ANZAC ROUND PREVIEW V SWAN DISTRICTS

WEST Perth and Swan Districts have now locked in to become traditional Anzac Day weekend rivals, generally have precious little separating and deliver some of the more fascinating WAFL battles of any season, and there's every reason to expect something similar this Monday at HBF Arena.

The Falcons and Swans clash for a third successive Anzac Day weekend this Monday at Joondalup's HBF Arena and with both teams entering coming off a loss, and with identical 2-2 records, it again shapes as a fascinating contest.

West Perth started the season with a disappointing loss to South Fremantle but then bounced back handing Peel its only loss of the season and then thrashing Perth before losing to Subiaco a fortnight ago despite holding the reigning premiers to a scoreless opening quarter at Medibank Stadium.

Swan Districts, meanwhile, thrashed Perth in Round 1 by 96 points before losing to East Perth by 13 and then following a bye, beating South Fremantle comprehensively despite the final margin being only 21 points.

The black-and-whites then went down to East Fremantle at home by 31 points to leave them joining West Perth on a 2-2 record entering Monday's clash to commemorate Anzac Day at HBF Arena.

West Perth and Swan Districts have played in some of the more remarkable WAFL matches over the last decade and the last two Anzac Day battles have been no different.

Back in 2013, Swan Districts turned it on in the last quarter with six goals to one led by a best on ground display from Dayle Garlett to win by 28 points in front of 2695 fans at HBF Arena.

Then last year in the Anzac Day clash at Steel Blue Oval, there was plenty of excitement around Andrew Krakouer returning to Bassendean in a West Perth jumper and he didn’t disappointing booting 3.4 from his seven kicks but it was Swans who got home by seven points in front of a crowd of 2656.

Both teams are down on their big men stocks and that looks likely to cancel each other out come Monday with West Perth missing Marcus Adams, Seva Martin, Shayne Zanetti, Jordan Jones and Max Alexander while Swan Districts will also be without Nathan Blakely and Ricky Cary.

West Perth will have had more than two weeks to think about things following the loss to Subiaco coming into the clash on Monday with Swan Districts.

West Perth has made two changes to its team from the one that lost to Subiaco to the one that will take on Swan Districts on Monday at HBF Arena.

Another premiership player Jordan Jones was given a chance to prove his fitness to return for the first time since tearing his hamstring in the Round 1 loss to South Fremantle, but he will need at least another week on the sidelines.

Two more premiership players from 2013, Ray Bartholomew and Marc Crisp, have been relegated back to the reserves since Round 1 also and remain emergencies for the league clash on Monday.

Corey Chalmers has been in tremendous form in the reserves for West Perth and had another 30 possessions and a goal two weeks ago against Subiaco to have banged down the door for an appearance in the league team.

He comes into the team to face Swans as does Trent Manzone after consistently strong performances in the reserves and another 29 disposals a fortnight ago.

Premiership player Steve Potente and young defender Mitch van Berlo are the two players to make way in the team for the return of Chalmers and Manzone. 

Swan Districts loses full-forward Ricky Cary to suspension following last week's loss to East Fremantle and he is a significant loss having kicked 10 goals so far this season.

It also limits the chance that Swans had to really test out the Falcons' lack of tall key position players at the moment with the loss of Cary likely meaning that either Tony Notte or Joel Houghton, or likely both, will have to spend the majority of the game as the main forward target meaning they will only be able to spend small amounts of time down back or helping Jake Nuich in the ruck.

Dylan Nelson kicked five goals in the reserves last week for Swans from 18 possessions and six marks so looks like a likely replacement in the team in the absence of Cary.

Swan Districts did miss small defender Kirk Ugle in last week's loss to East Fremantle after he was one of his team's best in the win the week before against South Fremantle, but he is set to make his return against West Perth on Monday.

Tom Smirk, Lindsay Murray, Jacob Coniglio and Simon Donovan are the other players in the mix to come into the Swan Districts' side with Coniglio coming off 24 possessions in the reserves last week while Murray had 24 touches, eight marks and a goal, and Donovan kicked two goals as he looks to make his league debut with Swans having previously played 22 games at Perth and kicking 41 goals.

RESERVES SQUAD
B Antonio, M Ashfield, D Colbung, M Douglas, B Fotheringham, C Franklin, K Fullgrabe, M Geraghty, N Hill, A Innes, T Keitel, J Kirwen, B McGillivray, J Morrow, T Moulton, D Munns, C Papertalk, S Potente, Z Saunders, T Sutherland, B Walton, H Yarran, C Yarran, S Zanetti

COLTS SQUAD
A Allen, M Antonio, L Baker, D Carr, A Charlie, K Coleman, R Dolman, E Hills, C Hinchliffe, K Hindmarsh, J Horgan, E Larmett, C Lynch, T Manners, N Marinovich, J Moore, B Mountford, S Nelson, T O'Brien, G Popzeleff, D Robertson, T Smith, D Stasev, J Turner, M Walley, B Zanon