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#73: League Two Betting Preview 18/19

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4.7678 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We were joined by Mike Holden of Foxpunter to go through the ante-post betting markets in League Two. Starting with the Winner Market, we then moved onto the teams we wanted to 'get with'. Then Mike revealed a special Foxpunter offer for podcast listeners, before we went through the teams we fancy for relegation, and those we think the bookies have overrated at this stage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome and thank you for listening to the Not the Top 20 podcast season betting preview for League 2, 2018, 19.

0:29.8

Bit of a mouthful that, but essentially it's me, Ali Maxwell, to my right, George Ellick, and our special guest, Mike Holden, who has been on the podcast before and who is the man to be following on Twitter at Ratings underscore Mike for any sort of EFL, chat, opinion, writing, tips, all of the above.

0:48.6

His fox punter service, which we will discuss in more detail halfway through this podcast is something that many of you

0:55.5

will at least need to check out and probably take your interest a bit further.

0:59.9

But we're talking about League 2.

1:01.5

We're talking specifically about the betting markets that have opened in the last few weeks,

1:05.3

looking ahead at the new season.

1:07.1

The top of the League 2 market is very interesting because the favourites at the moment are MK Dons under Paul Tisdale, Notts County, playoff semi-finalist losers last season, Lincoln City also lost in the playoff semi-finals last season, and Mansfield, pre-season favorites last year, not promoted, not a playoff team, but really

1:30.7

fancied by the Buckees' fourth favourite for promotion this year.

1:33.9

Now below those teams, you've got the likes of Swindon, Berry, Northampton, and then a bit

1:38.8

longer Oldham, Colchester, Carlisle, and then you're really getting towards mid-table

1:43.3

there. So we're going to start with who we fancy at the top end of the table.

1:48.3

I think, you know, this hasn't been the case when we spoke about the championship.

1:52.7

It wasn't the case necessarily when we spoke about League 1 either.

1:56.1

And if you haven't listened to those podcasts, make sure you do.

1:59.3

But in terms of League 2, the bookies seem to in our

2:04.3

opinion have the right idea in terms of the strong teams mike it's it's actually quite hard to

2:09.0

pick one out of the four i find yeah i think i think they certainly got the top three right probably

2:13.5

got the top four right um my boner contention is second and third in the betting.

2:22.2

I'll start with MK. Don's.

2:23.6

I think M.K. Don's are the standout team.

2:27.3

If you put a team, basically, they're a comfortable league one team in terms of resources,

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