August 7, 2025 • 40 mins
We've had the League One and League Two, now it's time for the Championship to return.
Despite the EFL's top tier being back in action, the This Week's Acca team of Tom Carnduff, Joe Townsend and the returning James 'Jimmy the Punt' Cantrill choose to focus on matchday two after reflecting on a tough slate.
They build a treble for Saturday afternoon's 3pm games and discuss their reasons for backing them - and reasons for avoiding others.
If you enjoyed the show, head to our profile and check out our Season Acca covering all leagues, as well as individual previews of League Two, League One, Championship and Premier League (from Sunday).
THIS WEEK'S EFL! We will then be reviewing the action on a Monday before looking ahead to the weekend with our usual Thursday episode as we build a Saturday acca, enhanced by Sky Bet.
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Despite the EFL's top tier being back in action, the This Week's Acca team of Tom Carnduff, Joe Townsend and the returning James 'Jimmy the Punt' Cantrill choose to focus on matchday two after reflecting on a tough slate.
They build a treble for Saturday afternoon's 3pm games and discuss their reasons for backing them - and reasons for avoiding others.
If you enjoyed the show, head to our profile and check out our Season Acca covering all leagues, as well as individual previews of League Two, League One, Championship and Premier League (from Sunday).
THIS WEEK'S EFL! We will then be reviewing the action on a Monday before looking ahead to the weekend with our usual Thursday episode as we build a Saturday acca, enhanced by Sky Bet.
Don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss an episode, as well as hitting like and commenting with your thoughts.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the this Week's Aco podcast sponsored by sky
Bet aka Freeze, Tom, Jimmy and Joe with you to
run through the schedule coming up on this episode. Then
the Championship of course returns as the staggered start to
the season. This weird way we're going about it carries on,
so we'll be looking at that alongside the League one
and leak to action to build our accumulator.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Please, if you haven't already already.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Subscribed to the channel to ensure that you never miss
an episode and remember to keep it fun.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Never bet more you can afford.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
This podcast is eighteen plus, Please gamble responsibly. We're in
a we're still learn in the studio again to put
more pressure on producer on to get builded. But we're
here in this room that we found in and we're
in a weird straight line. If you're not watching on YouTube,
so speak to Joe. I've got to kind of lean around.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
We're all going to have saw next after this. Aren't
we craning? But I've got to lean round.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Finally, a third member of the podcast, Yeah, thank god,
Hath returned as Sick of the Sight back from the
dead and much to the Delight of at Bolton's Sea
on YouTube. I think it was who produced a comment
saying not the best idea to start an acta podcast
proclaiming best two tipsters are here. I didn't proclaim that
(01:14):
someone else on the podcast did that produce was terrible.
I was just reading a script, Bring back Jimmy, Bring
back Jimmy, and you know what we've done. We turned
up Hello jim Rodd, Hello, where the hell have you been?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Very well?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I sted to go into all the medical details for us, please,
in every element of it, full diagnosis or what the lot?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Well. I think I was only once for the others.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Lasted a few days and then I didn't want to
come in Monday because when missus got it over the weekend,
didn't want to infect everyone. But I was good to
miss out on the first of a new series.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
That you started.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
We've started, Yes, we've started EFL Joe Tallis morockanised it.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Yeah, I'm sure that because I've got a tracker on
Jimmy's phone and he was I'm sure I was in
London all all week and.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
We did say last week.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
The email he sent us was suspiciously well rounded on
the time for a scheduled email.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, well I went.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I went to it's weak because I went to bed
that night and I thought I'll just email them now because.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I don't feel right. And then I got up them
a few times in the night and I thought, I'm
just going to email them. I didn't even notice what.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Time, because you know when you do, you know, when
you use the Wi fi and some pubs then it
adds a signature on the bottom to say used, like
the goat in at once with pub wi fi or
something like that, So you're better off just admitting it.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Three twenty. No pubs open it three twenty.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Is it lockins?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Oh yeah, a Wednesday locking the pub I actually did.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Used to go one of the few that does lock
in Prince of Wales. It was one of them for that.
I don't know if it has ever been cleaned, but
you always if you went to a lock and they
always were severely ill for a long time after a
real long time after want to avoid Definitely, you did
a really good job there though, trying to plug the
Monday podcast and that rudely interrupted you.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
So yeah, that's Monday's this week's e FL looking at
what happened at the weekend throwing forward a bit because
as we well know, once we're into the season, it's
pretty much sadly Tuesday in it.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, every week in the e FL.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Well, yeah we missed you, but we sort of bumbled
our way through it without you.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
But we'll see you next week, next week. But I did.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I do like the idea because it's just a nice
opportunity to actually talk about the football instead of just
shoe owning it into some bet selections. Although you did
you blazed over how the opening ACA actually went.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
We're glad.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Do you need to touch upon it now? Still ever
so slightly?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It was bad?
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Yeah, it wasn't great. Was it the like we we
did touch upon on Monday? Then? Yeah, it wasn't the best.
It's said, it is a tricky we're not giving it
a big sell. We've got all podcast build. It is
a tricky time of year. Two seasons ago we had
a winner on opening weekend, the very first show, the
very first and you need you need the fixtures to
(04:16):
fall into place for us. I remember that a couple
of seasons ago there were two fairly short priced home fives.
I think Armsley and Baltum were both in it. There
weren't any of those last weekend. I think they were
both fort to seven when we had them in. And yeah,
it's not easy to start of the season because you're
going off last season. But then obviously some of the
(04:37):
squads have changed, managers have changed, so it's a combination
of teams that you trust from last year, summer transfers
and all those So you.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Need teams to deliver for you.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
And really Blackpool completely ruined it for us because we
were trusting them and they put in a defensive calamity
of a performance to concede three goals against stevenag.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
So yeah, that was that.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
So there's there's definitely little bits that you can pick
up from the opening the opening day of the season. Personally,
I think not overreacting too much to one set of
results is probably the key to.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Building it this weekend.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
On that Monday one, we won't focus too much on
it at mindy one, two, three, four, five, six, seven
eighty six presumably seven eight nine was taken how they
made it. Would you do early shouts for singles on
these Monday's episodes if you think prices might be gone
later in the week potentially, I thought it's worth mentioning
now on the actual ACA podcast and potentially, yeah, it
(05:35):
could be something we look to introduce. That's Monday, though,
this is Thursday where we're looking at ahead, he ahead
to the weekend's action, a little plug for the email
address as well. I was literally about to say, yeah,
I can't remember what it is.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Is this week's ACCA at Sporting life dot com.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
So people, you've got any suggestions for teams you think
should go in the ACHA, or just any funny stories
from going to a match at the weekend, literally anything
you just want to shout out on the podcast, then
it's this week's act at Sportinglife dot com. And James,
who works with us as part of the podcast, went
to a lot of effort, really wasn't a lot of
effort to set up that email address.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
So we had two emails come in this week.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
We need two emails, try to get more than two
from this podcast, so we can go and tell him
a big, big fat well done for setting that email
address up.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Yeah, do you know what I'd like to see people
email him their bets because I feel like comments section
is not really tailored to that. I'd love to see
screenshots of bets that have gone well, that have gone
terribly more importantly as well, because I like seeing losers,
but I also love seeing winners.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
So do you know what?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
I love stories of people like bumping into players at
matches or seeing managers do do you know bumping into
a manager in the supermarket scene? What is the meal
of choice for a manager on a Friday night for
a home game, so if they're just staying in a
that by themselves. I had a Wickham manager, my Dodds.
Maybe he moved down there and he just gets a lazamia.
