The first game on Saturday for AFL Round 19 is between Greater Western Sydney Giants and Melbourne Demons. The opening bounce is set to commence at 1:45pm with the game to be played at Skoda Stadium. The favourite for the match is away team Melbourne Demons. View our preview and teams for the game between Greater Western Sydney Giants and Melbourne Demons.
Round: Round 19 1:45 PM August 03, 2013
Stadium: ŠKODA Stadium
Weather: 18° A few showers.
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Odds Comparison by AFL Odds:
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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:
Well this is it. Can the Giants register a win in season 2013?
They face the equally poor Melbourne who has only managed three wins themselves this year.
One of those wins came over GWS back in round 4 this year (144 – 103) where they had to come from behind at the final break. That made it three wins from as many games against the GWS for the Demons.
Both sides are coming of massive losses last week, GWS – 40 points to Sydney and Melbourne 102 to Geelong and it’s hard to find an aspect of either team’s performances this year that would give them an advantage of the other here.
It may lay in the defensive record, with GWS have conceded almost 300 points more than Melbourne this season.
This match counts for nothing but it should be competitive and as much as I’d love to GWS get on the board this year, the Demons should prevail, albeit just.
Teams:
Greater Western Sydney Giants:
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:
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
AFL’s Demons lose Frawley for 3-4 weeks
Melbourne key defender James Frawley will be missing from the AFL for up to a month with a hamstring injury.
It’s a major blow for the Demons leading into Saturday’s bottom-of-the-table clash with winless Greater Western Sydney.
Frawley would have been a likely opponent for Giants young gun Jeremy Cameron, who booted seven goals against Collingwood on Saturday.
The Melbourne defender sustained the injury during Saturday’s crushing 122-point loss to North Melbourne.
Demons football manager Josh Mahoney said Frawley was expected to miss three or four games.
Melbourne will be hoping fellow backman Colin Garland can prove he’s ready to return from an ankle injury to replace Frawley for the Giants clash.