We'll start Underdogs

doggerel · Post: # 824972Post **doggerel** » Sat 19 Sep 2009 10:51pm

Latest Betfair odds for premiership (start of 4th Qtr Cats v Pies):

Cats $1.82
Saints $2.12
Pies $100

saintsRrising · Sat 19 Sep 2009 10:55pm

That will be due to SJ having had an ok game.

perfectionist · Sat 19 Sep 2009 11:09pm

Bit surprised we are not $6.00! We might drift a bit during the week.

degruch · Post: # 825023Post **degruch** » Sat 19 Sep 2009 11:11pm

perfectionist wrote:Bit surprised we are not $6.00! We might drift a bit during the week.

I'd have a go at that! The odds are based on what the punters splurge on instead of (a) our position, (b) our opposition, (c) the fact that we're better.

The Saintsational Man · Sat 19 Sep 2009 11:19pm

The game should start @ $1.91 even.

Can't seperate the two.

ace · Post: # 825053Post **ace** » Sat 19 Sep 2009 11:21pm

Underdogs but we finished on top of the dogs.

3rd generation saint · Sat 19 Sep 2009 11:54pm

Let them be favourites, they we're in round 14, let Ablett win the brownlow, I'm not interested in individual awards.
Let their supporters talk themselves into invincibility, but talk is cheap.
I KNOW WE CAN WIN.

degruch · Post: # 825181Post **degruch** » Sat 19 Sep 2009 11:59pm

ace wrote:Underdogs but we finished on top of the dogs.

Overdogs?

SainterK · Post: # 830142Post **SainterK** » Wed 23 Sep 2009 4:51pm

I don't know anything about this kind of thing, but $1.60 for the cats to win....one would assume they are the favourites?

shmic_s · Post: # 830149Post **shmic_s** » Wed 23 Sep 2009 4:59pm

the odds should be around even. but geelong are the 'bookies' favourite, as they are holding 12 months worth of bets on them.
any higher odds, and geelong have an 'unlikely' gf win, the bookies will be eating 2 minute noodles and sleeping under bridges till they get their accounts back into the black.

matrix · Post: # 830160Post **matrix** » Wed 23 Sep 2009 5:16pm

SainterK wrote:I don't know anything about this kind of thing, but $1.60 for the cats to win....one would assume they are the favourites?

yeah mate
put a buck down to get back a dollar sixty.
buck on us gets ya 2.20 back

lenny is 11 bucks for the norm smith!!
get on him!!!

Stillwaiting · Wed 23 Sep 2009 5:24pm

degruch wrote:
ace wrote:Underdogs but we finished on top of the dogs.

Overdogs?[/quote

And we kicked the cats during the season

degruch · Post: # 830181Post **degruch** » Wed 23 Sep 2009 5:30pm

Stillwaiting wrote:
degruch wrote:
ace wrote:Underdogs but we finished on top of the dogs.
Overdogs?[/quote

And we kicked the cats during the season

So, underdogs and overcats?

spert · Post: # 830185Post **spert** » Wed 23 Sep 2009 5:33pm

Ablett wins Brownlow, Cats win easily against second-rate opposition last week, we are the top team and have won our two finals..it all adds up..we're underdogs

degruch · Post: # 830187Post **degruch** » Wed 23 Sep 2009 5:36pm

spert wrote:Ablett wins Brownlow, Cats win easily against second-rate opposition last week, we are the top team and have won our two finals..it all adds up..we're underdogs

Geelong are favourites with the punters...this is purely money talking. We are the top team, Geelong will be doing the chasing IMO.

widereceiver · Wed 23 Sep 2009 5:41pm

Lenny isn't going to win the Norm without us taking the flag. That would be the perfect double for me.

Sainternist · Wed 23 Sep 2009 5:49pm

I am A OK with Geelong getting most of the media spotlight and been given "favourites" status. This places tremendous pressure on them. All we need to do is go about our preparation quietly and come out with the fully pronged arsenal on Saturday.

Me thinks there'll be some sphincters tightening down in Sleepy Hollow

matrix · Post: # 830206Post **matrix** » Wed 23 Sep 2009 5:51pm

widereceiver wrote:Lenny isn't going to win the Norm without us taking the flag. That would be the perfect double for me.

thats why he'll win it

Stillwaiting · Wed 23 Sep 2009 5:51pm

degruch wrote:
Stillwaiting wrote:
degruch wrote:
ace wrote:Underdogs but we finished on top of the dogs.
Overdogs?[/quote

And we kicked the cats during the season
So, underdogs and overcats?

Underdogs, over cats and allround cat killers

StSteven · Post: # 830335Post **StSteven** » Wed 23 Sep 2009 7:31pm

I must say I am astonished. Two weeks ago we were the team everyone loved. Listening to SEN today most people were picking Cats to win. It is not just the money. How did this happen......it sh**s me really. I was enjoing being "top of the heap".

Stillwaiting · Wed 23 Sep 2009 7:37pm

StSteven wrote:I must say I am astonished. Two weeks ago we were the team everyone loved. Listening to SEN today most people were picking Cats to win. It is not just the money. How did this happen......it sh**s me really. I was enjoing being "top of the heap".

Shytes me to, I think it has to do with 1, we took out the dogs, and 2 we are no longer the loosers, its always easy to have a second favorite team that is not a threat, but now they all realise we will win the flag, and theydont like it

widereceiver · Wed 23 Sep 2009 8:10pm

StSteven wrote:I must say I am astonished. Two weeks ago we were the team everyone loved. Listening to SEN today most people were picking Cats to win. It is not just the money. How did this happen......it sh**s me really. I was enjoing being "top of the heap".

I think most of these people bought the myth of the Pie. They were pumped up by the media who said they were the "form" team, the most likely to challenge us. In reality, the Pie had a soft run, as they always do. I always thought it would be us v the Cats, though for a while last Friday thought the Dogs would oust us. The Cats are the next best side, without question in my mind, as was borne out by their position on the ladder.

The Cats dispatched Pois very impressively after we had beaten the crap out of the Pois one week, followed by a tough and courageous win against the Craw the next. I doubt the Cats will be able to do the same to us.

I was hoping to go through the season undefeated so I could order my tattoo with a bloody big 25 on top. I will happily settle for a 1 point win against a worthy opponent on Saturday arvo, followed by a year of gracious, supercilious smiling at those who-
a: said our premiership window closed three years ago.
b. tipped Geelong on the basis of a thrashing of an inferior team.

plugger66 · Post: # 830434Post **plugger66** » Wed 23 Sep 2009 8:32pm

Money decides the bookmakers favourite. Other people picking against us doesnt matter at all. It just means that hopefully more will be wrong than right come 5.30 Saturday.

Milton66 · Post: # 830443Post **Milton66** » Wed 23 Sep 2009 8:35pm

plugger66 wrote:Money decides the bookmakers favourite. Other people picking against us doesnt matter at all. It just means that hopefully more will be wrong than right come 5.30 Saturday.

Exactly. All it takes is a $100k splurge from a saint and watch them change.

$2+ is a good bet IMO.

StSteven · Post: # 830479Post **StSteven** » Wed 23 Sep 2009 8:55pm

The Cats dispatched Pois very impressively after we had beaten the crap out of the Pois one week, followed by a tough and courageous win against the Craw the next. I doubt the Cats will be able to do the same to us.

Does the same logic apply to us. That is Cats beat the crap out of Dogs but we could only just beat them.

I hope not.