So here we are, the first day of October with the game's biggest prize up for grabs. It doesn't get any better then this, the AFL Grand Final between the Sydney Swans V Western Bulldogs.

LAST FIVE TIMES
R15, 2016, Western Bulldogs 13.5 (83) d Sydney Swans 11.13 (79) at the SCG
R5, 2015, Western Bulldogs 11.11 (77) d Sydney Swans 10.13 (73) at the SCG
R22, 2014, Sydney Swans 20.10 (130) d Western Bulldogs 9.13 (67) at Etihad Stadium
R19, 2013, Sydney Swans 21.8 (134) d Western Bulldogs 15.9 (99) at Etihad Stadium
R21, 2012, Sydney Swans 26.11 (167) d Western Bulldogs 13.7 (85) at Etihad Stadium

WHAT TO WATCH FOR

Sydney Swans

1. A fast start. The Swans tore Geelong apart in the preliminary final, kicking eight unanswered goals before the Cats got on the board. From there, the Swans were always in control.

2. Isaac Heeney to continue to be a ball magnet in the midfield. He's been sensational in the Swans' two wins in the finals with his attack at the contest and superb ball use.

3. Don't expect the Swans to have Grand Final nerves. There are several new faces in the side, but there are still a lot of experienced campaigners who will be desperate to avenge their embarrassing loss to Hawthorn in the 2014 decider.

Western Bulldogs

1. Who gets the big job on Lance Frankin? It's either going to fall to Joel Hamling – who hasn't played the Swans in his 22 career games – or veteran Dale Morris. Franklin kicked five goals on first-year player Marcus Adams (out for the year with a foot injury) in round 15.

2. The Bulldogs need to find a way to control the Swans' big four midfield guns – Dan Hannebery, Luke Parker, Josh Kennedy and Kieran Jack. The quartet are the kings at winning contested ball and giving the Swans the upper hand at the stoppages.

3. Jason Johannisen and Matthew Boyd to impose themselves on the game with their rebound from the defensive 50. The Bulldogs get all their run and drive out of defence, allowing their midfielders to then move the ball quickly into the forward line for easy "over the back" goals to Clay Smith and Tory Dickson.

THE SIX POINTS:

1. Jason Johannisen's goal with seconds on the clock sealed a thrilling four-point win for the Bulldogs at the SCG in round 15, but the stats showed how close it was. The Bulldogs edged the Swans by the narrowest margin in the possession count 392-391 and the Inside 50s with 56-53. Matthew Boyd had 32 disposals for the winners, while Swans superstar Lance Franklin kicked five goals from nine scoring shots.

2. The two teams who find the ball the most will battle it out for ultimate glory. The Bulldogs are the only team in the competition to average more than 400 possessions per game. The Swans are their closest rivals, averaging 396.5 per game. Roles are reversed in contested possessions, with the Swans ranked first and the Bulldogs in fourth.

3. The Bulldogs have a 3-1 advantage over the Swans in their four previous finals games. Their most recent encounter was a five-point victory to the Dogs in a semi-final in 2010 at the MCG. The Bulldogs will be aiming to win four consecutive finals.

4. The Swans have been the premier defensive team this year, conceding just 68 points per game. The Bulldogs aren't far behind having restricted their opponents to 73 points per game.

5. When it comes to Grand Final experience, the Swans easily have the upper hand. This will be the club's 17th Grand Final for a return of five premierships and their third decider since 2012. Eighteen players on their list have played in a Grand Final, compared to just one (Matthew Suckling) for the Bulldogs. It's just the third Grand Final for the Bulldogs and their first since 1961 in their quest to break a 62-year premiership drought.

6. Sydney Swans dynamo Isaac Heeney was the highest-ranked player from the two Grand Final teams from last weekend's preliminary finals in the Schick AFL Player Ratings. Heeney racked up 20.3 points to continue his steep climb in the overall standings this year. Having started this season ranked 475th, Heeney has improved a massive 342 places to be 133rd in the competition.

The AFL Grand Final is tough to pick a winner this year but if the Western Bulldogs can continue to play the way they have been playing this finals series then I think they can get the job done later today but it could go either way. Sydney do however have Grand Final experience as this will be there 3rd Grand Final appearance in 5 years.

My prediction:

Western Bulldogs +11.5 @1.86 on DirectBet (2 units)

Value bet Western Bulldogs under 39.5 pts @2.92 (1 unit)

Norm Smith Medal (for best player on the ground in the Grand Final)

My Norm Smith Prediction:

If the Western Bulldogs win I think Marcus Bontempelli will win the medal @9.40 on DirectBet (0.5 unit)

If Sydney win I think Lance Franklin @8.60 or Josh Kennedy @10.00 (0.5 units on both)

I'm well in profit from betting on the AFL series so that is why I have put a few bets on and hopefully they come in. The Norm Smith is very hard to pick the right player to win but I think the 3 players I picked have a good chance at winning it, I could pick a few more as I believe there are a few other players that can win from both teams but I can't pick them all.

Good luck and may the best team win.

The faucet is running smoothly again just like it was last week and in a way it's good that this happens as it means this faucet is growing daily which is good to see for a new BTC faucet. Keep up the good work dev!

Nice work tipping Troicki to beat Anderson at those nice odds as Troicki just won the match in straight sets. Don't know why he was paying over $2 to win considering he is ranked higher then Anderson. I put all 3 of your tips on and with Troicki winning it makes up for Lopez loosing to Khachanov. Now we just want Dimitrov to win so we stay in the black.

