Adelaide Crows regain Tom Lynch while Port Adelaide sticks with Chad Wingard despite hamstring concern

TEAM selection - Adelaide regains the vital assist work of far-roaming forward Tom Lynch and Port Adelaide will test Chad Wingard before playing Brisbane

TOM Lynch is back to load up the Adelaide attack, but the out-of-contract Crows link forward will not be supplying teenager Darcy Fogarty in tomorrow’s AFL clash with a charged-up St Kilda.

Lynch will play his first AFL game of the new season - after being sidelined by a virus and side strain in the matches against Essendon and Richmond. But the need for more run than height while fielding Lynch, Josh Jenkins, captain Taylor Walker and Mitch McGovern in the Adelaide attack has cost the impressive Fogarty a third consecutive AFL game in his debut season.

Lynch and midfielder Richard Douglas (from suspension) return to the Adelaide 22 to play at Etihad Stadium tomorrow night while coach Don Pyke covers the loss of All-Australian midfielder and club champion Matt Crouch and benches Fogarty.

Key midfielder Rory Sloane will be tested today at Football Park after carrying a foot injury out of the grand final rematch with Richmond.

And the experienced David Mackay has proven his fitness after being knocked out last Thursday in an incident that has put Josh Caddy on the AFL banned list this week.

Adelaide has Fogarty and Curtly Hampton on the four-man emergency list.

ST KILDA has reacted to its poor form with four changes, including the first selection of defender Nick Coffield.

Coach Alan Richardson has recalled one-game ruckman Rowan Marshall, Luke Dunstan and Brandon White.

These four replace ruckman Billy Longer (groin), midfielders Jack Steele and Koby Stevens and Hunter Clark.

PORT ADELAIDE is - at least for now - unchanged with forward-midfielder Chad Wingard in the 22 to play Brisbane at Adelaide Oval tomorrow afternoon.

This is despite the Power’s 2013 club champion reporting hamstring soreness late in the 23-point win against Sydney at the SCG on Easter Sunday - and coach Ken Hinkley being blessed with options to cover Wingard if there is a need to revisit selection after training this morning.

Hinkley has North Melbourne recruit Lindsay Thomas, running machine Karl Amon, mid-size forward Aidyn Johnson and ex-Gold Coast defender Trent McKenzie on his four-man emergency list. All except McKenzie can easily replace Wingard against the Lions, in particular Amon and Johnson while Thomas enhanced his chances with his six goals in his return to the SANFL with the Port Adelaide Magpies on Saturday.

The match marks the first match in which former Brisbane captain Tom Rockliff faces his former Lions team-mates as a Power midfielder.

BRISBANE has just one change - the return of Mitch Robinson from suspension - to the line-up that failed at home against Melbourne. Swingman Dan McStay falls from the Lions’ 22.