scored in the 97th minute. Not complaining though.

Free £1 bet from Bet365 invested wisely tonight 🙂

I knew a bookie once who told me that betting on football in the first few or last few weeks of the season should be avoided due to chance of daft results. I got fed up betting odds-on shots that failed to deliver and switched a few years ago to put my bets on BTTS before going on to the over 2.5 goals market last season where a few early goals like yesterday can produce fairly decent cash out options. Also means that generally the bet stays live longer e.g. the score line in Perth yesterday probably burst a few coupons before the 50 minute mark was reached but I wasn’t complaining since it boosted the cash out option if I had decided to take when Stirlings third goal went in. I was pretty confident in the others (even Morton!) delivering in the later stages though so just waited and my patience paid off this time.

Nice wee start to the season !

Not a bet but had 3 correct in Bet365s free competition to guess 4 scores. Got £10 in bet credits - would have been £250 cash if United could cut out losing soft goals.

Close but not close enough - didn’t see our game but I’ll blame Brophy anyway !

Decided to spend a wee bit of last night’s small cash out. Cashed out this as soon as we scored the third today 😀

Just sticking with any freebies offered on these matches - for example a free £5 bet builder for the England game tonight. In fact they are offering this on all of England’s games.