ALL-AUSTRALIAN defenders Chelsea Randall and Jess Duffin will make their long-awaited returns to footy during Sunday's practice matches.
Adelaide's Randall (ACL) will also be joined by fellow returnee Jess Sedunary, who spent the 2020 season with St Kilda before going back to South Australia.
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The Crows will field all three of their draftees – Teah Charlton, Rachelle Martin and former Demon Ash Woodland – as well as recruits Hannah Munyard and Lisa Whiteley, but Chloe Scheer (knee) is still sidelined.
Whiteley will be facing her former side GWS, which will also have plenty of new faces, including Irish rookie Bríd Stack, star draftee Tarni Evans and former WNBL player Erin Todd.
We'll have to wait a little longer for an Allan sister face-off, as Giants ruck Jess (army commitments in Canberra) has not been named to play against sister Sarah. Britt Tully and Katherine Smith (knee injuries) join her on the sidelines, with all three hoping to play in round one.
With Lou Stephenson still in Sydney completing her firefighting training, Inner West Magpie and former VFLW Hawk Pip Peschke - a small contested mid/forward - has joined the club as an interim replacement player.
Duffin sat out North Melbourne's 2020 season, giving birth to baby Georgie in June, and will be a welcome return for the Roos.
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She will be joined by five fresh faces in the blue and white stripes: Bella Eddey, Alice O'Loughlin, father-daughter selection Amy Smith, Brooke Brown and Georgia Hammond.
Opponent Collingwood will trial six newbies against the Roos, including its own father-daughter pick in Tarni Brown, the daughter of former captain Gavin.
Former Dee Aliesha Newman will pull on the Magpie jumper for the first time, while Ash Brazill (ACL), Abbey Green (knee), Sarah Rowe and Kirsty Stratton won't play.
*All matches are closed to the public
Sunday January 17
Collingwood v North Melbourne at Ikon Park
COLLINGWOOD
1 S Layton 2 C Molloy 3 B Davey 5 A Velardo 6 J Allen 8 B Bonnici 9 A Porter 11 I Purcell 12 S Livingstone 13 J Lambert 14 A Sheridan 15 E Fowler 16 A Newman 17 S Chiocci 18 R Schleicher 19 B Smith 20 J Lin 22 S Casey 23 L Butler 24 S Alexander 25 M Cann 26 T Brown 35 M Shevlin 40 A Moloney 50 E O'Dea
NORTH MELBOURNE
1 S Abbatangelo 3 B Eddey 5 K Gillespie-Jones 6 A O'Loughlin 7 A Riddell 8 A Gilroy 9 E Kearney 10 K Ashmore 11 D Bateman 12 N Bresnehan 15 A Smith 16 T Randall 17 S Wright 18 B Gibson 19 J Grierson 20 B Lynch 22 E Gavalas 23 M King 24 T Nestor 25 J Garner 27 J Duffin 31 D Hardiman 35 J Bruton 36 B Brown 39 V Saad 44 G Hammond 60 E King
Adelaide v Greater Western Sydney at Norwood Oval
ADELAIDE
1 C Gould 2 E Jones 3 A Foley 5 R Martin 6 H Button 7 N Gore 8 N Allen 10 E Marinoff 11 R Metcalfe 12 C Biddell 13 E Phillips 14 S Thompson 15 D Ponter 16 A Considine 17 M Newman 19 J Sedunary 20 H Munyard 21 M McKinnon 22 L Whiteley 23 J Mules 24 A Woodland 25 T Charlton 26 C Randall 27 R Forth 32 M Rajcic 33 A Hatchard 39 S Allan
GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY
1 E Goodsir 2 A Eva 3 A Parker 5 J Hicks 6 R Beeson 7 J Dal Pos 8 N Barr 9 T Hetherington 11 A Schmidt 12 P Peschke 13 C Staunton 14 A Lister 15 B Stack 16 T Davies 17 G Garnett 18 T Evans 19 R Privitelli 20 L Steane 21 P Randall 22 E Bennetts 23 E McKinnon 24 H Zrieka 25 E Todd 30 S Halvorson 32 T Mackrill 33 E Pease 37 L Graham
