GWS faces must-win match

EVERY home and away win is worth four points but occasionally there are matches which are worth more. The Giants have one of these on Saturday night at Spotless Stadium when they take on Richmond.

GWS fell from sixth to 10th on the back of their loss to the Eagles and this weekend’s clash with the premiership favourite is the perfect match to reignite their campaign.

They need to go the full Carpe Diem and seize the season which is in grave danger of slipping away. The Eagles loss was a missed chance but, within minutes of the final siren, Leon Cameron had already turned his focus to the Tigers.

“Richmond is a huge challenge,” Cameron said.

“They are clearly the yardstick and it sorts you out. We look forward to that, taking them on at our home ground on Saturday night in Sydney.”

Cameron may have found a match up for Tigers red-hot full-forward Jack Riewoldt in a player who has played just five games, Sam Taylor.

Taylor won his duel on Sunday with one of the game’s superstars in Jeremy McGovern.

“We will continue to throw Sam big challenges because he’s a player who can step up to the plate on those challenges,” Cameron said.

“He’s only playing his fifth game and we had the confidence to play him on McGovern, he was absolutely fantastic. The duel there from a fifth-game player with a superstar of the competition we are really rapt with.”

The Giants coach is also backing his makeshift forward line which is without six of their leading goal-kickers from last year, including their first four, Jeremy Cameron (suspended), Jonathon Patton (injured), Toby Greene (injured) and Steve Johnson (retired).

“Harry Himmelberg was terrific,” Cameron said.

“He stood up and manfully played that position. For a young third-year player, I thought he was absolutely outstanding. I thought Lobb gave us a target. We didn’t have the cohesion that we did with Cameron, Greene and Patton like we had for three or four seasons in a row. We front up again next week and it’s another game with Langdon, Lobb, Himmelberg, Griffen and de Boer together. Each game you play you get better cohesion.”

By way of comparison, Richmond had nine of its top 10 goal-kickers from last year in its easy win over Adelaide in the Grand-Final rematch.