Andy Gargan

Sorry Richard what’s the aim of the scheme again, give an incentive to the biggest owners 🤣🤣 what a kick in the bollocks to the small fry eh

⚔️ 𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗟 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘 Hull FC 16 - 17 York Knights The Knights win on the road! #OurEra | #ThisIsYork ⚔️

⚔️ 𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗟 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘 Knights 19 - 18 Robins THE KNIGHTS WIN THEIR FIRST EVER GAME IN SUPER LEAGUE. #OurEra | #ThisIsYork ⚔️

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𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙥. 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩. Tonight, the York Knights step onto the big stage as they take on @hullkrofficial in their @SuperLeague debut. From where we’ve been… to where we are. Match Day Partner 🤝 @theyorkagent #OurEra | #ThisIsYork ⚔️

BREAKING: York Knights will be playing in Super League for 2026!!! 🏉 The independent panel chaired by Lord Caine “voted unanimously” to accept the Knights & Toulouse for promotion to the newly expanded 14-team competition. More to come on @BBCYork

Well done to everyone involved, brilliant news for the club and the city 👏

Is scratching the itch, wow tricky gig these days not sure how long it will last #thegigisonitsarse #boxclever #borrowedtime

It’s time to start scratching that itch

@DaveLoughnane_ Congrats guys 🎉

🧩The final piece of the puzzle🧩 💙Toby Dáithi Loughnane💙

Oh wow 😮 that’s the final torpedo surely, the ship has sunk

I’m certain I bought Tony Hollis at a similar time as staff sergeant, sure I paid around 2k for him Can’t even remember the angle for this lad, maybe why he didn’t improve like I thought he would, had him for 4 runs placed 3rd twice

Forgot about this lad, Staff sergeant, went unsold at the HIT sale at donny, I paid £1500, sire stats said head to the fibresand of a good mark, was a game horse at a level, ran 7 times for me, won twice and placed 3rd five times, funny ole game eh

@FTFstuart Aye a couple more after them bud 🐎

@AndyGargan The list goes on pal

Second horse I purchased privately for £1500, Dansili dutch, had to run her in a couple of sellers to finish close up to get her mark up knew if we could get her in the bottom of a bottom end handicap she would win, landed a a good blow twice in 9 days

Felling very nostalgic today, first horse I purchased Sherman McCoy, cost me £500 from ascot sales, only had him for two runs, this was his second run, first prize £2700 in 2013

@Golfpunter1 I stopped at the end of 2019 and I felt exactly the same then, hate to think what it’s like now, we used to head to the big meetings to get money on, that got harder so used to spend a Monday to Saturday in London getting cash on, using online accounts, in the end all doors shut

It is tough to explain how much the joy and excitement has been sucked out of placing a bet/betting. The account restrictions, the being treated like a criminal for placing a bet, the issues being paid, id checks, the ludicrous t&cs, affordability checks, lack of competent and fair regulators, etc. The joys of having to explain to operators what you are doing and why. Madness. When you throw in these latest nuggets during “safer” gambling week it really makes you shake your head in disbelief. ‘Whilst we’re not here to tell you what to do, please remember that gambling is never a means to make money’ A subsequent response to a thread; ‘The point is not that people can’t make money. They often do. We are, in fact, very accommodating to those people. It’s that betting is not a “means” to make money - ie not sustainable source of income. Nor should it be encouraged as such.’ How has the industry been allowed to get to this stage? Can you imagine this situation in the “City” and the financial markets? I know the industry has pushed the ‘entertainment’ narrative incredibly hard in recent years. That’s really been as a justification for the practices that they undertaken and the products they have decided to offer. It’s interesting to see the industry being quite so brazen as this on this subject. At what point are they even allowed to call themselves bookmakers? Previous generations would be turning in their graves at what the industry has become. The industry is doing a spectacular job of killing any aspirations people may have had of making money. The dream this industry was built on. Kill that aspiration and the industry is no better than a glorified lottery product. With the popularity of bet builders (and subsequent margins) it is headed that way anyway. Maybe that’s what the companies want as the huge profits continue to pour in. This sort of story should be prominent in media circles. Clearly it isn’t because those media outlets have their hands in the trough themselves. They have profited incredibly handsomely over the years from losing punters. The last thing they want to do is highlight what the betting industry has become. Same with the higher profile social media accounts. Betting has always been about both parties undertaking risk. It has become so skewed though in favour of the bookmaker that something needs to drastically change. It needs strong regulation in favour of the punter for once and we know that isn’t forthcoming. In its current guise and the trajectory it is headed on, from a punters perspective, the sooner the whole industry implodes the better. It is what it deserves. Fairness is not an unreasonable expectation. It should not be some nice to have. It is a basic requirement. It is the very least the customer deserves. Fairness is nowhere to be seen in this current iteration of sports betting.

@DerbyshirePhil When your taking shorter prices, how many points lower you willing to go ?

@AndyGargan It’s more just a case of mentally getting used to accepting shorter prices. The market is so efficient these days and any arbs get arbed out very quickly.

What’s everyone’s struggles these days with the bookies, getting on ? Withdrawing money ? Accounts closing ? All of the above ?

Been out of the game a little while, what sites are people using instead of oddschecker these days ???