Saturday second AFL Round 17 match is between Greater Western Sydney Giants and Essendon Bombers with the game to be played at Skoda Stadium. The opening bounce is set to commence at 2:10pm local time with away team Essendon Bombers currently holding favouritism. View our AFL live scores, odds and results for the game between Greater Western Sydney Giants and Essendon Bombers.

WHERE AND WHEN: Skoda Stadium, Saturday July 20, 2:10pm

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Opening odds comparison:

Greater Western Sydney Giants	21.00	15.00	15.00	15.00	21.00	21.00
Essendon Bombers	1.001	1.01	1.01	1.01	1.001	1.01

Preview:

Speaking of the Bombers, they take on Greater Western Sydney on Saturday, 2.10pm at SKODA Stadium. Essendon did come good against the Bulldogs last week,
despite looking sketchy at times. In contrast, GWS had another shocker, losing to the Swans by a massive 129 points. While the Giants performed quite well last time
these two sides met, this could be a very different encounter if they continue on their downhill slide. No matter how you look at it, the only real question here is just how big the scoreline will get.

Teams:

Greater Western Sydney Giants:
B: Stephen Gilham, Phil Davis, Sam Darley
HB: Curtley Hampton, Tim Mohr, Nicholas Haynes
C: Lachie Whitfield, Adam Treloar, Tom Scully
HF: Jeremy Cameron, Adam Tomlinson, Mark Whiley
F: Devon Smith, Jonathan Giles, Gerald Ugle
Foll: Dean Brogan, Callan Ward, Dylan Shiel
Int: Taylor Adams, Tomas Bugg, Toby Greene, Zachary Williams
Emerg: Joshua Bruce, Will Hoskin-Elliott, Adam Kennedy

In: Brogan Adams Tomlinson Ugle Whiley Williams Greene
Out: O’hAilpin R Palmer (foot) Hoskin-Elliott Tyson Edwards Corr O’Rourke

Essendon Bombers:
B: Mark Baguley, Jake Carlisle, Courtenay Dempsey
HB: Michael Hibberd, Cale Hooker, Dustin Fletcher
C: Nick Kommer, Nick O’Brien, Dyson Heppell
HF: David Myers, Patrick Ryder, Cory Dell’Olio
F: Michael Hurley, Stewart Crameri, Leroy Jetta
Foll: Tom Bellchambers, Brent Stanton, Brendon Goddard
Int: Nathan Lovett-Murray, Jake Melksham, Jackson Merrett, Travis Colyer
Emerg: Ben Howlett, Kyle Hardingham, Alwyn Davey

In: Lovett-Murray Jetta Dell’Olio Crameri

Bombers refute allegations against Hird

Essendon are refuting an allegation that the AFL warned coach James Hird against looking into the use of peptides.

The Bombers have also denied that Hird was the main architect of the club’s controversial 2012 supplements program.

That program is under investigations by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) and the AFL.

The league hopes that ASADA will hand down its findings next month.

The Age reported on Wednesday that the AFL warned Hird in late 2011 against involving Essendon players in a peptides program.

“This is factually incorrect. Until the ASADA investigation is completed the full context of this particular meeting should not be the subject of innuendo,” the club said in a statement.

Essendon also insisted that Hird had not been the main figure behind the supplements program.

“This is just factually wrong,” the Bombers said.

They added that the club’s suspended high performance coach Dean Robinson, not Hird, was responsible for sports scientist Stephen Dank coming to the club.

Dank supervised the supplements program last year and is no longer at Essendon.

He is a central figure in the ASADA and AFL investigations.

The Bombers are also angry that investigation details had been leaked to the media.

“Representatives from the club have requested all parties to the investigation to guarantee confidentiality and to afford natural justice,” they said.

“Breaching this confidentiality directly undermines the trust in the process and selective disclosure of information relating to the investigation appears to be deliberately threatening the integrity of this process.

“For the reputation and integrity of senior coach James Hird to be questioned without the right to due process, is extremely disturbing and inappropriate in the circumstances.”

But the news has not been all bad for Essendon.

According to Fox Footy’s AFL360 program, there is growing uncertainty about the classification of a drug at the heart of the investigation.

ASADA allegedly provided advice last year that AOD-9604, which Essendon captain Jobe Watson has admitted to taking, was not prohibited.