{"id":593303,"date":"2026-04-08T11:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/593303\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:40:11","slug":"trio-of-changes-for-gather-round-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/593303\/","title":{"rendered":"Trio of changes for Gather Round opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Nick Haynes will play his first game of the season in Gather Round.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                            By Cristian Filippo, Carlton Media\n                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">NICK Haynes will play his first game of the season when Carlton heads to Adelaide Oval on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Opening up Gather Round against the Crows for the second time in four years, the Blues have named three changes to their side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Veteran Haynes is recalled to the Blues\u2019 backline in place of Jacob Weitering, who was concussed on Good Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">The Blues have altered their midfield mix, omitting George Hewett, while Will Hayward also comes out through suspension.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Carlton\u2019s coaches will be able to call on Zac Williams, who returns to the side following a rib injury: where the experienced Blue features on Thursday night remains to be seen, having the capacity to play back, midfield or forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Hudson O\u2019Keeffe rounds out the Blues\u2019 inclusions, providing the Blues with an extra marking target as well as ruck support for Marc Pittonet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Adam Cerra and Mitch McGovern will each play their 150th AFL games, with McGovern\u2019s milestone to come against the team where he began his AFL career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Thursday night\u2019s game kicks off from 7:40pm AEST (7:10pm local time).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Haynes will play his first game of the season in Gather Round. By Cristian Filippo, Carlton Media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-593303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593303","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=593303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}