200/1

[Drover]

I have had constant smile on my face reading through the whole of this thread tonight,who would have thought we be where we are now.

[Colin C No.3]

Probably need 10 wins and a draw from our last 13 games to have a chance.

More chance Ironside scoring more than 10 goals from open play! 

Give a man a chance to hold his hands up (mind you it’s been 4 months or so) & admit he put his xg’s & ag’s above willpower, endeavour & spirit before having a dig!

Then again…..there’s only so long you can wait.

[hoolahoop]

There are too many others in that running for us to outrun them all and pinch that 7th spot.

I hope you’re wrong

[hoolahoop]

I have had constant smile on my face reading through the whole of this thread tonight,who would have thought we be where we are now.

I couldn’t help , like you, from reading through all these comments

[Pancho Regan]

Sometimes in life you have to ditch all the boring data and statistics and just believe.

It's much more fun.

[Campsall rover]

200/1 sounds about right.

It is possible of course but I won’t even be putting £1 on it.
Having said that i don’t ever bet on anything.

We would need to win 11 out of our last 13 games I would think to even have a chance.

If that happens it would be quite remarkable.

Let’s stop this silly talk and just be realistic which is a possible top 12 finish.

Oh dear
Can you believe that I posted something as daft as that.
This is a once in a life time achievement that Rovers have just done and it is not over yet.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Nobody could have possibly expected this outcome, because it simply doesn't happen.

We only won 10 on the bounce once before, in a season when we were breaking all the records of English football.

No team wins 29 points from its first 29 games, then 41 from the next 16. It just does not ever happen.

But it's happened to us.

You now have two choices.

1) Revel in the historic nature of what we are doing.

2) Dig at people who said 3 months ago that it couldn't happen.

Have a look at yourselves in the mirror and ask which choice you'd like to make.

[Colemans Left Hook]

Psssst  obviously you don't read my posts

https://www.drfc-vsc.co.uk/index.php?topic=290467.msg1299668#msg1299668


as i said i wasn't greedy 

winning 7 drawing 2 would give us 23 more points to add to  the 46 making 69 obviously  with an obviously improving goal difference   seems doable so long as Craig doesn't have a suspension or the goalie doesn't get injured

of course  8-0-1 yields 24  but I'm not greedy

5 home matches & 4 away to go

Barnsley steam rolled into the play offs a while ago and went up at Wembley in that year Altrincham knocked them out of the cup on a friday night when was it they were 2nd bottom in November

 

WE have simply copied what Exeter did that year when we threw the Title away and they rose from the bottom ( see my posts   on the they think 3/1 is all over thread     -only we started climbing a bit later

could say it was a new improved version of "Lazurus"

[ncRover]

Skybet promotion odds

MK Dons 11/8
Rovers 7/2
Crewe 4/1
Barrow 5/1
Crawley 9/1
Bradford 16/1

[i_ateallthepies]

There are too many others in that running for us to outrun them all and pinch that 7th spot.

I hope you’re wrong

Me too, Hoola but given our place in the table when I said it, the form that put us there and what it has taken to get us to where we are now my opinion back then wasn't unreasonable.

[Avsuptem]

Skybet promotion odds

MK Dons 11/8
Rovers 7/2
Crewe 4/1
Barrow 5/1
Crawley 9/1
Bradford 16/1

Bradford is the value bet there imho.

[GazLaz]

Nobody could have possibly expected this outcome, because it simply doesn't happen.

We only won 10 on the bounce once before, in a season when we were breaking all the records of English football.

No team wins 29 points from its first 29 games, then 41 from the next 16. It just does not ever happen.

But it's happened to us.

You now have two choices.

1) Revel in the historic nature of what we are doing.

2) Dig at people who said 3 months ago that it couldn't happen.

Have a look at yourselves in the mirror and ask which choice you'd like to make.

Pretty much this. Good luck to those people that live their life in hope of a 1 in 100 year event and when it’s right think they are always right. A stopped clock is right twice a day.

[Mike_F]

I'd like to think that most of it is good-natured and is part and parcel of the revelling.

[drfchound]

There are too many others in that running for us to outrun them all and pinch that 7th spot.

I hope you’re wrong

Me too, Hoola but given our place in the table when I said it, the form that put us there and what it has taken to get us to where we are now my opinion back then wasn't unreasonable.

I was another who thought it was not going to happen but also said I would be happy to be wrong.
I am very happy.

[Colin C No.3]

Nobody could have possibly expected this outcome, because it simply doesn't happen.

We only won 10 on the bounce once before, in a season when we were breaking all the records of English football.

No team wins 29 points from its first 29 games, then 41 from the next 16. It just does not ever happen.

But it's happened to us.

You now have two choices.

