\n Carlton has made three changes for the Round 1 clash with Richmond.\n <\/p>\n
\n By Cristian Filippo, Carlton Media\n <\/p>\n
ROUND 1 ready.<\/p>\n
Carlton has named its team of 23 to take on Richmond in its first home game of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
Looking to bounce back from a disappointing second half against Sydney, the Blues have confirmed three changes for the clash with the Tigers.<\/p>\n
As flagged by AFL Senior Coach Michael Voss on Tuesday, Lachie Cowan and Matthew Carroll are once again available, with the boyhood Bluebaggers to play their first games of the season.<\/p>\n
Both players got through their respective VFL returns last Friday for the Carlton Reserves, and will provide the Blues with some bounce coming out of the back half.<\/p>\n
Cowan returns to the scene of his debut against the same opposition three years ago, while Carroll\u2019s last game against Essendon in Round 24 saw him awarded a Telstra AFL Rising Star nomination.<\/p>\n
They are joined in the line-up by Hudson O\u2019Keeffe, with the big man recalled for the clash with the Tigers.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Keeffe broke through for five games last season, and will provide the Blues with both ruck relief and a tall target in the front half of the ground.<\/p>\n
Adam Saad will miss with a hamstring injury, while Ashton Moir and Liam Reidy have been omitted.<\/p>\n
Thursday night\u2019s traditional Round 1 game kicks off from 7:30pm at the home of football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlton has made three changes for the Round 1 clash with Richmond. By Cristian Filippo, Carlton Media ROUND…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-533022","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\/533022","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=533022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}