MELBOURNEhas added three players to its squad for Sunday’s clash against the West CoastEagles at the MCG.
TheDemons have included pacy trio Sam Blease, Dean Kent and Michael Evans, buthave yet to make any changes.
Kent,Evans and Blease have been named on the seven-man bench.
Melbournehas also named forward Shannon Byrnes, midfielder Matt Jones, first-year DemonJay Kennedy-Harris and ex-Docker Viv Michie on its extended interchange.
The22 will be announced on Friday afternoon.
Butmanager of football operations Josh Mahoney said Blease, Evans and Kent wereright in the mix for a call-up.
“We’vehad some good performers at Casey, including Blease, Evans and Kent, who havebeen added to the squad, and they are putting pressure on other guys in theteam,” he told melbournefc.com.au.
“Overall,we were happy with the effort and some of the key statistics to come from lastweekend’s game [against St Kilda].
“Butwe are in a very similar position to last week, with a lack of tall playersavailable to play in key positions.
“Theplayers have still got to get through the main training session tomorrow(Friday), so all things going well we won’t have to make too many changes.”
Ruckman/forwardMax Gawn, who was flagged as a likely inclusion earlier in the week, was notselected due to hamstring soreness.
“MaxGawn had some good form at Casey over the last few weeks, but followingtraining he pulled up a bit sore in his hamstring and we won’t be risking himfor this week’s game,” Mahoney said.
TheDemons will be aiming to notch up their first win of the season and end afive-game losing streak against the Eagles.
Itwill also be Melbourne’s first home game of the season at the MCG.
Thematch starts at 3.20pm.
Melbourne squad: round two
B:Lynden Dunn, James Frawley, Alex Georgiou
HB:Jack Grimes, Tom McDonald, Dean Terlich
C:Jack Trengove, Dom Tyson, Daniel Cross
HF:Jack Watts, Cam Pedersen, Jimmy Toumpas
F:Jeremy Howe, Jack Fitzpatrick, Rohan Bail
FOLL:Jake Spencer, Nathan Jones, Bernie Vince
I/C(from): Shannon Byrnes, Matt Jones, Jay Kennedy-Harris, Viv Michie, Dean Kent,Michael Evans, Sam Blease
IN:Sam Blease, Dean Kent, Michael Evans
OUT:–
