IN: Clurey
OUT: Skinner, Frederick
TOM CLUREY has been named to return to the Port Adelaide line-up for the important Round 4 clash with Melbourne on Thursday night.
Clurey had a minor knee clean-out following the club’s pre-season win over Adelaide and has been training strongly recently to prove he is ready to play his first game of the 2022 season.
He is the sole change to the side which lost a heartbreaker after the siren in Showdown LI with fellow backman Sam Skinner dropping out.
Skinner was subbed out of that game with an ankle injury. He will train again on Thursday with a hope he will be available to play in the SANFL against his former side South Adelaide on Saturday.
Last week’s medical substitute, Martin Frederick has again been named as an emergency, along with Miles Bergman, Sam Hayes and Trent Dumont.
Bergman has not featured at AFL level since an off-season shoulder operation while Hayes and Dumont have yet to make their AFL debuts for the club.
The medical substitute will be named from among the emergencies before the first bounce.
The game against the Demons will get underway at 7:10pm.
Round 4 Team Selection
B: R. Burton 3 T. McKenzie 12 Clurey 17
HB: R. Bonner 26 T. Jonas -C 1 D. Byrne-Jones 33
C: D. Houston 5 O. Wines 16 K. Amon 15
HF: Z. Butters 18 M. Georgiades 19 C. Rozee 20
F: S. Mayes 32 T. Marshall 4 S. Powell-Pepper 2
Foll: S. Lycett 29 W. Drew 28 T. Boak 10
I/C: S. Motlop 6 L. Jones 34 J. McEntee 41 J. Mead 44
Emerg: M. Bergman 14, S. Hayes 25, T. Dumont 43, M. Frederick 45
