Boseley must take on increased responsibility as a tall with Bryce Curnow sidelined with a side strain and likely to be rested for a couple of weeks from the Victorian Football League.

Selkirk Roosters coach Gerard FitzGerald is unable to otherwise definitively name his team because AFL partner North Melbourne must still confirm its line-up for its Sunday game against Geelong.

But rival Werribee, which also shares players with North Melbourne, was in the same position.

FitzGerald said it was all part of being in a high-performance, elite football environment and there were flow-on effects to grassroots clubs.

The Kangaroos must test how their injury concerns pull up on Saturday morning. 

This includes whether rookie ruckman Eric Wallace – the Roosters’ number one man in the tap last season – will play against the Roosters for Werribee.

Wallace played in the Tigers’ development team last week in his bid to overcome a knee injury.

This is an important assignment for the Roosters on multiple levels. Most notably this could be the last time, unless they meet in finals, that the Roosters and Werribee meet in the VFL under a shared alignment with AFL club North Melbourne.

The Kangaroos have enjoyed promoting this game between its VFL arms since adopting Werribee in 2008, two years after forming a partial alignment with North Ballarat.

Chirnside Park does not spark many happy football memories for the Roosters, either. The Roosters have chalked up just one win on the Tigers’ turf with FitzGerald as coach in his 13 seasons and two coaching stints with the club. But FitzGerald has been focused, looking forward, on the game at hand.

Confidence is high in the Roosters’ camp from last week’s round-one win against Collingwood.

“The challenge now is to reproduce that degree of effort,” FitzGerald said.

“... Effort is the substance of all good performances. It won’t matter if you’ve got the tactics and strategy if you don’t have the effort.”

FitzGerald said the competition was incredibly even and a win would put an added buffer on Werribee, a very evenly matched team to the Roosters.