HAWTHORN will select its Grand Final line-up from a 31-man squad, with10 players from Box Hill's premiership-winning team from Sunday asked totrain on this week.
 
The 10 set to train are Michael Osborne,Kyle Cheney, Shane Savage, Matt Spangher, Will Langford, JonathanSimpkin, Sam Grimley, Jed Anderson, Taylor Duryea and Jonathan Ceglar.
 
Each has played at least one senior game this season.
 
Oneof them will come into the team to replace Brendan Whitecross, whoruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during Fridaynight's preliminary final win over Geelong.

According to leading sports medico Dr Peter Larkins, Whitecross is emerging as the only player to be a forced omission for Saturday's Grand Final.
 
Larkins expects Lance Franklin (elbow), Brent Guerra (shoulder and corked hip/buttock), Paul Puopolo (ankle) and David Hale (calf cramp) to play.

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He also believes Luke McPharlin (calf/back tightness) and Michael Johnson (calf) will be available for Fremantle.
 
"Most of this week is about recovery for both sides anyway, particularly Freo with its travel," Larkins told AFL.com.au.
 
"Most definitely the injured players will be really nursed during this week.
 
"I think they're all likely to play - they're all standard things. Even if we were talking home-and-away season, I'd still think they'd be right to play."
 
Franklin sustained the most dramatic injury on the weekend when his right arm was wedged between Hale and Geelong's Cam Guthrie in the first quarter.
 
He had a strained medial ligament in his elbow treated at quarter-time and played on with strapping.
 
Larkins said while it wasn't a typical AFL injury, he expected Franklin to play and didn't think he would need post-season surgery.
 
"The only effect would be tackling out to the side, which would really put it under pressure, or landing awkwardly on it on a straight arm," he said.
 
"It was stretched open – it's different from a hyperextension so a tackle or a fall, or the exact same jamming of it again, would make it worse but they'd be pretty unlucky for that to happen.
 
"With a week of extra recovery and a week of treatment, at worst they'll be strapping it up similarly."
 
Guerra was in the wars against the Cats; first corking his hip/buttock in the second quarter and then suffering a "slight slip" of his shoulder in the third.
 
While he played out the game with his shoulder strapped, Larkins said the cork had affected his running and kicking power. 
 
But, he said with normal physio this week, he should be able to train and would "certainly improve enormously" before Saturday.
 
Puopolo was a concern on the night with his ankle but played on with extra strapping. Larkins described it as an injury that shouldn't stop him from playing.
 
Hale cramped in his calf in the third quarter and had regular maintenance for the rest of the game but should also be OK.
 
As for the Dockers, Larkins said the key this week was to make sure both Johnson and McPharlin refrained from aggravating their injuries.
 
Johnson was playing his first game back from a bleed and strain in his calf and started the game with strapping.
 
He had regular maintenance throughout to alleviate tightness and can expect extra icing, physio and a reprieve from excessive sprint work this week.
 
"He's still in that area of time where you can have a reoccurrence – even though he's got through one game, he's still the highest risk Docker on the weekend in terms of someone carrying something into the game, more so than McPharlin," Larkins said.
 
McPharlin had his left calf worked on during the game but was also troubled by back tightness in the warm-up, which needed attention on the sidelines to free it up.
 
"He's had it before and he gets a little bit cautious when he gets it and that's why he was being protective in the warm-up and not doing big kicks and things like that – he was saving it for the game," Larkins said.
 
"I didn't think during the game he showed too much restriction. He was obviously aware of it so it would have been in the back of his mind. But he's nowhere near as much of a concern as Johnson is going forward.
 
"I think what he's got there, it may flare up again during the game and they'll do what they did on Saturday night, they'll work it through, I expect."
 
Larkins said the Dockers would have to manage McPharlin's back with movement during their Perth-Melbourne flight.
 
He also suggested they could weigh up the worth of Friday's Grand Final parade where players travel the length of the city in the back of utes, if he is tight from travel.
 
"If he's sore and uncomfortable, the last thing he wants is to sit for two hours in the back of a motorcade through the city the day before the game," he said.
 
"There's little subtle things that can make you a little bit more stiff and sore, from sitting in the back of a car when you're carrying a bit of a sore back or a tight hip.
 
"If there was any concern about him, as tough as it would be on a player, you'd say, maybe you're better off not to go in the motorcade."

Young Hawks Anderson, Savage and Simpkin (the latter was best on ground on Sunday) are considered front-runners for a call-up. The decision willbe announced at final selection on Thursday night.
 
If Hawthornbeats Fremantle on Saturday, the player selected will achieve the rarehonour of collecting an AFL and VFL premiership medal in the sameseason.
 
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