Great weekend for you Swanny. 6th minute of injury time equaliser, the Arc winner and Brentford **** up a two goal lead at home! If Carlsberg did perfect weekends.....
Yes, much better Stick, thank you. Been having a pretty bad run lately! No worries, I get a weekly 'allowance' from the 'boss', and that's my lot! How is it in Spain now where you are? Not so bad here, most people trying hard to stick to the basic rules. Returning holidaymakers and youngsters on a binge (e.g. Stuttgart recently) are a problem though. All one can do is to keep on battling this damn virus.
Spain gets a pretty bad press but down here in the South West corner we have done pretty well at avoiding the worst of it. We had eleven weeks of proper lockdown but most folk here are happy to obey the rules. We have a fairly tight community but obviously tourists do come here and that has been the main fear.
The winning time for the Arc was 8.8 seconds SLOW and that compares to 1.47 seconds SLOW when Waldgeist won last year. Reasonable to excuse any horse for not being at their best on that going. The Racing Post gave Enable 110 for her run today and that is 19 lbs below her best rating with them. Stradivarius scored 112 on RPR and that is 6 lbs lower than his effort behind Anthony Van Dyck last time out, so the thinking that the extra stamina test would help does not seem to have panned out. The line through In Swoop suggests that Mogul might have won this race but the contest where the O'Brien colt prevailed by 2 and a half lengths was on Good ground, which does not play to In Swoop's strengths. Still, it would have been interesting to see how Mogul performed. I also wonder if William Muir regrets not giving Pyledriver a shot at glory today. He pretty much hammered his field, including Mogul, in the Voltiguer, conceding 3 lbs, and was surely worth a go in Europe's big seasonal finale. Instead, they went to the St Leger to find out what we all suspected, that the colt didn't stay. Instead of coming to Paris, they are sending him to the Champion Stakes, a trip more than half a mile shorter than the St Leger. Talk about pissing about with a horse's trip. The trainer seems confident that Pyledriver will be stronger and better next season and that all the top races will be on the agenda for him. I hope he manages to make a better job of placing the horse next year because he made a complete arse of it this year.
I knew we had a chance but 7 2 claret and blue army ! Sorry karlos klopp took that well fair play to him
Wow, well done Villa, what a result. Cannot understand why Lampard let Barkley go to Villa on a season-long loan. Pretty sure he will regret it. Chelsea Frank must have had one Martini too many?
Just one question, Grendel. What makes you think Pyledriver would stay 1-1/2 miles on heavy ground which jockeys reported as being very sticky too, i.e. a real Longchamp bog? I do not think Pyledriver would have won the Arc in these underfoot conditions, really don't. Quite honestly, found it hard to pick one for this year's running, in the end went for last year's third. Thought the second and third ran almighty races too.
He played well smokey and if you look at last seasons chelsea assist stats he was second and had far less time on the pitch. Top signing for the year in my opinion.
Good signing for Villa but he isn't a top 4 team player. he's obviously not ****, i was just being flippant. No offence meant at all and you know i'm being serious when i say that because i'm a Wednesday fan so have no right to criticise any team but Villa won't be anywhere near the top 4 come the end of the season. Neither will Everton for all the blue half getting carried away at this stage. I remember Hull being top after 4 games once.
you’re harsh there , a three year old , learning and developing, derby , then after destroying all at 12 furlongs , tried 14 , the arc is usually on bad ground , with false pace .....youre calling muir a complete arse
