Backing Sergeant's samba

By Rob Virtue on October 1, 2008 1:00 AM |

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Nigel Seeley

Nigel Seeley rounds up this week's top tips

IT'S not only the Wharf’s bankers who have been suffering badly over the last couple of weeks.

Place Your Bets followers have been hurt with results not going our way, making September a month to forget.

Last month I received an email from a Wharf reader thanking me for the tips and telling me he was off to Majorca with the winnings.

I hope he hasn’t put a deposit down for a holiday to faraway shores for half-term – he wouldn’t get very far.

But the Wizard’s magic wand has been out this week and I’m certain October will be a month to remember.

West Brom have taken to the Premier League with ease and are sitting in a lofty 12th place, a position which could have been a lot higher if they had the rub of the green in their opening matches.

On Saturday they entertain Fulham at the Hawthorns and at 11/8 Tony Mowbray’s boys must be backed.

Fulham have started the campaign in usual style, very good at home but terrible on their travels, with three away day defeats already.

In fact, the Cottagers have only won away from home three times in three years in the league, all towards the end of last season as they retained their Premier League status.

But with stats of only three wins from 41 away games reflecting a 14/1 chance how can anybody back them at 5/2?

Rugby League fans will be licking their lips with anticipation with the season’s finale, the Grand Final, taking place at Old Trafford on Saturday night between the best two teams in the land, Leeds and St Helens.

The match promises to be a classic but the bookmakers may have made a massive rick in rating the mighty St Helens just eight-point favourites on the handicap lists.

Saints are arguably the greatest rugby league side in the world, with tries coming from virtually everybody in the team.

When they are on their A-game they can blitz anybody. Saints have also had an extra week’s rest, while Leeds were involved in a war with Wigan last Friday.

Strictly Come Dancing has returned to our screens and this weekend it’s the turn of the boys with Samba week.

John Sargeant is the bookies favourite to go but I predict he will survive for another couple of weeks. Instead the man to go will be chef Gary Rhodes.

In the first couple of weeks Rhodes has shown the dance moves of your granddad at a family christening.

If the show was won on energy alone he would win it comfortably, but this man simply can’t dance, so at 5/2 to depart this week he looks a good thing.

RUNNING TOTAL +£17

SUGGESTED BETS
£30 West Brom to beat Fulham @ 11/8
£22 St Helens to beat Leeds by more than 8 points @ 10/11
£20 Gary Rhodes to be voted out of Strictly Come Dancing on Sunday night @ 5/2