Six Richmond premiership players have been selected for the State of Origin Bushfire Relief match which will take place at Marvel Stadium on Friday 28 February.
Trent Cotchin, Tom Lynch and Bachar Houli have been selected by Victorian coach Damien Hardwick to pull on the ‘Big V’ alongside Dustin Martin, while Jack Riewoldt and Shane Edwards have been named in John Longmire’s All-Stars squad.
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Damien Hardwick and John Longmire agreed to ditch the original stipulation of having a maximum of three players from each AFL club to allow the best players in the competition to be involved.
Each AFL club nominated eight players – four eligible for each of Victorian and All-Stars squads – who were fit and eligible to be selected for the match.
Richmond and Greater Western Sydney will have the biggest representation with six players each across the two teams.
Both squads will train at Marvel Stadium on Thursday 27 February before the following night's match.
Money raised from the star-powered game will be contributed to a Community Relief Fund set-up by the AFL to help rebuild football facilities ripped apart by the national bushfire crisis.
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