Dragons Football tips 2014/2015

gateshead win hope some of you werre on

That looks like a profitable afternoon Kings, 4 from 5, well done.
Gateshead was a good call too the Dragon, wish I had backed them at that price.

The turn around at Gateshead has been remarkable. They looked doomed when they lost 13 league games in a row but they've now picked up 24 points in 11 games and have stayed up with games to spare.

I know it's a bit early to talk about a game on Thursday but I've just seen some very surprising odds for the Bromley v Cambridge game.

Bromley have been top of the table for ages and are 1/2 to win the title and they haven't lost at home for 13 months.

Cambridge have only picked up 3 points from their last 4 away games.

With this in mind, don't you think Bromley 2/1 Cambridge 11/8 is the wrong way around?

It will be interesting to see how much the odds change over the next four days.

I should add, Cambridge's top class 'keeper is suspended and a goalie who's never started a game in the football league will be in goal.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying I think Bromley are a lump-on job, I'm just trying to comprehend how the bookies have decided that the Cambridge win is the most-likely result.

HEY VB,

Great to have you on the thread and its a very interesting point you make. One thing i wd say is the bookies dont often get it wrong but>>>

2/1 for a team that are top of the table and unbeaten at home-13 wins and 8 draws does seem a tad generous. Particuarly given that Cambridge have not won any of their last 4 away games and their away form against the top 9 is poor with 1 win in 7 games.

Form at this time of the year with so much at stake is very fickle but i agrree with your anaysis. Maybe a lay of Cambridge wd be the more cautious/safer option?

chuffed with my 25/1 winner in the national

ive had a small interest in wrexkam today at 12/5. birmingham in poor form- 1 win in 6 and 4 losses-3 on the bounce

wrexham need to win this badly to retain hope of a play off positiomn. Their form is not great either 2 wins in 6 but they have played some strong form teams lately so im hoping that their need to win will get them over the line today.

the lay of brum is 5/4 if you fancy that option

hey VB - ive had some of the 2/1 on bromley = cheers

Been looking at google for this game and there are some weird assessments. Some have the game on Tuesday not Thursday, some think Cambridge are at home and one thinks Bromley are bottom of the table !
9/5 is now the best I can get, so thanks for the info about the keeper. Had a fiver on Bromley.
Maybe it is on tv hence the date confusion.

Maybe Bromley will win, who knows but I would take into account that Notts County played the whole of the second half against the reserve keeper yesterday and were unable to score.

Brum v Wrexham ……both teams to score @ 1.77 is my main footy bet today

Morning, the Spy, good to see you again.

Just one bet for me today, Napoli to beat Parma @ 1.61

Napoli didn't go to plan yesterday unfortunately but glutton for punishment I'll try for BTTS in tonight's game between Man U and Leeds. (1.78).

3 aways for mid week

Ipswich 19/20, Oldham 21/20 and Stevenage 3/1- patent

Homes: Wigan 4/5 and Luton 1/3 - double

gl all- health warning - form is questionable at this time of year so only small bets

vwd on your btts last night foin

Apr 12, 2026 -- 10:45AM, Foinavon wrote:

Maybe Bromley will win, who knows but I would take into account that Notts County played the whole of the second half against the reserve keeper yesterday and were unable to score.

To be fair, Notts County made it very easy for him by somehow not having a single shot on target!

Even if David Raya was going to be in goal for Cambridge, I'd still find it baffling that the champions-elect, who have an amazingly-good home record, are the 3.25 outsiders against a team who've only picked up 3 points from their last 4 away games.

Yes. that's true Vince. I suspect being 3 up and a man down Cambridge put up an effective defensive screen around him. Good luck with your bet on Bromley.

Thanks, The Dragon, the bet looked in the balance after the red card but I had cashed out after the Leeds goal as the market offered 50% ROI and I judged that the reward /risk of hanging on for a Man U goal was poor (28/150 or around 18%).
Not sure about tonight's games but I think Ipswich might be good for a couple of goals but not sure about Pompey. Over 1.5 @ 1.41 looks reasonable value so have gone for that. Good luck with yours.

Expect the unexpected. Both goals from Pompey.

