{"id":476398,"date":"2026-02-13T02:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/476398\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T02:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:37:10","slug":"gws-giants-star-tom-green-goes-down-with-suspected-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/476398\/","title":{"rendered":"GWS Giants star Tom Green goes down with suspected ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pre-season injury curse has struck at Greater Western Sydney following news this morning that prime onballer Tom Green has been sent for scans for a suspected ACL.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants released a statement to say that Green hurt his knee during an intra-club practice match on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Giants fear Tom Green has torn his ACL.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6d03896f8fb02d5fbbfefca0c67331af85918fc1.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Giants fear Tom Green has torn his ACL.Credit: via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are hoping for the best, but fearing for the worst regarding a suspected ACL injury,\u201d GWS footy boss Jason McCartney said.<\/p>\n<p>Green\u2019s knee buckled during a tackle, and he was helped from the ground by trainers.<\/p>\n<p>It looms as a massive blow for the Giants\u2019 2026 premiership hopes if Green is to spend any amount of time on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old won the club\u2019s best and fairest last year and is the mainstay of their midfield.<\/p>\n<p>Further weakening the Giants\u2019 on-ball brigade, Josh Kelly is expected to miss most of the season after undergoing major hip surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Green has five teammates &#8211; Toby Greene, Jesse Hogan, Lachie Ash, Stephen Coniglio and Sam Taylor &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.watoday.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p5o1bt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">preparing to take part in Saturday\u2019s State Of Origin clash in Perth.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pre-season injury curse has struck at Greater Western Sydney following news this morning that prime onballer Tom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-476398","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476398","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=476398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}