{"id":199881,"date":"2025-10-09T08:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/199881\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T08:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:09:09","slug":"giants-unchanged-to-face-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/199881\/","title":{"rendered":"GIANTS Unchanged To Face Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Team Announcement\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Alicia Eva will be unavailable to travel to Geelong, leaving Cam Bernasconi\u2019s side unchanged to line up against the Cats.\n            <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The GIANTS have named an unchanged line up to travel to Geelong this weekend to take on the Cats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A late out for last week\u2019s clash with the Saints, Alicia Eva has been deemed unavailable for selection this week due to a quad awareness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a result, AFLW head coach Cam Bernasconi is backing his existing side to bank four points against the Cats on the road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The GIANTS led the Saints in stats across the park and dominated the inside 50 count 40 to 27 but were unable to make it count on the scoreboard, a key area of focus going into the match-up with the Cats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aliesha Newman will add plenty of speed off the bench and in behind the Geelong defensive line, with Sophie Kavanagh also providing pace as a weapon that can be deployed at either end of the park.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kavanagh was a late call up in round eight, following the late withdrawal of Eva.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, Katherine Smith will run out for her 75th AFLW game as just the second GIANTS\u2019 player to reach the milestone match.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The GIANTS travel to Geelong to take on the Cats on Saturday, October 11 at 3:05pm at GMHBA Stadium, in the first week of Pride Round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team Announcement Alicia Eva will be unavailable to travel to Geelong, leaving Cam Bernasconi\u2019s side unchanged to line&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-199881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199881","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=199881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}