Out of the extended bench I cant see Melbourne playing Bate and Petterd, and as good as Bate's game was last week for Casey (according to reports) I think I'd still prefer Petterd out of the two. He has a wee bit more to his game then Bate. But Im assuming Bartram will come into the side. Will be annoyed if this is at the hands of Strauss. The guy needs more than one game to get going.

Cloke , Dawes and Brown could really test us for size down back and thought maybe warnock could have come in to the squad for a bit more size.. obviously we need to win it out of the middle to nullify this and maybe we can get an advantage with some run out of the backline. Ijust geta tad nervous about Rivers lining up on the real big blokes even as good as his form has been..

Cloke , Dawes and Brown could really test us for size down back and thought maybe warnock could have come in to the squad for a bit more size.. obviously we need to win it out of the middle to nullify this and maybe we can get an advantage with some run out of the backline. Ijust geta tad nervous about Rivers lining up on the real big blokes even as good as his form has been..

I don't think so too much - you have Rivers go to Cloke, Frawl to Dawes and have Watts and Martin rotate off Brown depending on where he is going. Probably Martin, as we have the Max Factor around the ground.