Bulldog Taylor Duryea will take one step closer to an AFL return when he lines up for Footscray against Werribee on Saturday afternoon.
Duryea has been sidelined with a knee injury for the past five weeks, and is one of 17 senior players to be included.
Lachie Hunter and Laith Vandermeer will also feature, alongside AFL emergencies Stef Martin, Lachie McNeil, Luke Cleary and Alex Keath.
One of the four will be named as the medical substitute an hour before the AFL Dogs-Cats match at 7:25pm tomorrow night.
Lachie Sullivan, Joel Garner and Ewan Macpherson are some of the state-league Bulldogs to be listed, while Ethan Hunt will be the 23rdplayer.
The Bulldogs and Tigers will play off for the Health West Cup from 2.05pm tomorrow afternoon at Avalon Airport Oval.
The game will be live-streamed via afl.com.au and the Official AFL app, with quarter-by-quarter score updates available via @FootscrayVFL on Twitter.
VFL TEAM – ROUND 19
Werribee v Footscray
Saturday 30 July, 2.05pm AEST
Avalon Airport Oval
B: J Sweet, A Keath, C Raak
HB: T Duryea, J Schache, L Cleary
C: A Jones, L Hunter, D Bedendo
HF: L Butler, T O’Brien, L Vandermeer
F: T McLean, S Darcy, L Sullivan
R: S Martin, R Smith, L McNeil
Int: D Orgill, E Macpheron, J Garner, C Craig-Peters, E Hunt
Emer: J Kellett, A Hodge, C Cormack, C Macisaac, L Goater, N Hamad, W Lewis
