Saints aiming to beat the bookies (From Daily Echo)

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  MGRA wrote:
  just a caviat here on how bookies work.. their goal here is to stop vast amounts of money being won on triple bet relegation combinations. Compared to betting on other sports, this is a relatively easy bet to win a lot of money on. A couple of bookies almost went under on relegation triples a couple of years back. So, to prevent this and to balance the risk they issue these early odds set as they know full well that come August , the new odds will relflect more reality and that come christmas ( another time betting on this sort of combo is popular ) a third balancing phase takes place. So when they do their sums then they know whoever goes down they will be quid in for the triples... If you talk to those close to football rather than betting, No-one is saying Saints are probable relegation material, and that before a single dime has been spent. Reading also are not being talked about in that way either... Most pundits seem to think its WBA, swansea and Wigan who are favourites for the drop.

  How on earth is that going to stop people betting on combinations!? lol
  
  It will take a brave person to make those kind of bets a week after the last season has finished anyway.
  
  The bookies are going on where the money is going. So at the moment a lot of people seem to be betting against saints. Fair enough, they probs still see us as that small team who used to struggle in the lower half of the prem...
  
  Also I don't think any respectable pundit would be making such rash judgements. Show me a quote from someone with good football knowledge, I dare you!"
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