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Bulldogs’ favourite son Leon Cameron is the clear favourite with online bookmaker sportsbet.com.au to be the next senior coach of the Western Bulldogs.
Cameron is priced at just $2.50, ahead of Collingwood’s Mick Malthouse at $6.00, with Dean Laidley and Paul Williams next in the market at $8.00 each.
“From all reports Leon Cameron has impressed in assistant coaching stints at both the Bulldogs and Hawks and is a senior coach in waiting,” sportsbet’s Haydn Lane said.
“While Cameron seems the obvious choice, there’s certainly something romantic about Mick Malthouse heading back to the Whitten Oval and there’s no doubt he’ll be high on the Bulldogs’ wish list.”

Eade’s departure has caused a shake up of the Melbourne and Adelaide next coach betting markets, so much so that Eade is now the outright favourite to lead the Demons in 2012.
Eade is priced at $3.00 to be the next senior coach of the Dees, and is the $3.50 second favourite behind caretaker coach Mark Bickley at $2.50 to lead the Crows next year.
“We don’t believe ‘Rocket’ will be lost to football and now that he’s officially free next year he’s our clear favourite to take the reins at the Dees,” Lane said.
“Mark Bickley has made a good fist of his caretaker role so far but Eade will now have to come under serious consideration for the Crows role too.”

Markets courtesy of sportsbet
2012 Western Bulldogs Senior Coach
$2.50 Leon Cameron
$6.00 Mick Malthouse
$8.00 Dean Laidley, Paul Williams
$10 Mark Williams
$12 Mark Neeld, Brett Montgomery, Peter German
$14 Chris Grant
$17 Scott West, Dean Wallis
$21 Luke Darcy, Paul Roos, Ken Hinkley, Brenton Sanderson
$26 Peter Dean, Alan Richardson
$34 John Barnes, Brian Royal
$41 Barry Hall, Doug Hawkins

2012 Melbourne Senior Coach
$3.00 Rodney Eade              (in from $5.00)
$5.00 Mark Williams
$7.00 Mick Malthouse          (out from $5.00)
$9.00 Dean Laidley
$12 Todd Viney
$14 Mark Neeld
$16 Gavin Brown
$21 Brenton Sanderson, Scott Burns
$26 Alastair Clarkson, Paul Roos
$34 David Neitz, Ken Hinkley, Brendan McCartney
$41 Alan Richardson, Scott West, Garry Lyon, Brian Royal, Josh Mahoney, Leigh Matthews, Chris Connolly, Murray Davis, Neil Craig, Dean Wallis, Adam Simpson

2012 Adelaide Senior Coach
$2.50 Mark Bickley              (out from $2.30)
$3.50 Rodney Eade               (in from $5.00)
$7.00 Scott Burns, Simon Goodwin
$8.00 Brenton Sanderson
$10 Mark Neeld
$14 Alastair Clarkson
$21 Alan Richardson, Shaun Rehn, Paul Roos
$26 Nathan Bassett, Ken Hinkley
$41 Sean Wellman, Brett Montgomery, Andrew McLeod, Stewart Dew, Leigh Matthews, Dean Wallis, Peter Sumich, Ben Hart, Mark Ricciuto, Craig Bradley, Mick Malthouse, Scott Camporeale, Nigel Smart, Leon Cameron

New spear head in Geelong’s forward line James Podsiadly will have a few punters hoping he kicks a few goals this year after they backed him to win the Coleman Medal before he was promoted to the senior list.

Online bookmaker Sportsbet reacted when the promotion news hit and the 28 year old’s price to win the Coleman Medal in his debut season went from $81 to $51.

One punter has $1000 on the Cat forward to win the Coleman at the astronomical odds of $501 for a potential $500,000 pay day.

“We stand to lose half a million on Podsiadly in one bet, let alone tens of thousands more from punters who backed him at $81 before the announcement of his promotion,” said Sportsbet’s Haydn Lane.

While Podsiadly is the bookie’s worst result, Lane said the biggest plunge had been saved for Western Bulldogs spearhead Barry Hall.

