CLICK HERE TO SEE THE FULL TEAMS<\/a><\/p>\nThe other big selection news ahead of the first week of finals is Hawthorn’s decision to drop Mitch Lewis, with Josh Weddle included following his impressive return through the VFL.<\/p>\n
The Hawks will face a Greater Western Sydney team that has regained Josh Kelly along with the forward line firepower of Jesse Hogan (foot) and Jake Stringer (hamstring).<\/p>\n
Jack Buckley has still not come up from his calf problem, while Brent Daniels has also not done enough in his recovery from injury.<\/p>\n
While Geelong has lost its ruckman, the premiers have made two changes as expected, with two-time Brownlow medallist Lachie Neale overcoming a quad injury, and rugged wingman Jarrod Berry his shoulder problem.<\/p>\n
In Saturday night’s elimination final at Optus Stadium, Fremantle has named Isaiah Dudley to replace important small forward Sam Switkowski (knee).<\/p>\n
Retiring Gold Coast champion David Swallow has been added to the Suns’ 23 for their first ever final.<\/p>\n
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5<\/p>\n
Geelong v Brisbane at the MCG, 7.40pm AEST<\/p>\n
GEELONG<\/p>\n
In: S.Neale, M.O’Connor, J.Clark
Out: R.Stanley (hamstring), M.Knevitt (omitted), J.Bews (omitted)<\/p>\n
R24 sub: Mitch Knevitt<\/p>\n
BRISBANE<\/p>\n
In: L.Neale, J.Berry
Out: B.Reville (omitted), J.Tunstill (omitted)<\/p>\n
R24 sub: James Tunstill<\/p>\n
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6<\/p>\n
Greater Western Sydney v Hawthorn at Engie Stadium, 3.15pm AEST<\/p>\n
GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY<\/p>\n
In: J.Kelly, J.Hogan, J.Stringer
Out: J.Wehr (omitted), H.Rowston (omitted), M.Gruzewski (omitted)<\/p>\n
R24 sub: Jacob Wehr<\/p>\n
HAWTHORN<\/p>\n
In: J.Weddle, S.Butler
Out: M.Lewis (omitted), L.Breust (omitted)<\/p>\n
R24 sub: Luke Breust<\/p>\n
Fremantle v Gold Coast at Optus Stadium, 5.35pm AWST<\/p>\n
FREMANTLE<\/p>\n
In: N.O’Driscoll, I.Dudley
Out: C.Wagner (pec), S.Switkowski (knee)<\/p>\n
R24 sub: Nat Fyfe<\/p>\n
GOLD COAST<\/p>\n
In: D.Swallow
Out: J.Rogers (omitted)<\/p>\n
R24 sub: Jake Rogers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The teams are in for Friday’s and Saturday’s finals matches Rhys Stanley, Lachie Neale and Mitch Lewis. Picture:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-117879","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\/117879","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=117879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}