1) Revel in the historic nature of what we are doing.

2) Dig at people who said 3 months ago that it couldn't happen.

Have a look at yourselves in the mirror and ask which choice you'd like to make.

Pretty much this. Good luck to those people that live their life in hope of a 1 in 100 year event and when it’s right think they are always right. A stopped clock is right twice a day.

“You now have two choices”.

When did you become ‘headmaster’ of the forum!

As for the ‘stopped clock’ pearl of wisdom, I ‘looked at myself in the mirror’ after reading all the negative posts on here in January & thought to myself….

‘You have two choices now’.

1. Succumb to this avalanche of woe & step back from the forum.

2. Challenge the doom mongers because deep down you know things will turn around & that needs & is worth saying whether your posts become the instrument that has you ‘hoisted on your own petard’ come April or not.

I chose number 2.

Have a look in your mirrors.

[Jimmydee]

I had £10 on to be promoted via the play offs, that was in August before the season started, the odds with Corals were 9/2. I’ll take that if it means that we get promoted, I’ll not be too envious of the others on here that have the opportunity to cash in more than me.

[Campsall rover]

Nobody could have possibly expected this outcome, because it simply doesn't happen.

We only won 10 on the bounce once before, in a season when we were breaking all the records of English football.

No team wins 29 points from its first 29 games, then 41 from the next 16. It just does not ever happen.

But it's happened to us.

You now have two choices.

1) Revel in the historic nature of what we are doing.

2) Dig at people who said 3 months ago that it couldn't happen.

Have a look at yourselves in the mirror and ask which choice you'd like to make.

I am doing both BST including having a dig at myself.

I keep thinking I am dreaming all this and I will wake up to to the reality it never actually happened.

[Colemans Left Hook]

Psssst  obviously you don't read my posts

https://www.drfc-vsc.co.uk/index.php?topic=290467.msg1299668#msg1299668


as i said i wasn't greedy 

winning 7 drawing 2 would give us 23 more points to add to  the 46 making 69 obviously  with an obviously improving goal difference   seems doable so long as Craig doesn't have a suspension or the goalie doesn't get injured

of course  8-0-1 yields 24  but I'm not greedy

5 home matches & 4 away to go

Barnsley steam rolled into the play offs a while ago and went up at Wembley in that year Altrincham knocked them out of the cup on a friday night when was it they were 2nd bottom in November

 

WE have simply copied what Exeter did that year when we threw the Title away and they rose from the bottom ( see my posts   on the they think 3/1 is all over thread     -only we started climbing a bit later

could say it was a new improved version of "Lazurus"

talking of the "lazurus effect" whether we make the play offs or not SKY  have quickly produced the film

[karldew]

https://x.com/footballacca/status/1783241193180049549?s=46&t=NW2HQZbSZTCyeJVxHL-jUg

Well done Hutch whoever/wherever you are.

[Prez]

Skybet promotion odds

MK Dons 11/8
Rovers 7/2
Crewe 4/1
Barrow 5/1
Crawley 9/1
Bradford 16/1

Bradford is the value bet there imho.

Bradford are shocking value at 16/1. Need to double that price and more realistically.

[roversdude]

https://x.com/footballacca/status/1783241193180049549?s=46&t=NW2HQZbSZTCyeJVxHL-jUg

Well done Hutch whoever/wherever you are.

Good effort I’ve a fair chunk to pick up for top half, but more for top 7 and a decent chunk if we go up - not quite that amount though

[Colemans Left Hook]

Nobody could have possibly expected this outcome, because it simply doesn't happen.

We only won 10 on the bounce once before, in a season when we were breaking all the records of English football.

No team wins 29 points from its first 29 games, then 41 from the next 16. It just does not ever happen.

But it's happened to us.

You now have two choices.

1) Revel in the historic nature of what we are doing.

2) Dig at people who said 3 months ago that it couldn't happen.

Have a look at yourselves in the mirror and ask which choice you'd like to make.

Pretty much this. Good luck to those people that live their life in hope of a 1 in 100 year event and when it’s right think they are always right. A stopped clock is right twice a day.

i was shocked at Gaz's post   for the record   i sent him an email a few years ago around midnight telling him to back Claudio Ranieri to be the next manager to be sacked (i think the odds were 20/1) IRONICALLY THE BET WAS WITH THE BOOKMAKER WHO SPONSORED LEICESTER !!! and i staked the max amount allowed during the night - At the time he seemed the one most jemmed up  on betting. I notice after I did well in the P & O his annual presence is in absentia. So I thought I would share my belief -

I can imagine him as a bookmaker the day Dettori won all 7 races at AScot and laying Dettori for mor and more money as he kept on winning (it was impossible on form for the last horse to win - by the way but it was "allowed" to