Bobbins - at least wigan won . Im hoping Luton can give me the double this evening. Hoping that Stockport can overcome their Wembley disappointment and win at relegation threatened Wimbledon - cd be a tough one

it went against the grain but i did back PSG to beat Liverpool so that helped - just champions league spot left for Liverpools awful season

Some unexpected results, Barrow scoring 3 in the last 10 minutes for example. It may be best to stick with derivatives rather than outright results. I looked at Norway now they have a few games under the belt and
Tromso v Lillestrom looks like BTTS. currently around 1.7. Both off to a flying start and scoring freely. Early days but I think worth a punt. You are right to keep stakes low at this time of the season, the Dragon.
Better luck today.

No goals in my pick last night unfortunately. I think I need to give the Eliteserien a few more weeks for the form to settle.
Just a modest interest tonight in the Forest v Porto game. Over 1.5 goals at 1.49. Both previous encounters between these teams this season ended with two goals scored.

As kick-off approaches, Bromley are 3.85 and Cambridge 2.28.

Just to be clear - I'm a Cambridge fan, so I can't back Bromley!

The reason I posted about this game was to try and get some theories for why a team who've taken just three points from their last four away games are clear favourites against a table-topping side that hasn't lost at home for over a year.

I suppose one theory is that Cambridge's performances have been better than Bromley's in recent weeks.

finished o-o prob a result both teams will be happy with

A poor couple of days for me last weekend with football and racing bets, my main bet in National didn’t make it past the first!! and although my only selection at Newcastle won I didn’t have anything on it (I am sure I backed it though!!)
Sunday wasn’t much better with Newcastle once again throwing away a lead to lose to a late goal
So, after also being ill for a few days I am hoping my luck is about to change and I’ve picked out 6 bets in the 12:30 games to, hopefully, give me a healthy profit.



Brentford @ 2.16    Derby @ 2.00     Bolton @ 2.04     Swindon @ 1.68


Over 2.5 goals: Portsmouth v Leicester @ 2.36
Both teams to score: Derby v Oxford @ 1.92

Good Luck if having any bets in the early games

HOMES : SWINDON at 4/6

AWAYS; Bristol Rovers 29/20, Brighton at 11/8 and Stockport 11/10.

Others of interest grimsby 10/11 and united at 23/10

gl all

Good luck with your bets today. I'm hoping for a few upsets and my two bets are lays of short priced away sides Plymouth (1.84) and Cardiff (1.6).

thanks foin

bristol rovers look the value won 6 on the bounce and 8 out of 10.

tranmere no wins in eleven and losing 9 of them.

usual caution advised mind given the stage of the season and tranmere fighting to avoid relegation

Morning all, today's selections btts
Derby 1.89
Crawley 1.86

Over 2.5
Halifax 1.89
Oxford city 2.00

Gl all

swindon 2-1 up after going 1 down

Foinavon, I was looking into Reading v Cardiff as I thought I had missed something after looking at the odds (will check again before k.o.)
I’ll probably go Reading on the Asian Handicap with +0.5 goals or +1 goal (or maybe both)
Reading lost 4 of last 14 games, all losses to only 1 goal margin, they’ve also lost only 4 of 21 home games and taken points from 6 of 8 home games played against the 9 teams above them.
Cardiff dropped points in 7 of last 10 games and in 7 of 10 away games against teams in top half of league
Surely Reading can take something from this game

Dragon, Swindon conceding in 1st minute made me think I was on for another losing day, but didn’t take long for them to get in front though

Cardiff were shorter than I expected (which was somewhere between 1.8 and evens) and Plymouth are about right considering that Wimbledon had a hard match midweek and are missing Matty Stevens. I just think that Wimbledon desperately need the points and might hold on for a draw.

92 min equaliser from accrington - fortunatley cashed out

ft 2-2

4 good prices for my 3pm selections, will be looking much better if they actually win


Newcastle @ 2.32    Hull @ 2.60    Norwich @ 2.62


Asian Handicap:  Reading +0.5 goals @ 2.61


Good Luck All

The right thing to do, the Dragon, there were a lot of draws in the early games apart from the Championship where all three were home wins.
Good luck with the later set OTH. I think Newcastle will win, not sure about the others. I think Spurs need opposing in the late game although I probably won't have any more bets

stockport winning

stockport 2 up

A few surprises today but not the ones I was hoping for. A better showing from Spuds even though they didn't win. Can they climb to safety? It's still a big ask.

