Fremantle aims to rebound from a Round 8 horror show against a Collingwood side whose match committee has opted to rest a trio of stars on Thursday night.
The Dockers (4-4, 97.2 per cent) are coming off a gruesome 61-point defeat at the hands of St Kilda and will surely come with added intensity on their home deck.
Meanwhile, the travelling Magpies (6-2, 133.2 per cent), off a five-day break following last Saturday’s nailbiting loss to Geelong, have managed Scott Pendlebury, Jordan de Goey and Brayden Maynard, while Brody Mihocek is lost to injury.
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But dual North Melbourne premiership player David King doesn’t think the Pies quite got their management right.
“I think they’ve (managed players) over two games, that’s my problem. They managed minutes last week and lost the game, and then they’re managing this game,” King told Fox Footy’s First Crack Preview.
“If they had their time again, they’d take all their punishment and pain in one round, not two. That’s easy to do in hindsight, but I think next year they would do it in one week.”
Jeremy Howe was managed against Geelong and comes back in to play Freo alongside Ed Allan, Lachie Sullivan and Oleg Markov.
Meanwhile, Justin Longmuir’s Dockers, a fledgling 4-4 on the season and losers of two of their past three, have axed Josh Draper and Quinton Narkle and unfortunately lost Hayden Young to a serious hamstring injury.
In turn, Patrick Voss, Neil Erasmus and Cooper Simpson have earned recalls, with Voss set to bolster the side’s key-position flexibility after serving his three-match suspension.
Craig McRae’s Collingwood is undefeated in its past four clashes with Fremantle, but it came ever so close to losing in the sides’ most recent clash — a draw in late May of last year.
The first bounce is set for 6:10pm local time (8:10 AEST), with the final teams and starting substitutes to be announced an hour beforehand.
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