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Must fancy your chances with those doubles Graeme. Celtic have looked impressive in pre-season and Barca and Real Madrid are always good.
Fingers crossed Dougie, you never know. It just means that if Celtic do the business, i have a couple of shots at the Euro Cup. It might just be that closer to the time an English team will look a good prospect aswell, so might take an interest in them closer to the time.
Who do you fancy for the World Cup ?
I think Celtic, under Tony Mowbray’s guidance and more adventurous attacking policy (and he’s allowing the brilliant Aiden McGeady
a free rein ) , should regain the SPL title without much trouble.
But I would say, wouldn’t I !Chelsea will prove formidable opponents in the EPL and will push Man Utd all the way, whilst cash strapped Burnley look certainties to go straight back down.
Dundee have spent big this term ( in Scottish terms ) and should prove too strong for the rest in Sco Div 1.
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Too early for me regarding the world cup. I will wait to see if scotland qualify before lumping on!
Inverness are a potential fly in the ointment for Dundee in scottish div 1.
Burnley could just turn into the stoke of last season and stay up. Portsmouth are unstable, Wigan could suffer post Bruce blues and Wolves and Birmingham are like yoyo’s. And Hull must be a candidate.
Burnley could just turn into the stoke of last season and stay up
I think they maybe the Hull of last season
As for Portsmouth
never a dull moment.The EPL dosen’t look that good this season to be honest. Anyone of 6 teams can go down, and Man City are kidding themselves on. It dosen’t take a genius to work out that they’ve spent too much money on forwards, and not enough in other areas.
I’ve taken Chelsea to win it. When i predicted them i envisaged them spendin a couple of bob, which they haven’t. I’ll stick with them for prinicple. Maybe they will bring someone in.
It will be the same old top four as usual, unless Man City spend big in January whilst being there or there abouts.
There will always be some EPL games worth watching, especially for betting purposes. Apart from that the league dosen’t look that interesting, and i think La Liga looks more exciting to be honest.
Champions – Chelsea
Relegated – Burnley, Hull and Birmingham.
Good luck to all having a footie bet this season.
This year I’m gonna try something different plus I’ve had a hole burning in my pocket from Denman placing in the Gold Cup – so I’m gonna chuck it on this.
The idea is to bet five teams in blocks of six matches – there is a theory behind this but I won’t bore you with the detail – anyhow here goes – for their first six matches of the season:
Portsmouth – Win
Burnley – Win
Liverpool – Lose
Celtic – Draw
Rangers – Draw30 Bets at £10 each = £300*
*The bets will be placed on the day of each match with Ladcrooks
Only three bets.
Stoke to finish above Portsmouth. Portsmouth look in desperate trouble unless cash/players arrive quickly.
Simon Cox leading goalscorer in the Championship – looks a shocking bet as I suspect the Baggies will be looking to offload him as soon as possible.
Wayne Rooney to be leading goalscorer in the Premiership – quite capable of 20 goals now that he has discovered the joys of heading the ball – hopefully there will not be too many more occasions when Fergie either starts with Owen or takes Rooney off just to give him a game.
Good luck to all having a footie bet this season.
This year I’m gonna try something different plus I’ve had a hole burning in my pocket from Denman placing in the Gold Cup – so I’m gonna chuck it on this.
The idea is to bet five teams in blocks of six matches – there is a theory behind this but I won’t bore you with the detail – anyhow here goes – for their first six matches of the season:
Portsmouth – Win
Burnley – Win
Liverpool – Lose
Celtic – Draw
Rangers – Draw30 Bets at £10 each = £300*
*The bets will be placed on the day of each match with Ladcrooks
I’ve always been of the view take a profit when you can – so I’m bailing out of this after Villa’s win tonight.
To date 13 matches have been bet (Celtic & Rangers one match behind), 4 of which have won:
Liverpool lost to Tottenham – return £30.00
Burnley beat Manchester Utd – return £120.00
Burnley beat Everton – return 32.00
Liverpool lost to Villa – return 80.00Staked: £130.00
Returned: £262.00
Profit: £132.00I could be making a mistake jumping ship, so to speak, as a return of £48.00 from the remaining 17 matches would mean breaking even but I’m happy with taking the profit.
I might lump it all on Wick next weekend
Good Decision to take the money and run Pompete – for now. Will you come back with another selection of sides to back/oppose later in the season? You did well there.
If you bet these teams collectively in accum or perms throughout the season, you won’t go far wrong.
Celtic, Rangers, Dundee, Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal, Newcastle. Relatively smallish returns, but consistent winners.
So speaks one whose last five football coupons have all come up.
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You obviously haven’t been heeding your own advice then?
Dundee haven’t won all matches this season, nor Man Utd, nor Celtic, nor Newcastle.
I get your point though. I used Celtic, Arsenal and Man City as bankers of my acca last weekend.
You obviously haven’t been heeding your own advice then?
Dundee haven’t won all matches this season, nor Man Utd, nor Celtic, nor Newcastle.
I get your point though. I used Celtic, Arsenal and Man City as bankers of my acca last weekend.
I’m glad you got my point anyway – i.e the more consistent winners than most bit.
League matches only, btw.Gambling Only Pays When You're Winning
Good Decision to take the money and run Pompete – for now. Will you come back with another selection of sides to back/oppose later in the season?
No, I think that’s me done with football now Doug.
I played football Saturday and Sunday, trained 3 times a week for the best part of my life – I’m too old now with dodgy knees
So, I can quite happily just watch it and not feel the need to either speculate analyse or indeed bet on it.Also, as a betting medium I not sure how healthy is it – there is a hypothesis within the Study of Gambling call the Near-Miss Theory whereby (to put it simply) our betting habits/judgement of probabilities are formed not by actual rewards/probabilities but rather the potential of rewards based upon previous Near-Misses i.e. correctly predicting 4 out of 5 match results – given this outcome we of course receive no reward but psychologically the near-miss reinforces our betting habits. Another example would be backing the draw in the Hearts vs Rangers match last Sunday only to be undone but a extra-time penalty…you see what I mean.
I think all of us at some stage reach the point where enough near-misses is enough – I think I’ve reached this point
a free rein 
never a dull moment.
So, I can quite happily just watch it and not feel the need to either speculate analyse or indeed bet on it.- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.