K Rock Football | Billie Smedts, Logan Mitchell and assistant coach Nick Lynch will all make their first appearances for Thomson in tomorrow’s season-opener against Winchelsea.

However, key forward Lucas Boyd, who has arrived from Kolora-Noorat, will have to wait at least another week as he battles a calf issue.

“He’s been doing a little bit of training, but we definitely won’t push him,” coach Paul Lynch told K rock Football’s Beyond the Boundary podcast.

“He’s got that old man’s calf injury, which happens to all of us after 30.

“We’ll just let him make sure he gets that right because we don’t want him carrying that all year.”

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