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That wasn't hard to achieve.

We should be top of the league now!

Standards at this football club is low but come the end of the season I feel we will be in the top 3.

 

Too true mate but this is why I feel the WOAP article is too early.

School report on Bradford City so far is 6/10. Bowyer 4/10.

 

Fordy is just joking he says things to get a bite

 

Tease em’ with a bitta bullsht.

 

Use a midget

 

I bet you one isn't going to happen.

 

What makes you think he isn't wanting to achieve top 3?

 

Did you go to VP last season...?

 

So you smile once every 9 months? What an awful life you live.

 

You simply don't understand how odds are compiled.

It isn't based on likelihood of an outcome, it's based on likelihood of bets being placed.

"Odds compiling was more about knowing the punters and their habits than the actual percentage probability of outcomes. Even now this particular area is the difference between bookmaking and punting. Bookmakers have to anticipate money flow whereas the punter has to determine the probability of outcomes and find value."

https://medium.com/@TrademateSports/how-bookmakers-create-their-odds-from-a-former-odds-compiler-5b36b4937439

 

Spot on for me, this.

Morecambe is the first time this season I've seriously thought we might smash a few past a side - and I hope that happens, to add a little more positivity to the team and fanbase. Most games have been hard-fought and fairly close affairs - and I expect that will continue for some time.

The criticism until recently was we had got some results without performing 'well' - I have a sneaking suspicion that criticism might reoccur throughout the season, but what matters is that we're in the top seven at the business end of the season.

 

My aim and the clubs aim should be top 3.

Name 3 better sides or sides that should be in the automatic places?

Not wanting the risk of the play offs. Automatic is the aim anything less is failure.

 

Oh is @Andy Pringle a banned one that's here on a different name that the mods @king karl haven't figured.

 

Yet the way this division is don't be surprised if we come away empty handed on Saturday, then we'll see another shift of views. There isn't one standout team in this division, the top six will look different to what it is now come the end of the season.

 

No nerves touched pal. I don’t think your post was being critical and I certainly get a lot worse stick from others. I just found it strange to read a long message about what my motives and agenda were, when there weren’t any. I’m a simple man with simple ambitions – I wanted to write an article about the curve of improvement, and to give Bowyer some praise. The end.



So I just found your post odd, that’s all. It feels like you’re looking for hidden meaning that isn’t there. You give me too much credit.



On your question about did the poor start cause Gary Bowyer to change his squad building and should I write an article on it, I haven’t seen it that way at all so I guess it doesn’t make sense. All summer long after making those 10 initial signings, Bowyer said he wasn’t done with signings, and that it would go right to the end of the transfer window. It was very obvious he was waiting for players to go out (I think the T&A said as much) to free up wages with the old Financial Fair Play rules. So once Scannell and Doyle left, it meant he could bring in players he had lined up. A good example is Callum Cooke, who it was commonly known was lined up to come in but couldn’t be signed until players moved on.



So I guess to me it is an obvious narrative because it has been well-publicised. The angle you’re hinting at, did he panic and make signings, I would say it more like the 2015/16 season when Phil Parkinson had built a squad in the summer, we had a terrible start, so Lawn and Rhodes allowed him to bring in Davante Cole, Lee Evans, Reece Burke and Kyel Reid – that to me is an obvious example of clearly changing path. I don’t see Bowyer having done that this time.

 

Glad I signed up to this site


I’m sure those that run this site will be able to confirm I’m not a banned user

 

You’re wrong mate