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That means Daicos does not get to wear his usual No.35 for Victoria, nor does St Kilda\u2019s Jack Sinclair, both men behind Geelong veteran Patrick Dangerfield for games played.<\/p>\n
Daicos will instead wear the No.8 (3 plus 5) while Sinclair takes the No.2 (5 minus 3) jumper.<\/p>\n
Smith missed out on wearing his usual No.3 by just one game, with Caleb Serong having played 127 career matches to Smith\u2019s 126 despite being drafted a year later. Smith will wear No.33.<\/p>\n
His Geelong teammate Max Holmes moves into the No.14 with Zak Butters holding the No.9 instead.<\/p>\n
There are some odd swaps, though. Toby Greene has allowed Marcus Bontempelli to wear the No.4 despite having played more games than his Bulldogs counterpart; likewise Noah Anderson will wear No.15 having played fewer games than Blake Hardwick.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile for WA, the presence of veteran Stephen Coniglio sees Liam Baker miss out on the No.3.<\/p>\n
Jake Waterman is narrowly pipped by Luke Jackson to earn the No.2, with Jackson unable to wear No.9 due to Patrick Cripps\u2019 presence.<\/p>\n
Baker (No.48) and Waterman (No.45) will both wear their first AFL numbers.<\/p>\n
Chad Warner can\u2019t wear his usual No.1 due to Jaeger O\u2019Meara taking it instead, with the Swans superstar instead taking teammate Isaac Heeney\u2019s usual No.5.<\/p>\n
Bailey Smith of the Cats tackled by Nick Daicos of the Magpies. Picture: Michael KleinSource: News Corp Australia<\/p>\n
Western Australia<\/p>\n
1 Jaeger O\u2019Meara<\/p>\n
2 Luke Jackson<\/p>\n
3 Stephen Coniglio<\/p>\n
4 Callum Ah Chee<\/p>\n
5 Chad Warner<\/p>\n
6 Jordan Clark<\/p>\n
7 Rory Lobb<\/p>\n
8 Shai Bolton<\/p>\n
9 Patrick Cripps<\/p>\n
10 Bradley Hill<\/p>\n
14 Darcy Cameron<\/p>\n
15 Samuel Taylor<\/p>\n
17 Lawson Humphries<\/p>\n
19 Mitchell Georgiades<\/p>\n
21 Jesse Hogan<\/p>\n
23 Charlie Cameron<\/p>\n
24 Trent Rivers<\/p>\n
27 Wil Powell<\/p>\n
33 Aaron Naughton<\/p>\n
35 Nathan Broad<\/p>\n
36 Kysaiah Pickett<\/p>\n
37 Tom Barrass<\/p>\n
44 Tim English<\/p>\n
45 Jake Waterman<\/p>\n
48 Liam Baker<\/p>\n
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Victoria<\/p>\n
1 Toby Greene<\/p>\n
2 Jack Sinclair<\/p>\n
3 Caleb Serong<\/p>\n
4 Marcus Bontempelli<\/p>\n
6 Hugh McCluggage<\/p>\n
7 Zach Merrett<\/p>\n
8 Nick Daicos<\/p>\n
9 Zak Butters<\/p>\n
10 Sam Darcy<\/p>\n
11 Max Gawn<\/p>\n
12 Lachie Ash<\/p>\n
13 Blake Hardwick<\/p>\n
14 Max Holmes<\/p>\n
15 Noah Anderson<\/p>\n
18 Matthew Rowell<\/p>\n
19 Jack Gunston<\/p>\n
20 Ed Richards<\/p>\n
23 Jacob Weitering<\/p>\n
24 Joshua Battle<\/p>\n
25 Sam Collins<\/p>\n
33 Bailey Smith<\/p>\n
34 Ben King<\/p>\n
35 Patrick Dangerfield<\/p>\n
38 Tristan Xerri<\/p>\n
44 Tom Stewart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFL superstars Nick Daicos and Bailey Smith are among those who\u2019ve been snubbed of their usual player numbers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-468088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}