Gary Wiltshire went bankrupt laying all 7 winners

https://www.skysports.com/racing/news/12040/10594373/bookmaker-gary-wiltshire-recalls-losing-1million-on-frankie-dettoris-magnificent-seven

both him and BST were spurting out rubbish over the last couple of months  - I thought just let them keep on digging the hole - leave em to it
  I have seen and profited from the "Lazurus effect" even before Gaz Laz was born
YOU WERE WARNED WITH MY REASONS WHY CRAIG WAS FAR TOO GOOD FOR THIS LEAGUE - REMEMBER SEAN O'DRICOLL GOT JERMAIN DEFOE ON LOAN AT BOURNEMOUTH (4TH DIVISION)AND ACTUALLY APOLOGISED TO A MANAGER WHEN RINGER DEFOE  KEPT ON SCORING

  The team he is from, and the level he played at although briefly showing they think he is near to the level they want him at at a young age, I don't think he will be here to make our bench, especially after a defeat last weekend.
  We will be a stepping stone for him to play at a higher standard next season, and if I was a betting man I would be on him to play most matches like Faal injury allowing.

Assuming that you maybe  a betting man what odds would you give him be selected more than 10 matches (from the start)?

10/1  meaning you bet £10 to win £1 and I'm being generous
it's obvious he should have gone to a League one team not a League 2 team ( let's  forget about that "dud Thomas " we signed from them who they soon released)  - Craig signed a long term deal in the Summer of 2023 as I said.

and it's obvious we splashed the cash (plus the joker card playing)  to outbid  league one teams

I have been watching Plymouth for 3 years now seeing how they splash the cash to fill half the team with top quality loanees --- GRANT KNOWS THIS TRICK AS WELL AND HAS GOT THE T_SHIRT -- easy if you have the pennies

:::Plymouth have just taken a tottenham 18 year old on loan as a couple of their loanees have been recalled :  let's call it a library book team 

remember  our joker card - in that Mason knows we are a family club with a Championship Stadium and pitch - we have a reputation for not playing "hoof ball land of the giants " football and we helped his career



the joker card ?

"In August 2010, Mason was loaned for the first time to Championship team Doncaster Rovers on a two-month loan deal,[15] and made five appearances.[16] Then in January 2011, he was loaned back to Doncaster until the end of the season[17] and made a further ten appearances.[16]

On 28 July 2011, Mason signed a new two-year contract with Tottenham, keeping him at the club until June 2013. He was then immediately loaned back to Doncaster on a season-long loan.[18][19] Mason was recalled back to Tottenham in November 2011 after making five appearances since the start of the season.[20] On 29 December 2011, Mason and teammate Harry Kane agreed a loan deal with Championship club Millwall from 1 January until the end of the season.[21]"

Mason will remember the circumstances of his recall ? (was he injured ?)

Season changing loan ??  me thinx yes

now what are those odds

ps don't forget to view the image added

[GazLaz]

If I could meet one person of this forum it would be CLH. Other worldly.

[RedRover]

So it turns out I can cash out! Currently at £805.33. £3000 plus my £20 stake back if I stick it out and we achieve promotion.
 Anyone with more betting experience than me know or have any idea what I could expect to be offered to cash out assuming we beath Crewe over 2 legs?

[knockers]

Approx £1800

[RedRover]

Approx £1800

Don't wanna seem like I lack confidence in Grant and the players but if we get past Crewe I'll probably cash out so I can just enjoy the day out in London.

[Monkcaster_Rover]

Approx £1800

Don't wanna seem like I lack confidence in Grant and the players but if we get past Crewe I'll probably cash out so I can just enjoy the day out in London.

Think I’ll chuck a few quid on whoever we end up playing so it’s a win win (of sorts).

[BillyStubbsTears]

So it turns out I can cash out! Currently at £805.33. £3000 plus my £20 stake back if I stick it out and we achieve promotion.
 Anyone with more betting experience than me know or have any idea what I could expect to be offered to cash out assuming we beath Crewe over 2 legs?

£805 is a reasonable cash out figure.

To insure yourself by doing it yourself, you'd need to bet enough on the other three contenders to guarantee you'd make £3020 whoever goes up.

The required stakes at the best available odds would be

MK: £1208 at 6/4
Crewe: £503.33 at 5/1
Crawley: £464.62 at 11/2.

So your total insurance stake would be £2175.95.

And therefore your profit would be £844.05.

In practice, I doubt any bookies would accept a £1200 bet on MK Dons from a regular punter. So £805 cash out offer isn't a bad compromise.

If we do beat Crewe, I'd expect your cash out offer to go to £1200-1300 if we played MK in the final, and maybe £1800-2000 if we played Crawley.