AFL Oracle: There's always one! Which of last year's bottom five is September-bound in 2024?
We’ve had our appetites whetted by a host of practice games and the Community Series, and now the AFL’s season proper is just days…
Melbourne have stormed back into the AFL’s top four with a percentage-boosting 96-point annihilation of Gold Coast at the MCG.
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Final score
Melbourne Demons 21.17.143
Gold Coast Suns 7.5.47
The Melbourne Demons look set to give the Gold Coast Suns a thumping of the likes they’ve often seen when the two sides meet.
Join The Roar for live scores from the match in Round 20 of the 2018 AFL season at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday afternoon, starting from 3:20pm AEST.
Melbourne have certainly had an up-and-down season in 2018, a state of affairs they are not unfamiliar with, however they are poised to make their first finals appearance in a decade.
Although it looks like a pretty straightforward contest, this match is of vital importance as it’s their last chance to bank an easy win before what will be a challenging finish to the season.
After today Melbourne have matches against Sydney, West Coast and GWS to close out the season – there’s no guarantee they’ll find more premiership points there.
The good news for them is that they have an excellent percentage, which they can hope to make better still today.
Gold Coast, on the other hand, were very disappointing last week, failing to back up what looked like a breakthrough win the week prior against Sydney.
They had an excellent opportunity to notch two wins in a row, but were flat and uninspiring when they hosted Carlton at Metricon Stadium.
Things are worse this week – they’ve lost Steven May to suspension, David Swallow and Rory Thompson to injury, and bizarrely have made the call to drop Jarryd Lyons.
That means former Magpie Jarrod Witts will captain the club in just his 37th game for the side.
Prediction
This won’t be pretty.
Melbourne Demons by 78 points.
Join The Roar for live scores from the match between the Melbourne Demons and the Gold Coast Suns in Round 20 of the 2018 AFL season at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday afternoon, starting from 3:20pm AEST.