The Griffith Swans will get their AFLW Southern NSW season underway on Friday night but have a tough test straight away.
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The Swans will host Charles Sturt University underlights on Exies No 2 as the Swans embark on their third season in the competition.
While not knowing what his side will 100 per cent look like at this stage, coach Trevor Richards is confident with the potential of the side.
"We have lost a couple of girls from last year and picked up a couple of new ones," he said.
"The new girls we have are all keen, but they haven't played a lot of footy, so you are sort of starting from scratch there.
"They look like they could be pretty handy, but they just have to learn."
Richards knows that starting off against CSU is going to be tough but was thankful that it was a home game to start the season.
There is also a bit of the unknown for the side the Swans will put out on the park with COVID concerns for a couple of players, which has made preparing for the season difficult.
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"I know myself I was off for a week and a half last week with COVID, so I have only just come back from that," he said.
"I know a couple of the girls in the side who have got it. It is making things a bit difficult at the moment."
The competition has undergone a bit of a restructure during the offseason, with two pools formed with the Swans left in Pool A, and Richards can see two sides of the move.
" It is good to see that the competition is growing, and there are more teams getting involved," he said.
"I don't think it really mattered which way they did it to try and make the pools in the first place. They went down the road of trying to put the teams that have been in the competition a bit longer in one pool, so the newer teams weren't getting flogged."
The clash between the Swans and CSU will get underway at 8pm.
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