{"id":15531,"date":"2025-07-23T08:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/15531\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T08:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:34:11","slug":"afl-team-news-mckay-back-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/15531\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL team news: McKay back in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Harry McKay will return for the Round 20 clash with Hawthorn.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                        By Cristian Filippo, Carlton Media\n                <\/p>\n<p>CARLTON has made two changes for Thursday night\u2019s clash with Hawthorn.<\/p>\n<p>In what will be Sam Docherty\u2019s final game and Jacob Weitering\u2019s 200th, the Blues have welcomed back key forward Harry McKay for the Round 20 clash.<\/p>\n<p>It will be McKay\u2019s first game since before the bye, having fully recovered after knee surgery.<\/p>\n<p>McKay is joined in the side by the experienced Blake Acres as the two inclusions for the Blues.<\/p>\n<p>Acres replaces Flynn Young in the side, with the new Blue experiencing a foot sprain and is now unavailable for tomorrow night. He is expected to be available next week.<\/p>\n<p>Francis Evans will also miss due to a concussion.<\/p>\n<p>Weitering becomes the 40th player to reach a double century in Navy Blue, doing so at the venue where he played his first, 50th and 100th games against Richmond, Collingwood and Essendon respectively.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019ll be an emotion-charged night for the Blues, with the beloved Docherty to play his final game against the side who he won two David Parkin Medals against.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry McKay will return for the Round 20 clash with Hawthorn. By Cristian Filippo, Carlton Media CARLTON has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-15531","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","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15531","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=15531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}