The best game of the weekend may be the first game for once - the Friday night clash between two surprise teams in the MCG. Collingwood is a surprising 4-1, losing only to a blazing Adelaide team in round 2, and meanwhile Geelong started the year 0-3, winning against a terrible Gold Coast team and a slumping Richmond team the last two weeks. Yet for some reason the Cats were originally the betting favorites until the smart money took over and agreed with me that Collingwood should win the game with ease.
Saturday sees six games, a huge fixture for one day in the AFL:
Richmond @ North Melbourne (should be a North victory)...
St. Kilda @ Western (the first game the Bulldogs will be favored in!)...
Hawthorn @ GWS (the Giants are good, but not THIS good yet!)...
Adelaide @ Gold Coast (the Crows need this win, and should get it)...
Sydney @ Melbourne (Swans have lost two in a row; they won't lose this one)...
and Essendon @ Fremantle (the Dons are good, but not "go into Fremantle and win" good).
Finally, on Sunday, we round out the slate with two interesting games: Brisbane @ Carlton, at the bottom of the ladder (Carlton's had more pressure on them, oddly, because Brisbane was always going to be a work in progress - go with the Blues to win at home); and West Coast @ Port Adelaide, which has a pair of middle of the pack teams who might each be SO much more than that! Port's much closer to reaching its potential, however, and that's going to push them to the victory over the Eagles.
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