West Coast will play a much stronger side in the NAB Challenge game against Carlton next Friday than the one that beat the Indigenous All-Stars in Perth on Friday night.

With big gaps between games in the pre-season hit-outs, coach Adam Simpson said that it was impossible to rest too many players.

Missing from the team that beat the All-Stars by eight points were Brownlow medallist Matt Priddis, Josh Kennedy, Eric Mackenzie, Nic Naitanui, Luke Shuey, Mark LeCras, Matt Rosa, captain Shannon Hurn and Jamie Bennell (among others).

"It's a different program for us," Simpson said.

"We've got three games, with a healthy break between each game. Last year we rested a lot of our guys for the second game.