(07:08):
He's a bit of veg with that.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Mike.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Maybe that's why you're struggling to turn Wickham a round
because you're not having a balanced meal. So yeah, I'd
be interested to anybody knows what Mike Dodds is eating
on a Friday night.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I saw Nigel Person, uh, Nigel Person buying a slow
cooker in John Lewis and Sheffield many years ago.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Stuff like that. What game was this Wickham? Yeah, we're
going straight into the acam.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
I just don't think Mike Dodds is eating well enough,
not looking after himself, and that's why I fancy stopport
to win away at Wickham.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I can go with that. Oh, I can take that
as an argument. Last weekend Wickham lost lost in at Bradford.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
They did, of course, Yeah, Bradford went turning up. I
think they pulled one back, didn't they. But it wasn't
enough Stockport. We spoke about that in Monday's episode. If
you want to kind of full debrief on that game,
go back and listen to that, as that was more
from the Bolton perspective though, wasn't It was how impressed
actually were with Bolton and their performance, and that really
the result. You take your look at that and you go, okay,
(08:08):
well it is a fairly comfortable enough victory for Stockport
when it really wasn't the case. It was Bolton didn't
take those early chances and it could have been a
different story. So I suppose it is a good chance
as any really to talk about Stockport then, because they
are fifteen to eight, nine to five to win away
at Wickham, and even though we were impressed with Bolton,
I think second half particularly Stockport did look good. They
(08:30):
did actually finally get themselves together having had a forty
five minutes where it wasn't quite there and potentially is
going to be the case throughout the entire season. There's
a lot of quality on show there that eventually will
just showing through.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah, it seemed like the perfect opening day for Stockport really,
and I thought the manner of the victory, as you said,
was just so de chellon and perhaps they weren't at
the best for the full ninety minutes, but just finding
a way to win and keep Bolton at arm's length,
although they did have some mischances to thank for that,
but perfect, perfect opening day with especially with mal Wilks,
not Malick Wilkes.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Mother mother Sil mother Sil grabbing a goal on debut.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
But to be honest, the reason I like this bet
is twofold with well not twofold. Two reasons the slate
tricky excuse already, but more about Wickham because I know
they went tunneled down really early against Bradford, but I
don't know if I don't know if it was just
purely circumstantial or the dynamic of the game, But it's
seemed like Mike Dodds might have tried to change the
(09:30):
style over the summer. They hired sixty eight percent session
completed more passes than they did under Dodd's last season.
So for me, getting against them is good for two reasons.
Either they are the same team from last season it
was just because they went two goes down, or Dodds
has tried to completely change the style of play over summer.
Either way, I think stopped putting more than equipped to
(09:51):
deal with them. The last thing is, do you remember
how bad Wicked were underdogs against the big teams last season.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
That's just what I was trying to find, actually frantically searching.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
So I got it. Go for it.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Seven games one, none, drew one, lost six. But the
real killer is they only scored one goal. I've included
the chart and playoff semi finals in this they only
scored one goal, conceded eleven.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
With Coney, looks.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Like he's going to be off to the championship.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Really, I think scoring goals is going to be an issue,
whether they changed stales or not.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I just think on a tough slate at this price
stood out to me.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, I was going to say that Richard Coney things
interesting as well. Ron walkert Sky Sports said they've dropped
the upfront asking price for Richard Coney as he's in
the final year of his contracts obviously wary that he
could go for for some extent of free I think
there'd still been conversation territory, wouldn't they for him?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
So it could well be missing here. But I know the.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Table that nightmare with that, Yeah, because you look, it's
really really is not It is not hindsight. We were
saying it at the time that five million up front
they got offered for him ilut M in January.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
He was just not worth that money.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
He's on a hot streak and I get, you know,
the optics of not taking the money to think, oh,
this is gonna be our chance to get to get
out of League One, or they just did not manage
that situation well, so they end of just not having
him anyway for the second half of the season.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yep. Crazy, And they're going to get nowhere near that now.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
So on that even if even if Cone does not
end up going any plays this weekend, like Mike Dodgs
has just shafted in with the style of play.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I've just got it up now.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
It's got nineteen goals before Dodds came in. I think
he played seventeen games under Dodgs.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I've just counted it.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
So it might be wrong, but he only scored twice
and this is this is a striker, five million pounds
worth of striker with his contract running out, Like if
you can't get him scoring then you're in trouble.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Yeah, So they get taking it back to the better
itself and we're all really hot on Stopport this season
for doing well in League One and the Wickham a
favorites for this game, which is astonishing. And you you
look at the price that Stockport are and that we
(12:05):
go back to the latter part of last season. So
with only a handful of matches to go and I.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Think we all back to Stockport to win at Wickham.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
It was definitely in Jimmy's column I remembers talking about
at the time same price, almost identical price. Stopport stayed
pretty level since then, a little bit of business in
the summer a something good signings lost a couple of players.
Wickham have just continued on a downward, downward trajectory since
that game. Stopport one three one. They were even the
one mill down after seventeen minutes and they just scored
(12:36):
three goals to win three one. So it just feels
like that is it is hugely overpriced and on a
on a weekend, whether aren't there isn't loads to go at?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Then you go with the value selection like.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
That, should we take that value selection? Let's go for
them first pick of this week. Soaka comes from sky
Bit League one. It is Stockport County from away were
that would so we're sort of said in that little
break there, it feels like it gives us a little
bit of freedom and flexibility that stop poor price, which
certainly jumps off the page when it comes to this
weekend's action. Jim Rod has an absentee for a few weeks.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Take it away. Where should we go next?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
I've got another one that seems like a ridiculously big
price to me.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
But I feel like it's going to divide opinion because.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
With an Aka, I feel like it's somewhere in between
a last man pick and a valuable price. Like you
can't go purely although you should have gambling point of view,
you can't go purely on the price because there's going
to be at least three teams nine variables in terms
of results, Like you can't be entirely the price within reason, if.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
You know what I mean. Yeah, before I get to it,
but you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
MKD on seventy four at Barrow.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I just don't understand how you've got such short price
anti post favorites.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
What was MKD on seven?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Seven to two two?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Now?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
But he was weirdly the drift for one result, Yeah,
were around three. Soon we had one to three, okay, yes, strange, yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Just after one result.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I'm not I'm I'm not sure I'd be entirely put
off them the like, just purely based on the price
and the fact that they are such short anti posts favorites.
Barrow is who they're playing away from home, which could
be another sticking point. But I was listening to all
the reaction after Chesterfield's winning home against Barrow. The players
(14:30):
and the manager give Barrow a great credit for the
way they set up. But that's kind of the point
with why I find the Okay Dons. I think they
set up to for the draw will against Chesterfield. Chesterfield
managed to break them down. But again, I just think
seven to four is a real big price considering there's
such such big antipost favorites, and I guess you're comparing
apples to pairs. But in the division above loot and
(14:51):
similar sort of price, a similar sort of game in
their owning game they go off at odds on against
Peterborough and the early kickoff away from home. In just
comparing those League one favorites to the League two favorites,
similar at way trips we both in MA just don't
it was such a difference in price.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
We discussed MK Dons, didn't we last week and we
decided against going for them. That was more on the
basis of you know, again we've fallen into the trap
as we did last season, but we fancied MK Dons
to have a strong campaign. It was more Oldham coming
up with a newly promoted factor that we discussed before
and ultimately I can say it was a good pick.
It wouldn't matter anyway because the rest of it was
(15:30):
terrible in terms of what it went for instead, but
that was a nil nil draw. This time around though,
it's again it's just that neat gal the mindset of
let's give teams a second chance because they were banned
last year and it.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Is a big price on.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
As Jimmy said, the clear favorites to win this division
before a ball was kicked, and even more so now
I mean, I got it in front of me as
I'm frantically searching for it. But one set of results
isn't going to drastically change the outright market in m
K Dons still seven to Chesterfield into eleven to two
and then Bristol Rose at sixteen. Is such a clear
gap between those two at the top end of the
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division that when you're getting a price of seven to
four against you know, Barrow, not sure. I'm just still
not sure where to place them for this season. But
it's not as if they are going to Chesterfield and
you're getting a price like this.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
I was saying to Jimmy just this morning. Wow, I
mean we should really be talking about this. We're recording
a little bit later than usual because your ceiling collapse
to my ceiling clasps, so we had to me and Jimmy.
You've had a bit of extra time to chat and
you narrowly escaped with your life.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yeah, collapsed about.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Half two and I've not slept since, if you can tell,
I mean, how do you have to know all your
you're true?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Eh?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
And this was shortly after having a build around.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
To say, it's not like it's going to collapse or anything. Yeah,
a few moments.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
The builder came around before it collapsed.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Now came around because it was a little bit like
coming off. It was okay, fine, not a problem.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
We noticed it.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yes, okay, fine, ye noticed it. Fine's get it, replied,
And yet no, I.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Won't come down. Did you ever leave him on his own?
Speaker 5 (17:13):
So I'm just thinking, is there a chance that he
just like chipped away it slightly because more work for
using that guy?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Do you reckon?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
It's like father Ted, you know, the bloke goes down Cowboys.
