{"id":218030,"date":"2025-10-16T15:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218030\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T15:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:31:10","slug":"eva-added-to-take-on-dockers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218030\/","title":{"rendered":"Eva Added To Take On Dockers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Team Announcement\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Dynamic forward Alicia Eva returns to Cam Bernasconi\u2019s side ahead of Saturday\u2019s round ten clash with the Dockers.\n            <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inaugural AFLW player Alicia Eva will return to the GIANTS\u2019 side for Saturday\u2019s Pride Round match-up against the Dockers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eva had been kept out of the team by a hamstring injury sustained during the round three loss to the Crows. She was on track for a return ahead of round seven before a minor quad strain delayed her return for a further three weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dynamic forward adds almost 80 games of experience to the young GIANTS side, having played across all ten seasons of the AFLW.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alongside key forwards Tarni Evans and Georgia Garnett, Eva will be looking to punish the Dockers\u2019 defensive line-up and use her speed to finish opportunities inside the attacking arc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aliesha Newman, who has come off the bench in the second half of the last two games, will make way for Eva\u2019s return.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The GIANTS return to Henson Park for the second week of Pride Round, taking on the Dockers at 3:05pm on Saturday, October 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team Announcement Dynamic forward Alicia Eva returns to Cam Bernasconi\u2019s side ahead of Saturday\u2019s round ten clash with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218031,"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-218030","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\/218030","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=218030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}