Newcastle United V Everton (02/01/13)

My Tips For The Toon V Everton

Every match I give myself 100 points to place a few hypothetical bets on Newcastle and 100 points to place a few general football bets using the odds available from SkyBet.com.  I then compare how the two sets of bets perform and analyse whether it's better to bet with your heart or your head.

Here are my tips for The Toon V Everton... 

Match Result:
20 points on Draw at 3.3
Our performances against Man U and Arsenal highlighted signs for optimism going forward but big concerns defensively, so I'm going to cautiously go for a draw against Everton.  Admittedly, it's been a while since our last league draw, but Everton have been the draw specialists this season with 9 draws from their 20 league matches and 4 draws from their last 8 matches.

Team Bets: 
30 points on Both Teams To Score In 2nd Half at 2.88
6 of our last 9 league matches have seen both teams score in the second half.

Arsenal V The Toon: Tips Round-Up

My Tips For Arsenal V Newcastle United: Round-Up

Every match I give myself 100 points to place a few hypothetical bets on Newcastle and 100 points to place a few general football bets using the odds available from SkyBet.com.  I then compare how the two sets of bets perform and analyse whether it's better to bet with your heart or your head.

If you'd said we would score six goals on our away trips to Man U and Arsenal I think most people would have bit your hand off.  Incredibly though, six goals still weren't enough to get anything from the games.

This is how things went with my tips for Arsenal V The Toon...

Team Total Goals:
30 points on Newcastle To Score Exactly 1 Goal at 2.5 - LOSS
I was overly cautious with this bet, but our three goals still weren't enough to get a result.

Team Bets:
20 points on Both Teams To Score In 2nd Half at 3.25 - WIN 65 points
At times the second half was like a kick about on the school field with eight goals being scored in the second half.  That's now 6 of our last 9 league matches which have seen both teams score in the second half, so this looks like a bet worth considering for future matches.

Arsenal V Newcastle United (29/12/12)

My Tips For Arsenal V The Toon

Every match I give myself 100 points to place a few hypothetical bets on Newcastle and 100 points to place a few general football bets using the odds available from SkyBet.com.  I then compare how the two sets of bets perform and analyse whether it's better to bet with your heart or your head.

The defeat at Man U was hard to take, and I have to say it reinforced how much I really dislike Alex Ferguson and particularly the way he constantly puts pressure on referees with his persistent verbally aggressive moaning and complaining.  I'd personally like to see referees encouraged to give interviews after matches so they can highlight occasions when managers are totally out or order and also mock managers who are apparently clueless of the rules of football (as in Alex Ferguson's case).

Anyway, here are my tips for Arsenal V The Toon... 

Team Total Goals:
30 points on Newcastle To Score Exactly 1 Goal at 2.5
We've scored one goal in 4 of our last 6 league games.

Team Bets:
20 points on Both Teams To Score In 2nd Half at 3.25
5 of our last 8 league matches have seen both teams score in the second half.

The Toon V QPR: Tips Round-Up

My Tips For Newcastle United V QPR: Round-Up

Every match I give myself 100 points to place a few hypothetical bets on Newcastle and 100 points to place a few general football bets using the odds available from SkyBet.com.  I then compare how the two sets of bets perform and analyse whether it's better to bet with your heart or your head.

Our win over QPR was just about the only thing I managed to predict correctly last weekend.  This is how things went with my Toon tips...

Match Result:
10 points on Newcastle United at 2.05 - WIN 21 points
Thankfully, Shola's late goal meant that QPR's four match unbeaten run came to an end.

Team Bets: 
20 points on Both Teams To Score In 2nd Half at 3.25 - LOSS
Our second clean sheet in our last four league games ensured that this was a losing bet.

Newcastle United V QPR (22/12/12)

My Tips For The Toon V QPR

Every match I give myself 100 points to place a few hypothetical bets on Newcastle and 100 points to place a few general football bets using the odds available from SkyBet.com.  I then compare how the two sets of bets perform and analyse whether it's better to bet with your heart or your head.

Last week both my sets of tips made a profit, so hopefully I can follow that up with another successful sets of tips this week.  Here are my tips for The Toon V QPR...

Match Result:
10 points on Newcastle United at 2.05
Since Harry Redknapp took over QPR have been unbeaten in their last four league games, whereas we're on a run of six defeats from our last seven league matches, so if you were going on form and statistics then QPR would be the value bet.  However, there were encouraging signs in the second half against Man City, and QPR's recent improved results have been against the likes of Wigan and the mackems, so my eternal optimism is going to go for a small bet on us to get back to winning ways.

Team Bets: 
20 points on Both Teams To Score In 2nd Half at 3.25
4 of our last 6 league matches have seen both teams score in the second half.

