The teams will play for the Barry-McKay Shield that was formed nine years ago.

The trophy in memory of life members Brendan Barry for ACL and Peter McKay for Beaconsfield finally returns after the Swans' move up into the TCL Premier League.

"It's a bit strange given my brother and I will be playing against dad's former club and the club we have played at previously," Beaconsfield captain Sean Barry said.

Beaconsfield still hold the shield from their last meeting despite Barry admitting ACL have "had the wood over us".

The silverware is not the only thing important for the sides on the rise of late.

"It's a big game in relation to the ladder obviously. We're fighting for third spot with them just at the minute. We can go six points up or two points behind," Barry said.

Sri Lankan recruits Amal Ranawaka and Ian Labrooy join Chris Walker, who was a late withdrawal last week, back in the side with Nathan Barry, an ex-Mowbray gloveman, playing his first game.

Mitchell Quarrell will also play for his first time this year for ACL amid injury woes.

Bluebacks captain John Kedey admits a win will be integral after slipping behind Longford and Hadspen.

"We know where we are at after playing the top two sides and we know where we have to be better," he said.

"We're doing it in small parts and, just like any team, we're looking at doing it for sustained periods of time."

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Perth will travel down the road to Longford desperate to end its winless campaign.

But the Demons will have to pull off an upset without key seamers Matthew and Andrew Rigby for the second time in three weeks. Lachie Dakin's absence adds to the woes of captain John Hayes.

"We are probably looking at putting a bit of weight on different people's shoulders for a change," Hayes said.

"We don't want to see the same blokes needed to make the runs, take wickets and what not. We just need an all-round effort to have any hope of being competitive."

Longford is certain to lose spearhead Max Magann for the clash, but captain Jackson Blair has good reason to keep faith in his change bowlers.

The Tigers pulled out their best performance against Trevallyn last week and just needs the batting to click to cause Perth some headaches.

"All year our strength has been our bowling attack. It will be nice to get the batters out there and let us try and do our thing," Blair said.

"So, hopefully we can get some runs on the board and keep improving in that area."

Hadspen captain Liam Reynolds wants his side to keep on pushing Trevallyn to maintain its top two position.

The Chieftains posted the biggest score last week in the Premier League season.

"We are still a little tad off with our bowling, even though we had a nice win," Reynolds said, "so we want to put both of those facets together, which is our aim every week to be a solid side."

Trevallyn needs to pull out of its slump that has slid from third in an eight-team league to sixth and last just as vice-captain Caleb Lawson is one of the big outs this week.

"A tough start to the year for a young bunch of blokes with a lot of stuff happening, which has meant we are frequently a bit underdone in terms of personnel," Lawson said, "but we can only look at each week at a time."

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