Crows star to hit midfield and replace injured player

A few running repairs at West Lakes, but while those issues were only temporary, it's a far different story for arguably the club's most important player. We'll have someone ready to step up, with all respect to every other player in the league. He's a pretty hard one to replace though. But Isaac Rankin's pain could be Josh Rochelli's gain, with the forward finally likely to get his wish of more midfield minutes. Probably chomping at the bit to get a little bit more time in there and so maybe that opportunity comes this week for him. When you talk about replacing Isaac, that's a tough kick, you know, so he'll played his own way. Nicks with plenty of homework this week, figuring out how to replace one match winner while working out how to stop another. Yeah, Harley will be in. He'll definitely be in our sights. As far as, you know, how we can stop him, He's a tough one to stop. Well, no one's arguing with that. These Eagles are far from a one man band, but there's more than Reid. And then their older players are fit and playing, you know, back to their best footy again. So they've taken some scalps, they're playing a really strong brand of footy that we, we rate really highly. Even so, anything but a win would register as catastrophic for a side that still has designs on playing finals football. When the time comes. We'll, we'll either have got it right or we we won't have an opportunity in the postseason. But last year we were knocking on the door. We, we still believe we can get there this year. Will Crouch 9 News Elsewhere, Fremantle has warned former teammate Locky Schultz to brace for some hurt when they host Collingwood tomorrow night in the West. It comes after Schultz made the switch to the Pies last season, with any mate ships he left behind now on hold. If Locky Schultz thought his first homecoming was going to be met with affection, it's his first clanger of the trip. Trying to toe the line. I guess we don't want to, like you said, get him too sparked up so he kicks three or four but and if you have an opportunity to put a bit of hurt on the kid, we'll we'll be trying to do that. The Pies small forward put on notice by his old teammate in Andy Brayshaw ahead of his 100th game. The two sides go head to head in Perth tomorrow from London to Casey. Ed Langdon mid season trip overseas to attend his sisters wedding. Given the all clear by the boss and we were really supportive of his journey back there because we won't compromise on how important family is to our people. Jake Lever's absence in defence set to be covered by Adam Tomlinson as he comes back into the side for his first match since opening round at Arden St. Still no loss in confidence despite their winless start to the year. The culture of the place is is strong and the morale is great and at some point in time we that's going to turn into a little bit of luck for us. We'll we'll have a win somewhere along the line. The club taking a cautious approach with Jai Simkin and Colby Mckercher holding them back until after the bye. And players will wear black arm bands on Saturday, a tribute to the club's first premiership captain Barry Davis, who's passed away. Davis is a member of North Melbourne's Team of the Century and Essendon's, where he played in two premierships. He was twice runner up in the Brownlow Medal. Barry Davis was 80. Trent Niece. 9 News.