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Sun 16 Jul : Australian Pre-season Cup

July 14th, 2006

NZ Knights v Newcastle – Take Newcastle @ 2.10

OK – it’s a little obscure – and you might have to look hard to find a bookie that is covering this competition – but there appears to be a bit of early value in one of the four games on offer.

The Australian A-League will start it’s second season – and Last season it was very noticable that 7 of the 8 teams were very even … the odd team out being the New Zealand outfit who ran up a woeful 1-3-17 record to finish dead last.

In the off-season things have got worse for the NZ Knights who have lost their coach, and three of their top players (who have hopped across the Tasman Sea to join other Australian clubs).

Last season Newcastle won all three head-to-head clashes by scorelines of 4-0, 4-2, and 3-0 and I’ve seen nothing in the pre-season buildup to suggest any other result.

In the build up to this game the NZ knights coach Paul Nevin has been quoted as saying that the pre-season cup was just that, pre-season preparation for the real deal set to get underway on August 27th …and a number of the younger players given their chance to impress.

That all sounds like another Knights side that will be out of their depth to me.

Take :
Newcastle Jets @ 2.10 at CenterBet for medium stakes.

 

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