Injury has forced three (3) changes for Sunday's knock-out first semi final with Sturt at Adelaide Oval from 12:10pm. Aaron Kite suffered a knock to his troublesome shoulder last week and has subsequently been ruled out of the remainder of our finals campaign by the Adelaide Football Club. Nick Duigan slightly strained his hamstring last week and is will likely miss two (2) weeks while time has worked against midfielder Ben Speight's determined efforts to fully recover from the ankle injury that kept him out of our last minor round game against Glenelg. Ben bravely played through the Elimination final however has been advised by club doctors to miss this week to enable a complete recovery.

As a result senior Coach Trevor Hill has added Kenrick Tyrrell, Joel Coombes, Luke Nitschke, Ed McDonnell and Ziggie Alwan to last weeks team of available players in a squad of 23 that will be finalised following training at Coopers Stadium on Friday at 5.30pm.

The Redlegs face a Sturt smarting from their 3 point Qualifying final loss to Central District after looking the better side and leading for much of the game. With some 14 players who have played league football this year unavailable the Redlegs might be under strength personnel wise in comparison to the Double Blues but with men of the calibre of James Gallagher, Brett Zorzi, Tim Weatherald and Matthew Dawes leading from the front along with young tyro's Taylor Walker, Paul Puopolo, Josh Donohue and Brendan Littler the Redlegs have an irresistible spirit, self-belief and determination that can take us further in our 2008 campaign.

David J Bean
League Team Manager