Only the 1 winner from my 3pm selections, but at least it was the biggest priced one!!

Just a couple of small bets on the 2pm games today

Forest/Villa  Double @ 2.53

and I’ll chance a bet on Liverpool @ 2.40


Good Luck All

Hi On the hoy. Forest is my lay today given their home record. I wish you luck with the others.

VWD OTH, a good afternoon for you. I thought for a while there would be a few draws but they worked out in the end.

vwd oth - ok weekend for me away selections are proving to be so mutter better than home ones.

i may look as this as a strategy for next season.

It made a nice change having to 2 late goals working to my advantage, I put some of the returns on a Man City win and Over 2.5 goals (keeping my stakes small), so the weekend’s betting didn’t end too bad.

I fancy the draw (1-1) in Palace v West Ham,
so my 2 bets tonight are:  draw @ 3.45 and BTTS @ 1.76

Good luck All

GL OTH, you could well be right. I will have a punt on the draw but will wait until someone scores a goal before placing my bet.

A few quid back off last night’s game, so will have a shot at these 5 games tonight

Asian Handicap: Portsmouth +0.75 goals @  2.11      Hull +0.5 goals @ 1.92
Over 2.5 goals: Norwich v Derby  @ 1.92       Oxford v Wrexham @ 2.26
Both teams to score:  Stoke v Millwall @ 1.71

Good luck All

Had my first dip tonight since the Nat weekend, proper grim that was… Brighton, Hull and Cheltenham treb, about 18/1… Sportsbook kindly giving me steak back if one go down, a fairer bonus would have been steak returned if all three selections lose…

im on the following midweek games.

HOMES : Brighton 7/5,Cheltenham 7/5 and WBA 7/10 -Patent and treble.

AWAYS: City 1/6,Luton 11/20 and Ipswich 4/5 -Treble only

BTTS Bonus Betfred online

Girona
Hartlepool
St Mirren
Hibs

9/1 BBTS accie - St Mirren and Hibs games are at the weekend.

Tomorrow under 2.5 goals in the Boro v Sheff Wed game @ 3.60
A very high price for unders.

All looking rosy at HT with all three picks in front and a 4/1 cash out on offer... the fun didn't extend too far in to the second half and normal service was resumed...

Only Cheltenham let me down so not too bad , need city and Ipswich tonight for the double

BTTS

Hartlepool games was 4-3
Girona was 2-3

So I await the two Scottish games at the weekend with accie still on.

Boro game was 1-0 so easily won the unders bet, still baffled why the odds were so high. Boro are badly missing Hackney and McGree, their promotion hopes rest on these two players returning.

vwd Analyst- i got 5 out of 6 withh city and ipswich winning so not too shabby here also

Salford  1.95 v Bromley 4.3 tonight . massive game for both teams.

got to be a draw- 3.8 with so much resting on the game . Bromley ,top of the table and looking to be champions, not won a game away against the top 9 league teams and only 1 win v top 12 teams.

Salford , 4th in the table and looking for automatic promotion, strong at home with 5 wins in 6.

probably be a very tight game with unders looking likely also.

small interest bets

finished 2-0 got unders so not too bad

I like 3 Home wins today at decent prices as follows :

Blackpool to beat Orient at 9/5, Lincoln to beat Wycombe at 21/20 and Wigan to beat Wimbledon at 13/10 Treble and patent bet.

Have added Arsenal , Stockpotrt Barnet and Cardiff for 7 time home acca .

Usual caution in staking due to time of season as mentioned in earlier postd.

GL all

I'm taking no chances at this stage of the proceedings but I hope your boat comes in with the 7-fold, the Dragon. GL.

Morning all, today's selections, btts:

Mk Dons 2.10
Cambridge 2.68
Alaves 1.86

Gl all

Boro V Watford - 12.30pm

Kim Hellberg is resting quite a few Boro senior players, probably with a view to the Play Offs.

Some value on a lay of Boro @ 1.53 and under 2.5 goals @ 2.72 - they have struggled to score at home and don't see why it would improve today.

