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Online dave.woodhall

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At the bookies
« on: August 09, 2010, 03:46:23 PM »
Skybet odds on Martin to be next manager to leave have gone from 14/1 to 4/5 in the past two hours.

Draw your own conclusions.

Offline pauliewalnuts

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Re: At the bookies
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2010, 03:49:05 PM »
Nice.

I had a tenner at 25/1 a few weeks ago.

Offline Phil from the upper holte

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Re: At the bookies
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2010, 03:49:32 PM »
Is it because were selling Milner behind his back?

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Re: At the bookies
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2010, 03:50:07 PM »
Maybe we're selling Ashley Young behind his back

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Re: At the bookies
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2010, 03:50:43 PM »
Maybe we are selling Milner and Young because of MON?

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Re: At the bookies
« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2010, 03:52:37 PM »
Bookies make all sort of irrational reactions. Based on the Twitter from what probably isn't Stephen Ireland's actual account some of them made Manchester United 6/4 favourites to sign him. There is a bollocks article someone's quoted on the transfer thread about MON leaving which the bookies could be basing this on, but apart from that there is less than zero evidence.

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Re: At the bookies
« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2010, 03:54:39 PM »
Bookies make all sort of irrational reactions. Based on the Twitter from what probably isn't Stephen Ireland's actual account some of them made Manchester United 6/4 favourites to sign him. There is a bollocks article someone's quoted on the transfer thread about MON leaving which the bookies could be basing this on, but apart from that there is less than zero evidence.

Unless the deed is already done?

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Re: At the bookies
« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2010, 03:55:48 PM »
I'll stick a fiver on it.

Each way

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Re: At the bookies
« Reply #8 on: August 09, 2010, 03:58:55 PM »
Victor Chandler seem to have suspended betting on MON as far as I can tell.

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Re: At the bookies
« Reply #9 on: August 09, 2010, 03:59:46 PM »
To be fair, the odds also nosedived after that stupid Talksport Twitter announcement.

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Re: At the bookies
« Reply #10 on: August 09, 2010, 04:01:20 PM »
Victor Chandler seem to have suspended betting on MON as far as I can tell.

I was told that betting has been suspended at Ladbrokes too.

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Re: At the bookies
« Reply #11 on: August 09, 2010, 04:01:43 PM »
Bookies are very jumpy these days. They're very wary of people getting rumours from the internet that turn out to be true and taking them to the cleaners. Therefore, there's a possibility that they might not discriminate between the reputability of different rumours as perhaps we fans should and indeed do.

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Re: At the bookies
« Reply #12 on: August 09, 2010, 04:01:57 PM »
Skybet had it spot on about Dunne joining us from about June onwards last year too...

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Re: At the bookies
« Reply #13 on: August 09, 2010, 04:03:54 PM »
Bookies are very jumpy these days. They're very wary of people getting rumours from the internet that turn out to be true and taking them to the cleaners. Therefore, there's a possibility that they might not discriminate between the reputability of different rumours as perhaps we fans should and indeed do.

Two fairly well respected bookmaking chains have stopped taking bets though. We are not talking about attention seeking bookmakers like Paddy Power

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Re: At the bookies
« Reply #14 on: August 09, 2010, 04:05:27 PM »
Bookies are very jumpy these days. They're very wary of people getting rumours from the internet that turn out to be true and taking them to the cleaners. Therefore, there's a possibility that they might not discriminate between the reputability of different rumours as perhaps we fans should and indeed do.

Two fairly well respected bookmaking chains have stopped taking bets though. We are not talking about attention seeking bookmakers like Paddy Power

We will see. For now, we most remember the reaction following the Talksport Twitter nonsense, the Ireland Twitter nonsense, and so on. Until I see that rolling yellow band on SSN saying MON's gone I'll assume nothing.

 


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