Ted is just smashing off my door. And they don't
know how to build these things anymore. So yeah, I
don't know where we got into this from. Yeah, time
to discuss, discussed, and I had no ceiling.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
So where I am at with m K Dons is.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Probably waiting for five or six games of the season
and then backing them to win the league because I
sit and I didn't realize this was the case. It's
just what I thought. I've not really looked very very
closely at how they ended the season under poor one
until me and Jimmy had this chat.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Paul war will.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Fix the defense first and rely on individual quality to
win games and that might take a little while. And
then you look at the results that m K Dons
have had and not just m K Dons. Then you
look at Barrow, so m K Dons that is three
nil nil draws in a row, four nil nil draws
out of five with one one nil win.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Away crew in between.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Now you look at Barrow one nil, de chester Field
nil nil, a three three drawing there the two games
before that two nil nils. This game stinks of a
goal of straw.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Well, I was actually good to say in my column
I'm going to go under nil nil, but I just
thought the price to win was too big and worse legging. Yeah,
and and and that sad point. In one's five games
in charge m K Dons one goal that's it so far.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Yeah, but yeah, if it's really it's really hard to
not look at that screen there and just see one zero.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Three to four two and a half goals in this
game is by the way, Yeah, that's get lumped.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
What's no goal scorer seventeen.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
To two sky bet best price eight to one general. Yeah,
I think that's the best.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
I can't in good conscience advise this in an aka
when there's been or nil nil nine to one.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
When there's there's been that many nail mills from these
teams three seven between them over the last ten games,
that is wild. Really, it's as big a red flag
as you're going to get it for not having a
tea in an aka.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
So big price, but one we're avoiding.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah, I think it's fair to say, Jimmy, any of
us as we've palmed yours off.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Yeah, Boat, and I think it's going to be another
slightly controversial one because their opposition Plymouth played Joe's beloved Barnsley.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
But we've talked about it. You talked about it Monday.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Bolton would look very good against Port and I don't
think it's any slight on their character to not win
that game.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Support. I think are going to win the league this season.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
I said that before, but having watched that game against Bolton,
I think Bolton are going to be right up in
the mix.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I'd be surprised to finish that off outside the top
four based on that game alone. And then they're playing Plymouth.
Plymouth lost three one against Barnzy.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Sam Waker, who works here in Plymouth fan despondent with
the team after that result and that performance, Joe, you reckon.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
It wasn't as bad as the score line reflected.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
But the only point I have on Plymouth was they
conceded eighty eight goals in the championship last season. Is
it Murick who came in? Murich came in signed. I
don't know if there was one Serbian defender came in.
I don't know if there was another center back who
came in as well. I can't remember off the top
of my head, but they sort of signed out some
(20:47):
of the defensive issues. They've both gone, so they've got Galloway,
Zux Parson and Salona Don't worry.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Started back for opening day.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
I think they then before played the majority of last
season then did t the back four that conceded the
most goals in the championship. For him, for all Plymouth
played might played well against Bones and you're going to
tell us more in a minute, aren't you? With that
back for I just can't see him not gone seeing
the couple of goals against Bolton, but yeah, I did.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
I do like Bolton's price.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Nikola Katich was one of the players. He's also from
Bosnia and Hurtz Gavina, So m just make a.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Defenders just say Eastern Europe, if you yeah, if you
any if you've got any.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Doubt, Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Bolton down to be fair, just based on the last
week's performance and the cliched tough old card, but wanting
a response at home because they would be leaving thinking
if we just took the chances we would have, we
would obviously won that game.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
I I'd be on board with this. Yeah, the the
defensive issues I.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Agree with, to be honest, I think when we were
chatting about this on on this week's EFL on Monday,
then it was encouragement for Plymouth in an attacking sense,
but they were very very poor defensive the bounds. They
could have scored a couple more goals later on the
counter attack.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
So I don't. I don't disagree with the points.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
About all three goals the bounds have scored were defensive errors.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
So yeah, I don't.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
I don't disagree then, I mean Alton's still conceded twice
when they played really well.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
So it just it has me.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
It has me just a little bit edgy because are
a fair bit of odds on to win this game.
It's not like it's one that's that's jumping out at
being a and even money shot. Plymouth is still where
are they in the anti post pat in top five?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
That's a mistake and they're.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
All in eight to eleven to beat them, So it
feels like a.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Plymouth Wow, really drifted twenty five. You can get on
them in some places to win now, which is one, two, three, four,
five six seven eighth in the list with some book makers, So.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Quite the drift.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
The thing that's getting me with Plymouth is there's like
a lot of churning the squad.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Obviously highly got a manager's gone up, the other best
players have gone and Cleverly's got to come into that
and sort that out. Similar stamk Dons you're saying it'll
take a few weeks to get going. I think Cleverly's
Plymouth will take a few weeks not to get going,
even for him to just know what his best team
is because the job at Watford was brilliant. But when
you've got a player who's been around the club for
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so long, he's got an understanding before he even gets
into the hot seat. But now he started from scratch,
I just don't I just don't think they're going to
be at the races for a few weeks.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Yeah, I think it.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
In terms of looking at all the home teams that
you've backed this weekend, obviously there's not very few because
you would take some, but particularly with some of the
games of twelve thirty, that's the killer. It just looks right,
it just looks about right. I expect Bolton to be
that in most games this season at home. If they're
going to end up having the top six season and
potentially a little bit more that we expect, it's.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Just yeah, I think I think I'm probably just not
gonna have to grin and bear it on the what.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Price would you want?
Speaker 2 (24:20):
And Bolton even's probably one hundred to one if you're
gonna have any price.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Yeah, well I do. I think that they're all good
points that you're that you're making. I think even if
Plymouth lose this game free nil, then I think the
my points earlier in the week in the week were
more that it's not as I don't think it's as
bad as Plymouth fans.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Are going to think it is.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
If that makes sense to even losing three one under Barns,
because I think Barns are better than people are going
to give them credit for in the early weeks of
the season.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
So yeah, can we have it?
Speaker 5 (24:59):
I think that you we're after Yeah, there we.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Go there fine second pick of this week's Hacker. It
comes from League One as well. We've got Stockport to
beat Wickham and Entser home side in Bolton to beat Plymouth.
Argun our two picks so far then we're floating in
between seven to two and four to one on that
as a double. We're talking home teams and teams that
may be difficult to back this weekend, but one that
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I would like to put forward at six to five.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I'm not sure if Jimmy will.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Be all over this with me because of his love
love for the manager crew. Sixty five to be Acrington
so good. Oh yeah it after the pain of the
last selection. Yes, it's basically based on Obviously we've got
a very small sample sizes of performances. But last weekend,
in an attacking sense by all account's crew were brilliant
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three goals. Obviously no side scored more than that. No
side from across the opening weekend posted more than their
twenty two shots. No side posted more than their tenh
on target in quite a remarkable first half at Salford,
where they missed an early penalty. Crew then found themselves
at three to one up at the break, and it
is the way that it's stayed. I'm going to Crew
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this weekend to watch them play Acrington because I want
to see what all that's about. Having seen that sort
of attacking performance, to you imagine confidence will be high
after him. I had to put it a bit of
a summer to sort of reset. They obviously had the
playoff push, didn't they, and kind of what followed from
that to then kind of gather themselves together and go
again this season on opening weekend at the very least,
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they seem to have done that.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
So you imagine they're going to look.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
At a game with the greatest respect to Acrington from
how a lot of teams will view and a lot
of the preseason predictions. They'll be fancying their chances of
winning this and if they turn up and putting an
attacking performance like they did at Salford, you imagine they
should do that fairly comfortably. Six to five on them
to win again. It's a price that immediately really catches
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your eye on the weekend slate to joke, as you
nodded and went yes, which I think was good.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, I am.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
I would have been putting this up as my next selection.
I think it's a fairly fairly uncomplicated one.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
There are not that many nice prices. This is the
healthy bit of odds against.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
We pretty much know what we're going to get with
Crewe stability under Lee Bell. You go back the last
few seasons and they've finished thirteenth the top six, just
missing out in the playoff final, thirteenth again. Accrington consistently
in the relegation battle in League Two the last few years,
and it becoming harder and harder each year. So I
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don't think there's much more to explain other than that.
To be honest, we would look at it and we
would expect Crew to win that match, and because it
is available at six to five, I think that we
should be taking it.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Joey, Yeah, if you guys were really hot on it,
I'm happy for it to go in.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
I was just thinking, then, if this game has played
the first fixture of the season, would you took it this?
Perhaps because I wasn't on Bolder for a ball his
kid depends what you're up against, doesn't it?
