League 1 > 23rd - 27th April

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[TR] [TH=class: firstColumn]Tuesday 23 April 2013[/TH] [TH]Home[/TH] [TH]Draw[/TH] [TH]Away[/TH] [TH=class: bppWidth]BPP[/TH] [/TR] [TR=class: row0, bgcolor: #F0F0F0] [TD=align: center][/TD] [TD=class: firstColumn]Crawley Town v Preston North End (19:45 BST)[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]2.4[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]3.5[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]3.1[/TD] [TD=class: bppWidth bpp, align: center]102.50 %[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [/TR] [TR=class: row1] [TD=align: center][/TD] [TD=class: firstColumn]Crewe Alexandra v Sheffield United (19:45 BST)[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]3.5[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]3.6[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]2.35[/TD] [TD=class: bppWidth bpp, align: center]98.90 %[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [/TR] [TR=class: row0, bgcolor: #F0F0F0] [TD=align: center][/TD] [TD=class: firstColumn]Shrewsbury Town v Oldham Athletic (19:45 BST)[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]2.45[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]3.4[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]3.2[/TD] [TD=class: bppWidth bpp, align: center]101.48 %[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [/TR] [TR] [TH] [/TH] [TH=class: firstColumn]Saturday 27 April 2013[/TH] [TH]Home[/TH] [TH]Draw[/TH] [TH]Away[/TH] [TH=class: bppWidth]BPP[/TH] [/TR] [TR=class: row0, bgcolor: #F0F0F0] [TD=align: center][/TD] [TD=class: firstColumn]Brentford v Doncaster Rovers (15:00 BST)[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]2.1[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]3.4[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]3.6[/TD] [TD=class: bppWidth bpp, align: center]104.81 %[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [/TR] [TR=class: row1] [TD=align: center][/TD] [TD=class: firstColumn]Bury v Yeovil Town (15:00 BST)[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]2.8[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]3.6[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]2.5[/TD] [TD=class: bppWidth bpp, align: center]103.49 %[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [/TR] [TR=class: row0, bgcolor: #F0F0F0] [TD=align: center][/TD] [TD=class: firstColumn]Carlisle United v Colchester United (15:00 BST)[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]2.5[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]3.25[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]3.1[/TD] [TD=class: bppWidth bpp, align: center]103.03 %[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [/TR] [TR=class: row1] [TD=align: center][/TD] [TD=class: firstColumn]Crawley Town v Hartlepool United (15:00 BST)[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]1.8[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]3.75[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]4.6[/TD] [TD=class: bppWidth bpp, align: center]103.96 %[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [/TR] [TR=class: row0, bgcolor: #F0F0F0] [TD=align: center][/TD] [TD=class: firstColumn]Crewe Alexandra v Walsall (15:00 BST)[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]2.6[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]3.4[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]2.75[/TD] [TD=class: bppWidth bpp, align: center]104.24 %[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [/TR] [TR=class: row1] [TD=align: center][/TD] [TD=class: firstColumn]Leyton Orient v Oldham Athletic (15:00 BST)[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]2.2[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]3.4[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]3.9[/TD] [TD=class: bppWidth bpp, align: center]100.51 %[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [/TR] [TR=class: row0, bgcolor: #F0F0F0] [TD=align: center][/TD] [TD=class: firstColumn]Notts County v Coventry City (15:00 BST)[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]2.25[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]3.5[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]3.5[/TD] [TD=class: bppWidth bpp, align: center]101.59 %[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [/TR] [TR=class: row1] [TD=align: center][/TD] [TD=class: firstColumn]Scunthorpe United v Swindon Town (15:00 BST)[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]2.75[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]3.4[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]2.75[/TD] [TD=class: bppWidth bpp, align: center]102.14 %[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [/TR] [TR=class: row0, bgcolor: #F0F0F0] [TD=align: center][/TD] [TD=class: firstColumn]Sheffield United v Preston North End (15:00 BST)[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]2.1[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]3.4[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]3.6[/TD] [TD=class: bppWidth bpp, align: center]104.81 %[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [/TR] [TR=class: row1] [TD=align: center][/TD] [TD=class: firstColumn]Shrewsbury Town v Portsmouth (15:00 BST)[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]2.6[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]3.4[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]2.87[/TD] [TD=class: bppWidth bpp, align: center]102.66 %[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [/TR] [TR=class: row0, bgcolor: #F0F0F0] [TD=align: center][/TD] [TD=class: firstColumn]Stevenage v Milton Keynes Dons (15:00 BST)[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]2.75[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]3.4[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]2.6[/TD] [TD=class: bppWidth bpp, align: center]104.24 %[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [/TR] [TR=class: row1] [TD=align: center][/TD] [TD=class: firstColumn]Tranmere Rovers v AFC Bournemouth (15:00 BST)[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]4.5[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]3.8[/TD] [TD=class: selectionBestOdd, align: center]1.85[/TD] [TD=class: bppWidth bpp, align: center]102.59 %[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]

[AHughes]

Re: League 1 > 23rd - 27th April Any reason why Walsall to beat Crewe is getting backed in heavily and is now the most popular bet being taken on oddschecker?