“Barry Hall has been the big firmer in Coleman Medal betting. You could get $17 about him in mid-February, now he’s the third favourite in betting at $6.50,” said Lane.

“Since the NAB Cup Grand Final, four out of every five bets we’ve taken on the Coleman have been on Big Bad Barry.”

Hawthorn’s Lance Franklin is favourite to take home the Coleman at $4, while Lions new recruit Brendan Fevola is the next best at $4.50.

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The 2009 trade week has been the busiest for some time with some of the best players in the AFL moved onto new clubs.

Barry Hall has finally got his wish and will be playing with the bulldogs next season. In a 2 year deal with the Bulldogs, Hall was traded from Sydney to the Bulldogs for their 3rd round pick and some back end picks if desired by the club. Hall will slip perfectly into the Bulldogs forward line up and should give their chances to go the next step and challenge for a Grand Final next year.

But can he keep his cool…

Ex Essendon live wire Andrew Lovett has made the move to greener pastures with the Saints for St Kilda’s 1st pick (pick 16) in the draft. Although Brisbane Lions and Port Adelaide both apparently offered better deals the speedy midfielder chose the Saints as they are a Melbourne based club and close to the ultimate success on the field.

Lovett has played 88 games for Essendon and kicked a handy 93 goals since his 2005 debut. Lovett has been on the trade list for the last couple of years after some off field problems seen in 2008 saw him all but leave the Dons. He was given the chance to redeem himself this year and bounced back wonderfully making the season highlights reel on numerous occasions.

Players still in the trade spot light are Luke Ball (St Kilda), Shaun Burgoyne (Port Adelaide) and the one… the only… Brendan Fevola (Carlton).

Ball has been said to be looking for a trade to Collingwood after not accepting a new 3 year contract with the Saints. I think there is more to the story than Ball and the club are letting on. Ball was dropped to the VFL for some of the 2009 season and Farren Ray has moved in on his position in the starting list.

I think St Kilda has always planned to trade the former captain at the end of the year. They are simply beating up a story on the midfielder to make him look more lucrative to other clubs and in turn get a better trade for him.

Port Adelaide club great Shaun Burgoyne is still yet to be closer to a trade after Port announced he wanted to leave the club earlier this month. Burgoyne has elected the Hawks as his team of choice but the deal looks out of reach, with Port wanting one of the “untouchable” players from the 2007 premiership team.

Brendan Fevola has been the highlight to the trade week after his drunken antics of late including the Brownlow Medal award night. A number of clubs have shown interest in the big man and even the bookmaker Sportsbet taking bets on the team Fevola will be traded to! But at the end of the day, I think Fev will have learnt his lesson this time around and stay with the Blues.

Heres the video of the AFL Brownlow Medal Street Talk staring the man himself Brendan Fevola!

Barry Hall has always said that he would consider a boxing career after football. Now that he has retired from the AFL he may be getting in the ring sooner rather than later.

Big dollars have been waved into Barry’s face to don on the gloves in what would be a boxing promoters dream.

He has had talks with champion boxer and promoter Danny Green which could see him moving to Perth to join the Green team in a boxing career. Green has said that he wants to be Hall’s promoter and that Barry could earn $1 million just for signing with him as a professional boxer.

Green has had numerous sparing sessions with Hall in the past and said that he can take a punch and has great movement around the ring.

Australia’s leading boxing agent Angelo Hyder has been quoted saying that Hall has the potential to fight all over the world and could make up to $10 million per fight. A fair pay rise from the $600,000 per season he was getting at the Swans. Angelo believes that Hall would get a shot at a world title.

There is speculation that a ex NRL footballer now pro boxer John Hopoate could be Barry’s first fight in what would be a massive event for Australian boxing. The AFL v NRL rivalry would draw a massive crowd and millions of people to watch the fight on Pay Per View where the big money is. It would be one of the most anticipated fights in Australian boxing history. Hopoate has made the transition into boxing very well with 11 wins from just 14 fights.

Barry Hall was a amateur boxing state champion as a schoolboy and started boxing when he was 14 before quitting to pursue his AFL career.

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Below is Barry’s well known punch on Eagles Brent Staker.