{"id":113573,"date":"2025-09-02T16:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/113573\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:32:09","slug":"premiership-duo-back-for-first-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/113573\/","title":{"rendered":"Premiership duo back for first final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Brisbane Lions Co-Captain Lachie Neale and midfielder Jarrod Berry are both available to play in Friday night\u2019s Qualifying Final against Geelong.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Brisbane Lions Co-Captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lions.com.au\/players\/354\/lachie-neale\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lachie Neale<\/a> and midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lions.com.au\/players\/1343\/jarrod-berry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jarrod Berry<\/a> are both available to play in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lions.com.au\/matches\/7994\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Friday night\u2019s Qualifying Final against Geelong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Neale missed the last three matches of the home and away season with a quad strain, while Berry was sidelined for the last game due to a dislocated shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>The premiership pair give the Lions a boost of valuable finals experience ahead of the clash with the Cats at the MCG.<\/p>\n<p>Lions key forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lions.com.au\/players\/864\/eric-hipwood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Hipwood<\/a> is also progressing well as he recovers from a calf strain and could return within the next fortnight, while defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lions.com.au\/players\/813\/tom-doedee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Doedee<\/a> will undergo wrist surgery putting an end to his 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>                                Calf<\/p>\n<p>                                1-2 Weeks<\/p>\n<p>                                Wrist<\/p>\n<p>                                Season<\/p>\n<p>                                Quad<\/p>\n<p>                                Season<\/p>\n<p>                                Achilles<\/p>\n<p>                                Season<\/p>\n<p>                                Knee<\/p>\n<p>                                Season<\/p>\n<p>                                Knee<\/p>\n<p>                                Season<\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Calf\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: 1-2 Weeks\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Wrist\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: Season\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Quad\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: Season\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Achilles\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: Season\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Knee\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: Season\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Knee\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: Season\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brisbane Lions Co-Captain Lachie Neale and midfielder Jarrod Berry are both available to play in Friday night\u2019s Qualifying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-113573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}