[Kiddo112]

Crewe rumoured to be playing academy players according to twitter.

[RedDevil92]

Re: League 1 > 23rd - 27th April Crewe will play with a starting 11 only consisting of academy players.

[Kiddo112]

This is from the BBC website. Not sure how the suggested team matches up against the regular team: Dario Gradi's golden vision in his 30 years with Crewe Alexandra has always been to name an entire first team made up of home-grown players. This Saturday, 18 months on from going "upstairs" to head the Alex academy, when Crewe take on Walsall in the final League One game of the season at Gresty Road, Gradi's dream will come true. "It's a little piece of history," Crewe manager Steve Davis told BBC Sport. "It's the first time this club has ever played an entire team of academy lads." Crewe's academy boys Expected team to face Walsall: Keeper - Ben Garrett Defence - Kelvin Mellor, Harry Davis, George Ray, Matt Tootle Midfield - Ryan Colclough, Ollie Turton, Luke Murphy, Byron Moore Strikers - AJ Leitch-Smith, Max Clayton It is what Gradi, the Alex's long-serving former manager, planned when the club's Reaseheath training ground started taking shape a decade and half ago. And Crewe, the only club outside English football's top two divisions to be graded a Category Two academy club, are rightly proud of it. "You have to build and give these boys a chance," said Davis. "Sometimes they take you down. Sometimes they get you promoted. "You have to add a bit of experience to the team to help them along the way. "But you have to be brave and courageous in playing them." It says a lot for Crewe's approach that, of the team that trots out for the now otherwise meaningless meeting with Walsall, so many are already regulars. Only Ben Garrett, the Shropshire-born England Under-19 keeper who has been out on loan with Stafford Rangers, will be making his debut. And even he has experience of being on the bench for first-team games in recent weeks. By comparison, young defender George Ray, who only made his debut three weeks ago, is now almost an old hand, after enjoying the rare honour of taking his first team bow at Wembley, as an 89th-minute substitute in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy victory over Southend. But the fact of the matter is that the oldest player the Alex will have out there on Saturday is 24-year-old Byron Moore, who made his debut in August 2007. And, although he is still a slight doubt with the groin strain that has kept him out since Wembley, they already have the youngest skipper in the Football League, in 22-year-old Aston Villa target Luke Murphy. In the wake of last summer's departure of Nick Powell (to Manchester United) and Ashley Westwood (to Villa) for seven-figure fees, Murphy looks like being the next one to roll off the Reaseheath production line later this summer. And any money banked will go to help further finance the next generation at the country's most renowned football factory. "Everybody plays their part through the academy from Dario downwards," added Davis. "They've worked hard on their development and I've just tried to carry it on over the last 18 months and instil a bit of belief in how good they are."

[garyfinny]

Re: League 1 > 23rd - 27th April It sounds great, but perhaps this isn't a case of putting out 11 kids with no first-team experience. There are some really good players there - far from what some people are expecting - a bunch of kids. Probably half that side might have legitimately made the first team anyway, and I doubt the odds would have tumbled that far if Crewe just had an injury crisis. This is really a nothing game - if Walsall had to win to get to the play-offs I might agree with this. But the manager might be well aware of this gesture and might even use the game to play a few youth players as well. I'll be monitoring the odds, but I think Walsall are going to end up too short here.

[AHughes]

Re: League 1 > 23rd - 27th April Walsall now 1.9, I'd say that is too short considering Crewe's side that is expected to play will have a handful of 1st team players anyway - Dugdale, Leitch-Smith, Murphy, Tootle.

[dj rob]

Re: League 1 > 23rd - 27th April

Walsall now 1.9' date=' I'd say that is too short considering Crewe's side that is expected to play will have a handful of 1st team players anyway - Dugdale, Leitch-Smith, Murphy, Tootle.[/quote'] Don´t forget Mellor, Davis and M. Clayton...(if the expected team is correct). Wouldn´t touch Walsall around 2.0 since they play for nothing. Anyway they are a pretty drawish side recently. Their performance vs. Bury must have been unmotivated. Motivation could be bigger on Crewes side as it seems to be a historical match in a way.

[malabgd]

Re: League 1 > 23rd - 27th April Crewe Alexandra v Walsall FC Crewe will field an entirely new starting eleven. Boss Davis will give a chance to their young prospects.