The Toon V Man City: Tips Round-Up

My Tips For Newcastle United V Manchester City: Round-Up

Every match I give myself 100 points to place a few hypothetical bets on Newcastle and 100 points to place a few general football bets using the odds available from SkyBet.com.  I then compare how the two sets of bets perform and analyse whether it's better to bet with your heart or your head.

Unfortunately, a second half header by Demba Ba wasn't enough to inspire us to a result, despite a battling second half performance.  Hopefully if we can repeat that performance again next week though (and preferably for 90 minutes), then you would expect us to beat QPR.

Demba Ba's goal meant a profit for my Toon tips and my general football tips also made a profit this week.  This is the breakdown of how my tips performed...

Match Result: 
30 points on Draw at 3.8 - LOSS
There was a spell in the second half when it looked like we might be able to get something from the match, but unfortunately Yaya Toure's goal in the 78th minute killed off any hope of a comeback.

Team Total Goals: 
20 points on Newcastle To Score Exactly 1 Goal at 2.5 - WIN 50 points
We've now scored one goal in 4 of our last 6 league games. 

Newcastle United V Manchester City (15/10/12)

My Tips For The Toon V Man City

Every match I give myself 100 points to place a few hypothetical bets on Newcastle and 100 points to place a few general football bets using the odds available from SkyBet.com.  I then compare how the two sets of bets perform and analyse whether it's better to bet with your heart or your head.

My run of seven consecutive profitable weeks for my general football tips came to an end last week, so I'll see if I can get back to winning ways again this week.  But first, here are my Toon tips for our match against Man City... 

Match Result:
30 points on Draw at 3.8
Man City are understandably the odds on favourites, but given that the point of this blog is to test whether it's wiser to bet with your heart or your head, there's no point therefore predicting that we'll get beat.  If I'm looking for positive signs then Man City have drawn 4 of their 7 league away games this season and they've also stuttered in the league recently, winning only one of their last four league matches.

Team Total Goals:
20 points on Newcastle to score exactly 1 goal at 2.5
We've managed one goal in 3 of our last 5 league matches and against Man City I can't see the floodgates opening, so one Toon goal seems like a reasonable bet.

Fulham V The Toon: Tips Round-Up

My Tips For Fuham V Newcastle United: Round-Up

Every match I give myself 100 points to place a few hypothetical bets on Newcastle and 100 points to place a few general football bets using the odds available from SkyBet.com.  I then compare how the two sets of bets perform and analyse whether it's better to bet with your heart or your head.

With tough matches against Man City, Man United and Arsenal coming up over the Christmas period, we could have done with three points against Fulham but unfortunately a 2-1 defeat means we're still looking for our first away win in the league this season.

For the first time since I started this blog, both my sets of tips were a complete wash-out which means my run of seven successive profitable weeks for my general football tips has now come to an end.  That means the head to head running totals between my two sets of tips now stand at:

Fulham V Newcastle United (10/12/12)

My Tips For Fulham V The Toon

Every match I give myself 100 points to place a few hypothetical bets on Newcastle and 100 points to place a few general football bets using the odds available from SkyBet.com.  I then compare how the two sets of bets perform and analyse whether it's better to bet with your heart or your head.

My general football tips are on a run of seven consecutive profitable weeks and have therefore been outperforming my Newcastle tips in recent weeks.  Here are my Toon tips for our match against Fulham... 

Match Result:
20 points on Newcastle at 4.0
Given that we've yet to record our first league away win of the season, you could argue that maybe I'm being a bit optimistic by going for a Toon win.  However, Fulham have been in very poor form recently, picking up a solitary point from their last four league games, so odds of 4.0 are enough to tempt me into a small bet on us to build on our result against Wigan with another victory.

Double Chance:
40 points on Newcastle or Draw at 1.8
Fulham have failed to win any of their last seven league matches so although admittedly our form hasn't been great recently, odds of 1.8 on us to keep Fulham's run going with a Toon victory or draw therefore seem like good value.

The Toon V Wigan: Tips Round-Up

My Tips For Newcastle United V Wigan Athletic: Round-Up

Every match I give myself 100 points to place a few hypothetical bets on Newcastle and 100 points to place a few general football bets using the odds available from SkyBet.com.  I then compare how the two sets of bets perform and analyse whether it's better to bet with your heart or your head.

Thankfully, a comfortable victory meant that I was overly cautious with my predictions which performed badly for the third consecutive week.  Getting back to the match, we were helped when Wigan went down to ten men early on, but nevertheless it was a more encouraging performance than we've seen recently.  Elsewhere, my general football tips sneaked a profit for the seventh consecutive week.

This is the breakdown on how my general football tips performed...

West Brom V Stoke - Match Result:
25 points on West Brom at 2.05 - LOSS

Arsenal V Swansea - Double Chance:
20 points on Swansea Or Draw at 2.5 - WIN 50 points