Richmond vs GWS @ Marvel Stadium --- Round 22, 2021

[one-eyed]

According to Eddie we're possibly heading to Darwin to play the Giants in round 22.

AFL wants to get a game up there in Darwin. Initially thoughts were it was going to be Melbourne vs Adelaide. However, the AFL wants a GWS home game as the Giants will then get the money to make up for the loss of their Canberra home games this year.

[cub]

Where's our makeup games ???????

[Knighter]

stuff you AFL!

[WilliamPowell]

I was a tad bit excited at the prospect of a trip to Darwin. Would mean seeing family

But now we are going back into lockdown no hope of getting there now

[mightytiges]

Hard to see it being played outside of Victoria let alone Darwin now unless the NT govt sets up a week long bubble for both sides up there like we had in WA before the Freo game. Can see this match now being played at Docklands, Kardinia Park or even Ballarat.

[mightytiges]

Garry Lyon reckons he's heard that this will be next Friday night.

[WilliamPowell]

Garry Lyon reckons he's heard that this will be next Friday night.

 John Ralph from the HUN tweeted it this morning

No confirmation yet though

[mightytiges]

Garry Lyon reckons he's heard that this will be next Friday night.

 John Ralph from the HUN tweeted it this morning

No confirmation yet though

Cheers WP  .

[Andyy]

8 point game!

[one-eyed]

Greene offered two weeks by the MRO but the Giants are appealing.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/660394/-this-was-a-football-action-giants-appeal-greene-ban

[WilliamPowell]

Greene offered two weeks by the MRO but the Giants are appealing.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/660394/-this-was-a-football-action-giants-appeal-greene-ban

And based on the Fritsch decision earlier in the season he should get off

Fritsch shouldn't have got off but did so the precedent has been set by the tribunal

[one-eyed]

Locked in by the AFL for Friday night according Jon Ralph on Fox Footy.

[one-eyed]

... Friday night’s blockbuster against eighth-placed Greater Western Sydney at Marvel Stadium

The Giants, who trained at the Tigers’ Punt Rd headquarters on Monday, had asked the AFL that the pivotal clash not be held at the MCG, where the Tigers have been traditionally been so strong but have won only four of their 10 matches there this season.

The Tigers have won two of the three games they have played at Marvel Stadium in 2021 despite coach Damien Hardwick declaring after the four-point win over the Giants in round nine that: “I hate coming here”.

Balme said the Tigers will approach Friday night “as if it was a final”.

“The ground doesn’t win you the game, the players win the game,” he said.

Source: The Age

[Tiger Khosh]

Prefer it isn’t at the G. We’ve been horrible there this season.

[one-eyed]

GWS will be without Brent Daniels for at least a month after the small forward injured his hamstring against the Cats.

But the Giants but could be spoiled for choice at the selection table this week, with seven players facing fitness tests ahead of the crucial match against Richmond.

Jacob Hopper (concussion), Phil Davis (concussion), Sam Reid (ankle), Daniel Lloyd (ankle), Stephen Coniglio (toe) and Adam Kennedy (hamstring) could all be available for selection if they pass fitness tests, while Bobby Hill is also a chance to return after spending 14 days in quarantine before joining the team late last week.

Josh Kelly (quad), Shane Mumford (managed), Jesse Hogan (managed) and Jeremy Finlayson (managed) all weren’t listed on the Giants’ official injury list, so they loom as possible inclusions.

Irish defender Callum Brown will also miss two weeks with a hamstring injury.

Rising Star favourite Tom Green is still one to two weeks away from returning from his hamstring injury.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-injury-news-2021-casualty-ward-after-round-21-injury-list-patrick-dangerfield-josh-bruce-harry-mckay-callum-mills/news-story/3f1fb81b5def25eed602e15c6a19c67a