The grand final curtain-raiser will take on added significance this year, as clubs prepare for the introduction of future trading and the new draft-night bidding system.
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Recruiters will take their final look at a number of northern academy players available at this year's draft in the game between the Allies and AFL Academy.
They will also have the opportunity to form some deeper thoughts on the academy players – eligible for the 2016 draft – which could prove useful come this month's trade period.
Jacob Hopper and Ben Keays have withdrawn from the game but likely first-round picks Matthew Kennedy, Callum Mills and Eric Hipwood will line up for the Allies.
Mills is set to follow Isaac Heeney to Sydney as a Swans academy player, while Hopper and Kennedy are bound for the Giants.
The Academy players, who include South Warrnambool’s Hugh McCluggage and Koroit’s Jarrod Korewha, will be draft eligible next year, a draft that clubs will have the chance to trade in or out of under the incoming future trading rules.
The match, which starts at 10am, will be recruiters' last look at the 2016 crop before deciding what value to place on any future picks they wish to bring in or are happy to move out.
Twelve members of the Allies side that played in the first match last year went on to be drafted in November, including No.10 pick Nakia Cockatoo, who starred in his return from injury.