WA Premier Roger Cook and Queensland Premier David Crisafulli are expected to miss out on an AFL grand final wager ahead of Saturday’s match between the Fremantle Dockers and the Brisbane Lions.
With less than a day to go before the decider, the premiers’ schedules are reported to leave little time for the sides to coordinate a bet. Each outlet frames the situation as a result of competing commitments as the final approaches, rather than any public dispute over the matchup.
The reporting is consistent across the outlets on the central point: the bet is effectively off. Differences are limited to how the story is presented, but all sources treat the lack of coordination and timing as the reason the wager is unlikely to happen.
