Melbourne has made four changes prior to their Queensland trip to take on the SUNS.

Rookie Viv Michie was elevated earlier this week in place of Mitch King, who has been placed on the long-term injury list with a season-ending knee injury.

He’ll be joined by Colin Garland, Billy Stretch and the round one NAB AFL Rising Star nominee, Clayton Oliver, on Saturday.

The changes come off the back of Melbourne’s 39-point loss to St Kilda and the loss of Christian Salem and Heritier Lumumba to concussion.

Round 7 will be just the second time Melbourne have played at Metricon Stadium, the last being round 13, 2013, when the SUNS won by 13 points.


Melbourne Round 7 AFL Premiership Team


B: Neville Jetta, Tom McDonald, Tomas Bugg
HB: Josh Wagner, Colin Garland, Jayden Hunt
C: Bernie Vince, Dom Tyson, James Harmes
HF: Jack Watts, Cameron Pedersen, Jeff Garlett
F: Dean Kent, Jesse Hogan, Christian Petracca
FOLL: Max Gawn, Nathan Jones, Jack Viney
INT: Clayton Oliver, Billy Stretch, Viv Michie, Ben Kennedy

EMG: Oscar McDonald, Alex Neal-Bullen, Jack Grimes

IN: Garland, Michie, Stretch, Oliver
OUT: Heritier Lumumba (concussion), Christian Salem (concussion), Lynden Dunn, Sam Frost