Leigh Tudor has emerged as the dark horse to be the next Brisbane Lions coach, now outright favourite at $4.00 with online bookmaker Sportsbet to get the gig.
After opening as a $41 outsider, 90% of all money bet on the market since Friday 30th August has been on Tudor, seeing his odds firming into $16, then $9.00, then $7.50 and now $4.00.
Once as short as $2.00 to get the job, Paul Roos is now out to a massive $1001 since announcing he is 50/50 to take the Melbourne job.
After at one stage being the favourite for both the Melbourne and Brisbane jobs, Rodney Eade is now friendless with punters and is out from $8.00 to $21 to coach Brisbane.
Following Tudor, Scott Burns, Mark Harvey, Mark Williams and John Worsfold are next in the market all at $10.
“We gave Tudor no hope early on but the punters are telling us we have it wrong and we have hardly seen money for anyone else other than him since the weekend,” said Sportsbet’s Shaun Anderson.
Next Brisbane Coach
(Prices in brackets from Saturday 31st August)
$4.00 Leigh Tudor (in from $16)
$10 Scott Burns (out from $8.00)
$10 Mark Harvey (steady)
$10 Mark Williams (steady)
$10 John Worsfold (steady)
$11 Adam Simpson (out from $10)
$12 Brett Ratten (steady)
$13 Alan Richardson (out from $12)
$15 Justin Leppitch (out from $12)
$15 Adrian Fletcher (out from $9.00)
$17 Dean Laidley (out from $14)
$21 Rodney Eade (out from $8.00)
$26 Nigel Lappin (out from $21), Luke Power (out from $17), John Blakey (out from $21)
$31 Gary O’Donnell
$34 Mark Thompson, Neil Craig, Alistair Clarkson (out from $26), Kevin Sheedy, Jade Rawlings, Todd Viney, Leigh Matthews, Gary Ayres, Matthew Primus, Brian Royal, Mark Bickley
$41 Brett Kirk, Grant Thomas, Nathan Bassett, Simon Goodwin, Robert Harvey, Dean Bailey, Gavin Brown, Craig Lambert, Jonathan Brown
$1001 Paul Roos