Rosa and Cloke were yesterday named in the final squad of 25 to take on WA at Port Melbourne.

A first-year captain of the Bombers, Rosa has played 94 matches in the VFL.

He moved from Warrack Eagles to play for the Bendigo Pioneers in the TAC Cup under-18s competition before kicking on to play with Carlton `twos' in the VFL before returning to the red and black.

A skilful midfielder or on-ball player, Rosa is one of five VFL captains in this year's line-up.

Delisted by Collingwood at the end of last season, Cloke was quickly sought by Bombers' coach Matthew Knights.

A defender throughout most of his career with the Magpies, Cloke has played predominantly on a wing for Bendigo this season.

Victoria's final team of 22, and three emergencies, will be named tomorrow night.

Reported by Michael Robinson

Daniel Bandy and Jarrod Schofield failed fitness tests at Fremantle Oval last night and will not play in the state game on Saturday.

With that news the WAFL have now named their final squad of 23 that will travel to Melbourne on Friday after a final training session at Subiaco Oval tomorrow night.

FINAL SQUAD OF 23

CLAREMONT - Michael Warren, Jaxon Crabb, Ben Colreavy, Anthony Jones, Chad Jones

EAST FREMANTLE – Shane Woewodin(Captain), Theo Adams, Jamie McNamara

PEEL THUNDER – Daniel Haines, Hayden Ballantyne

PERTH – Chris Bossong

SOUTH FREMANTLE – Adam Hay, Andrew Siegert

SUBIACO – Luke Newick, Aidan Parker, Marc Webb, Allistair Pickett, David Mapleston, Todd Holmes

SWAN DISTRICTS – Josh Roberts

WEST PERTH – Dion Fleay, Jason Salecic, Troy Longmuir

Reported by Michael Robinson

The WAFL have named their 25 man squad for the game against the VFL at TEAC Oval on Saturday. There are 3 AFL Rookies in the squad as well as 11 players that played against SANFL in Adelaide last year.

Shane Woewodin will lead the WAFL side for the 1st time.

The WA Side is coached by former Richmond and Fremantle footballer Ashley Prescott. His assistants coaches are Simon Eastaugh, Todd Curley and Chris Waterman. Former Port Melbourne coach David Dunbar has been working as a consultant to the team in the lead up to this game.

Here is the squad of 25 (Players that played last year in BOLD, AFL Rookies in Italic)

CLAREMONT- Michael Warren, Jaxon Crabb, Ben Colreavy, Daniel Bandy, Anthony Jones, Chad Jones

EAST FREMANTLE- Shane Woewodin(Captain), Theo Adams, Jamie McNamara, Andrew McCarrey

PEEL THUNDER- Daniel Haines, Hayden Ballantyne

PERTH- Chris Bossong

SOUTH FREMANTLE- Adam Hay, Andrew Siegert

SUBAICO- Darren Rumble, Aidan Parker, Marc Webb, Alistair Pickett, David Mapleston, Todd Holmes

SWAN DISTRICTS- Adam Lange

WEST PERTH- Dion Fleary, Jason Salecic, Troy Longmuir

Western Australia will train tonight at Fremantle Oval and on Thursday at Subiaco Oval before flying to Melbourne on Friday.

The TRUenergy Victorian Football League has announced its squad of 25 players to represent the Big V against Western Australia on Saturday at Port Melbourne’s TEAC Oval.

A team of 22 players and three emergencies and the captain and vice-captain will be named on Thursday night.

The team consists of:

• 5 VFL Captains
• 10 players 23 years or under
• 4 players over 27 years, the oldest 29 years
• 10 players who have played AFL
• 18 players who have not represented Victoria before
• 3 players from the 2005 team Vs SA
• 4 players who have represented Victoria at state level (7) in total
• Average age of team: 24 years.

Three-time TRUenergy VFL premiers Sandringham have the most representatives with six.

Victoria will be coached by Mark Williams (Sandringham) and assistant coach is Simon Atkins (Werribee).

VFL General Manager Martin Stillman said a number of players were not selected due to clouds over their fitness. Phil Read (Geelong) was not available for selection due to personal reasons.

"We have picked a balanced squad that is fit and in form and a good blend of youth and experience," Stillman said. "It is fantastic that 18 of the 25 are in line to represent Victoria for the first time. We believe the selected players will represent the Big V with passion and pride on Saturday.’’

Bendigo Bombers Jason Cloke * Simon Rosa *

Box Hill Hawks Kristan Height * Nick Smith *

Coburg Tigers Alistair Neville *

Frankston Justin Berry # Ashley Eames *

Geelong James Byrne ^ Jason Davenport *

North Ballarat Tristan Cartledge *

Northern Bullants Josh Houlihan *

Port Melbourne John Baird * Luke Livingston * Chris Obst ^ David Robbins ^ David Spriggs *

Sandringham Andrew Biddlecombe * Rod Crowe # Ezra Poyas * Nick Sautner ^ Peter Summers * Shane Valenti *

Werribee James Podsiadly # Robert Castello *

Williamstown Brett Johnson *

* - Player has not represented Victoria before (18)
# - Player represented Victoria in the last State Game against South Australia in 2005 (3)
^ - Player has previously represented Victoria (4)

BENDIGO overcame a sluggish start yesterday to outclass the Dolphins by 23 points at Frankston Oval. Boosted by some quality talls, including Kepler Bradley, Courtney Johns and Jason Laycock, the Bombers didn't gel as a team until midway through the second quarter.

Goalless and trailing by 23 points at the first break, the inaccurate Bombers allowed the Dolphins to extend the margin to 28 points before finally clicking into gear.

Bendigo suddenly switched from frustrating to fantastic. It kicked seven goals in a row to take the lead, and was good enough to maintain a three-goal buffer for practically the rest of the match. On the other hand, Frankston, which had looked dangerous early, struggled to match the Bombers for height and was let down by some average delivery into its forward 50.

Bendigo captain Simon Rosa did a fantastic job containing Frankston livewire Justin Berry. The Dolphin forward has been in superb touch but struggled to make an impact as Rosa wore him like a glove. Berry finished with three goals, but two of those came in the final quarter when the contest was all but over.