{"id":117970,"date":"2025-09-04T10:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117970\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:22:08","slug":"afl-team-selection-geelong-make-three-changes-for-friday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117970\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Team Selection | Geelong Make Three Changes for Friday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Latest News\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The team is in and Geelong has made two changes for Friday night&#8217;s blockbuster Qualifying Final against Brisbane\n            <\/p>\n<p>Geelong have made three changes for Friday night&#8217;s blockbuster Qualifying Final at the MCG, as they kick-off their September campaign against the Brisbane Lions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After missing the Round 24 clash with Richmond, Cats duo Shannon Neale and Mark O&#8217;Connor are set to make to their return to take on the reigning premiers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jhye Clark is also among the inclusions for Geelong, set to make his first appearance at AFL level since the Round 22 clash against Essendon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rhys Stanley will miss the match with a hamstring complaint, while Mitch Knevitt and Jed Bews will also make way, with the pair omitted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Clark and Connor O&#8217;Sullivan are set to play the first Final in their AFL careers, while Bailey Smith and Jack Martin will also pull on the Hoops for the first time in September.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The stage is set as the Cats prepare to embark on their 2025 Finals campaign, set to take on the Brisbane Lions on Friday night in a rematch of last year&#8217;s thrilling Preliminary Final.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It marks a 17th Finals appearance for Geelong in the last 19 years and a 15th top-four finish, as Chris Scott looks to lead his team to a third premiership in his tenure as head coach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Make sure to check out Geelong&#8217;s Finals Hub to catch up on all the information ahead of Friday night&#8217;s game, and do not miss out on exciting activations like March to the &#8216;G, Show Your Colours and much more.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latest News The team is in and Geelong has made two changes for Friday night&#8217;s blockbuster Qualifying Final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-117970","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\/117970","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=117970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}