We are 5-1 to win the league, I thought maybe top six but to win I personally think it will be difficult.It all depends on players we have at the start of the season combine that with some fresh team morale and team spirit like we had before when we won it and you never know. Come on you r`s
The bookies don't often get it wrong, but be mindful that they had us down to finish 14th last season. Here's the latest odds............. http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/championship/winner
Great ................ if we don't already have enough problems happening, now they put the mocker on us with the 'favourites' tag'. We have a club that is currently without any form of unity. We have no idea what our eventual team will be come kick off. ( players have to go first before we can sign en masse. ) We are overloaded with expensive flops who'd rather be anywhere else than together at QPR. ..................... and they put us down as favourites ................ figure that one out. As a club fan, is it any wonder that some of us are found to be reliant of beverages laced with alcohol.
They are just covering themselves, we have the means to get promoted but it doesnt mean we will even finish in the top half as we are very likely to implode as well. In the PL, we had good odds to finish in the top half as well.
I wonder what odds Wolves were on last season for promotion after their relegation from Premier League? I imagine you would have got great odds on Wolves for relegation though, that turned out to be the case. I see they are 9/2 to win Division 1 with 8/5 for promotion. The Molineux stadium expansion project must seem like a bit of a white elephant right now mired in Division 1.
I think this is good news, whether its right or wrong. Opposition give you a tad more respect, set themselves up slightly differently, expect you to be a force. I'd take this rather than relegation favourites or also-rans.
Seems wise words. I just thought this was a bookies way of making money - making us favourites t win when, in fact , they know that is less likely than their odds. Am I wrong?
So we should be, on paper at least. We have a hugely expensive squad and a manager paid multiple times more than any other in the division. Unfortunately that doesn't mean they are any good, but we have a right to be very demanding.
Are you wrong, RTID? Probably not. What I do know for certain, however, is that the bookies rarely lose.
Who would be foolish to make this bet when the make up of our team for the season ahead isn't known yet.
might have a gamble on us this season, Harry was saying on talksport that probably 2/3 more players & i think thats about right this season up untill jan & see how we are.
...and yet the bookies do lose when the favourites (especially the heavily backed ones) win - which suggests they are either trying to dissuade people from backing us (by shortening the odds) or tempt people to back us by giving slightly better than average odds for a favourite knowing we haven't got a cats in hell's chance of winning the thing. Either way, I reckon to make us favourites is ludicrous.
I think we have to be on the button from the word go. It is quite a competitive league. How many teams will be thinking of one of the three promotion places this year?
Well, I see it no different to the year we were promoted. We got off to a flyer and never looked back. Confidence was up and stayed up all year. We need to replicate that.
As I said, they rarely lose. They may be forced to make large payouts when the favourite wins, but heavy backing drives the odds down whilst the odds for the outsider increases to attract betting. Over the course of the season you can be sure that the odds will be adjusted, adjusted and adjusted again such that the bookies will do just fine. I do agree, however, with the premise that early odds are set to stimulate betting, but they are also set by reference to monies already placed. One thing the bookies are not is frivolous.
Surely everyone needs to wait till the end of July and see what players have departed and which ones have been brought in? Till then...........it's all guess work.
I take the opposite view. When you are the favourite everyone wants to beat you. You become a big scalp that everyone wants. Some of the teams coming to LR this coming season will view this as their biggest away day of the year and subsequently be trying that much harder. With regards value for money it's a shocking bet. Whoever are favourites for the Championship should be 10-1 regardless of who it is!
