{"id":490529,"date":"2026-02-19T16:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/490529\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:52:11","slug":"squad-selection-essendon-v-richmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/490529\/","title":{"rendered":"Squad Selection Essendon v Richmond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                News\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Dons named for tomorrow&#8217;s hit-out.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Essendon have announced their squad for tomorrow&#8217;s unofficial practice match against Richmond, taking place at the NEC Hangar from 10:30am (AEDT).<\/p>\n<p>Zach Merrett will miss tomorrow&#8217;s hit-out after playing in last week&#8217;s State of Origin in Perth but will return for next week&#8217;s match-up against St Kilda.<\/p>\n<p>Archie Perkins and Jordan Ridley are progressing well with training loads and are expected to be available for selection next week.<\/p>\n<p>Mason Redman\u00a0will miss tomorrow due to family reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Squad:<\/p>\n<p>1. McGrath<br \/>2. Farrow<br \/>3. Parish<br \/>4. Langford<br \/>6. Caldwell<br \/>8. Fiorini<br \/>11. Gresham<br \/>15. Sharp<br \/>17. Visentini<br \/>19. Gerreyn<br \/>20. Wright<br \/>21. Roberts<br \/>22. Durham<br \/>25. Prior<br \/>26. May<br \/>28. Duursma<br \/>29. Kondogiannis<br \/>30. Caddy<br \/>31. Reid<br \/>32. McKay<br \/>33. El Achkar<br \/>35. Guelfi<br \/>36. Clarke<br \/>38. Unwin<br \/>40. Johnson<br \/>41. El-Hawli<br \/>42. Nguyen<br \/>44. Day-Wicks<br \/>46. Blakiston<br \/>48. McMahon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News Dons named for tomorrow&#8217;s hit-out. Essendon have announced their squad for tomorrow&#8217;s unofficial practice match against Richmond,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490530,"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-490529","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\/490529","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=490529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}