The Bookies have spoken

[Matabele]

2006 NRL betting:

$4.60 St George Illawarra;
$6 Parramatta;
$7.50 Sydney Roosters;
$10 North Queensland, Wests Tigers;
$11 Newcastle;
$12 Brisbane, Bulldogs;
$17 Penrith;
$21 Manly;
$26 Cronulla, Melbourne, Souths;
$41 New Zealand Warriors;
$61 Canberra.

 

[The Wheel]

Hopefully Parra dissappear again into the dust like they did after their 2001 disaster.

 

[byso]

I wonder if well be tipped to come last by the experts next year.

 

[byso]

What a joke, the tigers a favourites ahead of Manly

 

[Dan]

the bookies must have forgotten that the tooiiiiiigers have handbag harris next year

 

[PJ]

I'd be interested to compare the above with last years market.
The spread would've been alot bigger last year.

 

[Fluffy]

compare the price of the premierships winner last year as well - im sure the tigers were further out than us

 

[PJ]

Me think's the closeness of this years competition has scared the bookies.
If not it's atleast given them an excuse to give ****house odds.

 

[ManlyBacker]

Me think's the closeness of this years competition has scared the bookies.
If not it's atleast given them an excuse to give ****house odds.

Spot on PJ. Current books are running at 144 to 145%. That means if you put an amount on each team to win $100 it would cost you $144 to cover all of them. Usually a bookie margin runs at 20% for a sporting event, quite a bit less when competition is high.

 

[PJ]

That's interesting...
I'm sure all the bookies were thrilled to bits when the salary cap came in!