It's all systems go for tomorrow night's 1999 Australian Football Cup where Essendon will take on Hawthorn at Foster's Oval.

The match, which will be screened live on Channel Seven from 10.30pm, will commence at 1.40pm London time.

A capacity crowd of 12,000 is expected to attend the match which will be beamed to an estimated television audience of one million people.

The Essendon squad for the match is: Alessio, Banks, Blumfield, Bolton, Caracella, Fletcher, Fraser, Heffernan, Henneman, Jacobs, J. Johnson, M. Johnson, Ladhams, Lalich, McVeigh, Misiti, Ramanauskas, Solomon, Symons, Wallis Young, Dimattina and Milne.

After recent operations, Sean Denham and Gary Moorcroft were unavailable.

Player development manager Matthew Drain said from London last night that the team was enjoying the change of environment.

"To play here is a great change for the players and a real chance for them to freshen up after a long season," he said.

"The conditions here are very good and today's training run was basically a chance for the players to get the cobwebs out.

"A number of players did some light ball handling work before we left Australia. It is all aimed at reducing the risk of injury which can be heightened when you come off a short break."

The Hawthorn squad for the match is Baird, Barlow, Bowyer, Chick, Collica, Dennis, Dixon, Harford, Hassall, Hay, Holland, Lekkas, Lloyd, Loats, Lord, McCabe, Obst, Rawlings, Rock, Tallis, Taylor, Thompson, Trevelen, Turvey, Vandenberg and Woods.

Angelo Lekkas and Mark Graham both made the trip to london but will not play because of injury.