IT will be 651 days between AFL games for Jarrad Redden when he pulls on Port Adelaide’s teal NAB Challenge guernsey on Saturday.
The ruckman has been selected for his first game since Round 10, 2013 when the Power lost to the Bulldogs up in Darwin.
He has been named in the Power’s 29-man squad to take on Richmond in Albury on Saturday afternoon.
The game will serve as a valuable opportunity to test the mettle of some of the Power’s newest recruits and younger players.
Mitch Harvey, Darcy Byrne-Jones and Tom Logan will play their first games of this year’s NAB Challenge, while Sam Russell, Dougal Howard, Jesse Palmer and Johann Wagner, are set to make their first appearance at the elite level.
This will be one of the Power’s youngest and least experienced teams in recent memory, with the omission of Boak, Ebert, Hamish Hartlett, Robbie Gray, Kane Cornes, Alipate Carlile, Jay Schulz and Justin Westhoff.
Port Adelaide NAB Challenge squad of 29 v Richmond
2. Kane Mitchell
3. Jake Neade
5. Matthew Broadbent
11. John Butcher
13. Cameron O’Shea
14. Paul Stewart
15. Karl Amon
16. Oliver Wines
17. Tom Clurey
19. Matt White
21. Jared Polec
23. Matthew Lobbe
24. Jarman Impey
26. Andrew Moore
29. Jasper Pittard
31. Mitchell Harvey
32. Dougal Howard
33. Darcy Byrne-Jones
34. Jarrad Redden
36. Jack Hombsch
37. Jesse Palmer
40. Aaron Young
41. Brendon Ah Chee
42. Tom Jonas
43. Johann Wagner
44. Tom Logan
46. Sam Gray
47. Sam Russell
48. Nathan Krakouer
In: Polec, Broadbent, Hombsch, Russell, Logan, Wagner, Palmer, Redden, Byrne-Jones, Howard, Harvey
Out: Boak, Ebert, Hartlett, Gray, Cornes, Carlile, Schulz, Westhoff