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Because I think.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
In this fixture depending on if it was like a
weekend like this but last weekend, if it i'd cent
to terms of fixtures available, probably would have had a
go on it. Just the price, which is alvious easy
to say now when they've three one and we're going,
oh yeah, brilliant, want attack, inform us how easy it'll
be to bat them.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Was anyone across who are crew playing Againton Gillingham? One one?
Did anyone got any.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
I think it was a very low event game. Yeah,
by all accounts, I don't think Gillingham had a shot
on target. Acrington had a handful. I mean I'm going
through the list of everyone who played obviously in League
One and League two last weekend and you look at
kind of the shots. Ten for Acrington, which puts them
mid twenties there.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Gillingham had eight.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
We talked about that game, ye where we go about
Akrington Gillingham saying it's just going to that's going to
be a drawer.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Jilliing was just drawing every single game under Gareth Ames
with so yeah, there there is an.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Element this time of the season that it's everything is
a little bit of a is a little bit of
a punt. I think with a manager who a manager
has been in charge for several years of a club,
then there's just a little bit more of a trustworthy
element there. You feel like crew are going to more
consistently deliver seven out of ten performances at the price.
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I would be looking at it, you know, against it
against a poorer team in the league because obviously everybody
will go about identifying what they think is worth going
in an act in a different way. And like you
said at the the top of the show, that it's
somewhere between last man's standing and whether it's a value
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bet and this weekend, then I don't think that there
are that many of the weaker teams in the division
playing at three pm against like away from home at
teams who you think, yeah, they should do well. So
you have to be constantly flexible with what you with
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what you're willing to put in.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
You're like a big price goal scorer.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Do you know which center back had four shots in
that opening day win at Salford Cruse center back not Mickey, No,
it was James Connolly's defensive partner, but four shots there,
so clearly some kind of set peace threat that they'll
bring to that game as well, just various factors that
kind of go into that potential game.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Yeah, and I think we all had Ackington. I had
them to be relegated.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Do you remember they were at least twenty second I
think in mind.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Yeah, I'm happy with this pick. I was just wondering.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
I wasn't across either a Cruz or Acuinton's opening game,
so I didn't really have any figure that was just
woulding how confident you wire Crewe.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
The thing that jumped off the page was the attacking
performance as opening weekends go, and what you want to
see from your team to either back up genuine optimism
or for a lot of us, delusional optimism depending who
you support, which always comes with the start of the season.
That's the sort of performance you want to see, don't you.
From early on three goals could have been more as
(31:28):
well in y Akrington same price as harrog at four
to one to go down from League two this season.
So a team that many are expecting, as we said
there to obauly struggle.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
I like it, happy, do you want to take it?
There we go? Then third piss of this week's acker.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
We are going into League two after picking out stop
Or and Bolton.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
In League One.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
We are taking Crewe for home win over Acrington and
that treble is pushing just a bit below ten to one.
Three teams at a nice price so far. We want
to get one more, of course, to make it up
to a nice fourfold.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
I was just about to saying, I don't. I don't
think I do. No, I don't think I do.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
I found the slate really tough picking out aker worthy teams.
Three teams a shade of a shade of tens might
get it boosted to tens. I think that's perfect. But
what I am really excited for there's some big prices
knocking about. I'd like to have the security of those three,
because we're all hot on them as a collective. I'd
like to talk about the bigger prize teams. How we
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as a longer list, potential bigger acker.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
I don't know how you too feel.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I mean, what do you think I am inclined to
say around tens, I would actually happily sell on just
a troubling at this slide of the season. Happily we
obviously have the longer aker that we put together that
may include some of the teams that we mentioned here,
but I mean those three locked in.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Yeah, we could go.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
For it as a slate, like I was really struggling
for teams that I'd put in an acker because I
would I would back I was free, and I don't
want to put another one in a bigger prize for
the main one.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
But last season we had two winners from beginning in
March one.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
On a longer list, I'd happily have a smaller stake
on a couple of extra teams because there's so many
good big prize singles knocking about. For example, did a
wig in it later in Orient? Okay, shade of free
to one. I'm all of that over this and again
it is a bit knee jake to the first first
game of the season, but Orient look look.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
A bit lost at the minute.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Wellings was not happy with the performance on opening the weekend.
Lost a lot of talent from last season Kellman for one,
and they haven't been able to take advantage of the
low market yet have they? And Wellens is not happy Wigging.
On the other hand, a bit of contingency from last season.
Manager looks like he's got the personnel into play the
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wing back system and they were brilliant and opening Day weekend.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
I just think this is a price.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
I wouldn't have it as a staple in a Maynacher,
but it is something a bit more fun. Takes us
to over thirty to one for a long list, I'd
be all over that any.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Of us that we want to mention.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
At this point, I had that down as a as
a good single for the weekend. Wigan were one of
the teams I had him as my dark horse in
League One for this season because if you go back
under Ryan Lowe and I haven't got this to handle
aft to double check in a minute, have they lost?
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Are they still unbeaten? I know it's majority draws.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
As I say, it feels like a lot of draws
would be my only thing that I got.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Can add to that.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
The whole point that I was making with Ryan Lowe
and the the lost lost twice, that's it's a three
wins seven draws to defeats in twelve matches, was that
he's managed to just fix He fixed the defense, but
they were struggling to score any goals towards the end
of the season, and they've signed some good attacking players
in the summer.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Mullin didn't even start.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
At the Roadman game, they scored three and it feels
like they've hitched a bit to him to hopefully.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Fix that goal scoring issue.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
So I like Wiggan Leon Ori and I've had the
whole side ripped album from them, So yeah, I wouldn't
be I wouldn't be a verse out the wider point
that Jimmy's making. And I do think it's particularly tricky weekend.
You know how you'd look down a list and think, yeah,
I'd have them in out of them, and I'd have
them and I just don't think it's one of those weekends.
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It has been a bit of a struggle because I'd
rather just be honest with everybody the like as we
always are. Yeah, I would rather keep it to a
treble to improve our chances of winning, because I'm not
really really hot on on any of them except Stockport,
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which I think is a combination of it being a
very good angle at a very good price personally. I
know you guys both love Bolton and the Bolton one
again to Plymouth, I have my own my own hearts.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
It's a it is a tough tough weekend, it really is.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
I'd mentioned obviously Grimsby spoke about them on Monday, seven
to five at Harrogate and a Newport.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
I thought we're.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Generous pushing five to one going to Crawley again. Another
team we spoke about on Mondays. This week's CFL if
you want to kind of hear the reflections on the
weekend still valid, of course gons this one. Go go
back and listen to that, but obviously need a response.
But four to seven at home Newport one of the Cup,
didn't They in the new special round of the Carabo
Cup and then drew Wan Notts County to start there weekend. Sorry,
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their season just feels a Crawley a bit too short,
Newport a bit too big on that.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Yeah, that was a ridiculous price. I couldn't believe Craly.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
There were one to two earlier in the week, one
to two on and I just don't get it.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
And obviously you see firsthand say couldn't string.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
A past basically first half year trying to play passing
football with that personnel to play passing football, it was
just comedy.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
You know.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
You could play the Benny Hill music over the top
of the highlights and we would fit quite well into
into what they were doing. Any others any of us
want to mention or we just happy to have chef
hands on. I've got a few that I'll be really
quick and just scrub off. And it's more for if
people are building their own actors this weekend, beyond just
the one the one that we're building.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
And even I put some down.
Speaker 5 (37:13):
The list to just poke holes in myself, Like QPR
against Preston was one that I didn't mind the look of.
But there's a lot of question marks about both teams.
So I would be just having a watching brief on
that probably for future weeks.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
I wouldn't be having it. I'd tell you that it's
another under two and a half. By the way, yeah,
QPR's lack of striker again.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
Against Burton, then I know that this is conflicting views
amongst us where the Barns are a bit too short
or then we're leaning towards having ball in it a
similar prize.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
I don't mind it.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
The thing that concerns me is that Barns they haven't
got any recognized center backs for Saturday because they had
Jack Sheppard sent off of Matt Robertsons out for two months.
So it's one of those things where you know you've
got more knowledge about your own team. Sometimes it can
make it overthink it. They probably are going to be
team that a lot of people are going to be
putting in their accumulators this weekend, So yeah, I wouldn't
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completely rule that one out. And the other short priced one
Swindon against Cambridge. People on this panel were like, really
hot on Swindon doing well this season twenty three to
twenty to win at home, but we haven't even discussed
it Swindon.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
I'm just not so sure.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
The thing with that one Cambridge is just Harris.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
They just I just couldn't they just they might not win,
but I just can't see him getting beat that often
this season.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
The other ones away teams. Not A massive fan of
the away teams. And then I am sort of like
edging towards whether West brom to win at home to
Blackburn is as a good bet. But you was so
hot under their season, and it's all it's all that
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little spell at the end of the season. Do you
know where there's nothing to lose for Blackburn having that
splurge in form to potentially again in the top six.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
And I looked back over the last three seasons.
