Port Adelaide’s Conner Rozee fit to play days after injuring his hamstring, while Adelaide Coast announce debutant is ready for senior football

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Ken Hinkley denies Port Adelaide is taking too great a risk by naming Conner Rozee to play in Thursday night’s Showdown, just six days after hurting his hamstring. Meanwhile, Adelaide Coast Matthew Nicks says debutante Daniel Curtin is more than ready to step into senior football, after being names to play against the cross-town rivals.

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00:00 Daniel Curtin gets his first taste of an AFL captains run at Adelaide Oval.

00:07 Debut in a showdown is a pretty big event. It's been done a number of times too. So we

00:13 hope it's a really positive one for him. Adelaide's top draft pick from last year

00:17 has been made to wait after impressing in the reserves. Matthew Nick's confident the

00:22 young defender can handle the pressure of a showdown.

00:24 We don't expect him to come out and dominate a showdown in his first game. But we feel

00:29 that he's ready mentally and physically to play in a game at this level.

00:34 Luke Pedler won't be at the level with a shoulder injury, but Nick's is hopeful his season's

00:39 not over. We've got a fair bit still to work through

00:41 there from a risk point of view and more so looking at the scans in more detail.

00:46 Port Adelaide's double down on Connor Rosey, Ken Hinckley confirming he'll play the Crows,

00:51 just six days after suffering a hamstring injury. We wouldn't take an unnecessary risk.

00:56 Now there's always a risk with any injury to a hamstring of any type. So the challenge

01:02 with that is whenever they play there's always going to be a little bit of a risk.

01:06 Jeremy Finlayson will be in the squad after serving his three match ban for a homophobic

01:11 slur. I think he's ready emotionally to take on

01:14 the next part of that challenge and that's something he's just got to have to work through

01:17 and we'll support him all the way through that. Hinckley says Finlayson has done all

01:21 he can to educate himself and get back to playing football.

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