As you’d expect with the 15th placed Western Bulldogs hosting 3rd placed Sydney Swans, the market is a lob-sided one in the Swans favour.

Sydney made it five wins in a row last week with a strong display over Richmond at the SCG. It was the Swans’ eighth win in the past nine matches with their average winning margin over this period of time being 53 points.

They’ve been asked to give the Western Bulldogs 42.5 start here, which on the above statistic, looks well within Sydney’s reach.

The Bulldogs have produced some better efforts in the past month which include a competitive effort at Hawthorn (97 – 76) and last week, a win over West Coast 111 – 89.

The Bulldogs are only playing for pride, there appears to be a bit of it in their recent performances and whilst a win against Sydney may still be out of their reach, would expect a much better effort than they produced in either of last year’s clashes against the Swans, who won both by margins of 92 and 82 points.

Odds comparison by AFL Odds:

Western Bulldogs	7.50	8.00	7.75	8.00	7.50	7.50
Sydney Swans	1.09	1.08	1.08	1.08	1.09	1.10

Teams:

Western Bulldogs:

FF: 13 Daniel Giansiracusa 23 Jordan Roughead 29 Tory Dickson
HF: 2 Robert Murphy 1 Jarrad Grant 25 Koby Stevens
C: 6 Luke Dahlhaus 21 Tom Liberatore 11 Jack Macrae
HB: 17 Adam Cooney 32 Michael Talia 31 Tom Young
FB: 15 Jason Tutt 38 Dale Morris 42 Liam Picken
FOLL: 27 Will Minson, 16 Ryan Griffen, 3 Mitch Wallis

INT FROM: 22 Dylan Addison, 9 Jake Stringer, 26 Lachie Hunter, 30 Christian Howard, 45 Tom Campbell, 47 Mark Austin, 4 Daniel Cross

In: D.Cross, M.Austin, C.Howard, T.Campbell, J.Stringer
Out: M.Boyd (calf), L.Jones (ankle)

Sydney Swans:

FF: 11 Jed Lamb 8 Kurt Tippett 38 Mike Pyke
HF: 4 Daniel Hannebery 18 Jesse White 24 Jude Bolton
C: 14 Craig Bird 5 Ryan O’Keefe 3 Jarrad McVeigh
HB: 9 Nick Malceski 25 Ted Richards 13 Andrejs Everitt
FB: 43 Dane Rampe 39 Heath Grundy 40 Nick Smith
FOLL: 41 Shane Mumford, 12 Josh Kennedy, 15 Kieren Jack

INT FROM: 46 Shane Biggs, 6 Tom Mitchell, 26 Luke Parker, 33 Brandon Jack, 2 Rhyce Shaw, 7 Harry Cunningham, 10 Mitch Morton

In: R.Shaw, M.Morton, S.Biggs
Out: –