Anywhere offering odds on the conference?

[Diatribe]

would like to bet on Crawley if i can find some good odds. Really think this will the year for them, Kuipers must be worth 20 points a seaosn at that level, they've singed tubbs a contant goalscorer at that level, pablo mills, top signing, plus a couple of players with spl experience.
i dunno how they're paying for it, and evans may be a bit dodgy but he's not a bad manager.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Grimsby fans already think they have the Conference sewn up , little do they know.

 

[porkypie]

Odds checker will show you all the prices!

 

[Bry Nylon]

Crawley have signed PABLO MILLS? f*** me, as if I wasn't already going to watch them a few times next season to see GOD in action I may as well just buy a season ticket now.

PABLO MILLS?
Isn't that a Spanish daytime TV show?

 

[Diatribe]

did look on oddschecker but couldn't see anything.
now realised i went to english not nonleague
was hoping the odds might be a tad more generous than that

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

Kuipers must be worth 20 points a seaosn at that level

I know he's decent, but that's ludicrous

 

[Durlston]

The biggest North East derby of them all - Darlington vs Gateshead.

 

[Gully]

By the way, Luton are 2/1 to win that division. How any team can be that short to succeed in a league that is essentially just 22 lots of talentless oafs is beyond me. At least when teams are 2/1 to win the Premiership at least you can guarantee they'll finish in the top three. ANYONE could win the conference.

I beg to differ, apart from there being 24 teams in the Conference, there are plenty of players who have been on the books of teams far higher up the leagues but who couldn't quite cut it and are trying their luck a little lower down. There are also players who choose to play part-time and combine football with another career...I wouldn't call them talentless oafs either.

As for anyone being able to win the Conference, I would suggest that there are maybe half dozen teams with a realistic chance of winning it (Luton, Cambridge, Wrexham, Kidderminster, York and possibly Wimbledon), there are also another half dozen who will most likely fill the bottom six places in the division, other than that it really is competitive and at times highly entertaining.

 

[Gritt23]

a league that is essentially just 22 lots of talentless oafs is beyond me

LOL, and we criticise Chelski fans for being dismissive of the leagues below them!!

As someone who has been to Conference games quite regularly over the last couple of years, I can assure you that there is quite a bit of talent at that level. Ok, not many of them are likely to make it at League One level, in the same way as we will see very few players in League One next season who will make it in the Premiership. But "talentless oafs" is quite wide of the mark.

 

[Gritt23]

Back to the subject of the thread though ...... I'd be interested in a price for Forest Green being unable to complete the season.

 

[Monkey Man]

Anyone who saw Liam Enver Marum play for Eastbourne last season will wonder if Crawley really have the dream team that's being advertised.
You'd think they have a chance of making the play-offs, but champions? I have a suspicion things aren't going to be as easy for Crawley as their 800 fans are being led to believe.

 

[Gritt23]

Anyone who saw Liam Enver Marum play for Eastbourne last season will wonder if Crawley really have the dream team that's being advertised.
You'd think they have a chance of making the play-offs, but champions? I have a suspicion things aren't going to be as easy for Crawley as their 800 fans are being led to believe.

This season has a look of shit or bust for Crawley, as they appear to have spent / will spend quite heavily on players this summer.

 

[Monkey Man]

Crawley ought to be in a position to continue their progress, and good luck to them with their ambitions. But sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for. What if they did go up? Their crowds are small by Conference standards and I can't see where the finance is coming from even now.

 

[Gritt23]

Crawley ought to be in a position to continue their progress, and good luck to them with their ambitions. But sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for. What if they did go up? Their crowds are small by Conference standards and I can't see where the finance is coming from even now.

Oh don't get me wrong, I don't wish them to fail, but clubs at all levels get themselves into the biggest trouble when they over-stretch themselves. At Crawley there is word of this mysterious "far east investor" as if that is automatically a billionaire sheik, but the reality appears to still be the same people running the club, and even the same shareholders at present (I believe).

All has a look of smoke and mirrors to me, while signing players like Tubbs for reportedly close to a six-figure sum (and his former manager described "phenomenal wages"), and talk of further £100k bids, and breaking the club transfer record before the summer is out.

 

[surrey jim]

Crawley ought to be in a position to continue their progress, and good luck to them with their ambitions. But sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for. What if they did go up? Their crowds are small by Conference standards and I can't see where the finance is coming from even now.

Average attendances table below - have to say even I was suprised how few fans they get. With a town that size thought it would be nearer 2000/2500 average

1 Luton Town 6,976
2 Oxford United 6,004
3 AFC Wimbledon 4,316
4 Mansfield Town 3,206
5 Cambridge United 3,077
6 Wrexham 2,860
7 York City 2,665
8 Stevenage Borough 2,589
9 Rushden & Diamonds 1,678
10 Kidderminster Harriers 1,548
11 Kettering Town 1,387
12 Barrow 1,254
13 Eastbourne Borough 1,217
14 Tamworth 1,091
15 Ebbsfleet Utd 1,068
16 Altrincham 1,066
17 Salisbury 1,040
18 Forest Green Rovers 1,012
19 Crawley Town 1,003
20 Histon 849
21 Gateshead FC 674
22 Grays Athletic 658
23 Hayes & Yeading 604

 

[MikeySmall]

Oh don't get me wrong, I don't wish them to fail, but clubs at all levels get themselves into the biggest trouble when they over-stretch themselves. At Crawley there is word of this mysterious "far east investor" as if that is automatically a billionaire sheik, but the reality appears to still be the same people running the club, and even the same shareholders at present (I believe).

All has a look of smoke and mirrors to me, while signing players like Tubbs for reportedly close to a six-figure sum (and his former manager described "phenomenal wages"), and talk of further £100k bids, and breaking the club transfer record before the summer is out.

Ive seen the name Tom Scott being involved in the consortium. He was linked with a take over at Southampton a few years back. Im pretty sure he made his money in the brewery industry. Lives on Guernsey i think. Pretty loaded.

 

[Gritt23]

Pretty loaded.

So is Bill Archer.