ROUND 4 PREVIEW V EAST PERTH

WEST Perth has its first win on the board for 2014 and now is gearing up for a grand final rematch against East Perth this Saturday at Leederville's Medibank Stadium.

West Perth and East Perth will do battle for the first time against one another since the Falcons won last year's grand final by 49 points to claim a memorable premiership thanks to a dominant second half performance.

The Falcons went on to lose the opening two games of the 2014 season to East Fremantle and Claremont, but bounced back impressively last Saturday at Arena Joondalup kicking four goals to one in the final quarter to beat Perth by 18 points.

West Perth will now look to continue that momentum this Saturday on its first trip to Leederville for the season up against the unbeaten East Perth.

East Perth has opened up its 2014 campaign with a 19-point win over Peel Thunder, 18-point win over Swan Districts and then a 75-point thumping of South Fremantle last Friday night at Fremantle Oval.

That now sets up a tantalising contest between not only the two teams that played off in last year's grand final, but who are expected to be right there fighting off for the 2014 premiership as well.

On top of last year's grand final, the Falcons and Royals clashed on three occasions with West Perth winning in Round 1 by 75 points at Arena Joondalup and by 30 in Round 19 at home while East Perth recorded just the one win by 19 points at Medibank Stadium on WA (Foundation) Day.

West Perth's team is strengthened as well with Kody Manning set for his first game of the season after a suspension stemming from the grand final and Marc Crisp also back after copping a two-week suspension in the Round 1 loss to East Fremantle.

Max Alexander and Matthew Spencer are also in the mix to come in for the Falcons with Joe Morrow the only out at this stage.

Meanwhile, East Perth has plenty of changes coinciding with the changes happening with West Coast in the AFL.

Josh Hill, Scott Lycett, Sam Butler and Dom Sheed have all been called up from the Royals team that smashed South Fremantle last week to the Eagles team to face Geelong on Saturday night.

Jeremy McGovern has also travelled to Geelong for the game as a back-up, but there is still a chance he will return in time to line up for the Royals against the Falcons.

With Lycett called up by the Eagles, Callum Sinclair drops back to play his first game for East Perth while the Royals also welcome back Eagle Simon Tunbridge after he missed the win over the Bulldogs.

Mark Hutchings will also play just his second game of the season and it just happens to be up against the team he led to last year's premiership and was awarded the Simpson Medal for his best afield showing for the Falcons.

RESERVES TEAM

C Branch, C Chalmers, J Embley, M Geraghty, S Healy, M Johnson, B King, J Kirwen, A Krakouer, A Lynch, S Martin, S Marusic, B McNamara, M McPhee, L Meadows, J Mills, S Money, J Morrow, B O'Regan, D Rohde, T Sutherland, J Thrum, M Van Berlo, B Walton, B Wilhelm

COLTS TEAM

N Alexandre, M Ashfield, L Beissel, N Beutel, A Charlie, R Dolman, M Douglas, K Egan, A Elton, K Fullgrabe, J Gray, E Larmett, C Lynch, T Manners, B Mountford, D Munns, S Nelson, J Nolan, M Peirce, Z Saunders, J Sheehan-Nel, A Smith, J Turner, M Walley, A Wenn

BY CHRIS PIKE