Punters seem convinced that Paul Roos will have liked what he saw over the weekend after Melbourne finally cracked a win, with the premiership coach the clear pick by the punters and firming from $5.00 to $2.00 with online bookmaker sportsbet to coach the Demons next year.

Roos has received more bets and has more money placed on him than any other coach in the market, followed by Mark Williams who was the initial favourite at $4.00.

Rodney Eade has also been well backed, but has drifted slightly from $5.00 to $5.50 while current caretaker coach Neil Craig hasn’t done his chances any harm, firming from $9.00 to $6.00.

“Punters were slow to jump on Roos, but as time goes on he has received more and more interest to the point where we now have him at a flip of a coin to take the Melbourne job!” said sportsbet.com.au’s Shaun Anderson.

Market courtesy of sportsbet.com.au
Next senior coach of Melbourne
(Prices in brackets from Tuesday 18th June)
$2.00 Paul Roos (in from $5.00)
$4.00 Mark Williams (steady)
$5.50 Rodney Eade (out from $5.00)
$6.00 Neil Craig (in from $9.00)
$17 Alistair Clarkson (in from $21)
$17 Gary Ayres (in from $21)
$17 John Worsfold (out from $9.00)
$21 Brett Ratten (out from $12)
$21 Alan Richardson (out from $13)
$21 Matthew Knights (out from $13)
$21 Mark Harvey (out from $17)
$26 Peter Sumich, Scott Burns (out from $15), Simon Goodwin, Todd Viney
$34 Mark Bickley, Kevin Sheedy, Adam Simpson (out from $26), Jade Rawlings (out from $26), Mark Thompson (out from $17), Matthew Primus (out from $26)
$41 Andy Lovell (out from $26), Dean Laidley (out from $21), James McDonald (out from $21), Grant Thomas (out from $26),Dean Bailey, Darren Milburn, Robert Harvey, Leigh Matthews, Ben Hart, Brett Kirk, Gavin Brown, Nathan Bassett, Brian Royal, Leigh Brown, Garry Lyon, David Schwarz, Brad Green, Rohan Welsh