Aussie Rules Football: How does it work and who are the favourites?

Aussie Rules gameslast for 80 minutes, split into four quarters, but there can be as much as 10minutes of additional time.

The AFL consists of18 teams and at the end of the season the top eight teams qualify for thefinals series, which is a knockout competition to reach the Grand Final.

The Grand Final isthe biggest day in the sport’s calendar and is the Australian equivalent of theSuper Bowl, played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Who are the 2020 favourites?

As it stands, allmatches will be played behind closed doors as a coronavirus precaution and ameeting is set to take place this week to determine whether the season will goahead.

Richmond werecrowned champions in 2019 and they’re the clear favourites to retain theircrown, which would be their third in the last four seasons.

Despite finishingjust sixth in the final standings, they won their final 12 games of the seasonand beat Greater Western Sydney by a stunning 89 points in the Grand Final.

The Tigers kick-off the new campaign against Carlton Blues on Thursday and our traders have them priced at 2/7 to start the season with a win.

Greater WesternSydney will also be in contention following their Grand Final defeat lastseason.

The Giants have lostTim Taranto to a shoulder problem during pre-season but they’ll have a muchstronger squad this time around having been ravaged by injuries in 2019.

They kick off their campaign against Geelong Cats, who finished top last term, and they’re going at 8/15 to get started in style.

Anything can happenbetween now and the end of the season and if the games do go ahead asscheduled, expect West Coast Eagles and Western Bulldogs to be challenging nearthe top as well.

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All odds and markets are correct as ofdate of publication