The third game on Sunday for AFL Round 18 is between Sydney Swans and Richmond Tigers. The match is to be played at SCG with the opening bounce set to commence at 4:40PM local time with home team Sydney Swans currently holding favouritism in the market. View our AFL live scores, odds and results for the game between Sydney Swans and Richmond Tigers.
WHERE AND WHEN: SCG, 4:40 PM July 28, 2013
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Opening odds comparison:
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| Sydney Swans | 1.24 | 1.26 | 1.25 | 1.26 | 1.24 | 1.25 |
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Richmond Tigers
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4.00 | 3.85 | 3.95 | 3.85 | 4.00 | 4.00 |
Preview:
The last game of round 18 is between the Sydney Swans and Richmond Tigers, kicking off on Sunday at the SCG, 4.40pm. The Swans are expected to win here, but with 4th playing 6th, things could get very interesting. Richmond will be full of confidence after a 27 point victory over Fremantle on Sunday, and with a top four position in their sights, they will be hungry as well. This is a great game to finish off the round, and a great round in general as the business end of the season draws closer.
Teams:
Sydney Swans:
3 Jarrad McVeigh
4 Daniel Hannebery
5 Ryan O’Keefe
6 Tom Mitchell (INT)
7 Harry Cunningham (INT)
8 Kurt Tippett
9 Nick Malceski
10 Mitch Morton (INT)
11 Jed Lamb (INT)
12 Josh Kennedy
13 Andrejs Everitt
14 Craig Bird
15 Kieren Jack
18 Jesse White
24 Jude Bolton
25 Ted Richards
26 Luke Parker
33 Brandon Jack (INT)
38 Mike Pyke
39 Heath Grundy
40 Nick Smith
41 Shane Mumford
42 Xavier Richards (INT)
43 Dane Rampe
46 Shane Biggs (INT)
In: Mitch Morton, Xavier Richards, Shane Biggs
New: Shane Biggs
Richmond Tigers:
1 Chris Newman
3 Brett Deledio
4 Dustin Martin
5 Brandon Ellis
6 Shaun Grigg
8 Jack Riewoldt
9 Trent Cotchin
10 Shane Edwards
12 David Astbury (INT)
13 Ricky Petterd
14 Bachar Houli (INT)
16 Luke McGuane (INT)
18 Alex Rance
20 Ivan Maric
21 Shane Tuck (INT)
22 Sam Lonergan (INT)
23 Daniel Jackson
25 Troy Chaplin
29 Ty Vickery
30 Reece Conca (INT)
31 Nick Vlastuin
35 Matt White
38 Steven Morris
41 Nathan Foley
44 Matthew Arnot (INT)
In: Shane Tuck , Luke McGuane , Sam Lonergan, David Astbury
Out: Jake King (Hamstring)
Tigers hold out Dockers in AFL grind
Richmond have finally beaten a Ross Lyon-coached side and an AFL heavyweight, downing Fremantle 12.12 (84) to 8.9 (57) in a low-scoring grind at the MCG.
The sixth-placed Tigers kicked the first three goals of the match and led all day, but took until deep into the last quarter to bury a Dockers side missing stars Matthew Pavlich, Aaron Sandilands, Luke McPharlin and Hayden Ballantyne.
It was Richmond’s biggest scalp so far this season, but their job gets harder in the next fortnight, when they face reigning premiers Sydney at the SCG then top-placed Hawthorn.
Hard-running captain Trent Cotchin was outstanding with 34 disposals and a crucial goal.
The Tigers started brightly, Jack Riewoldt (four goals) putting them 18 points up after 15 minutes when he smothered a kick off the boot of Lee Spurr and banged through his second from outside 50m.
But for the rest of the first half, Richmond managed just one more goal to the Dockers’ two to lead by just 13 points at halftime.
The Tigers hadn’t won any of their 10 previous meetings with Ross Lyon-coached sides, seven against St Kilda and three against the Dockers.
Sunday’s win was built on fierce defensive pressure when they didn’t have the ball and extreme patience when they did.
Rather than try to weave their way through the Dockers’ forward press, the Tigers were prepared to chip the ball around in defence and the midfield until a way opened up.
It made for a low-scoring, slow-moving game and meant the Tigers ended up having 55 more kicks than Fremantle yet entering their attack just five more times.
The Dockers threatened to erase Richmond’s lead in the third term, when Tendai Mzungu kicked three goals, including two in succession, the second of those from a 50m penalty to cut the margin to nine points.
But the Tigers responded with the last three goals of the quarter, with Cotchin putting a free kick through from 50m after the siren to push the lead back to 21.
The Dockers again threatened with the first two goals of the last quarter.
But Riewoldt goals either side of a brilliant hurried snap from Daniel Jackson shut the gate.
Alex Rance was strong in defence for Richmond, Brandon Ellis and Dustin productive in midfield and 100-gamer Matt White restricted Dockers speedster Stephen Hill.
Nathan Fyfe and Mzungu (three goals) were good for Fremantle and Ryan Crowley blanketed Brett Deledio.