Ten players have the chance to play their first game for the Dees 2014

Bernie Vince, Jesse Hogan, Dom Tyson, Daniel Cross, Viv Michie, Jay Kennedy-Harris, Jayden Hunt, Aiden Riley, Christian Salem and Dom Barry

My thoughts:

Players who will be in the 22. Bernie Vince, Jesse Hogan, Dom Tyson, Daniel Cross

Players considered Viv Michie, JKH and Dom Barry.

Barring injury Hogan, Cross, Tyson and Vince play round 1. Michie if he doesn't play round 1 (I'm pretty sure he will) then he'll play in the first couple of months. Aidan Riley will play if he can get back to his SANFL form where he was a clearance machine and racked up decent numbers of touches but first he has to get fit. But I'm pretty confident at some stage he'll play.

Salem, Hunt, Barry and you can add in Harmes as well will depend on form of the team as much as their form. If the team is relatively healthy putting in consistently then it will probably take outstanding performances in the VFL.

Kennedy-Harris is a bit different because he can play a specialist position that doesn't have any solid depth and because he could make a good sub he remains better than 50/50 I'd say to get a shot, but we haven't even seen him play against men yet.

Georgiou also depends on injuries to tall and medium defenders. Multiple injuries at those positions and he will almost have to be picked. But he should be aiming to exert pressure on selectors with his VFL form anyway.

Judging by his body shape and running/munting effort I'd say young Max King is a long way off but for a 200+cm ruck/forward that's not a concern.

So I'm tipping at least 6 new faces with a lot featuring in multiple games to go with 7 from last year (Dawes, Kent, Toumpas, Viney, Terlich, Matt Jones, Clisby)

Good topic ATJ.

David Parkin used to say it was important even for a premiership to have the capacity to bring in five ready made players in a new season and, given where we've been, it's also important for us to make changes. I agree that Tyson, Vince, Cross and Hogan are virtual certainties, fitness permitting. Michie, Kennedy-Harris and Salem would probably be the next in line.

The master has listed seven new faces from last year but you can make that eight because, although not everyone's popular choice, Cam Pedersen might come into the picture as a possible replacement for Garland if he's not ready to go.

Good topic ATJ.

David Parkin used to say it was important even for a premiership to have the capacity to bring in five ready made players in a new season and, given where we've been, it's also important for us to make changes. I agree that Tyson, Vince, Cross and Hogan are virtual certainties, fitness permitting. Michie, Kennedy-Harris and Salem would probably be the next in line.

The master has listed seven new faces from last year but you can make that eight because, although not everyone's popular choice, Cam Pedersen might come into the picture as a possible replacement for Garland if he's not ready to go.

Pedersen has been training with the forward group for the entirety of the pre-season, so I doubt he'll act as cover for Garland.