AFL Rd. 1.

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West Coast (1.77 @ Betfair) This is well over the odds. West Coast have opened at 1.55 at Australian books, and I'd say that was much closer to where it should be. West Coast will be a very strong team this year, Adelaide not so. Home advantage for Adelaide might keep it reasonably close, but West Coast strength should prevail.

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Re: AFL Rd. 1. Port Adelaide (2.00) Again, the home team are being over-rated here. Port won the Premiership last year, and have regained 2 key players from injuries that missed last season. Fremantle are always a .500 team, they lost their last 4 games of last season by an av. of 40 points and nothing indicates this year will be any different. Port have won 8 of the last 10 games v. Freo...5 of those wins have come @ Freo, inc. last year by 10 points....In fact Port have an excellent record in Western Australia winning 8 of their last 10 against both Freo and the Eagles. Port will be keen to get 2005 of to another good start, and should have too much for Freo...either way, there's no way they should start as underdogs!