Seymour coach Ben Davey:
“I’m expecting a good game; I really respect some of the players they’ve got there.
“Chris Ryan’s a great player, Brodie Meyers is in form and kicking a few goals, and Ethan Penrith is a very good footballer.
“They’ve also got Billy Cooper who looks like he’ll be playing more in the back half and on the ball this year, but he’s very good as well and I know they’ve got a couple of VFL blokes lobbing in for the weekend.
“They’re going to be a different team than what’s been on the park so far this year.
“We should be all right, we’ve got a few out for different things, but we’ll be giving a couple of blokes an opportunity and we’ll be going our hardest.
“It won’t change the way we play at all – we’ll be looking to play the same way we’ve been playing all year.”
Shepparton Swans coach Jedd Wright:
“We had a pretty solid review Tuesday night, we’ve let ourselves down the last couple of weeks with our defensive pressure, so we’re really looking to bounce back strong this week and put in a better showing than we have the last two.
“I think Kyabram is certainly in the top bracket of two or three teams this year.
“They’ve recruited really well and are coached really well, we’re expecting a tough task, one we’re looking forward to.
“We’ve been developing for a couple of years now, you can’t be developing forever, so we’re certainly looking to take that next step.
“We’ll be looking to take the game on and hopefully we put in a better showing than we did last week and I’m sure we will.
“We’re still waiting on three or four to come back from injury, but we’re pretty happy with the teams we’ve been putting out there.
“Our first four weeks against those top teams, we certainly played good footy and matched them for three quarters, and then got blown away in the last. We’ll be looking to put in a solid four-quarter effort his week.”
Kyabram coach Paul Newman:
“It’s a very similar sort of scenario to last week against United. I feel the gap, although the ladder might not resemble it, I think the gap isn’t as big it used to be.
“Those three Shepp teams, Benalla, Tatura, they’ve all improved this year.
“We have got to be diligent with how we play and continue to play good footy.”
“It was great to have Zac (Keogh) back in and around the group last week.
“From my perspective there is no expectation on his performances, he’s missed so much footy, so we understand he will take some time to get back up and running, but I think it won’t be too long before we see him back to the Zac Keogh we all know.
“Rhys Clark comes back in and we welcome back Archie Watt from school footy and Mitch Dodos from Pios.”
Euroa coach Scott Rowan:
“I think that Rochy at Rochy is another tough challenge. You’ve to be right on your game on the day otherwise any side can beat anyone.
“I said to our players last week that the challenge for us is to play four quarters of footy no matter who it’s against or where it is, so that’ll definitely be the main goal for Saturday.
“We missed a few tackles that we should’ve made (against Echuca), Sammy Reid’s a very strong man, but we probably let a few slip, so just that tackle pressure and making sure they count will be something we’ll have a bit of a closer look at.
“Realistically there was a couple of errors late in the game that cost us pretty dearly, so getting back to basics will be one thing and we’ll look forward to improving on last week.
“Will Hayes has a concussion from last week so he won’t be playing.”