Your not doing it right.
Bonts winning, trailed by Darce. Clug distant 3rd
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Iâm a fan of Darce⌠but that is probably how I would put it too.
Bont is just next level⌠amazing to watch⌠and against better opposition too.
Darce still having an amazing month⌠and more please⌠but Bont is having the kind of season that you actually watch dogs games just to see him play. Crazy good.
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Crooks.
If youâre offering a price, you should have to abide by it for all.
Thatâs how the whole concept of betting & markets work.
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Actually betting works on this basis: they offer odds, you lose money, they get money. Occasionally they allow you to win.
If betting worked as a way for punters to make money betting wouldnât exist. If it was designed to be fair, it wouldnât exist, if it was designed to not be run by crooks, it wouldnât exist.
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does he get some shoe on it?
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OH BABY, THAT IS GOLD CLASS
âBut,but learningsâ
The whole team is learning to get along just fine without Woosha.
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Wonder how many learnings Woosha has used at Carlton 
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Going just on their results since he arrived; all of them.
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Yes, we get it, Reverend Tim.
What youâre describing fraud or theft.
If bookies think theyâre holding a liability, theyâre âmeant toâ just wind that price in (and others out, accordingly), to balance out their liabilities. Bookies make a certain margin anyway, the odds never add up to 1:1, but thatâs part of the game of gambling, and itâs all out in the open.
Cancelling the bet (or the account) is dishonest and scummy. Even for bookies.
For the life of me I canât work out how the online bookies are allowed to carry on the way they do. They pay stuff all taxes, employ stuff all people and (compared to TAB et al) they tip stuff-all back into sports.
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Well, no. Betting is offered on the basis they provide odds. If you choose to take it up, you may win, you may lose. But the agency always wins based on their algorithms for creating and adjusting odds.
That is how the system is designed. And that is completely fair.
But when the agency, identifies people who bet well and decides not to pay out or kicks them off, after the fact, without due cause. That is thievery.
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I have very little sympathy or care about people who gamble to be perfectly honest. My concern is all the family members impacted by it. Very personal experience. So excuse me if I donât weep about crooks running a crooked scheme.
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not everyone who gambles is dayne beams
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Exactly.
Did someone ask for your sympathy or tears?
People who do not have a problem with gambling, are not responsible for the gambling problems of others BTW.
Darcy Parish And Why Waiting Is The Hardest Part
No one would have thought that Darcy Parish would be ushering in a new era at Essendon as the clubâs best midfielder.
Opportunities have opened up due to injury, and Parish has finally had an extended run in his preferred position, posting big numbers in the process.
In fact, in the five rounds since Round 5, Parish is averaging 35.6 disposals, 8.6 clearances, 6.8 inside 50s, 6.2 marks and 4.4 tackles.
His influence offensively has been superb for the Bombers, kicking 3 goals and providing 8 goal assists, while his 75 total score involvements is a club-best figure.
While Essendon may well have only won four games so far this season and currently sit outside the top-8, their 104.9 percentage is indicative of a much better club, and one that currently houses the leagueâs second-best PPG offence.
And itâs Darcy Parish whoâs been at the heart of so much of Essendonâs improvement, with the #5 pick from the 2015 draft a perfect example of the remarkably contagious strain of impatience thatâs run rife across AFL fanbases for years.
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For large parts of his career, Parish has hovered around the 20-disposal, 3-tackle average playing across a half-forward flank, in a position that puts an emphasis on kicking which happens to be an an inefficiency of his.
While many have been critical of the reigning Anzac Day Medalist, more leeway simply has to be given to a player whoâs had to wait six seasons to receive a full-time midfield opportunity.
Itâs easy to forget that Parish is only 23 years of age, turning 24 in the backend of the season.
Expectation is often driven by the fact heâs now played 103 games, yet the numbers show that midfield exposure makes a significant difference.
Over the last five weeks, Parish has accounted for 43 of Essendonâs 171 clearances, which equates to a massive 25.1% total.
