Nick Taylor
July 23, 2015, 8:46 am

Western Force Super Rugby players will feature heavily in Perth Spirit’s National Rugby Championship campaign that kicks off next month.

Up to 14 Force players will be included in game-day squads, an abandonment of last year’s policy of taking mainly local players to away games and having more Super players in home matches.

Backs Kyle Godwin, Luke Morahan and Junior Rasolea and front-rowers Chris Heiberg, Ollie Hoskins and Francois van Wyk are among those expected to get plenty of game time.

New signing Jono Lance may play but another new player, Ben Tapaui, is unlikely to.

Former Force and Wallabies hooker Tai McIsaac, the club line-out specialist and Future Force academy mentor, will coach the side.

McIsaac, a foundation player who made 52 Force appearances before his 2009 retirement, coached at Honda Heat and Toyota Industry Shuttles in Japan before returning to the Force this season.

He will be looking to take the side one step further after it lost to Brisbane City in last season’s final.

“A fair chunk of the Super squad will be used and there will be a bit more consistency but one of the main aims is to see the development of players from club land and those who are on the fringe of Super Rugby,” McIsaac said. “We obviously want to go one better and with the amount of talent we have, we definitely have the potential to do that.”

The squad will be finalised in about two weeks. The Spirit’s first game is away, against Brisbane City, on August 20.

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