Bookies now rate us as a bottom 4 side

[one-eyed]

from today's Herald-Sun...

PREMIERSHIP MARKET

$2.60 Geelong
$4.50 Hawthorn
$9 Carlton
$9 Western Bulldogs
$12 St Kilda
$14 Collingwood
$31 Port Adelaide
$34 Brisbane Lions
$51 Adelaide
$51 Sydney
$61 Essendon
$67 North Melbourne
$67 Richmond
$67 West Coast
$81 Fremantle
$251 Melbourne

Odds: SportsAction

GERARD DAFFY’S MARKET

$3.25 Geelong
$4.50 Western Bulldogs
$5 St Kilda
$6 Carlton
$11 Hawthorn
$21 Collingwood
$34 Port Adelaide
$34 Sydney
$34 North Melbourne
$41 Brisbane Lions
$41 West Coast
$51 Adelaide
$51 Essendon
$101 Richmond
$101 Fremantle
$201 Melbourne

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,25305870-19742,00.html

[Mr Magic]

$101? Pretty enticing odds.

Bit early to write us off completely yet.

[TigerTime]

lets hope for once the club can prove all wrong 

[mat073]

With odds like these....Thank God its only round 3 not round 20

[Fishfinger]

I was peed off at the odds being updated each quarter at the MCG in round 1. I grew up having to suffer through 3UZ & 3DB radio coverage of the footy being constantly hijacked by odds for the next race and dividends for the last one.
I couldn't give a stuff what the bookies think. I go to the footy for the footy, not their greedy corruption promoting betting crap being blasted out over the PA and hogging the scoreboard. Bugger off back to horse racing.

[Hellenic Tiger]

Even if we are 0-3 come Monday I would think it would be of great value to place some hard earned on us to make the 8.

[mat073]

bookies right on the money

[bushranger]

I would even go as far as saying wqe are the bottom of the list.
We can't even do the basic's right as we are always turning the ball over.
Time to play as a team not a mob of big heads who play footy.

[wayne]

Even if we are 0-3 come Monday I would think it would be of great value to place some hard earned on us to make the 8.

I wish I had of put $20 on us for the spoon at the start of the season 

[one-eyed]

Punters jump off AFL Richmond Tigers after losses
Jon Anderson | April 16, 2009

PUNTERS have jumped off Richmond in a hurry. The Tigers, along with Carlton, were a buzz team before Round 1, with many expecting their late revival in 2008 to translate to finals this year.

That may still happen as their draw becomes easier, but right now they are being treated like a tropical disease.

The $21 to win the flag put up by TAB Sportsbet after last year's Grand Final has blown out to $81.

And there has been very little interest in the Richmond-Melbourne game on Sunday at the MCG, with TAB Sportsbet offering $1.33 about the Tigers and $3.15 on Melbourne.

"From six games neither team has won a match, and while Richmond's form might be slightly better, given they did lead Geelong in the last quarter, they do say don't back bad teams," Sports Alive's Gerard Daffy said. "Only a supreme optimist would get involved or someone who likes parting with money, otherwise known as a masochist."

That may be a good description of a punter who had $100,000 on Fremantle to make the eight -- as he did in 2007 and '08 -- before Round 1. The $2 he took is now out to $6 and blowing like a northerly.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,25339637-19742,00.html

[bushranger]

I still feel it is way too early to write us off.
We still have as much chances as any team in making it into the finals.
I think all what we have been talking about so far is our own frustrations with our club.
We promised so much, to be delivered this to this point of time.
So I hope and pray that we can turn it around.
I will say this weeks game is, as we all know, the crunch game for us.
With a win here will prove nothing to others. But it will have the snowball effect with a win here from this game.
And we will then have turned the corner. I have got my fingers crossed here. 

[peggles]

cool!.
a bottom 4 finish with less than 5 wins gives us 3 picks in the top 20.

much needed in a shallower draft due to the fact that those born jan to april 1992 can't be drafted.

sounds good to me

[one-eyed]

Fremantle, Richmond Tigers firm for wooden spoon
Jon Anderson | April 20, 2009 12:00am

RICHMOND and Fremantle, considered potential finalists by some pre-season, are now challenging Melbourne for wooden-spoon favouritism.

You could have $51 about the Tigers and $151 for Fremantle for the spoon four weeks ago, but the chronic under-achievers are now considered realistic spoon candidates.

Richmond was the subject of a massive plunge before their defeat at the MCG for reasons best known to those who parted with their hard-earned.

The Tigers' eight-point loss to Melbourne has them as short as $3.50 in some spoon markets, while Freo has taken matters a step further and is favourite at $2.50 with Sportsbet in Darwin.

"Fremantle's form is despicable, while Melbourne at least has some promising kids and Richmond, well, who really knows?" Phil Hannah of Sportsbet said.

The Tigers were backed as if morals yesterday, with Sportingbet Australia taking $30,000 at $1.37 and two $20,000 wagers at $1.36. Gerard Daffy of SportsAlive reported bets of $20,000 and $13,000 at $1.36 about the Tigers.

"Punters keep falling for them, but might start to tread warily after the horrors of the past month," Daffy said. "Make no mistake, they are very genuine spoon contenders. But so are Fremantle, who seemed to play almost without spirit."

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,25356545-19742,00.html