{"id":551893,"date":"2026-03-20T02:50:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T02:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/551893\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T02:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T02:50:21","slug":"vfl-team-round-1-v-casey-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/551893\/","title":{"rendered":"VFL Team | Round 1 v Casey Demons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Team News\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                15 AFL-listed players named in Footscray&#8217;s Round 1 side.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                            By Western Bulldogs Media\n                            <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Footscray has submitted its Round 1 team to face Casey at Mission Whitten Oval.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">15 AFL-listed players have been named, including Lachy Carmichael and Arthur Jones who were both listed as tests this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The clash will mark Carmichael\u2019s first competitive hit-out for premiership points in the red, white and blue, alongside fellow draftees Louis Emmett and Will Darcy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VFL Premiership Bulldogs Dan Orgill, Billy Crofts, Fred Valpied and Cooper Craig-Peters will also feature, while Harry Hewitt and Ged Saunders will make their debuts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The match will start at 12:05pm AEDT and be broadcast live on ABC TV from midday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 2025 Premiership flag will be unfurled at approximately 11:40am AEDT.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tickets can be <a href=\"https:\/\/aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatics.teams.cdn.office.net%2Fevergreen-assets%2Fsafelinks%2F2%2Fatp-safelinks.html&amp;data=05%7C02%7Ccameron.grimes%40westernbulldogs.com.au%7Cd2838e4da3d94e58b20608de86097a62%7Ceb8db29a6c0d410a9dfaf33bd581ed30%7C0%7C0%7C639095572437362551%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=AN9f5Y0zJo5zUPgbiZb0cEricyahWddwrAKqWnBX7Wo%3D&amp;reserved=0\" data-outlook-id=\"442a75af-892c-40db-927f-95b505a94d64\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pre-purchased here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Smithy&#8217;s VFL Round 1<\/p>\n<p>Footscray Bulldogs v Casey Demons<br \/>Saturday 21 March, 12:05pm AEDT<br \/>Mission Whitten Oval, Footscray \u2022 Wurundjeri\/Boon Wurrung<\/p>\n<p>Tickets: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intix.com.au\/event\/2026-vfl-round-1-footscray-bulldogs-v-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Purchase here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team News 15 AFL-listed players named in Footscray&#8217;s Round 1 side. By Western Bulldogs Media Footscray has submitted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-551893","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\/551893","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=551893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}