Port Adelaide ruckman Scott Lycett is ready to return to tackle imposing Melbourne duo Max Gawn and Brodie Grundy within the two sides’ AFL top-four showdown.
Lycett has not performed a senior sport since spherical 5 due to again soreness after a heavy fall.
But the bodily 30-year-old impressed within the SANFL final week, whereas six-game tall Brynn Teakle was crushed by North Melbourne’s Todd Goldstein on the high degree.
Both might play in opposition to Melbourne at Adelaide Oval on Friday evening, with key ahead Todd Marshall dominated out by means of concussion.
The Power sit fourth and are on a six-match profitable streak heading into the conflict with the second-placed Demons, who’ve received their previous 4 video games.
“Brynn’s been doing really well – he’s a young, developing ruckman who hasn’t played much footy at all – and we’ve got Scott Lycett back as well this week,” Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley informed Fox Footy.
“He played a game back in the SANFL on the weekend and played quite well.
“Rightly you ask the ruck query as a result of we’re developing in opposition to an awesome duo and it will be an actual problem for our boys, whoever takes the reins.”
Marshall will miss a second game through concussion in the space of three weeks following a head clash with North Melbourne’s Curtis Taylor.
“It’s unlucky. Both concussions have come about from Todd’s personal doing as a lot as something and he stated that himself,” Hinkley stated.
“He’s fairly effectively. He’s not unwell in any approach apart from he is now confronted his second concussion in three weeks.
“His energy to get after the opposition is really high and he said to me when he came off the ground, ‘I dropped a mark and that was my problem, I got my head on and went a bit crazy and charged at the next opportunity’.
“He’s simply acquired to be taught to not lead together with his head just a little bit however the principle factor is that he is effectively.”
Hinkley said Port Adelaide would take extra care with Marshall given it is his second concussion in a short space of time.
“He’ll undergo the concussion protocols, as any participant has to now, and do the correct factor and we’ll truly even lengthen these checks to ensure,” Hinkley stated.
“We’ll ensure we do every little thing we should always to get him returning to the sector in good well being.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
