Callum Porter of the Hawks in action during the round 21 VFL match between Box Hill and Geelong at Box Hill City Oval on August 13, 2022. Picture: Jonathan DiMaggio/AFL Photos

IT’S time for the VFL youngsters to shine in a smorgasbord of Smithy’s VFL practice match action on Friday night.

Four matches have been scheduled for the Friday night lights on a weekend where the majority of AFL-listed players are resting with the start of their season next week.

Richmond, Sandringham, Casey Demons and Geelong will all play without any AFL players, while Box Hill Hawks have selected three – Cooper Stephens, Sam Butler and Emerson Jeka – for its clash with Williamstown at NEC Hangar.

In fact, the Demons look to be using their clash with Coburg as a trial for the last spots on their list, having made 20 changes to the team that lost to Richmond last week. The two clubs will live stream the game, which will be available at https://cluch.tv/afl-sports/vfl/preseason-carnival/ 

The Hawks will also have best-and-fairest winner Cal Porter fronting for his first game of the pre-season, with Stu Horner and Callum Brown having a rest, while the Seagulls will bring James Cousins out of cotton wool and Harry Jones returns, with Cam Polson and Oscar McDonald having the week off.

Nathan Boucher comes back for the Lions, while Nathan Cooper, Sam Conway and Keegan Gray are having a rest for Werribee against the Cats.

The fixture of Saturday’s NEC Hangar double header has been reversed, with Essendon’s VFLW team to now play Box Hill Hawks at 1.00pm instead of 1.30pm, while the Bombers’ VFL clash with Frankston has been pushed back from 11.00am to 3.15pm.

RICHMOND v SANDRINGHAM

5.30pm Friday at Swinburne Centre

RICHMOND
49.Matthew Clarkson, 51.Austin Johnson, 52.Angus Hicks, 53.Garrett McDonagh, 54.Brad Melville, 55.Lachlan Street, 56.Harry White, 57.Mutaz El Nour, 58.Cam Olden, 59.Lachlan Johnson, 60.Lewis Hill, 61.Tom Brindley, 62.Tom Bower, 63.Beau Tedcastle, 64.Misilifi Faimolo, 65.Joel Nathan, 66.Luke Teal, 67.Fraser Elliot, 68.James Trezise, 69.Harry Broderick, 70.Will Bravo, 71.Archie May, 72.Lukman Haddara, 73.Ben Bilston-McGillen, 74.Tom Bracher, 75.Ned Crowe, 76.Max Clohesy, 78.Billy Cooper, 79.Ashtyn Atkinson, 80.Mohamme Yassine.

IN: Atkinson, Bilston-McGillen, Bower, Bracher, Broderick, Clarkson, Crowe, Haddara, Hill,  A.Johnson, Yassine
OUT: S.Banks, K.Bradtke, R.Mansell, B.Miller, H.Ralphsmith, S.Ryan, T.Sonsie

SANDRINGHAM
5.Jordan Segar, 7.Anthony Seaton, 13.Isaac Wallace, 16.Cassius White, 17.Jonathan Haidon, 21.Joe Nowell, 23.Jake Lohmann, 24.Noah Gown, 25.Oliver Lowe, 26.Mason Hawkins, 33.Tom Blamires, 34.Darby Hipwell, 35.Luca Macnab, 36.Fin Bayne, 39.Zac Tobin, 41.Will Dunne, 43.Blake Watson, 54.Phillip Moi Moi, 55.Riley Virtue, 57.Vince Zagari, 61.Tyson Milne, 74.Tyrell Lafituanai, 78.Ben Mansfield

IN: Haidon, Nowell, Segar, White
OUT: O.Adams, N.Coffield, J.Peris, J.Van Es, L.Connolly, T.Campbell

BOX HILL HAWKS v WILLIAMSTOWN

6.30pm Friday at NEC Hangar

BOX HILL HAWKS
21.Cooper Stephens, 30.Sam Butler, 39.Emerson Jeka, 51.Patrick Naish, 54.Joel Trudgeon, 55.Callum Porter, 56.Kai Windsor, 57.Jaylon Thorpe, 58.Liam Serong, 59.Jed Rule, 60.Cody Bramble, 61.Max Hall, 63.Lachlan Wynd, 64.Tristen Waack, 65.Ethan Stanley, 67.Darcy Murr, 68.Luis D’Angelo, 70.Jake Arundell, 71.Lachlan Bryce, 72.Tex Marsham, 73.Max Walton, 74.Liam Coghlan, 75.Clay Tucker, 78.Kye Agosta, 80.Mitchell Sruk, 81.Sahaf Ali, 85.Ed Phillips

IN: Ali, Arundell, C.Bramble, D’Angelo, Marsham, Porter, L.Serong, Windsor
OUT: J.Bennetts, T.Brockman, C.Brown, S.Horner, N.Long, M.Lynch, B.Macdonald, S.Mitchell, J.O’Sullivan, M.Ramsden, J.Serong, J.Weddle

WILLIAMSTOWN
1.Jason Pongracic, 4.Ben Jolley, 6.Harry Jones, 7.Daly Andrews, 9.Mat Walker, 10.James Cousins, 11.Tom Downie, 12.Toby Triffett, 13.Noah Gadsby, 16.Ben Woodfull, 17.Fin O’Dwyer, 18.Jake Greiser, 19.Max Philpot, 20.Joel Ottavi, 21.Mitch Cox, 22.Josh Pickess, 24.Corey Ellison, 25.Connor Weightman, 26.Nick Ebinger, 29.Jack Lipscombe, 33.Marty Hore, 36.Darby Henderson, 42.Zac Pritchard, 43.Ben Andrews, 45.Michael Ktona

