{"id":498990,"date":"2026-02-23T14:26:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/498990\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T14:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:26:21","slug":"long-ruled-out-for-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/498990\/","title":{"rendered":"Long ruled out for 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Noah Long has suffered a season-ending knee injury\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                            By westcoasteagles.com.au\n                            <\/p>\n<p>West Coast Eagles forward Noah Long will be sidelined for the 2026 AFL season after scans confirmed damage to his left knee.<\/p>\n<p>Long was helped from the field in the fourth quarter of match simulation against Fremantle on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, Noah sustained a serious injury to his knee in which multiple ligaments were damaged,\u201d Head of High Performance Phil Merriman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough there is no damage to the cartilage, which is great for his long-term outcome, Noah will require surgery in the coming weeks once his knee has settled down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile it\u2019s incredibly disappointing for Noah and the Club, we will wrap our arms around him and support him every step of the way through his rehabilitation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noah Long has suffered a season-ending knee injury By westcoasteagles.com.au West Coast Eagles forward Noah Long will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-498990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498990","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=498990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}