For comparisonâs sake, clearance beasts such as Hugh Greenwood ( 25.15 % ), Ben Cunnington ( 23.53% ), Tom Liberatore ( 23.04% ) and Clayton Oliver ( 22.04% ) have posted those numbers over the course of the season, which only speaks to the rich vein of form the Surf Coast kid is in.
Unfortunately, impatience isnât a new concept that has only emerged alongside Parishâs name.
Callum Mills was taken two picks before Parish and acts as another perfect example, with their careers running parallel.
The Swan had been a good half-back at the club over the first 92 games of his career, with only small bursts in the midfield, despite the fact he was drafted to play the position.
Into his sixth season and Mills has elevated his game grandly for the Swans, going from 18 disposals and 3 tackles a game, to averaging 26.4 disposals and 5.5 tackles in 2021.
Jacob Hopper has posted good numbers in the past, but from the exact same group of picks as Mills and Parish, heâs currently playing career-best footy as GWSâ premier midfielder and having a decidedly influential say on his teamâs current top-8 spot.
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These 3 top-seven picks from the 2015 draft can be considered poster boys for the notion of each individual player developing at different rates, particularly when compared to others from the same crop.
Clayton Oliver , Jacob Weitering, Tom Doedee and Josh Dunkley are all players that have excelled far earlier in their careers from the same draft class, while someone like Matt Flynn has only just debuted in 2021.
Ben Keays, Blake Hardwick, Ben McKay , Harry McKay and Jordan Dawson are all having breakout sixth seasons too.
Where Parish differentiates himself is the significance of his eye-catching performances to his teamâs entertaining start to the season, where he can play to his strengths.
The 23-year-old is using the ball in a decent manner, operating at a 71.4% disposal efficiency, and while he is ranked 8th in the competition for turnovers, thatâs offset by the fact he ranks 12th in the competition for effective disposals.
He has blitzed his previous highs in his ability to impact in attack despite moving out of a predominately forward role.
Parish has upped his career-bests in disposals ( 21.1 to 29.7 ), marks ( 4 to 5 ), inside-50s ( 3.3 to 5.6 ), tackles ( 3.8 to 4.1 ), metres gained ( 263.5 to 440.3 ), score involvements ( 5.7 to 7.5 ) and clearances ( 4.2 to 7.5 ).
To illustrate his work rate, heâs even averaging career highs in rebound 50s and intercepts.
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History is littered with examples of players taking a few seasons to breakout, to the point where the notion that a highly-rated talent must breakout by 21 is simply wrong.
Christian Petracca provided more highlights, but nowhere near the consistency of Parish in his first five seasons until his inevitable breakout in 2020, while Cameron Guthrie is only now playing incredible footy at 28 years of age.
Both these players had to be patient for midfield opportunities.
Even the great Patrick Dangerfield took five seasons to truly get going.
With many more examples heading back, they only prove to further solidify the fact that Darcy Parishâs breakout is legitimate, and that heâs the man to lead this Bomber midfield going forward.
As an 18-year-old playing for the Geelong Falcons, Parish averaged 28 disposals and 7 clearances a game, and was lauded for his ability to take the ball forward and adopt an attacking mindset.
Now that he has captured similarly elite numbers and traits at AFL level, thereâs no looking back for the Bombers.
Itâs taken a while for Parish to become the player many had hoped for, but to quote Nobel Prize laureate William Faulkner, âand sure enough even waiting will endâŚif you can just wait long enough.â
The player himself has done the right thing by his club and is now reaping the rewards.
Even better, Essendon fans that have been critical in the past have been converted from non-believers to believers at the feet of Parish.
Itâs the sort of season that attracts Brownlow votes, which would be a nice reward.
But individual accolades can be set aside, because Parish is playing the sort of footy that has put Essendon in a good position when players return and the whips are cracking.
There are brighter pastures ahead for a player with 100 games already under his belt.
Essendon have a good one in Parish.
They always have.
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