Daisy Pearce says Melbourne’s Jake Melksham will play a pivotal role in tomorrow’s Preliminary Final against West Coast.
Melksham was able to neutralise Eagles intercepting machine Jeremy McGovern last time these two times met, and Pearce thinks that role will once again prove vital to the result.
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“He played a really good role on McGovern last time they played,” she told SEN Breakfast.
“If he can do that and then get dangerous and find a couple of goals as well, like when he lifted and lit the game alight last week in that last quarter, I think that will be a big win for the Dees.”
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Melbourne has made one change for tomorrow’s clash, dropping youngster Bayley Fritsch for Joel Smith.
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