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I understand the point but it was palpably not a good bet. You got no sort of value for your outlay and the feeble attempt by the team proved great news for the bookies who lured a few in who should have known better with a juicy price that paid off well for them. If you get a 'run for your money', you could probably call it a good bet in a sense, even though it's a loser. This was over before it began. It was a bad call.
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I understand the point but it was palpably not a good bet. You got no sort of value for your outlay and the feeble attempt by the team proved great news for the bookies who lured a few in who should have known better with a juicy price that paid off well for them. If you get a 'run for your money', you could probably call it a good bet in a sense, even though it's a loser. This was over before it began. It was a bad call.
Not at all.
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I understand the point but it was palpably not a good bet. You got no sort of value for your outlay and the feeble attempt by the team proved great news for the bookies who lured a few in who should have known better with a juicy price that paid off well for them. If you get a 'run for your money', you could probably call it a good bet in a sense, even though it's a loser. This was over before it began. It was a bad call.
Not at all. Yes, ultimately the bookies called it right, but I got a decent run for my money. I placed the bet relatively early in the season and up until only about 3 or 4 weeks ago we were still very well placed to go and win the bet. Just the last 5 or 6 games that have scuppered us.
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I understand the point but it was palpably not a good bet. You got no sort of value for your outlay and the feeble attempt by the team proved great news for the bookies who lured a few in who should have known better with a juicy price that paid off well for them. If you get a 'run for your money', you could probably call it a good bet in a sense, even though it's a loser. This was over before it began. It was a bad call.
If I see value I take it. Leicester to win the league, last year Shrewsbury to get promoted and us to get relegated came very close and returned a profit after laying and this year Notts County to be relegated were all things I backed. I barely bet these days compared to what I used to but I still think the long-term markets are where the money, if any, lies, and I have made a good long-term profit backing them.
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Not at all. Yes, ultimately the bookies called it right, but I got a decent run for my money. I placed the bet relatively early in the season and up until only about 3 or 4 weeks ago we were still very well placed to go and win the bet. Just the last 5 or 6 games that have scuppered us.
Ok mate if you say so. It was all over after the 3rd week in February. It's a bit like claiming your horse has run well in a mile race because it was almost in mid division at 6 furlongs before falling away badly. If I'd backed that horse I know I'd not be thinking 'it was a good bet. I got a run for my money', when it trailed in 18th out of 24 runners looking shot.
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Ok mate if you say so. It was all over after the 3rd week in February. It's a bit like claiming your horse has run well in a mile race because it was almost in mid division at 6 furlongs before falling away badly. If I'd backed that horse I know I'd not be thinking 'it was a good bet. I got a run for my money', when it trailed in 18th out of 24 runners looking shot.
Well as the bet was place early October I see it that my horse gave me a good run for the majority of the race but just faded away on the bend into the home straight. To say "it was over before it began" was a bit wide of the mark.
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The third week of February we were 11th!
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Yes, we got a decent result on 23rd Feb, hit mid division and then fell away badly since then. That's the point.
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Gotcha. I read it as it was over after the third week of February, when obviously we can't have been out of the running a week later.
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