{"id":544260,"date":"2026-03-16T15:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544260\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:07:16","slug":"afl-2026-sydney-superstar-errol-gulden-needs-surgery-on-his-injured-shoulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544260\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL 2026: Sydney superstar Errol Gulden needs surgery on his injured shoulder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney Swans superstar Errol Gulden will have surgery on his injured shoulder and will miss up to four months of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Gulden was injured during the Swans\u2019 rampaging win over reigning premier Brisbane Lions on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The sleek left-footer made a telling change to his Instagram profile last night hinting at his injury diagnosis and the Swans confirmed it on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGulden will have surgery later this week. He is expected to be unavailable for approximately four months of football,\u201d the Swans statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The setback comes at a poor time for Sydney, having burst out of the blocks with wins over Carlton and the Lions to start its season.<\/p>\n<p>The Swans take on Hawthorn at the MCG on Thursday night before having a bye in Round 3.<\/p>\n<p>More to come<\/p>\n<p>Originally published as <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/sport\/afl\/afl-2026-sydney-superstar-errol-gulden-needs-surgery-on-his-injured-shoulder\/news-story\/6b18670ceb7172dd59222aabf924c073\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL 2026: Sydney superstar Errol Gulden needs surgery on his injured shoulder<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Swans superstar Errol Gulden will have surgery on his injured shoulder and will miss up to four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,187155,2105,269244,269659,60457,269661,43961,269660,85,269243,7200,64414],"class_list":["post-544260","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-defensive-effort","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-injured-shoulder","tag-injury-diagnosis","tag-mark-metcalfe","tag-needs-surgery","tag-newswire-sport","tag-prime-movers","tag-sports","tag-sydney-superstar","tag-sydney-swans","tag-tyler-lewis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544260","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=544260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}