I’ve gone for bets in 5 of the 12:30 games, I never have much confidence when backing draws but today have upped my stakes slightly on my 3 draw bets, also Stockport @ 1.65 this morning was definitely worth backing

Stockport @ 1.65

Draws: Fulham v Aston Villa @ 3.7    Charlton v Hull @ 3.4      West Brom v Ipswich @ 3.55


BTTS: Grimsby v Swindon @  1.76

Good Luck All

stockport in the bag

2 winners from the early games and with 1 of the draws coming in I scraped a very small profit
4 odds on selections for my next round of betting


Norwich @ 1.72        Liverpool @ 1.62      Birmingham @ 1.92       Feyenoord @ 1.76 

I see Liverpool are 2.04 on the Asian Handicap with -1 goal, so will stick a few quid on this

Good luck All

6/7 ficking wigan

Today I've backed Tromso to beat Sandefjord. They are going great guns in the Eliteserien and have only conceded one goal in their 6 marches so far. Currently priced around 1.6

6 winners from 10 yesterday, hope to add to my profit with at least 2 winners from my 3 selections in the French Ligue 1 today

Le Havre @ 1.62    Lille @ 1.80    Rennes @ 1.50

Good Luck with today’s bets

2 from 3 OTH, well done. I think the final game in ligue 1 should be a win for OM and since I'm up on the day I will have a small interest at 1.66

Aye Foin’  3 winners would have been good, but 2 winners kept me in profit for the weekend
2 winners for you yesterday? I saw there was a late goal(88 mins) in your last bet so maybe you laid off

3 bets for tonight

Man Utd @  2.00      Atalanta @ 1.80


BTTS: Espanyol v Levante @ 1.87

Good luck if having a bet tonight

Yes, I always lay off in such circumstances, it's what I advise others to do too. I also layed off Tromso when they went 2 up during the first half but they won anyway. From what I've seen so far, Viking are currently the strongest team in the Eliteserien,they just got caught out in the first round.  Bodo seemed jaded early on perhaps from too many fixtures but they are coming good.

Good luck with your bets tonight OTH, I've been out all day so haven't had the time to check out today's games yet. I may post again later.

Man U v Brentford, I'm having a small bet on the draw and will back BTTS if I can get 1.8 in running.

I got Saturday's tips wrong, the Boro/Watford game was a bit of a goal fest and Boro had some luck, which is a rarity this season.

On the midweek/weekend BTTS fourfold I ended up with 3 out of 4, not quite enough for the accie, who would have thought Livingston could keep a clean sheet away from home!

Well, the BTTS came in but not the draw. How Brentford contrived not to score more goals is a mystery.

No prizes for guessing that I've backed Tromso again today. Their oponents Brann are a better team than their current league position suggests in my opinion but I'm keeping faith with the home team.Current price around evens.

I’ve also gone for Tromso tonight, but I’ll also go for over 2.5 goals as I reckon whatever the result there could be 3 or 4 goals in this game, current odds about 1.80 so I’ll put some bets up to hopefully get matched at 2.00 or higher if no early goal comes

GL oth, looks like you got matched for overs. Brann is one of only 3 teams in the division who play on grass at home, the others being Lillestrom and Rosenborg. Worth keeping in mind when they play home fixtures.

H.T.0-3,,,

0-4 now, so much for form. Tromso won the reverse fixture at Brann 1-2 only last month.

Took your advice on a few goals,,,,bought T/GOAL MINS @ 153 SETTLED @218

Morning all.

Mainly away wins for me this weekend with main selections being:

Coventry to beat Watford -Even Money.

Grimsby to beat Tranmere 23/20 and Plymouth to beat Northampton at 4/9.

Others of interst are :

Forest 15/4, West Ham 11/4 Lincoln 7/10 Brighton 13/8

I’ve had a dip tomorrow… Norwich -1 @ 8.6 and Norwich -1/McBurnie card @ 32/1, cheers…

I’m feeling an epic team talk in the away dressing room at Elland Road… Burnley to come out all guns blazing… had a play @ 34, cheers…

Come back Scotty, all is forgiven!

yo yo team are burnley  maybe shaune diche will be on his way back

It’s all coming to an end for another season…Dragon et al, anyone got any left side World Cup outright picks?

Colupaul, was it you who tipped up Vipotnik at 100/1 a few months ago. If so, excellent tipping. I had a £1 ew. Barring something extraordinary today, we should be collecting.
No bet for me today, got a few small ante post bets live so will watch those.
France and Argentina would be my 2 against the field in the World Cup outright market.

