After we beat Essendon last year, we were quietly confident about the Queens Birthday fixture. After all ... they had a few great midfielders out and we made no change.

MELBOURNE

Backs Dan Nicholson James Frawley Joel Macdonald

Half backs Cale Morton Jared Rivers James Strauss

Centrelin Tom Scully Brent Moloney Liam Jurrah

Half forwards Jeremy Howe Jack Watts Jordan Gysberts

Forwards Jamie Bennell Colin Sylvia Brad Green

Followers Stef Martin Jack Trengove Jordie McKenzie

Interchange Michael Evans Max Gawn Neville Jetta Nathan Jones

Emergencies Clint Bartram Matthew Bate Ricky Petterd

No change

COLLINGWOOD

Backs Leon Davis Ben Reid Heritier O'Brien

Half backs Alan Toovey Nick Maxwell Heath Shaw

Centreline Tyson Goldsack Steele Sidebottom Sharrod Wellingham

Half forwards Chris Tarrant Chris Dawes Andrew Krakouer

Forwards Alan Didak Travis Cloke Leigh Brown

Followers Cameron Wood Scott Pendlebury Luke Ball

Interchange (from) Jarryd Blair Simon Buckley Alex Fasolo John McCarthy

Emergencies Brad Dick Luke Rounds Tom Young

In Jarryd Blair Simon Buckley Alex Fasolo

Out Dayne Beams (foot) Dane Swan (soreness) Dale Thomas (suspended)

their outs last time were similarly as bad as they will have again this year.

Im hoping for a pretty big effort - after the win against the bombers, and the preseason win against the pies, plus leigh brown and Neeld's knowledge, im hoping for another upset!!

need to hit them hard and hope for rain hehe

Yeah, Id forgotten wed beat them in the PS. There was something that we did in the 1st Q on Sat that seemed to rattle Essendon and they seemed rattled for the whole game. If we could just get the Pies a little rattled early on......