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chaos33
April 15, 2019, 2:29pm
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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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Batch, Crombie, Moore K, Wiggington, Cumming, Waters, Bonnyman, Ford, Emson, Drinkell, Whymark. Love you all, You are the reason I'm on here. You've had help from Todd, Handyside, Futcher P, Groves, Mendonca, Macca etc etc etc. Up The Mariners!!!!!!!!!
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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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