Saturday second AFL Round 19 match is between Hawthorn Hawks and Richmond Tigers with the game to be played at MCG. The opening bounce is set to commence at 2:10pm local time with home team Hawthorn Hawks currently holding favouritism. View our AFL live scores, odds and results for the game between Hawthorn Hawks and Richmond Tigers.

WHERE AND WHEN: MCG, 2:10pm AEST Saturday, August 3, 2013

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Opening odds comparison:

Hawthorn Hawks	1.22	1.24	1.22	1.24	1.22	1.23
Richmond Tigers	4.30	3.95	4.30	3.95	4.30	4.35

Preview:

Hawthorn play Richmond on Saturday, 2.10pm at the MCG. While both of these teams possess great attacking players, the Hawks will be expected to take the points
here. They will have to do something about Jack Riewoldt, however, who scored six goals in Richmond’s massive 62-point win over Hawthorn last season. While the
Tigers are very much outsiders to win here, they are in with a shot and Hawthorn will have to be on top of their game if they want to avoid another shock defeat.

Teams:

Hawthorn Hawks:

FF: 9 Shaun Burgoyne 23 Lance Franklin 33 Cyril Rioli
HF: 19 Jack Gunston 2 Jarryd Roughead 22 Luke Breust
C: 16 Isaac Smith 5 Sam Mitchell 10 Bradley Hill
HB: 12 Brad Sewell 6 Josh Gibson 15 Luke Hodge
FB: 24 Ben Stratton 17 Brian Lake 18 Brent Guerra
FOLL: 39 Max Bailey, 3 Jordan Lewis, 28 Paul Puopolo

INT: 41 Taylor Duryea, 20 David Hale, 21 Shane Savage, 11 Brendan Whitecross
EMG: 13 Kyle Cheney, 47 Jonathon Ceglar, 32 Jonathan Simpkin

In: S.Burgoyne
Out: J.Simpkin

Richmond Tigers:

FF: 16 Luke McGuane 8 Jack Riewoldt 4 Dustin Martin
HF: 35 Matt White 10 Shane Edwards 5 Brandon Ellis
C: 6 Shaun Grigg 9 Trent Cotchin 23 Daniel Jackson
HB: 1 Chris Newman 25 Troy Chaplin 31 Nick Vlastuin
FB: 38 Steven Morris 18 Alex Rance 12 David Astbury
FOLL: 20 Ivan Maric, 3 Brett Deledio, 41 Nathan Foley

INT: 14 Bachar Houli, 37 Orren Stephenson, 30 Reece Conca, 21 Shane Tuck
EMG: 26 Robin Nahas, 11 Jake Batchelor, 22 Sam Lonergan

In: L.McGuane, O.Stephenson, D.Astbury
Out: R.Petterd (groin), T.Vickery (concussion), M.Arnot (back)

Tigers challenged to beat AFL top four

If AFL club Richmond want to make the top four, they’ve got to beat the top four.

That’s the blunt message from Tigers defender Bachar Houli as premiership favourites Hawthorn loom in Richmond’s latest in a series of mini-finals.

After beating Fremantle a fortnight ago, then having premiers Sydney back the truck over them last weekend, Richmond now take on the Hawks at the MCG on Saturday.

The Tigers can boast having beaten Hawthorn in their last meeting in mid-2012, but Houli says consistently beating good sides is critical to achieving the top four position they remain in the hunt to snag.

“If we want to become that top four team, we’ve got to start beating these teams in the top four,” Houli said.

“We can’t expect to (just) beat the bottom eight teams and expect to be top four.

“We’re as confident (against Hawthorn) as any other team we go in against.

“We’ve had a massive focus this week on what we’ve been doing right this season.”

With another three players inking contract extensions over the past fortnight – Jack Riewoldt, Daniel Jackson and Dylan Grimes – attention now turns to the Tigers’ biggest out-of-contract fish Dustin Martin.

Houli is confident that with others resisting bigger deals elsewhere to remain at the Tigers with a view to regularly playing finals, Martin is smart enough to follow suit.

“I think Dustin’s management group is smart enough and speaking to Dustin, he’s pretty passionate to stay, so we’re pretty confident he will stay.

“He loves being at the club because he has got a great bunch of players and coaches who support him all the way.”