HIS side is in the frame to claim its first senior men's AFL Central West minor premiership, but Bathurst Giants coach Mark Kennedy still has a headache.
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It is one caused by some tough selection calls which lie in the not-to-distant future.
Over the first eight rounds of the season the Giants have lost just once - that being at the hands of defending premiers the Bathurst Bushrangers - but they've not always had their strongest squad available.
Last Saturday when they hung on to beat the Bushrangers by seven points they did so without skipper Bailey Brien, Zac Yandle, Ryan Cooke and the experienced Simon Kay.
Kennedy's dilemma is that the players who have filled in for absentees have been doing a good job too.
"We had some quality players out [against Bushies] ... then you look at who we've got to come back in, we've got Jack Goodsell to come back in, Luke Macauley to come back in a couple of weeks, then we've got Derryn Clayton too," Kennedy said.
"We are going to have some selection headaches heading into finals because we have people coming back from injury who are quality players, we have to make the decision on who's spot do they take or do we leave that person in because they are consistently performing.
"We have some hard, hard decisions ahead but I suppose the beauty about it this year is that we won't have those guys who miss out sitting on the sidelines, they can play in twos and that will bolster our numbers there."
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