The fifth game on Saturday for AFL Round 18 is between Fremantle Dockers and Adelaide Crows. The match is to be played at Patersons Stadium with the opening bounce set to commence at 5:40PM local time with home team Fremantle Dockers currently holding favouritism in the market. View our AFL live scores, odds and results for the game between Fremantle Dockers and Adelaide Crows.

WHERE AND WHEN: Patersons Stadium, 5:40 PM July 27, 2013

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Opening odds comparison:

Fremantle Dockers	1.26	1.24	N/A	1.24	1.26	1.27
Adelaide Crows	3.80	4.00	N/A	4.00	3.80	3.85

Preview:

The last Saturday match is between Fremantle and Adelaide, 5.40pm at Patersons Stadium. Adelaide are playing well at the moment, and will have to keep their momentum up for a trip west this weekend. Coming out victors against Geelong last round to keep their finals aspirations alive, they have everything to play for this week against the Dockers. Fremantle are favourites here, however, even though the Crows have won three of their last five games at Patersons Stadium. While most of the money is on the home side, this could be a close contest and might even produce a surprise.

Teams:

Fremantle Dockers:

3 Zac Dawson
5 Garrick Ibbotson
6 Danyle Pearce (INT)
7 Nathan Fyfe
8 Nick Suban
9 Matt de Boer
10 Michael Walters
11 Tom Sheridan (EMG)
13 Tendai Mzungu
15 Ryan Crowley
16 David Mundy
21 Michael Barlow
23 Chris Mayne
27 Lachie Neale (INT)
30 Zac Clarke
31 Aaron Sandilands
32 Stephen Hill
33 Cameron Sutcliffe (INT)
34 Lee Spurr
36 Alex Silvagni (EMG)
37 Michael Johnson
38 Jack Hannath (EMG)
41 Paul Duffield
42 Matthew Taberner (INT)
46 Clancee Pearce

In: Aaron Sandilands ,Nick Suban ,Matthew Taberner
Out: Alex Silvagni (Omitted) , Jack Hannath (Omitted) , Tom Sheridan (Omitted)

Adelaide Crows:

1 Richard Tambling (INT)
2 Brad Crouch
4 Josh Jenkins
5 Scott Thompson
7 Nathan van Berlo
8 Lewis Johnston (EMG)
9 Rory Sloane
11 Matthew Wright
12 Daniel Talia
14 David Mackay
16 Luke Brown
17 Bernie Vince
22 Andrew Otten (INT)
24 Sam Jacobs
26 Richard Douglas
27 Thomas Lynch
29 Sam Kerridge (EMG)
31 Jarryd Lyons (INT)
33 Brodie Smith
35 Shaun McKernan (INT)
38 Mitchell Grigg (EMG)
40 Jason Porplyzia
41 Kyle Hartigan
45 Ricky Henderson
46 Rory Laird

In: Shaun McKernan ,Kyle Hartigan
Out: Ben Rutten (Shoulder) , Mitchell Grigg (Omitted)
New: Kyle Hartigan

Banned Bailey back on job at Crows

The 16-match AFL suspension of Adelaide’s strategy coach Dean Bailey felt like an eternity, Crows midfielder Bernie Vince says.

Bailey returned to work at Adelaide’s headquarters on Monday after serving a ban for his role in Melbourne’s 2009 tanking controversy.

Vince says the Crows badly missed Bailey every week of his suspension.

“It’s a long time … we have noticed all 16 weeks, it seems like an eternity,” Vince told reporters.

“He’s a good fella to have around, Bails. We have missed him a fair bit I reckon, just with his knowledge of the game.

“He did a lot of stuff on opposition analysis … that has been sorely missed.

“He’s pretty keen to get back and involved with us.”

Bailey was Melbourne’s head coach in 2009 when the club was accused of tanking to gain draft selections.

He and the Demons’ then football manager Chris Connolly were found guilty by the AFL of “acting in a manner prejudicial to the interests of the competition”.

Bailey was sacked by Melbourne in 2011 and joined the Crows as their strategy and innovation coach the next year, also becoming a mentor of Adelaide’s second-year coach Brenton Sanderson and his assistant coaches.

“He’s in the (coaches) box mainly and I know they have spoken about missing him in there,” Vince said.

“And at halftime and breaks, if we ever need a rev up he’s the first one to give it to us.

“He doesn’t rant and rave like some coaches … he’s calming in tight situations.”

Bailey will return to the coaches box in Perth on Saturday night when the Crows play Fremantle.

Adelaide upset flag contenders Geelong by two points on Sunday to rise to 11th on the ladder but Vince said their finals prospects remain tight.

“It’s not something have mentioned for a while, finals,” he said.

“We are going to have to pull off some pretty huge wins along the way. Until that happens we’re not going to really speak about it.

“Pretty much, if we lose one more game for the rest of the year, we’re gone.”