THE BETTING THREAD

[chilipepper91]

Arsenal 2-0 (9/1) and 3-0 (19/1) tonight.

Gone.

Though mine of Arsenal Stoke and Man Utd - £5 returning £21 - is also in jeopardy...

[Tommy Youlden's Ears]

Now I'm not much of a betting man, but was bored at work and had a trawl around the C'Ship odds.

Was suprised to see Skybet have/had Noel Hunt at 80/1 for top scorer. Now, OK he's 7 goals behind KD, but if Doyle gets season-ended by either transfer or injury, then surely Noel has a decent shot. Given that Sky have Beattie at 10/1 and Philips at 28/1, then that looks like value to me.

Anyway, I can't be arsed to open a Sky account, but is that a decent wager?

[Bill Oddie's Beard]

Now I'm not much of a betting man, but was bored at work and had a trawl around the C'Ship odds.

Was suprised to see Skybet have/had Noel Hunt at 80/1 for top scorer. Now, OK he's 7 goals behind KD, but if Doyle gets season-ended by either transfer or injury, then surely Noel has a decent shot. Given that Sky have Beattie at 10/1 and Philips at 28/1, then that looks like value to me.

Anyway, I can't be arsed to open a Sky account, but is that a decent wager?

Might be worth a punt if you can get it each way, otherwise I wouldn't bother

[Tredder]

This weeks treble and teams to back against or lay are:

Newcastle
Millwall
Exeter

[paultheroyal]

Cheltenham
MK Dons
Stockport
Oldham

£20 pays £247

[cmonurz]

Birmingham, Sheff Utd and Charlton to win.

Over 2.5 goals at Birmingham, QPR, Swindon and Cheltenham.

[chilipepper91]

Reading and Brum.
Man Utd, Arsenal, Liverpool and Newcastle.
HT Arsenal and Man Utd.
Wolves draw and Norwich draw.

all £1

[rfcjoe]

My dad won £100 quid today on footy bets.

[TFF]

A little 35p lucky 15 tomorrow night

Coventry at Charlton
Sheffield United at Forest
Derby at Wolves
and RFC at home

£5.75 for £74.03

[Thomas L'Heureux]

Walked away with a further ton in the profit margin this weekend as I successfully backed a combination of the top four, and Reading, AZ Alkmaar, and Aderlecht as follows:

£25 on Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United, and Arsenal returned £105.24.

£25 on Reading, AZ Alkmaar, and Anderlecht returned £75.60.

£25 on Birmingham and Oldham failed due to the latter only managing a draw.

[Tredder]

I'm finished with fixed odds after the Newcastle game.

[Maguire]

Walked away with a further ton in the profit margin this weekend as I successfully backed a combination of the top four, and Reading, AZ Alkmaar, and Aderlecht as follows:

£25 on Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United, and Arsenal returned £105.24.

£25 on Reading, AZ Alkmaar, and Anderlecht returned £75.60.

£25 on Birmingham and Oldham failed due to the latter only managing a draw.

You're a brilliant retrospective better, I'll give you that.

[Thomas L'Heureux]

Walked away with a further ton in the profit margin this weekend as I successfully backed a combination of the top four, and Reading, AZ Alkmaar, and Aderlecht as follows:

£25 on Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United, and Arsenal returned £105.24.

£25 on Reading, AZ Alkmaar, and Anderlecht returned £75.60.

£25 on Birmingham and Oldham failed due to the latter only managing a draw.

You're a brilliant retrospective better, I'll give you that.

Do you mean because I only post about my selections after the event?

This is because I am a little uneasy towards the term 'jinx'. I don't usually tell my mates what I've backed until afterwards, let alone posting it on an internet forum.

In such a case, I'll happily paste up a copy of my betting history if you're that bothered, Mags.

[Readingfanman]

Started the 0-0 challenege at the weekend with a fiver. Am currently onto the 6th game now.

