Mick Malthouse firms in betting for Melbourne Demons senior coach
Mick Malthouse and Rodney Eade have been the best backed in the past 48 hours to be the next permanent senior coach of the Melbourne Football Club with online bookmaker sportsbet.com.au.
Both opened at $10, with Malthouse now into $6.00 and Eade into $6.50.
Former Port Adelaide senior coach Mark Williams is the third favourite at $7.00, in from peak price of $17, while current Hawthorn senior coach Alastair Clarkson has been backed from $17 into $9.00.
“Punters clearly believe Melbourne will go after someone with senior coaching experience,” sportsbet.com.au’s Haydn Lane said.
“Malthouse and Eade have been the two that punters are really interested in, while there’s also been some support for Williams and to a lesser extent Clarkson.”
Melbourne legend Garry Lyon, the early $5 favourite in sportsbet.com.au’s initial market, has now eased out to $10.
“There was some early money for Lyon but that has dried up now on the back of his continued public denials about his desire to coach.”
Caretaker coach Mark Bickley remains the $2.40 favourite to be Adelaide’s senior coach in 2012.
Markets courtesy of sportsbet.com.au
2012 Melbourne Senior Coach
(Peak prices in brackets)
$6.00 Mick Malthouse (in from $10)
$6.50 Rodney Eade (in from $10)
$7.00 Mark Williams (in from $17)
$7.50 Todd Viney (out from $4)
$9.00 Alastair Clarkson (in from $17)
$10 Dean Laidley (out from $7)
$10 Garry Lyon (out from $5)
$11 Mark Neeld (in from $21)
$12 Paul Roos (in from $21)
$13 Brenton Sanderson (in from $34)
$13 Scott Burns (out from $7)
$21 Gavin Brown (in from $51)
$26 Scott West (out from $13)
$26 Neil Craig (out from $21)
$34 Brendan McCartney (out from $21)
$34 Dean Wallis
$34 David Neitz (out from $26)
$34 Ken Hinkley
$41 Josh Mahoney, Leigh Matthews, Chris Connolly, Murray Davis, Brian Royal, Alan Richardson
Quote others
2012 Adelaide Senior Coach
(This week’s price fluctuations in brackets)
$2.40 Mark Bickley
$3.50 Simon Goodwin
$5.00 Scott Burns
$8.00 Rodney Eade (in from $10)
$8.00 Brenton Sanderson (in from $9)
$10 Mark Neeld
$13 Nathan Bassett
$13 Alastair Clarkson (in from $34)
$18 Paul Roos
$21 Leon Cameron
$21 Shaun Rehn
$26 Ken Hinkley
$26 Mick Malthouse
$34 Scott Camporeale
$34 Alan Richardson
$34 Peter Sumich
$41 Ben Hart, Sean Wellman, Dean Wallis, Leigh Matthews, Mark Ricciuto, Brett Montgomery, Craig Bradley, Stuart Dew, Nigel Smart, Andrew McLeod
