Melbourne are going through a tricky choice name between Ben Brown and Tom McDonald because the alternative for Harrison Petty within the AFL top-four conflict with Port Adelaide.
Petty, a premiership-winning tall defender, has been dominated out for a minimum of a month with a foot harm after impressing in his new position in assault this season.
He kicked two targets in Saturday’s huge win over Hawthorn earlier than being substituted out at half-time.
The harm setback opens the door for normal forwards Brown and McDonald, who’ve performed simply three and 4 senior video games respectively this season.
Brown kicked 9 targets within the opening three weeks earlier than he was briefly sidelined by a again harm and misplaced his spot within the facet.
McDonald has not performed since a goalless, six-disposal effort within the round-five loss to Essendon, which adopted a four-goal haul in opposition to West Coast every week earlier.
“One of those guys will probably get their chance this week,” Demons coach Simon Goodwin instructed Fox Footy.
“Part of this season is about exploring.
“We need to proceed to be a group that will get higher via the yr and considered one of our explorations was round Harrison and his capacity to play ahead.
“We’ve liked what we’ve seen so far, so we would’ve liked to have seen that a bit more, but we get a look at a different mix this week.”
Young ahead Jacob van Rooyen is more likely to maintain his spot in Melbourne’s facet, with ruck duo Max Gawn and Brodie Grundy additionally presenting marking targets in assault.
While Petty has been sidelined, the Demons breathed an enormous sigh of aid when scans cleared star midfielder Christian Petracca of great ankle injury after the win over Hawthorn.
“You get concerned when one of your better players is down but he’s fine,” Goodwin stated.
“He ran today, he’ll fully train (on Tuesday) and he’ll be fully available.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