1. Bolton vs Chelsea         £5.00 W £5.55
2. Barcelona vs Valencia     £5.55 W £6.06
3. Napoli vs Seina           £6.06 W £6.54
4. Real Madrid vs Sevilla    £6.54 W £6.93
5. West Ham vs Spurs         £7.33 W £7.99
6  Barcelona vs Shaktar      £7.99 - £8.74

[Tredder]

Walked away with a further ton in the profit margin this weekend as I successfully backed a combination of the top four, and Reading, AZ Alkmaar, and Aderlecht as follows:

£25 on Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United, and Arsenal returned £105.24.

£25 on Reading, AZ Alkmaar, and Anderlecht returned £75.60.

£25 on Birmingham and Oldham failed due to the latter only managing a draw.

You're a brilliant retrospective better, I'll give you that.

Do you mean because I only post about my selections after the event?

This is because I am a little uneasy towards the term 'jinx'. I don't usually tell my mates what I've backed until afterwards, let alone posting it on an internet forum.

In such a case, I'll happily paste up a copy of my betting history if you're that bothered, Mags.

Don't worry about Mags, i'm posting my winning selections from tonight, on this very thread tomorrow.

[bobbybottler]

Started the 0-0 challenege at the weekend with a fiver. Am currently onto the 6th game now.

1. Bolton vs Chelsea         £5.00 W £5.55
2. Barcelona vs Valencia     £5.55 W £6.06
3. Napoli vs Seina           £6.06 W £6.54
4. Real Madrid vs Sevilla    £6.54 W £6.93
5. West Ham vs Spurs         £7.33 W £7.99
6  Barcelona vs Shaktar      £7.99 - £8.74

Well done so far but I'm not sure that Barca are i) fielding a strong team, and ii) taking it very seriously judging by their last CL performance against Basle.

[Thomas L'Heureux]

Started the 0-0 challenege at the weekend with a fiver. Am currently onto the 6th game now.

1. Bolton vs Chelsea         £5.00 W £5.55
2. Barcelona vs Valencia     £5.55 W £6.06
3. Napoli vs Seina           £6.06 W £6.54
4. Real Madrid vs Sevilla    £6.54 W £6.93
5. West Ham vs Spurs         £7.33 W £7.99
6  Barcelona vs Shaktar      £7.99 - £8.74

Well done so far but I'm not sure that Barca are i) fielding a strong team, and ii) taking it very seriously judging by their last CL performance against Basle.

There was still goals though, which is the aim of the challenge. In the last round, both the Barca and Shaktar games combined had a total of 12 goals between them!

[bobbybottler]

There was still goals though, which is the aim of the challenge. In the last round, both the Barca and Shaktar games combined had a total of 12 goals between them!

Yes, I understand the challenge - it's over 0.5 goals, full bank, so it's nothing other than swerving 0-0.

My opinion was that the Barca Shaktar was more of a risk of being goalless than others on the card, and in hindsight I was wrong. My next and no doubt equally worthess opinion is that tomorrow night's CL fixture list is fraught with danger for the 0-0 avoider, I'd recommend instead looking at the Asia Cup fixtures tomorrow morning.

[Thomas L'Heureux]

Another wedge in the back pocket after last night, much to Mags' 'retrospective' disgust.

£25 on Chelsea and Reading returned £42.86, whilst £25 on Wolves and Preston successfully returned £67.86.

I had the odd £5.84 left in my account, so went for an outsider of Birmingham and Chesterfield which underlined my opinion to leave the FA Cup alone, as the latter only drew with Droylsden in what was a very controversial game.

[Tredder]

Another wedge in the back pocket after last night, much to Mags' 'retrospective' disgust.

£25 on Chelsea and Reading returned £42.86, whilst £25 on Wolves and Preston successfully returned £67.86.

I had the odd £5.84 left in my account, so went for an outsider of Birmingham and Chesterfield which underlined my opinion to leave the FA Cup alone, as the latter only drew with Droylsden in what was a very controversial game.

Yep, i had a sizeable lump on Sheff Utd, Wolves and Reading, this is far easier than better before the games.