{"id":595810,"date":"2026-04-09T14:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595810\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:22:15","slug":"two-changes-for-suns-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595810\/","title":{"rendered":"Two changes for Suns clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Sydney has made two changes for its Gather Round trip to Adelaide to face the Gold Coast Suns at Norwood on Saturday.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Sydney Swans senior coach Dean Cox has made two changes to his side, ahead of a Saturday afternoon clash at Gather Round, with the Sydney Swans set to play the Gold Coast Suns at Norwood Oval.<\/p>\n<p>Exciting small forward Malcolm Rosas Jnr will return to take on his former side, after he missed last week&#8217;s 128-point win over West Coast after he experienced a tight calf in the warmup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rosas has kicked three goals in three appearances for the red and white this season, after he played 49 games for the Suns.<\/p>\n<p>Tall Joel Hamling has been named for his first senior appearance of the 2026 season, following strong form in the VFL.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old recorded 18 disposals and kicked three majors in Sydney&#8217;s 21-point win over Coburg last week.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Cunningham has retained his spot in the side after he was a late call up last weekend, the reliable defender notching 12 disposals and a goal in his first AFL game this season.<\/p>\n<p>Angus Sheldrick (suspended) and Lewis Melican (omitted) come out of the side, while Peter Ladhams, Tom Hanily and Hayden McLean have been named as emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>The Swans will face the third-placed Suns in a hotly-anticipated clash, Swans midfielder James Jordon telling media on Tuesday that the team was expecting a tough challenge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve got so much talent across their whole team and they&#8217;re one of the teams that will be pushing for finals, top four so we really looking for that challenge and seeing how we go against them,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s always a good contest when we go up against Gold Coast and I felt like on the weekend we were able to play a strong four-quarter game and we&#8217;re going to have to do that again this week and I&#8217;m really looking forward to it.<\/p>\n<p>I mean every week you go out there and you want to play four-quarters of footy and we know that our brand of footy, if we play four-quarters we can match it with anyone and we&#8217;re really excited this week and looking forward to the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sydney will wear their 2026 Gather Round guernsey for the clash, the design a nostalgic nod to the 90\u2019s \u2013 to those who had faith in the sport and in our club through thick and thin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Sydney Swans 2026 Gather Round Guernsey is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shop.sydneyswans.com.au\/gather-round\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">now available for purchase, online via the Swanshop\u00a0<\/a>and in person at the Locker Room at Sydney Swans HQ.<\/p>\n<p>For more information visit the Match Day Hub here.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney has made two changes for its Gather Round trip to Adelaide to face the Gold Coast Suns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-595810","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\/595810","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=595810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}