Newcastle United V Fulham (31/08/13)

A round-up of which bookies are offering the best prices for The Toon V Fulham match.

It was hard to take many positives from the match against Morecambe, but if you look at things in terms of the bigger picture, then hopefully Mike Ashley must surely now realise how wrong he is if he thinks out current squad is good enough.

I generally don't take much interest in conspiracy theories, but a mate of mine raised the issue (only half-jokingly) that he wouldn't be surprised if Pardew actually picked his team last night specifically with the purpose in mind of opening Mike Ashley's eyes to reality.

If we look back at the Brighton game back in January then as well as the shockingly poor performance that day by our team made up largely of squad players, one of the other consequences of that match was that we subsequently went out and made a few signings.  Hopefully last night's performance will lead to a similar result with Mike Ashley finally realising what every Toon fan has known all summer.

I don't want to come across as too negative because if our first eleven are fit (and in form) then we can put out a strong team potentially capable of putting a good run of results together.  However, if we get another batch of injuries like last season, then last night should have hopefuly made it very clear to Ashley that if he fails to strengthen our squad then he's taking a big gamble again.

Moving onto Saturday's game, it's very hard to tip the Toon with any real confidence at the moment (other than perhaps for another nil nil draw), so once again I'm instead going to round-up the best prices which various bookies are offering on the Toon.

The Toon V Fulham: Tips Round-Up

My Tips For Newcastle United V Fulham: Round-Up

 

What a finish! What a celebration!

Sometimes a photo says much more than words and the now famous photo by @TaylorsFistpump captures the moment perfectly.  What a finish!

Thanks to another injury time winner from Papiss Cisse we gained three more valuable points towards ensuring our Premership status, and Cisse's late strike also meant that my Toon tips returned a profit this week, as did my general football tips...

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Toon Tips:

Match Result:
20 points on Newcastle at 2.05 - WIN 41 points
Papiss Cisse hit an injury time winner for the third consecutive home match to ensure we continued our recent winning home form.

Winning Margin:
10 points on Newcastle By Exactly 1 Goal at 3.75 - WIN 38 points
That's now 7 of our 9 league victories at home this season which have been been won by a one goal margin.

Newcastle United V Fulham (07/04/13)

My Tips For The Toon V Fulham

Over-confidence has been my undoing in recent weeks, but despite this I still feel there are reasons for genuine optimism against Fulham, so I'm going to go reasonably confident with my tips once again this week.

Toon Tips:

Match Result:
20 points on Newcastle at 2.05
Despite our recent poor results against Man City and Wigan, our home form is pretty decent with four wins and a draw from our last five home matches in all competitions.  We were also missing a few players against Man City who are now back in the squad, so all things considered I fancy our chances for the three points.

Winning Margin:
10 points on Newcastle By Exactly 1 Goal at 3.75
Of our eight league victories at home this season, six of them have been won by a one goal margin.

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.