Punters with online bookmaker sportsbet.com.au are convinced that it will be a Fremantle/ Sydney Grand Final, so it will come as no surprise that players from the two top teams have been given the best odds to win the Norm Smith Medal.
Despite the Grand Final being over two months away, Sportsbet have opened markets on the Norm Smith Medal for the top 10 teams, with Josh Kennedy and Nat Fyfe both priced at $10.
Given he has performed on the big stage more than once, Buddy Franklin also looks a decent bet at $11 while the same can’t be said for fellow goal kicker Travis Cloke who is struggling with form, priced at $251 to be the best player during the biggest game of the year.
With both teams flying, a Fremantle/Sydney Grand Final is priced at $4.00, with Sportsbet taking more bets on that quinella than another other combination put together.
“Punters keep backing a Fremantle/Sydney Grand Final so we fully expect the likes of Kennedy, Fyfe and Franklin to be the popular ones in the Norm Smith market. But there is plenty of value in some of the Cats and Hawks players if punters think they can sneak into the Grand Final,” said sportsbet.com.au’s Shaun Anderson.
Markets courtesy of sportsbet.com.au
Grand Final Quinella
$4.00 Fremantle/ Sydney
$5.00 Hawthorn/ Sydney
$6.00 Fremantle/ Hawthorn
$8.00 Geelong/ Sydney
$10 Fremantle/ Geelong
$13 Geelong/ Hawthorn
2014 Norm Smith Medal
Sydney
$10 Josh Kennedy
$11 Lance Franklin
$16 Dan Hannebery, Kieran Jack
$18 Luke Parker
$26 Jarrad McVeigh
$34 Kurt Tippett, Ben McGlynn, Adam Goodes
Others quoted
Fremantle
$10 Nat Fyfe
$15 Michael Barlow
$17 David Mundy
$21 Matthew Pavlich
$24 Aaron Sandilands
$31 Stephen Hill, Hayden Ballantyne
Others quoted
Hawthorn
$18 Sam Mitchell
$23 Luke Hodge
$27 Shaun Burgyone
$29 Jarryd Roughead
$31 Jordan Lewis
$34 Cyril Rioli
Others quoted
Geelong
$25 Joel Selwood
$31 Steve Johnson
$41 Jimmy Bartel
$46 Steve Motlop
$51 Tom Hawkins
$56 Matthew Stokes, James Kelly
Others quoted
Port Adelaide
$51 Travis Boak
$81 Chad Wingard
$81 Hamish Hartlett, Robbie Gray
$101 Ollie Wines, Jistin Westhoff
Others quoted
North Melbourne
$71 Brent Harvey
$81 Nick Dal Santo
$91 Andrew Swallow
$135 Daniel Wells
Others quoted
Collingwood
$126 Scott Pendlebury
$171 Dane Swan
$181 Dayne Beams
$251 Travis Cloke
Others quoted
Essendon
$151 Jobe Watson
$181 Brendon Goddard
$211 Dyson Heppell
$301 David Zaharakis
Others quoted
Adelaide
$241 Patrick Dangerfield
$351 Rory Sloane
$501 Scott Thompson
$551 Taylor Walker
Others quoted
Gold Coast
$351 Dion Prestia
$401 Harley Bennell
$476 Jaegar O’Meara
$551 David Swallow
Others quoted