Saturday first AFL Round 19 match is between Greater Western Sydney Giants and Melbourne Demons with the game to be played at Skoda Stadium. The opening bounce is set to commence at 1:45pm local time with away team Melbourne Demons currently holding favouritism. 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
Ward’s gut says Buddy to join AFL’s Giants
Greater Western Sydney co-captain Callan Ward’s gut feeling is that Lance Franklin will be playing alongside him next season.
But GWS coach Kevin Sheedy says the fledgling AFL club are also eyeing several other experienced players and won’t take a Buddy-or-bust attitude to their off-season recruiting.
“We’ll be looking at four or five players, it’s not only Buddy we’d be interested in,” Sheedy told reporters on Wednesday.
“We’ve got to look with an open mind in regard to who we can get.
“We just can’t put all our eggs in one basket, because in the end we’ve got to improve the experience in different positions of the ground.”
The Giants are out to lure Franklin with a long-term package reportedly worth close to $2 million per season.
But with young gun key forward Jeremy Cameron already having proved himself one of the game’s fastest-rising stars, the highly-rated Jon Patton due back from injury next year and another tall forward, Tom Boyd, tipped to go to the Giants with this year’s No.1 draft pick, there has been conjecture another forward isn’t what the Giants most need.
Ward nominated a ruckman and key defender when asked what sort of players the club should target.
But the 22-year-old, who himself was lured to the Giants from the Western Bulldogs in late 2011 by a rich five-year deal, felt Franklin would also take the bait.
“My gut feel is probably yes,” Ward told Melbourne’s SEN radio.
“I would have no idea. I hope he does, he’s obviously a great player, he’s extremely talented.
“I think at the Giants he’ll be great for us.”