Sport
It’s little wonder that many parents are attempting to steer their children in alternate sporting directions, not that
school kids take much notice of their oldies when it comes to having fun with their buddies.
Even the girls are playing footy these days!
And Ivan Cleary is expected to be announced as Wests Tigers fifth coach in five years after the club slumped to the
bottom of the Premiership table. Their form has been unimpressive to say the least but why is it always down to
sacking the coach?
Surely much of the blame for the of lack lustre performances must be shouldered by both players and the board
members who contracted them. Still, as many famous coaches have always reiterated, “In this job you always know
where you will end up. On the scrap heap that’s where!”
The latest from the wonderful world of racing is news of an impending shake up of off-course bookmaking rules. In
particular the privately own state TABS, excluding WA where it is still government owned and managed, is to target
the corporate bookmaking firms operating from Darwin.
The Top End capital has always been recognised as the centre of SP operations, mainly because the NT Government
has treated them generously in terms of low turnover taxation. ON course bookies are now as scarce as hens’ teeth
thanks to being unable to compete with the off-course monoliths, some of them internationally owned.
In Perth on-course operators pay 2% turnover tax win or lose whilst in Darwin the rate is much less than half. That
advantage allows them great scope to continuously promote ‘specials’ to their registered punters.
It’s always amused me when they advertise their markets and specials before finishing with the warning to
gamble sensibly. Know when to quit.
The only time that warning rings true to most is; when they are losing.
On a winning streak you think you’re invincible.
I know that from life long experience at the caper.
The MAG Vung Tau
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