{"id":533708,"date":"2026-03-11T17:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/533708\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T17:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:04:15","slug":"blues-make-three-changes-tigers-get-a-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/533708\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues make three changes, Tigers get a boost"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The teams are in for Thursday night’s game in round one\n <\/p>\n

Blake Acres and Noah Balta. Pictures: AFL Photos<\/p>\n

CARLTON has dropped recruit Liam Reidy after one game for his new club, while Blake Acres is also missing for Thursday night’s game against Richmond.<\/p>\n

Reidy, recruited from Fremantle in the off-season, played just 61 per cent game time against Sydney last week and has been replaced in the Blues’ side by fellow ruck Hudson O’Keefe.<\/p>\n

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Acres (shoulder) was a chance to return after getting through a VFL game last week, but he’s been left out, although Lachie Cowan (calf) and Matt Carroll (hamstring) have been recalled.<\/p>\n

Adam Saad (hamstring) and Ashton Moir (omitted) are the other outs for the Blues.<\/p>\n

Nick Haynes (ankle) is missing, but he will return in a VFL practice game on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Richmond side is as expected, with top-10 draft pick Sam Grlj confirmed to make his debut, while veteran defender Nick Vlastuin (managed) had already been ruled out.<\/p>\n

Key defender Noah Balta has been included after overcoming a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n

THURSDAY, MARCH 12<\/p>\n

Carlton v Richmond at the MCG, 7.30pm AEDT<\/p>\n

CARLTON<\/p>\n

In: L.Cowan, M.Carroll, H.O’Keeffe
Out: A.Saad (hamstring), A.Moir (omitted), L.Reidy (omitted)<\/p>\n

RICHMOND<\/p>\n

B: N.Balta 21 B.Miller 12 N.Broad 35
HB: S.Banks 6 S.Grlj 24 J.Short 15
C: H.Ralphsmith 13 S.Lalor 4 K.McAuliffe 28
HF: S.Campbell 44 M.Rioli 17 R.Mansell 7
F: J.Faull 8 T.Lynch 19 H.Armstrong 34
Foll: T.Nankervis – C 25 T.Taranto 14 J.Ross 5
I\/C: J.Trezise 36 J.Gibcus 18 J.Hopper 2 S.Green 48 C.Gray 50 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Emerg: T.Brown 30 L.Trainor 11 T.Sonsie 40<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The teams are in for Thursday night’s game in round one Blake Acres and Noah Balta. Pictures: AFL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-533708","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\/533708","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=533708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}