Offer made for Caulker

[Brightsparx]

West London rag reporting were set to double his wages and close to signing???

[Kevin Mcleod]

West London rag reporting were set to double his wages and close to signing???

Good, we need to get this done and show other players we mean business and they will join too.

[maidstone_hoop]

good thing to read there is that he didnt miss a minute of league football last year. We could do with that. The lad is a special talent and really want this to happen.

[jmelanie]

http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/qpr-set-double-defenders-wages-7389843

[Brightsparx]

Great 1st signing if get it done

[Shania]

How much ITK is Paul Warburton?

[QPRDave]

This ain't gonna happen, and tbh if it's getting to the point where if we can get someone who can adequately do the job for a lot less then let this fish go back in the sea.
Not worried about spending the money as Arry and TF/board seem happy to do so, but don't like this holding us to ransom almost, and if he does sign i hope he don't get a buyout clause

[Johnny Tightlips]

Isn't it milwalls that is in beckenham?

Could be. South of the river innit. May as well be on the moon for all I care!

[hal9thou]

Would be interested to know as I wouldn't take odds of 1/7 on a player signing for anybody unless I saw him walking into the ground getting his pen out.

You have to try and make a book so the contingencies balance up - in other words so you cover yourself even if the jolly romps home.

Now in this case they were 1/7 because they must have had intelligence that this was virtually a done deal. At this stage Palace were a lot longer than they've ended up. Then through wedge on Palace at that longer price they were forced to go out on QPR. The Palace punt must have gathered momentum so the pattern of them shortening up and us going out continued, because obviously that is how you make a book. A rush to get on is its own intelligence - obviously you look at who is getting stuck in, and if they have form you take notice.

Bookmakers survive by making money out of speculation, that is why they are still in business. They can only stay that why by being clued up. Yes, they have a few reliable journos on the books but the horse's mouth sometimes sells the info instead of having a bet on it: insider trading works in different ways. For example, sometimes a deal can be done but it doesn't go public for a while.....

Re JT's - for the average bloke, carefully monitoring the markets will nearly always be a more reliable pointer than any single news source. IMO.

[Shania]

Mcintyre on Twitter has been very quiet. He doesn´t drop any hints on this one at all..

[brightonr]

You have to try and make a book so the contingencies balance up - in other words so you cover yourself even if the jolly romps home.

Now in this case they were 1/7 because they must have had intelligence that this was virtually a done deal. At this stage Palace were a lot longer than they've ended up. Then through wedge on Palace at that longer price they were forced to go out on QPR. The Palace punt must have gathered momentum so the pattern of them shortening up and us going out continued, because obviously that is how you make a book. A rush to get on is its own intelligence - obviously you look at who is getting stuck in, and if they have form you take notice.

Bookmakers survive by making money out of speculation, that is why they are still in business. They can only stay that why by being clued up. Yes, they have a few reliable journos on the books but the horse's mouth sometimes sells the info instead of having a bet on it: insider trading works in different ways. For example, sometimes a deal can be done but it doesn't go public for a while.....

Re JT's - for the average bloke, carefully monitoring the markets will nearly always be a more reliable pointer than any single news source. IMO.

Thanks for the explanation.

I do understand how it works, but my point was more along the lines of them offering 1/7 in the first place. You have pretty much confirmed exactly the point we were making, in as much as their so called intelligence was well wide of the mark.

Let's hope nobody put money on at 1/7.

[Brightsparx]

I had him at 5/1 last week. Get your biro out

[Jimmy Floyd Rabbit]

Isn't it milwalls that is in beckenham?

Bromley

[Hitman34]

Cant see him joining now, we agreed a fee and offered him a contract last week. no sign of him signing it.

Time to move on me thinks.

[Shania]

I will wait and wait, untill the cows come home. Whenever that may be....