Speaker 5 (39:07):
I know it's going to be the first game for
West Brom under Ryan Mason, but West Brom's home form
is so consistently good for three years that just has
me edging towards it. But if there's so many question
marks on fixtures this weekend were not helped by the
twelve thirty kickoffs is killed us this Saturday.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
So there's a lot for.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
Us probably to chew over at the end of the podcast,
for people to look on sport in Life dot com
and see what we've decided on the long list. It's
a very long winded way of me saying I think
I agree with Jimmy about the trouble.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Let's take the trouble then three teams that make up
this week's akcher for the second weekend of the League
one and League two season, first weekend of the Championship,
although we're completely ignoring that because the two teams were
taking from League One Stockport to beat Wickham and Bolton
to beat Plymouth Argal and then in to its crew
to bet Accrington that treble around nine nine and a
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Speaker 3 (01:29):
Very well?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I sted to go into all the medical details for us, please,
in every element of it, full diagnosis or what the lot?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Well. I think I was only once for the others.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Lasted a few days and then I didn't want to
come in Monday because when missus got it over the weekend,
didn't want to infect everyone. But I was good to
miss out on the first of a new series.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
That you started.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
We've started, Yes, we've started EFL Joe Tallis morockanised it.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Yeah, I'm sure that because I've got a tracker on
Jimmy's phone and he was I'm sure I was in
London all all week and.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
We did say last week.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
The email he sent us was suspiciously well rounded on
the time for a scheduled email.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, well I went.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I went to it's weak because I went to bed
that night and I thought I'll just email them now because.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I don't feel right. And then I got up them
a few times in the night and I thought, I'm
just going to email them. I didn't even notice what.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Time, because you know when you do, you know, when
you use the Wi fi and some pubs then it
adds a signature on the bottom to say used, like
the goat in at once with pub wi fi or
something like that, So you're better off just admitting it.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Three twenty. No pubs open it three twenty.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Is it lockins?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Oh yeah, a Wednesday locking the pub I actually did.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Used to go one of the few that does lock
in Prince of Wales. It was one of them for that.
I don't know if it has ever been cleaned, but
you always if you went to a lock and they
always were severely ill for a long time after a
real long time after want to avoid Definitely, you did
a really good job there though, trying to plug the
Monday podcast and that rudely interrupted you.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
So yeah, that's Monday's this week's e FL looking at
what happened at the weekend throwing forward a bit because
as we well know, once we're into the season, it's
pretty much sadly Tuesday in it.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, every week in the e FL.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Well, yeah we missed you, but we sort of bumbled
our way through it without you.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
But we'll see you next week, next week. But I did.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I do like the idea because it's just a nice
opportunity to actually talk about the football instead of just
shoe owning it into some bet selections. Although you did
you blazed over how the opening ACA actually went.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
We're glad.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Do you need to touch upon it now? Still ever
so slightly?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It was bad?
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Yeah, it wasn't great. Was it the like we we
did touch upon on Monday? Then? Yeah, it wasn't the best.
It's said, it is a tricky we're not giving it
a big sell. We've got all podcast build. It is
a tricky time of year. Two seasons ago we had
a winner on opening weekend, the very first show, the
very first and you need you need the fixtures to
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fall into place for us. I remember that a couple
of seasons ago there were two fairly short priced home fives.
I think Armsley and Baltum were both in it. There
weren't any of those last weekend. I think they were
both fort to seven when we had them in. And yeah,
it's not easy to start of the season because you're
going off last season. But then obviously some of the
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squads have changed, managers have changed, so it's a combination
of teams that you trust from last year, summer transfers
and all those So you.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Need teams to deliver for you.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
And really Blackpool completely ruined it for us because we
were trusting them and they put in a defensive calamity
of a performance to concede three goals against stevenag.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
So yeah, that was that.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
So there's there's definitely little bits that you can pick
up from the opening the opening day of the season. Personally,
I think not overreacting too much to one set of
results is probably the key to.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Building it this weekend.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
On that Monday one, we won't focus too much on
it at mindy one, two, three, four, five, six, seven
eighty six presumably seven eight nine was taken how they
made it. Would you do early shouts for singles on
these Monday's episodes if you think prices might be gone
later in the week potentially, I thought it's worth mentioning
now on the actual ACA podcast and potentially, yeah, it
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could be something we look to introduce. That's Monday, though,
this is Thursday where we're looking at ahead, he ahead
to the weekend's action, a little plug for the email
address as well. I was literally about to say, yeah,
I can't remember what it is.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Is this week's ACCA at Sporting life dot com.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
So people, you've got any suggestions for teams you think
should go in the ACHA, or just any funny stories
from going to a match at the weekend, literally anything
you just want to shout out on the podcast, then
it's this week's act at Sportinglife dot com. And James,
who works with us as part of the podcast, went
to a lot of effort, really wasn't a lot of
effort to set up that email address.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
So we had two emails come in this week.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
We need two emails, try to get more than two
from this podcast, so we can go and tell him
a big, big fat well done for setting that email
address up.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Yeah, do you know what I'd like to see people
email him their bets because I feel like comments section
is not really tailored to that. I'd love to see
screenshots of bets that have gone well, that have gone
terribly more importantly as well, because I like seeing losers,
but I also love seeing winners.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
So do you know what?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
I love stories of people like bumping into players at
matches or seeing managers do do you know bumping into
a manager in the supermarket scene? What is the meal
of choice for a manager on a Friday night for
a home game, so if they're just staying in a
that by themselves. I had a Wickham manager, my Dodds.
Maybe he moved down there and he just gets a lazamia.
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He's a bit of veg with that.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Mike.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Maybe that's why you're struggling to turn Wickham a round
because you're not having a balanced meal. So yeah, I'd
be interested to anybody knows what Mike Dodds is eating
on a Friday night.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I saw Nigel Person, uh, Nigel Person buying a slow
cooker in John Lewis and Sheffield many years ago.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Stuff like that. What game was this Wickham? Yeah, we're
going straight into the acam.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
I just don't think Mike Dodds is eating well enough,
not looking after himself, and that's why I fancy stopport
to win away at Wickham.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I can go with that. Oh, I can take that
as an argument. Last weekend Wickham lost lost in at Bradford.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
They did, of course, Yeah, Bradford went turning up. I
think they pulled one back, didn't they. But it wasn't
enough Stockport. We spoke about that in Monday's episode. If
you want to kind of full debrief on that game,
go back and listen to that, as that was more
from the Bolton perspective though, wasn't It was how impressed
actually were with Bolton and their performance, and that really
the result. You take your look at that and you go, okay,
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well it is a fairly comfortable enough victory for Stockport
when it really wasn't the case. It was Bolton didn't
take those early chances and it could have been a
different story. So I suppose it is a good chance
as any really to talk about Stockport then, because they
are fifteen to eight, nine to five to win away
at Wickham, and even though we were impressed with Bolton,
I think second half particularly Stockport did look good. They
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did actually finally get themselves together having had a forty
five minutes where it wasn't quite there and potentially is
going to be the case throughout the entire season. There's
a lot of quality on show there that eventually will
just showing through.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah, it seemed like the perfect opening day for Stockport really,
and I thought the manner of the victory, as you said,
was just so de chellon and perhaps they weren't at
the best for the full ninety minutes, but just finding
a way to win and keep Bolton at arm's length,
although they did have some mischances to thank for that,
but perfect, perfect opening day with especially with mal Wilks,
not Malick Wilkes.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Mother mother Sil mother Sil grabbing a goal on debut.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
But to be honest, the reason I like this bet
is twofold with well not twofold. Two reasons the slate
tricky excuse already, but more about Wickham because I know
they went tunneled down really early against Bradford, but I
don't know if I don't know if it was just
purely circumstantial or the dynamic of the game, But it's
seemed like Mike Dodds might have tried to change the
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style over the summer. They hired sixty eight percent session
completed more passes than they did under Dodd's last season.
So for me, getting against them is good for two reasons.
Either they are the same team from last season it
was just because they went two goes down, or Dodds
has tried to completely change the style of play over summer.