IN: Cousins, Jones
OUT: C.Polson, J.Cooley, O.McDonald, Z.Banch, D.Thomas, N.Colenso

CASEY DEMONS v COBURG

6.45pm Friday at Casey Fields
Stream live at https://cluch.tv/afl-sports/vfl/preseason-carnival/ 

CASEY DEMONS
37.Tyson Barry, 42.Ned Moodie, 46.Liam Tyrell, 47.Tom Sheridan, 48.Jake Carosella, 49.Charlie Muley, 51.Max Gregory, 52.Kobi Grass, 53.Heath Briggs, 54.Cooper MacDonald, 56.Riley Baldi, 57.Kobi George, 58.Tyler Edwards, 60.Lachlan Benson, 64.Paddy Cross, 65.Ryan Valentine, 67.Tom Freeman, 69.Wal Wuol, 70.Charlie Peters, 73.Jack Bell, 74.Hayden Woodhouse, 75.Harvey Neocleous, 76.Tommy McRae, 77.Miles Shepherd, 78.Rhys Galvin

IN: Barry, Bell, Benson, Briggs, Carosella, Edwards, Galvin, George, Grass, Gregory, MacDonald, McRae, Moodie, Muley, Neocleous, Peters, Shepherd, Tyrell, Woodhouse, Wuol
OUT: M.Buntine, T.Burgoyne, K.Farris-White, L.Goonan, G.Grey, M.Hibberd, B.Howes, M.Jefferson, J.Jordan, A.Moniz-Wakefield, J.Munro, J.Schache, O.Sestan, D.Smith, R.Steele, A.Tomlinson, D.Turner, K.Turner, J.van Rooyen, W.Verrell

COBURG
1.Luke Nelson, 2.Flynn Gentile, 3.Jesse Corigliano, 4.Kyle Weightman, 5.Ryan Exon, 6.Harry Nolan, 9.Max Kennedy, 10.Mitch Podhajski, 11.Braedyn Gillard, 13.Josh D’Intinosante, 16.Aaron Clarke, 17.Nathan Boucher, 18.Alex Lukic, 19.Hugo McGlashan, 20.Nic Quigg, 21.Ben Jepson, 22.Ingo Dammersmith, 23.Tom Jepson, 24.Daniel Owen, 25.Lachlan Walker, 26.Liam Podhajski, 27.Sam Mason, 30.Will Bella, 32.George Belcher, 41.Charlie Beasley, 42.Max Thompson

IN: Boucher, Dammersmith.
OUT: J.Bowne, J.Marsh, B.Reddick, T.Warren, J.Watson

GEELONG CATS v WERRIBEE

7.00pm Friday at GMHBA Stadium

GEELONG
50.Dan Capiron, 51.Darby Schilder, 52.Matty Lloyd, 53.Jack Leonard, 54.Jamie Quick, 57.Jye Chalcraft, 58.Kade Chalcraft, 59.Harry Benson, 60.Lachlan Bond, 61.Mitch Chafer, 62.Marcus Herbert, 63.Ben Worme, 64.Tom Panuccio, 65.Jack Evans, 66.Tanner Lewis, 67.Tyler Norton, 68.Tom Feely, 70.Sam Bourke, 71.Will Christie, 72.Tylar Watts, 74.Ben Lloyd, 76.Ryley Hutchins, 77.Hunter Gottschling, 78.Tanner Lovell, 80.Oscar Morrison, 83.Jack Shannon, Mace Cousins, Morgan Fenton, Rowan Gough, Euriah Hollard, Hamish Lucas, Zac Mirkovic, Riley Polkinghorne, William Sheahan, Harvey Murrant

IN: Bourke, Chafer, K.Chalcraft, Cousins, Evans, Fenton, Gottschling, Gough, Hollard, Hutchins, Lovell, Lucas, Mirkovic, Morrison, Murrant, Polkinghorne, Schilder, Shannon, Sheahan, Watts
OUT: T.Atkins, A.Byrne, J.Clark, T.Clohesy, R.Eyers, B.Ham, M.Knevitt, O.Mullin, O.Murdoch, M.O’Connor, O.Riccardi, B.van de Heuvel, C.Whyte

WERRIBEE
1.Hudson Garoni, 4.Tom Gribble, 5.Kobe Annand, 7.Nick Hayes, 8.Jack Henderson, 9.Louis Pinnuck, 12.Wardell Lual, 14.Michael Selsby, 15.Kye Declase, 17.Aidan Johnson, 22.Bior Malual, 23.Harry Grintell, 24.Jay Dahlhaus, 26.Noah Gribble, 27.Jesse Clark, 28.Noah Lever, 29.Dom Brew, 32.Sam Paea, 35.Sam Clohesy, 39.Emmanuel Ajang, 40.Bailey Henderson, 42.Charlie Byrne, 43.Jack Boyd, 49.Sam Azzi, 54.Akol Deng, 57.Matt Keast

IN: Annand, Clark, B.Henderson, Johnson
OUT: G.Bove, S.Conway, N.Cooper, K.Gray, C.McLeod, F.Young