Essendon has named its 29 man squad to take on Collingwood in the first JLT Community Series match on Thursday night.

The squad will be trimmed to 26 players on match-day.

Match details:

Collingwood vs Essendon

Etihad Stadium

Thursday February 16

7:40pm

The squad

1. Andrew McGrath

3. Darcy Parish

4. Jobe Watson

7. Zach Merrett

8. Martin Gleeson

9. Brendon Goddard

11. David Zaharakis

12. Mark Baguley

13. Orazio Fantasia

15. Josh Green

17. James Stewart

18. Michael Hurley

20. Jackson Merrett

21. Dyson Heppell

22. Matthew Leuenberger

23. David Myers

24. Craig Bird

28. Mitch Brown

29. Patrick Ambrose

30. Kyle Langford

32. Travis Colyer

33. Jayden Laverde

34. Jake Long

39. Heath Hocking

40. Ben Howlett

43. Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti

44. Shaun McKernan

47. James Kelly

49. Matt Dea