K Rock Football | St Mary’s will make at least two changes for Friday’s GFNL Grand Final, with veteran defender Ryan Pendlebury and talented young ruck Fletcher Hughes returning to take on South Barwon at GMHBA Stadium.

Pendlebury, who will become co-coach of the club following the decider, was unavailable for the Saints’ second semi-final win over South due to coaching commitments with Geelong’s AFLW team.

Hughes was a late-season signing for Port Melbourne, featuring in the Borough’s elimination final win over Sydney and preliminary final loss to Geelong.

“They’ll both play,” outgoing co-coach Ben Boseley confirmed on K rock Football’s Beyond the Boundary podcast.

“Fletch is quite amazing how that’s evolved from getting a contract late in the year with Port Melbourne, playing the last round, playing the semi, playing in the prelim,” Boseley said. “An amazing story of growth for that guy.

“But we’ve certainly missed him while he had gone. But him and ‘Pendles’ will come straight back in.”

Boseley also hasn’t ruled out tough-as-nails midfielder Elliott MacDonald making a shock return from a fractured scaphoid that has sidelined him since the Round 16 win over St Albans.

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