Everton price collapsing.

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well done

...nor a negative one, although there may have
been had the Everton gamble came off. Silence
is golden.

Everton's starting price was 1.56, so they majority of people or more importantly the money thought that you were wrong re 1.66 being too short.

However most importantly this doesn't mean that you were wrong.

was 1.66 too short? or 1.56 for that matter? well judging solely on Evertons dominance for large parts of the game the price was about right. Any of the Everton layers can count themselves very fortunate because of the fact that Everton had two legimate goals disallowed and the fact that they took the lead 3 minutes from time. But a winners a winner no matter how it comes about so well done!!!

I had Everton about 1.90 so for me, despite Newcastle missing
key players, I thought the 1.66 was an over reaction, (as usual)
to changes, so those who layed 1.55 must have thought Xmas had
come early.

If they hadn't had two legitimate goals ruled out the score would have been 4-2 to Everton, I would suggest thats a comprohensive victory in football where in contrast to many other sports scoring is always limited. You can't blame the team for errors with the officials. If Everton had scored ten and the referee wrongly disalowed eight of them does that qualify as a close game?

no moves, I didn't actually think over the 90 mins, that the home side
were that much superior to the toon, especially in the second half.
Regards the disallowed goals, well those things happen all the time you
must agree, btw was it proved beyond doubt that those 'goals' were 100%
valid ? I don't think it was. GL.

Reading v Spurs was a far more one sided game and Spurs were odds against

What happened on the night is not proof that the prices were right/wrong , it is some evidence certainly, but you have to take a longer view.

I thought ,and posted on the football forum, that this was one of the strangest prices i'd seen in a long time!

Everton and Newcastle are  , wether going by recent results , last 20 results  or last 18 months results, 2 of the most closely matched teams in the league .So i would expect the standard prices for a match between equals of 2.20-2.30 Home , 3.60-3.75 Away .Instead we ended up with 1.55 and 7.0   Yes Newcastle had 2 or 3 1st choice players unavailable , but hardly their best 3 , and it is rare for teams to have everyone fit in any case.

Everton's market superiority was such that ,even if the game was at Newcastle , prices adjusted for home advantage would have made Everton about 2.3 and Newcastle 3.5 !

Yes, but most people thought the price was right pre kickoff,
and there was no major gamble, Spurs always around 2.05 from
memory. I guess the judges were still thinking about Spurs
inexplicably failing to beat WBA and Norwich from winning
positions.

Spurs hit 2.2 about a minute from kick-off.

If you don't have Everton as a comfortably superior team to Newcastle in your ratings then you're doing something wrong.

http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/premier-league/w-o-big-6

Really Silverback?

On what basis are they comfortably superior?

They have almost identical points totals going back 80 games .Newcastle better last 40, Everton previous 40, but no huge margin either season. Goal Difference favours Everton a bit, but over any reasonable length of time they seem to get much the same level of results.

This season i keep hearing about Everton's 'great start' but i can't see how a 2-0 defeat at West Brom can be part of a 3 game great start.

I see no reason to suppose there will be much difference between them this season.