Practice match v Richmond @ Carrara

lions.com.au has published the squads for Friday night's praccy against Richmond at Gold Coast Stadium:

Brisbane Lions unplaced squad of 24 players:
1. Mitch Clark
2. Albert Proud
4. Travis Johnstone
5. Scott Harding
6. Luke Power
7. Jed Adcock
8. Tim Notting
10. Daniel Rich
11. Justin Sherman
12. James Hawksley
14. Lachlan Henderson
15. Matt Tyler
16. Jonathan Brown
23. Matthew Leuenberger
24. Joel Patfull
26. Joel Macdonald
28. Troy Selwood
31. James Polkinghorne
32. Cheynee Stiller
33. Rhan Hooper
34. Bradd Dalziell
35. Michael Rischitelli
36. Daniel Bradshaw
39. Josh Drummond

Good to see the return of Notting and Sherman. I was pretty critical of Sherman last season, but his NAB Cup efforts were quite impressive. Hopefully he can put a good season together. Richmond's squad looks close to full-strength, on the other hand.

Richmond unplaced squad of 24 players:
2. Will Thursfield
3. Brett Deledio
4. Andrew Raines
5. Troy Simmonds
7. Nathan Brown
8. Jack Riewoldt
10. Shane Edwards
11. Joel Bowden
12. Matthew Richardson
13. Jordan McMahon
16. Luke McGuane
17. Chris Newman
18. Alex Rance
20. Mitch Morton
21. Shane Tuck
23. Daniel Jackson
25. Jay Schulz
30. Richard Tambling
32. Ben Cousins
35. Matt White
40. Kelvin Moore
41. Nathan Foley
43. Andrew Browne
44. Angus Graham

The inclusion of Cousins, and particularly Richardson (who spent most of last season proving me wrong about him) indicates how seriously the Tigers are taking this road trip, I think.

I won't be going. My Carrara-attending days are behind me I think. But I hope to be attending the Open Day at the Gabba the following morning with the wife and kids. Sounds like fun!