{"id":491610,"date":"2026-02-20T04:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/491610\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T04:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:13:11","slug":"clarrys-big-return-as-injury-hits-gws-dons-roll-over-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/491610\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarry&#8217;s big return as injury hits GWS, Dons roll over Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Follow all the action from the first two match simulations on Friday\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Josaia Delana (left) and Clayton Oliver celebrate during the match simulation between Collingwood and GWS at La Trobe University Sports Park on February 20, 2026. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>PRE-SEASON match simulations continue on Friday, with Essendon hosting Richmond and Collingwood taking on Greater Western Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>All of the unofficial hitouts this week will be broadcast live on Foxtel and <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/sports\/sport!afl\/series-afl-premiership!1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-outlook-id=\"afd5caf5-488c-4b1e-90b9-d4c394a0b273\">Kayo<\/a>\u00a0and you can stay up to date with our live blog below.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be full match highlights and a detailed report from our reporters at the end of the match on AFL.com.au and the AFL Live Official App. There will be no official stats page from any of the match simulations this week.<\/p>\n<p>The sides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/news\/1466906\/match-sim-squads-tigers-draftee-sam-cumming-missing-clayton-oliver-in-for-gws-mixed-news-for-port-for-game-against-crows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">named their extended squads<\/a> on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Friday February 20<br \/>Essendon v Richmond, NEC Hangar, 10.30am AEDT. Fans wishing to attend must register\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tb.essendonfc.com.au\/tb_app\/542065\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>\u00a0(4 x 30-minute quarters, no time on)<br \/>Collingwood v Greater Western Sydney, La Trobe University Sports Park (Bundoora), 11am AEDT (4 x 25-minute quarters, no time on)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow all the action from the first two match simulations on Friday Josaia Delana (left) and Clayton Oliver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85,83],"class_list":["post-491610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491610","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=491610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}