{"id":565609,"date":"2026-03-26T12:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/565609\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T12:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:52:10","slug":"roos-veteran-axed-pies-drop-recruit-bombers-make-four-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/565609\/","title":{"rendered":"Roos veteran axed, Pies drop recruit, Bombers make FOUR changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

L-R: Jack Darling, Jack Buller, Jayden Nguyen. Pictures: AFL Photos<\/p>\n

NORTH Melbourne has dropped veteran\u00a0Jack Darling, along with\u00a0Jacob Konstanty, but have regained young midfield ace\u00a0George Wardlaw for Saturday night’s match against Essendon.<\/p>\n

The Bombers have made four changes of their own, recalling\u00a0Jade Gresham and omitting youngsters Jayden Nguyen, Max Kondogiannis and Hussien El Achkar along with Mason Redman (knee).<\/p>\n

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Collingwood has regained defensive lynchpins Darcy Moore and Jeremy Howe for Friday night’s match against Greater Western Sydney, dropping Jack Buller.<\/p>\n

In other round three selection news, Brisbane has regained suspended All-Australian Zac Bailey, along with fellow premiership players Darcy Gardiner and Logan Morris, while Jaeger O’Meara is back for Fremantle and Adam Saad is missing for Carlton.<\/p>\n

While the Magpies are strengthened, the Giants are still missing some guns, with none of\u00a0Toby Bedford,\u00a0Aaron Cadman\u00a0or\u00a0Brent Daniels\u00a0able to overcome injury to be named.<\/p>\n

The Lions will still be without\u00a0Hugh McCluggage\u00a0(calf), facing a Saints team that has regained\u00a0Dan Butler\u00a0and\u00a0Dougal Howard.<\/p>\n

Brennan Cox has overcome a calf problem to also be named for Fremantle, while opponent Richmond has made four changes.<\/p>\n

Brownlow medallist\u00a0Ollie Wines has been named in Port Adelaide’s extended 26-man squad that will be without injured trio Connor Rozee, Miles Bergman and Todd Marshall to face West Coast on Sunday.<\/p>\n

FRIDAY, MARCH 27<\/p>\n

Collingwood v Greater Western Sydney at Marvel Stadium, 7.40pm AEDT<\/p>\n

COLLINGWOOD<\/p>\n

In: D.Moore, J.Howe, O.Steene
Out: W.Parker (omitted), E.Allan (omitted), J.Buller (omitted)<\/p>\n

GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY<\/p>\n

In: J.Leake, O.Hannaford
Out: J.Buckley (concussion), H.Rowston (omitted)<\/p>\n

SATURDAY, MARCH 28<\/p>\n

St Kilda v Brisbane at Marvel Stadium, 12.35pm AEDT<\/p>\n

ST KILDA<\/p>\n

In: D.Howard, D.Butler
Out: A.Caminiti (hamstring), H.Boxshall (omitted)<\/p>\n

BRISBANE<\/p>\n

In: D.Gardiner, L.Morris, Z.Bailey
Out: Z.Zakostelsky (omitted), D.Annable (shoulder), J.Tunstill (omitted)<\/p>\n

Fremantle v Richmond at Optus Stadium, 1.15pm AWST<\/p>\n

FREMANTLE<\/p>\n

In: B.Cox, J.O’Meara
Out: O.McDonald (injured), N.O’Driscoll (omitted)<\/p>\n

RICHMOND<\/p>\n

In: L.Trainor, J.Faull, J.Alger, C.Gray
Out: N.Broad (calf), J.Trezise (omitted), T.Lynch (hamstring), T.Nankervis (hamstring)<\/p>\n

Essendon v North Melbourne at Marvel Stadium, 7.35pm AEDT<\/p>\n

ESSENDON<\/p>\n

In: J.Farrow, J.Gresham, S.El-Hawli, A.Day-Wicks
Out: M.Redman (knee), J.Nguyen (omitted), M.Kondogiannis (omitted), H.El Achkar (omitted)<\/p>\n

NORTH MELBOURNE<\/p>\n

In: A.Corr, G.Wardlaw, C.Coleman-Jones
Out: G.Logue (hamstring), J.Konstanty (omitted), J.Darling (omitted)<\/p>\n

SUNDAY, MARCH 29<\/p>\n

Port Adelaide v West Coast at Adelaide Oval, 12pm ACDT<\/p>\n

PORT ADELAIDE<\/p>\n

In: L.Jones, O.Wines, M.Zadow, W.Brodie, D.Visentini, J.Lai
Out: T.Marshall (ankle), M.Bergman (ankle\/heel), C.Rozee (hamstring)<\/p>\n

WEST COAST<\/p>\n

In: J.Lindsay, R.Maric, M.Champion, S.Brock, H.Schoenberg
Out: H.Edwards (concussion), M.Murdock (hamstring)<\/p>\n

Carlton v Melbourne at the MCG, 3.15pm AEDT<\/p>\n

CARLTON<\/p>\n

In: T.Byrne, B.Acres, J.Boyd, F.Evans
Out: C.Lord (illness)<\/p>\n

MELBOURNE<\/p>\n

In: T.McDonald, B.Laurie, M.Heath, P.Cross
Out: D.Turner (hand)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"L-R: Jack Darling, Jack Buller, Jayden Nguyen. Pictures: AFL Photos NORTH Melbourne has dropped veteran\u00a0Jack Darling, along with\u00a0Jacob…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-565609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565609","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=565609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}