It was Tristan Xerri going head-to-head with Max Gawn and winning. It was the importance of Paul Curtis and Toby Pink when Melbourne tried to rally. It was Bailey Scott’s bodywork to mark in the ...

Toby Pink and Dylan Stephens will play their first games of the year. Out west, Shai Bolton will make his highly-anticipated Dockers debut after missing round one with a lower leg issue.

The popular actor, who has just welcomed his third child with wife Jessica, is returning to Queensland from his Melbourne home. “It’s a pretty special place up there,’’ Wilson said.

Simon Goodwin has his midfield band back together but admits the pieces around Melbourne's high-powered engine room will take time to click.