Happy new year to 1 and all, and welcome to this years betting thread, and another year of profit.

May aswell start with an overpriced speculative bet.

Liverpool to be relagated. 35/1 betfair. Take away the top 4 and West Ham, and the rest are utter dross, negative and boring. Liverpool are priced on name alone.

Take away Hodgson and Liverpool would be nowhere near getting relegated.

Mind, my pre-season bet was Newcastle to go down

Can't see it happening to be fair, even if Hodgson remains in charge for the remainder of the season. 35/1 is too high though considering the clueless idiot we have at the helm.

Had a good end to last season with NZ winning the Four Nations. Hopefully be another profitable year of NRL betting, no real interest in the long term markets just bet on individual games.

already in profit due to the 7/4 i got on england regaining the ashes...which will be spent lying on a beach in egypt as from tomorrow.
as for up and coming season take whoever plays quins on the handicap.
and watch the once mighty leeds slide even further down the pan..

right back to watching the ashes got a few quid on 3-1..c,mon england

just had a quick look at odds checker and the MM h.caps are out..
-6 cup winners 09.10 v hudds +6
-6 cats v quins +6
-2 cas v wakey +2
-2 wigan v saints +2
-4 salford v crusaders +4
+6 brad v leeds -6
-4 hull v hull kr +4

these odds will vary with certain bookies and no doubt change..
get on cats -6
cas -2
+6 brad.

Sorry but Hudds +6 is a steal if you ask me !! First game of the season always back the +

Would have to agree, Wire/ hudds is a scratch game in my book.
was hoping for a bigger start for Wakey, I made it Cas +2.

Does anybody do the Football Accumalator's and have any tips for tomorrow, FA Cup weekend. I've been doing them every week for the past six months and have won only once, £96.

Just doing English teams i always seem to lose so i have started doing "goals galore"(both teams to score) at Betfred which comes in now and again. Another thing i have started to do is pick the top two from each English division to win and then add teams from around the world that hardly lose such as Anderlect, Barca and Madrid.

Made an exception for the fa cup games however and gone for..

Sunderland ( v Notts county)
Watford ( v Hartlepool)
Chelsea ( v Ipswich)
Bolton ( v York)
Tottenham ( v Charlton)
Burnley ( v Port Vale)
Huddersfield ( v Dover)
Norwich ( v Leyton Orient)

How much do you put on it? I always do the goals galore will Whilliam Hills but don't ever seem to get good odds, this weekend I've gone for:

Wigan to bt Hull
Norwich to bt Leyton Orient
Reading to draw with West Brom
Swansea to bt Colchester
Liverpool to bt United
Derby to bt Crawley

Goals galore:

Bristol City V Sheff Wed
Coventry V C Palace
Doncaster V Wolves
Hull V Wigan
Reading V West Brom
Southampton V Blackpool

Wildcard, all draws:

Blackburn V QPR
Brighton V Porstmouth
Lincoln V Hereford
Torquay V Carlise
West Ham V Barnsley

Millwall, QPR, Brighton, Hull, Sheff Utd, Southampton, Reading, Cardiff all to beat opposition from higher divisions in tomorrow's FA Cup 1st round.

Odds of 5050/1 so will probably never come off but you have to dream.

Also got a few quid on Adam Hammill first goal scorer in the West Ham v Barnsley game @ 11/1.

What bookies is that from?

Millwall, Brighton, Hull, Southampton and Reading are all favourites to win their respective matches...

Burton Albion @ 5/2 to beat Middlesboro and Barnsley 5/1 to beat West Ham stand out for me tomorrow.

Dont bother,if you want to bet on football then do the lower leagues.

I do the lower leagues aswell, just don't be seem to having no luck, I pick about five or six results, and three or four always leg me.

Football imo is not worth wasting your money on. IF you need to bet try something different,or the greyhounds.

I just like doing the accumulators each weekend and on the odd occassion I'll bet on the horses. Not much of a gambler myself.

At Betfred i think its 17/1 for 5 teams both to score so i usually put a couple of quid on that and then around a fiver on an accumilator. When you do goals galore you will be best doing league 1 and league 2. Good teams for a goals galore bet are usually Peterborough, Morecambe and Tottenham

I know they are dirge, but different comp and no pressure.

Liverpool to beat Manure 1-0 @ 18/1
Liverpool to beat Manure 2-1 @ 24/1

Ah well, goes to show you can't polish a turd. Manure never had to try, Liverpool were just embarressing, no cohesion or patience, and now no Gerrard for a few games. Dalglish has his work cut out.

Still, morethan happy with my relagation bet

Embarrassing? Managing to keep United at bay at OT for over half the game with ten men? We were comitted and showed good effort.

The penalty was a farce.

Did anyone actually win on a fa cup accumilator then?

Nope, bleeding Norwich!

I had Burton, Brighton, Southampton, Bolton and Burnley. Unfortunately I too had Norwich. And Sunderland.

I had Bristol City, QPR, West Brom and Brighton vs Pompey to be a draw. I don't think that I should bet anymore...