Injuries and player unavailability has plagued both the Giants and Tigers this year, causing them to be inconsistent, but impressive at their best. As part of this, both sides are allowing the most marks inside 50 to be taken on them, with 7.6 each week.

At times, an inability to slow opposition ball movement higher up the field has left their backlines out to dry as key forwards have found aerial control. Another key to this metric is defences always remaining switched on, not assuming that they can take a rest as an opposition player lines up for goal. We saw the Giants caught out in this respect more than once last week. 

Richmond's efficiency inside 50 is also a concern for the Giants. The Tigers average a goal 21.7 per cent of the time they go inside 50, while GWS concedes the most shots on goal (16.8) and shot efficiency (52.3 per cent) of any team this year.

If they are to combat Richmond's efficiency, the Giants need to apply pressure high up the field and not allow the Tigers any easy ball movement in the forward half. This will really come down to whoever can control territory better.