Same thing is now happening with me and it just started today so I think there is a bug in the system that needs to be fixed asap by the dev which I'm sure will be fixed soon. I also noticed today that the faucet loads very slow and takes a long time to log in now so I'm guessing there is a lot of traffic on the faucet.

There seems to be an issue with the faucet at CRYPTO4FREE.ML, I've been trying all day today to make a claim and I keep getting this message "Cannot seem to connect at the moment, please come back later!" I hope it's not under attack again.

It's my favorite time of year here in Melbourne Australia as it's spring carnival time and that means big horse races. The best thing for me this year is that DirectBet is taking bets on these big races and it will be my first time betting with crypto's on horse races thanks to DirectBet. I normally bet on the big races on bet365 but they don't accept cryptocurrencies so this year I'll be betting with DirectBet, just like to thank DirectBet for adding Australian horse racing and I hope some day in the near future I see Greyhound racing added.

 

That was an easy win for the Bengals and easily covered the spread which I was a little worried that they might not but they did it with ease and maybe should of won by a lot more but couldn't convert on offense as they would of liked. Miami's offense was terrible with so many turnovers and too many fouls given away.

That's good news dev and hopefully the matrix program does well as they seem to be very popular at the moment so I'm sure it will be a success.

Don't be sad dev about the low price as I think a lot of people out there at the moment don't see the potential CJ has to become one of the best coins in crypto. It's going to take some time but I believe in you just like our wonderful community we have here all believe CJ will become successful in the near future. Just keep what you are doing because you are doing a great job and in time the price will start to rise, all good things come to those that wait and have patients.

Thursday night football Miami @ Cincinnati

I'm also liking Cincinnati to win this game but they are too short @1.23 so I have decided to take the point spread -6.5 pts @1.65 as I think they can cover this as Miami is traveling a long distance on a short week.

Your doing very well with the free tips and yesterday I decided to put a bet on your tip for Montreal Impact to win and I'm glad I did because they won easily 3-1 so thanks for the free tips.

Unlucky with the Man Utd game over 2.5 goals but I think almost all the tipsters on this forum got this wrong as most of us expected Man Utd to score more goals but they didn't.

Good luck with your next lot of tips.

Man Utd let me down by only scoring 1 goal which I am not surprised but I won my other bets on Zenit St Petersburg and Roma winning easily. I lost my parlay because Man Utd let me down by not scoring another goal but I'm not to worried as I am in profit from tonight's games.

They ain't playing Test matches, these are ODI matches and on recent form I think Australia can win the series, just look what they did to Sri Lanka over in Sri Lanka, Australia won easily and yes I know Sri Lanka ain't that good but Australia were coming off a poor test series over there and bounced back to win the ODI series and T20 series easily. Yes Australia is one of the strongest ODI teams in the world and as I said they play very well in South Africa and that is why I am picking Australia to win the series.

I think the dev has lowered the sats rate because of the bonuses and I think this is a good thing because now it rewards active users so if you are active and build up your bonus percentage you'll earn more in the long run so in fact no one has lost anything right now just continue to claim and be active everyday and in a couple of months from now everyone will be earning a nice amount of sats every 5 minutes. And for the people who have active referrals the rewards will be even more so I think the dev has made the right move to lowering the sats claim rates.

South Africa V Australia in the 1st ODI starts tomorrow and South Africa are the favorites to win as it is being played in South Africa. But I think Australia can win as they do play well in South Africa and if I'm not mistaken Australia won the last ODI series over there a couple of years ago. The only issue for Australia is that Mitchell Starc is out with a leg injury which is a big loss but I still think they have the depth to win this ODI series and the 1st game.

The updated bonuses are good dev but I hope it's not too much of a bonus. I saw the same thing at BonusBitcoin where they were paying bonuses and then later they found trouble and had to lower the claim rates and then a lot of people left. Just as long as you are making enough money from the advertising to cover all the expenses and of course some profit for yourself then you and your faucet should be fine. I would rather see a faucet last for a very long time then a faucet that offers to high bonuses and is dead within a couple of months.

I like Man Utd to win but they are too short for me to bet ML so I'll be taking them at -1 EH @1.41 Jose said that key players will be playing in this game so I think they will win easily just like they did to Leicester City last weekend. I also like Roma -1 EH @1.48 and Zenit St Petersburg ML @1.44 and I'll be playing all these in a parlay bet.

So will there be a new POS wallet that we need to download for windows? or can we use the same wallet? I'm a little lost with this swap.

Yeah it was a no brainer as both these 2 teams almost always score goals in their games and both teams did end up scoring so I hope you decided to put that bet on as it ended 2-1 Santos winning. Even over 1.5 goals was a good bet to put on but for me over 0.5 goals was a much safer bet.

To be honest I am thinking the same about the 49ers Cowboys game and maybe it might be good to take the point spread but even then it's only +3 If it was a little more I would seriously think about putting some money on it.

Currently it's half time in the Brazilian Cup between Santos V Internacional and the score is 0-0 so I just put a bet on over 0.5 goals @1.30 The last 6 games between these 2 teams scored over 0.5 goals, also there have been 18 attempts on goal between the 2 teams so far with 6 shots on target so I'm hoping this continues and a goal is scored.