Derby gone from 1.8 to 2.0 in last half hour or so only the left back Murkin missing other than the long  term injuries, very strange.

I got matched in my midweek over 2.5 goals bet @ 2.02, averaged 1.95, but with Tromso losing it ended break even for me.

Not too sure about these 12 Championship games today, so I’m going for only 2 bets

Asian Handicap: Millwall v Oxford -1.25 goals @ 1.89

Over 2.5 goals: Blackburn v Leicester @ 1.92

Good Luck All

Aye pug was me who put Vip, back in September I think it was… surely in the bag but never say never… I recall being at Carrot Road a few years back on the opening day, Colchester winning 5-0 at HT, still had this suspicion that Norwich would get back in to it, but of course they didn’t… Vip has been aided by a lack of competition up front as Idah has been injured for a fair part of the season and also the amount of penalties Swansea has been given, so in the end it’s been quite comfortable, I look forward to being weighed out sometime this afternoon on to 3pm and I’ve gone for Blackpool, Bristol Rovers an Mansfield treb, pays with a boost about 50/1… do think Colchester will get beat later but I’m steering clear of that one, cheers… King’s Trail in the 2000 for me…

Distant Storm for me in the Guineas. Gstaad is worth taking on as favourite, given how many of AOB horses have run 1st time out this season.
Good luck with your bets today.

with only a few minutes remaining in the Championship games, my Millwall bet is looking ok, but I’m waiting/hoping for 2 very late goals in the Blackburn game

On to the 3pm games:

Asian Handicap: West Ham +0.50 goals @ 2.01       Wolves +0.25 goals @ 2.24

I was going to add Burton to my AH bets, but at odds of 4.30 I’ll just go for the straight win

And I can’t help myself having a few quid on Newcastle @ 2.72 to get back to winning ways 

Good Luck All

Weighed out on the 100/1 winner, ching ching I’ve backed my three picks in singles and also had a punt on Grimsby-1 @ 4.5, cheers…

Had a play on West Ham @ 9.6…

not looked at world cup yet but when i do ill try and find a decent outsider

A speculative loss for me yesterday as Harrogate succumbed to Barnet and have been relegated to the National league. Today I'm hoping that Tromso have recovered from an unexpected midweek pasting and will get back on track against bottom club Start. A small stake bet on Tromso at 1.82. This price is about twice what I expected and is perhaps a reaction to the previous result.

Stevenage have the worst GD in the play offs in L1 since Brentford 21 years ago.   Bradford have the joint 3rd or 4th worst GD over that period.  The combined GD of all 4 teams is only +41 which is lower than teams who finished 7th to 10th, and surely the lowest ever.  I definitely think it's a shocking L1 Play Off.

Stevenage beat Stockport home and away in the league (and didn't deserve to win either match) so we've been very lucky.  3 wins 2 draws and 1 defeat against the other teams gives us a shout, but personally don't fancy us at all, although glad we are not playing Bolton.

Yesterday didn’t end too bad, especially with Newcastle taking a 3-1 win.
6 bets for today, 3 home wins, 2 draws & 1 AH bet


Carlisle @  2.48
Paris FC @ 2.06
Aston Villa @ 2.2

Bournemouth v Crystal Palace DRAW @  4.3
Man Utd v Liverpool DRAW @ 3.9

Asian Handicap: Lille -1 goal @ 1.69

Good Luck All

Only 1 win from 6 of my selections last Sunday

so I’ll go for only a small stake bet on 1 game tonight

BTTS: Hull v Millwall @ 1.95

or if Auld Toon Loon wins the first at Chester, I might up my stake

Good Luck All

0-0 in my BTTS bet last night.

I’ll be chucking some cash on Liverpool to beat Chelsea @ 2.1

was tempted to go for a Southampton win today (put them up for a 2-1 win in a tipping comp.), but decided to give it a miss

Good Luck if having a bet

Anyone know how The Dragon is getting on ?

Many thanks for the Zan tip Colupaul, there's a pint if your about watching the U's down here next season.
Regarding the world cup I have had a play on Ecuador @200s just before xmas.

Hope all's good Dragon, all the best.

cheers bcc - goodluck with your selection and enjoy the world cup