It will be a tough ask for the Bombers when they travel to AAMI stadium on Friday night to play the Adelaide Crows. Essendon has made three changes with Jay Nash playing his first game of the season, while Henry Slattery and Damien Peverill also come into the line up. Angus Monfries, Courtenay Dempsey and Joel Reynolds have been omitted and named as emergencies.

The Essendon side to play the Crows is:

Backs: Bradley Fletcher Solomon
Half Backs: McPhee M Johnson Lovett-Murray
Centres: Winderlich Stanton Peverill
Half Forwards: Slattery Lucas Heffernan
Forwards: Welsh Johns Nash
Rucks: Hille McVeigh Watson
Bench: Laycock Dyson Bolton Ryder

In: Slattery, Peverill, Nash
Out: Monfries, Reynolds, Dempsey (all omitted)

Emergencies: Monfries Reynolds Dempsey

The Bendigo Bombers side to play Frankston at the QE Oval on Sunday is:

Backs: Bowe Pendlebury Childs
Half Backs: Lucy Lee Blumfield
Centres: Jolley Firman Doering
Half Forwards: Rosa Neagle Vigus
Forwards: Hocking Beasy Dempsey
Rucks: Cartledge Lonergan Carter
Bench: Laycock O'Keefe Bowles J. Johnson Nash Monfries Reynolds Connaughton