Odds Review: Week Ending 02/03

Welcome to March! If May is the month in which the winner is crowned, it is often here where the coronation can be pencilled in as the last of the songs trickle through.

We have a total of five songs that have come through other the past week with the first from The Netherlands becoming the main talking point. After drifting following a premature release, Claude currently sits as fourth favourite. My thoughts (and disagreement) with this are on the site. The other four have not received much enthusiam in the win market and Serbia in particular with Princ are one the fandom are keen to clown. Qualification is the goal for them and Denmark who picked longtime favourite Sissal despite the televote’s best efforts. Stefan Raab will be regretting being so bullish and there’s a 99.5% chance a heavy dose of accountability is heading his way with Germany sat at 200-1. Lastly, Croatia picked Marko Bosnjak not long ago which needless to say isn’t coming close to their second place last year. Last matched at 490 and the layer got value. Reviews on these will start trickling through on Monday.

The last national finals of the year have been set up with Portugal and Sweden set to choose next week. Both decisions could have a big impact on how the year pans out and current favourites Sweden have drifted in the past week, perhaps with the fear (or hope depending on your perspective) that KAJ could topple Mans.

Austria will probably be waking us up early on Thursday when JJ’s song is due out with Czechia the day after and Israel cap off the week on Sunday. All three of these are seen pretty relevant at this stage.

Cyprus, The UK and Georgia might also be due in the next week but that is more speculative.

Finally France continues to gather pace on the exchange with expectations perhaps getting a bit out of hand now. They will be premiering on the 15th meaning we still have plenty of time with Schrodinger’s eurovision contender making things harder to call.