Quote from: Lone Shark on February 13, 2008, 03:12:23 PM
For obvious reasons I can't say the amount - not enough that anyone would bat an eyelid if it was a division one league game, but enough to make people question why I'm doing these matches.
I went in at 2/1 Larkins if memory serves, they were 11/10 by the throw in. I'm fully willing to accept that the price was wrong, but no-one can (or wants to) tell me why it was - and that makes it very difficult for me to make a case in favour of pricing stuff like this.
Loneshark, just to put you out of your misery, I don't think the match was fixed, I think you got fed bad information from your 'source' in London. Yes Robert Emmets won the Intermediate Club championship the previous year beating Larkins on the way, but they did not have the same team (plus two tipp lads) the following year, a lot of the players from that Robert Emmets team left London after that match, which was a reason for London doing so poorly in the National League last year. Also it was bemoaned and named as a specific reason by the London manager in the run up to their game against Antrim in the Ulster championship, and in fact it was also part of the reason London were considering withdrawing from the Ulster Championship last year completely, as they didn't see the point in competing when they were struggling to field a team for the National League. So to get back to the original point, you were fed bad info from whoever you have in London, follow up with him as the prices should have been the other way round, and had I known there was betting on that match, I certainly would have fancied a piece of Larkins at 2/1.
On the bare facts your prices were right, but teams in places like London, New York, Boston etc all experience the same thing, wooden spooners one year, champs the next depending on how successfully they recruit the newcomers and whether they happen to hit a year where nobody fancies heading back to the Motherland!