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And this in a nutshell is exactly how the wider football world view our club..
Propping up the whole Football League. Quite frankly, it's an embarrassment..
A good job that bookies and their random punters don't decide League position then, isn't it? We finished 6 places and 15 points clear of the drop last season. Just 5 places and 5 points clear the season before. We also won 5 points more than the previous season as well. Scored 4 more goals, conceded 11 fewer. In every way, this season was an improvement on the last. It certainly wasn't great and I don't think anybody would argue it was, but favourites for the drop? Nah. That's just betting idiocy.
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Really ?
Well yes. The day has long since gone when we were viewed as a decent club that was going through bad times. Rank bad mismanagement now shows the football world we are minnows struggling to stay in league 2, and getting a potential player to even talk to us is going to be tough. If we can get to talk to them, offer realistic money and show them a vision that Jolley has we have a better chance, but all of our capital has been used up - the board have made us a laughing stock and they are now reaping their "rewards" by having a club many see as favourites to drop out of the league again.
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Odds means nothing... Wasn't Notts Country favourite to win the league/promotion last pre-season?!?
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Sky Bet League Two Promotion 19/20....... Plymouth 2/1 Bradford 5/2 Mansfield 5/2 Scunthorpe 5/2 Salford City 3/1 Walsall 10/3 Carlisle 7/2 Colchester 7/2 Leyton Orient 4/1 Swindon 4/1 Exeter 5/1 Northampton 5/1 Crewe 6/1 Oldham 6/1 Port Vale 6/1 Cambridge 13/2 Stevenage 7/1 Cheltenham 8/1 Crawley 8/1 Grimsby 9/1 Macclesfield 9/1 Morecambe 12/1 https://m.skybet.com/football/sky-bet-league-two/event/23829111
Grimsby Town 9/1 for promotion, exactly the price I backed you at last season.
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We have lost a couple of average players and let go 4 others.
No signings yet so how can they say we are favourites for the drop ?
Lets see the quality of our new signings before we contemplate the worse.
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No signings yet so how can they say we are favourites for the drop ?
Because bookies are never, ever going to miss an opportunity to take money off daft punters even if the bets are based on nothing more than guesswork.
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Literally one person has sat down and decided those odds. There will be zero cash in the market, so until people start placing some bets those odds will remain the opinion of one person.
There's no algorithm for this. Bookies don't usually offer markets like this because there's not a lot of people taking part. The money, like in the sport itself, is right at the top.
Those odds are no different from some random person off the street saying 'I think Grimsby are favourites for relegation next season' and it'll be based on nothing more than a questionably-informed hunch.
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I might stick a fiver on Morecambe going down so that they become favourites
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Them odds are as accurate as usual at this time of the year.
The teams just relegated up there, a team that only just stayed up 2 seasons ago, and made small improvement this season, are bound to be down at the lower end.
This might change with a few signings, might not... but they are not far off based on my expectations at this stage
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Them odds are as accurate as usual at this time of the year.
The teams just relegated up there, a team that only just stayed up 2 seasons ago, and made small improvement this season, are bound to be down at the lower end.
This might change with a few signings, might not... but they are not far off based on my expectations at this stage
Nor mine. Our retained list includes 5 youths, 2 who've barely played (Wright & Rose), 3 other strikers who are hardly prolific (Cardwell, Cook & Vernam) and two goalies who may or may not leave. Who said we wouldn't have to rebuild?
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