The Richmond line-up will be tweaked rather than overhauled for Saturday's testing clash with Gold Coast in Cairns, according to coach Damien Hardwick.
Hardwick told the media ahead of training at Punt Road on Thursday morning the Tigers have neither the scope nor need to make wholesale changes in the wake of successive heavy defeats to Carlton and Essendon.
"There will be a couple of changes, but there won't be drastic changes," he said.
"We played two-and-a-half to three quarters of reasonable football (against Essendon)."
"We had a really disappointing last quarter, we acknowledge that, we dealt with it, we've look at a few things that went wrong in that area."
"But you don't want to be making wholesale changes at this time of year."
Among the potential inclusions are Matthew White and Mitch Morton, who haven't played at senior level since Round 12 and 3 respectively.
Both trained with the senior squad on Thursday in cold, wet conditions, very different from the bright and balmy 26 degrees forecast for Cairns on Saturday.
Hardwick said the Tigers would head north better prepared for having played Port Adelaide in Darwin in an evening fixture seven weeks ago.
But he conceded that taking on the Suns during the day adds an element of uncertainty.
"It's hotter, there's no doubt about that, but there's not much we can about that," he said.
"We just pick the fittest team we can and hope to run out the game at full strength."
"The things we probably learned from Darwin, the conditions, the humidity was the thing we didn't handle overly well."
"We've put a few things in place to rectify that, we're going up a day earlier to hopefully help with our preparation and give us a better training facility on the ground."
After recently pleading for a better deal from the umpires for star forward Jack Riewoldt, Hardwick now believes it's his ruckmen who are getting a hard time.
"You look at the free kicks for and against and it's the rucks who probably we're in a little bit of trouble with at this stage," he said.
"That's probably the one area of the game where I just wish they'd let the two big dinosaurs have a crack at it and not pay a free kick."
"That's probably the one that's a little bit confusing for us at this stage."
Hardwick said he expects Gold Coast captain Gary Ablett, who's under a fitness cloud with a minor knee injury, to play.
"He trained yesterday," said Hardwick.
"We'll put measures in place to make sure that he doesn't have the influence that he normally does."