Aaron Naughton will spearhead the Western Bulldogs’ assault as Luke Beveridge’s costs try to show over a rejuvenated Fremantle for a second time this season.
The Bulldogs beat the Dockers by 49 factors in Perth in spherical six and can lean into that triumph at Marvel Stadium on Saturday.
Naughton booted three targets in opposition to the Dockers that day, and Beveridge intends to maintain the 23-year-old up ahead, moderately than filling a spot down again.
Ryan Gardner and James O’Donnell have been recalled to interchange injured key backs Liam Jones and Tim O’Brien, after Naughton stepped up once they went down damage in the course of the round-14 win in opposition to North Melbourne.
“Naughts did a pretty good job going down there and spending some time for us against North, which wasn’t ideal,” Beveridge instructed reporters on Friday.
“He’d kicked a couple and was going alright in the first half (but) sometimes you’ve got to rob Peter to pay Paul.
“We’re grateful that he and Bailey Williams on the evening have been capable of present some stability down there. It was a troublesome evening ultimately.
“Aaron is such an important player for us forward of the ball and he’s still a very young key forward, he’s only 23.
“If you requested the opposite 17 golf equipment, ‘Where would you moderately Aaron Naughton play?’, they’d in all probability say, ‘In the Western Bulldogs’ backline’.
“So we won’t. We won’t allow Freo that luxury.”
Beveridge plans to take loads out of April’s win over the Dockers, regardless of going through a plethora of injury-enforced personnel adjustments and a clearly improved Fremantle.
“We’ve been searching for a similar application to what we produced in Perth that night,” Beveridge stated.
“It was probably our best game for the year and Fremantle have probably acknowledged that and have said that they didn’t feel like they were at their best.
“This sport is all the time round shackles – the shackles you may placed on groups and the shackles you may break.
“If we can have a really strong blend of being able to restrict and then break the opposition’s shackles, that’s what we’re after.
“They’re the margins we have got to make up as a result of in opposition to everybody, there is a problem there and Fremantle shall be after retribution.
“We’ve got to be ready for their intensity.
“(The round-six win) will not be irrelevant, and it is within the reminiscence banks. It’s a superb one to remind us what we’re able to.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
