{"id":126571,"date":"2025-09-08T00:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/126571\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T00:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:06:07","slug":"predicted-ins-outs-and-lineups-for-week-two-of-the-2025-afl-finals-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/126571\/","title":{"rendered":"Predicted ins, outs and lineups for week two of the 2025 AFL finals &#8211; AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, September 12<br \/>Adelaide Oval, 7:40pm (AEST)<\/p>\n<p>Adelaide<\/p>\n<p>The Crows cleared forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/josh-rachele\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Rachele<\/a> for selection if they required him this week, with the livewire attacker set to return with the club&#8217;s season on the line against the Hawks. Who he replaces will be the question, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/coaches\/matthew-nicks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Nicks<\/a> needing to make a cut-throat call at selection. Youngster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/zac-taylor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zac Taylor<\/a> looks to be the most suitable to make way. Veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/brodie-smith\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brodie Smith<\/a> is another susceptible to being axed, having made some costly errors after coming into last week&#8217;s loss to Collingwood as the tactical sub when the game was there to be won. Fellow flanker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/luke-nankervis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Nankervis<\/a> will be an option to replace Smith if Nicks does feel like swinging the axe on the 272-gamer, but that&#8217;s a large weight of experience to shed.<\/p>\n<p>Ins: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/josh-rachele\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Rachele<\/a><br \/>Outs:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/zac-taylor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zac Taylor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FB: Bond, Keane, Worrell<br \/>HB: Laird, Murray, Milera<br \/>C: Curtin, Dawson, Cumming<br \/>HF: Neal-Bullen, Thilthorpe, Keays<br \/>FF: Fogarty, Walker, Rachele<br \/>FO: O&#8217;Brien, Berry, Soligo<br \/>I\/C: Peatling, Michalanney, Pedlar, Hinge, Smith (sub)<\/p>\n<p>Hawthorn<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a watch on young tall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/calsher-dear\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Calsher Dear<\/a>, who is said to be nursing a hamstring complaint and will await scans, per\u00a09 News.\u00a0Any potential risk is not worth taking, especially when the Hawks have Mitch Lewis available. But does <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/coaches\/sam-mitchell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Mitchell<\/a> look elsewhere and make a further change? The other notable name who missed the trip to Sydney&#8217;s west on Saturday was wingman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/harry-morrison\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Morrison<\/a>, who was listed as a test as he dealt with a quad concern. If he&#8217;s cleared to play this week, then he might get his reprieve ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/changkuoth-jiath\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Changkuoth Jiath<\/a>, who, at times, failed to fire against the Giants after coming into the game as the sub.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ins: Mitch Lewis, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/harry-morrison\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Morrison<\/a><br \/>Outs:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/calsher-dear\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Calsher Dear<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/changkuoth-jiath\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Changkuoth Jiath<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FB: Hardwick, Barrass, Battle<br \/>HB: Weddle, Sicily, Impey<br \/>C: Moore, Worpel, Amon<br \/>HF: Watson, Chol, D&#8217;Ambrosio<br \/>FF: Ginnivan, Lewis, Gunston<br \/>FO: Meek, Newcombe, Ward<br \/>I\/C: Scrimshaw, Nash, Macdonald, Butler, Morrison (sub)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, September 12Adelaide Oval, 7:40pm (AEST) Adelaide The Crows cleared forward Josh Rachele for selection if they required&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-126571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126571","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=126571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}