That is the bit Tarqs is missing. When he is backing the boys to the hilt, they lose, he has lost twice. Financially and emotionally.
I notice he showed his winning bet from Tuesday but wouldn’t list a losing bet v Barnet, Exeter or Crawley.
Most people go through life with a set of aims and goals, they strive to achieve some measure of success....everyone has a different set of standards ie do you want to be an operatic tenor or just impress your mates in a karaoke bar, do you want to be a Premiership star or a decent member of the Dog and Duck Pub team?
Obviously you might need to adapt your goals as you progress ie settle for something lower if and when you realise that you are not going to achieve your original aims.
What I struggle to comprehend is someone who states publicly their desired result, but then publicly backs the opposite result just in case they are wrong?......which is why I stated that you continually sit on the fence, safe in the knowledge that you either have a personal victory or a financial gain.
You wanted Remain....did you back Brexit?
You vote Labour.....did you back Tory?
You support Notts....but back them to lose and Forest to win?......I remember you bragging about betting us to be relegated last season....to me it is a weird way to approach life.
When you follow your Elite horses....do you back all the other runners in case your one falls over?
Now I am sure that there is a medical or psychological term for a person that is so afraid of failure, that he feels the need to hedge his bets to nullify the pain of losing, most people just take it on the chin and move on...maybe they even become stronger for it.
IMO you suffer from an innate feeling of insecurity, both in your personal and public life...a fear of rejection in life in general and by your peers, probably stemming from rejection during early childhood.....this had led you to becoming an optimistic pessimist.....or a pessimistic optimist....or possibly something else.
That therapy session was a freebie....on the house.
ps.....I strongly doubt that AH backs his various companies to lose, by selling off his company shares "just in case it goes tits up".....obviously he might take a strategic position in the marketplace, but I strongly doubt that he backs himself to lose.
You might need to check my betting slip again 78, I backed goals AND Notts on the basis that we would score at least one goal at home against a team that regularly concedes goals....IF we had lost the game, the score would theoretically be a minimum of 2~1 to Carlisle and my bet slip was effectively balanced.....my point is that there are ways to back Notts mentally, but still make money without backing the opposition...you can back goals, time of goals, goalscorer, corners, handicap betting etc etc
I do get it OldPie.....but the guy comes across as a bit wishy~washy when he continually backs both sides of an argument.....not just on Notts but on a range of issues....it is almost as if he likes playing Devils Advocate all the time, and it irritates me immensely
Maybe it is me that is turning into Dog of Pavlov....grrrr....it is 3am here and I was going to ignore his post, but I could not resist the amateur psychology examination.....another 30 minutes of my life just went whoosh.
I’m not a betting man, which you can tell from the match day bet threads. If I was I would probably always bet against Notts for fear of putting the kaibosh on it!
Exactly - YOU STRUGGLE TO COMPREHEND. You are not capable of understanding something that is actually quite simple. There is no fence sitting at all - every bone in my body wants a win for Notts. No vagueness or ambiguity, I am 100% hoping for one result only. At the game I am a Notts fan for 90+ minutes, the thought of small stake fun bets never enters my head. It doesn't make you a better fan if you only back a Notts win, as it has zero influence on the game. I have backed Notts to win, lose and draw depending on where I think the value is. A simple, rational decision but apparently one a few dumbasses are incapable of comprehending.