Getting involved in Player Try Minutes during any rugby match can really up the excitement of watching a game. But to get involved in a match featuring New Zealand almost blows it through the roof! One client may have had the two best punts of his life on Saturday in the All Black’s pool opener against Italy when he bought the try minutes of pin up boy Dougie Howlett (at 63) and man mountain Jerry Collins (at 6) for £5 and £10 respectively. How great it must have been for our man to see both of his men go over five times in total. Howlett scored a dynamic hat-trick in the 12th, 56th and 59th minutes and Collins, a rare try scorer, touched down in the 68th and 70th to bring home a profit of £1,640 for the client – just enough to fix the hole in the ceiling!
The England football team (also now known as the Gareth Barry show) proved this week that it’s not always the best players who win you games, it’s the best team. One punter would've been compelled to hug and kiss Steve ‘smug smile’ McClaren after a buy of England, with a -2 goal disadvantage, on our handicap Win Index at 6.5 for £500 (yes, you can do handicap bets on spreads). With a nice shape, some hard working players and only a sprinkling of superstars, England played with the air of a team that had been together for years as opposed to being England’s first unchanged line-up since well before McClaren took charge. Rio Ferdinand’s lovely shuffle and strike in the 84th minute meant that the client got the result he was looking for, as the market made up the full 25 points to bank him a massive £9,250!
