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Quite an interesting read, originally posted by Kiwiqpr.
Hope the fella is spot on
The bookies say…
Professional odds compiler Owen Goulding offers the bookies’ perspective on the remainder of the season.
With 13 games left, it's looking like a five horse race in the battle to avoid relegation. Bookmakers and punters alike are frantically predicting results for each of the teams down there in a bid to find who will be playing under the Npower guise next year. Wigan are the current favourites at 1/3 and this seems about right to me. For every one step forward they make, they tend to take two steps back - Martinez performed the great escape last year, but this season I just can’t see it.
Blackburn, Bolton and Wolves are all priced at 4/6 for relegation. In my opinion, Wolves are the worst squad of the lot. Djibril Cisse helped McCarthy keep his job a bit longer but the truth is he should have gone long before. The team that has represented Wolves in recent weeks would only be a slightly above average Championship side in my opinion. Kevin Foley, David Edwards, Christophe Berra are very average. In fact, bar Kevin Doyle and Steve Fletcher, you would be hard pushed to find another player from Molineux that any other manager currently down there would want.
Which brings me on to QPR. QPR now have a whole host of players who the other four managers around them would kill for. This in part explains why QPR are rated by the bookies as the least likely of the five teams to be relegated. A current price of 5/4 means they are the only team of the five currently odds AGAINST for relegation. I know QPR fans aren't as confident, but it is definitely the case that Rangers have by far the best squad of the five on paper. A lot will depend on the influence of Diakite as the injury to Faurlin has been massive and Rangers are crying out for an all-energy ball winning midfielder.
Can anyone else be involved in the battle to avoid the drop? Well Stoke and Aston Villa look like candidates for the obligatory tumble down the table, but with the bottom five so far detached, I am discounting anyone else. I expect Wigan to go, I think with their current squad, even Paul Daniels would struggle to magic Wolves out of a return to the Championship. Which for me leaves one of three. Bolton have a little bit too much in their locker as I see it- QPR could easily get it together with the quality of players they have - especially with Diakite to come in and Taarabt currently displaying more tricks than Wayne Dobson. One twisted ankle for Yakubu coupled with a very difficult run in for Blackburn tips the balance for me. So its Wigan, Wolves and Blackburn - and you'll struggle to find a bookmaker who disagrees. Let’s hope the bookies have got it right
Hope the fella is spot on
The bookies say…
Professional odds compiler Owen Goulding offers the bookies’ perspective on the remainder of the season.
With 13 games left, it's looking like a five horse race in the battle to avoid relegation. Bookmakers and punters alike are frantically predicting results for each of the teams down there in a bid to find who will be playing under the Npower guise next year. Wigan are the current favourites at 1/3 and this seems about right to me. For every one step forward they make, they tend to take two steps back - Martinez performed the great escape last year, but this season I just can’t see it.
Blackburn, Bolton and Wolves are all priced at 4/6 for relegation. In my opinion, Wolves are the worst squad of the lot. Djibril Cisse helped McCarthy keep his job a bit longer but the truth is he should have gone long before. The team that has represented Wolves in recent weeks would only be a slightly above average Championship side in my opinion. Kevin Foley, David Edwards, Christophe Berra are very average. In fact, bar Kevin Doyle and Steve Fletcher, you would be hard pushed to find another player from Molineux that any other manager currently down there would want.
Which brings me on to QPR. QPR now have a whole host of players who the other four managers around them would kill for. This in part explains why QPR are rated by the bookies as the least likely of the five teams to be relegated. A current price of 5/4 means they are the only team of the five currently odds AGAINST for relegation. I know QPR fans aren't as confident, but it is definitely the case that Rangers have by far the best squad of the five on paper. A lot will depend on the influence of Diakite as the injury to Faurlin has been massive and Rangers are crying out for an all-energy ball winning midfielder.
Can anyone else be involved in the battle to avoid the drop? Well Stoke and Aston Villa look like candidates for the obligatory tumble down the table, but with the bottom five so far detached, I am discounting anyone else. I expect Wigan to go, I think with their current squad, even Paul Daniels would struggle to magic Wolves out of a return to the Championship. Which for me leaves one of three. Bolton have a little bit too much in their locker as I see it- QPR could easily get it together with the quality of players they have - especially with Diakite to come in and Taarabt currently displaying more tricks than Wayne Dobson. One twisted ankle for Yakubu coupled with a very difficult run in for Blackburn tips the balance for me. So its Wigan, Wolves and Blackburn - and you'll struggle to find a bookmaker who disagrees. Let’s hope the bookies have got it right
whereas Bolton dont seem to have any such players.
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