The only thing on stake for these two sides on Saturday night is pride. Collectively, from 24 games this season these two sides have won four games.

Two of those wins have been posted by the Western Bulldogs in the last month with wins over St. Kilda and Port Adelaide.

Since those victories, they’ve been well accounted for by Collingwood and in their most recent match, Richmond by 34 and 60 points respectively.

Big margins yes but not when compared to the average losing margin of Melbourne over the past month of over 75 points.

It’s hard to be positive about either side here given their season thus far but would expect the Western Bulldogs to take their winning sequence over the Dees to seven straight here.

Odds comparison by AFL Odds:

Melbourne Demons	4.85	4.85	4.50	4.85	4.85	4.90
Western Bulldogs	1.18	1.18	1.20	1.18	1.18	1.19

Teams:

Melbourne Demons:
B: Lynden Dunn, Colin Garland, Dean Terlich
HB: Tom McDonald, James Frawley, Mitchell Clisby
C: Jimmy Toumpas, Jack Trengove, Matt Jones
HF: Aaron Davey, Chris Dawes, Sam Blease
F: Jack Fitzpatrick, Jack Watts, David Rodan
Foll: Max Gawn, Colin Sylvia, Nathan Jones
Int: Dean Kent, Jeremy Howe, Daniel Nicholson, Shannon Byrnes
Emerg: James Sellar, James Magner, Cameron Pedersen

In: J.Frawley, M.Gawn
Out: J.Spencer (suspension), C.Pedersen

Western Bulldogs:
B: Jason Johannisen, Jordan Roughead, Nick Lower
HB: Clay Smith, Michael Talia, Dale Morris
C: Jack Macrae, Adam Cooney, Ryan Griffen
HF: Robert Murphy, Jake Stringer, Lachie Hunter
F: Tory Dickson, Liam Jones, Luke Dahlhaus
Foll: Will Minson, Matthew Boyd, Tom Liberatore
Int: Daniel Giansiracusa, Mitch Wallis, Ayce Cordy, Nathan Hrovat
Emerg: Dylan Addison, Tom Young, Daniel Cross

In: A.Cordy, M.Wallis, T.Dickson
Out: L.Markovic, B.Goodes (wrist), L.Picken