The first of Sunday’s AFL Round 6 matches is between Sydney Swans and Brisbane Lions. The game is set to commence at 1:10pm local time with the game to be played at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Home team Sydney Swans go into the match as the clear favourites in the market and on paper look to have a strangle hold on the match. View our preview and teams for the game between Sydney Swans and Brisbane Lions.

Round: Round 6 1:10 PM May 05, 2013
Stadium: SCG
Weather: 20° Partly cloudy.

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Sydney Swans	1.07	1.07	1.09	1.07	1.07	1.08
Brisbane Lions	8.50	8.00	7.75	8.00	8.50	8.50

Preview:

Sydney has dominated the Lions in recent years having won the last four clashes by an average margin of 52 points.

With the Swans only loss thus far this season coming at the hands of Geelong and Brisbane’s only two wins being a narrow victory over the Gold Coast Suns by 2 points and last week, over the hapless Demons, there’s a good chance of the average margin being maintained here.

The Swans had to travel to NZ to take on St. Kilda last week and had to, much to the pleasure of their coach, “win ugly” in their 79 -63 victory.

In each of their five games this year, the Lions’ opponents have scored a minimum of 94 points. It’s hard to see how they’ll keep the Swans to less than that figure and at the same time, be able to produce the points required to be competitive here.
Teams:

Sydney Swans:
B: Nick Malceski, Heath Grundy, Nick Smith
HB: Marty Mattner, Ted Richards, Jarrad McVeigh
C: Lewis Jetta, Ryan O’Keefe, Ben McGlynn
HF: Dan Hannebery, Sam Reid, Kieren Jack
F: Adam Goodes, Mike Pyke, Jude Bolton
Foll: Shane Mumford, Josh Kennedy, Luke Parker
Int: Tony Armstrong, Craig Bird, Jed Lamb, Mitch Morton, Dane Rampe, Tommy Walsh, Jesse White

IN: Mitch Morton, Jesse White, Jed Lamb, Tommy Walsh
OUT: Andrejs Everitt

Brisbane Lions:
B: Joel Patfull, Daniel Merrett, Ashley McGrath
HB: Elliot Yeo, Justin Clarke, Jed Adcock
C: Pearce Hanley, Tom Rockliff, Mitchell Golby
HF: James Polkinghorne, Jonathan Brown, Dayne Zorko
F: Sam Mayes, Matthew Leuenberger, Aaron Cornelius
Foll: Billy Longer, Brent Moloney, Jack Redden
Int: Josh Green, Rohan Bewick, Marco Paparone, Jordan Lisle, Andrew Raines, Ryan Lester, Jack Crisp

IN: Pearce Hanley, Jordan Lisle, Ryan Lester, Jack Crisp
OUT: Sam Docherty

Sydney’s Lamb to make AFL debut v Lions

Two years of injury setbacks and a nearly 500km off-season cycling odyssey in Myanmar have helped Sydney’s Jed Lamb prepare for his AFL debut on Sunday.

Lamb was the Swans’ first selection in the 2010 draft, which also netted premiership players Luke Parker and Alex Johnson.

The 20-year-old has had to a wait a little longer for his first AFL game, which will come against Brisbane at the SCG, but it’s had nothing to do with the club’s reputation for making players earn their stripes.

“It has been frustrating,” Lamb said on Friday.

“In the first year, I missed a lot because of injured hamstrings then, last year, I had shin splints. Towards the back end, I started to build some consistency, but it was a bit late.”

It wasn’t until the Swans started pre-season training last November that Lamb made coach John Longmire really sit up and take notice.

“That’s one of the question marks you have, for young players in particular. When they go away, that’s their time really to improve and to make up some ground on senior players,” Longmire said.

“The challenge is (to do it) when nobody is watching, to do it by themselves.

“When he came back for his first day of pre-season, Jed was in great condition and he’d obviously worked quite hard.

“Once he’d increased his fitness in the off-season, we then got to work on his other areas of the game that he needed to improve on.”

Lamb spent his holidays with reserves coach Jared Crouch on a cycling tour around Myanmar that blends young elite athletes with everyday people.

Physically, it was a great workout, but the real upside came in the form of personal development.

“That really put a perspective on footy and life in general. It really helped me with footy, during pre-season when things got tough – not to complain,” Lamb said.

“Because over there, it just makes us realise we whinge about the stupidest things.”

Longmire suggested the Lions were a more-potent threat than their 2-3 record implied.

“They play a bit of a similar style to Geelong. They’ve got some really good runners in the team and actually had more scoring shots than we have,” Longmire said.