Latest Championship Relegation Odds

[The Laughing Bluebird]

Roll up, roll up! Here are the latest odds from Bet365.com:

Nottingham Forest 4/9
Gillingham 8/13
Coventry City 13/8
Cardiff City 2/1
Plymouth Argyle 5/1
Crewe Alexandra 8/1
Brighton & Hove Albion 12/1
Leicester City 25/1

(Rotherham United - no offers)

 

[DTES]

A 1-0 win over Sheff Utd at the weekend, and your odds get shorter. Although Gills & Forest both won, I'd have thought it would indicate you're not falling apart on the pitch...

 

[Brighton till i die]

(Rotherham United - no offers)

thats a shame - i wanted to put a grand on them!!

 

[n1 gull]

Where are these odds from?
Crewe at 8/1 might be worth a punt, as they're rubbish at the moment

 

[The Laughing Bluebird]

A 1-0 win over Sheff Utd at the weekend, and your odds get shorter.

As predicted by a certain NSC contributor on Friday morning!

It was great win over Sheffield, thoroughly deserved and a very emotional occasion. But a couple of things to bear in mind are the fact that Sheffield were abysmal on the day (amazingly so), and we are looking certain to sell more players this week. The local papers are speculating that as many as nine could go before the transfer dealine on March 24th.

On Saturday we had an 18 year-old kid and a reserve midfielder up front, and a 17 year-old in the centre of midfield in place of Kavanagh (and he scored the winner!). That sort of line-up isn't going to win us too many more games at this level.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Roll up, roll up! Here are the latest odds from Bet365.com:

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Cardiff City 2/1
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Top man Dave! You were 100% on top of your game in your 'Urgent' thread posted on Friday. Cardiff @ 7/2 did indeed represent well good odds following the upheaval in the club, and your advice was well ahead of the game. Guess there must have been something in today's Racing Post, or something equally influential somewhere else, to make the odds plummet like that today - especially in the light of an unlikely-looking Cardiff win at the weekend. So - yup! - all of those who plonked on Cardiff to go down of Friday on the advice of TLB have a sporting chance of being quids in Tho hopefully not at the expense of Cardiff going belly-up. Cos Fans United DOES mean something, and it don't pick and choose. Good luck mate.

 

[sullyupthewing]

If Cardiff go into admin and are deducted 10 points and they are relegated because of this would the bookies still pay out.

 

[sully]

If Cardiff go into admin and are deducted 10 points and they are relegated because of this would the bookies still pay out.

I don't see that they can avoid it.

The bet was for them to get relegated, there were no "ifs" or "buts" attached, as far as I could see.

Hopefully.

Not that I'd like to see them relegated that way, you understand. It would just improve my bank balance.

 

[sullyupthewing]

With that threat of admin I am very tempted to have a punt, but I wlill have to read the small print first.

 

[lincs seagull]

Plymouth for me yes two good wins latly but gills and forest look able to escape

 

[The Laughing Bluebird]

With that threat of admin I am very tempted to have a punt, but I wlill have to read the small print first.

If you backed Cardiff to go down, we went into administration and got relegated as a result you would defintely get paid out. No doubt about it.

A word of warning though - I honestly believe administration is unlikely as it wouldn't suit either Sam Hammam or the other board members who are allegedly now bidding to take control from him.

What is far more likely to happen is that more players will be sold so that Hammam can pay the wages and retain power until the new stadium business is settled one way or the other, and that is likely to be around May or June.

Our entire squad has been put up for sale, and enquiries have apparently been received about James Collins (West Ham), Peter Thorne (Nottingham Forest), Chris Barker and Paul Parry (Stoke City), Darren Williams (Hull City), Andy Campbell (Darlington and Bristol City), Stuart Fleetwood (Reading), Tony Vidmar (Sunderland) and Jobi McAnuff (Sunderland and Leicester City). Also, Junichi Inamoto looks certain to return to West Brom when his loan spell ends in a couple of weeks.

Of course, something dramatic might happen soon and the squad may remain intact, but Lennie Lawrence already seems resigned to losing more players if his recent interviews are anything to go by.

 

[sullyupthewing]

I think I will give backing Cardiff to go down a miss I will save my money for Cheltenham.

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

12/1 seems a fairly reasonable price, to be honest. I can see Forest staying up ... any idea what you can get on them doing so?

 

[LANGDON SEAGULL]

Good price on Leicester, 25-1, only 5 points clear and with a cup run to distract them.

 

[Eddie the Seagull]

I'm tempted to stick a monkey on us - 6 grand compo to soften the blow

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Not a good idea to sell your best players if you want to avoid relegation but obviously survival is more important so Cardiff have no choice. But how have things got so bad ..The Laughing Bluebird? Is it just Sam Hamman's incompetence?

Crewe are looking vulnerable. I might have a few quid on them to go down. Forest will stay up.

But we're not there yet despite all the ludricous threads about play-offs last week. It would be so typical of the Albion to get involved in a real relegtaion struggle now after looking relatively safe for so long. If we lose on Saturday and everyone else wins, we're right back in it so we must get something at Plymouth.

 

[The Laughing Bluebird]

Well we're playing away at Coventry, George, so everybody else can't win! The Cardiff situation is complex, but basically it's been brought about as a result of a combination of financial incompetence from Hammam and delays to the new stadium project. It is now being further complicated by a boardroom power struggle, so there's all sorts going on!

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Well we're playing away at Coventry, George, so everybody else can't win! The Cardiff situation is complex, but basically it's been brought about as a result of a combination of financial incompetence from Hammam and delays to the new stadium project. It is now being further complicated by a boardroom power struggle, so there's all sorts going on!

Ok so you're playing at Cov but you know what I mean. Albion do have an uncanny knack of cocking things up just when it looks like we're going to be fine and, it has to be said, vica-versa. Hope things work out for you at Cardiff. Obviously, we know what it's like to go through the finanical mire ( and some!) due to an incompetent board.

 

[saafend_seagull]

Crewe is the best value for money bet there.

They have a tough run in and haven't won since new years day.

 

[Bwian]

Well we're playing away at Coventry, George, so everybody else can't win! The Cardiff situation is complex, but basically it's been brought about as a result of a combination of financial incompetence from Hammam and delays to the new stadium project. It is now being further complicated by a boardroom power struggle, so there's all sorts going on!

I'm confused. I thought Hammam had loads of money-why does he need to sell players to keep the club going and retain control? Somebody that is able to buy TWO football clubs (and sell one at way over the market price) surely doesn't become financially incompetent all of a sudden?