East Point's second year coach Dion Miles has a much more powerful unit to work with after vigorous recruiting, and nothing less than a finals campaign will satisfy the Kangaroos this year.

Miles said as well as getting wins on the board, an early priority was to get the new-look team to gel.

He said East Point had been fortunate to pick up quality players, but the task now was getting them to come together in a different environment and develop a winning culture.

Miles is rapt with the influx of recruits, which gives East Point a real chance to step up.

He said if anyone had suggested to him at the end of last season that the Kangaroos would attract the quality and quantity of recruits it now had on the books, he would have scoffed at the comment.

"It's a credit to the club and what it has to offer."

Miles believes the enormous depth that East Point now has will be a key to how far it goes this year.

If East Point is to go places it has to begin today.

The Kangaroos will use a new goal-to-goal line of Troy Slater, Wade Veldhuis, Michael Smith, Scott Crough and Greg Siez to spark a resurgence.

Complemented by Robbie Greenbank, Jacob Fraser, James Castles, captain Scott Neilly and his deputies Alex Campbell and Ryan Kent, and Hayden Cartledge, East Point should be far too potent for Sebastopol.

The Kookaburras should improve on their opening performance, but unlike East Point lack the hardened key position experience.

PREDICTION: East Point by 25 points.