The first game on Saturday for AFL Round 19 is between Greater Western Sydney Giants and Melbourne Demons. The match is to be played at Skoda Stadium with the opening bounce set to commence at 1:45pm local time with away team Melbourne Demons currently holding favouritism in the market. View our AFL live scores, odds and results for the game between Greater Western Sydney Giants and Melbourne Demons.
WHERE AND WHEN: Skoda Stadium, 1:45pm AEST Saturday, August 3, 2013
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Opening odds comparison:
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| Greater Western Sydney Giants | 1.95 | 1.91 | 1.90 | 1.91 | 1.95 | 2.05 |
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Melbourne Demons
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1.85 | 1.91 | 1.90 | 1.91 | 1.85 | 1.77 |
Preview:
The first Saturday game is between Greater Western Sydney and Melbourne, kicking off a 1.45pm at Skoda Stadium. This is one of the more even match-ups of the
round, something both teams are certainly not used to in 2013. In fact, GWS are slight favourites to win here, in what would be their first victory of the year. While
Melbourne have been equally bad in 2013, at least they have somehow managed to win two games. While this is far from the match of the round, at least it will give one
of these two teams a chance to remember what if feels like to win.
Teams:
Greater Western Sydney Giants:
FF: 10 Devon Smith 50 Dean Brogan 14 Tomas Bugg
HF: 18 Jeremy Cameron 20 Adam Tomlinson 42 Mark Whiley
C: 5 Dylan Shiel 17 Adam Treloar 6 Lachie Whitfield
HB: 19 Nicholas Haynes 39 Tim Mohr 51 Zachary Williams
FB: 1 Phil Davis 47 Joshua Bruce 2 Curtly Hampton
FOLL: 26 Jonathan Giles, 8 Callan Ward, 9 Tom Scully
INT: 11 Taylor Adams, 4 Toby Greene, 3 Stephen Coniglio, 40 Adam Kennedy
EMG: 38 Stephen Gilham, 16 Nathan Wilson, 13 Sam Darley
In: S.Coniglio, L.Whitfield
Out: S.Darley, W.Hoskin-Elliott (concussion)
Melbourne Demons:
FF: 34 Dean Kent 37 Max Gawn 48 Jack Fitzpatrick
HF: 45 Matt Jones 4 Jack Watts 38 Jeremy Howe
C: 7 Jack Viney 9 Jack Trengove 31 Jack Grimes
HB: 20 Colin Garland 25 Tom McDonald 50 Mitchell Clisby
FB: 14 Lynden Dunn 21 Cameron Pedersen 46 Dean Terlich
FOLL: 42 Jake Spencer, 12 Colin Sylvia, 2 Nathan Jones
INT: 35 Luke Tapscott, 36 Aaron Davey, 5 Jimmy Toumpas, 10 Shannon Byrnes
EMG: 41 Troy Davis, 26 Daniel Nicholson, 13 Jordie McKenzie
In: D.Terlich, C.Garland, J.Spencer
Out: J.Frawley (hamstring), C.Dawes (calf), S.Blease
GWS favourites on form: Demons’ coach
Melbourne coach Neil Craig admits winless Greater Western Sydney deserve their favouritism for Saturday’s bottom-of-the-table AFL clash with the Demons.
The Giants pushed Collingwood hard last round while the Demons suffered a 122-point thrashing at the hands of North Melbourne.
“If you looked at GWS’s form last week and you looked at our form, I know who I’d have favourite, wouldn’t you?” Craig told reporters on Wednesday.
“I understand that. That’s okay, that’s not going to go away.
“We certainly want to get good enough to be the favourite every week.”
Craig said the Giants’ form over the past three weeks had been pretty good.
He admitted he was unsure how his players would rebound from their belting from the Kangaroos.
He said clubs with great cultures had high expectations in any situation and looked at times of adversity such as this as a chance to learn and improve.
But asked if the Demons had the resilience to make a strong stand this week he said: “I don’t know, time will tell.”
Craig admitted the Demons defence, which will be missing James Frawley through injury, faced a challenge to handle Giants forward Jeremy Cameron, who produced a stunning seven-goal haul against the Magpies.
Video footage of Cameron’s performance had been on high rotation in the television in his office this week.
“It puts you off your lunch every now and again,” Craig joked.
“You love to see really exceptional talent coming through, new talent, fresh talent.
“He could be a 10 or 12-year player who’s going to excite the crowds.
“But that’s okay, I’ve got great confidence in the guys we’ve got to be able to stand him.”