The Murray Bushrangers will roll out one of their youngest lineups of the season when they head to Echuca to take on Bendigo Pioneers on Saturday.
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Sides must play 11 bottom-age players in what will be the second futures round of the competition.
The Bushies will be without Ben Kelly (Allies) and Lachlan Ash (Vic Country) due to national championship selection, Liam Fore will play VFL, while Tom Panuccio and Pat Parnell are also out of the squad.
Zane Barzen and Ky Williamson return to the back line and Zavier Maher to the midfield, while Harry Beasley, Ben Ashley-Cooper and Will Bowden are on an extended bench.
The Bushrangers are allowed to play 24 players this weekend, but could also lose Cameron Wild, who is named on an extended Vic Country bench.
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"We've had close to seven or eight bottom-agers all year, so it's not going to change the makeup of our side too much," Bushrangers coach Mark Brown said.
"Having 24 makes it a little bit harder to get all the players adequate game time."
Wodonga's Elijah Hollands has been picked for Vic Country as a key forward, but Brown is hopeful of getting him back for the final games of the NAB League season.
The team is:
B, Williamson, Crisp, Hallows; hb, Hillary, Barzen, Boyer; c, Byrne, Wild, Durham; hf, Chandler, Bouker, Bedendo; f, Wilson, Kaak, Brown; foll, Christie, Maher, J. Chalcraft; inter, K. Chalcraft, Everett, Cooper, Beasley, Ashley-Cooper, Bowden, Baxter, Shepherd, Holt.
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