Sydney have reportedly made their choice to replace injured captain Callum Mills for Friday night’s preliminary final clash with Port Adelaide.
Mills was ruled out earlier in the week due to a hamstring injury, with versatile defender Robbie Fox, veteran recruit Taylor Adams and first-year forward Caiden Cleary in the mix for a recall.
According to SEN’s Sam Edmund, Fox will take Mills’ place in the 23, with Adams again overlooked.
Adams looms as being the 2024 finals series’ biggest heartbreak story, having been omitted for the Swans’ qualifying final win over GWS despite playing the final 19 home-and-away matches, a year on from missing out on Collingwood’s grand final win in contentious circumstances.
As a Pie, Adams suffered a hamstring strain at training in between the Magpies’ qualifying and preliminary finals. He failed to pass a fitness test early in grand final week to rule him out of the match; according to reports, so frustrated was he at not being given further time to recover that he requested a trade to the Swans mere weeks later.
31-year old Fox was one of the Swans’ best in their 2022 grand final loss to Geelong, picking up 26 disposals and keeping Cats star Jeremy Cameron quiet.
He is expected to either be named the sub for the match, with qualifying final 23rd man Braeden Campbell to come back into the starting team, or play a role on one of the Power’s looming three tall forwards in Charlie Dixon, Mitch Georgiades and Esava Ratugolea.
Sydney have reportedly made their choice to replace injured captain Callum Mills for Friday night’s preliminary final clash with Port Adelaide.
Mills was ruled out earlier in the week due to a hamstring injury, with versatile defender Robbie Fox, veteran recruit Taylor Adams and first-year forward Caiden Cleary in the mix for a recall.
According to SEN’s Sam Edmund, Fox will take Mills’ place in the 23, with Adams again overlooked.
Adams looms as being the 2024 finals series’ biggest heartbreak story, having been omitted for the Swans’ qualifying final win over GWS despite playing the final 19 home-and-away matches, a year on from missing out on Collingwood’s grand final win in contentious circumstances.
As a Pie, Adams suffered a hamstring strain at training in between the Magpies’ qualifying and preliminary finals. He failed to pass a fitness test early in grand final week to rule him out of the match; according to reports, so frustrated was he at not being given further time to recover that he requested a trade to the Swans mere weeks later.
31-year old Fox was one of the Swans’ best in their 2022 grand final loss to Geelong, picking up 26 disposals and keeping Cats star Jeremy Cameron quiet.
He is expected to either be named the sub for the match, with qualifying final 23rd man Braeden Campbell to come back into the starting team, or play a role on one of the Power’s looming three tall forwards in Charlie Dixon, Mitch Georgiades and Esava Ratugolea.
