Alan Crockford
Well-known Exeweb poster
I have a half-baked plan. I'd be interested in further comments and a hint as to whether anyone who bets in units of £20 would be interested in joining the said caper.
The aim is to raise £300 for the 1931 Fund. We need this to help cover the payment of £345 to ECFC for James Norwood's sponsorship, which I won't allow myself to take out of people's monthly payments.
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Sporting Bet have an online offer at the moment whereby you get a free £300 bet if you place five bets of at least £20. I can’t access their site at the moment, but I believe the £300 bet is on total goals in a live televised game.
Could we arrange a group of seven of us to sign up to Sporting Bet?
Each of us places our five £20 bets as normal within a certain timeframe, say a month, keeping our own returns. It's every man/woman/mug for him/herself at this stage.
When we’ve each qualified for our free £300 bet – and as I said, I think it has to be for total goals in a game – then we organise ourselves to back 0 goals, 1 goal, 2 goals, 3, 4, 5 and I think the usual top is ‘six or more goals’. All bases covered.
The odds on each of these should be at least 2/1 ranging to 12/1 or more for the higher scoring options. (Unless Sporting Bet are deliberately frugal with televised games to reduce the value of the free bets offer).
Our free £300 bet would thus return at least £300 (we wouldn’t get the £300 ‘stake’ back of course), which I’m asking the winner to donate to the 1931 Fund as above.
We could then agree to split the rest of the returns between the seven of us. It could be just a few quid if our chosen game is 1-1, but might just make decent money back if we find ourselves a 4-2 thriller.
In essence, I think we’d all have to expect to make five regular £20 bets and accept that our free £300 bet goes to a good cause. There’s the possibility of it working out very well for us individually, but that’s a bonus.
Anyway, what crucial point have I missed? Over to you...
The aim is to raise £300 for the 1931 Fund. We need this to help cover the payment of £345 to ECFC for James Norwood's sponsorship, which I won't allow myself to take out of people's monthly payments.
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Sporting Bet have an online offer at the moment whereby you get a free £300 bet if you place five bets of at least £20. I can’t access their site at the moment, but I believe the £300 bet is on total goals in a live televised game.
Could we arrange a group of seven of us to sign up to Sporting Bet?
Each of us places our five £20 bets as normal within a certain timeframe, say a month, keeping our own returns. It's every man/woman/mug for him/herself at this stage.
When we’ve each qualified for our free £300 bet – and as I said, I think it has to be for total goals in a game – then we organise ourselves to back 0 goals, 1 goal, 2 goals, 3, 4, 5 and I think the usual top is ‘six or more goals’. All bases covered.
The odds on each of these should be at least 2/1 ranging to 12/1 or more for the higher scoring options. (Unless Sporting Bet are deliberately frugal with televised games to reduce the value of the free bets offer).
Our free £300 bet would thus return at least £300 (we wouldn’t get the £300 ‘stake’ back of course), which I’m asking the winner to donate to the 1931 Fund as above.
We could then agree to split the rest of the returns between the seven of us. It could be just a few quid if our chosen game is 1-1, but might just make decent money back if we find ourselves a 4-2 thriller.
In essence, I think we’d all have to expect to make five regular £20 bets and accept that our free £300 bet goes to a good cause. There’s the possibility of it working out very well for us individually, but that’s a bonus.
Anyway, what crucial point have I missed? Over to you...