Riding high on the back of three wins on the trot, the Demons are faced with the prospect of regaining Jared Rivers, Cale Morton and Austin Wonaeamirri over the next month.
Rivers was best-on-ground for the Casey Scorpions last weekend in his return from a knee injury, but Melbourne's match committee is faced with the somewhat foreign challenge of trying to squeeze him into the 22.
"The coaches have been through tough times in terms of being able to bring the team together and develop the team in the fashion they would have liked, but now they've got tough times in a different area - they're having selection dramas," football manager Chris Connolly said on Wednesday.
"Rohan Bail deserves to play this week, Jared Rivers deserves to play this week, Kyle Cheney deserves to play, but no player deserves to get dropped.
"It's a good position to be in and we know that Liam Jurrah, Cale Morton, Luke Tapscott and these other really talented players are going to come back into the team at some stage."
Morton has been training with the main group for some weeks and is just a fortnight away from returning to the field after suffering a posterior cruciate ligament injury in a NAB Challenge match against Essendon.
The prospect of Wonaeamirri's return is exciting and Connolly reported he had pulled up well from his first VFL match after being sidelined with a hamstring tear.
"He played about 50 per cent of the game last week and he'll probably play about 75 per cent of the game this week," he said.
"We've taken a conservative approach with him but he showed his class early in the piece at the weekend. There was an opposition player with the ball early on and Aussie just mowed him down because he's still got such a great change in speed."
