Sydney’s charge into premiership contention continued with yesterday’s win over the Western Bulldogs and the Swans are now considered a better hope of winning the flag than Richmond.

An $81 chance prior to the season, the Swans were as much as $34 just two weeks ago but are now $13. They are into $4 to finish Top 4 and are a season-low $1.05 to make the Top 8.

Of the Swans’ final six opponents, only seventh-ranked Fremantle occupies a spot in the eight.

The loss to the Swans resulted in the Bulldogs surrendering outright flag favouritism, drifting from $4.50 to $5 and equal billing with Geelong and Melbourne. Richmond drifted further, from $13 to $15, after its loss to Collingwood and is now $3 to make the Top 8.

Round 17 concludes tonight with West Coast $1.25 into $1.15 against North Melbourne ($3.90 to $5.20), while the $1.90 line has shifted from 22.5 points to 29.5 despite predictions of rain which has forced the Total Score line from 149.5 to 139.5.

TAB ODDS
AFL PREMIERSHIP

$5.00    Geelong, Melbourne, Western Bulldogs
$6.00    Brisbane
$9.00    Port Adelaide
$13        Sydney
$15        Richmond
$26        West Coast
$51        GWS
$67        Essendon, Fremantle, St Kilda
$201+   Quote others

AFL TOP 4

$1.10    Melbourne, Western Bulldogs
$1.15    Geelong
$1.50    Brisbane
$1.90    Port Adelaide
$4.00    Sydney
$21        West Coast

AFL TOP 8

$1.05    Sydney
$1.50    West Coast
$3.00    Fremantle, Richmond, St Kilda
$3.50    Essendon
$4.00    GWS
$13        Carlton
$26        Gold Coast

BROWNLOW MEDAL

$2.60    Marcus Bontempelli
$6.00    Ollie Wines
$7.00    Christian Petracca, Clayton Oliver, Darcy Parish
$12        Sam Walsh
$15        Jackson Macrae
$21        Dustin Martin, Jack Steele
$26+      Quote others