Dont pick underdone players.It is one of sports most well-worn cliches but rang true in the AFL grand final.Coaches John Longmire and Luke Beveridge both agonised over who should be in the respective 22 before showing their hand on Thursday night.Beveridge was desperate to get Matt Suckling back into his team, knowing the former Hawthorn defender was the only player at his disposal to have experienced an AFL grand final.Suckling is ordinarily one of the first picked at the Western Bulldogs but missed their preliminary final and had been on restricted duties for the better part of two months.Matty has had a sore Achilles for a fair period of time now and weve had to manage his workloads and training quite differently to the rest of the group, Beveridge explained pre-match, suggesting it was too risky to change the side.Longmire was likewise conflicted but decided not to err on the side of caution.The 2012 premiership coach was forced to make at least one change to the Sydney outfit that so clinically touched up Geelong the previous week because of Aliir Aliirs knee injury.But Longmire, unable to resist the case for recalling both co-captain Jarrad McVeigh and Rising Star winner Callum Mills, eventually settled on two.Youve got to go in with a fit squad ... its quite easy to get caught up in grand final week and go yeah, Ill get through, Swans 2005 premiership skipper Barry Hall said last week.Horse (Longmire) is pretty measured so he wont take a risk if theres any doubt.Longmire insisted before and after the match there wasnt any doubt.They got through fine. As we expected them to, Longmire said.The duo passed fitness tests but their output at the MCG on Saturday suggested they werent necessarily match fit.McVeigh had been sidelined since limping off the SCG with a calf strain during the Swans semi-final win over Adelaide, while Mills was returning from a hamstring injury and without a full game of football under his belt since August 20.Both lacked their usual rebounding run and largely failed to influence the contest.The issue was compounded by injuries to Lance Franklin and Dan Hannebery, with the Swans failing to show the sort of quick and precise ball movement that underpinned their march to the minor premiership.Hindsight is of course 20/20 and the irony is Beveridge gambled on Dale Morris, who played the grand final with a broken back, and rolled the dice in week one of the finals.Beveridge made five changes for the Bulldogs elimination final against West Coast in Perth, where four players returned from injury including Tom Liberatore and Jack Macrae.Liberatore and Macrae had missed the final four rounds of the regular season through injury.I can honestly say I wouldnt have had the courage to pick all four. 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New Zealand allrounder Mitchell Santner will re-join Worcestershire next season with his director of cricket, Steve Rhodes, affirming that he has some some unfinished business at New Road.Santner will link up with Rapids for the NatWest T20 Blast, which is now in a condensed midsummer slot, after the conclusion of the Champions Trophy being held in England in June.He will hope that it is a more successful undertaking than last season when he bowled four overs in the opening match against Durham Jets but then suffered a broken finger in the field and was never seen again.Rhodes is delighted to land the services of Santner for a second spell, subject to obtaining the normal visa clearances and a No Objection Certificate from New Zealand Cricket.Rhodes said: For T20 cricket, people with three disciplines are really exciting. We know spin is a major player for T20 cricket so to have a top spinner is fantastic. We know Mitch can hit the ball out of the ground, because he has done that, but also being a left hander is useful to the composition of our top six - and he is also a great fielder.ddddddddddddThere is some unfinished business with Mitch. Last summer he was very unlucky to pick up that finger injury that needed pinning in the first game he played.We know he is a good player, an international player, but I always like to have signings where people have got something to prove and I think he feels that way so thats why it is an exciting signing.Losing Mitch was a massive blow to our hopes of qualifying. Wed had a good start and him playing all those games would have been an extra bonus for us.Worcestershire have already signed Australian allrounder John Hastings for the 2017 campaign. Hastings previous county loyalties have been with Durham but they remain under financial pressure after major restructuring, and an ECB bailout, prevented them from going bankrupt. ' ' '