Saturday night’s game in Victoria will be a beauty with Richmond taking on the Bombers.

Richmond who started the season well, suffered defeats to Collingwood, Fremantle and Geelong in rounds 4, 5 and 6 have bounced back with good wins in the past fortnight over Port (in Adelaide) and Melbourne last week (106-72).

Essendon, who lost their first match of the season to Geelong in round 7 (113-85) were expect to bounce back immediately last week when travelling north to take on a struggling Brisbane Lions.

However the Bombers found themselves in an arm wrestle that eventually went against them (96-86).

Not having been in this position thus far this season, it will be a good test of the Bombers to see how they bounce back.

They’ll be fully tested by a side that beat them 102-57 when last they met in Round 22 of last year and who are in much better shape now then than.

Should be a great game with the Tri-bet option, the way to go.

TIP: EITHER TEAM UNDER 15.5

Odds comparison by AFL Odds:

Richmond Tigers	2.05	2.03	2.02	2.03	2.05	2.07
Essendon Bombers	1.77	1.78	1.81	1.78	1.77	1.77

Teams:

Richmond Tigers:
B: Steven Morris, Alex Rance, Troy Chaplin
HB: Chris Newman, Brandon Ellis, Bachar Houli
C: Shaun Grigg, Trent Cotchin, Daniel Jackson
HF: Brett Deledio, Shane Edwards, Jake King
F: Ty Vickery, Jack Riewoldt, Dustin Martin
Foll: Ivan Maric, Nathan Foley, Nick Vlastuin
Int: Matt White, Luke McGuane, Jake Batchelor, Sam Lonergan
Emerg: Aaron Edwards, Robin Nahas, Matt Dea

In: C.Newman, S.Lonergan, I.Maric
Out: R.Nahas, O.Stephenson, M.Dea

Essendon Bombers:
B: Jake Carlisle, Dustin Fletcher, Courtenay Dempsey
HB: Dyson Heppell, Cale Hooker, Michael Hibberd
C: Brent Stanton, Jobe Watson, Jake Melksham
HF: Jason Winderlich, Stewart Crameri, Brendon Goddard
F: David Zaharakis, Tom Bellchambers, Michael Hurley
Foll: Patrick Ryder, Heath Hocking, Ben Howlett
Int: Nick Kommer, Mark Baguley, Leroy Jetta, David Myers
Emerg: Jason Ashby, Scott Gumbleton, Elliott Kavanagh

In: C.Dempsey, L.Jetta
Out: E.Kavanagh, J.Merrett