It comes after Dufty was benched for last week's match against the Bulldogs, though he was thrown into the action early after Euan Aitken suffered a hamstring injury.

“It's a question that's been raised through the week,” McGregor said.

“Me and Matt had a chat last week and he'd been fatigued for a number of weeks at training and was taking that into games. It was just an open conversation between a coach and a player. 

“Both wingers played well against the Tigers and Jase [Nightingale] was back. He was on the field after 15-20 minutes and we were down 6-0 so it wasn't why we lost.

“It was more around the management of Matt because, when a player's fatigued, and he's telling you he's fatigued, you've got to do something about it.

"He'll [start] at fullback this week.”