What he means you pillock is that these are the odds on actual promotion rather than automatic promotion on the one hand or the playoffs on the other. The odds on being promoted are obviously not the same as the odds on achieving promotion automatically.
If you ask me, what this means is that their playing poker and leaving things till the last possible moment to get the best possible deal and the lowest possible price they can.
So you're saying that the problems at Merlion Group Limited have to do with Wilde's lack of business acumen and not the general collapse in the housing market? Or what? Bit of a crap argument if you ask me.