The third game on Saturday for AFL Round 19 is between West Coast Eagles and Gold Coast Suns. The match is to be played at Patersons Stadium with the opening bounce set to commence at 2:40pm local time with home team West Coast Eagles currently holding favouritism in the market. View our AFL live scores, odds and results for the game between West Coast Eagles and Gold Coast Suns.

WHERE AND WHEN: Patersons Stadium, 2:40pm AWST Saturday, August 3, 2013

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Opening odds comparison:

West Coast Eagles	1.45	1.45	1.41	1.42	1.45	1.46
Gold Coast Suns	2.75	2.85	2.90	2.85	2.75	2.77

Preview:

The West Coast Eagles play the Gold Coast Suns on Saturday, 4.40pm at Patersons Stadium. The Eagles should be able to take advantage of their strong forward line
and win this match, although it wont be a walk in the park. The Gold Coast have grown up a lot in 2013, and will want to keep their momentum going in the last few
weeks of the season. While the Eagles have the potential to punish the Suns on the scoreboard, they first have to get past a strong Gold Coast midfield that looks more
confident all the time.

Teams:

West Coast Eagles:

FF: 12 Sharrod Wellingham 29 Scott Lycett 27 Jack Darling
HF: 15 Jamie Cripps 17 Josh Kennedy 33 Josh Hill
C: 3 Andrew Gaff 11 Matt Priddis 18 Bradd Dalziell
HB: 26 Sam Butler 16 Eric Mackenzie 28 Ashley Smith
FB: 31 Will Schofield 23 Darren Glass 30 Blayne Wilson
FOLL: 20 Dean Cox, 10 Scott Selwood, 34 Mark Hutchings

INT: 43 Ashton Hams, 5 Brad Sheppard, 32 Andrew Embley, 19 Adam Carter
EMG: 40 Cale Morton, 1 Mitchell Brown, 44 Jamie Bennell

In: D.Glass, B.Sheppard, A.Embley
Out: M.Brown, C.Masten (ankle), C.Morton

Gold Coast Suns:

FF 30 Campbell Brown 23 Charlie Dixon 39 Timmy Sumner
HF 24 David Swallow 12 Sam Day 33 Aaron Hall
C 11 Harley Bennell 9 Gary Ablett 6 Alex Sexton
HB 36 Greg Broughton 16 Rory Thompson 8 Luke Russell
FB 18 Trent McKenzie 17 Steven May 48 Sebastian Tape
FOLL: 15 Daniel Gorringe, 25 Danny Stanley, 10 Dion Prestia

INT: 26 Matt Shaw, 5 Jarrod Harbrow, 40 Andrew Boston, 1 Jaeger O’Meara
EMG: 31 Jackson Allen, 44 Nathan Bock, 38 Joel Wilkinson

In: R.Thompson, D.Prestia, D.Swallow, D.Gorringe
Out: J.Brennan, M.Weller, J.Gillbee, T.Nicholls (knee)

Eagles not ruling out AFL finals: Selwood

He may have made a swift recovery from a fractured thumb, but West Coast midfielder Scott Selwood knows it will take something special to fix the Eagles’ broken AFL season.

Sunday’s shock loss to the Western Bulldogs left West Coast three wins adrift of eighth spot and needing to win their remaining five games to have any chance of featuring in the finals.

That will be no easy feat, with the Eagles set to start underdogs in matches against Essendon (away), Geelong and Collingwood (away) during their tough run home.

And with key players Shannon Hurn, Beau Waters, Nic Naitanui, Mark LeCras, Daniel Kerr, Matt Rosa, Chris Masten and Luke Shuey all nursing injuries, West Coast have already started planning for next season.

Selwood is refusing to give up on this year, revealing the player group had set their sights on winning all five of their remaining games in a bid to make the finals.

But he acknowledged the next five weeks would mainly prove to be a learning curve in their preparations for a 2014 assault on the flag.

“There’s some great challenges, not only for the older guys, (but also) for younger guys coming in getting some experience, playing on some really elite players that they don’t quite get to play on in WAFL level,” Selwood said on Monday.

“There’s some great lessons to be learnt for them guys.

“And then the older guys, we get to play with the young guys and learn how they work.

“There’s lots of things we can learn over the next five weeks and we’re excited at the challenge ahead of us.”

Selwood tallied 23 possessions and laid 11 tackles against the Bulldogs in his first game back from a broken thumb sustained when an opponent trod on his hand.

Initially Selwood was ruled out for two months, but the 2012 club champion ended up missing just four games.

West Coast take on Gold Coast at Patersons Stadium on Saturday, and Selwood is likely to find himself opposed to star Suns midfielder Gary Ablett.

Selwood said he wouldn’t lose any sleep over the potential match-up, but conceded he would have to be on his game to curb the prolific midfielder.

“He’s got a lot of tricks in his bag and he’s extremely smart and works extremely hard. He’s just a class act really,” Selwood said.

Veteran Eagles winger Andrew Embley will return from suspension against the Suns, while Brad Sheppard and Adam Selwood are also in line for recalls.