THE POWER will field a substantially different side on Saturday night after making five changes through suspensions, injury and unforced omission.
Robbie Gray (hamstring) and Chad Wingard (concussion) will miss the game through injury.
Gray injured his hamstring at the Power’s main training session on Wednesday night, while Wingard was not cleared by club doctors to return from a delayed concussion suffered after last weekend’s loss to Geelong.
Meanwhile both Karl Amon and Matthew Lobbe have been omitted from the team, with Jackson Trengove to miss through a one-game suspension.
Brendon Ah Chee, Dougal Howard, Jarman Impey, Nathan Krakouer and Jared Polec will all return to the side.
Port Adelaide Round 6 team v Richmond
Saturday 30 April, MCG, 7.25pm (AEST)
IN: Ah Chee, Howard, Impey, Krakouer, Polec
OUT: Amon, Lobbe (omitted), R. Gray (hamstring), Wingard (concussion), Trengove (suspension)
MILESTONES: Polec - 50 AFL Games (includes 16 games at Brisbane Lions)
Big changes for Magpies too
Lobbe and Amon will play for the Magpies against Sturt in a crucial game for Chad Cornes’s charges.
The Magpies sit at 1-3 for the season and are hunting an important scalp.
They will be joined by midfielder Kane Mitchell – returning from suspension – along with Nathan Rudloff and Sean Davidson.
Tom Corcoran, Tom Gray and Zac Hawkins have been named on the extended bench for Sunday, which will be shaved to three players on match day.
Port Adelaide Round 6 SANFL team v Sturt
Sunday 1 May, Peter Motley Oval, 2.10pm (local)
IN: Mitchell, Lobbe, Amon, Rudloff, Corcoran, T. Gray, Davidson, Hawkins
OUT: Howard, Impey, Polec, Ah Chee, Krakouer (AFL), Snelling (Foot)
Port Adelaide Round 6 Academy team v Sturt
Sunday 1 May, Peter Motley Oval, 11.25pm (local)
FB: Williams, Wheadon, Harris
HB: Hollingworth-Hughes, Cooper, Tylor
C: Miller, K. Dixon, Northeast
HF: Roads, Morgan, Clements
FF: Smith, Agius, Cameron
Foll: Phelps, Proude, Barreau
Interchange from: Glover
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