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Port Adelaide has qualified 20 AFL players for SANFL finals and Adelaide 18

Port Adelaide and Adelaide won’t be able to use all their qualified AFL-listed players if they are all available for the SANFL qualifying final Showdown.

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PORT Adelaide’s Trent McKenzie, Willem Drew and Todd Marshall and Adelaide’s Chayce Jones, Darcy Fogarty and Sam Jacobs are eligible for the SANFL qualifying final Showdown at Adelaide Oval on Saturday despite fronting in the final round of the AFL.

Those players have met the qualifying standards and can drop back to the first weekend of the state league major round because their AFL sides failed to qualify for the finals.

Port has qualified 20 AFL-listed players, while the Crows have 18 as options. The two sides are capped at 17 AFL players for the finals and that includes Crows marquee player Matt Wright.

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Power young gun Todd Marshall is eligible to play SANFL finals. Picture: AAP Image/David Mariuz
Power young gun Todd Marshall is eligible to play SANFL finals. Picture: AAP Image/David Mariuz
Darcy Fogarty can feature for Adelaide in SANFL finals. Picture: AAP Image/David Mariuz
Darcy Fogarty can feature for Adelaide in SANFL finals. Picture: AAP Image/David Mariuz

To be eligible, players must have appeared in more SANFL games than AFL and three state league games after June 30.

Andy Otten was the travelling emergency for the Crows in the AFL on Sunday and that is counted as an SANFL game.

Cam Sutcliffe will captain Port after playing the final two SANFL rounds to qualify.

Adelaide’s qualified players

Jordan Butts, Ben Davis, Darcy Fogarty, Jordan Gallucci, Will Hamill, Elliott Himmelberg, Paul Hunter, Sam Jacobs, Chayce Jones, Shane McAdam, Ned McHenry, Andrew McPherson, Andy Otten, Myles Poholke, Lachlan Sholl, Tyson Stengle, Kieran Strachan, Patrick Wilson

Port Adelaide

Joe Atley, Tobin Cox, Willem Drew, Kane Farrell, Billy Frampton, Marty Frederick, Joel Garner, Riley Grundy, Sam Hayes, Cameron Hewett, Aidyn Johnson, Peter Ladhams, Jarrod Lienert, Sam Mayes, Trent McKenzie, Todd Marshall, Kai Pudney, Cam Sutcliffe, Jack Trengove, Boyd Woodcock

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