Gold Coast squad looks strong, Brisbane looks less strong

BRISBANE LIONS Ryan Harwood, Sam Sheldon, Jared Polec, Billy Longer, Joshua Green, Jed Adcock, Bryce Retzlaff, Ashley McGrath, Pearce Hanley, James Hawksley, Jonathan Brown, Claye Beams, Todd Banfield, Jordan Lisle, Simon Black, Ben Hudson, Matthew Leuenberger, Joel Patfull, Richard Newell, Elliot Yeo, Patrick Karnezis, Jack Redden, James Polkinghorne, Cheynee Stiller, Amon Buchanan, Jesse O'Brien, Ryan Lester, Matt Maguire, Tom Rockliff, Mitchell Golby, Rohan Bewick, Aaron Cornelius, Brad Harvey, Jack Crisp.

GOLD COAST Jaeger O'Meara, Zac Smith, Jared Brennan, Maverick Weller, Jarrod Harbrow, Alik Magin, Karmichael Hunt, Luke Russell, Gary Ablett, Harley Bennell, Hayden Jolly, Matthew Warnock, Piers Flanagan, Josh Fraser, Jeremy Taylor, Charlie Dixon, David Swallow, Matt Shaw, Campbell Brown, Jackson Allen, Aaron Hall, Michael Rischitelli, Sam Iles, Alex Sexton, Joel Wilkinson, Dion Prestia, Kyal Horsley, Liam Patrick, Nathan Bock, Steven May, Daniel Gorringe, Seb Tape, Jacob Gillbee, Andrew McQualter,

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With 29 going that means 15 play both games and 7 swap in and out

My 15 for both games would be:

2 Nathan Jones

3 Clint Bartram

4 Jack Watts

7 Jamie Bennell

8 James Frawley

11 Mitch Clark

12 Colin Sylvia

16 Jack Grimes

18 Brad Green

20 Colin Garland

22 Brent Moloney

27 Jared Rivers

36 Aaron Davey

38 Jeremy Howe

40 Mark Jamar

I'd be really surprised if Sylvia (has missed a lot of training), Davey (see Sylvia, and knee heavily strapped), and Jamar (it's a long season) play both games. We might also give Green, our oldest player, an easy night.

GC have a decent slab of outs, as do Brisbane. Think Brown will only play one game ... against us I would imagine.

FWIW, majority of supporters of both teams are expecting to win against us.

All the changes and work of the off-season are behind us, the question now is, can they put it out there on the field? Will be interesting.

I'll personally be gutted with 2 losses tomorrow night. I don't expect 110% noone does it in the NAB Cup but the beauty of having a first year coach is that first impressions last and NAB or not he'll want a strong first impression.

Think few things of note tomorrow will be gameplan which from reading I'm led to believe will be very much boundary orientated and secondly which players Neeld has chosen to be role players (eg L.Davis at pies as defensive qb)

So excited already