Either way, I think stopped putting more than equipped to
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deal with them. The last thing is, do you remember
how bad Wicked were underdogs against the big teams last season.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
That's just what I was trying to find, actually frantically searching.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
So I got it. Go for it.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Seven games one, none, drew one, lost six. But the
real killer is they only scored one goal. I've included
the chart and playoff semi finals in this they only
scored one goal, conceded eleven.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
With Coney, looks.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Like he's going to be off to the championship.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Really, I think scoring goals is going to be an issue,
whether they changed stales or not.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I just think on a tough slate at this price
stood out to me.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, I was going to say that Richard Coney things
interesting as well. Ron walkert Sky Sports said they've dropped
the upfront asking price for Richard Coney as he's in
the final year of his contracts obviously wary that he
could go for for some extent of free I think
there'd still been conversation territory, wouldn't they for him?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
So it could well be missing here. But I know the.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Table that nightmare with that, Yeah, because you look, it's
really really is not It is not hindsight. We were
saying it at the time that five million up front
they got offered for him ilut M in January.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
He was just not worth that money.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
He's on a hot streak and I get, you know,
the optics of not taking the money to think, oh,
this is gonna be our chance to get to get
out of League One, or they just did not manage
that situation well, so they end of just not having
him anyway for the second half of the season.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yep. Crazy, And they're going to get nowhere near that now.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
So on that even if even if Cone does not
end up going any plays this weekend, like Mike Dodgs
has just shafted in with the style of play.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I've just got it up now.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
It's got nineteen goals before Dodds came in. I think
he played seventeen games under Dodgs.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I've just counted it.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
So it might be wrong, but he only scored twice
and this is this is a striker, five million pounds
worth of striker with his contract running out, Like if
you can't get him scoring then you're in trouble.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Yeah, So they get taking it back to the better
itself and we're all really hot on Stopport this season
for doing well in League One and the Wickham a
favorites for this game, which is astonishing. And you you
look at the price that Stockport are and that we
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go back to the latter part of last season. So
with only a handful of matches to go and I.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Think we all back to Stockport to win at Wickham.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
It was definitely in Jimmy's column I remembers talking about
at the time same price, almost identical price. Stopport stayed
pretty level since then, a little bit of business in
the summer a something good signings lost a couple of players.
Wickham have just continued on a downward, downward trajectory since
that game. Stopport one three one. They were even the
one mill down after seventeen minutes and they just scored
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three goals to win three one. So it just feels
like that is it is hugely overpriced and on a
on a weekend, whether aren't there isn't loads to go at?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Then you go with the value selection like.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
That, should we take that value selection? Let's go for
them first pick of this week. Soaka comes from sky
Bit League one. It is Stockport County from away were
that would so we're sort of said in that little
break there, it feels like it gives us a little
bit of freedom and flexibility that stop poor price, which
certainly jumps off the page when it comes to this
weekend's action. Jim Rod has an absentee for a few weeks.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Take it away. Where should we go next?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
I've got another one that seems like a ridiculously big
price to me.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
But I feel like it's going to divide opinion because.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
With an Aka, I feel like it's somewhere in between
a last man pick and a valuable price. Like you
can't go purely although you should have gambling point of view,
you can't go purely on the price because there's going
to be at least three teams nine variables in terms
of results, Like you can't be entirely the price within reason, if.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
You know what I mean. Yeah, before I get to it,
but you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
MKD on seventy four at Barrow.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I just don't understand how you've got such short price
anti post favorites.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
What was MKD on seven?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Seven to two two?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Now?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
But he was weirdly the drift for one result, Yeah,
were around three. Soon we had one to three, okay, yes, strange, yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Just after one result.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I'm not I'm I'm not sure I'd be entirely put
off them the like, just purely based on the price
and the fact that they are such short anti posts favorites.
Barrow is who they're playing away from home, which could
be another sticking point. But I was listening to all
the reaction after Chesterfield's winning home against Barrow. The players
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and the manager give Barrow a great credit for the
way they set up. But that's kind of the point
with why I find the Okay Dons. I think they
set up to for the draw will against Chesterfield. Chesterfield
managed to break them down. But again, I just think
seven to four is a real big price considering there's
such such big antipost favorites, and I guess you're comparing
apples to pairs. But in the division above loot and
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similar sort of price, a similar sort of game in
their owning game they go off at odds on against
Peterborough and the early kickoff away from home. In just
comparing those League one favorites to the League two favorites,
similar at way trips we both in MA just don't
it was such a difference in price.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
We discussed MK Dons, didn't we last week and we
decided against going for them. That was more on the
basis of you know, again we've fallen into the trap
as we did last season, but we fancied MK Dons
to have a strong campaign. It was more Oldham coming
up with a newly promoted factor that we discussed before
and ultimately I can say it was a good pick.
It wouldn't matter anyway because the rest of it was
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terrible in terms of what it went for instead, but
that was a nil nil draw. This time around though,
it's again it's just that neat gal the mindset of
let's give teams a second chance because they were banned
last year and it.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Is a big price on.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
As Jimmy said, the clear favorites to win this division
before a ball was kicked, and even more so now
I mean, I got it in front of me as
I'm frantically searching for it. But one set of results
isn't going to drastically change the outright market in m
K Dons still seven to Chesterfield into eleven to two
and then Bristol Rose at sixteen. Is such a clear
gap between those two at the top end of the
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division that when you're getting a price of seven to
four against you know, Barrow, not sure. I'm just still
not sure where to place them for this season. But
it's not as if they are going to Chesterfield and
you're getting a price like this.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
I was saying to Jimmy just this morning. Wow, I
mean we should really be talking about this. We're recording
a little bit later than usual because your ceiling collapse
to my ceiling clasps, so we had to me and Jimmy.
You've had a bit of extra time to chat and
you narrowly escaped with your life.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yeah, collapsed about.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Half two and I've not slept since, if you can tell,
I mean, how do you have to know all your
you're true?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Eh?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
And this was shortly after having a build around.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
To say, it's not like it's going to collapse or anything. Yeah,
a few moments.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
The builder came around before it collapsed.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Now came around because it was a little bit like
coming off. It was okay, fine, not a problem.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
We noticed it.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yes, okay, fine, ye noticed it. Fine's get it, replied,
And yet no, I.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Won't come down. Did you ever leave him on his own?
Speaker 5 (17:13):
So I'm just thinking, is there a chance that he
just like chipped away it slightly because more work for
using that guy?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Do you reckon?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
It's like father Ted, you know, the bloke goes down Cowboys.
Ted is just smashing off my door. And they don't
know how to build these things anymore. So yeah, I
don't know where we got into this from. Yeah, time
to discuss, discussed, and I had no ceiling.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
So where I am at with m K Dons is.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Probably waiting for five or six games of the season
and then backing them to win the league because I
sit and I didn't realize this was the case. It's
just what I thought. I've not really looked very very
closely at how they ended the season under poor one
until me and Jimmy had this chat.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Paul war will.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Fix the defense first and rely on individual quality to
win games and that might take a little while. And
then you look at the results that m K Dons
have had and not just m K Dons. Then you
look at Barrow, so m K Dons that is three
nil nil draws in a row, four nil nil draws
out of five with one one nil win.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Away crew in between.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Now you look at Barrow one nil, de chester Field
nil nil, a three three drawing there the two games
before that two nil nils. This game stinks of a
goal of straw.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Well, I was actually good to say in my column
I'm going to go under nil nil, but I just
thought the price to win was too big and worse legging. Yeah,
and and and that sad point. In one's five games
in charge m K Dons one goal that's it so far.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Yeah, but yeah, if it's really it's really hard to
not look at that screen there and just see one zero.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Three to four two and a half goals in this
game is by the way, Yeah, that's get lumped.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
What's no goal scorer seventeen.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
To two sky bet best price eight to one general. Yeah,
I think that's the best.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
I can't in good conscience advise this in an aka
when there's been or nil nil nine to one.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
When there's there's been that many nail mills from these
teams three seven between them over the last ten games,
that is wild. Really, it's as big a red flag
as you're going to get it for not having a
tea in an aka.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
So big price, but one we're avoiding.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah, I think it's fair to say, Jimmy, any of
us as we've palmed yours off.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Yeah, Boat, and I think it's going to be another
slightly controversial one because their opposition Plymouth played Joe's beloved Barnsley.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
But we've talked about it. You talked about it Monday.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Bolton would look very good against Port and I don't
think it's any slight on their character to not win
that game.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Support. I think are going to win the league this season.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
I said that before, but having watched that game against Bolton,
I think Bolton are going to be right up in
the mix.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I'd be surprised to finish that off outside the top
four based on that game alone. And then they're playing Plymouth.
