I believe Fremantle will continue their winning streak this weekend against the Orange Tsunami.

Here are three factors to that streak continuing.

1. Find a match for Jackson

It is getting to the stage where teams need to start omitting their slow and lumbering rucks. Slow rucks who don’t or cannot move are not the answer to halting Luke Jackson, they are the problem, and Kieren Briggs is about to become another notch on Jackson’s belt.

Leek Aleer is the best option and has some physical attributes to match Jackson. It should have been Mac Andrew last week and Mark Blicavs the week prior. Jackson will dominate.

2. Limit Sam Taylor

Patrick Voss has done jobs successfully on James Sicily, Harris Andrews and Callum Wilkie and Sam Taylor shapes as a similar target. The Swan Districts product, in my opinion, is the best defender in the game. He’s slowly making his way back to full health after a significant hamstring injury in the State of Origin match.

Taylor has many times has singlehandedly kept the Giants in games over the years, both defensively and offensively intercepting. Taylor will have his hands full with the Dockers’ big three, but don’t get beaten by what you know. Taylor needs to be monitored and distracted by Voss.

3. Allow Ash and Whitfield to rack and stack

It sounds silly allowing two of their better players to accumulate the football, but when going back and forth waxing the ball, they reduce the chance of the Orange Tsunami beginning to launch off half back and becoming dangerous. Lachie Whitfield and Lachie Ash find the football as well as anyone, but their accumulation can transform the tsunami into a ripple. If the Fremantle defence is lax, the half backline will slice and dice any opposition. A good team defence will stunt the Giants and they will fall into bad habits of chipping the ball around.