Bookies view: Top chance for Stan’s charges to take points

Sep 5 2008 by Dougie Thomson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

FOLLOWING the defeat at Millwall, Huddersfield find themselves propping up League I and the Terriers are now the only team in the division yet to record a win.

However, tomorrow’s clash with Coral’s 8/11 relegation favourites Cheltenham provides an excellent opportunity for Stan Ternent’s men to snare their first maximum haul, despite the fact that the contest is taking place at the Robins’ Whaddon Road ground.

Bookies only tentatively agree, Betdaq making Huddersfield the narrowest of favourites at 13/8, Jaxx.com offering the best price, 17/10, for a home win and some firms, such as Betfred, unable even to separate the two early-season strugglers, the Manchester firm chalking 6/4 against both.

When teams are so evenly matched in the betting, neutral punters tend to head in their numbers towards the draw.

On offer is 9/4 with VCBet and scorelines such as 1-1 (6/1, Canbet) also tend to attract betting traffic.

Nevertheless, those of a blue and white persuasion will prefer to risk their cash on the Terriers who are 7/1 (Betdirect) to grab the only goal of the game and 9/1 (Sportingbet) to shade it 2-1.

Punters can cover both of those results with Blue Square, who offer 10/3 for Ternent’s troops to win by a one-goal margin in a fixture Betdaq quote at 6/5 to produce three or more goals.

Huddersfield are 6/4 (Partybets) to prevent the hosts scoring any of those goals by keeping a clean sheet, the online firm also marking 7/10 against the Terriers being the team that breaks the deadlock.

Liam Dickinson was the man responsible for doing that last week and he’s 6/1 with bet365 to repeat the feet at Cheltenham, where Phil Jevons is 8/1 (Blue Square) to give Huddersfield a 1-0 lead.

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