Plymouth lost three one against Barnzy.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Sam Waker, who works here in Plymouth fan despondent with
the team after that result and that performance, Joe, you reckon.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
It wasn't as bad as the score line reflected.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
But the only point I have on Plymouth was they
conceded eighty eight goals in the championship last season. Is
it Murick who came in? Murich came in signed. I
don't know if there was one Serbian defender came in.
I don't know if there was another center back who
came in as well. I can't remember off the top
of my head, but they sort of signed out some
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of the defensive issues. They've both gone, so they've got Galloway,
Zux Parson and Salona Don't worry.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Started back for opening day.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
I think they then before played the majority of last
season then did t the back four that conceded the
most goals in the championship. For him, for all Plymouth
played might played well against Bones and you're going to
tell us more in a minute, aren't you? With that
back for I just can't see him not gone seeing
the couple of goals against Bolton, but yeah, I did.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
I do like Bolton's price.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Nikola Katich was one of the players. He's also from
Bosnia and Hurtz Gavina, So m just make a.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Defenders just say Eastern Europe, if you yeah, if you
any if you've got any.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Doubt, Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Bolton down to be fair, just based on the last
week's performance and the cliched tough old card, but wanting
a response at home because they would be leaving thinking
if we just took the chances we would have, we
would obviously won that game.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
I I'd be on board with this. Yeah, the the
defensive issues I.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Agree with, to be honest, I think when we were
chatting about this on on this week's EFL on Monday,
then it was encouragement for Plymouth in an attacking sense,
but they were very very poor defensive the bounds. They
could have scored a couple more goals later on the
counter attack.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
So I don't. I don't disagree with the points.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
About all three goals the bounds have scored were defensive errors.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
So yeah, I don't.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
I don't disagree then, I mean Alton's still conceded twice
when they played really well.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
So it just it has me.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
It has me just a little bit edgy because are
a fair bit of odds on to win this game.
It's not like it's one that's that's jumping out at
being a and even money shot. Plymouth is still where
are they in the anti post pat in top five?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
That's a mistake and they're.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
All in eight to eleven to beat them, So it
feels like a.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Plymouth Wow, really drifted twenty five. You can get on
them in some places to win now, which is one, two, three, four,
five six seven eighth in the list with some book makers, So.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Quite the drift.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
The thing that's getting me with Plymouth is there's like
a lot of churning the squad.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Obviously highly got a manager's gone up, the other best
players have gone and Cleverly's got to come into that
and sort that out. Similar stamk Dons you're saying it'll
take a few weeks to get going. I think Cleverly's
Plymouth will take a few weeks not to get going,
even for him to just know what his best team
is because the job at Watford was brilliant. But when
you've got a player who's been around the club for
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so long, he's got an understanding before he even gets
into the hot seat. But now he started from scratch,
I just don't I just don't think they're going to
be at the races for a few weeks.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Yeah, I think it.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
In terms of looking at all the home teams that
you've backed this weekend, obviously there's not very few because
you would take some, but particularly with some of the
games of twelve thirty, that's the killer. It just looks right,
it just looks about right. I expect Bolton to be
that in most games this season at home. If they're
going to end up having the top six season and
potentially a little bit more that we expect, it's.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Just yeah, I think I think I'm probably just not
gonna have to grin and bear it on the what.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Price would you want?
Speaker 2 (24:20):
And Bolton even's probably one hundred to one if you're
gonna have any price.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Yeah, well I do. I think that they're all good
points that you're that you're making. I think even if
Plymouth lose this game free nil, then I think the
my points earlier in the week in the week were
more that it's not as I don't think it's as
bad as Plymouth fans.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Are going to think it is.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
If that makes sense to even losing three one under Barns,
because I think Barns are better than people are going
to give them credit for in the early weeks of
the season.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
So yeah, can we have it?
Speaker 5 (24:59):
I think that you we're after Yeah, there we.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Go there fine second pick of this week's Hacker. It
comes from League One as well. We've got Stockport to
beat Wickham and Entser home side in Bolton to beat Plymouth.
Argun our two picks so far then we're floating in
between seven to two and four to one on that
as a double. We're talking home teams and teams that
may be difficult to back this weekend, but one that
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I would like to put forward at six to five.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I'm not sure if Jimmy will.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Be all over this with me because of his love
love for the manager crew. Sixty five to be Acrington
so good. Oh yeah it after the pain of the
last selection. Yes, it's basically based on Obviously we've got
a very small sample sizes of performances. But last weekend,
in an attacking sense by all account's crew were brilliant
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three goals. Obviously no side scored more than that. No
side from across the opening weekend posted more than their
twenty two shots. No side posted more than their tenh
on target in quite a remarkable first half at Salford,
where they missed an early penalty. Crew then found themselves
at three to one up at the break, and it
is the way that it's stayed. I'm going to Crew
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this weekend to watch them play Acrington because I want
to see what all that's about. Having seen that sort
of attacking performance, to you imagine confidence will be high
after him. I had to put it a bit of
a summer to sort of reset. They obviously had the
playoff push, didn't they, and kind of what followed from
that to then kind of gather themselves together and go
again this season on opening weekend at the very least,
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they seem to have done that.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
So you imagine they're going to look.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
At a game with the greatest respect to Acrington from
how a lot of teams will view and a lot
of the preseason predictions. They'll be fancying their chances of
winning this and if they turn up and putting an
attacking performance like they did at Salford, you imagine they
should do that fairly comfortably. Six to five on them
to win again. It's a price that immediately really catches
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your eye on the weekend slate to joke, as you
nodded and went yes, which I think was good.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, I am.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
I would have been putting this up as my next selection.
I think it's a fairly fairly uncomplicated one.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
There are not that many nice prices. This is the
healthy bit of odds against.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
We pretty much know what we're going to get with
Crewe stability under Lee Bell. You go back the last
few seasons and they've finished thirteenth the top six, just
missing out in the playoff final, thirteenth again. Accrington consistently
in the relegation battle in League Two the last few years,
and it becoming harder and harder each year. So I
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don't think there's much more to explain other than that.
To be honest, we would look at it and we
would expect Crew to win that match, and because it
is available at six to five, I think that we
should be taking it.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Joey, Yeah, if you guys were really hot on it,
I'm happy for it to go in.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
I was just thinking, then, if this game has played
the first fixture of the season, would you took it this?
Perhaps because I wasn't on Bolder for a ball his
kid depends what you're up against, doesn't it?
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Because I think.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
In this fixture depending on if it was like a
weekend like this but last weekend, if it i'd cent
to terms of fixtures available, probably would have had a
go on it. Just the price, which is alvious easy
to say now when they've three one and we're going,
oh yeah, brilliant, want attack, inform us how easy it'll
be to bat them.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Was anyone across who are crew playing Againton Gillingham? One one?
Did anyone got any.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
I think it was a very low event game. Yeah,
by all accounts, I don't think Gillingham had a shot
on target. Acrington had a handful. I mean I'm going
through the list of everyone who played obviously in League
One and League two last weekend and you look at
kind of the shots. Ten for Acrington, which puts them
mid twenties there.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Gillingham had eight.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
We talked about that game, ye where we go about
Akrington Gillingham saying it's just going to that's going to
be a drawer.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Jilliing was just drawing every single game under Gareth Ames
with so yeah, there there is an.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Element this time of the season that it's everything is
a little bit of a is a little bit of
a punt. I think with a manager who a manager
has been in charge for several years of a club,
then there's just a little bit more of a trustworthy
element there. You feel like crew are going to more
consistently deliver seven out of ten performances at the price.
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I would be looking at it, you know, against it
against a poorer team in the league because obviously everybody
will go about identifying what they think is worth going
in an act in a different way. And like you
said at the the top of the show, that it's
somewhere between last man's standing and whether it's a value
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bet and this weekend, then I don't think that there
are that many of the weaker teams in the division
playing at three pm against like away from home at
teams who you think, yeah, they should do well. So
you have to be constantly flexible with what you with
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what you're willing to put in.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
You're like a big price goal scorer.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Do you know which center back had four shots in
that opening day win at Salford Cruse center back not Mickey, No,
it was James Connolly's defensive partner, but four shots there,
so clearly some kind of set peace threat that they'll
bring to that game as well, just various factors that
kind of go into that potential game.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Yeah, and I think we all had Ackington. I had
them to be relegated.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Do you remember they were at least twenty second I
think in mind.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Yeah, I'm happy with this pick. I was just wondering.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
I wasn't across either a Cruz or Acuinton's opening game,
so I didn't really have any figure that was just
woulding how confident you wire Crewe.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
The thing that jumped off the page was the attacking
performance as opening weekends go, and what you want to
see from your team to either back up genuine optimism
or for a lot of us, delusional optimism depending who
you support, which always comes with the start of the season.
