New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nFoxfooty.com.au understands lockdown defender Hugh Bond has been withdrawn from Matthew Nicks\u2019 side due to illness, replaced in the side by winger Chayce Jones. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Rankine\u2019s return signals the end of an eight-month hiatus since the last time he and Josh Rachele played in the same Crows side, on July 6 – with the latter then sidelined by a knee injury during the back end of last year. <\/p>\n
For the Bulldogs, who recalled Jordan Croft for Will Lewis, Luke Beveridge\u2019s side hasn\u2019t ever beaten Adelaide at the Adelaide Oval – and hasn\u2019t won at the venue since the 2021 preliminary final against Port Adelaide. <\/p>\n
Watch the Crows and Bulldogs live from 6.30pm AEDT on Fox Footy, via Foxtel on Channel 504 and streaming on Kayo Sports. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adelaide and the Western Bulldogs aim to stay unbeaten when they meet on Friday night in an Adelaide…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[9126,638,64,63,689,55,639,27703,2105,163974,3231,45746,3512,663,16712,647,7198,677,6082,19095,273320,1124,85,660,698],"class_list":["post-552548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-adelaide-crows","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-chayce-jones","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-hawks-win","tag-jack-jovanovski","tag-josh-rachele","tag-knee-injury","tag-luke-beveridge","tag-matthew-nicks","tag-melbourne","tag-michael-willson","tag-oceania","tag-port-adelaide","tag-preliminary-final","tag-return-signals","tag-south-australia","tag-sports","tag-victoria","tag-western-bulldogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552548","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=552548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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