Battle of the Northern Wheat belt Tue, June 14, 2016 - 12:48 PM

Two of the state's prime grain growing areas will take a break from farming to contest Saturday's Landmark Regional match at Kalannie.

North Midlands will bus it to Kalannie hoping to cause an upset over an improved Central Wheatbelt team.

North Midlands will be without former state country player Matt Burleigh due to injury and look to have chosen a young side in an attempt to run and stun the Central Wheatbelt.

Reece Hutton (pictured) is the NMFL competition’s gun mid and will be combining with Morawa ruckman and teammate Brent Payne. Dongara's Michael Melsom is an outside mid who is always dangerous around the goals and will be looking to leave Kalannie with a bag of them. 

Alan Egan is a player to watch and should provide plenty of excitement throughout the day and league stalwart Brett Broad (pictured) still has a few tricks up his sleeve and will be used across half back. 

Central Wheatbelt look to have some experienced representative players across all lines. Tyson Rowling can contest strongly in both the ruck and attack. Caleb Shadbolt and Blake Smith (pictured) are both in State Country contention and will provide plenty of spring from half back, whilst Luke Yates (pictured) and Josh Munns are both in and under players in the middle of the ground. Anthony Marace and Hayden Cooke are also exciting players and will need to be contained if North Midlands is to take home the chocolates.

 

 

 

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