{"id":595480,"date":"2026-04-09T10:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595480\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:50:09","slug":"debutant-key-returns-boost-bombers-for-gather-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595480\/","title":{"rendered":"Debutant, key returns boost Bombers for Gather Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Announcement\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Bombers make four changes for trip to Adelaide.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Essendon fans will get a first introduction to Sullivan Robey on Saturday afternoon, the exciting debutant one of four inclusions to take on Melbourne for Gather Round.<\/p>\n<p>The Bombers&#8217; defensive unit will be bolstered by Jordan Ridley, with the former Crichton Medallist back in action after a solid buildup via the VFL in his comeback from injury. Midfielder Elijah Tsatas has also earned a recall for his first senior game of 2026 following a 36-disposal, eight-clearance effort against Footscray last week.<\/p>\n<p>After missing last week due to concussion protocols, Nate Caddy is raring to go and has reclaimed his spot in the forward half.<\/p>\n<p>Archie Perkins, Matt Guelfi, Zak Johnson and Saad El-Hawli all make way this week &#8211; Johnson and El-Hawli will join Nik Cox as the listed emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>The Dons&#8217; fourth edition of Gather Round (and third against the Dees) gets rolling from 1:15pm AEST (12:45pm local time) on Saturday at Adelaide Oval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Announcement Bombers make four changes for trip to Adelaide. Essendon fans will get a first introduction to Sullivan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-595480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-text","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595480","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=595480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}