{"id":475601,"date":"2026-02-12T18:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/475601\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T18:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:27:12","slug":"dion-prestia-injury-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/475601\/","title":{"rendered":"Dion Prestia Injury Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Dion Prestia will miss both practice matches due to a minor hamstring issue.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Richmond confirms that midfielder Dion Prestia injured his left\u00a0hamstring at a recent training session.<\/p>\n<p>Scans have revealed a minor hamstring strain that will rule him out for the Club\u2019s two February hit-outs. At this stage, he remains in contention for Round 1.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old played 12 consecutive games to finish the 2025 season, averaging 22.9 disposals and 4.4 clearances.<\/p>\n<p>Richmond Executive General Manager, Football Performance, Tim Livingstone, said the Club would have a clearer picture of Prestia\u2019s injury timeline in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDion will not be available for our games against Essendon (February 20) or Melbourne (February 27),\u201d Livingstone said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is disappointing for Dion, who has had an uninterrupted pre-season to this point and finished last year strongly with his performances across 12 games in succession.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will be back running in the next day or two, and we are confident that we will see him back on the field in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richmond will face Carlton at the MCG to start its AFL season in one month\u2019s time on March 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dion Prestia will miss both practice matches due to a minor hamstring issue. Richmond confirms that midfielder Dion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-475601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-text","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475601","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=475601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}