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The Richmond Tigers have fallen devastatingly short of claiming a massive scalp, allowing Geelong to record a come-from-behind win at the MCG on Sunday.
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Final score
Richmond Tigers 12.6.78
Geelong Cats 10.22.82
The Geelong Cats will look to keep up a winning pace when they face the Richmond Tigers at the MCG on Sunday afternoon. Join The Roar for live scores from the match and a blog of the game, starting from 3:20pm (AEST).
While this match looks to skewed heavily in the favour of the Cats, one of the subplots at work that may prove more interesting than the result itself will be the battle of Patrick Dangerfield and Dustin Martin, who look to be the two front-runners for the Brownlow Medal at this point.
Dangerfield is the clear favourite for the medal at this point and the likely eventually winner. He is currently priced at $1.53 with betting companies, while Martin is the next best option but is out to $7 odds.
Rory Sloane is probably the only other player really in the conversation this year – Dangerfield and Martin feels like a virtual certainty to be the top two and while Dangerfield is almost certainly in the lead at this point there are still three weeks left for Martin to cause an upset.
A thoroughly better performance than Dangerfield here today would be a great start towards that, so let’s see if he can pull it off.
Regarding team news we’ve got a couple of changes this week for either side. Richmond have dropped Adam Marcon and will be missing Ben Griffiths through injury, Shane Edwards and Ben Lennon are their inclusions into the 22.
The Cats will be missing Daniel Menzel and Nakia Cockatoo through injury, while Andrew Mackie is being managed and Jed Bews has been dropped. Their inclusions are: Jake Kolodjashnij, Lincoln McCarthy, Shane Kersten and Tom Ruggles.
Prediction
The Cats should win this one comfortably, they’re a better side and have more reason to win.
Cats by 36.
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Preview by Josh Elliott.
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