That's the sort of performance you want to see, don't you.
From early on three goals could have been more as
(31:28):
well in y Akrington same price as harrog at four
to one to go down from League two this season.
So a team that many are expecting, as we said
there to obauly struggle.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
I like it, happy, do you want to take it?
There we go? Then third piss of this week's acker.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
We are going into League two after picking out stop
Or and Bolton.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
In League One.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
We are taking Crewe for home win over Acrington and
that treble is pushing just a bit below ten to one.
Three teams at a nice price so far. We want
to get one more, of course, to make it up
to a nice fourfold.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
I was just about to saying, I don't. I don't
think I do. No, I don't think I do.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
I found the slate really tough picking out aker worthy teams.
Three teams a shade of a shade of tens might
get it boosted to tens. I think that's perfect. But
what I am really excited for there's some big prices
knocking about. I'd like to have the security of those three,
because we're all hot on them as a collective. I'd
like to talk about the bigger prize teams. How we
(32:30):
as a longer list, potential bigger acker.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
I don't know how you too feel.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I mean, what do you think I am inclined to
say around tens, I would actually happily sell on just
a troubling at this slide of the season. Happily we
obviously have the longer aker that we put together that
may include some of the teams that we mentioned here,
but I mean those three locked in.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Yeah, we could go.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
For it as a slate, like I was really struggling
for teams that I'd put in an acker because I
would I would back I was free, and I don't
want to put another one in a bigger prize for
the main one.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
But last season we had two winners from beginning in
March one.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
On a longer list, I'd happily have a smaller stake
on a couple of extra teams because there's so many
good big prize singles knocking about. For example, did a
wig in it later in Orient? Okay, shade of free
to one. I'm all of that over this and again
it is a bit knee jake to the first first
game of the season, but Orient look look.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
A bit lost at the minute.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Wellings was not happy with the performance on opening the weekend.
Lost a lot of talent from last season Kellman for one,
and they haven't been able to take advantage of the
low market yet have they? And Wellens is not happy Wigging.
On the other hand, a bit of contingency from last season.
Manager looks like he's got the personnel into play the
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wing back system and they were brilliant and opening Day weekend.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
I just think this is a price.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
I wouldn't have it as a staple in a Maynacher,
but it is something a bit more fun. Takes us
to over thirty to one for a long list, I'd
be all over that any.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Of us that we want to mention.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
At this point, I had that down as a as
a good single for the weekend. Wigan were one of
the teams I had him as my dark horse in
League One for this season because if you go back
under Ryan Lowe and I haven't got this to handle
aft to double check in a minute, have they lost?
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Are they still unbeaten? I know it's majority draws.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
As I say, it feels like a lot of draws
would be my only thing that I got.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Can add to that.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
The whole point that I was making with Ryan Lowe
and the the lost lost twice, that's it's a three
wins seven draws to defeats in twelve matches, was that
he's managed to just fix He fixed the defense, but
they were struggling to score any goals towards the end
of the season, and they've signed some good attacking players
in the summer.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Mullin didn't even start.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
At the Roadman game, they scored three and it feels
like they've hitched a bit to him to hopefully.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Fix that goal scoring issue.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
So I like Wiggan Leon Ori and I've had the
whole side ripped album from them, So yeah, I wouldn't
be I wouldn't be a verse out the wider point
that Jimmy's making. And I do think it's particularly tricky weekend.
You know how you'd look down a list and think, yeah,
I'd have them in out of them, and I'd have
them and I just don't think it's one of those weekends.
(35:19):
It has been a bit of a struggle because I'd
rather just be honest with everybody the like as we
always are. Yeah, I would rather keep it to a
treble to improve our chances of winning, because I'm not
really really hot on on any of them except Stockport,
(35:40):
which I think is a combination of it being a
very good angle at a very good price personally. I
know you guys both love Bolton and the Bolton one
again to Plymouth, I have my own my own hearts.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
It's a it is a tough tough weekend, it really is.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
I'd mentioned obviously Grimsby spoke about them on Monday, seven
to five at Harrogate and a Newport.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
I thought we're.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Generous pushing five to one going to Crawley again. Another
team we spoke about on Mondays. This week's CFL if
you want to kind of hear the reflections on the
weekend still valid, of course gons this one. Go go
back and listen to that, but obviously need a response.
But four to seven at home Newport one of the Cup,
didn't They in the new special round of the Carabo
Cup and then drew Wan Notts County to start there weekend. Sorry,
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their season just feels a Crawley a bit too short,
Newport a bit too big on that.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Yeah, that was a ridiculous price. I couldn't believe Craly.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
There were one to two earlier in the week, one
to two on and I just don't get it.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
And obviously you see firsthand say couldn't string.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
A past basically first half year trying to play passing
football with that personnel to play passing football, it was
just comedy.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
You know.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
You could play the Benny Hill music over the top
of the highlights and we would fit quite well into
into what they were doing. Any others any of us
want to mention or we just happy to have chef
hands on. I've got a few that I'll be really
quick and just scrub off. And it's more for if
people are building their own actors this weekend, beyond just
the one the one that we're building.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
And even I put some down.
Speaker 5 (37:13):
The list to just poke holes in myself, Like QPR
against Preston was one that I didn't mind the look of.
But there's a lot of question marks about both teams.
So I would be just having a watching brief on
that probably for future weeks.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
I wouldn't be having it. I'd tell you that it's
another under two and a half. By the way, yeah,
QPR's lack of striker again.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
Against Burton, then I know that this is conflicting views
amongst us where the Barns are a bit too short
or then we're leaning towards having ball in it a
similar prize.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
I don't mind it.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
The thing that concerns me is that Barns they haven't
got any recognized center backs for Saturday because they had
Jack Sheppard sent off of Matt Robertsons out for two months.
So it's one of those things where you know you've
got more knowledge about your own team. Sometimes it can
make it overthink it. They probably are going to be
team that a lot of people are going to be
putting in their accumulators this weekend, So yeah, I wouldn't
(38:05):
completely rule that one out. And the other short priced one
Swindon against Cambridge. People on this panel were like, really
hot on Swindon doing well this season twenty three to
twenty to win at home, but we haven't even discussed
it Swindon.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
I'm just not so sure.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
The thing with that one Cambridge is just Harris.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
They just I just couldn't they just they might not win,
but I just can't see him getting beat that often
this season.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
The other ones away teams. Not A massive fan of
the away teams. And then I am sort of like
edging towards whether West brom to win at home to
Blackburn is as a good bet. But you was so
hot under their season, and it's all it's all that
(38:56):
little spell at the end of the season. Do you
know where there's nothing to lose for Blackburn having that
splurge in form to potentially again in the top six.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
And I looked back over the last three seasons.
Speaker 5 (39:07):
I know it's going to be the first game for
West Brom under Ryan Mason, but West Brom's home form
is so consistently good for three years that just has
me edging towards it. But if there's so many question
marks on fixtures this weekend were not helped by the
twelve thirty kickoffs is killed us this Saturday.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
So there's a lot for.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
Us probably to chew over at the end of the podcast,
for people to look on sport in Life dot com
and see what we've decided on the long list. It's
a very long winded way of me saying I think
I agree with Jimmy about the trouble.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Let's take the trouble then three teams that make up
this week's akcher for the second weekend of the League
one and League two season, first weekend of the Championship,
although we're completely ignoring that because the two teams were
taking from League One Stockport to beat Wickham and Bolton
to beat Plymouth Argal and then in to its crew
to bet Accrington that treble around nine nine and a
(40:04):
half to one. Hopefully tens that we get on the
little boost their rumor to keep it fun never bit
money can forward and please gamble responsibly. We mentioned that
little boost they're ahead of sport live dot com forward
slash football to find the link to back that treble
at an enhanced price, alongside the longer accumulator they'll put
together when we finally pick out which teams that we
want to include. And if you haven't already, please follow
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