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But engine room teammate Jarrod Berry devastatingly won\u2019t run out alongside him after injuring his shoulder for the second time in five weeks in last Saturday\u2019s preliminary final win over Collingwood. <\/p>\n
A year after veteran ruck Oscar McInerney missed Brisbane\u2019s 2024 premiership triumph with a dislocated shoulder, Berry will miss this time around after succumbing to the same injury. <\/p>\n
As for the Cats, Stanley has been named by coach Chris Scott\u2019s selection committee to replace five-time All-Australian defender Stewart, who remains in concussion protocols following a head knock against Hawthorn in last Friday\u2019s preliminary final. <\/p>\n
Stanley, who\u2019s played 18 senior games this year as Geelong\u2019s number-one ruck, missed the qualifying final with a hamstring injury then was held out of the preliminary final. <\/p>\n
Jed Bews, who was also touted as a potential Stewart replacement, has been named an emergency along with Ollie Henry and Mitch Knevitt. <\/p>\n
The move allows versatile weapon Mark Blicavs to potentially play in defence or even play a negating forward role on star Brisbane interceptor Harris Andrews. <\/p>\n
GRAND FINAL TEAMS AND FIXTURE (All times AEST)<\/p>\n
[2] GEELONG vs [3] BRISBANE<\/p>\n
Saturday September 27, 2:30pm at MCG<\/p>\n
CATS<\/p>\n
B: C.O\u2019Sullivan, S.De Koning, J.Henry<\/p>\n
HB: M.O\u2019Connor, Z.Guthrie, L.Humphries<\/p>\n
C: G.Miers, M.Holmes, O.Dempsey<\/p>\n
HF: B.Close, S.Mannagh, T.Stengle<\/p>\n
F: S.Neale, J.Cameron, P.Dangerfield (c)<\/p>\n
FOLL: R.Stanley, B.Smith, T.Atkins<\/p>\n
I\/C: J.Bowes, O.Mullin, M.Blicavs, J.Martin, J.Clark<\/p>\n
EMG: M.Knevitt, J.Bews, O.Henry<\/p>\n
IN \u2013 R.Stanley<\/p>\n
OUT \u2013 T.Stewart (concussion)<\/p>\n
LIONS<\/p>\n
B: D.Zorko, D.Gardiner, R.Lester<\/p>\n
HB: D.Wilmot, H.Andrews (c), B.Starcevich<\/p>\n
C: H.McCluggage, L.Neale, L.Ashcroft<\/p>\n
HF: C.Cameron, T.Gallop, Z.Bailey<\/p>\n
F: C.Rayner, L.Morris, C.Ah Chee<\/p>\n
FOLL: D.Fort, J.Dunkley, W.Ashcroft<\/p>\n
I\/C: K.Lohmann, J.Fletcher, S.Marshall, B.Reville, O.McInerney<\/p>\n
EMG: S.Day, J.Tunstill, D.Joyce<\/p>\n
IN \u2013 L.Neale<\/p>\n
OUT \u2013 J.Berry (shoulder)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brisbane has bravely decided to recall dual Brownlow medallist Lachie Neale for Saturday\u2019s grand final against Geelong, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,689,3237,5340,12923,106613,110095,110092,13659,2105,11288,110094,110091,4517,5096,43,12804,3231,54621,25875,44,677,3233,19095,19071,31714,30179,110093,60133,2801,14445,12113,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-167826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","10":"tag-brisbane-lions","11":"tag-calf-injury","12":"tag-chris-scott","13":"tag-day-coverage","14":"tag-engine-room-teammate","15":"tag-fellow-midfield-gun","16":"tag-geelong-cats","17":"tag-getty-images-inc","18":"tag-grand-final","19":"tag-grand-final-performance","20":"tag-grand-final-teams","21":"tag-hamstring-injury","22":"tag-head-knock","23":"tag-headlines","24":"tag-hobart","25":"tag-jack-jovanovski","26":"tag-jarrod-berry","27":"tag-lachie-neale","28":"tag-news","29":"tag-oceania","30":"tag-oscar-mcinerney","31":"tag-preliminary-final","32":"tag-rhys-stanley","33":"tag-selection-committee","34":"tag-selection-news","35":"tag-star-void","36":"tag-steve-bell","37":"tag-tasmania","38":"tag-team-changes","39":"tag-tom-stewart","40":"tag-top-news","41":"tag-top-stories","42":"tag-topnews","43":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167826","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=167826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}